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Hell's Paradise: The Entire Tensen Scene Is Voiced by Just Two Actors

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」

Hell's ParadiseJigokurakuTensenVoice ActingJunichi Suwabe
Hell's Paradise: The Entire Tensen Scene Is Voiced by Just Two Actors
“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

— @pearl-stella

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.

The official Season 2 PV for "Hell's Paradise" (Jigokuraku). The fan reactions below come from an official Japanese short clip of the Tensen scene posted on the same channel. （YouTube · TWIN ENGINE）

Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 476)

  • 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

    — @ボルシチ投げるぞてめぇ5,911 likes

  • 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

    — @n2525-j9t911 likes

  • 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。

    — @井奥健一993 likes

  • 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

    — @レノン-l1m104 likes

  • 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

    — @t.h.l-w1l21 likes

  • 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

    — @eee-p5e4t34 likes

  • 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…

    — @金槌玄翁96 likes

  • 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

    — @Yoyoyo140906 likes

  • 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

    — @つぽっつ1,649 likes

  • 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？

    — @タマ-z1h20 likes

  • 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

    — @Y-er34,709 likes

  • 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

    — @ななななな-q6t766 likes

  • I genuinely love Tao Fa.

    タオファほんまに好き

    — @ro-589320 likes

  • 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

    — @あだますんすん22 likes

  • 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

    — @特売バナナ3,991 likes

  • "Freshly squeezed~! ❤" — no, no, that is NOT how you say it, lol.

    生搾りー！❤じゃねぇんだわw

    — @積み木-h7s403 likes

  • That's so nasty lmao.

    きったねぇw

    — @2-rs9gm317 likes

  • "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)、」

    — @羽根-x1m3,237 likes

  • Hold on, that's literally a glow-in-the-dark night pool!!

    ナイトプールじゃねぇか!!

    — @Harukaze-g6v1,817 likes

  • What even is the glowing drink thing?

    飲み物光るやつってなんぞ

    — @user-lm7xd8rs4i158 likes

  • 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

    — @ちくわ_でぇみょうじん48 likes

  • 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

    — @星の子ミーム85 likes

  • 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

    — @1135あいしてす4 likes

  • 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

    — @SPRabis6909_cok77 likes

  • 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。

    — @YSO-fl7ln223 likes

  • They're the bad guys but they're stupidly adorable.

    敵やけどバカかわいい

    — @ジュゲム-z8c31 likes

  • I like that Mu Dan is actually competent.

    ムーダンちゃんと有能ですき

    — @チャカニー男37 likes

  • 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…

    — @樫Ma103 likes

  • 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

    — @焚き木サンバ138 likes

  • 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

    — @LaLa-afa17 likes

  • 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

    — @紀元前キャラバン262 likes

  • 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…

    — @アフリカまいまい-w5y2 likes
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