I just re-read a manga where the hero hid his identity behind a mask and a wig and his love interest realized it was him from his voice alone (and he spoke only one line or two then). (She kept it a secret so he was still clueless and thought she didn't know.) It makes me wonder why most tokusatsu heroes could get away with not being recognized while not really doing anything to disguise their voices, or, for that matter, their speech patterns (no, I don't think simply changing from 'ore' to 'watashi' really counts). (Ultras don't usually speak much, and when they do, they seem to be pretty selective as to whom they direct their voices to, so okay, they are unlikely to get caught out by their voices alone.)

( I missed Mebius's voice. )

(It seems like this is the last remotely think-y post that can be teased out of me in a while. Oh well. I can't decide if this is a good or bad thing.)

I look at stuff I enjoy reading and/or watching, and find majority of them dealing with secret identity/other identity, whether by real physical transformation or just plain old disguise or simply a case of mistaken identity--where character X is thought to be someone else, whether by deliberate deception (not so fond of this type for mistaken identity), or something that simply happens because the events sort of lead to it.

Anyway, got inspired by some comments in a comm; at least a few things I like about secret identity stories/series. This post is not series-specific, hopefully, though, to be fair, I would have to note that the comm I mention is fandom-specific.

( lies and disguises )

( I guess this is the big reason I like the Japanese language. )

Conclusion to all this? I have too much fun seeing character X trying to keep his/her two identities straight, be it by the language or manners or anything else. (My favorite character has two cell phones--for each of his identities. :)

( Maybe a future post, if I ever get around to making sense of what I have written. )

Yup, my subject line is pathetic.

On a more serious note, the following was originally written as a response to a forum post. I'm just too shy to post in that forum (which I never once posted in), so I'm putting my thoughts here instead, albeit with some edited wordings.

( Spoilers for Mebius if you haven't seen (or don't know what happens in) episode 29 or anything thereafter. )

( Not that it makes much sense without reading under the above cut, but I try to talk about tokusatsu heroes in general. )