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>Studio Ghibli is known for its beautifully crafted, touching, animated fantasy feature films, but at the helm of the lauded animation studio is a man with a famously stern demeanour — director and co-founder Hayao Miyazaki.
>Over the years, the outspoken Miyazaki has ruffled feathers with some surprising comments, once saying that the anime industry’s problem is that it’s full of anime fans, and then revealing the kind of otaku he hates the most.

>Interviews with the legendary anime director are rare, however, so sometimes the things he’s said years ago pop up again to surprise a new legion of fans. That’s what happened this week in Japan, when an article detailing Miyazaki’s feelings about female voice actors resurfaced.
>In the interview, given to the Guardian in 2005 ahead of the U.K. premiere of Howl’s Moving Castle, Miyazaki was commenting on the foreign actors cast for the movie’s dubbed version. When the discussion turned to Lauren Bacall, who voiced the Witch of the Wastes for the English-language dub, Miyazaki spoke approvingly, describing her as a “a fabulous woman”. He then went on to say: “All the Japanese female voice actors have voices that are very coquettish and wanting male attention, which was not what we wanted at all.”

>True to form, Miyazaki knows how to throw shade at the anime industry like nobody else. However, in this situation, the large majority of Japanese people who heard his statement for the first time, 15 years after it was first made, tended to agree with him.
>“I totally understand — the flirty voices of female characters in late-night anime made me feel so uncomfortable I stopped watching them”
>“I’ve been saying the same thing for years.”
>“I can’t stand it — it’s like they mass-produce voice actors with a template at training centres.”
>“The voices aren’t natural but sadly, the viewer is accustomed to it.”
>“The voice acting is too exaggerated. It’s ridiculous to think girls talk like that all the time.”

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Hey buddy, I think you got the wrong door. The /a/ is two blocks down.

>> No.45237003

>>45236965
japanese actors suck, the way they act is very stiff, monotone totally like robot reading script
seiyuu nowadays are alot better than japanese actors but still depend on the director tho

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>>45236965
>“I totally understand — the flirty voices of female characters in late-night anime made me feel so uncomfortable I stopped watching them”

>> No.45237062

>>45236965
Okay Ghibloomer.

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>>45236965
What the fuck does thi boomer know about good voice acting? He's been spending too much time around Hollywood, getting that Disney and Pixar dick up his ass and mouth. That motherfucker Miyazaki actually casted his buddy Hideaki Anno as the MC in The Wind Rises, the senile old boomer even cried at a press conference for the movie, saying it was the most beautiful performance he’d ever heard.

>> No.45237315

>>45236965
Is he based?

>> No.45237347

Hayao Miyazaki is the definition of a mad artist

>> No.45238939

>>45237315
Very, he loves the craft so much he outright disowned his own son for bringing shame to the studio's name lmao

>> No.45238986

Who cares? Ghibli churns out slop for disney adults to buy funko pops of. Guy has such a high opinion of himself despite making nothing interesting. Wants the rest of the industry to churn out more Disney bullshit.

>> No.45239207

>>45237199
>casted his buddy Hideaki Anno as the MC in The Wind Rises
> the senile old boomer even cried at a press conference for the movie, saying it was the most beautiful performance he’d ever heard.
fellow otaku being based. He could've casted Anno's wife as the female protag for maximum damage

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>> No.45241266

>>45237199
more thank you'll ever know, and me...

>> No.45242566

>>45237199
>boomer
>Everyone that challenges me is a boomer
You are your own worst enemy, and destined to become that which you hate even though ironically it's a carricature figment of your stunted imagination. You are a manchild addicted to plactic emotions, which is why you secretly wish you could become a woman.

>> No.45243765

>>45236965
seiyuus are all sluts who fuck with producers to get the role and then sell pornographic pictures. So based for hating them.

>> No.45243854

>>45242566
>boomer
He's literally in the age range of a boomer even if he was born before the end of WWII.

>> No.45243896

>>45237199
He wants to remain a cuck to the US so I wouldn't be surprised if he drank the kool-aid of Jewllywood.

>> No.45245164

>>45236965
>However, in this situation, the large majority of Japanese people who heard his statement for the first time, 15 years after it was first made, tended to agree with him.
Unlikely

>> No.45245269

>>45238986
You seriously don't belong here

>> No.45245272

>>45236965
Yesterday I started playing some Taiwanese e-shop game on my 3DS that I downloaded seven years ago and never touched.
The game has Chinese and English text, but only Japanese voice acting. It's pretty obvious that Japanese anime-style voice acting is just the thing people expect regardless of literally anything if the media in question has any anime aesthetic. It has a life of its own. You might as well complain that teddy bears aren't realistic. People have simply accepted that this language and this type of speech is the literate language of expression. At this point if you don't like it you're basically illiterate.

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>>45245164

>> No.45245822

>>45245747
Sample size: 6 (biased) (cherry-picked)

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>>45245747
>six unsourced statements
>”the large majority of Japanese people”
I didn’t doubt it was written, I doubted and still doubt that it’s actually true

>> No.45245847

>>45245164
It's likely, normal fags don't like the squeaky voice. Late-night anime is watched by otaku. Anime for kids has an excuse to sound that way as the cast is young.

>> No.45245914

>>45245822
>>45245828
https://soranews24.com/2020/11/05/hayao-miyazaki-has-a-gripe-against-japanese-female-voice-actors/

>> No.45245975

>>45236965
>He then went on to say: “All the Japanese female voice actors have voices that are very coquettish and wanting male attention”
oh wow, what a amazing discovery! am I posting on /a/ and criticizing generic seiyuu became unthinkable and unforgivable?
"it's nothing but trash."

>> No.45246052

>>45245914
>no sources in the article
Thanks for proving me right, I guess?

>> No.45246126

>>45245164
The general public in Japan will agree with Miyazaki's sentiment, 9 out of 10 times. When I was studying abroad back in college, a weeb once asked our Japanese teacher who her favorite VA was. She asked (I assume having dealt with cringey freshmen before) if he meant in anime, he confirmed, and she made this pained, apologetic face that I'll never forget. "I don't really like the performances. They sound really strange. Nobody talks like that in Japan."

>> No.45251164

>>45237199
Anno was fucking atrocious in that movie.

>> No.45252609

>>45236965
Is there something that this old fart likes?

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