Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Atsushi Abe

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The result was Keep per WP:ENTERTAINER. Notability guidelines do not differentiate between live action or animated roles. Smashville^BONK! 18:36, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Atsushi Abe[edit]

He seems to have voice acted for some notable Anime roles but I don't think just speaking their scripts gives him very much notability, this is reflected by Google News and such; no in depth reliable sources. - Icewedge (talk) 01:41, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I'll give this one a closer look in the morning. 阿部敦 yields about 30,000 hits, and the Japanese Wikipedia has an article on him as well. It's a bit of slow wading to get through the Japanese sites for me, so I don't have a good comment yet on how reliable the various sources are. Help from other Japanese-speaking Wikipedians would be greatly appreciated.Kww (talk) 03:33, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. This actor plays main characters in Shugo Chara, To Aru Majutsu no Index and Xam'd: Lost Memories. The main English source are the reliable Anime News Network. Zero Kitsune (talk) 02:12, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. —Fg2 (talk) 09:51, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: the Shugo Chara character is listed by the article as a secondary character, but Abe did play the lead protagonist in To Aru Majutsu no Index and Xam'd: Lost Memories. WP:ENTERTAINER only asks that the subject have played significant roles in multiple works -- and the lead in two meets that. If you think that voice acting is just "speaking [the] scripts," you don't know much about what's involved in voice acting. —Quasirandom (talk) 18:46, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions. —Quasirandom (talk) 18:51, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Voice actors are notable if they've acted for notable roles, just like regular actors. 146.201.134.21 (talk) 02:44, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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