Message-ID: <2e98d44c0704060552m491dbf24tf9283b792d5cda2a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 21:52:49 +0900 From: "Joe Petrow" To: seiyuu@usagi.org In-Reply-To: <111498380704060153m4a43f672i56c0f374915027d5@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed References: <111498380704051457p41e1d2f8t2447e8e90844c02f@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [seiyuu:26226] Re: What does it take to be a seiyuu? Reply-To: seiyuu@ml.usagi.org ML-Count: 26226 Precedence: bulk On 4/6/07, Andrea Clunes wrote: > > I never said I want to become a seiyuu myself. I'm just curious and > this is one of the many ways in which I try to look up for info on the > internet. Of course, I wasn't counting on finding some rude jerks like > you. -_- You said "I've started to think in becoming a voice actress myself", you want to move to Japan, and "There's this doubt that I have in my mind and I thought this was the best place to ask it." Who would not make the assumption that you wanted to become a seiyuu? > I'm sorry to see this is the kind of response people get now in this > mailing list, when asking a question that's not only fair but related > to the topic of the list. It was the type of response meant to test your response. And your response was to be defensive and insult the messenger. Not a very good attitude to have when trying to reach a stretch goal such as yours. Because you will get a _lot_ of negative feedback from friends, family, and regular Japanese. And if you want to improve your odds of success from impossible to infinitesimal you're going to have to have a 100% positive attitude. Thanking me for my thoughtful response would be a good start. I'm on a sumo mailing list, and I saw something similar go down a few years ago. 300 pound high school dropout in Texas wanted to become a sumo wrestler. He thought it might improve his self esteem and make him a man. He said that he needed sumo to save himself. So a person on the list gets in touch with another person who gets in touch with Sentoryu, the only sumo wrestler from the continental United States to ever make it to the top ranks of Japan Sumo. And Sentoryu actually finds a stable willing to use its one foreigner limit on this kid! This kid won the lottery and got the chance of a lifetime. He left the mailing list for Japan, telling everyone he was going to become a yokozuna. Two weeks later, he was back in the States, saying "I had no idea how hard it would be." So many people stuck their necks out for this guy, giving him the chance that thousands of others worldwide had dreamed of. And he turned his back on all of them because he wasn't willing to put in all the sacrifice needed to even have a chance of success. If you want to learn how to become a seiyuu, you would not learn how by asking a question here. You will have to figure things out on your own and blaze your own path, much as the much more diplomatic than I Jenya has done and continues to do. Despite my tone I do wish you luck, but you will need a major attitude adjustment if you're going to get anywhere. - Joe