Voice Actress Stresses Deep Grasp of Character

Voice Actress Stresses Deep Grasp of Character

Mikako Komatsu is a voice actress whose roles include the good-looking boy in the anime My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Too! who is romantically attached to the protagonist, one of his classmates. She also plays Inko Amifumi, a girl in the TV anime series Aldnoah.Zero who seems to fall in love with the hero and teams up with him to fight “Martian Knights.” Her versatility is truly amazing.

Online voting has closed for the SUGOI JAPAN Award 2016, an annual project to introduce to the rest of the world the latest works Japanese people like most in the fields of manga, anime, ranobe (light novel) and entame shosetsu (entertainment novel). The contest is the second of its kind organized by the SUGOI JAPAN Committee and The Yomiuri Shimbun. Online voting for the 2016 award has closed on Jan. 3, with the award-winning works to be announced in March. Voters are asked to choose their favorite titles that are so “sugoi” (amazing, great and wonderful) that they want to share them with the world.

As a prelude to the 2016 selection, writer Momo Tachibana recently interviewed Mikako Komatsu, a highly popular voice artist who gives not only voices but also personalities to main characters in anime titles such as My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Too! and Aldnoah.Zero—both of which have been nominated for the SUGOI JAPAN Award 2016.
Komatsu, who debuted in 2010, is so popular that she regularly provided character voices to more than 10 anime titles in 2015. Concurrently, she acts in motion pictures and TV broadcasts and gives concerts as a singer.

Conveying emotions hinted in lines

You are now involved in the production of a variety of popular anime. What special effort do you make to give different performances—voices and personalities—to the various characters you voice?

Full article continued at SUGOI JAPAN.

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