Thoughts on VA
The latest post at baccano (and the comments that accompanied) triggered some interesting thoughts on how the voice acting industry should be perceived. There had not been a centralized curriculum for voice acting out west until recent years due to a lack of market shares, therefore we need to give the industry more time to mature. It should also be kept in mind that there are plenty of shows that are extremely difficult to localize. All in all, quality of voice acting should not be judged by the language it is presented in: the whole "Anything Japanese is better by default" is simply ridiculous, even if Japanese is part of my mother tongue.