Message-Id: <200111020447.NAA29161@usagi.jrd.dec.com> To: seiyuu@ml.usagi.org Subject: Re: The Evolution of (Female) Seiyuu In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 01 Nov 01 00:00:00." From: Hitoshi Doi Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 13:47:26 +0900 Reply-To: seiyuu@ML.usagi.org X-ML-archive: http://www.win.ne.jp/~doi/ML/ Precedence: bulk Joe wrote: | From what I can tell, this is the general flow of a seiyuu's | career: I think it's basically correct. (don't know about the numbers though) | Stage 0: Thousands of girls enroll in trade schools to learn the | business. 80% will drop out, 10% will move on to some other kind | of "art", and 10% move to Stage 1. I think it's closer to 1%. | Stage 2: These are the seiyuu who get their "big break", such as | a major part in an anime, or their own radio show. They get | enough exposure to achieve "name value", and some coverage in the | seiyuu magazines. Many will begin a grueling schedule of events | to get them more known. About half of these girls will fizzle out | in a year, but the other half may make it to Stage 3. I think some of the "audition" or big projects try to jump some of the new "unknown" girls to this stage, without going through stages 0 and 1. Then when that project is over, the girls end up going back to stage 1 (or 0), or if they are very luckly move on to stage 3. -- Hitoshi Doi (LaLaLu FC #49, Cutie Pai FC #2) Toshi Nibunnoichi " this space for rent " http://www.win.ne.jp/~doi/ doi@win.ne.jp