Talk:Kagamine Rin \ Len/@comment-65.188.249.118-20120717124605/@comment-53539-20120717180921

Its not just in Japan either, Chuckie from the Rugrats, Holt Hyde/Jackson Jekyll, lots of boys get female vocalists in general.

Its because young boys voices break in puberty, deepening. Therefore if you want a more stable voice you get a woman to voice the character as woman have the same vocal range as boys "more or less" (though there is a few differences such as tone). young boys themeselves have the same vocal range as young girls anyway so there is no difference in voice between a 8 year old boy and girl.

At 14, there are boys who haven't yet had their voice break, it usually happens betwen 12-16. My own brother's voice broke at 14. So you can get away with a female actress even at 14.

For some reason though, they sometimes don't change the voice actress even when the child becomes an adult in anime. Not even deepen it. Some of the dragonball characters display this. :-/