Forum - View topicNEWS: Yen Press Reveals Audiobook Voices for Sword Art Online, Overlord, The Saga of Tanya the Evil
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RockSplash
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I'm not a huge fan of audio books or SAO, but I won't lie. Bryce doing the narration is pretty tempting. Tanya's dub voice doing Tanya is awesome(can we please avoid any drama), and I don't know who the overlord guy is, but he sounds cool. I hope they expand this to other novels. Getting someone like Jerry Jewel to narrate Baccano! Or how about getting Micah Solusod for Index. This sounds awesome!
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Tanteikingdomkey
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Awesome choices for the voice actors.
That said I would have been on cloud nine if the SAO Abridged kirito voice actor had actually gotten to do the voices for the audiobook |
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KefkaesqueXIII
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Outside of a full cast recording, getting the dub VA for the each series' principal character to do the audio book is basically the best thing I could have hoped for.
Here's hoping this does well sales-wise. |
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MFrontier
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That's really cool that they actually got the leads to narrate the audiobooks. It would've been nice to have maybe a few more VA's from the anime onboard for their characters (Bryce doing Asuna's lines or Chris doing Albedo might be kind of hilarious) but still pretty cool.
I think it would be kind of cool if they have Cassandra Lee narrate volumes 2 and 3 of SAO since it's adapting Fairy Dance. |
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here-and-faraway
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As an avid listener of audiobooks, this is fantastic news! Vertical is doing a fabulous job with the Monogatari series. I'm sure Yen press will do just as well. I hope to see even more releases to come.
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TsukasaElkKite
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The fact that they got Bryce for the SAO books is pretty great.
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pluvia33
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Agreed! I'm hoping Vertical releases more Monogatari audiobooks eventually. And Suzumiya Haruhi, Rascal Does Not Dream, and Re:Zero top my wishlist for future Yen Press releases if this format does well for them. |
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Covnam
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Hmm, interesting. The only audio book I've really listened to and enjoyed was done more in the style of a radio broadcast, but I may have to give this a try. Though then again, I'm not sure when I'd listen to it that I couldn't just use the same time to just read the book :/
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murdock_tm
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These amazing casting announcements for the audiobooks of SAO and Yojo Senki make me hope (and I would be the first to buy it):
Lisa Ortiz narrating a certain light novel series. (Hey it's a good wish). Still I appreciate the effort Yen Press did to choose the actors. |
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merr
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I would buy ten copies out of sheer joy if that happened |
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KefkaesqueXIII
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I personally use audiobooks as a way of multitasking, usually listening to them while simultaneously doing tasks that are time consuming but otherwise largely mindless (driving to/from work being easily the biggest contribution). |
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penguintruth
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I love me some Monica Rial. Her narrating the Tanya novels sounds fun.
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Cardcaptor Takato
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I'm glad to see audiobook of light novels becoming more of a thing. I would love an audiobook of Adachi and Shimamura.
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