Fire Emblem Heroes

[NCZ]

Originally Posted by Beldarius

Kim Strauss is semi-retired, though - he hasn't been around for 10 years, until the Eureka 7 movie popped up.

That doesn't matter if the voice sounds nothing like his, which is one of the main points here. (Which it, to be frank, really doesn't.) There's also no history of him using aliases like this, working with KZS, etc. There's just no real evidence and that's what we need to move forward.

There is also another possibility that I just thought of. It's entirely possible Walden James is a Canadian voice actor, as KZS has directed Ocean Group dubs before - that could explain why he's so obscure and hard to find.

That seems unlikely because the only non-KZS thing he's known to be in is also US.

[KazeNinja17]

Originally Posted by Marakutanay

This is all just pure speculation, but the recasting of Erin Fitzgerald might also support the idea that Bang Zoom was involved in this. Erin did not return for the last Neptunia game because of union issues, that game was released in October last year so her decision must've been made a couple of months before that. However she did return for Chie in Cross Tag Battle(most likely PCB), released recently, and she also was in Terraformars(Studiopolis), released at the beggining of this year. I doubt that she has agreed to be in those titles before refusing Neptunia. I don't know if she has appeared in another CoT title recently but if this last batch of characters was done at Bang Zoom might be the reason why she was recasted.

Again, this is all just pure speculation.

One issue I honestly see with this theory is that Stephanie Sheh still reprises Tharja for Fire Emblem Heroes and she's been very vocal about non-union dubs. She recently criticized the BotW cast for actively using that game in their credits because it was a non-union title.

Then again, Stephanie Sheh may reprise Tharja because those recordings might be directed by either Patrick Seitz or Wendee Lee.

[Beldarius]

Originally Posted by NCZ

That seems unlikely because the only non-KZS thing he's known to be in is also US.

Canadian voice actors have been moving on to doing US dubs, though. Scott McNeil and David Kaye come to mind of the more famous ones, but there are also tons of more unknown names (Walden might just be one of them). ...Unless he's an amateur who just happens to join pro dubs every once in a while. I know quite a few fandubbers who've done official dubs recently (including Brad Venable and Frank Todaro) and I wouldn't put it past the directors to hire someone like that. If he is, then I wouldn't know - I've never heard his voice before outside Fire Emblem and Layton.

Could be another Steve Burton situation - voices practically nothing except one or two characters.

[Nightmare Crusher]

Originally Posted by Beldarius

Canadian voice actors have been moving on to doing US dubs, though. Scott McNeil and David Kaye come to mind of the more famous ones, but there are also tons of more unknown names (Walden might just be one of them). ...Unless he's an amateur who just happens to join pro dubs every once in a while. I know quite a few fandubbers who've done official dubs recently (including Brad Venable and Frank Todaro) and I wouldn't put it past the directors to hire someone like that. If he is, then I wouldn't know - I've never heard his voice before outside Fire Emblem and Layton.

Could be another Steve Burton situation - voices practically nothing except one or two characters.

Scott McNeil hasn't moved to the US. He does stuff for Funimation sometimes because he knows people there.

Walden James has been doing stuff in LA since the 90s when Vancouver acting was at its peak. What the hell would be the reason for that then? Why hasn't his name come up in anything actually Canadian? Unless you have some good **** evidence of this theory it's not good for anything.

Fandubber? Walden James is clearly an old guy, just listen to him! And again, he has been around since the nineties! You're just throwing crap at the wall at this point without any logic or evidence.

Steve Burton is a minor celebrity who got pulled into Kingdom Hearts just like David Boreanaz and others. He keeps doing Cloud because he likes the character. This is not a comparable situation.

[Beldarius]

Originally Posted by Nightmare Crusher

Walden James has been doing stuff in LA since the 90s when Vancouver acting was at its peak. What the hell would be the reason for that then? Why hasn't his name come up in anything actually Canadian? Unless you have some good **** evidence of this theory it's not good for anything.

Fandubber? Walden James is clearly an old guy, just listen to him! And again, he has been around since the nineties! You're just throwing crap at the wall at this point without any logic or evidence.

There literally can't be any investigation without theories first - if everybody's theories just get shot down from the get-go, then we'll never figure this out. Just thought I'd mention that. These forums are the most unhelpful place I've ever laid eyes on.

Walden James also doesn't sound all that old to me (to me, old is 70+). Being around since the 90s (considering that Alien Detectors thing is from 1996), there's a chance he's barely 50 years old (if he was 30 in that show, he'd be 52 now). That could help narrow things down - just completely eliminate voice actors born after 1978 from the investigation. ...Since I honestly doubt he was younger than 18 in Alien Detectors.

EDIT: I've been looking through Jamie Simone series now, and one of the older ones had Steve Kramer in it. I checked him on BtVA, and one of his voices made me listen to it and Subaki side-by-side.

Also, listen to this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjde2S4VSSo&t=0m16s

For Jagen, I can hear this (status lines initially, the end starts to sound like special triggers).

[Nightmare Crusher]

Originally Posted by Beldarius

There literally can't be any investigation without theories first - if everybody's theories just get shot down from the get-go, then we'll never figure this out. Just thought I'd mention that. These forums are the most unhelpful place I've ever laid eyes on.

Walden James also doesn't sound all that old to me (to me, old is 70+). Being around since the 90s (considering that Alien Detectors thing is from 1996), there's a chance he's barely 50 years old (if he was 30 in that show, he'd be 52 now). That could help narrow things down - just completely eliminate voice actors born after 1978 from the investigation. ...Since I honestly doubt he was younger than 18 in Alien Detectors.

If you don't want your ideas scrutinized don't post them in a public forum. You wanna talk unhelpful? Throwing out baseless ideas with no evidence is unhelpful because it derails the conversation into having to debunk falsehoods. A theory without evidence is worth less than nothing.

I'm not implying Walden James is ancient, but the gristle in his voice is not that of a young man. I wouldn't even have to bring up his age or the fact he's been around since the 90s if you hadn't pulled out more baseless speculation about him possibly being a fandubber. Do you see how this is a waste of time?

[NCZ]

There literally can't be any investigation without theories first - if everybody's theories just get shot down from the get-go, then we'll never figure this out. Just thought I'd mention that. These forums are the most unhelpful place I've ever laid eyes on.

I gotta be frank, stuff like this is not really a binary situation.

Are all theories invalid? By no means.

At the same time that doesn't mean throwing absolutely everything at the wall, regardless of plausibility, is the way to go here. There has to be at least something to ensure that theories are actually plausible. Otherwise it runs into the "you can't prove unicorns DON'T exist" fallacy.

Put simply, the burden of proof is not on other people to prove why a whole list of guesses are all false. The burden of proof is on whoever is suggesting a name to prove why their belief is true, or likely, or otherwise worth considering. You have to realize that right off the bat there are always constraints to work with that ensure a lot of possibilities are just not likely.

I'm sorry if the conflict between that approach is "unhelpful", but there is a middle ground that people in this subforum usually try to go for. At the end of the day the goal here in this subforum is to try to have some sort of evidence or logic or reason behind our guesses. Something that we can directly compare or stack up against. Circumstantial evidence can point things in the right direction only if it's done in conjunction with that. If we just go around wildly we'll never get anywhere and it detracts from all of the hard work that other people have done in order to crack down on these mystery cases. It just sends everything around in circles and creates extra unneeded work.

I'm going to have to be perfectly honest here and say that this is a final warning and that we will unfortunately have to lock this thread if things end up going too off-the-rails. That isn't the goal here.

[Beldarius]

So would my guess about Steve Kramer count as legitimate, considering he's worked with Jamie Simone, has also been in a Simone dub with Paula Tiso (original Camilla) and actually has voices that sound similar to both Subaki and Jagen? I posted a few links above to demonstrate (here's one more of Sakon Shima). He's also been around since the 80s, and 68 years old if I counted right.

I don't have access to most cartoons since I live in Europe, though, so I can't verify if he has a voice that fits Jaffar.

[NCZ]

It's not him. Matal Mogamett (which is a good example of his usual range) is very far off from Subaki, Jagen, Iago etc. He also has no reason to use an alias/no problem using his real-name on non-union projects. He has never used an alias for such a project except for EXTREMELY early Carl Macek work in the 80s. Walden James/Walter Rego is a frequent collaborator with Kris Zimmerman-Salter. Steve Kramer is not. I think we should move on from this discussion especially considering I made a huge point to stress it's not likely to be anyone who's a dubbing regular.

[Nightmare Crusher]

Originally Posted by Beldarius

EDIT: I've been looking through Jamie Simone series now, and one of the older ones had Steve Kramer in it. I checked him on BtVA, and one of his voices made me listen to it and Subaki side-by-side.

You say you were looking into old Jamie Simone dubs and you came up with the Harmony Gold dub of Dragon Ball. How?