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MFrontier
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Kind of wonder what happened here. Maybe they didn't want to go through any Union issues contacting some of the VA's so they didn't bother? But then they still brought Andrew Kishino back. |
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GNPixie
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Thats scummy but not surprising. Funi tends to be on and off when it comes to recasts re video games. |
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Haterater
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Very disappointed. Sure the VAs will do good, but still wish Funi did better to try to get everyone back. Feel like they are on and off when doing so.
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Hagaren Viper
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I thought the TWEWY anime was a pretty decent adaption, though part of that was from having played the game already and been familiar with it. If I didn't know the game beforehand it's hard to say how I'd feel about the show, definitely needed to run two cours so the story could breath and we could get to know the characters more. That said, I definitely would have still bought it had they brought back the original English cast but hearing they they didn't even try makes it a pass. Definitely makes the long wait feel less justified if they just cast in-house in the end - and even saying 'Funi usually casts in-house' falls flat when they've hired actors from all over with the rise of in-house recording, not to mention farming dubs out to other studios.
No shade to the Funi dub cast though - I'm sure they'll do fine and at the very least we got this gem so it wasn't all bad. It's nice to see that the fandom has been welcoming so far, even if they're disappointed.
Without going back and looking at the cast list, I'm fairly sure that the announced voices were only those for Episode 1, so it does make sense that Joshua isn't listed. Honestly Joshua's voice changing makes me more nervous than anything, I can't imagine any other voice to the point where watching him in Japanese felt off - Aaron Spann was just perfect as Joshua. |
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iamthevastuniverse
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The video game english cast not returning falls on Kyle Phillips given he's the ADR Director here this cast doesn't do much for me but its nice to see Jessica Peterson's name listed here. I may give the first dubbed episode a watch at the very least.
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Cardcaptor Takato
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According to the original dub VA for Neku, Funimation simply never contacted the cast about reprising their roles for the anime dub. I don't know what happened here since Funimation brought back the game cast for the Scarlet Nexus anime and this dub had been delayed for a long time. https://twitter.com/daviddivad/status/1438863043115507730
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Ak Animax
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There's is an issue in voice casting in Funimation There's a lot of Cronyism Thus using same boring Texas voice actors |
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Silver Kirin
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How is the quality of Funimation's English dubs in general? As I said, I'm not an English speaker so I only watch anime with subs and dubbed into Neutral Spanish. Funi's first Neutral Spanish dub was My Hero Academia, which was dubbed primarily in Miami, and it was widely criticised due to its amateurish voice cast, its tendency of having actors voicing more than one character and that many actors can't hide their accents. Luckily Funi seems to have changed their strategy and anime like Attack on Titan, Fruits Basket, Kaguya-sama and Black Butler were dubbed in Mexico with more experienced voice actors. Still, it seems like they're giving their Miami studio another chance because Akudama Drive and Higurashi: When They Cry - GOU will be dubbed there. |
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Philmister978
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This does make more sense than them not having to deal with SAG/ACTRA considering Kishino is back and he's union. May very likely have been a decision on Funi's part and nothing more. |
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NJ_
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I had to look him up and saw that he directed Ace Attorney... I know they tried doing right with Season 2's dub but I remember when Kyle Hebert & Sam Riegel weren't happy that they weren't contacted to reprise their roles and considering that the former was still doing Gohan for Dragon Ball Super at the time at one of the LA studios they hired for the show, it was a very bad look. |
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Cardcaptor Takato
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DisneyXAnimefan95
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I don't think so, considering that I haven't seen Andrew Kishino in ANY non-union dub in LA and he was ALWAYS Union based, plus he's somewhat in the same boat as Fred Tatsciore, Chris Edgerly and also Jessica DiCicco, Andrew only appears in certain Union anime dubs but not EVERY Union anime dub compared to Kari Wahlgren, Crispin Freeman and Steve Blum, plus another reason other than the payscale for anime dubbing and his preference on doing Original Animation over Anime due to the ensemble recording where they can improve, have more freedom and pays better is also their voiceover scheduling. |
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Haterater
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So its looking like Funi has a dubious record with bring back a voice cast when it appears there's nothing stopping them from bring them back. If a lot of what these VAs say are true and they want to be on the cast, why is Funimation doing this? I would think Funimation wants to appease fans as best they can.
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Ak Animax
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Ak Animax
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By same Texas voice actors I mean only Texas voice actors And in case of The remote dubbing it is slow process and so it means they have to need more voice actors in order to dub a shows whithin schedule(obviously Sony ordered them)they need more voice actors So They relied on outsourcing it to [ LA(Los Angeles) in Ca(California)] voice actors or sometimes LA dubbing studios Let me explain u some unknown issues Anime English voice over industry in NA Have u ever noticed Why Most of the Hit Funimation show's main character are voiced by only texas voice actors Particular voice actors(and they are more in number) in Texas are not that talented and new ones in Texas entered anime voice over industry by buttering on their seniors voice actors which are also working as voice casting directors now days... And these voice casting director mostly cast them because they don't want any outsiders(non Texas voice actors)Hence their is no competition so their is complete Cronyism that's their dub aren't up to the perfect standards... Yes their are Veterans Texas voice actors also which are both Experienced and talented they are my favourite ones Some of them like[ Cherami Leigh worked on various Funimation shows have moved Los Angeles because of their potential) ] And their is lot of competition in[ LA of CA region] that's why Quality of the most of their shows are perfect In LA and CA dubbing studios like Bang Zoom/Nyav post/VSI and etc. There was once a time when Funimation used to do audition for English dubbing of Hit shows like Attack on Titan (that's why u can found major amount of LA and talented Texas voice actors) Their is no competition in voice casting these Texas voice actors they are like family to them so it means total Cronyism (I think the issue it won't change because the founder of this company Gen Fukunaga which is now working as chairman still have control over that and support this family thing and it's also cheap cost in dubbing ) now they have monopoly in Anime voice over industry too.. After the acquisition of crunchyroll by Sony's Funimation global group Some well known established voice actors even have showed their concerns that " will they consider producing anime dubs under union contracts? " Link to their post about this 1 https://t.co/fHczCdu6E6 2 https://t.co/hOG89eEvwY Believe it or not Funimation has monopoly Anime voice over industry (they only want to use mostly Texas voice actors only as much as possible) |
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