Fruits Basket

Garylisk · Post by **Garylisk** » Fri Mar 28, 2003 10:51 am

If you wanna be an ass, it's "Honda Tooru" (Or "Honda Touru", or "ホンダトウル") - But let's not be an ass

-ゲリリスク

Ari-chan · Post by **Ari-chan** » Fri Mar 28, 2003 3:27 pm

Kyou is my favorite, He is just so cool. The anime is just so lovable and halarious, I fell in love with the series when I first saw it, and yes the Fruits Basket dub is good, but Touru's voice kinda got annoying afer awhile, I still like her though.

Bluemantis · Post by **Bluemantis** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 2:03 am

Rozard wrote:'Tis magifique I like the dub better than the Japanese track! Yuki sounds like a girl. I'd have to say that my favorite character is Shigure. "High school girls! High school girls!" ^o^

I Agree with you on the voice actors dubbed are better than the subbed.

Kyo is my favorite thought.

Tohru's voice is way better than the japanese. I had to watch 3 eps subbed to get use to it, but I can't stand Yuki's girlly voice.

Garylisk · Post by **Garylisk** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 1:06 pm

Bluemantis wrote:... Yuki's girlly voice.

It's the nature of characters like that. Watch some subbed Card Captor Sakura. The character Yukito is similar. Hell, their names are even similar. If you check out the special features on the second disc, there's an interview with Yuki's voice, who is actually a female. (A rather outstanding actress, too, if I may say so myself.. has had many major roles, both male and female.)

Oh yeah, I just remembered... watch unsubbed Gundam Wing. Quatre has a female seiyuu too.

Bluemantis · Post by **Bluemantis** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 4:53 pm

Garylisk wrote:
Bluemantis wrote:... Yuki's girlly voice.
It's the nature of characters like that. Watch some subbed Card Captor Sakura. The character Yukito is similar. Hell, their names are even similar. If you check out the special features on the second disc, there's an interview with Yuki's voice, who is actually a female. (A rather outstanding actress, too, if I may say so myself.. has had many major roles, both male and female.)

Oh yeah, I just remembered... watch unsubbed Gundam Wing. Quatre has a female seiyuu too.

I know of a lot of female voice actors doing male voices, in mean the first 3 seasons of ranma even male ranma was do by a woman. Even if the female voice actor is good I can't get into the voice.

Garylisk · Post by **Garylisk** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 6:01 pm

Bluemantis wrote:......in mean the first 3 seasons of ranma even male ranma was do by a woman.

Whoa, are you serious? It sounds so much like a guy!

Garylisk · Post by **Garylisk** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 6:09 pm

To answer my own question...

"Ranma ½" (1989)
[TV-Series]

Directed by
Hideharu Luchi

Writing credits
Rumiko Takahashi (comic)
Ryota Yamaguchi (writer)

Plot Outline: A series of the relationship of a girl who is involuntarily engaged to a boy who turns female when hit with cold water and male with hot.

Credited cast:
Kappei Yamaguchi .... Ranma Saotome
Megumi Hayashibara .... Ranma Saotome (female)
Noriko Hidaka .... Akane Tendo
rest of cast listed alphabetically
Lisa Bunting .... Nodoka Saotome (English)
Brigitta Dau .... Ranma Saotome (female) (#1) (English)
Elan Ross Gibson .... Cologne (English)
Akiko Hiramatsu .... Various minor female characters
Kikuko Inoue .... Kasumi Tendo
Janyce Jaud .... Hinako Ninomiya (English)
Willow Johnson .... Kasumi Tendou (English)
Takehito Koyasu .... Daisuke
Lalainia Lindbjerg .... Natsume (English)
Yûji Mitsuya .... Tofu Ono
Ryûnosuke Ôbayashi .... Soun Tendo
Kenichi Ogata .... Genma Saotome
Teryl Rothery .... Kodachi 'Black Rose' Kunou (English)
Rei Sakuma .... Shampoo
Kelly Sheridan .... Ukyou Kuonji/Kurumi (English)
Saeko Shimazu .... Kodachi Kuno
Myriam Sirois .... Akane Tendou (English)
Sarah Strange .... Ranma Saotome (male) (English)
Hirotaka Suzuoki .... Tatewaki Kuno
Minami Takayama .... Nabiki Tendo
Venus Terzo .... Ranma Saotome (female) (#2) (English)
Kôji Tsujitani .... Hiroshi
Cathy Weseluck .... Shampoo (English)
Kôichi Yamadera .... Ryoga Hibiki

OK so let's look up some info on Kappei Yamaguchi.

Date of birth (location)
23 May 1965
Fukuoka, Japan

No gender listed here, but judging from the (Impressively large) list of roles, all of which are male characters, I would guess this paritcular actor is in fact Male.

One voice he's odne of note.. Inu Yasha.

Here's the full report....
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0096686

Mroni · Post by **Mroni** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 7:24 pm

Hes talking about the ranma dub which is how most of us are familiar with ranma. I think her name was venus terzlo but i could be wrong

Mr Oni

Garylisk · Post by **Garylisk** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 1:13 am

Oh

I've never really watched the Ranma dub... Except for 2 episodes on disc 5 of season 3 where the audio is screwed up and its dubbed no matter what language you select...

Gonna mail it in and get it replaced.. it was a mass error in the box sets...

And of course, before Ranma on DVD, I just saw Fansubs

Bluemantis · Post by **Bluemantis** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 10:36 am

Mroni wrote:Hes talking about the ranma dub which is how most of us are familiar with ranma. I think her name was venus terzlo but i could be wrong

Mr Oni

Venus did the voice of female ranma(dubbed), I am talking about male ranma(dubbed).

Garylisk wrote:Sarah Strange .... Ranma Saotome (male) (English)

At list for the first 3 seasons, kind of reminds me of the karate kid.