Genshin Impact fans have once again gone too far in their search for Dory’s English voice actor, Anjali Kunapaneni, after the HoYoverse featured the character on Twitter ahead of the 3.0 update. It’s no secret that the community is unhappy with the way certain cultures have been portrayed in Sumeru, but a significant number of fans have taken that disgust to the extreme, directing it not at those people, but at the voice actors of those people. people. characters.
After revealing Dori Kunapaneni i went to twitter to announce that they will close their DMs. They said that “everything started fine” but since they had to close their private messages, we can only assume that the harassment had reached a level that could not be ignored or addressed without cutting off communication.
In the same tweet, Kunapaneni reminds that “actors are not their characters”, which should be obvious, but we have seen time and time again that this distinction is often not respected by many fans, regardless of their fandom.
For those who haven’t been following the recent Genshin Impact controversy that led to this manhunt, it all has to do with the community’s attitude towards representation, or lack thereof. Sumeru is a region that clearly draws inspiration from the Middle East and South Asia, but that’s not reflected in the skin tones of the characters. In the case of Dory, for example, her appearance and personality appear to be harmful stereotypes that reinforce orientalist generalizations that do not credibly fit the cultures she has adopted.
Players also faced the problem of pronunciation of important Sumeru character names like Tignari and Alhaytham. recently applied Paimon’s English voice actress Corina Bottger.
As Bettger said, voice actors have no control over their characters or their pronunciation, and they certainly shouldn’t be bothered by decisions they have no control over.
Source : PC Gamesn
