On December 6, 1988, Nobunaga Shimazaki, the Japanese VA for the Savior of the Spirits, was born!
Happy birthday to such a fine and talented VA! May he keep living the dream!
Interesting points from that interview:
-Shimazaki isn't doing an imitation of Juurouta Kosugi's performance. It's a different character, and Shimazaki goes as far as to say that if Nobunaga was similar to his portrayal from the previous games, he probably would've declined the role.
-Nobunaga is more of a protagonist type in this game. At the beginning of the story he is a young man and does not give a feelinng of a Demon King. He has a lot of fateful meetings and partings, clashes with ideals of other people and grows up.
-Shimazaki notes that while he did not play ALL of the previous SW games, Nobunaga always felt as an already developed and established character in them. It is not a case here.Β This Nobunaga is more of "a work in progress," who changes trough the game
-Nobunaga (the character) thinks of himself as a man, not as a Demon King in this game.
-He can't really comment on the other characters, since he was the first one to record his lines, but it was very easy to imagine Hikaru Midorikawa's performance as Mitsuhide. Shimazaki also notes, that he became a voice actor, after being inspired by Hikaru Midorikawa in the first place, so to co-star with him made him really happy.
-His performance as Guan Xing did not matter in conext of this game - they are different characters from the different works, even though they are both from Musou franchise, they aren't similar at all.
-When performing as Nobunaga, he did not feel any need to focus on any particular points. In his opinion, when one focuses too much on specific points, rather on on a broad picture, character becomes much more narrow and much less human.
-That being said, it still a very difficult job, since video games are recorded with one voice actor in the studio. Anime recorded by the group of voice actors, who can act off each other, but with the games, one has to imagine and assemble things by yourself.
-There's a big event, that changes Nobunaga's heart. Therefore, Shimazaki's acting also had to change after that event.
-Nobunaga's relationship with other characters change all the time. Sometimes changes are subtle and sometimes they are major and clear as the day.
-I'm not entirely sure on translation for this part, but he says that most memorable scenes are the scenes, where every character is left in a shock.
-Shimazaki says that everyone has their opinion on who Nobunaga as the person was and there's no clear answer to that. And that is what
In addition, when he is free from work, he often appears in the Kanae's live comment. They met and played with each other, starting with their relationship on the Internet.
I think Kanae will play Genshin again soon. I hope he can get Kazuha thanks to his relationship!
