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Are you an Old Spice Man? The Nurse is, for sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQLNeGIYCMM

"Hee-sao." Sorry, I chuckled a bit while watching this. XD

Then again, I'm not actually sure how you're supposed to pronounce his name.

"Hee-sao" is indeed correct. There was a pastebin thing that linked to all the names on like a vocaliser thing, but I don't have it on me at the moment and I can't be bothered running to my GFAQs sticky.

Yeah this should be the pronunciation from the pastebin, I believe.

"I'm on a desk"

Worth listening to for that alone xD

Hisao wouldn't need to use feminine shampoo if he didn't keep waking up in the girls' dorms.

WorldlyWiseman wrote:Hisao wouldn't need to use feminine shampoo if he didn't stop waking up in the girls' dorms.

ZING! xD

Hell, at this rate even I'd buy some just to sound and look like that.

I don't know why, but I got chills. Anyways, that was entertaining.

That was funny, although I expected Old Spice fall more in Jigoro's repertoire :p

Sin of my sins wrote:That was funny, although I expected Old Spice fall more in Jigoro's repertoire :p

Except it'd be like the Terry Crews Old Spice commercials...nothing, but yelling. xD And maybe a sweater vest remark or two.
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*Ideas are brewing here, folks...*

That made me wish KS had voiceacting.

Awesome stuff, you actually SOUND like the nurse voice I had imagined! This feels like the sort of joke he'd love to pull, too... that grin fits the Old Spice guy perfectly. I do have a comment on that pronunciation, though.

While the pronunciation of "hee" was correct, it still sounded funny because you're trying to pronounce it like it's written in English. Hisao isn't two syllables in Japanese, it's three. Every single vowel gets its own syllable - they do not combine vowels into diphthongs.

hee-sahw is what I'm hearing right now, but

hee-sah-oh is more accurate.

Sajomir wrote:Awesome stuff, you actually SOUND like the nurse voice I had imagined! This feels like the sort of joke he'd love to pull, too... that grin fits the Old Spice guy perfectly. I do have a comment on that pronunciation, though.

While the pronunciation of "hee" was correct, it still sounded funny because you're trying to pronounce it like it's written in English. Hisao isn't two syllables in Japanese, it's three. Every single vowel gets its own syllable - they do not combine vowels into diphthongs.

hee-sahw is what I'm hearing right now, but

hee-sah-oh is more accurate.

Thanks for that! It's good to get some criticism along with nice compliments about the voice as well. My main concern was with the pronunciation, but I definitely can hear where I need to make my improvements. Probably also doesn't help that I say his name pretty fast multiple times; the lack of time I take to say the person's name, the more it kind of sounds like a blurb of noise. I'll definitely be working on the pronunciation a lot more, especially when it comes to recording lines for the fan dub I'm a part of. Fortunately all the lines I've done so far I haven't actually said Hisao, just referring to him as Nakai. So I'll take your advice into some serious consideration when the time comes that I say his name in recording. Thank you very much!

Sajomir wrote: While the pronunciation of "hee" was correct, it still sounded funny because you're trying to pronounce it like it's written in English. Hisao isn't two syllables in Japanese, it's three. Every single vowel gets its own syllable - they do not combine vowels into diphthongs.

hee-sahw is what I'm hearing right now, but

hee-sah-oh is more accurate.

In theory, yes, but in practice, two vowels often are slurred together to create the impression of a single syllable. For example, "kudasai" (ください) should indeed be pronounced with only three syllables (kuh-da-sigh), not four (kuh-dah-sah-ee). Also, two identical vowels together usually create an elongated vowel sound, like in "iie" (いいえ; ee-eh), instead of the same vowel sound repeated (ee-ee-eh).