Kate Higgins

@Diorgenson4321 Both her and Sasuke weren't originally going to be characters in the first place, and it kinda shows

@Soul-dragon Indeed she is!

She's also great as Pauline.

@Joel the Pokekid She still has like 4 more years.

I did enjoy her performance as Reika Aoki/Cure Beauty in the Smile Precure/Glitter Force dub, though at times I couldn't stop hearing Sailor Mercury if anything, same exact voice, performance and of course she's voicing another magical girl with a blue colour scheme. XD Still she did fit the role rather well.

She's a solid fit for the role of Thor Girl in Lego Marvel Avengers.

and she's going to take over as Gatomon for Digimon Adventure Tri....this isn't a half bad idea at all, could work really nicely.

and finally I can't wait to hear more of her Sailor Mercury in the upcoming dubs of the later seasons of Sailor Moon.

Happy Birthday Kate Higgins!

@Nightmare Crusher I noticed that Talim sounds exactly the same as Arietta from Tales of the Abyss, which was also done by Cup of Tea. Compare the clip above to this voice collection, and it's definitely the same voice actress.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzbluqWAUXg

@Nightmare Crusher
To add, it's potentially due to a chronological bias. In 2005 most of us were only just starting to know who she was thanks to a certain pink-haired shinobi. Her being Talim could also be considered her foot in the door at Cup of Tea, leading to her many Tales roles. We simply didn't know her for her softer roles, and Talho, CC, etc. only proved to further the gap.

That said, I was fooled like the rest at the first line of "Some things can only be conveyed through battle." Starfire was quite the nitch-filler, you see.

@NCZ Wait isn't Hynden Talim it's confirmed as a role of hers on IMDB I always though Hyden was Talim

@BoondocksXAfrofan No, it's not her. There's a lot of fake info about the Soulcalibur voice actors floating around that is only recently starting to be corrected, albeit slowly. IMDB is not a reliable source as it is user-submitted. In fact, it's where a lot of the fake info comes from (that tidbit about Jennifer Hale supposedly being Tira will not die...)

As mentioned above, Talim's voice is identical to Arietta's in Tales of the Abyss, as well as being very close to many of Kate Higgins' other roles.

@NCZ Oh ok I apologize for that I'm just really shocked that's all t lolz but ok also so did Kate herself confirmed it? is she also Vidiri too from kid icarus ? I like both Kate and Hynden and this news certainly took me by surprised. Overall since Kate is Talim then that just shows you that she's a very talented versatile actor and she can sing too.

@BoondocksXAfrofan Kate Higgins hasn't officially confirmed being Talim, but her facebook fanpage includes Arietta as one of her roles, so there you go.

Yes, Hynden Walch was Viridi. I'm not sure if you knew this already, but you go on any page and click on a green checkmark, then an image pops up showing the source of the credit, meaning the credit has been officially verified. Hynden as Viridi is one such role, as it is confirmed by the game's end credits.

@NCZ
I'm curious. What's your vice against Hale? You seem unusually defensive about this actress rather than the role in question.

Sure they've been saying this since the start, but if they know someone well enough to say so can it really be all that far off from the truth?

Unlike Walch Hale has precedent to be in this game. No one complained about Freeman and Wahlgren... and that's because their characters never became the controversial trainwrecks Tira did. It's only because Tira's replacement was underground and the effect her new gameplay gimmick had was overestimated by everyone that doubt arose and this whole mess started.

One Lynn Marie Harris has taught me to read the voice first, then the context/company. I find it far more lucrative and much less prone to hesitation than limiting myself to some undefinable range. That's how I've dealt with all of these uncredited cases. You can't hide what's inside.

I don't even pay any mind to that letter that supposedly exists 'cuz, quite frankly, I wouldn't even need it.

Besides, if there's one line that really comes off as Hale-ish, it's this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmt-8CN7Xv0#t=48s

@rosebr10 I don't have anything against Jennifer Hale. I'm moreso against people who believe it's her in IV and V since it's 100% not her there. I can't speak for who it is in III.

There is a difference with Crispin Freeman and Kari Wahlgren, and that is that they had a wide breadth of non-union work before SCIII came out--not just in video games but with anime. It was after 2005 that they (and Steve Blum, but he's not in the games) stopped and have since exclusively worked on union projects (going off on a tangent though, Kari Wahlgren has at least two non-union roles post-2005, but that's about it).

On the other hand, I can't find anything that officially confirms Jennifer Hale working on anything non-union during that timeframe. I realise she was in the Cowboy Bebop movie, but that was a union production unlike the series. If there was 100% established precedent for Jennifer Hale working non-union prior to SCIII, I'd be more inclined to believe it. At this point, I have reason to be skeptical as the situations are very different.

As well, we try to be a factual site, and so if I have reason to doubt something, I'd prefer not to go all the way and risk spreading misinformation. After all, I recall many being dead certain about Nicole Karrer being Naoto in Persona 4, and that turned out to be untrue after spreading like wildfire.

@NCZ
So what does that make Michael Gough?

@rosebr10 Michael Gough actually has precedent for working non-union. He was Mitsuhide Akechi in Samurai Warriors 1, as confirmed by his resume and an interview with the Koei Warriors fansite.

http://koeiwarriors.co.uk/interview-michaelgough.php
http://www.michaelgough.com/ (under "Bio and Credits", then "VO Credits"

@Leetastic3
Yeaaaaah, about that:
https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/438413726228574208