![]() Ushiwaka (1939) director Kenzo Masaoka chose Mrs Masaoka to play the diminutive hero, and himself as the hulking brute Benkei. When casting the two combatants in Benkei vs. ![]() Voice work in early anime was often of secondary concern, with "actors" pulled in from available staff. Instead, anime would be screened to a musical accompaniment, although many would also employ a live benshi (narrator) to fill in dialogue and story elements in the style of similar performances in the Japanese puppet theater or magic lantern shows. ![]() ![]() Voice acting in the earliest anime was not part of the finished work, since anime was in existence for a decade before the introduction of audio. In the days before digital copying and back-ups were possible, some M&E tracks did not survive as separate entities, seriously hampering the chances of an anime getting a foreign release. ![]() Inured to the need to replace voice tracks in different territories, Japanese animation sound is usually recorded in two distinct parcels - a voice track laid down with the actors, and the Music and Effects (M&E) track comprising all other elements. The treatment of sound has been one of the invisible elements of Japanese animation's exports abroad. ![]()
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