Average age of Ranma’s voice actors is 60 years old
The anime remake of Ranma 1/2 was recently announced and a visual and a PV were released as well as the information that studio MAPPA will animate it and that its premiere is close, on October 5th.
But another issue that made fans happy is that the old voice actors will return to reprise their roles! So Ranma (male and female), Akane, Kasumi, Shampoo, Ryoga, Nabiki will have the same voices as in the old anime.
Average age of Ranma’s voice actors is 60 years old
And what’s surprising is the age of the voice actors! To give you an idea, a fan listed the ages of the voice actors who will reprise their roles:
- Ranma Male > voiced by Kappei Yamaguchi, 59 years old
- Ranma Female > voiced by Megumi Hayashibara, 57 years old
- Akane Tendo > voiced by Noriko Hidaka, 62 years old
- Kasumi Tendo > Kikuko Inoue, 17 years old
- Nabiki Tendo > Minami Takayama, 60 years old
- Hibiki Ryoga > Koichi Yamadera, 63 years old
- Shampoo > Rei Sakuma, 59 years old
The original Ranma 1/2 anime premiered in 1989, so that’s 35 years ago! This means that their ages when the anime premiered were as follows:
- Ranma Male > voiced by Kappei Yamaguchi, 24 years old
- Ranma Female > voiced by Megumi Hayashibara, 22 years old
- Akane Tendo > voiced by Noriko Hidaka, 27 years old
- Kasumi Tendo > Kikuko Inoue, 17 years old
- Nabiki Tendo > Minami Takayama, 25 years old
- Hibiki Ryoga > Koichi Yamadera, 28 years old
- Shampoo > Rei Sakuma, 24 years old
It’s impressive that they returned to dub their characters, considering that I watched the original and at least there was a lot of yelling and screaming because of the comedy.
Let’s see how the fans reacted?
“Just a new person coming in, right? I hope she works hard among the veterans.”
“Alumni reunion?”
“Hey, there’s a veteran rookie here, huh?”
“Playing the same role at 17 as 35 years ago…”
“The daughter has already surpassed her mother’s age…”
“We have a rookie among the veterans! But wait, that doesn’t make sense…”
“The voice actor’s voice is like an elf, but it sounds like there’s a real elf mixed in there, haha.”
Most of the comments there refer to voice actress Kikuko Inoue, who jokes with her fans that she founded the “cult of 17”, so she is 17 forever.
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