CATDOLL: Japanese voice actor agency advertisement draws complaints about Vegeta cultivating a beautiful girl idol?

Japanese voice actor training institutions often invite well-known voice actors to serve as lecturers. Ryo Horikawa, the voice actor of Vegeta, Hattori Heiji and other characters, is one of them. Recently, an advertisement for a voice actor training institution that used Ryo Horikawa's name has caused complaints from netizens.

As a popular voice actor, Ryo Horikawa has voiced characters such as Vegeta in "Dragon Ball" and Hattori Heiji in "Detective Conan". He debuted in the 1980s and has now become a senior in the industry. In response, the affiliated training institution of the voice actor agency "IAM AGENCY" invited Ryo Horikawa to be a lecturer to teach new voice actors who have not yet debuted.

"Ryo Horikawa's Voice Actor Training Method" advertisement (Ryo Horikawa himself is on the right)

In order to attract more students, the training institution even set its sights on Ryo Horikawa. Recently, the institution put out an advertisement like this: "A new voice actor trained according to Ryo Horikawa's training method made his debut in a normal animation in just half a year, and even served as the singer of the theme song!"

A successful example of the "Ryo Horikawa training method" - new voice actor Aina Suzuki

This new voice actor is called "Suzuki Aina". She previously made her debut in "Kill! Akame ga Kill" and "Castle Town Dandelion" and her career has been on the rise since then. In 2015, Suzuki Aina was honored to be selected as the voice actor for one of the main characters, Ohara Mari, in the new project "Love Live!" "Love Live! Sunshine!". With the help of this popular project, her future is limitless.

Although it seems that the advertisement is using the celebrity effect to attract students, the advertisement soon triggered complaints from Japanese netizens after it was released - "What a confusing and weird advertisement", "What kind of weird teaching method is Horikawa Ryo", "This will definitely have the opposite effect", "There are so many new voice actors, but only Suzuki Aina, it seems that the probability of a voice actor making his debut is lower than the death rate in traffic accidents"...