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NEWS: Anime Matsuri Licenses, Dubs 2 Anime Shorts From Nippon Animation

Anime Matsuri dubbed the half-hour shorts through its own newly created studio, with Vic Mignogna credited for ADR directing and voice acting.

(Anime Matsuri's announcement misspelled Young and Cranz's names.)

Voice actress Berry stated on Twitter after the announcement that sometimes actors do not know who they are working with because they are "not given a full list of all the people involved." Fellow actress Nichols retweeted Berry's statement.

penguintruth wrote:

Oh look, Grift Mignogna and his cadre of alt-right sycophants have started their own little licensor, with black jack, and hookers. And so far they've licensed properties nobody's heard of or demanded. I hope these deviants crash and burn. Mignogna is a predator and any VA involved in this should be immediately black listed by the industry, just as he is.

Dude, read Morgan Berry's tweet, it's likely referring the fact that most VAs didn't know who they were working for.

Oh God, please don't tell me weird people harassed and attacked Morgan Berry for working on a show with someone they didn't like and felt entitled for her to justify herself.

Los Nido wrote:

Oh God, please don't tell me weird people harassed and attacked Morgan Berry for working on a show with someone they didn't like and felt entitled for her to justify herself.

Voice actress Monica Rial initially did a callout post when the casting list came out and threatened the people on the list. Perhaps her fanbase harassed the VAs on the list her post but it was the initial callout post that led to Berry making her tweet. Rial has since deleted the Tweet, presumably because it looked super bad and incited harassment towards her peers in the industry. Not sure what will come of this in the future though and if these voice actors are going to be harassed and punished.

igiari21 wrote:

I find it hard to believe that these VAs had no knowledge of Vic's involvement. He's the ADR director. It's not as if an actor never talks to their director in a dub.

Probably they were directed by a proxy director while Vic gave the instructions without being known.

Usually when in doubt, it's a safe bet to not make assumptions until more info is out. Sometime projects are recorded years in advance, and for all we know this could have been in the works in like 2018/early 19 before everything blew up and got put on ice for any number of reasons. Could have been a case of Anime Matsuri hiring both a director and assistant director for the project (the majority of dubs have this in place so more recording can be done simultaneously, to cover for small roles/walla, or as a back-up in case the main director is out). Despite these being very short films, that would work out well for them if they knew certain actors could be less interested in working with a specific director.

All I know is that Anime Matsuri as a company has a proven track record of mishandling at best, shady practices at worst, whether it's small business ventures or how the treat their guests at their convention, especially international guests. So I know who I'm giving my benefit of the doubt to.

igiari21 wrote:

I find it hard to believe that these VAs had no knowledge of Vic's involvement. He's the ADR director. It's not as if an actor never talks to their director in a dub.

I'm guessing what most likely happened is she accepted the role like any other. Certain grifters and culture warriors who can't get over stuff that happened 3 years ago became aware started hounding them and demanding them to quit or denounce the project and lose out on a job as an act of purity testing to their cause. According to the article only one actor has responded. Either the other actors were spared the harassment or they were smart and chose to ignore them, Some fans.

BonusStage wrote:

Los Nido wrote: Oh God, please don't tell me weird people harassed and attacked Morgan Berry for working on a show with someone they didn't like and felt entitled for her to justify herself. Voice actress Monica Rial initially did a callout post when the casting list came out and threatened the people on the list. Perhaps her fanbase harassed the VAs on the list her post but it was the initial callout post that led to Berry making her tweet. Rial has since deleted the Tweet, presumably because it looked super bad and incited harassment towards her peers in the industry. Not sure what will come of this in the future though and if these voice actors are going to be harassed and punished.

Yeah I don’t think that was appropriate of Monica at all. An enemies list doesn’t solve the problem. It just exacerbates it and makes the voice acting industry walk on even more eggshells than they already do.

Sean Chiplock came to Morgan Berry’s defense and said something along the lines of “We often don’t know who is in a project and it’s frequently not appropriate to ask. Enforcing a purity test is not only impossible but will make it incredibly difficult to get anything done if we tried.” Basically voice actors can’t control their clients or know if anyone they find unsavory is in the production. They just do their jobs and that’s it.

Voice actress Monica Rial initially did a callout post when the casting list came out and threatened the people on the list.

Even if Ms. Berry didn't know Vic was involved, she's still a guest at Anime Matsuri this weekend so she clearly has no issue with the convention or its organizers' terrible history or the fact they are willing to invite Vic as a guest...or she accepted the invite to the con out of complete ignorance and did not cancel her appearance after she found out.

Was Vic Mignogna proven guilty of anything?