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Absolutely Heartbreaking News
a year ago
Turns out, legendary anime voice actor Tōru Furuya is a scumbag, as explained here: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/ne.....th-fan/.211053
As someone who enjoyed his performance as Pegasus Seiya from the Saint Seiya franchise, this was an absolute stab in the heart to hear, that anime, along Dragon Ball, Kimagure Orange Road, and especially the Universal Century anime of the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise (ironically enough, Amuro was pretty much a jerk largely throughout, especially if you read the Origin manga) are basically tainted forever. His career and reputation is probably over as well now.
This guy is nothing more than yet another full-blown has-been who let fame and his legendary status as a voice actor get the better of him and thought he could do whatever he wanted, just because he was popular, had fans, everything a voice actor, especially voicing the protagonists of famous anime could want...and he blew it. At this point, I couldn't give two shakes of a lamb's flystricken tail if Toei Animation and Sunrise not only fired him on the spot, but blacklisted him. Besides, Masakazu Morita already has proven he does a good Seiya voice, have him take over the role for Yamcha, or Amuro or something, so we won't have to struggle at separating the art from the artist.
And this is yet another reason why my passion for entertainment, movies, TV shows, etc., has been going down. Whilst I really am NOT a fan of the Independent Fundamentalist Baptist denominations, I'm starting to find myself taking the same mentality that they take towards movies and TV...to where if it keeps up, I'm giving up on them entirely and focusing instead on gaming and/or reading and writing books...
As someone who enjoyed his performance as Pegasus Seiya from the Saint Seiya franchise, this was an absolute stab in the heart to hear, that anime, along Dragon Ball, Kimagure Orange Road, and especially the Universal Century anime of the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise (ironically enough, Amuro was pretty much a jerk largely throughout, especially if you read the Origin manga) are basically tainted forever. His career and reputation is probably over as well now.
This guy is nothing more than yet another full-blown has-been who let fame and his legendary status as a voice actor get the better of him and thought he could do whatever he wanted, just because he was popular, had fans, everything a voice actor, especially voicing the protagonists of famous anime could want...and he blew it. At this point, I couldn't give two shakes of a lamb's flystricken tail if Toei Animation and Sunrise not only fired him on the spot, but blacklisted him. Besides, Masakazu Morita already has proven he does a good Seiya voice, have him take over the role for Yamcha, or Amuro or something, so we won't have to struggle at separating the art from the artist.
And this is yet another reason why my passion for entertainment, movies, TV shows, etc., has been going down. Whilst I really am NOT a fan of the Independent Fundamentalist Baptist denominations, I'm starting to find myself taking the same mentality that they take towards movies and TV...to where if it keeps up, I'm giving up on them entirely and focusing instead on gaming and/or reading and writing books...
