Forum - View topicNEWS: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Dub Cast Announced
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aluria
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lol, I couldn't agree with you more^^ Sub-titles for the win! |
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Raven Shinobi
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Wow, was Wahlgren in the poll as Haruhi? I too think that she's the best available English talent for Haruhi, judging by her performance as Haruko from FLCL and Pacifica from Scrapped Princess, so why she was not chosen though she got the most votes 
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Malintex Terek
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A signature worthy quotation.
An excuse to who? If I were really only intending to watch fansubs and never touch the R1, would I have said anything at all? Why put in the effort of following every asosbrigade.com update, expressing facination/excitement at the marketing campaign as well as support for countless hours? Granted, I enjoyed doing that but I could have used my limited time more productively; to invest all that effort for some silly justification for watching fansubs is a silly proposal.
I'd have pseudo-intelligence rather than no intelligence, thank you very much. And it's Economics 110. 
Does it really sound like that? Heh, while I did attempt to convey frustration, don't get me wrong, I'm not really angry, just annoyed.
I'll repeat myself, then; no, we'll have a fantastic dub. The problem is, it'll be a boring dub too.
Ironically, I don't remember Haruhi, Itsuki, or Kyon's polls that well. I'll trust your judgement on this one; I was mistaken.
That I know well, but given how...unusual Haruhi was, I was really convinced Bandai/BZE would be taking more risks with the production. I mean, they've already done that with the marketing campaign; rather than try to appeal to a general audience, they're aiming right for the internet folk, which is dangerous; look at what happened with Snakes on a Plane! Licensing Haruhi would be the equivalent of lifting a land-mine to get at Gold Roger's treasure; there's a risk that the mine could explode, but there's potentially great reward if it doesn't. I know Bandai USA is not in the best economic situation right now, given how they've been shamelessly trying to promote that god awful Gundam Seed Destiny, but if they're going to take a gamble they shouldn't take an even bigger risk by trying to back out three steps in.
Well, one could argue Tom Hanks to be a very versatile actor, which we can't really attribute to Haruhi's cast; Drew Barrymore and Jim Carrey are typecasted as "the nice girl" and "the eccentric funny man", respectively; when people get sick of them, they stop watching their movies, which is why those two haven't had a ton of work as of late. Even with Carrey extending his bounds, like...ehh, that one movie where he was a lawyer or such and lost his memory. Ahh, The Majestic; anyway, even then, when people think of him, they don't think of a serious role, but rather, his comedic 'aire'. This is the "imprinting" phenomenon I mentioned earlier.
Interesting words from a dub basher. |
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TsubomiKoneko
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Oh joy... overused actors. Guess it shouldn't surprise me. Just another reason I'll never watch dubs of my own free will.
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8daze
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Uh-huh. Won with a pretty good percentage, too, if I remember correctly. Lee was second or third. |
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Cheesemon
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What happened to the Pink Space Ranger?
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frouella
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When I read this announcement, my first reaction was, "Is this a joke?" Not because the VAs are bad or anything, but just because it looked like someone had gone and picked a handful of the most ubiquitous voice actors in the business and stuck them in the roles. I mean, I've heard of every single one of these VAs, and I don't even watch dubs, usually. I can't tell if Bandai was trying to go the safe route with an "all-star cast" kind of thing, or if this is their attempt to cater to the anime-insider vote by going with fan faves.
I really don't have a problem with any of the VAs themselves (and I haven't heard the finished product yet, so I can't judge preemptively), but isn't the fact that their voices are so well know a problem? For example, I love Wendee Lee to death, but she still always sounds like Wendee Lee -- and I don't know if I'm going to be able to reconcile her voice with Haruhi in my head. Same for Crispin Freeman. Their voices are good, but I don't know if I could call them versatile. Or emotive, really, but that's another story... In any event, I will try to keep an open mind until I hear the dub. If I find I don't like it, I know I like the sub! |
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CloverKuroba
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Cool, this seems to be a good dub decision. All of the voice actors are very capable and I think it will come out well. I knew Sheh would be Mikuru, she's perfect for the role. I'm not sure how Wendee Lee will turn, I loved her as T.K in Digimon and Faye in Cowboy Bebop, though. She also plays Tatsuki in Bleach. I think she can pull this off.
On the other hand, it makes me sad that people are bashing the dub. Yes, they are overused, but they're great so no wonder they get a lot of voice acting jobs. If every "overused" voice actor shouldn't be used anymore, say goodbye to veterans like Megumi Hayashibara! Also, though slightly off-topic, I find it sad that dub-bashers can blindly bash dubs in general. Give them a chance! I grew up on dubs as a child, and these dubs fostered my love for anime and opened up my world to one of my primary interests. A lot of you were introduced to anime by dubs, so why bash them when you probably wouldn't have liked anime without goddamn dubs like Pokemon and Samurai Pizza Cats and what not? In no way are subs bad, but c'mon, are anime dubs really that bad? (Okay, most 4kids dubs are really that bad, but they're excluded). |
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Darrenm
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Ugh....I was kind of hoping for some new talent here instead of the same voice actors we've been hearing for the last decade.
Not that they're bad, but I'm especially sick of hearing Crispin Freeman, Johnny Yong Bosch (along with his billion alter-egos), and Wendee Lee in EVERYTHING. I'll still buy the DVDs as they come out, but I think I'll be sticking to the original Japanese. |
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ChronoBall X
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mmmmm.....Wendee Lee as Haruhi? I don't know, that Sounds like a good choice, I guess
I mean, I liked her Role as Blackrose in the .Hack games and she did an awsome voice of Faye Valentine in Cowboy Bebop, but i'm not sure How she'll pull off Haruhi. my guess is, she might use the same voice/or simalar voice like Blackrose,but how will she pull off singing "God Knows"? Wendee Lee also did the voice of Iczer One in Fight! Iczer-One. |
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Malintex Terek
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Firstly, Hayashibara is a very versatile actor. Secondly, the market pool for seiyu is enormus in comparison to those for voice actors in the United States. Thirdly, while actors might be "great", that doesn't mean people don't grow bored with them; because the market pool is so small for actors, and that anime companies are acting somewhat oligopolistic, we're forced to hear them in a huge number of shows. This become a turn-off to anime in general, which I'm sure no company wants to cause.
It's not a case of "blindly" bashing a dub, since I'm the same as you, perhaps more experienced since I used to watch anime in Japanese on the "International Channel" alongside dubs way back in '94, '95, '96, and '97. I respect voice actors since they're in a business with relatively low job security, but it's frustrating to see only a select group of people get jobs while everyone else has to struggle to get employed. The demise of 4Kids Entertainment as a 'lead' anime company and the dying Central Park Media have effectively killed New York as a source for quality, ranged voice actors; people were cheering when 4Kids gave up One Piece, but kept thinking to myself, how many people have now lost a job? Rising stars like Liam O'Brien and Dave Wittenberg, who are versatile AND strong actors, are getting stifled because they've yet to become one of these "voice acting elites".
Wow, what a way to totally undermine your whole argument; and all this time, I thought you and I could see eye to eye. 4Kids is JUST as guilty as BZE is of reusing the same voice actors, but most of the shows the license aren't exactly unique or interesting, but cheap and generic shows that get refitted with a fresh script and new music. Until One Piece came along, those were entertaining shows, and the actors weren't nearly as famous as fellows like Lee, Bosch, or Freeman. Heck, one of my friends only recently admitted that, after five years of watching Yu-Gi-Oh!, he just noticed Kaiba and Brock were voiced by the same person. |
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Zac
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Yeah I'm sure you've done extensive research and spoken with plenty of dub directors and voice actors and then came to this conclusion, right? Or is this just a bunch of lazy, insulting, cynical pabulum you like to spout so you can appear enlightened on the issue, even though you don't actually know whether or not this is the case? I suspect it's the latter! |
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Aki Ameko
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Yay! I like these VA's, but I do agree with a lot of of your cocerns about the overuse of them. However, most of these are who I voted for in the polls... Michelle Ruff as Yuki, Stephanie Sheh as Mikuru, and Wendee Lee as Haruhi. Bosch was my second choice of Itsuki, and I never got to hear Kyon's. T.T (Link never worked when I clicked it) But I'm happy with this.
(Random) Behold the awesome Wendee Lee character that is Dorothy! <------ ...Sorry. *cough* |
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CloverKuroba
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Malinex Terek: You put up some good points, in an egotistical manner that I have come to know as your style of posting. No offense though.
The reason I put 4kids in my argument was because I was expecting a kind of rebuttal like "Good dubs? Have you watched ___(4kids product)" I loved Pokemon as a child, despite it's various flaws. I still find it today to be the best 4kids production. Especially, in the beginning, where it didn't edit so much and skewer things around, where the score was kept intact. The scripts didn't sound so cheesy or talking down to you. Plus, it didn't always have to rely on the same group of voice actor pulling different facades. I think overusing VA's is a problem. But you'll have to deal with it. There are only so many VA's in this industry, and since it's a trend to have some voice actors work in these companies and not others (like JYB working for Bandai and Geneon and Viz primarily, while you'll only see Luci Christian in ADV and Funimation products). I think that it's different in Japan then here where seiyuu's are celebrities somewhat. I think mixing VA's and having some regular VA's that work in regular cartoon make a foray into anime (like Tom Kenny, Tara Strong, Billy West etc...) would be pretty cool to see. It's probably impossible but I would like to see it happen one day. |
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fighterholic
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Leaving Malintex Terek beside, I think it's a nice bunch to bring together, but I really can't say anything for sure since I usually don't watch English 90% of the time anyway. If I hear nice things about it though, I tend to check out the English dub first.
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