Hell's Paradise: Japanese Fans React to the Tensen — "Wait, There Are Only TWO Voice Actors in This Whole Scene"
地獄楽の天仙、日本のファンの反応 ―「ここ、声優2人しかいないらしいです」
“The gap between the super cute voice and the absolutely brutal thing it's saying is so good it actually relaxes me.”
めっちゃ可愛い声でめっちゃエグいこと言ってる温度差で整う
An official short clip from Hell's Paradise Season 2 — the Tensen, the island's immortal antagonists, casually harvesting a glowing "freshly-squeezed" tan in one of the show's signature cute-voice-saying-brutal-things moments — set Japanese fans off on a thread English viewers rarely get to overhear. The most-liked comments aren't about the gore; they're a love letter to the voice cast. The recurring revelation is that the entire group of Tensen is voiced by just two actors, Junichi Suwabe and Yuko Kaida, and that since the Tensen were all originally a single person, their banter is, lore-accurately, a monologue — "all of this is technically solo play." From there the thread spirals into Kaida's range (the same actor doing the cute and the dead-eyed voice), confusion over the glowing drink, a pile of JoJo "D4C" jokes, and the whiplash of "why did a weirdly wholesome episode just start in the middle of Hell." It builds to the kind of affection only fans who've sat with these villains could land.
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Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 476)
- @ボルシチ投げるぞてめぇ👍 5,911
Note: apparently there are only two voice actors in this entire scene.
※ここに声優は2人しかいないらしいです
- @n2525-j9t👍 911
Yuko Kaida and Junichi Suwabe voicing the ENTIRE Tensen between just the two of them is insane.
甲斐田さんと諏訪部さんだけで天仙全員やってるの凄すぎ
- @井奥健一👍 993
Yuko Kaida splitting into a cute voice and a totally deadpan voice for two different roles is genuinely incredible.
甲斐田裕子さんは可愛い声と、ダウナーな声と分けて、二役演じるからマジ凄い。
- @レノン-l1m👍 104
The way Kaida splits her voice is unreal — she usually does the cool, sharp-toned roles, so hearing this is so fresh.
甲斐田さんの声の分け方本当にすごい 普段かっこいい系の声色が中心だから斬新
- @t.h.l-w1l👍 21
Her range across the characters is so good I didn't even realize it was Kaida.
キャラの演じ分けが凄すぎて甲斐田さんってわかんなかった
- @eee-p5e4t👍 34
I read the manga first and just started the anime — wait, the Tensen are only two voice actors?? I mean, given who they are it makes total sense, but still, that's amazing.
原作読んでアニメ見始めたけど天仙様の声優2人なのマジか いやキャラ考えると当然なんだけど凄いな
- @金槌玄翁👍 96
So they're getting up to all of this, but technically every bit of it is... solo play.
やることヤッてるけど実質的にそれら全てがソロプレイということ…
- @Yoyoyo140👍 906
Lore-wise these guys were all originally one person, so everything they're saying to each other is technically just talking to themselves.
設定的にこいつら元は一人の人間だからやってることって独り言なんだよなあ
- @つぽっつ👍 1,649
When it's two men or two women on screen here, your favorite voice actor starts a full conversation with themself — it's such a treat for the ears.
これ男性同士・女性同士やと推し声優さんが一人2役で会話しだすから耳が楽しい楽しい
- @タマ-z1h👍 20
If you think of them as something like one person with multiple personalities, this is exactly how it'd play out.
多重人格者みたいなものと考えればこんな感じになるんじゃない？
- @Y-er3👍 4,709
Zhu Jin being soft toward Tao Fa and only Tao Fa — I really love that little detail.
タオファにだけには甘いジュファ この設定結構好きよ
- @ななななな-q6t👍 766
Mu Dan and Tao Fa are so close, aren't they.
ムーダンとタオファ仲良いよね
- @ro-589👍 320
I genuinely love Tao Fa.
タオファほんまに好き
- @あだますんすん👍 22
Tao Fa gives off such a little-sister vibe that the urge to protect her totally makes sense.
タオファ妹属性すぎて守りたくなるの分かるよ
- @特売バナナ👍 3,991
An outrageous act, carried out with the greatest of ease.
いともたやすく行われるえげつない行為
- @積み木-h7s👍 403
"Freshly squeezed~! ❤" — no, no, that is NOT how you say it, lol.
生搾りー！❤じゃねぇんだわw
- @2-rs9gm👍 317
That's so nasty lmao.
きったねぇw
- @羽根-x1m👍 3,237
"Want some tan?" "Mm, yeah. Gimme." "Haaaack— ptooey!! ( ﾟдﾟ)"
「タン、いる？」「ん、あぁ。くれ」「カァ〜〜〜、ぺっ！！( ﾟдﾟ)、」
- @Harukaze-g6v👍 1,817
Hold on, that's literally a glow-in-the-dark night pool!!
ナイトプールじゃねぇか!!
- @user-lm7xd8rs4i👍 158
What even is the glowing drink thing?
飲み物光るやつってなんぞ
- @ちくわ_でぇみょうじん👍 48
Isn't it a bodily fluid? It does glow under blacklight.
体液じゃない？ブラックライトで光るし
- @星の子ミーム👍 85
I've seen videos of a powder that glows intensely when you drop it into liquid — probably the kind of thing only works here because these guys are immortal and normal people should absolutely not drink it (…). Either way, it's an out-of-place artifact, lol.
何かしらの液体に入れるとめっちゃ発光する粉の動画見たことあるけどあれ多分こいつらが不死身だから飲めるだけで普通は飲んじゃダメ（…）どっちにしろオーパーツで草
- @1135あいしてす👍 4
Now that I think about it, it's not that different from us drinking soup stock, is it.
よく考えたら我々が出汁飲んでんのとそんな変わらんか
- @SPRabis6909_cok👍 77
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (…) I've finally gotten able to say it fast.
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap（…）最近早口で言えるようになった
- @YSO-fl7ln👍 223
A weirdly wholesome slice-of-life episode just kicked off out of nowhere and left me so confused.
急に意味わからんほのぼの回が始まったから困惑した。
- @ジュゲム-z8c👍 31
They're the bad guys but they're stupidly adorable.
敵やけどバカかわいい
- @チャカニー男👍 37
I like that Mu Dan is actually competent.
ムーダンちゃんと有能ですき
- @樫Ma👍 103
From what we know so far, Mu Dan invented the pit that drives people to the brink of death, drops them in, and fuses them with flowers to make tan easier to harvest — AND the freshly-squeezed-tan press. Mu Dan is actually a genius...
ムーダンが作ったのは今分かってる時点で「人を瀕死にして穴に落として花と同化させて丹を収穫しやすくする穴」と、「丹の生搾り器」ムーダンって凄いな…
- @焚き木サンバ👍 138
Once you see their backstory, these two become my favorites of all the Tensen.
過去とか見たら天仙様で二人が一番好き
- @LaLa-afa👍 17
I love that it's not just the heroes — the Tensen are all stuck in their own hellish circumstances too.
主人公たちだけかと思ったら、ちゃんと天仙達も含めてみんな地獄みたいな境遇なのすき
- @紀元前キャラバン👍 262
Whoever picked this scene to clip, you chose well.
いいシーンをチョイスしてくれたな
- @アフリカまいまい-w5y👍 2
The "freshly squeezed" thing has me way too curious, so I'm going to watch the anime. First time an official short has ever pulled me in like this...
生搾りが気になりすぎるのでアニメ見ます。公式のショート動画から興味持つなんて初めてだよ…
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