Year in Review: The Amazing Miyuki Sawashiro
The year 2008 is the right year to stop procrastinating and push out a profile blog post on Miyuki Sawashiro. She is 23 years old this year. It marks the 10th year she has started working as a professional voice actress.
Recall seeing Kotono Mitsuishi earlier this year, it makes me wonder what kind of voice actress Sawashiro will turn out to be 10 years from now. In another 10 years she will be 33 years old, will she also become a legend? Ah well, it’s none of my business, but she seems really even-minded about work and is serious about it.
But Miyuki Sawashiro has mad range. I don’t know if she just decided to audition or she got pulled on to projects where the roles are not like the 50% of prior roles she did–the shrewd loli or the nasal oujo-sama-type. The ability to subtly distinguish even the same typecast voice from one character to another, alone, is amazing enough. She shines even in roles normally not assigned to her. I even like some of them. A couple of those I like a lot. This year is the year when the fans are suddenly taking note.
Sawashiro may not be the vocal chameleon that some prefer in their favorite voice, nor does she command the AWESOME like the likes of Wakamoto. And her singing abilities, while not bad by any fair measure, are not really worth mentioning (which is partly why it’s hardly mentioned anywhere). Still the entire package is full of win from a career voice acting perspective. Miyukichi possesses a complete arsenal and it’s all-around quality.
Perhaps 2008 is a turning point. Perhaps not. But I can’t wait to see what else gets pulled out of her hat.
Year in Review 2008:
- Introduction
- Kurenai
- Miyuki Sawashiro
- JAM Project & others
- 12 lists of randomness
- Type-Moon
- 9 TV series of 2008
- Conclusion
10 years from now she may set a record on ANN with 500 entries or something. She’s a real actress without a type-cast, kinda like Kawasumi Ayako given an early start.
I’d watch ANY anime that has her Shibasaki voice in there.
It’s crazy how the same seiyuu has voiced Puchiko, Shibasaki, Shinku, and roles all in between.
Agreed. It was only this year that she came into my radar. Oh Shibasaki, oh Tsugumi~
What’s amusing is that she started this stuff back when people like Sakura Tange and Junko Iwao were still doing things. So in a way she bridges the gap in an incredible manner, and she may do so for the next wave of voice actors. She may not have inherited that spotlight but it’s interesting to see her role in all of this.
When I looked at her (and heard her) acting history a while back (forgot the youtube link for a nice compliations), there are many series I watched and looking at the roles, am a little surprised with how much she’s done. And while I can hear that aspect of her voice to let me know that it’s her, it’s amazing the range she has, and just awesome in general.
“I’d watch ANY anime that has her Shibasaki voice in there.”
I’d watch ANY anime that has her voice in there (though I probably prefer her Landlady voice from Hidamari Sketch myself :P). And I should start catching up on some of the earlier stuffs she’s done (a Miyuki doctrine for you, omo?).
Me? You’re more qualified N. Go grab yourself some capable folks and form [Miyuki] and make us some fansubs!
>form [Miyuki] and make us some fansubs!
I loled.