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Edou wrote:

Your movie poster made me watch Akira again... the non-dubbed pronunciation there is definitely Akira. ...

As opposed to "a-KEER-ra"? Which is as it was in the English dubbed version I had ...

I don't know who the voice artists were, but the I'm sure Kaneda (kah-neh-dah, or "kan-NAY-da" in "English" ) shared a voice with a certain Italian-American "hero in a half shell" ...

Seriously, expecting him to shout "HEY, YOU TOITLES!" at some point was quite distracting

Jonny wrote:

As opposed to "a-KEER-ra"?

Indeed... but notice how the last "Akira" in this clip is more or less stressless.

Jonny wrote:

hero in a half shell

Haha, I reckon something like that would happen a lot in countries where everything is dubbed.
Here they usually use subtitles...

Jonny wrote:

Did we reach any sort of consensus?

I think the only correct way to pronounce Tamiya is to do it as the Japanese do. And, by watching a few of Tamiya Inc's own videos, they as it as "Ta-mi-ya", with no stress on any of the parts.
Example here: at 36,5 sec (listen carefully...)
www.ustream.tv/...ght/275643

Tamiya USA, however consistently says Ta-mii-ya, which I suppose we can say is the "official" American pronunciation.
Example here:

-Lars



-Lars

That vid's too much for my computer.
But what better source than the man himself?! Around 2 minutes 50 seconds...