My Story

How can I loved seiyuu very much ???

I started to know Seiyuu when I was in the high school, yes, and I was watching Prince of Tennis anime back then. I had a crush with Echizen Ryoma, LOL. And I love his voice. So when I’m searching for his voice actor, I was surprised in the fact his voice actor was a FEMALE. YES. It’s my first time in voice acting thing, and I never thought something amazing like that exist in voice acting. Obviously I started to stalking his voice actress, Minagawa Junko. I admired Echizen Ryoma’s voice a lot, it’s so cooooll! So suddenly I kind of wanted to imitate it, just tried and having fun. And I revealed soo many female voice actresses who have boyish or male voice besides Minagawa Junko, I’m so amazed.

Back then, I just listed and pay attention to that kind of female voice actress, but not so long, I started to like male voice actors too. Not many, just few of them. I knew Ono Daisuke, Kamiya Hiroshi etc. they’re so talented and good. And I was felt touched when I read Tetsuya Kakihara’s voice actor journey, how can he became a famous voice actor now. Yeah, I loved to read seiyuu’s journey. Then I knew a lot of Japanese male voice actors now, ww

I started to indulge myself more in Seiyuu’s world. Stalking them, watching so many seiyuu events, paying attention in their recording session and many more that makes my impress grows a lot. Since I love Echizen Ryoma’s voice, I kept imitating it, and I’ve been eager to kept practice, even just imitate it. Shortly, I also want to have boyish voice. Of course, don’t mention my Japanese or anything else, I just have willing and my own voice. But I didn’t force myself hard, coz I found practicing seiyuu is really fun! Yes, to be honest, it’s like I’m playing around, haha. So I started to record my voice when I’m practicing seiyuu. Was it difficult ?? YES. A LOT. I have to learn Japanese more by myself. Yeah, I quite felt lucky coz I had opportunity to learn Japanese when I was in Vocational High School, but just for one year, I don’t know why but it’s the fact. After that, I just keep learn Japanese until now. I also took a lot of information about seiyuu in social network. It said it’s the best way to record your own voice when practicing voice acting, so I did. Honestly, I like acting or do drama performance when I was in the middle school, but I didn’t took interest further, plus, I just a shy girl, but I kind of enjoy when I do drama performance back then. So I had so many problems, voice, acting, Japanese language (vocabulary, articulation, accent, etc), and many more. But because I like it, I just take it slowly and enjoying each practice. I just learnt many things from seiyuu’s recording session videos, and based information that I found in social network, until now. Just like that.

I didn’t have microphone or appropriate tools so I just use my phone recorder, yeah, low quality sound, ww. And unfortunately, my environment was too noisy to record my voice, but it doesn’t matter, yeah, even I often felt desperate about it, haha. Coz I lived in a small town, and we didn’t have such booth or studio here, except studio music for recording. And 4 years passed… I was surprised with myself, I kept practicing until now. But I didn’t regret at all   :D

When I look at back times, I always feel nostalgic. However, I still kept my seiyuu practice’s recording with me until now, even they’re bad, they’re still part of my learning process.

So, if you have something that you want to do, just do it.  ^_^