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Some voice actors, such as the illustrious Norio Wakamoto or the magnificent Jun Fukuyama have extremely noticeable voices, which you could pretty much recognize anywhere. Sometimes they end up being typecast into a certain role, just because of their extremely distinctive, one-note voices. Other voice actors are quite a shock! So flexible are they, it's a real surprise and an unexpected joy to discover that they've played such diametrically different roles in different shows. This is a thread about surprises in Voice Acting! First up, we have... Romi Park   Who could have suspected that the wide-eyed boy protagonist of one of the most lighthearted and quirky Gundam series, Turn-A Gundam, could be played by the same voice actress as the sinfully decadent megalomaniacal fashionista supervillain of Kill la Kill? Not I, I'll tell you that! Ami Koshimizu   In the same vein, what a surprise it is to see the elegant, aristocratic, imperious and charmingly witty Holo the Wise Wolf of Spice & Wolf do a 180 and tussle in the dirt with the bad guys as rowdy delinquent Ryuuko Matoi in Kill la Kill! Steven Jay Blum   What a shock to find that the eminently cool, cigarette-smoking badass Spike Spiegel of Cowboy Bebop could be played by the same guy who voiced the completely faaaa~~~bulous and campy Gurren-Team member Leeron, in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann! Anime News Network compiles a filmography of most of the voice talent in anime, both dubs and in Japan, and it's a good source to find these welcome surprises. What are some of your finds?
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  Yes, both are voiced by the amazing Megumi Hayashibara
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DrSunshine posted:Steven Jay Blum  He also voiced one Mr. Chemical Castration.
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DrSunshine posted:Ami Koshimizu I guess for me her surprise role was Holo from Spice and Wolf, which combined clever mischievousness with the use of archaic Japanese, since I had already seen her voice a few characters with brash and/or aggressive personalities, such as the crazy Anemone from Eureka 7 and the hot-headed Kallen from Code Geass for example, which makes picking her to voice Ryuuko in Kill la Kill quite a bit easier to imagine.    I was very amused to retroactively find out that Megumi Ogata, who voiced struggling teenager Shinji Ikari in Evangelion, had previously worked on Magic Knight Rayearth portraying both the initial damsel-in-distress Princess Emeraude as well as Eagle Vision, a rather confident commander/pilot who later becomes a potential love interest for the female lead. wielder fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Mar 12, 2014 |
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Steven Jay Blum shouldn't count as a surprise because he's everywhere. For content, it turns out that Yoko Hikasa voiced both Emi Yusa in The Devil is a Part-Timer, and Izumi Takanashi in Working!, which kind of surprised me.
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StandardVC10 posted:Steven Jay Blum shouldn't count as a surprise because he's everywhere. In the video game industry, he ends up getting type cast as gruff soldier man the majority of the time, so that list isn't very interesting. But he did do the voice of young Drake in Uncharted 3, which is as different from gruff soldier man as Spiegel is from Leeron. It makes me feel bad for him that he gets type cast so much because he is really talented. VV Huh, that's what I remember Chip saying in the lp he's doing. I probably misheard him. ViggyNash fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Mar 12, 2014 |
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Mar 12, 2014 04:43
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Steve Blum did not voice Young Drake in Uncharted 3, that doesn't change he's a super good VA thhat can both act and differentiate very well, please look at Guilmon and...Silentman0 posted:
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  I wouldn't have guessed that Miku and Ymir from Attack on Titan shared a voice actress (Saki Fujita).
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:
Seriously?? Hahahaha! Whoa. That's really about as different as you can get!
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  Shiori Mikami voices both of them.
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ViggyNash posted:In the video game industry, he ends up getting type cast as gruff soldier man the majority of the time, so that list isn't very interesting. But he did do the voice of young Drake in Uncharted 3, which is as different from gruff soldier man as Spiegel is from Leeron. It makes me feel bad for him that he gets type cast so much because he is really talented. In the FEAR expansion pack Perseus Mandate, he only voices one character, but it's complicated because every other voice actor must have been told "hey, try to sound like Steve Blum!" He's also credited in Fallout: New Vegas, but the only character I can think of that made me think "yeah, that's him" was Silus and possibly some of the Fiends.
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  These are voiced by the same woman, Megumi Toyoguchi.
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   And part 3 Joseph Joestar. GOod poo poo.
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Ishida Akira has been type cast a lot since the triple whammy of Xelloss, Nagisa Kaworu, and Shin Kouhyou, but his vocal range is astounding. Among others he's done megagoon Kuchiki Manabu from Genshiken, SUPER COOL serial killer and psychopath Uryuu Ryuunosuke from Fate/Zero, ultrafeminine Sailor Moon villain Fish Eye, and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG3EqJizfkQ
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  Kana Hanazawa does a really good job at sometimes playing against her usual type-casting. After I first heard of her as Anri in Durarara!!, I kept finding her here and there. She seemed like a slightly less sugary-sweet version of Mamiko Noto most of the time. I started remembering her name well when I heard her playing Susukihotaru (left) in Otome Yokai Zakuro and Mayuri Shiina in Steins;Gate. And while she seems to be in everything nowadays and her voice is super easy to identify, I remembered it was through these very forums that I discovered that she played both the really goofy-sounding Tsukimi Kurashita from Jellyfish Princess and the very mean-spirited, hot-blooded and downright vulgar
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  Takehito Koyasu does the voice for the disney prince in japanese of course.
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Poniard posted:
Well at least we know what to say when someone asks who voiced Prince Hans in Japanese.
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Poniard posted:
(Frozen spoilers) YOUR FIRST KISS WASN'T FROM KRISTOFF, BUT FROM I, DIO!
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Silentman0 posted:(Frozen spoilers)  (Found on tumblr.) Edit: Content:     Takahiro Sakurai. EDIT 2: FORGOT THE IMPORTANT ONE 
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  David Hayter voiced Lupin III in the most recent dub of The Castle of Cagliostro.
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  I guess both are racing repressed homosexual pretty boys. Ledgy fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Mar 22, 2014 |
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Wikipedia is bad for your health 
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 Both Aya Hirano, I couldn't believe it!
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killstealing posted:
B-But that's Sakurai Harumi's character on the left? Hirano wasn't in Angel Beats, afaik.
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darkgray posted:B-But that's Sakurai Harumi's character on the left? Hirano wasn't in Angel Beats, afaik.  The joke is that Yurippe is very similar to Haruhi.
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Megumi Ogata played Maya Kitajima in the Glass Mask OVA. She also played Sailor Uranus.
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From the 90's Moomin anime: Snufkin  Takehito Koyasu Sniff  Ryusei Nakao (Freiza, Kurotsuchi Mayuri, Caesar Clown...and the dub voices of Buster Bunny and Yakko Warner) Moominpappa  Akio Otsuka (Whammu, Solid Snake, Blackbeard) Also:    All voiced by Atsuko Tanaka. Perigryn fucked around with this message at 09:47 on Mar 23, 2014 |
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DrSunshine posted:Some voice actors, such as the illustrious Norio Wakamoto or the magnificent Jun Fukuyama have extremely noticeable voices, which you could pretty much recognize anywhere. Sometimes they end up being typecast into a certain role, just because of their extremely distinctive, one-note voices. Jun Fukuyama used to do a really higher pitched voice until he became famous for Code Geass, back when he was mostly doing bit roles and BL games. He voices the blond haired kid here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuOL2ZVvgUI&t=715s
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Let's look at Daisuke Ono Working  The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya  Tamako Market 
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unpronounceable posted:Let's look at Daisuke Ono Don't forget. 
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 ==  Yamadera Kouichi is pretty cool like that.
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darkgray posted:
Wikipedia posted:He is known for voicing Jim Carrey and Eddie Murphy in the Japanese language releases of their respective films Hahah. Fantastic! So he's basically your go-to guy for comedy movie dubs. Oh crap, wait, does that mean that he voiced the Donkey in Shrek? ... Yep, he totally did!  
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unpronounceable posted:Let's look at Daisuke Ono Which reminds me: Daisuke Ono   A tall blond guy who smokes Hiroshi Kamiya   A well-informed guy who loves loving with people Jun Fukuyama   A glasses-wearing eccentric obsessed with something weird They each play a similar trio in both Durarara!! and Working!!.
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Relambrien posted:They each play a similar trio in both Durarara!! and Working!!. Noragami isn't too far away. Daisuke Ono  Hiroshi Kamiya  Jun Fukuyama 
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  Romi Park.
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Waffleman_ posted:
What the gently caress ? Does that mean that Ragyo is Gohan ? I can't believe it. 
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legendsuper posted:What the gently caress ? Does that mean that Ragyo is Gohan ? I can't believe it. Nozawa Masako has never voiced a JoJo's character and Paku Romi has never voiced a Dragonball character so I dunno how you got those confused, but no, she didn't voice Gohan.
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According to Wikipedia, Romi Park also voices Finn in the Japanese dub of Adventure Time.
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AnonSpore posted:Nozawa Masako has never voiced a JoJo's character and Paku Romi has never voiced a Dragonball character so I dunno how you got those confused, but no, she didn't voice Gohan. He's making a joke about how the character on the left basically goes super saiyan when he does stuff in the JoJo manga.
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DrSunshine posted:Hahah. Fantastic! So he's basically your go-to guy for comedy movie dubs. And this dude from Samurai Champloo:  Ryusei Nakao as Yakko Warner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGEb0TqAEpU
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