The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You - Vol. 15 Ch. 130 - Rentarou's Family's Daily Life (Part Two)

[OrionKaelin]

There do exist some pretty versatile VAs who can voice a lot of characters all on their own. And the unique ways of speaking some of the character in this have would probably make that easier to pull off. But yeah, it'd definitely be a challenge.

I don't see the problem as a lack of talented and versatile VAs to pull off acting multiple girls, it's the logistical effectiveness of having them do double, or triple or more, the work for a single show for as long running as it would be to get to the full 100. Less of whether the VAs can pull off any given voice and more the directorial and production side keeping everything straight and of as good of quality as the first season had.

I was surprised at the announcement of an anime adaptation at all. That someone was ballsy enough to take on something that would get as expensive as this will. I guess that goes for the concept of the manga existing in the first place too XD
I'm looking forward to the continued adaptation, but I wouldn't be surprised if they pick a point around 25 girlfriends and stop adapting it.

 

[Nixeu]

I don't see the problem as a lack of talented and versatile VAs to pull off acting multiple girls, it's the logistical effectiveness of having them do double, or triple or more, the work for a single show for as long running as it would be to get to the full 100. Less of whether the VAs can pull off any given voice and more the directorial and production side keeping everything straight and of as good of quality as the first season had.

I was surprised at the announcement of an anime adaptation at all. That someone was ballsy enough to take on something that would get as expensive as this will. I guess that goes for the concept of the manga existing in the first place too XD
I'm looking forward to the continued adaptation, but I wouldn't be surprised if they pick a point around 25 girlfriends and stop adapting it.

25 would be much further than the person I was responding to figured it would go (I.E. "double digits"). I think 25 would probably be possible, but agree that 100 seems pretty unlikely to happen. Definitely seems like a stretch, both for the manga and for the anime.

That said, I'm not clear on why you think that just having more characters voiced is going to enhance the production workload/logistics significantly, irrespective of the number of voice actors. I don't see a reason why that would make their logistics twice or three times as difficult. Or even what the baseline you're comparing it to is.

Actually, I think this series, even with 100 GFs, would still potentially have a smaller cast than a lot of other series do. Admittedly, the ones I'm thinking of are all pretty big names, but still, even twenty five individually voiced characters isn't outside the realm of possibility. Plenty of series churn through large numbers of characters. 100 GFs would just require them to appear more frequently over a longer period of time than any given villain-of-the-week/arc does, true. But the number isn't the main issue, I don't think.

 

[OrionKaelin]

25 would be much further than the person I was responding to figured it would go (I.E. "double digits"). I think 25 would probably be possible, but agree that 100 seems pretty unlikely to happen. Definitely seems like a stretch, both for the manga and for the anime.

That said, I'm not clear on why you think that just having more characters voiced is going to enhance the production workload/logistics significantly, irrespective of the number of voice actors. I don't see a reason why that would make their logistics twice or three times as difficult. Or even what the baseline you're comparing it to is.

Actually, I think this series, even with 100 GFs, would still potentially have a smaller cast than a lot of other series do. Admittedly, the ones I'm thinking of are all pretty big names, but still, even twenty five individually voiced characters isn't outside the realm of possibility. Plenty of series churn through large numbers of characters. 100 GFs would just require them to appear more frequently over a longer period of time than any given villain-of-the-week/arc does, true. But the number isn't the main issue, I don't think.

While its true that many shows over their run have hundreds of characters and even potentially many with recurring appearances a majority of them will not show up all in the same episode together all at once and each having their own lines.
There are technically 101 and "Main" characters in 100 girlfriends.
Thankfully the mangaka are smart in not always having all of them constantly interacting with every other all the time, instead saving that for larger plots and arcs, instead focusing on smaller personal one-on-one or small group interactions to particular situations. But large scenes involving all or most all its character happens way more often here than would normally happen even in other long and large character cast shows.
I'm curious to see how they continue to deal with it, and actually hope they do go all-in and adapt it all the way, but won't be surprised of they start cutting corners like doubling, tripling, up in VA roles, or other parts of the production like animation quality after using larger budget on the earlier season to get the fans on board who will be less likely to drop support than if they started more budget conscious for the shows long term future from the get go.Ultimately that depends on fan engagement and monetary support to keep the financial incentive there to keep making it, especially at the same quality as they have so far, which while not top tier was very good and great in some scenes.
Sorry for ranting. I'm not trying to be negative or anything, or put you statement down. Just overthinking and spilling my brain out on the matter with little filter.

TLDR; very ambitious production in the long term, very complicated, many potential problems, likely more than other large cast longer running shows. Worries on maintaining quality throughout and potentially just axing it at one point.
But wanting it to succeed, wanting them to make it succeed, as much as it possibly can because its an ambitious complicated unique property.

 

[Monday_]

And that was the start of Shizuka's long, secret career of writing erotic novels.

Also Nano can be incredibly sweet and thoughtful when she wants to be. That was great. I love her.

 

[Nixeu]

While its true that many shows over their run have hundreds of characters and even potentially many with recurring appearances a majority of them will not show up all in the same episode together all at once and each having their own lines.
There are technically 101 and "Main" characters in 100 girlfriends.
Thankfully the mangaka are smart in not always having all of them constantly interacting with every other all the time, instead saving that for larger plots and arcs, instead focusing on smaller personal one-on-one or small group interactions to particular situations. But large scenes involving all or most all its character happens way more often here than would normally happen even in other long and large character cast shows.

That...doesn't have an impact on the producers or logistics, though. Not unless they're trying to gather them all in the same recording studio at the same time. Is that standard practice in Japan? Because I'm fairly sure it isn't in the US. There's not really much point, since you're probably going to be doing retakes so often that any sort of "smooth conversation" between actors would be difficult, and forcing them to take it from the top every time one screws up would be annoying for everyone involved.

As I understand it, the main logistics issue for VAs is in arranging for the actors to get in to a studio, then having them record their lines, usually alone or with a manager. Ideally, you'd aim to do the entire season's worth for a given actor in one long go, though I imagine that there are other factors like vocal strain to be considered, which limit one's ability to do that. At which point, the main factor for logistics is the number of VAs you have to juggle, and how many studios you have.

Or at least that's how the format I'm vaguely familiar with tends to work. I'm far from an expert, but I do have slightly more knowledge about the behind-the-scenes stuff than most people. Having a parent in IATSE tends to help with that, lol. Mind you, I'm way more familiar with the visual and lighting aspects of theatre and film than I am with animation or voice acting, so I could be totally off-base. But I was under the impression getting the entire cast together in one place for anything recorded was rare, if it ever happened at all.

Sorry for ranting. I'm not trying to be negative or anything, or put you statement down. Just overthinking and spilling my brain out on the matter with little filter.

Nah, don't worry about it. I write massively long posts too, lol.