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How to overcome shyness and become a successful anime voice actor with Daman Mills

Check out his work in One Piece: Stampede here.

Daman Mills is a professional anime voice actor with over 120 character credits to his name. We sat down at Anime USA 2019 and spoke about his approach to his work and some of his daunting challenges in the voice acting world.

0:29 – Damon talks about how he got into voice acting. He started out introverted but kept practicing and got into indie projects.

1:52 – Damon talks about being shy.

2:20 – Damon talks about when he felt he had made it in voice acting.

3:18 – Damon talks about how he approaches voice acting.

3:55 – Damon talks about his strengths as a voice actor such as his vocal range.

5:03 – Damon talks about his approach to recording his parts.

6:50 – Damon talks about his voice inspirations.

8:02 – Damon talks about how he gets into character psyches.

8:43 – Damon talks about his most difficult roles including Freeza for Dragonball and One Piece Stampede.

11:06 – Damon talks about wanting to work in the Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts series.

13:08 – Damon talks about the time coding work he’s done.

13:56 – Damon mentions having to make some anime words more understandable to American audiences.

14:56 – Damon can be found on twitter and instagram @DamanMills and he’s on facebook as Daman Mills voice actor.

Links of interest

https://amzn.to/2thttOC (One Piece: Stampede)

https://twitter.com/DamanMills

https://www.instagram.com/damanmills/

https://www.facebook.com/DamanMillsVA/

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Guests: Daman Mills

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: audio interviews, animation, tv shows, video games, anime convention, actor, podcast,

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Welcome to the first issue of the Full Contact Nerd newsletter. In November and December I interviewed voice actress Faya Mata about her anime and gaming work and you can listen to that here. I also interviewed Rebecca Thompson about the science in Game of Thrones and you can listen to that here.

Today’s book listings range from gothic animals, video game landscapes, Disney history, an H.G. Wells biography, Star Wars art, to Stan Lee. Enjoy. Click here for a list of relevant books being published between January and June 2020.