The art of scoring is a very complex, but quite important process, because the voice characterizes a person from many sides.
Surely everyone remembers the famous anime with the main protagonist Naruto, who had a hoarse, but very sonorous timbre voice. So who voiced Naruto and still does it?
Profession
Those who engage in dubbing are called “seiyu” in Japanese culture, which means “voice actor”.
Unlike other countries where television and theater artists are invited to voice acting, Japan takes this more seriously. For the state, seiyu is a very respected and prestigious job.
In the country, there are courses at which future professionals are trained in voicing various heroes: by gender, age, character and other personal qualities of the characters.
Sometimes seiyu perform musical compositions for anime openings, either at the beginning or at the end.
Who is voicing Naruto?
This profession requires professional skills, as well as the talent to transform your voice into completely different personalities. One of such gifted seiyuu was Junko Takeuchi, who is Naruto's beloved by all.
Junko Takeuchi was born April 5, 1972 in Saitama, Japan.
Her first work was the voice acting of the character Kamatari from the anime "Tramp Kenshin" back in 1996. Behind her, she has a whole list of voiced heroes, but her main merit is the dubbing of an animated kid - Naruto Uzumaki.
According to Takeuchi herself, the girl was not originally going to seriously engage in this profession. Since childhood, she dreamed of a ballerina career. While working in the theater, Junko was simultaneously engaged in dubbing, in the end, she plunged into this activity headlong.
People are often surprised when they find out who voiced Naruto. How high the level of Seiyu professionalism should be, since many still cannot believe that the voice of this hero actually belongs to the girl.
In 2002, the first episodes of the legendary anime were released. The main character immediately struck everyone with his charisma and his hooligan behavior. Despite the huge graphic work of the artists, the character image would not have been complete without the one who voiced Naruto in Japanese.
Dubbing in other languages
Since the anime "Naruto" is popular on a global level, it is easy to guess that a variety of professionals took up his voice acting.
In the English arena, Naruto also dubbed a woman - Miley Flanegan.
The one who voiced Naruto in Russian was the actress and master of the duplicate translation, Irina Savina.
Currently, many amateur domestic dubbing teams have gathered that help Russian fans to fully enjoy their favorite anime. Some of them:
- 2x2 voice acting is one of the very first teams recognized by the audience.
- Rain death.
- Ancord is one of today's favorite anime connoisseurs.
- Shiza-project: Nikitos.
- Anilibria is also currently one of the most popular teams.
Since anime broadcasts are almost completely transferred to the World Wide Web, in addition to the above teams, there are many others who voiced Naruto so far.