Japanese Video Game voice over

Japanese performance asks for the usual game demands — range, emotional truth in short bursts, the stamina for efforts, deaths and reactions — but it adds one that's specific to the language: keigo, the politeness levels. How a character speaks (plain, polite, honorific, rough) *is* characterisation in Japanese, and it signals the relationships between characters. A director who flattens that flattens the cast, so we preserve register scene by scene rather than levelling everything to neutral speech.

We cast for the archetype as much as the language — hero, rival, mentor, comic relief all have recognisable Japanese casting conventions — with native actors who can hit them. Because a Japanese script mixes kanji and kana and carries a lot of implied context, we work closely from your script and direction to keep the writer's intent intact rather than reading it literally.

The rest is the craft that makes game audio implementable: consistent character voices across a production that runs for months, efforts and non-verbal pickups recorded and delivered as separate assets, and files named and formatted to your Wwise, FMOD or in-house convention. When the build changes, we pick up new lines with the same actor and settings so nothing jars.