Voiceover Casting Services

Japan's voice acting trade is unlike any other. Tokyo's Suginami and Nakano wards hold the country's top seiyū agencies, which include Aoni Production, Arts Vision, 81 Produce, and Mausu Promotion. Much of the pro narration talent comes up through NHK's training line.

Our casting coordinators tap straight into these rosters. We source voices for anime dubs, high-end commercial reads, doc narration, museum installations, and feature-film localisation. Each project tone is matched to performers whose careers may span thirty years of broadcast work for major Japanese networks.

Auditions run through partner studios in Akasaka, Ichigaya, and Shibuya. ProTools-fit booths and bilingual engineers handle Japanese, English, Mandarin, and Korean sessions on the same day when a job calls for it. We brief talent in the dialect and register that best suit the piece. That may mean Tokyo-standard hyōjungo, Kansai-ben for an Osaka-set commercial, or Tōhoku regional sounds for doc work in Sendai.

Contracts cover use rights across broadcast, streaming, and in-app uses. We handle agency rate talks and pickup-session booking in the open, so nothing stays unclear. Producers get clean stems, signed releases, and a logged chain of sign-offs.

Casting starts from a clear brief on tone, age, and language. We build a shortlist from agency rosters, then run auditions to a fixed script and direction. Custom reads come back fast, often inside forty-eight hours, so a tight shoot keeps moving. For dubbing, we test voices against picture to check sync and lip-fit. The director hears each option in context before a single session is booked, which removes guesswork from the final pick.

The recording side is built for clean delivery. Sessions run through pro studios on ProTools, with bilingual engineers guiding takes. We capture room-matched audio and isolate each character on its own track. Final files ship as labelled stems mastered to broadcast specs. We tune separate cuts for theatrical, streaming on Netflix Japan, and in-app use. Pickup and revision sessions are booked against the same talent, so tone and quality hold steady from first read to final master.