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NEWS: Digimon Adventure tri. Films' English Dub Casts Mona Marshall, Cristina Vee, Kate Higgins

Hypeathon wrote:

One voice cast that will make me curious is Mimi. At this point, I'm not as concerned that Philece Sampler can reprise her role since she most recently voiced elderly Toph in the Legend of Korra. But that's the thing, she voiced elderly Toph. Can she still pull off young, girly and eccentric? Also, I think a bigger concern than Tai/Taichi's voice for me in terms of reprising roles is Jo's voice. Michael Lindsay stopped voice acting at around... 2012, I think? I know this because in the middle of both the Bleach and Naruto Shippuden dubs, his roles were replaced by Doug Erholtz.

I still think Philece could probably do it, it's not like she was super young when she did Mimi to begin with (she was born in '56, she was already into her 40s when she voiced Digimon characters), but you perhaps also forget that she also voiced Cody in 02 (and Mimi again as well, though she rarely shows up anyway), two of the most different voices in the first two seasons were both voiced by the same person. When I saw her as old Toph, I got excited because she got more voice acting to prove awesomeness. Looks like she's doing some additional voices for Miraculous Ladybug too, so she has done recent things. I know she's probably into her 60s now, but I'd still say the chance that she could pull it off is still there.

Shame about Michael Lindsay just kind of dropping off though, I liked his work. Does Doug Erholtz sound similar enough though? He's certainly gotten practice. He also did TK in 02 (and given age, that would be the one they'd need back, not Wendee Lee who did young TK with Kari, Lara Jill Miller did both anyway), and Joe's sibling Jim, so maybe it would be possible? Hopefully he'll at least do TK again.

I really wish people would actually know what they talk about before implying stuff. Watch the first episode of the original Adventure dub. Its established that the dubs names are nicknames and not outright replacements, no doubt intended to match the lip flaps of the original Japanese version.

Just because a 2 second text box appears in the first episode doesn't change the fact they're called their dub names 100% of the time and are never once addressed by the original names. Is a throwaway blurb really worth arguing over?

And it's already been confirmed the English script and music will be altered in order to be more like the dub.

-Stuart Smith

Lynx Amali wrote:

I really wish people would actually know what they talk about before implying stuff. Watch the first episode of the original Adventure dub. Its established that the dubs names are nicknames and not outright replacements, no doubt intended to match the lip flaps of the original Japanese version.

Just because a 2 second text box appears in the first episode doesn't change the fact they're called their dub names 100% of the time and are never once addressed by the original names. Is a throwaway blurb really worth arguing over?

And it's already been confirmed the English script and music will be altered in order to be more like the dub.

-Stuart Smith

it has already been confirmed that the dub will be in the same tone and style of the japanese version so no censorship, the dub will be getting all new ENGLISH MUSIC and its good they are keeping their dub nicknames to remain consistent since they are catering to ENGLISH fans, you can just stick to the subs if this bother you so much, i for one am looking forward to this

http://comicsverse.com/digimon-tri-american-release/

Stuart Smith wrote:

Just because a 2 second text box appears in the first episode doesn't change the fact they're called their dub names 100% of the time and are never once addressed by the original names. Is a throwaway blurb really worth arguing over? And it's already been confirmed the English script and music will be altered in order to be more like the dub. -Stuart Smith

1) Sora, Mimi and Joe ( although the last one is just spelt differently than the original) still retain their original names. The only ones that got changed were Taichi's last name ( and being referred to Tai more than Taichi), Hikari getting shortened to Kari, T.K's being a smashed together initial of his original and Mat basically being taken from Yamato. It is relevant as people act like there's issue with altering names to match lip sync while still keeping the originals.

2) Do you have a source? All I know is that the theme's a new rendition of the dub theme, for better or worse. I've yet to hear anything regarding the scripting or voice director.

Digimon dubs will be forever doomed in the music department, I guess. It just kills whatever momentum a "style-and-tone-accurate" script tries to deliver. Also, "Biyomon" and "Gatomon."

Christina Vee/Shantae is Meiko and Kate Higggins/Tails is Meicomoon?!

I also think the reason for kids anime resorting to name change is so children watching them won't be confused on how to pronounce sometimes long Japanese names and/or they want children to believe what they're watching is an American cartoon by giving characters English sounding names.

I'm so excited for this and I certainly look forward to watching Tri in theaters with my friends. Also I hope that the can retain as much of the original English cast as possible.