The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya English Cast
Jajaaaa~n!! Well, it’s that time again, and the new episode of The Adventures of the ASOS Brigade is here! Interestingly enough, we now know that Bang! Zoom Entertainment is behind the voice work, but if you’re real keen on the actors and actresses, you can figure that out easily by yourself. Anyhoo, during the episode, the ASOS Brigade (omg Yuki) revealed the selected actors/actresses who will be involved in the series!!
Haruhi Suzumiya – Wendee Lee
Yuki Nagato – Michelle Ruff
Mikuru Asahina – Stephanie Sheh
Kyon – Crispin Freeman
Itsuki Koizumi – Johnny Young Bosch
Ryouko Asakura – Bridget Hoffman
Tsuruya-san – Kari Wahlgren
IMO, it’s not a bad list. In fact, I think it’s quite swell and it works! I’m not totally surprised Wendee got the role. When I first heard her from the polls I thought they made a good choice in being one of the chosen voices. But after listening to her talk, it really didn’t work out so good. I think now at least they can direct her to work better on it. She is, after all, the only one to actually say “Hey, Kyon!” perfectly.
Kyon, Yuki, and Mikuru… hmm, are we sure those polls were just for preferences? All three of these characters have the voices that I chose for. It’s amazing really. Crispin defintely has Kyon’s style, and it was flat out obvious that Steph pulled Mikuru’s cuteness off marvelously.
Lastly, it’s not totally shocking Johnny gets to be Itsuki. Even though I didn’t vote for him, I still think he did a fine job. It’s just that it didn’t sound like he was in the role of Itsuki. Hopefully that will change during recording sessions. Another thing I didn’t expect was the voices for lolfang-tan and the beautiful Asakura. Bridget has a wonderful voice so I can totally hear her cute, yet wicked tone coming out of Asakura’s mouth. Now I don’t normally listen to Kari, or not nearly enough, but I can see her voicing Tsuruya-san. *nods*
Well with that, I definitely can’t wait for the R1 DVDs. Those of you who agree with me, rock on! Those that don’t like dubs can just shove it up their Clovis. Till next time!
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is it me or the place looks crappier than what I would expect out of a US dubbing studio.
Its just to me that place looked like some house.
Hahaha… omg Yuki indeed.
A dubbing studio doesn’t have to be too fancy, I’d imagine. Just good acoustics in the recording studios and good equipment… They’re just recording voices after all.
I think Crispin Freeman is a great choice. Still not watching the dub. I’ll buy the DVDs though.
I guess a former power ranger will do quite well as Haruhi, I mean they are both stylish lol.
Patricia Ja Lee? Haha, big surprise for me first time I saw her. I knew she looked familiar.
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Alright, not that bad of a line up. It just depends how they pull this off XD
I’ll be watching this in English, although I would presume that a number of Haruhi-tards would definitely not like this.
Honestly, I don’t mind if the English dubbers pull it off or not.