Well I'm basing his English voice comparison with what I've heard from american voice acting over the years and doing the same thing for his Japanese voice and to me, they both sound more like a middle aged person due to lacking any youthful vitality about their performance. (Even though WoL also comes across like this in cutscenes he does at least have a certain freshness to him during battle. This is more evident in Japanese because Toshihiko Seki apparently hasn't aged at all since late 80s.)
Mind you there are some people who just don't sound their age at their actual age. This is why people like Ishida and Hoshi can actually get away with voicing teenage boys (and sometimes even the KID versions of their characters) despite being in their 30s or 40s at the time. (TV tropes lists them as popular aversions of the crossdressing voices trope even though Ishida's few occurrences of being cast as a woman may negate that...)
Hmm, you raise an interesting point on Ultimecia being mentally a bit older than her body... Certainly makes for mindscrew potential fic...
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Date: 2012-01-18 07:35 am (UTC)Mind you there are some people who just don't sound their age at their actual age. This is why people like Ishida and Hoshi can actually get away with voicing teenage boys (and sometimes even the KID versions of their characters) despite being in their 30s or 40s at the time. (TV tropes lists them as popular aversions of the crossdressing voices trope even though Ishida's few occurrences of being cast as a woman may negate that...)
Hmm, you raise an interesting point on Ultimecia being mentally a bit older than her body... Certainly makes for mindscrew potential fic...