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NEWS: Dragon Ball Z's Vegeta Voice Actors Chris Sabat, Ryo Horikawa Collaborate

It's sad that while anime is a fun and entertaining medium, its worst contribution overseas is giving birth to double standard Japanophiles, the lowest form of life on the Internet.

Preferring and praising the Japanese dub of Beast Wars? I don't care if it is anyone's preference, that's just beyond sad.

Also, the whole "You can't tell whether somebody is a good actor or not if you don't speak the language!" doesn't ring entirely true. Acting relies a lot on inflection and you can train yourself to pick up on that, if not perfectly, then at least adequately.

Right now Austin, Jad, Morgan, Anastasia, Micah, Akron and the dozens and dozens of new voices Funimation is using are new and unimportant to fans. But they'll get a role one day, hit it out of the park, garner a fan following, be rewarded for doing a great job by getting more jobs, and then the dicks will be complaining how they're overused and Funimation doesn't try to expand it's pool.

It's a vicious cycle, really.

The King of Harts wrote:

Right now Austin, Jad, Morgan, Anastasia, Micah, Akron and the dozens and dozens of new voices Funimation is using are new and unimportant to fans. But they'll get a role one day, hit it out of the park, garner a fan following, be rewarded for doing a great job by getting more jobs, and then the dicks will be complaining how they're overused and Funimation doesn't try to expand it's pool. It's a vicious cycle, really.

One can argue that there's already a major backlash against Micah Solusod despite his not having that many roles, mainly due to the fact that his standard range is practically identical to that of Johnny Yong Bosch. Of course, they do have their differences. Johnny can manage much higher pitches (Eureka Seven, Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, Disgaea 3), while Micah can go quite low-pitched if he has to (going purely off what little I've heard of him as Gai in Guilty Crown).

To Micah's credit, he's been taking the whole thing in stride so far. As per his own FAQ, paraphrased on his TV Tropes entry: Johnny's the cool one who knows martial arts, Micah's the skinny guy screaming like a little girl while he runs away from the one who knows martial arts.

I don't really see the point of this honestly the idea is just moronic and unnecessary Funimation has a vast talent pool to pull from when it comes to casting for their dubs. Why would they need Japanese actors/actresses who speak poor english to be background voices in future Funimation dubs when they already have an amazing amount of voice talent to use. The entire concept is simply ridiculous to me.

All this talk about Beast Wars... isn't that more of evidence of native language/interpretation being the most ideal? How much pro-sub talk is really about Japanese being an inherently superior language?

The question here shouldn't be why Chris Sabat is doing this and instead should be what FUNimation could have possibly acquired that would require the use of native Japanese speakers for its dub.

Idc there a bunch of dudes who sit around makeing goof ball dubs for you tube that dose not give em a right to be put in anime.Now if they go out and audition that's a fine but to me there a bunch of immature guys with way to much time on there hands and some of there biggest fans seem to be kids. I mean Team Four Star dose not do anything they rip clips and re dub em something anyone and there mom can do and a lot of people on you tube do it guess i'm just not a fan

If you believe that, then tell me do Japanese dub of American video game sound better then the English voice:

rootsofjustice wrote:

The question here shouldn't be why Chris Sabat is doing this and instead should be what FUNimation could have possibly acquired that would require the use of native Japanese speakers for its dub.

I like the way you think. This has some very interesting possibilities among the list of titles that would dubbed under the exteremely tight control of never leaving the roost.

Of course, it could also be an issue of wanting to speed-up the process by having actors ready to go locally.

way to spin something positive completely negative English voice actors aren't gonna take over the world regardless of what anime these VA's are in your not forced to watch it

seandream91 wrote:

way to spin something positive completely negative English voice actors aren't gonna take over the world regardless of what anime these VA's are in your not forced to watch it

Is this actual progress in the English dub fan world? Bringing Engrish into the mix? Positive? Oh god we are doomed.

Business centric Funi wants to outsource to speed dub newly gained titles. History of why Eng dubs are hated is about to repeat itself.

And reusing English voice actors . . . Japanese voice actors do that too (but seemingly for a few years at a time, due to the ageism thing that still bugs me), cartoons do that too--how many nowadays has Tom Kenny or John DiMaggio? And English anime voice actors don't get paid alot or get residuals, so why shouldn't they get to work alot? I thought having a lot of roles was a cool thing . . .

And it makes me sorta uncomfortable that anime fans tend to antagonize/villainize voice actors. I never hear cartoon fans say "I hate Jim Cummings, I hate Tara Strong" etc.

Why do so many people chatting here have terrible spelling and/or grammar? I can't take an argument seriously if the person didn't bother to proofread their spelling.

And in regards to "Micah sounds like Johnny" . . . should someone not allowed to pursue VO for what they sound like? VO is about what you can DO with your voice, not about whether or not you have a good one. "Oh, you have a terrible/similar voice, you can't be a voice actor" seems pretty terrible to me.

And reusing English voice actors . . . Japanese voice actors do that too (but seemingly for a few years at a time, due to the ageism thing that still bugs me), cartoons do that too--how many nowadays has Tom Kenny or John DiMaggio? And English anime voice actors don't get paid alot or get residuals, so why shouldn't they get to work alot? I thought having a lot of roles was a cool thing . . .

And it makes me sorta uncomfortable that anime fans tend to antagonize/villainize voice actors. I never hear cartoon fans say "I hate Jim Cummings, I hate Tara Strong" etc.

I think this Chris Sabat / Ryo Horikawa collaboration sounds cool!