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NEWS: Ghost in the Shell Arise #1-2's English Dub Cast Announced

People are really going to detest this release cause they aren't using a full on original voice cast? Let's not forget Funi has a damn fine track record at getting original voice casts back like Ikki Tousen Great Guardians and Xtreme Xecutor, Black Lagoon Roberta's Blood Trail and Bayonetta etc. Funi wants to try something different. So what, whoopty freakin doo!

spinja446 wrote:

People are really going to detest this release cause they aren't using a full on original voice cast? Let's not forget Funi has a damn fine track record at getting original voice casts back like Ikki Tousen Great Guardians and Xtreme Xecutor, Black Lagoon Roberta's Blood Trail and Bayonetta etc. Funi wants to try something different. So what, whoopty freakin doo!

I hope that Funimation gets the whole Danganronpa crew back to reprise they're roles for that. *Fingers Crossed*

I hope that Funimation gets the whole Danganronpa crew back to reprise they're roles for that. *Fingers Crossed*

I feel like that about Hyperdimension Neptunia, I hope that FUNimation uses the same cast as the games.

Oh, FFS, it's not Stand Alone Complex! There's no reason for it to have any of the same voice actors. At all. And Funimation has its own in house studio. Would it be neat to have the SAC English dub cast? Yes! Does it need to have them to be a good dub? No.

This is like people who insist that Kevin Conroy must ALWAYS be the voice of Batman. Sure, he's the best voice for Batman, but if the feature is not in the DCAU, there's no particular reason for him to play him.

A few exceptions do not sink my logic. It's a different iteration, there's no reason why it absolutely has to be the SAC cast. And the Innocence dub was done that way to please the SAC fans, after the fact, because it had previously been released without an English dub. And, by the way, that dub didn't work at all.

Yes, Conroy has played Batman in non-DCAU features. But he's also not done so in many, and many of them have done well without him. He's not right for every version of the character.

The fact that the Japanese cast of Arise is different than the SAC cast is reason enough for a brand new English dub cast. Would it have been neat to have the cast from SAC? Sure. But if you're refusing to watch this because it doesn't, that's incredibly lame.

but removing Epcar (Batou), Freeman (Togusa), and Knight (Aramaki) are laughable decisions.

Sam Murai wrote:

I might be giving those imports a second look.

j Talbain wrote:

Now IDK if I'll just import or suck it up and deal with all these changes. I don't like change!

What are you two going on about? Why not just buy the Funimation release for $23-$35 depending where you buy? You get Dual Audio/Subbed and two episodes at a cheaper price. I'm mean you could spend $50 on one episode and end up paying more in the long run...

While i liked Maxwell from what i've seen of her in AoT, the rest of these don't sit well with me. Organ doesn't have the buttery smooth sound Freeman has and i never like Sabat in Epcar roles either. Just 2 very different sounds. I'm not a fan of Swasey especially unless he can do a good enough voice match and going by his Gendou i don't have much hope. Not a fan of the casting and Funi using "the japanese did it too" as an excuse just annoys me. Theres no way they'll have assembled a cast with the same level of skill but i do generally tend to like Zach Bolton dubs. I'll give it a shot when its released either way.

Kadmos1 wrote:

SilentCid wrote: Would rather have Mary Elizabeth McGlynn be Motoko instead. I do see that and it does make sense but even the Japanese version lacks Atsuko Tanaka (For Naruto fans, she played Konan) as Motoko. The fact that they were able of getting Mary should be considered a nod to GitS fans.

She did fine as young Makoto in SAC, which is who Maaya Sakamoto played in SAC before playing her in Arise. Her young voice works fine. This casting is a let down.