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Reagan Murdock Q&A Panel | Voice of Aki from Chainsaw Man | Anime Corpus Christi
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Mar 31, 2025
Reagan Murdock, the voice of Aki Hayakawa in Chainsaw Man, joins us at Anime Corpus Christi for an action-packed Q&A panel! He shares behind-the-scenes details on voicing Aki, the emotional depth of the character, and what it was like bringing one of Chainsaw Man’s most complex personalities to life. 📌 Panel Highlights: ⚡ How he landed the role of Aki in Chainsaw Man 🌀 Challenges of voicing a fan-favorite character 📢 Favorite Aki quotes & scenes from the anime 🎤 The most intense moments in the recording booth 🎭 Advice for aspiring voice actors and anime fans 💬 What’s your favorite Aki Hayakawa moment? Let us know in the comments! 👇 🔔 Subscribe for more anime voice actor interviews & panel coverage!
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solo one onone panel with you may recognize as a key from James man
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specifically one Reagan
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M wow cool it's it kind of you sink right as someone like much shorter it
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kind of like makes you feel a little childish cuz like it doesn't really for the ground sad you there's is a one
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workout machine at the gym that I go to but like like it's like like a like a chest press thing but like to get like
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situated into it your feet are dangling like so far off the right if you're like you're you're in a high chair doing too
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vulnerable don't like that that's why I don't go to the gym so this is a Q&A panel if you guys have any questions
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anything you would like to say ask or just get a little chat while you're here it's impromtu time I see him looking at
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her very directly um otherwise I know you are from Dallas Texas but I don't
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know your origin in voice acting may you want to talk a little bit about what got you in this field of work per se tell
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about your voice already for sure um yeah uh so I guess
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we start uh when I was a very little kid uh I would always uh when we were
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watching cartoons uh of course uh when you want to you know make your parents you know laugh and everything uh of
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course the way to do that is to sound as close to the characters on screen as you possibly can so U mimicry was a
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something that I enjoyed quite a lot as a child I'm sure I am the way to my parents quite a lot um but uh then I was
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actually wasn't planning on doing acting at all you know it was just something I did you know at school and whatever cuz
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U that's uh what got me positive attention and then uh but then uh when I
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when I turned 16 I got this voice out of the deal and all of a sudden people were telling me that I need to be on the
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radio doing this that and the other thing and I was just like N I don't know not really but it was around that time I was getting into this uh uh this obscure
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little show that my friends uh from my Taekwondo classes uh told me about it's a I don't know if you heard of this it's
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called a no rudo something like that it's got to be a deep cut anime don't heard
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of had to have been there uh but yeah uh it was around that time that I found out that FUNimation uh their Studios were
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all in Dallas like 10 minutes from my house so I was like oh oh so I don't I have to move halfway across the country
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and spend like 90% of my paycheck on rent like so okay we can do that um long
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lengthy and very painful process trying to break into the industry um did a lot of amateur work over the Internet uh
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went and worked for a cartoon mouse in Florida for a little bit no name mentioned yeah we we don't need to we
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don't need to talk about it um yeah the and then uh just audition after audition
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year after year rejection after rejection uh but you know you can't really make it into this industry unless
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this is what you want to do and basically nothing else so if you can see yourself doing literally anything else
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do it um yeah so that's uh been yeah I've started booking stuff I'd say like
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three or so years ago uh and uh not too long after that um that got the call
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that I was going to be in chainson man and Chang the whole my trajectory from
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there so there you go I mean on that note and also I've heard every single person the first thing they mention
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about voice acting is breaking into the industry that has got to be brutal it is a whole different kind of brutal I can
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only imagine it's it's a whole thing you basically like you have to either you know know somebody who's already on the
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inside or work with somebody on periphery cuz uh I didn't get into fomation at all until uh there was this
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director who uh got me in for this show called Mars red and she uh uh when I was
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you know finished I was just you know saying you know just thank you for giving me this chance and you know all the rest of it and she was saying yeah I
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didn't know anything about you so I called up this other Studio who you've done work with before and they I was
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just like they were just like hey is is this Ragan guy a total psycho no okay well then there we go that's all we need
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nice that being said uh you did mention the chainman and I know there's a lot of
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hot discussion about a potential movie coming up and I'm if somebody else isn't going to ask it I'm going to ask is
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there anything that you can disclose that won get you Su uh suits aren't the big thing it's
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more keeping my job um I would love to talk about specific things that are
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going to happen in this story but uh mafa is very uh very tight on that uh I
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will say uh there are a lot of feelings coming your way uh it's uh if you
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thought that season 1 ripped your heart out you sweet summer children uh no it's a
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genuinely fantastic storytelling uh this whole uh this whole BL girl Arc uh just
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U oh my gosh I love her character I love the stuff that goes on with Aki denji has got an amazing uh character Ark in
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this too uh uh one thing that I I think I won't get in trouble for disclosing uh if you're a fan of power
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uh not good I know enough to just like stop you from talking oh no no no no
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it's it's more like a you're uh you might not see as much of her as you would like to as that's all I would say
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okay that's far listen got a little hard side there are you sure ready to say my
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job okay yeah I'm not okay well I mean that being said talking about the process of getting into voice acting for
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animation and how there is so many roles that you have landed and we do know them before but I know that there is like
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what is what was the beginning what were the first few roles that made you feel like I'm starting to actually get
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something with this it's going somewhere yeah uh I kind of got jumped into the deep end cuz uh that uh that show I was
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mentioning earlier uh oh sorry the other Studio who I needed to work with first we did this show called actors Sons
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connection uh and it was uh it was actually a pretty interesting premise about uh uh well I actually can't really
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talk that much without spoiling it but if you like a kind of musically oriented anime we did all the songs uh we dubed
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all of them um a really interesting like kind of not uh I don't know I guess we we
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call it like a like a techn technology
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like mystery combined with a with a sort of Matrix stuff going on but it's all
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like under the veneer of this like High School drama like sort of Slice of Life sort of thing it's kind of interesting
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uh and then uh first Ru Foundation was this show called Mars red uh cuz I I
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knew when I got audition because these sides said uh English and Scottish
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accent uh set in the 1920s and it's about vampires and I'm just like if I do
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not get this I will not get anything and thankfully I did so um that was a lot of
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fun uh there's this other show called talked Opus destiny that was a really interesting one it's a another one about
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classical music actually um and it's like uh like you got these magical girls that like are all based on like
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classical compositions uh and U oh gosh there's so many great people in it uh
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Emy low uh Jason leeck Alexis Tipton uh it was all uh directed by Caitlin Glass
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uh really really great show uh and I got to play the uh the kind of mentors is
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sort of character uh uh also a very uh a very fabulous gentleman if I might I
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might say so um yeah really really great stuff uh I've loved working with Caitlyn
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especially she's a she's been a bit of a mentor for me you know from the beginning really you know can't say
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enough good things about her that's awesome so uh given the last two that you mentioned it sounds like are you
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musically trained uh yeah so uh I guess I forgot to mention that in the in the
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lore dump uh yeah uh I went to college at UT Austin so a lot of more fan who
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went there um it was uh uh yeah so uh first I be studying acting but then I
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was like well you know I've enjoyed doing musical theater you know for a while might as well you know keep you know keep those chops crushed up and so
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I went to the music school because they can offer uh voice lessons to non- majors and the voice Professor heard me
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and she was just like I think I know who I'm going to par you and so I go
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in uh up to the voice Department to meet my new professor and he's uh uh he walks
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out and he is one of the largest most russan men I ever met in my life I've
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known a few Russian men this guy was Russian with a capital R uh like he
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walks out and before you know saying really anything you know hello how are
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you okay I you know what means
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resonance you are in your car you pull up to stop some idiot is sitting next to
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you he have his music way too loud but you hear you don't hear high parts you hear Bo boom boom
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boom what that feure okay we start we War map and then 3 years later I had a
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degree amazing great teacher that's say yeah that's how I learned how to sing opera yeah that's awesome so I mean
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given that you have you just been in Dallas like have you stayed in Dallas have you gone elsewhere pretty much yeah
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mostly we love a Texas yes sir don't worry I hate the Cowboys um okay okay
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well I I think we're good nobody got up and like started coming to the stage yeah we got we got them going but maybe
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maybe they're just disappointed about the Maverick of I am well that being said bringing you
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back to voice acting specifically like the roles that you've done um what is
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the role that you consider one that was too either strenuous or just in terms of
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storyline you were like okay well if this comes back around I don't really care if it
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happens I want hot takes oh God god um
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jeez oh that might get me into some trouble oh yeah no like don't lose money on this right right right um the thing
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is uh with anime just like with anything else like 90% of what gets put out there
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is like stuff that everybody forgets about let's and let's be entirely honest isn't you know exactly the the stuff
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that comes to the cream of the crop you know you get you you will work on a lot of stuff that will not particularly C
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catch your interest uh some stuff that uh you find actively uh morally dubious
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um that's anime for so if you're interested in voice acting just know that that's going to be
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a thing um let's see there was uh uh I just had something didn't I and
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I completely forgot about it um it's the threat of losing money ex your brain said we need to be safe M just pump
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those bricks a little bit yeah uh there's plenty of uh and no offense
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here but plenty of e guys out there that uh if they if that didn't get renewed I
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would not be exactly all that sad about uh one show that I will say that I really do want to come back uh is this
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show of course is the ones that nobody watched um it was this uh banter comedy
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called don't hurt me my healer uh and it was me and Bren April who uh placed Co
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in James on man um and it essentially like uh if you
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think about the the generic eai is you know U you know high school kid uh or
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something like that you know young adult you know uh uh gets all the best powers you know everything comes easy to them
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all the girls love them you know they get all this stuff this is basically the exact opposite imagine like a 30
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something year old depressed Millennial getting sucked into a video game world uh that's not literally what happens but
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that's basically the attitude of it uh what was really fun about that show is uh when you're voice acting for anime
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you know you have you're kind of constrained by the lip movements of the characters you know the they called lip
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flaps uh my character wore a helmet I could do whatever I to Freedom it was
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total freedom yes so basically we took what was uh sort of a sort of a goofy
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little you know uh you know a flavor of the week like uh um little banter comedy
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between these two and we basically made it into Archer and it was so much fun
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Archer shout out yes sir yeah yeah just U it's more like a it's less a oh these
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two wacky people getting into Adventures like let's take these like two terrible people and just get them in the worst
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scenarios and just see how much they like hate each other by the end of it it was so much fun that sounds very
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entertaining that sounds very fun my follow-up question was going to be that being said said what is the role that
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you think you would want to return to and I think you just answered it for me so nice yeah I I wish every day for
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season 2 but I know it's never going to come so we just need to side affection season 2 really well hey they're
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streaming this stuff to the YouTube channel guys we need to we need to get on that that's awesome that's interesting
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you can continue no no no no so it's basically okay yeah understand I can
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hear the te no kids training in the background oh yeah but that being said um being in
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Dallas and being and you had the connection with fation so it makes it so much even though it's super hard it
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makes it so much easier to access and stuff like that have you been in Texas cons quite is that something that is
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just a part of your routine oh like the convention stuff yeah convention not
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super like it was to a certain extent but like it was mostly like uh oh I have a bunch of friends that I met doing
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online voice acting like over the Internet oh okay well we're all literally all over the world so where
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the heck are we going to meet up and it was usually at at a place like like pretty far out of town like like a
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Baltimore or like San Francisco or something but not so much in Dallas really uh which I kind of regret but
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it's also like this was back in the days when uh back in the days when you uh couldn't find anime anywhere you had to
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go on YouTube and like it was split up into three different parts and the last part was only like 2 minutes long um and
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it always they were missing part two of that episode uh and uh back in the days when it wasn't it really really was not
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cool to be watching anime there were no shirts at Walmart or anything no you oh if I if I had found a
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an anime anything at any store I would have dropped to my knees and screamed um I I wonder about my parents were
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something anyway very fun very nice I mean that that is a relevant topic that I was
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going to say um you started voice acting around the time before the time that the
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anime boom occurred per se in America um when that boom happened was it easier to
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kind of explain what you do and explain who you are and yeah I kind of figure
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yeah yeah um for the longest time you know you tell people oh I'm trying to be
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an actor I'm trying to do this that the question is always oh what have you been in and I just did not have an answer for
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something been in stuff yeah exactly yeah it's just little you know this just stuff on YouTube I guess um but yeah now
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I can tell people like like oh a voice actor and they and they U ask you know
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what I'm in they and I can say have you heard of Chainsaw man and they actually say yes I got a merchant below exactly
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yeah it's always oh my know my kid really likes that it's just like oh yeah
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right yeah yeah oh I you would be surprised at how young some of the people coming up to see chainsaw man I
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actually sadly I we love unadulterated internet I mean I did it too can't blame
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oh no J yeah oh uh brain R has said in a long time ago oh yeah oh yeah from I
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mean from the dawn of computers so on the top of anime not necessarily pertaining to the enemies that you
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voiced is there an anime that got you into everything I know Naruto is the first n was the first very obscure anime
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but were there other things that really draw you into the the community much more than just starting
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out one of the temple ones I would say is definitely note um oh yeah especially
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yeah especially when it comes to you know English voice acting in anime it was just that really you know set the
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standard for so so long um yeah also just a a fantastically written story too
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uh the one that uh remains you know my favorite to this day is U monster any
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youall seen that one we got one okay yeah there we go another one uh
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this is this is like a fet man like this is amazing stuff uh basically uh
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basically run down with the original premise uh so there's this doctor the Japanese doctor living in uh Germany in
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the 9s and he's a uh brain surgeon he's very very gifted very talented at it um
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and but the thing is you know the hospital is a lot more focused on profit a lot more on like uh you know Prestige
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realistic then yeah exactly um and so he's had to you know refuse use you know
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patients just because the hospital wants him to work on this you know more famous or more wealthy person um and he decides
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one night no I'm not going to do that and so he uh operates on this little boy
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who's had a you know a gunshot Lo to the Head um and so he does it and he saves
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the boy but unfortunately the hospital says okay well you've disobeyed us so now your career is kaput you're not
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going anywhere yeah we're not you know you know we we W fire you you know you're useful enough to keep around but you are not going
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anywhere MH uh so the doctor starts kind of U ranting and raving you know
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obviously very upset uh says that they would be better off dead um and then uh seriously over the next few days they
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start dying um must have been the wi uhuh uh and
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then you find out uh that uh that little boy that he saved may or may not be the
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Antichrist wow I love that like how I F that's beautiful yeah in
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the Book of Revelation there's a a part where like the Beast receives a Blow To The Head which is healed so that's kind
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of should on sooner should go listen to the hospital well cruel right yeah get
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that that's the lesson get that bre exactly let the little kids suffer
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there's also uh a really great one if you all seen mon no not uh not princess
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mon no just mon no okay so this is this is a bit more of an Aang gar a little
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bit uh artsy like very very heavily inspired by like early Japanese theater
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um but it's very very very good uh there was actually a movie of it recently that
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came out uh and it's basically uh this sort of episodic like um it's about this
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uh medicine seller who was being called to all these different locations all throughout Japan and the storytelling is
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so so interesting and how they do it with uh the visuals you know the voice acting is fantastic uh I think they only
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just started dubbing it but if you want to watch it uh in the Japanese uh it's it's absolutely fantastic uh a little
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bit you kind of have to be kind of in the right heads space you have to be like okay I'm going to accept that you know not everything is going to uh uh is
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it's going to be a little bit artsy partsy a little bit you know a little bit of that but uh it's yeah it's really
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interesting the way uh because uh I've been I've been to Japan once and I went and saw a a set of Kabuki playes um
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really really fasting if you ever watch like even just a little bit of it you can just tell that the acting style is
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like the like the grandfather of like modern anime voice acting in Japan like
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it's really interesting it's like oh that sounds just like this thing from this show and like it's it's really cool
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to see the cont yeah you see how it evolved over time it's really interesting that's nice so on that wien
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is there a role is there a show that you have rle that you got into it and you're like wait actually this is a really good
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show got in from there maybe that was pretty much chainsaw um yeah uh going into the
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auditions I knew absolutely nothing about the show um I just knew it was going to be completely insane and
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probably quite popular so it was like oh well it's going to be popular I'm a new actor there is AB love that there is
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absolutely no way they're going to choose me right but that kind of fre you up a little bit like oh well there's no way anyway might as well just you know
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the be the freedom exactly so uh I started reading the manga a little bit just be like okay maybe if I have
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context for these lines maybe they'll pop a little bit more maybe they'll throw me a bit mark down the road or something um and so I start reading it
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um and then it gets to where ais's the fox devil and I'm oh no I want this now um which
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you're not supposed to do that you are not supposed to want things there is no hope when it comes to end the additions
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yes uh the the you you just go in with the assumption that you are not going to get it and your mental health will thank
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you for it uh unfortunately uh I really wanted this um
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and uh then uh a couple week a few weeks later I was uh in the middle of a shift
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at my day job I was a delivery driver and uh I just got an email from Mike McFarland saying hey like if you have a
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minute uh I could just give you a call about some casting information and uh we had just been doing some auditions for
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like the next AR of one piece and so I was just like oh maybe it's maybe it's something in one piece that'd be really cool and so we he just calls me and I'm
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off in the break room and and he's like hey just wanted to let you know that I'm going to be directing uh chainsaw man
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and I just like yeah he's like and we would like
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you to be our hockey and I was just like great that sounds awesome and then I uh
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yeah uh so I just had to keep it on the DL because you know there were my co-workers right there and I do not want
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to blow this right after I got the the call 5 minutes after y I ran out to my
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car and I just shut the door and started screaming at the top of my lungs I was so excited uh and ever since then it's
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just been fantastic uh getting to you know getting into the story more uh I
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love love the character art for AI not just in season 1 but all throughout um
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and uh uh the the my fellow castmates are amazing Ryan col Le third shout out yeah
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oh of course yeah um if you have never met Ryan uh do you know about the law of attraction where like if you keep your
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thoughts positive and you're you know you're kind bring what you deserve things will generally work out for you
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more that is why C Le in in nutshell like that is in like one B he is like I
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cuz like I'll be honest when I was first watching like his social media profile and everything I was just kind of like
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okay what does this guy really think though like he can't be like this positive and nice all the time right and
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then you meet him like no that's just him that's just how he is uh it's just Joy he really is yeah um and he has uh
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deserved this part so much uh he's such a Hu he is so in love with DJ as a
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character you know he loves this part he loves all of y'all like I cannot say enough good things about that man uh and
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then Sarah oh my gosh Sarah uh when you met meet s in real life you realize that
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there is absolutely no one on this Earth who could play Power besides her um she yeah she's our little our little Gremlin
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our little fairy you know she's got the little sister enery going uh we love her so much Susie uh makim up just Queen is
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all I can say um no she's wonderful uh and it's what it's amazing because you know I could be stuck you know traveling
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from place to place and having to talk about this show with a bunch of people that I hate and yet it's with like some
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of the most wonderful amazing talented and just warm kind people that I've met in my life uh and I could not be happier
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about that I could not be happier you know meeting all of y'all you know this genuinely a dream come true
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uh yes happy so true no yeah I can imagine I mean it's
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already kind of a dream role that you mentally you're like I shouldn't anticipate this but you do anyways and
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then to land it not only land it but be surrounded because I mean communities are communities but there's always the
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occasion where you get a perfect situation and then you're there and you're like I don't like the people around so it's difficult and it's hard
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to like set yourself up for something and then find out you're actually having a good time you actually want to see it
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was so hard feel like for that to say good yeah I can only imagine I mean like relevant to that uh did you realize that
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like have you done other animes where you kind of had a group of people and you were like okay did you end up with
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relationships through that the thing is not really because we never see each other yeah we
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all record individually and so basically you know unless you very are luckily at
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the studio at the same time or you know you already know each other is you don't really get to meet the people you work
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with unless you go to conventions and you don't go to conventions unless you have the really popular anime right oh true so it can be a little bit tricky
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but yeah um yeah no uh uh I also just like the whole like caval of like anime
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voice actors out there like I really only like when it comes to like people
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who I like I still respect who like hey let's you know don't necessarily mes
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with people it's really only like one or two folks like everybody else is genuinely just like really good people
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it's like oh wow I could be surrounded by scumbags and I'm not thank goodness I was going to say you bold enough to name
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drop but you know what I won't do that to you damn right you got the foot up here let's go now the real conversation
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is starting guys no like I said respect his colleagues you know we don't need to be heing or
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anything like that you know respectable you're choosing the right answer not only for you but your social media for
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the next two years agree good choice that's so fun that's really great I mean
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I know that you've been involved in one piece and I know that's one of those animes where it's like that's when people recognize did you realize and
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know that you were going into it that you were going to like definitively you were going to be a part of One Piece did you like how how was that process did
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you realize that it was going to happen when it happened or you just like oh they want me for one piece I mean
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yeah I mean well uh it was one of the first shows actually that I got to work on at FUNimation uh of course you know
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at that point you know it's just little bit Parts you know just a little thing and this was like in the middle of the pandemic too so like I'm going into you
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know I've been dreaming for years of going into the FUNimation building like oh my gosh it's all this time and then
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uh it's in the middle of a pandemic literally no nobody is in that building like it is almost completely empty you
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walk up the security person lets you in you follow the arrows on the floor to your booth and not even a director
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there's no audio engineer there you just step into that Booth put on the headphones and you hear their voice in
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your it's it's your job was your job was the back room exactly that that was
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exactly it yes to wonder MH MH uh and so you know you start off with just little
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bit things um and one of those little bit Parts uh that didn't even have any lines was this uh oh he's just big
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elephant guy you know he's just oh he's just kind of you know where this thing is set all you have to do is
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go I'm like okay for you perfect and then fast forward like 102 episodes
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later minor spoilers and he's uh and he's like getting to be like the WWE
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announcer for like this huge like cataclysmic event in the one piece history and I was like oh God I need to
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do this right average story line exactly but uh no it's so much fun uh
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like uh I ashamed to admit one piece isn't one of those shows that I was able to really get into at that time uh I've
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grown to really really appreciate it a lot more over the years especially you know what it means I also just still you know I have only a certain number of
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hours in the day uh but uh Emily fararo is an amazing director she's doing such
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such great work with one piece nowadays um and she was able to get me up to speed like very quickly on all this
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stuff uh no uh just the sheer passion that one piece fans have is probably one of their most defining characteristics I
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would say really really sets them apart um yeah and uh even just watching like
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the little bits that I have like I can really see why like this is something that people really connect with oh yeah especially the longer they've been in it
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it's like back out it's much harder it's ring in them at that point yeah it's like You' already bet you know 5,000 on
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black you might as well keep yeah exactly no full safeties count why not exactly uh well since since you've been
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here well I mean have you been to Corpus before is this your first Corpus CL first time this your first time in Corpus first time Corpus oh my goodness
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okay have you enjoyed it oh yeah oh anytime anytime I'm close to the ocean
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no I'm very happy is that nice little eror gosh so since you've been here and since you've had people come up to you
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and like come J with have you maybe aside from chaina man have you had the
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like is there been a one specific thing that people keep coming up for and it's like something you didn't expect or is
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it basically the same thing youring your M well a lot of it will be for James on man of course but um I you know uh the
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when it came to uh a sign of affection um you know I I I enjoyed it a lot when I was reading it to prepare for the role
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but I didn't really expect it to pop off of the way that it has and people have been you know really appreciative of it
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uh and I uh and I really appreciate that um yeah it's a really really sweet show
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it's one of the uh I feel like one of the better romance animes come out of the past year um uh and just uh the the
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amount of uh you know care and compassion that those people have for that show it's it's wonderful it's great to see yeah I can imagine like the
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smaller more deep cut stuff it's like the people that you do find that do know it lose their minds because you know it
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it's I can only imagine we've had a few more people walk in since this panels began so it is a sweet little reminder
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that is open Q&A if you'll have questions if you just want to say
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something and then we'll be like wow that's crazy anything you want one of your little heart desires we've got them
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here for you but continuing on that as I'll let you guys look at that little mic it's just waiting for you to say
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something it's waiting on that note since this is your first time in Corpus and I mean you said that like you don't
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really you haven't done that many tenses concept I heard there increasingly a few in the
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past few months I can imagine yeah yeah but you know big state you know I me
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very large state has in any standout cities that you've enjoyed the conventions for oh jeez um I mean quite
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a few like obviously I love all of the all but one that I really enjoyed was a Calgary Expo of in of in Canada uh if
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youall don't know Alberta is the province that that city is in and it's basically the Texas of
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Canada yeah you you you you land there and you feel like you're already oh like all this significantly colder just
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significantly colder um but uh significantly quieter to you can like I went out uh I drove with
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Sarah natash the C boys of as ketchen we drove out to B which is a national park
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out there you know up in the mountains you feel like you're you know driving through Lord of the Rings um and you on
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the drive to and from there you know this huge wide open land almost no
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Billboards at all so like oh I can look around and actually see things and
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advertise to yeah exactly yeah right so uh yeah really sweet people there too
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yeah I love that's nice that's so sweet I we've got a little Miss Misa one be super un oh please you got it you got it
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okay first I have a friend that lives in calary I'm going to go visit her next month that's crazy that you mention that
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as here are you it happened it happened a
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there's a very specific L behind that little object right there and I've had this for 2 years this thing
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is completely
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completely empty decoration just like [Music]
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me and now it's the reason this so deeply is important is because this
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little thing has been an on running bag for so long and um earlier she's waiting in line for like
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the since the con opened and like 30 minutes before I'm like I can't wait with anym I got to go I'm managing these
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panels she's like I'm not we in line it's okay she's waiting in line for the person who's going to be on this panel
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so then we're all shocked when the line gets cut off yeah well I mean actually
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here good segue on that note have you had any fan interactions that have been
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very bizarre in or [Music]
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strange um let me think um um there have been a
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couple of uh young ladies who have uh told me a bit more than I needed to know
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about how much they enjoyed my performances SC the audience for children yeah C her her her
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um oh jeez uh let's see couple of people
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who uh would do well to learn the uh importance of the boundaries between
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fans and uh quote unquote celebrities that love the the term par social
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relationship imagine it's one of the things that scares me the most um oh yeah oh Jee was that one in particular
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really oh there was this one guy uh who uh not that it was really all that
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strange but uh he uh asked all of us to uh sign in Sharpie on his body because
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he was going to uh try and break the Guinness world record for most autographs tattooed on a person oh so
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yeah literally we've signed him and then like like this guy like leaves the convention he comes back like 15 minutes
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later like done it's all good it's he didn't the park one yeah I guess so it must have been like I don't know how he
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teleported there and back yeah no like he he was ready oh very ready do in the basket yeah so wait where was it the oh
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yeah it was think like I think right C I think beautiful that is yeah okay yeah know that is a pretty specific and
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notable memory to have that was a a convention with the entire past or was it just one word yous of you was is
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doing conventions the first time that you've been around your like castmates yep wow it's been strange to be like oh
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hey I've heard your voice for years yes it has it really has been so strange cuz
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like I literally uh uh the first time uh that I got to meet up with them uh you know this is me like you know little
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baby voice actor totally new to this very shy person also uh and they tell me hey uh we want you to be at New York
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ComicCon and do a panel and everything this is my first convention you know anything ever the New York
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com yeah uhuh it was terrifying um and so uh we meet up and uh you know uh
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knowing that Ryan was going to be there was a very you know was a good thing for me was like oh good an extrovert die
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behind yes exactly um and so we of course you know
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this is me you know bouncing baby voice actor uh we go with uh him and Mike
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McFarland and Christina V and we all go see Beetle Juice together right with
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Alex Brightman yeah it was amazing and then we yeah and then Mike takes us all this dinner and there's it's a whole
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who's who of you know all these you know famous anime people I'm just like I do
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not belong here yeah you're also there right yeah uh while I'm sitting there
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yeah and so uh yeah I'm just sitting around all these people and just like what how is this my life how is this
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real um and it was really sweet because afterwards uh actually they were just on
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uh Trina and rice uh they were both Angels they oh my gosh so they yeah they
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came up to me um you know no prompting what whatever you know they have no you
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know barely any idea who I am you know no reason that they should you know take any interest whatsoever but they you
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know they come up and they're like hey you know how you doing are you feeling okay like are you nervous you know and
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you know we just talked about it for a while and it was great because they uh basically were just telling me like you
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know you know feel what you're feeling but at the same time remember you know it's not about you it's you know there
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you know it's about you know what you can you know what you can bring for them you know they're interested in the same
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thing you are you love Shang s man great just talk about that and so that really really helped me to calm down um cuz I
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was uh oh I was a bit of a wreck been there understandable know exactly what you mean she Hardy can't see straight
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yes but yeah it goes back to just you know what a wonderful Community we have of you know actors and people being so
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supportive of one another yeah yeah like that hello
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another question uh you said you did a lot of uh theater in college and stuff like that if you hadn't done voice
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Academia consider like Broadway or something like that I really wanted to new Broadway when I was a kid actually
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um uh if I was going to go get back into it it would probably be uh in the opera scene because uh when you uh when you
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listen to your average Broadway musical you don't hear a whole ton of people who sound like I do uh mostly that sticks
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with the the more classical side um but yeah I would really love to be doing some Opera if I if you know the whole
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voice act voice acting thing doesn't work out um I just need to get a lot better uh reading music um my my site
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reading is so so bad um but uh yeah Opera is great because uh uh it's
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a a method of singing that is uh involves basically using your whole body
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to sing uh it's it's pretty intense but I like my music intense as you can probably tell um and uh yeah no I love
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it [Music] um uh guess that's I guess that's a nice
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for you w thank you thank you we're actually like on like the most perfect
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timing ever to to wrap this up such a beautiful if there was anybody else that
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had one little last question anything you wanted to do anything well you know what I I asked all questions I am mad
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that I didn't ask that question actually like that that one was pretty good but that being said if you would like to
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give any kind ofion if you would like to ask pun so that you didn't get here maybe you didn't have the gut yet it's okay look how cool and chy is you want
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to say hi you can go catch him we according the voice actors don't make that awkward face well you can catch for
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another voice actors here for the rest of the day and if we give one loud warm thank you so much a little collab thank
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you for your time your discussion so sweet thank you so much for coming out thank you so much thank you guys next up
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at 3 p.m. there is a taon do so you guys want to head out that back exit so these
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guys can get prepped for it we'll see you then thank you
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