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Postby OhMyBelldandy009 » Sat Nov 09, 2002 3:17 pm

Hey, just so all you fashion impared people know, brown is the new everything! Anyway, have any of you seen the dubbed version of Cowboy Bebop? I have, on Cartoon Network, back in the day. If you're familiar with Cartoon Network's Toonami, you'd know about the animated host guy. Tom, is it? Anyway, my little sister is watching Toonami in the other room, and I heard the host guy talking. He sounds EXACTLY like Spike on the dubbed version of Cowboy Bebop! Is there any chance that they could be the same person? Or is this just one more reason to call myself a crazy fangirl?

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Postby NicholasDWolfwood » Sat Nov 09, 2002 6:20 pm

OhMyBelldandy009 wrote:Hey, just so all you fashion impared people know, brown is the new everything! Anyway, have any of you seen the dubbed version of Cowboy Bebop? I have, on Cartoon Network, back in the day. If you're familiar with Cartoon Network's Toonami, you'd know about the animated host guy. Tom, is it? Anyway, my little sister is watching Toonami in the other room, and I heard the host guy talking. He sounds EXACTLY like Spike on the dubbed version of Cowboy Bebop! Is there any chance that they could be the same person? Or is this just one more reason to call myself a crazy fangirl?

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...I noticed that a long time ago, and it is David Lucas, the VA of Spike on dubbed Bebop.
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Postby OhMyBelldandy009 » Sat Nov 09, 2002 6:51 pm

Wow, I feel so special! Thanks for telling me that! =D
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Postby leathelanime » Sat Nov 09, 2002 6:55 pm

David Lucas...one of the Best Dub VA's along with Crispin Freeman , Wendee Lee, Bret (Ek's Hubby) and other folks out there that I cant remember there names
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Postby VegettoEX » Sat Nov 09, 2002 7:05 pm

This is one of the most common misconceptions I see on the internet concerning Cartoon Network. David Lucas, the voice of Spike in the Bebop dub and various other great voices.. uhh.. isn't Tom.

And you'll be surprised who is.

Sonny Strait, who plays Kuririn ("Krillin") in the English dub of "DragonBall Z" (he also did Bardock in the TV special) is Tom's voice.

Don't believe me? Here's a picture Sonny drew, himself, and gave to Jon Allen (who used to work with me on "Daizenshuu EX") for use in a feature (Jon's interview with him):

http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~vegex/sonny.gif

Here's some of the stuff from the interview we used on the site:

Daizenshuu EX Interview with Sonny Strait wrote:Jon: (laughs) This wasn't the first time you had to deal with a changed character or voice. Tell me a little bit about how you came to be Tom, the new host of Toonami.

Sonny: Well, that one was a brand new character though, and I got to go with him from the beginning, since it was one character replacing another, and not changing voices in the same character, so basically I could do whatever I wanted to. Cartoon Network had a nationwide audition looking for a new host to replace (deep voice) "Moltar," so they called most of the production studios, and FUNimation sent them demos of all their actors, and they picked three of the actors to come in and audition. They picked me, Chris Sabat, and Linda Chambers, and Mike McFarland so obviously they had no clue what they were looking for, since we're four very diverse actors.

We all went in there, and were given a video of the character, it had a really bad voice over on it, but here was this robot, and they told us nothing about him, so we had nothing to go on. So all weekend I was practicing (robotic voice) "this robot voice, trying to come up with something that would sound interesting," so I went in there, but I wasn't the first to go in, Chris Sabat had been first, I believe, and he was expecting the same thing, so he went in and had his robot voices prepared which we never got to hear but I wish I had, but I'm guessing (deep Piccolo/robot tone) "It was something like dis," (Vegeta-ish/robot voice) "No! You punk! You can't do that!" but the director comes in and listens to Chris and was like "No no, I just want you to just sound natural," and Chris was like "What?!" and later said that really threw him, and it threw me as well because I was thinking "Oh my God, what do we do," so I went in, and again he tells me that he just wanted us to sound natural. I was like

(fake agitation) "You don't wanna hear my robot voice?!"

.. and he was like "What?"

"I was practicing all weekend on that robot voice!"

"Well, do a little bit then."

(robo voice) "Ok I will then."

I went into the voice and then he said "Ok, good, now let's do it my way." "Oh, alright.." but it kinda helped break the ice, and I think he kinda liked that I was real feisty too, because that was kind of character he was looking for, a little guy who'd flip the finger to someone twice his size and such. So I got in, and just read it normal and he said "Yeah, I liked that," so about two weeks later he called me and told me that they were gonna go ahead and cast me for it. It's a fun role.


So.. uhh... there you go!
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Postby Chaos Angel » Sat Nov 09, 2002 7:22 pm

It would seem that he's been typecast as a short, bald guy...
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Postby NicholasDWolfwood » Sun Nov 10, 2002 12:35 am

VegettoEX wrote:This is one of the most common misconceptions I see on the internet concerning Cartoon Network. David Lucas, the voice of Spike in the Bebop dub and various other great voices.. uhh.. isn't Tom.

And you'll be surprised who is.

Sonny Strait, who plays Kuririn ("Krillin") in the English dub of "DragonBall Z" (he also did Bardock in the TV special) is Tom's voice.

Don't believe me? Here's a picture Sonny drew, himself, and gave to Jon Allen (who used to work with me on "Daizenshuu EX") for use in a feature (Jon's interview with him):

http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~vegex/sonny.gif

Here's some of the stuff from the interview we used on the site:

Daizenshuu EX Interview with Sonny Strait wrote:Jon: (laughs) This wasn't the first time you had to deal with a changed character or voice. Tell me a little bit about how you came to be Tom, the new host of Toonami.

Sonny: Well, that one was a brand new character though, and I got to go with him from the beginning, since it was one character replacing another, and not changing voices in the same character, so basically I could do whatever I wanted to. Cartoon Network had a nationwide audition looking for a new host to replace (deep voice) "Moltar," so they called most of the production studios, and FUNimation sent them demos of all their actors, and they picked three of the actors to come in and audition. They picked me, Chris Sabat, and Linda Chambers, and Mike McFarland so obviously they had no clue what they were looking for, since we're four very diverse actors.

We all went in there, and were given a video of the character, it had a really bad voice over on it, but here was this robot, and they told us nothing about him, so we had nothing to go on. So all weekend I was practicing (robotic voice) "this robot voice, trying to come up with something that would sound interesting," so I went in there, but I wasn't the first to go in, Chris Sabat had been first, I believe, and he was expecting the same thing, so he went in and had his robot voices prepared which we never got to hear but I wish I had, but I'm guessing (deep Piccolo/robot tone) "It was something like dis," (Vegeta-ish/robot voice) "No! You punk! You can't do that!" but the director comes in and listens to Chris and was like "No no, I just want you to just sound natural," and Chris was like "What?!" and later said that really threw him, and it threw me as well because I was thinking "Oh my God, what do we do," so I went in, and again he tells me that he just wanted us to sound natural. I was like

(fake agitation) "You don't wanna hear my robot voice?!"

.. and he was like "What?"

"I was practicing all weekend on that robot voice!"

"Well, do a little bit then."

(robo voice) "Ok I will then."

I went into the voice and then he said "Ok, good, now let's do it my way." "Oh, alright.." but it kinda helped break the ice, and I think he kinda liked that I was real feisty too, because that was kind of character he was looking for, a little guy who'd flip the finger to someone twice his size and such. So I got in, and just read it normal and he said "Yeah, I liked that," so about two weeks later he called me and told me that they were gonna go ahead and cast me for it. It's a fun role.


So.. uhh... there you go!




...goddamn. Me - baka. I always thought it was D.L, but Sonny Straight? Jesus, he sounds a TON different from the DBZ dub. ...I'm stupid. Sorry for the mis-understanding.
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Postby Clara Yuri Asaki » Sun Nov 10, 2002 3:49 pm

This being a "Voice Actors/Actress" thread, I just wanted say that Jessica Calvello is the best Voice Actress ever!

Ok, you can continue with what you were talking about now. ^_^
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Postby OmniStrata » Mon Nov 11, 2002 9:48 pm

Clara Yuri Asaki wrote:This being a "Voice Actors/Actress" thread, I just wanted say that Jessica Calvello is the best Voice Actress ever!

Ok, you can continue with what you were talking about now. ^_^


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Postby leathelanime » Tue Nov 12, 2002 1:26 pm

indeed she does....I envy them so...but I guess it will be alright because I adore Carvello more :)
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Postby mexicanjunior » Tue Nov 12, 2002 8:25 pm

OmniStrata wrote:Image

I just wanted to say that Clara Yuri Asaki has one of the best Avatars EVER! ^_^


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Postby Mroni » Tue Nov 12, 2002 9:08 pm

The best voice actress is Lisa ortiz!!! Shes the most wackable also. Anyway the best voice actor Imho is crispin freeman just because he does the voices of so many kickass characters like zegadis and zero, and captain tylor.

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Postby mexicanjunior » Tue Nov 12, 2002 9:18 pm

Mroni wrote:The best voice actress is Lisa ortiz!!! Shes the most wackable also. Anyway the best voice actor Imho is crispin freeman just because he does the voices of so many kickass characters like zegadis and zero, and captain tylor.

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I rewatched some of Slayers Next last weekend. I think Veronica Taylor actually has a more wackable voice. :shock:
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Postby Clara Yuri Asaki » Wed Nov 13, 2002 5:59 pm

For you guys that liked my Avatar, Thanks! Check out what it looks like on the Bebop Forum:

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Better size and quality! ^_^

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Did Lisa Ortiz do Lina's voice in ADV's Slayers Motion Picture? If that is her, yes, SHE IS REALLY GOOD! I still like Jessica Calvello more.... but Lisa Ortiz is really really good. ^_^
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