Female Voice Actors in Male Anime Roles

[Rob Schwartz]

I, too, think it's pretty common. Bart Simpson is voiced by a female voice
actor (Nancy Cartwright).

rob

On 4/8/07, Rob Schwartz <rob at dynasticrecords.com> wrote:
>
> I, too, think it's pretty common. Bart Simpson is voiced by a female voice
> actor (Nancy Cartwright).
>
>
> rob
>
> On 4/8/07, Brian Ruh < brianruh at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > --- Michael McCaskey < mccaskem at georgetown.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > Does anyone know if it's fairly commonplace to use female voice
> > > actors for male anime character roles? Or is it quite unusual?
> >
> > I think it is pretty common -- or if not common, certainly not that
> > unusual. Just a couple of quick examples -- both the Elric brothers
> > from "Fullmetal Alchemist" were voiced by women in the original
> > Japanese, as was Shinji from "Neon Genesis Evangelion." (These roles
> > were filled by men for the English dubs as well.)
> >
> > == Brian
> >
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> > Research: http://www.animeresearch.com
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