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NEWS: 1st Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel Film's English Dub Debuts in U.S. Theaters on June 5

1) Then you are not good at appreciating nuance I'd say. He was playing Shirou significantly differently from Kirito at a lower pitch.
2) It seems some of the dislike stems from the fact that he did voice other 2 popular characters like Kirito and Eren, and they associate the voice with those, but i dont think that's fair way of judging.
3) So where is this "meh" casting?
4) JP actors like Yuki Kaji or Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (who are really talented) don't sound much more different from their MC roles than Bryce between his.

getumbuck wrote:

I mean when compared to someone like Noland North or Monica Rial who have dozens of voices that each sound different and original, I personally think the guy comes off as lazy. Sort of like Henry Jon Benjamin, but at least he's funny, while Bryce is just boring old Bryce 9 out of 10 times.

You really shouldn't really ignore examples that i offered where Japanese actors also sound very similar between their roles, especially when voicing protagonist. Actors aren't free to make up their own characters , in this case Bryce and other VAs of MCs are voicing teenage protagonists, who fall into same range most of the time, so you can't compare it to Monica Rial who does high pitched girls, kids, boys, older women etc. It would be more like comparing to Monica Rial who only does cutsey characters.

Monica Rial simply has had more opportunity to voice wide range of characters with various quirks from various archetypes, Bryce basically gets often typecast as MC (like Yuki Kaji or Matsuoka),

BTW he voices the little announcer guy in this clip . He isn't "lazy".

3) So where is this "meh" casting?

he's just generally not giving a chance to use it that much.

It sounded like he was like he was playing Kirito again

The video is region blocked, so I have no idea what you're linking me to. Also I never saw any of the work from the Japanese guy you mentioned, which is why I didn't comment on it.

well you aren't addressing the main argument either. Here's another link

Still region blocked. Let's just agree to disagree. Not everyone has to like the same actors you do.

Guess we're going to have agree to disagree then. Is it alright if we just end it here?

The only voice from UBW that bothered me was Kaiji Tang as Archer. Not that he was terrible but Liam O'Brien was just on another level.

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the English voice cast, who are reprising their roles from Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works.

I'm assuming that means they're keeping Bryce Papenbrook as Shiro? Nothing against the guy but it was an absolute miscast. Everybody else was fine but oof. Was not a fan of Bryce's Shiro at all. Here's hoping for better voice direction for him this time.

Lynx Amali wrote:

Quote: the English voice cast, who are reprising their roles from Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works. I'm assuming that means they're keeping Bryce Papenbrook as Shiro? Nothing against the guy but it was an absolute miscast. Everybody else was fine but oof. Was not a fan of Bryce's Shiro at all. Here's hoping for better voice direction for him this time.

Agree 100%. I watch all my shows in dubs and usually poke fun at "sub-only elitists" - but miscast is an understatement for this case, it was quite bad.