Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-3207457-20161021235934/@comment-679780-20161022024546

Shirkahn wrote: Mystic Monkey wrote:

Shirkahn wrote:

Mystic Monkey wrote: I do see where he is getting at and it would be nice if Jun'ichi Kanemaru voiced Sonic instead of Ryan Drummond to begin with, but learning a whole language would be too much to ask for an actor.

A director can make an actor say whatever he wants for his production, can make an actor learn to say foreign lines from a script... but can't make an actor just learn a whole language.

The very least I would of liked the american Sonic Adventure cast to had never been replaced to begin with purely because consistancy would of been nice. I find it "breaking character" when a well known and beloved characters voice has to be changed. Don't you know: Jun'ichi Kanemaru can speak fleunt English

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_4N-cPfnLA I do know. Doesn't mean learning a whole language is easy. All I can do is introduce myself in japanese. Lucky! I barely know a few Japanese words! Introducing myself I have remembered. It's not as simple as words being replaced with different sounding wourds, it's how these words are arranged in a sentence also that are in important.

A sentence like "kihki wa arimasuka" means "Do you have any cake?" if the japanese words in the phrase was in english it would sound like "Cake me there is?". Arimasuka means "there is". Not sure what "wa" means, I think it is used to address oneself as it's used in self introduction sentences.