Ghibli animations often use celebrity guest voice actors, and there are constant voices from both sides

In the dubbing industry, some animation studios particularly like to invite celebrity non-professionals to guest-star as voice actors. Although the cost has increased greatly, the star effect is still there. For example, in many animations of Studio Ghibli, let's review those famous Ghibli animations and see which voices were performed by non-professional voice actors that you would not expect.

•"Princess Mononoke".

The heroine, Princess Mononoke, San, was not voiced by a professional voice actor, but instead Yuriko Ishida was hired. Regardless of whether the audience can hear something wrong, there are still both positive and negative voices evaluating Yuriko Ishida's acting skills. Yuriko Ishida herself also said that she suffered a lot from countless NGs when dubbing.

• "Spirited Away".

Although he is not the protagonist, one of the important characters, Bandai Frog, was voiced by the famous actor Yo Oizumi. After learning about this, many viewers were surprised and expressed that Yo Oizumi's voice actor's acting skills were amazing.

• “When Marnie Was There”.

Akira Yasuda and Shigeyuki Totsugu from TEAM NACS, the same agency as Yo Oizumi, both tried their hand at voice acting in this work, and the results pleased their superiors, leading to all five members of TEAM NACS appearing in a total of 20 characters in this work.

•Howl's Moving Castle.

The protagonist Hal actually invited Takuya Kimura. No one would have thought of it if they didn’t look at the list of names. Fortunately, Kimura’s “good looks” are justice, and there are basically few viewers complaining.

•My Neighbor Totoro.

Shigesato Itoi was invited to play an important role, and was also criticized by fans for being monotonous and lacking acting skills.