In message <199505311544.AA21606@mordred.gatech.edu >,
 subject: geeky voices - gotta love 'em
 Steve <steve@mordred.gatech.edu> writes:
| 
| I've always wondered two things (boy, it's been a long night):
| 
| 1. how come many Japanese voice actors "change" their names?  I mean, why does
|    Noda Reiko go by "Sakuma Rei"?  Maybe she doesn't want her family to know
|    what she does for a living?  :-)

Most people don't change their "acting names" when they get married.

| 2. how come the singing style for many singers (not necessarily just Ranma)
|    is "geeky"?  For example, why do the singers of "Omoide ga ippai"
|    (CoCo) have such whinny, goofy, Shampoo-sounding voices?  Is it the 
|    "cutsey" effect?  I mean, CoCo sounds pretty much "non-geeky" in "Equal 
|    Romance".   

Miura Rieko is the only one in CoCo with a "strange" voice..
Maybe her voice stands out more in that song.


In message <9505312219.AA19870@sol.jna.com.au>,
 subject: Re: geeky voices - gotta love 'em
 Eric 1/2 <erics@jna.com.au> writes:
| 
|   Ummmm - according to very good sources (ie. some friends who have been to
| Japan and back...). The train station announcements, PA announcements and
| all that are all made in that 'cutset' sound effect. According to my friend, 
| it was okay in the beginning - but get's damn annoying after a while. 

Doesn't annoy me at all.
Anyway, those announcements are only "slightly" cute.

I get annoyed at all of the male voices used..

|   Perhaps this is one aspect of Japan which indicates it's closed nature -
| how a whole society thinks that something is cute while the rest of the
| world would consider it 'novel' in the beginning and 'damn irritating and
| stupid' after the 5th listening of it.

Adults in Japan probably hate the "cute" voice just as much
as adults in other countries.
But of course anime is for kids and kids like "cute".
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