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Possibly the sweetest anime voice actress ever meets fan on the train, makes their day, maybe life

• Dale Roll
  May 22, 2019
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What would you do if a celebrity started talking to you on the train?

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• Japan
• (anime • awesome • BanG Dream! • celebrities • cool • Girls Band Party • Sachika Misawa • voice actors • voice actresses)

Photographic evidence that the fourth and final new Evangelion anime movie has started production

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 1, 2019

Director and voice cast of groundbreaking, long-stalled anime franchise gather for formal ceremony.

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• Japan
• (anime • Evangelion • Hideaki Anno • Megumi Hayashibara • Megumi Ogata • movies • Rebuild of Evangelion • voice actors • voice actresses)

Idol anime voice actress explains why she doesn’t like being called an “idol”

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 30, 2018

”I don’t have any idea what other people’s image of perfection is.”

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• Japan
• (anime • Idolmaster • Idols • voice actors • voice actresses)

Talking anime girl calendars let you stare at and listen to your live-in 2-D girlfriend

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 28, 2018

Popular voice actresses lend their talents to create an aural fantasy otaku can enjoy every day.

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• Japan
• (anime • calendars • cool • interior • otaku • voice actresses • weird)

The mystery of live-action Pokémon movie Pikachu’s freaky-sounding German voice【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 15, 2018

A strange caper is afoot as Germany’s Detective Pikachu is heard sounding nothing like the Pokémon species is supposed to.

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• Europe, Japan
• (anime • German • Germany • Ikue Otani • Live action • movies • Pikachu • Pokemon • Pokémon Detective Pikachu • video • voice actors • voice actresses • weird)

We interview voice actress Shoko Nakagawa, learn what gave her the greatest shock of her career

• Krista Rogers
  Nov 6, 2018

The prolific voice actress dishes on her experiences dubbing the Japanese-language version of Venom and in the anime voice acting industry.

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• (COK • interview • Marvel • movies • P.K. Sanjun • seiyu • Shoko Nakagawa • SNOJ • Sony • Tom Hardy • Venom • voice acting • voice actors • voice actresses)

Anime voice actress tells fan there’s not a woman in the world who’d be willing to marry him

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 20, 2018

Man asks for advice on how to marry a voice actress, gets told he could be a bachelor for life.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • funny • marriage • otaku • romance • Tomoe Tomiyasu • video games • voice actors • voice actresses)

Aspiring anime voice actress is already fed up with one of its most common female tropes

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 17, 2018

English-language video sparks tweet in which she worries about pressure to “kill the person I am.”

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• Internet, Japan
• (anime • COK • otaku • society • voice actors • voice actresses)

Japanese Twitter users shocked to learn how much The Simpsons voice actors get paid

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 19, 2018

Who earns more, Homer Simpson or Evangelion’s Rei Ayanami?

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• Japan, USA
• (anime • Megumi Hayashibara • The Simpsons • twitter • voice actors • voice actresses)

Voice actresses applying for roles in Kemono Friends anime must say how big their breasts are

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 7, 2018

Leaving the sections for education and professional experience blank are A-OK though.

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• Japan
• (anime • idol singers • Idols • Kemono Friends • video • voice actors • voice actresses • weird)

Japan has a new professional basketball league exclusively for anime voice actresses

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 31, 2018

Three-on-three league for young ladies sounds like the plot of an anime series itself, but it’s a real-life sports organization.

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• (anime • basketball • SJ3 League • sports • voice actors • voice actresses • weird)

Anime voice actress is selling her used miniskirt…for US$690!

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 16, 2018

But she’s not interested in keeping the skirt or the money.

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• Japan
• (anime • auction • chairty • crazy • fashion • skirts • voice actors • voice actresses • weird)

Otaku life in pictures: Fan buys enough copies of anime idol photo album to cover half his floor

• Casey Baseel
  May 29, 2018

Hardcore fan spends nearly US$1,500 amassing stockpile of voice actress’ newest book, doesn’t know what to do with them all.

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• Japan
• (anime • crazy • funny • Idols • otaku • video • voice actresses • weird • Yui Ogura)

Furious woman berates men on women-only Tokyo train with spot-on anime girl voice【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  May 10, 2018

Tongue-lashing has fans of Idolmaster, Evangelion franchises thinking they’ve heard that voice before.

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• Japan
• (anime • Evangelion • The Idolmaster • trains • video • voice actors • voice actresses • women-only trains)

Famous anime voice actress says she was once so poor she had to eat tissues

• Casey Baseel
  May 4, 2018

Before her salad days, voice of Haruhi Suzumiya says she couldn’t afford actual salad.

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• (anime • Aya Hirano • crazy • voice actors • voice actresses • weird)

Japan’s “eternally 17-years-old” anime voice actress offers fans hot spring resort trip with her

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 6, 2018

Latest Kikuko Inoue project is like an anime hot spring episode come true.

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• Japan
• (anime • hot springs • Kikuko Inoue • Nagano • onsen • travel • voice actors • voice actresses)

Dragon Ball Super finally ends after three years, voice actress of Goku says she’s not done

• Koh Ruide
  Mar 28, 2018

The battle to save the world may be over, but this 81-year-old voice acting veteran still has plenty of fight left in her.

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• Japan
• (anime • Dragon Ball • Dragon Ball Super • Goku • Masako Nozawa • voice actors • voice actresses)

Virtual YouTuber cast as anime voice actress in new anime TV series in industry-first move【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 20, 2018

Kizuna Ai isn’t a real person, but she’s really going to be providing the voice for a different anime character.

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• Japan
• (anime • Kizuna Ai • video • virtual idols • virtual YouTubers • voice actors • voice actresses)

Seiji and the spirit of Yngwie Malmsteen barely interview a Japanese actress【Interview】

• Master Blaster
  Feb 19, 2018

In order to confront the intimidating and multi-talented Rena “Non” Nonen, our interviewer summons a god of rock.

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• Japan
• (guitar • interview • music • Non • Rena Nonen • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • video • voice actresses • Yngwie Malmsteen)

Dragon Ball fans get first preview of Bulma’s new voice following voice actress’ death【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 15, 2018

Bulma’s back, with a famous voice actress taking over the role.

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• Japan
• (ads • anime • Bulma • Dragon Ball • Dragon Ball Z • Hiromi Tsuru • video • vocie actors • voice actresses)

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