However, that left 63.8 percent of the survey participants casting their votes against women speaking in anime voices. Some simply didn’t like the sound itself, calling anime voices shrill, too hyper, and just plain annoying.
Japan’s anime voice actresses are more popular than ever, but does that style of speaking have the same appeal in actual conversation?
“They don’t work well with a real person,” offered one detractor, and several others expanded on that by calling anime voices unnatural or fake-sounding in a real-world setting.
To investigate, youth Internet portal My Navi Gakusei no Madoguchi asked 200 male college students if they like it when real-life women speak in anime-style voices. When the replies were tallied, 36.2 percent of respondents said that they liked women speaking in anime voices just fine.