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Old 2010-09-13, 09:28   Link #290
Baru
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Originally Posted by SJCrew View Post
It's just plain weird for American audiences to have to listen to little Susie's grandma from down the street voice Kyou. They may have suffered from a lack of talent at the time, I'm not sure, but once you start hearing voice cracks, the "young girl" facade turns from "almost bearable" into a complete joke.
Shelley Calene-Black is only 31... actually younger than Kyou's seiyuu...
Plus she's been doing anime voice acting for like 10 years, so she has plenty of talent.

I'll admit at first I was a bit thrown off by the choice of casting her as Kyou. But after listening for awhile I found her take on Kyou to actually fit her pretty well.
The tone she spoke in for the role naturally brought out Kyou's personality, while her voice in general just had an interesting spunk to it that made her place as the bossy-type character stand out, and I think I prefer it over Ryo Hirohashi's standard and generally unmemorable performance as the character...

Well, that's my opinion anyway, not everyone will agree with me...
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