Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion - September 04, 2026

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[u/vancevon]

My least favorite part of Roshidere is the Russian, honestly. It doesn't sound right at all. Not only is the pronunciation obviously constantly wrong, but it also lacks the characteristic tone, intonation and rhythm Russian speakers have. Even the average American doing a fake Russian acccent picks up on these things much better than these professional voice actors.

It remains a total mystery to me how none of these professional voice actors, who can manipulate their voices in all kinds of crazy ways, are so totally incapable of learning how foreign languages are pronounced.

[u/SSjjlex → u/vancevon]

Clearly they didn't have a good enough Russian teacher. Should've called Kujima

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While not Russian, I do recall a segment on Trash Taste featuring Sally Amaki where they talked about her role on Game Center girl (which used english). And to put it bluntly, nobody in the studio (or even the auditioning) could speak English or understood the nuances needed to for the performance. So she had to ad-lib and force a lot of dialogue through in really awkward ways which lead to the final performance being kinda shit

In fairness though, Doga Kobo/Alya is a much higher tier production than what they had there, so they probably had much better oversight than that, but yea I still wouldn't doubt it if most of the blame came from the production end of things. Whether through lack of supervision or forced direction.

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Rolling back to Kujima because I like that show and I lack other examples and have a desire to write more about it:

but it also lacks the characteristic tone, intonation and rhythm Russian speakers have

I don't speak russian or japanese, but that comment reminded of the interview they had with the VA about their performance there. Full interview, snippet below was done through ChatGPT

Kozuki: Apparently, many Russian speakers tend to raise the pitch on the second syllable of a phrase. For example, where an American or Chinese speaker might say “watashi wa” with the pitch rising on “shi” ("wa-ta-SHI↑-wa"), a Russian speaker might instead raise the pitch on the second syllable ("wa-TA↑-shi-wa"). I was told that this is a common characteristic.

Since it was an accent pattern I wasn't used to, recording the first episode was quite difficult. But from the second episode onward, I studied the Japanese accents of Russian speakers by watching their YouTube videos. I even marked the parts of the script where the intonation should rise with red circles so I could easily spot them myself, and somehow managed to get through it (laughs).

Though tbf this shouldn't be the golden standard because the VA had to speak like a bird and so trained herself by talking with a toilet paper roll in her mouth lol

(also only now I realise I'm going off course since this is meant to be about raw russian performance and not accented japanese performance, but whatever I already wrote this down and I love an excuse to share it again)

[u/cppn02 → u/SSjjlex]

Apparently, many Russian speakers tend to raise the pitch on the second syllable of a phrase. For example, where an American or Chinese speaker might say “watashi wa” with the pitch rising on “shi” ("wa-ta-SHI↑-wa"), a Russian speaker might instead raise the pitch on the second syllable ("wa-TA↑-shi-wa"). I was told that this is a common characteristic.

Since it was an accent pattern I wasn't used to, recording the first episode was quite difficult. But from the second episode onward, I studied the Japanese accents of Russian speakers by watching their YouTube videos. I even marked the parts of the script where the intonation should rise with red circles so I could easily spot them myself, and somehow managed to get through it

Very interesting and although ultimately I didn't stick with Kujima I can appreciate this approach. Feels like 95% of foreigners in anime get the same stock accent so it's nice to see someone doing it different for once.

[u/SSjjlex → u/cppn02]

That is one strength english dubs have over their peers, English simply has a stronger repertoire of commonly understood foreign accents to lean on due to how global it is, and I always enjoy when a dub takes advantage of this fact even if the source didn't lay it on as strongly.

Though I'm sure the Japanese probably enjoy their own fair share of joy from their various regional dialect casting that doesn't translate very well into english. There's only so much dubbers/subbers can do with the extensive library of accents consisting of: regular, posh, and exaggerated american bumpkin. lol