Rica Fukami is a voice actress known for her work as Sailor Venus in
Sailor Moon as well as Myung in Macross Plus. Takumi Yamazaki is a
voice actor known for his work as Ferio in Magic Knights Rayearth and
Isamu Dyson in Macross Plus. In this panel the two reprised their
Macross Plus roles in a dubbing demonstration, and student voice
acting group performed a demonstration of the voice recording for a
children's cartoon.
Panel Report
This was easily the most interesting panel at AX. A group of
students from an acting school that are doing voice acting was
present, as well as Takumi Yamazaki and Rica Fukami. First up was the
student groups (there were two groups), which provided the voices in
real time (in one shot straight through) for a 22 minute children's
animated program. They attempted to do the same in English afterwards
and didn't do so well, but the members of the audience who tried did
just as bad with their timing...
The real highlight was seeing professionals at work, though. Yamazaki and Fukami reprised their roles as Isamu and Myung respectively in Macross Plus, and provided a live recording demo using selected scenes.
A movie clip of one
of these scenes shows them acting (unfortunately the TV screen they
are working off of is not in the picture).
The most interesting thing about watching this done is that shows
are not broken down by scene, but are instead recorded all the way
through from beginning to end - which means the actors' jobs must be
perfect from start to finish as a retake involves recording the entire
show again. Watching the picture on the screen, it was sometimes hard
to picture that the voice was being provided by someone beside the
screen - especially considering how some of the voices sounded (from
the nasal parrot character to the very high-pitched young tiger girl in
the children's show).
