I read books the same way as Hanamaru , so nice to see it lol. Casual YoshiMaru is really cute too hell yean

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Same here, which is why I read so slow. Voicing the characters in your head means a slow pace.

I actually happened to have a conversation about this with my sister a couple of weeks ago and was surprised when she said she imagines different voices for the characters (and even the narrator!?). Like... I just read it in my normal thinking voice...? Sure, I might imagine the tone of their voices, but not really the timbre (hope those where correct uses of the terms, just looked them up in English).

I don't know, I just like to leave those kinds of things to be somewhat vague. Though I have happened to think that a voice did or did not match my expectations when I watch an anime adaptation of a book/manga... So I'd say I have an idea of how their voices may sound like, but it's not like I read the dialogues with different voices or anything.

So I guess she wasn't the only one who does this after all...

Y’know having an announcer type voice while reading would be awesome. It would make just about every romance novel hilarious. It’d be like if the narrator from Kaguya-sama kept talking and talking throughout each chapter. Or if a football announcer was yelling over a sex scene as if cumming was a touchdown or something.

I see the characters But i dont really hear their voices, my brain does denote Them as having "that type" but thats more like hearing colour if that makes sense

I actually happened to have a conversation about this with my sister a couple of weeks ago and was surprised when she said she imagines different voices for the characters (and even the narrator!?). Like... I just read it in my normal thinking voice...? Sure, I might imagine the tone of their voices, but not really the timbre (hope those where correct uses of the terms, just looked them up in English).

I don't know, I just like to leave those kinds of things to be somewhat vague. Though I have happened to think that a voice did or did not match my expectations when I watch an anime adaptation of a book/manga... So I'd say I have an idea of how their voices may sound like, but it's not like I read the dialogues with different voices or anything.

So I guess she wasn't the only one who does this after all...

Highfive

I've been wondering this about how people read manga lately.

I generally read (or at least try to read) manga "paced" and "voiced". It's not always easy to assign unique voices to each character that actually stick with them, and if I haven't read a manga in a while the voices might shift. Some voices are clearly based on voice actors I like and "return to true", others are just generic voices derived from several performances and voice actors that I just don't stood out to me as unique. If I've seen an anime adaptation the voices are set, basically.

I don't read many novels these days, but my narration isn't "voiced" unless I know that they're part of the universe, while characters sometimes are.

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Lovely little story!

Interestingly (to me, anyway), I've got a good memory for text, but it doesn't often create mental constructs beyond text. No pictures, seldom sounds. On occasion, I've read fanfics where character dialogue is so spot-on that I "hear" the character voices (oddly, usually Japanese actors who — in my head — are suddenly fluent in English), but that takes some priming, like a recent watch of the source material — and it's usually in a pause from reading proper.

I'd wonder if this is related to two recently widely discussed psychological oddities: aphantasia (the inability to produce mental images of imagined objects), and a lack of internal monologue — except I can visualize objects and I most certainly have internal monologue. In my case, it's more likely related to the odd workarounds I constructed to read very quickly despite mild dyslexia.