I asked 2 Crunchyroll anime voice actors for their behind-the-scenes secrets from a recording 'day in the life' — and one detail hugely surprised me

I'll go ahead and say it: anime is hugely addictive.

I don't mean that in a bad way, either — from the moment the first episode of a new series completely grips me, I want to consume as much of it as possible.

In general, anime have figured out a winning formula that blends archetypal, classic storytelling with cutting-edge action and visual craft, and it's why IPs such as One Piece , Jujutsu Kaisen, Solo Leveling and Demon Slayer have continued to do well.

Thanks to Crunchyroll , we get to enjoy a bombastic range of smaller titles, too.

Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon , That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime and, most recently, BLACK TORCH are just some of the unmissable titles (and with those names, how could you overlook them?).

However, the missing detail that I've been intrigued about the most is how a typical day-in-the-life of recording works as one of the industry's many voice artists.

Even more so because each series will have two separate casts: the original Japanese cast, and an English dub cast.

Luckily, I asked BLACK TORCH 's AJ Beckles (Jiro) and Ryan Colt Levy (Ryosuke Shiba) to help fill in the missing pieces of the puzzle.

As part of the English dub cast, they're already arguably behind the curve of the show's creation, but one detail of their day-to-day lives still really surprised me. 'You're learning as it is happening' "It depends episode to episode," Levy begins.

"How many scenes or moments your character may have can be different, day to day.

I usually will make sure I am caffeinated and hydrated, and that I'm super scratchy.

Sometimes these sessions will be early in the morning, so I'll wake up a few hours before so that my voice is primed.

"There's, there's such a cool factor to Shiba's presence that I never wanted to sound tired.

I want him to sound like he's in a calm space... so there's there's a fine line there." All incredibly logical and sound advice — but it's Brackles' admission that scripts aren't received until the second that they enter the recording booth that surprises me the most.