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INTEREST: Gundam's Tomino Thinks Young Voice Actors All Sound the Same

Basically this. He's been giving a lot of interviews recently since G-Reco is coming up and interviewers have been asking him questions and he gives his honest answers. Of course ANN always seems to cherry pick the more controversial ones for their interest article because it's solid click bait plain and simple. Even then though this article particularly seems like it's pretty blatantly trying to steer opinion on his opinion in a negative direction giving it more of a column than interest feel.

That said I don't agree with Tomino is this matter, but the whole lets pile on "crazy ol' Tomino" for having an opinion trend that this article is clearly trying to take advantage of is getting a little bit old at the same time.

Tomino made his iPhone in the late 70s/early 80s. It was called Gundam.

As for the issue with the voice actors, all I'm saying is that he's not just shooting the bull here. It looks like the only reason he brought this up in the first place is because he's been having to work with them and he can't get what he wants out of them because they've all been conditioned to deliver there lines the same way.

pajmo9 wrote:

Tomino made his iPhone in the late 70s/early 80s. It was called Gundam.

That is called a one trick pony, Tomino is not a visionary (which is the kind of person one hears when they speak because you know that whatever they say is relevant).

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As for the issue with the voice actors, all I'm saying is that he's not just shooting the bull here. It looks like the only reason he brought this up in the first place is because he's been having to work with them and he can't get what he wants out of them because they've all been conditioned to deliver there lines the same way.

Which brings us to another topic that enrages me. The elephant in the room that so far no one has mentioned. They could get the quality voice acting they yearn for their project, but guess what? They hire new talent (because it is cheap) and expect it to perform like a seasoned professional. It is the equivalent of buying a <insert> and saying out loud it is a piece of crap because it is does not perform like a Lamborghini and on top of it think it is the cars fault.

I know that unlike cars humans beings can evolve, but to expect them to do so in the course of a few weeks (instead of years) and if they do still pay them the newbie salary and if they dare ask for more money they will no doubt get ANOTHER newbie to chastise

While I do agree that he is an important industry figure, I wonder at what age does he consider "young" to end at. Personally, I consider that to be until 30 (This applies to me at I turn 28 on Sep. 4). Then, I consider 31-65 to be middle aged/senior and 65+ as elderly.

penguintruth wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7LrViaPq7M The utter disrespect for this legendary director in this thread is sickening. As soon as a pillar of anime like Tomino or Miyazaki says something even approaching controversial, the mouth breathers immediately turn on them with vitriol. Hell, all Miyazaki said was that children might benefit from going outside now and then, and the atom wastes rioted. Tomino's just talking about voice actors in general, FFS.

Don't wanna be disrespected, don't say something stupid. The decision to give respect is MINE; it is a privilege, not a right and Tomino has not earned that privilege, especially since I find that his creations have worked in SPITE of him, not because of him. Heck, when most of the good stuff about Gundam had nothing to do with him and I found everything he DID work on to be either boring or just full of itself, I can't help but feel the man's reputation is overblown.

The original Mobile Suit Gundam and Zeta Gundam are the most consistently highly praised parts of the Gundam franchise...

LET'S ALL PRAISE THE MASTERMIND BEHIND BYSTON WELL SAGA!!!

penguintruth wrote:

The original Mobile Suit Gundam and Zeta Gundam are the most consistently highly praised parts of the Gundam franchise...

Yeah, by Gundam fanboys blinded by nostalgia. No-one else thinks the early UC series are the masterpieces that you Tomino apologists claim they are.

There is a lot of bile-inducing ignorance in this thread. Tomino is every bit the pillar of anime that Miyazaki or Oshii are. You can hate him or his work, but he's earned respect.

He's forgotten more about anime than you'll ever learn.

Not, for example, the entirety of Japan?

Seriously, Zeta Gundam is the most popular Gundam series of all time and had the highest TV ratings.

The Zeta compilation movies made money hand over fist 20 years after the show came out. Maybe you think it's overrated, but to say that "no-one else thinks the early UC series are masterpieces" is patently false and ignorant.

Maybe you want to actually point out the supposed faults of the shows instead of just assuming I'm in some minority about my opinion.