シャドーイング練習: Invincible's Voice Actor Problem - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Invincible has a huge problem, and it has to do with the voice actors.
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About two weeks ago, I kept hearing about how the animation was getting worse, and how the show was getting sloppy.
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Even though I was really enjoying season 3, I thought I might as well see if that's true.
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It was an excuse to rewatch the last two seasons and introduce my buddy to an- I know, I'm a real hero.
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So as we're watching the Flaxen invasion scene, he says he has to go pee, and I pause the show.
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But as I pause right at the bottom where Prime shows the cast, I see the voice actor for the Flaxons Jimon Honsu.
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Wait, the guy from Blood Diamond?
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Gladiator?
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Guardians of the Galaxy? That guy?
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Isn't he a kind of famous movie actor?
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Why is he voicing the space aliens who literally say gibberish with a voice filter and have one word of dialogue?
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It seemed like an odd choice, and so now every time we pause I take a quick glance at the cast.
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It didn't take me long to realize that Invincible has a lot of celebrities doing the voice acting.
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Most of the main characters are voiced by pretty famous TV and movie actors, including side characters that have barely any lines or impact on the story.
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People like Jimon Honsu, which I mentioned earlier, Jon Hamm who voices Steve, who?
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He's the guy at the very beginning, who talks for two minutes before the Molo twins show up.
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I am Steve.
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Ella Purnell as the daughter of that one guy who died to Cahor, Justin Roiland as DA Sinclair's first victim, Tim Robinson as Philip Schaaf,
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the comic book guy, and 19 Steven Yeuns.
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What's next?
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Are they gonna get The Rock to voice Galatia Peanut Freeman in a cameo?
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Please don't do that.
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Look, I'm not against famous movie and television actors voicing people in shows.
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Steven Yeun, Sterling K.
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Brown, that guy from The Red One, Aaron Pohl, they're all phenomenal.
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But when you're hiring such popular actors for almost everyone, including the side characters that have two sentences of dialogue and never show up again,
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is that really necessary?
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For example, getting Ella Purnell to play as Jane
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while she's working on other big TV series like Arkane and Fallout couldn't have been cheap, and you can't get her to do other characters unless you
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want to add it to the shopping list of expensive cast members.
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The only way to get some bang out of your buck
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is to get it to do a few more lines for side characters that rarely show up.
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You've already paid to bring it to the studio, so it would make sense to keep them there for more than 20 minutes.
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Get it to play multiple non-reoccurring bums or background nobodies like how Fred Tat- Tatis-Squo-R does.
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Although, Fred is actually a professional voice actor, so it still wouldn't make sense.
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Because you're hiring an expensive actor like her to do what cheaper, more experienced people can do with the same impact.
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Respectfully, it's not like Pernell was needed to play Jane, so I guess it's an interesting cameo?
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But it's not like you get to see her face, and it's completely overshadowed by the Angstrom fight that happened 10 minutes ago.
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I didn't even know it was Ella Pernell until I was doing research for this video, and the same goes for the many other celebrities in Invincible.
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Frankly, it seems like a waste of money.
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A waste that'll only grow over time as new characters are introduced and given more screen time.
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Now, the reason I keep bringing up money is because executive producer, Marge Dean, said that Invincible's budget is only a quarter of what the shows like The Boys have,
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which is about $11.2 million per episode, meaning that Invincible only has $2.8 million per episode.
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That is not a lot considering how they're animating such a large action-heavy IP.
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I definitely could be wrong, but I'd bet that a quarter, possibly more, of Invincible's $22.4 million budget is spent on the voice actors,
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which leaves only $17.8 million for composers,
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directors, writers, storyboard artists, music collabs, and finally the animators to produce six hours of animation in a year.
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I want to frame just how unfair this is.
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Prime, one of the largest streaming platforms, releases Invincible Season 1 after three to four years of development.
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People are eating it up.
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And it quickly becomes a huge sensation on the internet.
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So Prime says to the animators, Hey, we've been hearing about your latest success, so we'll give you the go-ahead on another season.
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So, two and a half years later, they release Season 2.
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And once again, they've hit gold.
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But wait a second, there's a four month break.
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So Prime says to the animators, Hey, so it turns out the fans really dislike the four month break.
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Uh, what's that about?
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Well, we've been working hard to get this out to a standard we want.
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But you know how it is.
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Animation is time consuming and we don't exactly have the money to bring on more animators.
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That anime special took a lot of manpower.
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Yeah, we really needed that four months.
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Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
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I hear you brother.
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We were actually meaning to ask.
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I know this sounds crazy, but do you think by any chance we could add
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that four months to the deadline instead of putting it in between episodes?
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Look man, I hear you, I hear you.
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How does this sound?
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February 6th.
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Like, February 6th, 2027?
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No, no, no, no. February 6th, 2025. Are you serious?
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That's less than a year, that's nine months.
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You're giving me nine months to animate the- So they get to working, and after just 10 months, Season 3 is released.
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And this time, fans aren't happy.
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Fans are criticizing the animation for being a lot less fluid, having more static shots where the PNG just kind of moves across the screen, and being somewhat lackluster at times.
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And that's incredibly unfortunate, because the animators did the best with what little time and resources they had, and to be honest, they received way too much hate.
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While it is admittedly not as well animated as the prior seasons, Season 3 isn't just good, it's amazing.
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You're telling me they made the Invincible War in nine months?
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Who knows what more they could have done if they had the money for more staff.
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I want to close by saying, Prime, you're not Dreamworks.
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It's not Mega Mind.
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You can't just blow so much money on celebrities and expect a development time of one year.
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Maybe if you had $130 million, you could, but not with $22 million and 100 overworked employees.
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That's all I wanted to say.
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I've been putting off to watching the finale until I finish this video, so I'll pin my comment letting you know what I thought of the episode.
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I might think it's terrible, who knows.
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I'm also currently editing my big Marvel Rivals video.
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I'm trying to get it out ASAP, so stay tuned.
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Anyway, like, comment, subscribe, love you, bye.
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- bang for your buck：「費用対効果」。例："Get more bang for your buck by hiring multiple voice actors."
- overshadowed by：「～にかき消される」。例："Her performance was overshadowed by the main fight scene."
- frame how unfair this is：「これがどれほど不公平かを説明する」。例："Let me frame how unfair this budget distribution is."
- IP (Intellectual Property)：「知的財産」。例："It's a large action-heavy IP."
- waste of money：「金の無駄」。例："Hiring famous actors for small roles is a waste of money."
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