Forum - View topicNEWS: Free! Eternal Summer English Dub Casts Johnny Yong Bosch as Makoto
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Miyanoai
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Apparently I was mistaken about JYB being unlikely to be in it and boy am I so glad I was. I just hope I don't end up hearing Yukio every time he speaks, lol.
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meepsheeps
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@Haruhi convo:
OKAY I'm satisfied now. I'm not familiar with dubs so I kept on imagining Lelouch or Ichigo's voice with Johnny's but hearing a clip of Koizumi makes me think that he'll done a good job as Makoto as those two have a similar personality even in the Japanese dubbed. |
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leafy sea dragon
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Wow, is there anything nowadays that Johnny Yong Bosch is NOT in?
I wonder how he'll approach this one. He doesn't have the vocal range like Vic Mignogna, Eric Vale, or even Roger Craig Smith; I consider myself pretty bad at recognizing voices, but I can consistently identify him any time I hear him on TV. |
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getchman
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yes. none of sentai's shows and a very large majority of funimation shows |
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SquadmemberRitsu
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It's going to be very hard to forgive Funi for casting Greg Ayres as Nagisa. But if every other casting choice is as good as this and J Michael Tatum as Rei... this might just work after all.
I mean, if the casting choices are all being made by the same people they obviously know what they're doing to some degree so maybe they're onto something. Usually when I think Greg Ayres isn't going to be right for a role it turns out to be just as bad if not even worse than I expect it to be. Then again, Funimation aren't nearly as dumb as Sentai |
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getchman
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the brand manager probably has some input, but I do believe casting is all on the ADR director |
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Ambimunch
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That's it watching this in subs only
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Panzer Vor
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What's wrong, did JYB come over to your house and personally piss in your coffee? 
The nerve of some people, I swear. So much unnecessary, misdirected hatred. |
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Hagaren Viper
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Thats kinda interesting. Could mean anything, but I wonder if it's possible there will be an announcement about S1 to cap off the week. All in all I'm a little amused by this casting choice. My ideal was for JYB to play Haru sospoiler[ he could be the swimming version of the Persona 4 main] but I didn't expect he would be in the show at all. He should make a nice Haru though, it's a good fit. |
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digidragon
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Right, and as it says the fourth announcement will be made Thursday (tomorrow). I can see how it's misleading, though, so we'll do a better subheadline tomorrow. |
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Manwards
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Shame they can only do the second series, especially as there's so much continuity with the first series. To a newcomer it'd feel really jarring to have them talk about events they haven't seen. Hopefully they can sort out the rights at some point.
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leafy sea dragon
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True. I just get my anime mostly through Toonami, so I hear a lot of him constantly there.
While I wouldn't be amused as it happens, that'd definitely be quite the conversation starter for the rest of my life. |
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OmegaWoobie
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I can dig it.
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jr240483
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well there are some that dont. though i can get cause of the role as koizumi that he would be perfect as makoto, however he's voiced so many characters that people liked to hate that there are some are calling it a mega mistcast. Not to mention it had to cost funi a serious crapload of money to have him do the role as an independent VA for this series. If funi was outsourcing the series to like Bang Zoom or Studiopolis , i would get the move though i would have seen him getting cast as Haru if that was the case. but considering that most are regular funi VA, it definitely didn't make sense moneywise since casting union VA for independent roles costs more. |
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meggu
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Ok. Let me get this straight. You're basically saying some people are not judging the pick based on JYB's ability to tap into Makoto's vocal range and deliver a believable, quality performance, but because people just don't like his past characters? Is that correct? Sounds like a personal problem that has nothing to do with this current project. I can accept the argument that one doesn't believe he'll deliver a performance that, say, some other voice actor could do better, but to claim he was miscast because people don't like the past characters he has voiced? If that's the case, then no matter how well his performance is received, there would be no pleasing those people. I have a feeling those critics will find something to hate about it just for the sake of hating JYB. And if that's the case, well. Let them go ahead and hate. Power to them. So uh. yeah. But I think I've put too much energy into justifying JYB without actually hearing his performance. I'll wait for the dub to release before hopping to any more predetermined conclusions, thanks.
As for your final point, I don't see how Funimation's money ventures need to be brought into this equation? But clearly you believe otherwise, so let's just agree to disagree here and leave it at that before this topic diverges any further. EDIT: Oh hey look another cast announcement. Last edited by meggu on Thu Nov 13, 2014 11:36 am; edited 3 times in total |
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