Laura: Like the funny part is that you are kind of working in a vacuum because when you are doing the work, you got the engineer, you got the director and you got you here in a little box and nobody can see you. I still get excited when the Toonami block is starting because it’s like “Ahh, it’s happening again.” Yeah, I’m definitely not used to it. That’s my voice, it’s on national TV…on Cartoon Network on Toonami, like, oh my gosh.” And I haven’t gotten used to it either, because I have a couple different characters on Toonami now, I’m still never used to it. It’s like an out of body experience when you were watching and feel like: “Oh my God. The first time I had a character on Toonami, like Laura was saying, it doesn’t even feel real. That’s not something anybody could do.” But here it is. Like “That not something that I could do. Like it doesn’t seem like something that I’m doing. It doesn’t really…I don’t know how to describe it, like it doesn’t compute? Like I remember watching Toonami when I was younger and enjoying anime, and then getting into the work and having your work air on that channel, it just doesn’t seem real. How does it feel to be seeing (or more accurately, hearing) your work on Toonami? And kind of like Laura, once I started doing it, I just never really looked back. Let me look into this and see what it’s all about.” And I started taking classes and I thought it’d be interesting to learn about dubbing, so I took some ADR classes so I could get my feet wet with that. So, my friend was going “Why aren’t you doing this? I think you’d be really good at this.” I was like: “Oh, okay. And kind of in a similar situation to Laura, because I also had a friend who is also a voice actor, and I had stopped acting for a couple years to pursue some other things, but I really missed it and I wasn’t sure how I wanted to get back into it, if I wanted to try pursuing on-camera in Los Angeles, which is really a tough thing to do, and I just didn’t know if I wanted to go into that direction again. And yeah, voice acting was never really on my radar until about 5 years ago. Marueen: So, for me, I’ve been acting since I was a kid, primarily in stage acting. And soon enough, I got bit by the bug and never looked back. I think you should give it a shot.” And I said “sure”. He was like “Oh, I think you’ll enjoy it. And, so we were both pursuing acting at the same time, we did a couple of stage plays together and things like that, and he sort of fell over to voice over and suggested that I try it too. You probably heard of him his name is Kyle McCarley. I had a friend who started perusing voice over before I did and we’ve known each other for about 12 years. When and what made you decide to pursue the craft and how did you get here today? While you’re both relatively new voice actors in the anime scene, at least in the eyes of anime fans, it can often be a long time for an actor to “break in” to the scene, much less to become a household name. Maureen: Awesome weather, we got a good pool here, enjoying the situation. It’s been quiet thus far we only just started the con, so we’ll see what happens. So, before we get started, how’s San Diego been? I’m also hanging with Marureen Price, the voice of Quinella the Administrator from Sword Art Online, Amane from Hunter x Hunter, among other roles. She was accompanied by one of her friends and colleagues, Maureen Price, so we did a 2-for-1er as I also talked with her regarding her role of voicing the big bad Quinella in Sword Art Online.ĭaniel: Hi, my name is Daniel Limjoco from and and today I’m here with Laura Stahl, the voice of Ray from The Promised Neverland and Hayato from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, among other roles. Unfortunately, I was only able to get one interview, as the other guests I asked were swarmed with other commitments, but I had a blast getting this interview together and representing the Toonami Faithful.Īs the con started, I met up with Laura Stahl to talk about her what could be considered her big breakout roles on Toonami this year, Ray from The Promised Neverland, and Hayato from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. On the weekend of May 31-June 2, 2019, I attended one of my local anime conventions in Anime Conji to check out the local con scene in my hometown of San Diego and see if we can snag some interviews.
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