
:''For the company named Seiyu, see Seiyu Group.'' ''Seiyū'' (声優, also written ''seiyuu'' or simply ''seiyu'') is a Japanese language term that roughly equates to a voice actor for radio, television and video games. On television, they are mostly used in anime and commercial advertisements, and are somewhat more famous than voice actors traditionally are in America. When speaking of a character in a series translated into English language, conventional usage among United States fans is to use ''seiyū'' to refer to the Japanese actor and ''voice actor'' for the English one. American fandom is sometimes divided over the opinion that some prominent seiyū will "perfect" certain voice types (e.g. the ditsy schoolgirl, the deep-voiced loner) sometimes resulting in these seiyū becoming typecasting (acting). == Notable seiyū and their major roles (Japanese version unless noted): == *Megumi Hayashibara - Rei Ayanami, Cowboy Bebop, Love Hina main characters#Haruka Urashima, Ranma Characters#Ranma Saotome, Slayers, Video Girl Ai, Team Rocket (Jessie) *Yu Asakawa - Love Hina main characters#Aoyama Motoko, Azumanga Daioh *Yui Horie - Love Hina main characters#Narusegawa Naru, Kikaider, Fruits Basket *Kotono Mitsuishi - Tsukino Usagi, Misato Katsuragi, Excel Saga, Ebichu *Houko Kuwashima - Yurika Misumaru, Chobits characters#Minoru Kokubunji, Sango *Kappei Yamaguchi - InuYasha (character), Ranma Characters#Ranma Saotome, Artemis (Sailor Moon) (live action), Usopp, Shin'ichi Kudo (Jimmy Kudo) *Yuriko Yamaguchi - Characters in Neon Genesis Evangelion#Ritsuko Akagi, Nico Robin *Kikuko Inoue - Oh! My Goddess, Onegai Teacher, Ranma Characters#Kasumi Tendo, Maison Ikkoku *Minami Takayama - Kiki's Delivery Service, Shinichi Kudo *Junko Noda - His and Her Circumstances, Love Hina main characters#Konno Mitsune (Kitsune) *Ryou Horikawa - Vegeta, Elf Princess Rane *Satsuki Yukino - Kagome Higurashi, Love Hina main characters#Mutsumi Otohime, Trigun#Milly Thompson *Rie Tanaka - Chobits characters#Chi (Elda), Gundam Seed, Steel Angel Kurumi *Yuji Ueda - Love Hina main characters#Keitaro Urashima, Chobits characters#Hiroyasu Ueda, Rurouni Kenshin#Sagara Sanosuke (Zanza) *Toshihiko Seki - Genjyo Sanzo, Ranma Characters, Gundam Wing *Takeshi Kusao - Slam Dunk, Future Trunks, Video Girl Ai, Revolutionary Girl Utena#Characters, Lodoss to Senki, Saiyuki *Shoutarou Morikubo - Getbackers main characters#Amano Ginji *Chisa Yokoyama - Sakura Taisen, Ryoko Subaru, Tenchi Muyo, Gundam Wing *Akira Ishida - Slayers, Kaworu Nagisa *Aya Hisakawa - Sailor Mercury, Skuld, Revolutionary Girl Utena#Characters, Fruits_Basket#Characters, CCS_Characters#Cerberus.2FKeroberos *Koichi Yamadera - Ryoga Hibiki, Neon Genesis Evangelion main characters#Ryoji Kaji, Cowboy Bebop *Ai Orikasa - Tenchi Muyo#Characters, Gundam Wing#Characters, Sakura_Wars#Supporting_characters *Emi Shinohara - Sailor Jupiter, Project A-Ko *Junko Iwao - CCS_Characters#Tomoyo_Daidouji.2FMadison_Taylor, Magic User's Club *Megumi Ogata - Sailor Uranus, Shinji Ikari, Card Captor Sakura#Characters *Tomizawa Michie - Sailor Mars, Project A-Ko, Sakura Taisen *Takehito Koyasu - Revolutionary Girl Utena#Characters, Excel Saga, Gundam Wing, Fushigi Yugi, Weiss Kreuz *Ryoutarou Okiayu - Fruits Basket#Characters, El Hazard, Gundam Wing *Yumi Touma - Urd, Fushigi Yugi, Gundam Wing, Record of Lodoss War *Shinichirou Miki - Fushigi Yugi, Sephiroth (video game character), Team Rocket (James) *Yoshiko Sakakibara - Haman Karn, Integra Hellsing, Bubblegum_Crisis#Sylia_Stingray *You Inoue - Sayla Mass, Ryo Bakura, Haro *Maaya Sakamoto - The_Vision_of_Escaflowne#Characters, Cosmic_Era_list_of_characters#PLANT.2FZAFT, Padmé Amidala ==See also== *List of Seiyu ==External links== *[http://www.usagi.org/~doi/seiyuu/seiyuu.html Seiyuu (voice actor) database] SeiyuJapanese music
I'm Japanese seiyuu fan. I have a question. Why family name - first name and first name - family name are mixed? (For example, "Mitsuishi Kotono", "Mitsuishi" is her family name, "kotono" is her first name. But, "Yuuji Ueda", "Yuuji" is his first name, "Ueda" is his family name.) I'm sorry for my poor English, but please understand. Thank you. :Unforunately, we don't have a convention about the order of name of Japanese people. That is why. -- User:TakuyaMurata 04:54, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC) Thank you for your response. I see. That is, if "Mitsuishi Kotono" is introduced as "Kotono Mitsuishi", she is known as "Kotono Mitsuishi", right? :If someone knows the proper format of a name, all that would have to be done is to post a REDIRECT command to the existing article. For example, I know of a childrens author who went by Taro Yashima (and had a daughter named Momo Yashima). If an article existed under either name, one could create a new page under the reverted name and post a REDIRECT command there to the existing article. ^_^ User:Scott Sanchez 16:51, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC) It appears that many of the new individual seiyuu articles created in the past week or two are stubs with limited information(possibly created to fill in "red" holes in existing entries).If anyone has any further information that can be contributed to these stub entries,please feel free to do so.;) User:Ranma9617 == End of intro nonsensical == There appear to be some words missing in the last paragraph of the introduction, as it makes no grammatical sense. Can anyone tell what it's supposed to be saying? :It took me a little while, but I think I figured out what they were going for. User:Recury 06:33, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)] == Making Sense of the Lists == Is it possible, or would someone like to undertake an effort to go through the individual seiyuu pages and alpha by character or series? It seems to me that this would make more sense and make it easier to read. --User:Martin Osterman 16:31, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Merge with Voice actor? == I think that this page should not be merged with Voice actor (and just removed a request to do so). The circumstances of being a Seiyu and those of being a non-anime voice actor are different enough to warrant a separate article. (We may want to add more details on those differences to this article.) User:DenisMoskowitz 15:25, 2005 Apr 27 (UTC) *This needs to be brought up in an RfC more than anything else. I do disagree with the idea of a merge, but I think that we need to make sure that community consensus is taken care of on this one. --User:Martin Osterman 16:21, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC) :*I do believe a merge is in order. I'd rather see this page as an extension to the voice actor page, as the difference between the topics is extremely small. A Japanese voice actor is still a voice actor. :**Previous was by 84.240.67.34
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:''For the company named Seiyu, see Seiyu Group.'' ''Seiyū'' (声優, also written ''seiyuu'' or simply ''seiyu'') is a Japanese language term that roughly equates to a voice actor for radio, television and video games. On television, they are mostly used in anime and commercial advertisements, and are somewhat more famous than voice actors traditionally are in America. When speaking of a character in a series translated into English language, conventional usage among United States fans is to use ''seiyū'' to refer to the Japanese actor and ''voice actor'' for the English one. American fandom is sometimes divided over the opinion that some prominent seiyū will "perfect" certain voice types (e.g. the ditsy schoolgirl, the deep-voiced loner) sometimes resulting in these seiyū becoming typecasting (acting). == Notable seiyū and their major roles (Japanese version unless noted): == *Megumi Hayashibara - Rei Ayanami, Cowboy Bebop, Love Hina main characters#Haruka Urashima, Ranma Characters#Ranma Saotome, Slayers, Video Girl Ai, Team Rocket (Jessie) *Yu Asakawa - Love Hina main characters#Aoyama Motoko, Azumanga Daioh *Yui Horie - Love Hina main characters#Narusegawa Naru, Kikaider, Fruits Basket *Kotono Mitsuishi - Tsukino Usagi, Misato Katsuragi, Excel Saga, Ebichu *Houko Kuwashima - Yurika Misumaru, Chobits characters#Minoru Kokubunji, Sango *Kappei Yamaguchi - InuYasha (character), Ranma Characters#Ranma Saotome, Artemis (Sailor Moon) (live action), Usopp, Shin'ichi Kudo (Jimmy Kudo) *Yuriko Yamaguchi - Characters in Neon Genesis Evangelion#Ritsuko Akagi, Nico Robin *Kikuko Inoue - Oh! My Goddess, Onegai Teacher, Ranma Characters#Kasumi Tendo, Maison Ikkoku *Minami Takayama - Kiki's Delivery Service, Shinichi Kudo *Junko Noda - His and Her Circumstances, Love Hina main characters#Konno Mitsune (Kitsune) *Ryou Horikawa - Vegeta, Elf Princess Rane *Satsuki Yukino - Kagome Higurashi, Love Hina main characters#Mutsumi Otohime, Trigun#Milly Thompson *Rie Tanaka - Chobits characters#Chi (Elda), Gundam Seed, Steel Angel Kurumi *Yuji Ueda - Love Hina main characters#Keitaro Urashima, Chobits characters#Hiroyasu Ueda, Rurouni Kenshin#Sagara Sanosuke (Zanza) *Toshihiko Seki - Genjyo Sanzo, Ranma Characters, Gundam Wing *Takeshi Kusao - Slam Dunk, Future Trunks, Video Girl Ai, Revolutionary Girl Utena#Characters, Lodoss to Senki, Saiyuki *Shoutarou Morikubo - Getbackers main characters#Amano Ginji *Chisa Yokoyama - Sakura Taisen, Ryoko Subaru, Tenchi Muyo, Gundam Wing *Akira Ishida - Slayers, Kaworu Nagisa *Aya Hisakawa - Sailor Mercury, Skuld, Revolutionary Girl Utena#Characters, Fruits_Basket#Characters, CCS_Characters#Cerberus.2FKeroberos *Koichi Yamadera - Ryoga Hibiki, Neon Genesis Evangelion main characters#Ryoji Kaji, Cowboy Bebop *Ai Orikasa - Tenchi Muyo#Characters, Gundam Wing#Characters, Sakura_Wars#Supporting_characters *Emi Shinohara - Sailor Jupiter, Project A-Ko *Junko Iwao - CCS_Characters#Tomoyo_Daidouji.2FMadison_Taylor, Magic User's Club *Megumi Ogata - Sailor Uranus, Shinji Ikari, Card Captor Sakura#Characters *Tomizawa Michie - Sailor Mars, Project A-Ko, Sakura Taisen *Takehito Koyasu - Revolutionary Girl Utena#Characters, Excel Saga, Gundam Wing, Fushigi Yugi, Weiss Kreuz *Ryoutarou Okiayu - Fruits Basket#Characters, El Hazard, Gundam Wing *Yumi Touma - Urd, Fushigi Yugi, Gundam Wing, Record of Lodoss War *Shinichirou Miki - Fushigi Yugi, Sephiroth (video game character), Team Rocket (James) *Yoshiko Sakakibara - Haman Karn, Integra Hellsing, Bubblegum_Crisis#Sylia_Stingray *You Inoue - Sayla Mass, Ryo Bakura, Haro *Maaya Sakamoto - The_Vision_of_Escaflowne#Characters, Cosmic_Era_list_of_characters#PLANT.2FZAFT, Padmé Amidala ==See also== *List of Seiyu ==External links== *[http://www.usagi.org/~doi/seiyuu/seiyuu.html Seiyuu (voice actor) database] SeiyuJapanese music
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I'm Japanese seiyuu fan. I have a question. Why family name - first name and first name - family name are mixed? (For example, "Mitsuishi Kotono", "Mitsuishi" is her family name, "kotono" is her first name. But, "Yuuji Ueda", "Yuuji" is his first name, "Ueda" is his family name.) I'm sorry for my poor English, but please understand. Thank you. :Unforunately, we don't have a convention about the order of name of Japanese people. That is why. -- User:TakuyaMurata 04:54, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC) Thank you for your response. I see. That is, if "Mitsuishi Kotono" is introduced as "Kotono Mitsuishi", she is known as "Kotono Mitsuishi", right? :If someone knows the proper format of a name, all that would have to be done is to post a REDIRECT command to the existing article. For example, I know of a childrens author who went by Taro Yashima (and had a daughter named Momo Yashima). If an article existed under either name, one could create a new page under the reverted name and post a REDIRECT command there to the existing article. ^_^ User:Scott Sanchez 16:51, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC) It appears that many of the new individual seiyuu articles created in the past week or two are stubs with limited information(possibly created to fill in "red" holes in existing entries).If anyone has any further information that can be contributed to these stub entries,please feel free to do so.;) User:Ranma9617 == End of intro nonsensical == There appear to be some words missing in the last paragraph of the introduction, as it makes no grammatical sense. Can anyone tell what it's supposed to be saying? :It took me a little while, but I think I figured out what they were going for. User:Recury 06:33, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)] == Making Sense of the Lists == Is it possible, or would someone like to undertake an effort to go through the individual seiyuu pages and alpha by character or series? It seems to me that this would make more sense and make it easier to read. --User:Martin Osterman 16:31, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Merge with Voice actor? == I think that this page should not be merged with Voice actor (and just removed a request to do so). The circumstances of being a Seiyu and those of being a non-anime voice actor are different enough to warrant a separate article. (We may want to add more details on those differences to this article.) User:DenisMoskowitz 15:25, 2005 Apr 27 (UTC) *This needs to be brought up in an RfC more than anything else. I do disagree with the idea of a merge, but I think that we need to make sure that community consensus is taken care of on this one. --User:Martin Osterman 16:21, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC) :*I do believe a merge is in order. I'd rather see this page as an extension to the voice actor page, as the difference between the topics is extremely small. A Japanese voice actor is still a voice actor. :**Previous was by 84.240.67.34
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