You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery episode number 54.

Welcome to the Voice Acting Mastery podcast with Crispin Freeman.

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In each episode of this podcast, you'll discover valuable tips,

tricks and insider information to help you portray characters in animation, video games, and beyond.

And now here's your host, voice actor Crispin Freeman.

Hi there, my name is Crispin Freeman, and I'll be your guide through the world of voice acting.

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In this episode, I'm pleased to be interviewing my good friend and amazingly accomplished voice actress Monica Rial.

Monica has been in so many anime series, it's impossible to name all of them here.

From Dragon Ball to Excel Saga, from noir to soul eater, and everything in between.

Monica has spent the majority of her career working in Texas, and I was eager to get her on the podcast so she could share her knowledge of the Texas voice acting marketplace with those listeners who may be interested in pursuing voice acting in that area. As of the recording of this podcast, Funimation is currently the largest distributor of anime in the U.S., and their studios are based in Dallas.

ADV films, which helped fuel the anime market in the late 90s and early 2000s, is based in Houston,

and have now remade themselves into Sentai Filmworks.

Suffice it to say, there's a lot of anime that gets dubbed in Texas.

In addition, more and more video

games are now being recorded in Texas, including such titles as Orcs Must Die, Guitar Hero

World Tour, and Halo Wars. Monica will not only be able to give you her insight on what it's

like to work as a voice actor in Texas, but she'll also share what it takes to succeed.

And now, the feature segment.

So, welcome to the podcast, Monica.

Thank you, Kristen.

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