From: Hitoshi Doi
|For the current young seiyuu group, they go to seiyuu school
|instead of college (or maybe during high school),
|and try to become a seiyuu.
|So they are usually in their early 20's.

A VA school in the states is very rare. Although, many Arts
Colleges are starting to add them to their curriculum so
graduates would be in that same range of 21-23.

|For the actor/actress or any other profession to seiyuu,
|the age can be just about anything.
|I have no idea how successful this is, as we probably don't
|hear too much about the unsuccessful ones.

Very true. That would be an interesting statistic to see, but
would probably be painful to see just like the number of
Singers/Actors who never make it.

|As for popular actors/singers/idols becoming seiyuu,
|many do seiyuu work in addition to their normal work.
|For example, Nakagawa Shouko.  She is still mainly an
|idol/singer/actress, but she does some seiyuu work.

I do find it surprising that you don't find more doing
crossover work. However, I'd wager that many Actors
suffer from the same thought that they might not be
taken as seriously for doing it.

|Recently, one member of SKE48 (sister group of AKB48) said
|that she was going to quit SKE and try to become a seiyuu.
|Hata Sawako will quit SKE at the end of this month.
|She's currently one of the AKB/SKE girls doing a voice in
|the AKB0048 anime.
|She's also one of the cutest ones in AKB/SKE, and she's my
|favorite among the AKB/SKE girls, so maybe she might become
|my favorite seiyuu in the future. (^^;
|
|Some pics of Sawako from her own blog..
|
|http://akiba-search.net/ablog/?S=%E7%A7%A6%E4%BD%90%E5%92%8C%E5%AD%90&X=image

She is incredibly cute and quite unique in her look.
I haven't seen any AKB0048 so I'll have to catch an
episode or two with her to hear her character voice.
Will be interesting to see how these newcomers will
fare in the voice world.

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