Favorite anime Voice Actor/Actress?

[Cleric of Hell's Brigade]

I've always liked Steven Blum (Spike Speigal), Crispin Freeman (Alucard), Wendee Lee (Faye Valentine), and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (Major Motoko Kusanagi).

These four are by far my favorites. I also find it really neat/cool that they do so many shows together. :smile:

[1505627]

Dan Green, no lie

[Kevin M.]

Christ Sabat: Best known for Piccolo from Funimations Dragon Ball Z

Kate Higgins: Sakura from Naruto

Yuri Lowenthal: Suaske from Naruto

Steve Blum: Various roles

[Len Ikari145]

Johnny Young Bosch

Crispin Freeman.

Steven Blum

Kyle Hebert

Vic Mignogna

Lisa Ortiz

Eric Stuart

Justin Cook

Luci Christian

Monica Rial

Caitlin Glass

Richard Wayworth

[Zero Hunter]

I do love Sabet and how he does Zoro on Funimations One Piece dub.

[Hitokiri]

Crispin Freeman, Richard Hayworth, Steven Jay Blum, Johnny Young Bosch, Kari Walgren, Wendee Lee, Yuri Lowenthal, Liam O'Brien, Christopher Sabat, Sonny Strait.

[ChrisIII]

David Hayter-not only did has he done a few anime and game voices (Most famously Snake from Metal Gear), he also was one of the screenwriters on the X-men movies.


Cam Clarke (Most famous to anime fans as Max from Robotech and Liquid Snake from Metal Gear) is also pretty good. His credits include a ton of American stuff as well.

[Sound Silence]

Steve Blum, Wendee Lee.

Hard to say, mostly. My favorite non-anime voice actor is Jim Cummings (Tigger, and half the 'additional voices' in every Disney cartoon ever).

[Darth Joker]

I've always liked Steven Blum (Spike Speigal), Crispin Freeman (Alucard), Wendee Lee (Faye Valentine), and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (Major Motoko Kusanagi).

These four are by far my favorites. I also find it really neat/cool that they do so many shows together. :smile:

I agree with your four, except for different roles for three of them...

Crispin Freeman (Straight Cougar), Wendee Lee (Haruhi Suzumiya), and Mary Elizabeth McGynn (Bloodberry).

I also like Lisa Ortiz as Lina Inverse and that Queen from The Irresponsible Capt. Tylor (her name escapes me right now). Roger Smith's voice in Big O is a good one - not sure who does him, though. Richard Cox does a great Ranma and InuYasha. Ted Cole as Tatewaki Kuno and Durandal (Gundam Seed Destiny) was excellent.

My favorite English voice actor is R. Martin Klein (Katsuhiko Jinnai - El Hazard). He's also done Season 2 Hanagata (Sabre Marionette J), Me-Mania (Perfect Blue), and Kotaro Nanbara (Hand Maid May). Wendee Lee (overall) is a close second.


Oh, and Mark Hamil is great as Muska in Castle in the Sky.

[LordEd1976]

Saffron Henderson (original voice of Gohan & young Goku, Noine from Gundam Wing)

Wendee Lee (Faye Valentine)

Scott McNeill (original voice of Piccolo, Harlock in GE999)

Steven Jay Blum (Spike in Cowby Bebop, Roger Smith in Big O)

Brian Drummond (original voice of Vegeta)

[Yun Lao]

Voice Actors/Actresses
Steven Blum
Crispin Freeman
David Hayter
Richard Hayworth
Johnny Young Bosch
Luci Christian
Chris Patton
Quinton Flynn
Wendee Lee
Tony Jay
Mako

Seiryu
Toshihiko Seki
Koji Yusa
Tomokazu Sugita
Aya Hirano
Marina Inoue

[a. non]

That Steven Blum is a hack. I prefer David Lucas.:tongue:

Scott McNeil

Brian Drummond

Wendee Lee

Gary Chalk

[Sound Silence]

That Steven Blum is a hack. I prefer David Lucas.:tongue:



I remember back when I had arguments with my friends that Shishio and Roger Smith were voiced by the same person.

[Len Ikari145]

Steve Blum, Wendee Lee.

Hard to say, mostly. My favorite non-anime voice actor is Jim Cummings (Tigger, and half the 'additional voices' in every Disney cartoon ever).

You forgot his role as Robotnik (arguably the best depiction of the character in the Sonic franchise) and Negaduck.

[Sound Silence]

You forgot his role as Robotnik (arguably the best depiction of the character in the Sonic franchise) and Negaduck.

He was Darkwing too.

Here's his imdb listing: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0191906/

Other notables: Current Tigger, Pooh, Pete...Rasoul from Aladdin, Minsc (and others) from Baldur's Gate, Fuzzy Lumpkins from Powerpuff Girls, to name a few.

A lot. Mostly a lot of additional voices, like I said...and you can usually tell it's him. Even his different voices have a similar rough quality to them.

[yeoman]

I agree with your four, except for different roles for three of them...

Crispin Freeman (Straight Cougar), Wendee Lee (Haruhi Suzumiya), and Mary Elizabeth McGynn (Bloodberry).

I also like Lisa Ortiz as Lina Inverse and that Queen from The Irresponsible Capt. Tylor (her name escapes me right now).

Watching the Dub of Tylor the first time creeped me out. I was too used to the sub and Azalyn was throwing me for about five minutes until I recognized the voice and screamed "LINA INVERSE!?!"

Also Freeman just didn't seem quite... laconic enough for Tylor. Certainly a good effort though.

[SaKick]

Favorite Anime is easy:

- Gundam Seed Destiny
Just barely tops Gundam Seed imo.

Favorite Manga is a bit harder...

- Naruto
I havent read all that much, but so far it beats the few I actually have read.

[Darth Joker]

Watching the Dub of Tylor the first time creeped me out. I was too used to the sub and Azalyn was throwing me for about five minutes until I recognized the voice and screamed "LINA INVERSE!?!"

Also Freeman just didn't seem quite... laconic enough for Tylor. Certainly a good effort though.

Thanks for the name - Azalyn. :)

And thanks to LordEd1976 for telling me who played Roger Smith in Big O - strange that I never noticed the similarity between his voice and Spike's at all.

I only saw Tylor in dub format, so I never had the sub effect impacting my take on it.

Overall, while Ortiz can't alter the sound of her voice at all (I could almost instantly tell that Azalyn was being played by 'Lina Inverse'), she does have a good emotional range. Ortiz as Azalyn never sounded as... chaotic as Lina... and manage to capture the emotions of the character nicely.

I was satisfied with Freeman's work as Tylor, but it wasn't his strongest work, imo.

[LordEd1976]

And thanks to LordEd1976 for telling me who played Roger Smith in Big O - strange that I never noticed the similarity between his voice and Spike's at all.

Glad to be of service

[Len Ikari145]

Man, I forgot to mention Stephanie Sheh. I've always been impressed by her voice work as Eureka, Mikuru and Orihime(on top of several others), but her role as Akira from Lucky Star simply stunned me. I've been so used to her portraying Yandere characters(even labeling her as strict Yandere VA) that I was simply caught off-guard by her performance. Suffice to say, I'll never underestimate that girl's range again. Ironically, I made a similar assumption years ago about JYB when I heard he would play as Ichigo in Bleach based on his work in Trigun and was similarly (if not as dramatically) amazed.

[master of read]

vic. just vic.

[FanLove4Blade]

I've always liked Steven Blum (Spike Speigal), Crispin Freeman (Alucard), Wendee Lee (Faye Valentine), and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (Major Motoko Kusanagi).

These four are by far my favorites. I also find it really neat/cool that they do so many shows together. :smile:

Ahahaha. My friend who i call anime girl cause she loves it so much, its her life pretty much, adores crispin freeman.

[questionsa]

Have to respect the winzors of Luci Christan and Machelle Ruff. Luci defines the spunky and wild heroine or tsundere of power. Michelle is a perfect Yoko and Rukia and I love her euphemia to.

[mercwiththemouth]

Tamagawa Sakiko
Tomizawa Michie
Kawamura Maria
Kugimiya Rie
Horie Yui

... are my current top 5.