{"id":9976,"date":"2020-07-07T23:41:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T06:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=9976"},"modified":"2024-09-13T23:43:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T06:43:26","slug":"ai-kayano-struggled-to-play-alice-zuberg-in-sword-art-online-alicization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2020\/07\/07\/ai-kayano-struggled-to-play-alice-zuberg-in-sword-art-online-alicization\/","title":{"rendered":"Ai Kayano “Struggled” to Play Alice Zuberg in Sword Art Online: Alicization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ai Kayano, the seiyuu for Alice Zuberg in the <\/span>Sword Art Online: Alicization <\/span><\/i>seasons, revealed at Aniplex Online Fest that she initially had some trouble embodying the character.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Kayano was speaking to MC Tenshin Mukai at the \u201cSword Art Online Alicization War of the Underworld THE LAST SEASON Online Panel<\/a>.\u201d Mukai spoke about how, after seeing Alice\u2019s childhood at the start of the series, she is reintroduced as an Integrity Knight later on, and that the character had many layers. <\/span><\/p>\n

When asked about her impressions of Alice, Kayano said, \u201cShe\u2019s very difficult to play. Whenever I\u2019m asked what it\u2019s like to play her, I say, \u2018It\u2019s very difficult, like trying to grab onto a cloud.\u2019 Then I realized something. If Alice doesn\u2019t know herself, how could I possibly know her?\u201d  <\/span><\/p>\n

Kayano elaborated by saying, \u201cIn particular, when they\u2019re climbing the Central Cathedral. In that scene, she and Kirito talk about rediscovering who you are. Until that episode, I really struggled to figure out how to play Alice, but that scene saved me. I was able to tell myself that if she doesn\u2019t know, I can\u2019t know.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAlice will always be unsure. Like <\/span>Alice in Wonderland<\/span><\/i>, she will always be in an uncertain state. I realized that that was okay. That lifted the pressure.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span> Image source: @sao_anime<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kayano also shed light on how she got the role. Mukai pointed out that before Kayano joined the anime, she provided Alice\u2019s voice in one of the Sword Art Online games by Bandai Namco. \u201cI was approached to play Alice when I was recording for the game,\u201d Kayano explained. \u201cBut they usually change the case when a game is remade into an anime. So I was unsure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Kayano later said that before she received final confirmation, she heard from Nobunaga Shimazaki and Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Eugeo and Kirito\u2019s seiyuus respectively, that they were excited to work with her. Tomohiko Ito, the director of the previous Sword Art Online series and movies, also told her that she would be playing the role. \u201cI thought, \u2018If these three say I\u2019m playing her, I must be,\u2019\u201d she said with a laugh. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ai Kayano, the seiyuu for Alice Zuberg in the Sword Art Online: Alicization seasons, revealed at Aniplex Online Fest that she initially had some trouble embodying the character. Kayano was speaking to MC Tenshin Mukai at the \u201cSword Art Online Alicization War of the Underworld THE LAST SEASON Online Panel.\u201d Mukai spoke about how, after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":9978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,1017,125,241],"class_list":["post-9976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-aniplex-online-fest","tag-sword-art-online","tag-sword-art-online-alicization"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/EZQDqbhU4AADYrl.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-2AU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9976"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9983,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9976\/revisions\/9983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}