gaming How about a Japanese game dubbed with Canadian voice actors?

[TheMisterManGuy 344]

Japanese games use either Hollywood voice Actors, Western Cartoon VA's in California, Los Angeles based Anime Dub actors, or to a lesser extent, Texas and New York voice actors when being localized and dubbed for western audiences. One thing I think would be cool is if a company dubs a Japanese game using Voice actors from Vancouver, British Columbia.... In Canada. It would give recording facilities like Ocean and Voicebox more work outside animation. Imagine a JRPG with Tabitha St. Germain, Ashleigh Ball, Lee Tockar, Andrew Francis, and even Andrea Libman.

[GuillermoGage 246]

I keep forgetting that Tara Strong does not actually live and work in Canada just because her fellow Pony actresses do.

 

I don't really like the idea of my precious Pony actresses voicing characters designed to appeal to weeaboos. There I said it.

 

Also, you merely said "Japanese games" well, my almost all of my favorite modern video games are Japanese, but have little to no spoken dialogue, and what they do have is not anime-style JRPG stuff.

 

So... if you are talking about JRPGs, then to me ... that is essentially the same as anime, but in interactive form. I generally believe that the same VAs that voice most of the MLP:FiM and Littlest Pet Shop characters have voices that are too unique for what I have seen in most JRPGs.

 

I'm actually hoping that Tabitha, Cathy, and Andrea, but especially Tabitha, end up in compelling mainstream movies. Both animated feature films and live action roles.

Edited December 29, 2014 by GuillermoGage

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Actually, I heard that the voice acting for MegaMan X7 (a Japan game) was done by Canadian people.

 

No, the voice acting in MMX7 is not pleasing at all.

[TheMisterManGuy 344]

I keep forgetting that Tara Strong does not actually live and work in Canada just because her fellow Pony actresses do.

 

I don't really like the idea of my precious Pony actresses voicing characters designed to appeal to weeaboos. There I said it.

 

Also, you merely said "Japanese games" well, my almost all of my favorite modern video games are Japanese, but have little to no spoken dialogue, and what they do have is not anime-style JRPG stuff.

 

So... if you are talking about JRPGs, then to me ... that is essentially the same as anime, but in interactive form. I generally believe that the same VAs that voice most of the MLP:FiM and Littlest Pet Shop characters have voices that are too unique for what I have seen in most JRPGs.

 

I'm actually hoping that Tabitha, Cathy, and Andrea, but especially Tabitha, end up in compelling mainstream movies. Both animated feature films and live action roles.

The thing is, The cast of the mane 6 and Spike have done anime roles before. Tabitha St. Germain voiced Shana from Shakugan no Shana, Ashleigh Ball voiced Yukari Hirai from that same series, and even Andrea and Cathy have done a few anime roles. So them voicing in an anime JRPG would pretty much be nothing new to them.

[Discordian 6,013]

I don't really care where they're from as long as it's in English. More Japanese games need to be brought out of Japan, preferably with English voice acting but I can live without that if I have to (which I usually do).

[GuillermoGage 246]

The thing is, The cast of the mane 6 and Spike have done anime roles before. Tabitha St. Germain voiced Shana from Shakugan no Shana, Ashleigh Ball voiced Yukari Hirai from that same series, and even Andrea and Cathy have done a few anime roles. So them voicing in an anime JRPG would pretty much be nothing new to them.

I know they have. Most prolific voice actors from any region, but especially the talent who work for the Ocean Group in Vancouver, do a wide variety of media, including anime and English-dubbed products of Japanese origin.

 

Personally the only MLP VA-filled anime dub I've personally watched is Death Note. Spike, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie's singing voice are in there.

 

But I don't get this fanboyism for regional voice acting circles. I don't really get attached to specific VA circles... they just exist for (geographic? and) economic reasons. Tabitha, Cathy, Andrea, Nicole, Ashleigh, Kira Tozer, Sam Vincent, Kyle Rideout, Brian Drummond, Peter New. There's no distinct quality that they all share that other VAs don't.

 

At the end of the day, they don't sound much different from the people dubbing Yugioh.

 

If Andrea Libman were to voice some magical schoolgirl that sounded almost exactly or literally exactly like Pinkie Pie or Fluttershy... I don't know why you would want to encourage that. I guess she can do whatever she wants with her career (she has the smallest resume of the MLP girls as far as I know right now, probably a bit fewer roles than Ashleigh), but I wouldn't exactly fanboy over it.

 

Most English dub anime characters already sound like stock voices. that's why I am actually a big supporter of what Disney and later GKIDS did with the Studio Ghibli movies. They got mainstream Hollywood celebs, (and I reckon a few British actors here and there?) and they all did an excellent job with dubbing those movies. They were really into the acting aspect of it.

[Megas 27,064]

Actually, I heard that the voice acting for MegaMan X7 (a Japan game) was done by Canadian people.

 

No, the voice acting in MMX7 is not pleasing at all.

That game was dubbed in Japan by people who were living there at the time, same with X4 and Megaman 8.

 

Most other Megaman stuff however were dubbed in Canada(Megaman NT Warrior, Maverick Hunter X/Command Mission/X8, Powered Up, and the Legends series)