Voice Actor Maile Flanagan Reflects on 20 Years of Naruto – All the News and Reviews from Anime NYC 2025
Na’s voiceRuto has her Anime New York Q&A panel for the last day of the conference. For the many avid fans of the anime, this means the best fans are the last ones to be saved. Post FlanaganThe star power has managed to fill the entire cherry blossom stage. It got so big that fans had to form two lines to get close to the microphone and ask Flanagan’s questions. However, the number of fans doesn’t seem to overwhelm Flanagan, who uses her experience as a former standing comedian to weave her answers, and the jokes guarantee a minute to laugh.
The group itself is simple, allowing Flanagan to reflect on her twenty-year legacyAruto. A question about how she first discovered how big it was Naruto It actually prompted Flanagan to recall a Los Angeles spark game more than 20 years ago. “Animation Expo Flanagan recalls. “I walked out of the parking lot and on the steps of the conference center, there were 40-50 people dressed up as Naruto Taking a picture, I was like, “Oh, my God!”
Flanagan soon noticed exponential growth in popularity over the years. “To fill a panel like this, it’s crazy. Naruto It’s also multi-generational, which is also crazy. “The last comment you can tell Flanagan comes from a place of real troubles. Narutoshe jokingly replied: “I’m not suitable to be a mother or a father.” The audience laughed and asked the fans to ask the original question: “We’re like the kids you never wanted!”
The question also prompted Flanagan to reflect on the humorous moments she shared with her peer actress. BennettWho speaks out Narutoson, Poruto. “We were standing at the airport in TSA and she turned to me, like ‘Dad!'” Another round of laughter, Flanagan humorously warned, “Please don’t do this in public. They’ll let you get out of there.”
Regarding the way she stays motivated, Flanagan responds with some powerful and real knowledge: “Never give up, pursue your dreams. Sometimes you just need to remind you that you are also realizing your dreams. At least I am.
That being said, being a pronunciation actress for Flanagan was not originally. “I want to be a diplomat, but it’s better to be a superstar,” she admitted.
The sound performance process will become a mix. Whenever a line is recorded, Flanagan reports that things are usually done with little context. “It’s always cold,” she said. “I don’t have time to come unless you arrive at the comic!” The last point caused laughs from the audience.
Flanagan continued. “But when you get stuck in the context, you might record something and then in a week you’ll end the episode.” So if you remember last time, when we were walking in the woods, suddenly a giant toad popped up, right? ” So they put it in the context this way, just to put ourselves in the context before that.
Last but not least, Flanagan is Naruto X Sasuke Transport? “I’m doing this!”
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