My Hero Academia

@PanTran Chances are it's going to be a newcomer to the Japanese dubbing scene or an underused VA. That's been the way it was with a majority of the League of Villains VAs (sans Toga and Dabi), the Pussycats and the second class.

@itsmedeadpool I don’t think anyone was expecting it. One person on Reddit told me it sounded like her so I went to look it up and sure enough it did...glad we got confirmation though. This isn't the first time Funimation was experimented with LA talent in Simuldubs before since both Johnny Yong Bosch and Stephanie Sheh were in (and I s—- you not) Pop Team Epic a couple of weeks ago.

@Soul-dragon It isn't really experimenting. If the director wants an actor who is located outside of Dallas, and that actor is interested, then the director might make a plan to direct them (whether it is helping the actors fly down to Dallas or direct them from an external location). When the first season of Attack on Titan got recorded, all the LA actors had to make their way to Dallas for their sessions. However, Mike McFarland was reasonable with the actors and had them record a majority of their lines when they were in Texas. Bryce Papenbrook said himself that he had 8-10 hour sessions every day for four days to record the first 6 episodes. But for the Broadcast Dubs of Junior High and Season 2, they have weekly sessions and very short ones depending on the episode.

Caitlin Glass once Periscoped a directing session on Garo: Vanishing Line with Cherami Leigh who was recording from LA. It looked very devious because they were communicating via TeamViewer and Skype, but I assume the bandwidth at FUNimation must be very fast. Looking at this cast list, all the actors who are recording from LA are Patrick Seitz (if he isn't in Dallas for Franky), Cherami Leigh, and Cassandra Morris. So during the week when Colleen has to direct, her timeslots with the LA actors has to be solid.

@itsmedeadpool cassandra met colleen in a convention months back and got along very well that colleen wanted to work on a project with her hence here we are

@Abdullab Yeah aplenty of sources says that and I can't deny it. That's also how Joel McDonald cast David Vincent as Duval in One Piece and Mike McFarland cast Matthew Mercer in the FMA Movie.

@itsmedeadpool And it's also how Joel McDonald cast DC Douglas as X Drake in One Piece, if I recall correctly.

@Music Meister I was waiting for someone to reference that movie when they describe this anime. Also I loved that movie.

@MizukaS "Funimation has some pretty solid impressionists."

The dub for DR3 begs to differ.

@Diorgenson4321 NVM. I change my mind.

@Abdullab Sean is heavily underutilized in FUNimation outside of Dragon Ball franchise, this should be a good opportunity for him to be active in this franchise.

@SteelEthlan yeh other than dragon ball, sean hasnt been in another funi dub series since samurai 7 , due to the fact he lived in New York at the time which was still preety active in the anime industry back in the day so travelling to texas was more time consuming until he decided to focus more of his dub work in new york and only returned to db when needed and that was a similar case with Kara Edwards as she was more focused on her radio work in NC and only returned to DB when needed before she decided to become a full time va in texas.

now that he is moved to la, it is more easier for funi to get him than he was in NY, while still time consuming but easier.
totally agree with u funi should use the guy more often and if youve seen his resume with nyav post he has done some great work

@Abdullab Sean moving to LA wasn't to focus on doing more anime dubs believe it or not. He actually stated this on Twitter in a conversation with @huzaifa_ahmed

Very possible that he wants more pre-lay/western cartoon opportunities. Seeing him become a regular in anime is very slim at best.

@Shaun Ince Well atleast i respect him for still reprising goku for all those years, knowing the travel and pay he totally had the right to quit years ago but he still keeps doing it for us.

His recent pre lay work is preety good although i do wish the casting directors would cast him in an action role instead of a comedic one not that i dislike it sean is a preety funny if u give him the right material but seriously pre lay casting directors give him an action role.

@Abdullab Considering My Hero Academia is so popular and all, Funimation, especially with the budge increase from the Sony ownership, will higher even more big names in the dub. Literally, every voice actors wants to be part of the new age shounen MHA.

@Diorgenson4321 thanks for the good news

@Diorgenson4321 Well for starters, it hasn't quite happened just yet. They're still finalising the decision. We also don't know whether it's actually going to increase the budget of dubs. From the press statement that FUNimation released there's no mention about the dubs budget increasing. Not saying it isn't possible but I'm highly doubtful. FUNimation's budget for dubs has always been pretty cheap, even cheaper than non-union LA anime dubs.

@Shaun Ince and yet they somehow get to license every anime they can

@Shaun Ince I always dislike the fact that funimation dubs are the cheapest (with few exceptions) despite the voice actors putting their soul into the characters. I feel like it's inevitable that the budget of dubs are going to increase because shows like MHA are where the money is coming from. Sony seems like the type of company that will change policies.

@Diorgenson4321 With the amount of money FUNIMATION has made on Dragonball, they probably have enough to make the dub union. Though it's much cheaper to do it "in house" with actors local to Texas. The actors deserve much, much better pay than what they get. But because FUNIMATION has a large monopoly over most of the anime, the actors make up the difference by getting cast in all those other shows. It's a flawed system, but it works for them.

@Shaun Ince honestly agree with u its a sad fact and one of the reasons I dislike funi

@Shaun Ince to be fair the one dub that deserves to be union is db,

@Abdullab

Texas is a right-to-work state. There's no benefit to unionizing there if you're mostly using local talent.

@NCZ well it was worth a try

@NCZ Sony have some relatively well known in-house voice actors, so maybe they will have them do anime. I expect some policy changes, so the future can be anything I guess.

@Diorgenson4321

In-house voice actors?

@NCZ By that I meant voice actors that they have contracts with.

@Diorgenson4321

First I've heard of it. Most actors are freelance. Got any examples?

@Diorgenson4321 Sony has voice actors? I'm finding that a bit hard to believe.

@NCZ Dunno if it's worth restarting this thread regarding Sony & FUNimation, but just in case anyone was curious whether the deal fell through, it did. FUNimation is now owned by Sony. What this means for FUNimation going forward, is a mystery right now. Though I don't think the budget for these dubs will increase. If anything it's going to stay the same.

@itsmedeadpool oh good thing, i guess they arent risking it because with Dragon Ball Super on air(Funi`s cash cow) as Strait came back for one of his iconic characters thats another reason i think.

@darknessflamegeass Wait. What do you mean by
"She is being replaced by Luci Christian(Who I think might also get replaced, because she already plays Ochaco who is a major character in the series)"

Are you saying that you believe Ochako is going to get a new English Voice Actress because Luci is taking over recovery girl? Not to sound harsh, but you're sounding ludicrous.

@itsmedeadpool Nah what I'm saying is Christian might not stay on recovery girl for long, because she is Ochaco, who is a major character.

@darknessflamegeass Oh... Nah these stuff happen a lot in the industry. Maybe, but it's uncertain exactly whether Colleen will make the decision. If Luci can provide the consistency Juli provided, then she's an excellent replacement.

@itsmedeadpool sorry you had to go theough that

@Abdullab I actually hated writing that, but if I have proof of a fact, i won't keep it from the BTVA. Sometimes they aren't appreciated. If it isn't a public announcement, then they don't care.

I feel like a lapdog trying to please to no avail.

@itsmedeadpool

There's a blurb right next to the comment box that says:

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The comments are meant to discuss the title in question. They aren't the place to request credit additions, page updates, or go "X VA just confirmed Y role on Twitter". This has always been the guideline.

There's multiple of us, we all specialize in different areas and we do our best to keep things up to date, but this is a volunteer thing we all do in our free time. So it's also important for people to remember it's not the most important to always rush to be first, and try to be patient and understanding. Things are almost always on our radar but it's simply a matter of time and priority with regard to what gets updated and when. That's all there is to it.

@NCZ So do I need to add it in the 'Who's Voice Is This?' thread?

If yes, then sorry for not noticing before.

@itsmedeadpool

It's fine. Don't worry about it.

Anyway, to be honest, with regards to anime credits I would say it's something not to worry about. The main admin who specializes in anime pretty much takes care of/is on top of everything, so given time all will be accounted for.

@Ichigo341578926 that does suck, but Christopher has the experience behind him to succeed. I don't know what Alex's other career is, but my guess is it might be theater (can't find anything else). So my guess is he is unavailable because he's on a theater tour to somewhere. And speaking of theater, if Major Attaway had a part in this as well, Colleen most likely would need to have replaced him as well. Why? Because he's freakin rockin it in NY in his Broadway debut as the Genie in Aladdin!

@itsmedeadpool Oh, I remember seeing an interview with the cast for that, but I didn't see the name of the actor who was playing Genie. I didn't realize that was him! Wow!

@Ichigo341578926 I hope they have him re-dub Aizawa's lines in the Blu-Ray release. I heard that Robbie Daymond will be doing that for the few episodes when Bryce Papenbrook replaced him as Sorey when he was sick.

@BioZero216 I also hope they will, but that'll depend on the producers and Colleen Clinkenbeard. For example: During the recording for Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, Jason Liebrecht voiced the Hermit in the first season of the show. But after his motorcycle incident, he was unable to record the second season and was replaced by Eric Vale. The producers couldn't wait on him to recover because he was out of commission for a whole year and Kenichi sold too well for FUNimation to delay the release of the second season. If Alex is making a return during the broadcast dubs in a sudden miraculous style and is available for the rest of the series, then Colleen can make the call.

Even if she's given the green light to allow Alex to record all Aizawa's lines for the Home Video release, my hunch is she will stay put with Chris because he is in the area and is also easier to call on, and his voice sounds pretty similar to Alex's to keep the consistency (to be honest, I didn't know it was Chris until I saw the cast announcement and I thought it was Alex recording with bandages covering his mouth). But I can be wrong.

@itsmedeadpool Turns out, he was unable to reprise due to schedule conflicts, according to Colleen Clinkenbeard. When the Blu-Ray dub is recorded, which will have a more lenient schedule, he may return.

Seeing as he's a Yale drama major, I can't say I'm surprised he didn't have the time.

@Unknownsage13 From what I could hear from the new episode, Endeavor sounds like Patrick Seitz.

@Mistyfur5 Good ear. And you're right!

@itsmedeadpool Thanks. It's kinda a hobby of mine to recognize their voices in new shows.

@itsmedeadpool episode 1 and 2 may not have been the most engaging, but man they had some feels.

@CelestialOuroboros

I agree with most of what you said. Music really stood out for me. This anime didn't shatter any new ground that Tiger & Bunny and One Punch Man hadn't already done but it still has its own identity instead of being a lame copycat.

I liked the dub for the most part; my only complains minor as they are would be the continual use of musical chairs for broadcast dubs especially the casting of fellow ADR Directors (guess it's too hard to resist when they're literally walking distance/a booth away). Some of them started out as VAs and that's fine if they're actually good but others aren't giving anything remarkable and an actual VA would be much better.

Also certain VAs I'm no fan of (either they're just not good period or past their prime) but overall the good outweighs that bad.

Was this anime overhyped AF? Yep. Was the dub a masterpiece? Nope. But was it enjoyable and better than the average broadcast dub? Most definitely.

@FUNiman Also for curiosity's sake was Nomu not dubbed over or was the actor not credited?