Just thought i would add a fun question...
Say a Naruto movie or show was made in or brought to america. Who do you guys think would be the voice of Naruto? or Sasuke? or Sakura?
or say they made a real-life movie of Naruto. Assuming the the actor did not have to be japanese, who would play Naruto? or anyone else?
no american voice fits an anime character.
What's this "No american voice fits an anime character" business? Spike from Cowboy Bebop was fantastic, i thoguht it fit him really well. Altho i watched the english version first thx adult swim so maybe just partial to it...
But in staying on topic i can't think of any voice to fit naruto. I think the person who does the japanese version of naruto does such a fantastic job that there's no way anything else would be tolerable. I'd miss the datteboyo thing too much.
i realize that, but what american actor do u think most identifies with Naruto?
I can't see Naruto working in live-action, especially if it's made in the US. No way. As far as a voice actor for a dub. . . Hmm. . . I really haven't seen any American voice actor able to do a character like Naruto. Sasuke and Sakura, you could probably shove on anyone. Rock Lee, I'd say get the guy who did Vash the Stampede's English voice (the former Power Ranger). But after watching almost 90 episodes of a series in Japanese, it's hard to imagine English voices to go with the characters. . .
I bet if it does come out here they'll probably use the voice of Ash from pokemon...god i hope that day never comes
Ohh god I can see it now
Sasuke would be played by Brock's voice
Sakura would be played by Mindys or whatever the red head's name is
and Naruto would be played by Ash
I agree, unless you can find a person who was born in america but can speak/understand/write japanese and english...those types of people would fit the job best cuz then they would understand both languages as opposed to just one
this is a repeat thread close it please.
Voice actor for Gohan for Naruto.
Voice actor for Trunks for Sasuke.
A guy that I think would play a decent Naruto (please note the decent, as I don't think the emotion would translate as well into dubs) would be Richard Cox. As for some of the previous work that he has done, take a look at Inuyasha (an ok series), in which he does the voice of Inuyasha. Also, if you look at the later seasons of Ranma 1/2 (an AWESOME series) he does the voice of Ranma, and does a pretty good job of it too.
Originally posted by: SamuraiOdin
A guy that I think would play a decent Naruto (please note the decent, as I don't think the emotion would translate as well into dubs) would be Richard Cox. As for some of the previous work that he has done, take a look at Inuyasha (an ok series), in which he does the voice of Inuyasha. Also, if you look at the later seasons of Ranma 1/2 (an AWESOME series) he does the voice of Ranma, and does a pretty good job of it too.
This is my problem with american voice acting, Once a voice has done a major character and I identify that voice with that major character I do not want to hear them use that voice on a differenct character in another series. Examples....
I watched Cowboy Bebop first and identified Spikes voice as Spikes Voice. I then saw some of Ruironi Kenshin and heard Spike's voice in that and it felt weird.
I really like Inuyasha and I identify Inuyasha's voice as Inuyashas. I've heard Richard Cox's voice now in Zoids Fuzors which felt out of place. I've seen Richard Cox name in credits for other anime yet i never redily idenfied his voice so I was ok, but I saw myself trying to figure out who he was instead of just watching the anime. So I suck for that.
Conclusion, if its the same voice used in another anime series thats completely wrong. If the voice changes and not redily identified as hey that is Spike from Bebop what is he donig in this anime well that is just completely wrong and lacks pretty much all credibility imo.
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This isn't too complicated. If anyone has any more likely candidates feel free to correct me.
Naruto-M.J. Mallow
Sasuke-Derek Stephen Prince
Jiraiya-Beau Billings
Sakura-Wendee Lee
Kakashi-David Lucas/Steve Blum
I can't think of any others at the moment, but if I do I'll post them.
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I know that this is thread is about who will fit the voice of the the character, but I been reading in the other thread and people are complaining how some of the subber are wrong or does not make any sense.
Even if the dubber has a great voice, I think people are not going to like it once they heard what Naruto are saying. The dubbers need to change the words in order to fit the mouth of the character. It will be imposible for the dubbers to say the words that we see on the sub(like the episode sub by Anbu/Aone).
With people complaining about how some of the sub are not right wait and see when they do an english dub of Naruto.
Originally posted by: samsonlonghair
Jiraiya-Beau Billings
Sakura-Wendee Lee.
Urg two more voices you see everywhere, Urg Urg, they may have good voices but for the love of all, Its the same voices for the sobbing of my dying creativity!
Heh, They should come into the voice acting interview.
Voice Casting Director "Thank you for coming in today." "Please tell us what you have worked on before"
Voice Actor "Well I worked in Cowboy Bebop, that was fantastic fun! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]"
Voice Casting Director "Ok, thank you for coming in, we are looking for unique voice actors who are good but have not been plastered over every single American anime that has been made"
Voice Actor "but you see I'm looking for a job! I need the money and the work I cannot do anything else"
Voice Casting Director "You see we've had complaints that while the Japanese create very good anime, the problem is people are tired of hearing the same voices everywhere."
Voice Actor "but I'm a good voice actor"
Voice Casting DIrector "There is neither here nor there, Americans are tired of hearing the same flipping voices on every new Japanese animation that ever comes over to America. Especially when they are paying $19.99 to $29.99 for fricking 3 stupid episodes! Now get the heck out of here before we call security!"
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do you really want to here Richard Cox go around saying Sakura-Chan in a high squeaky voice, NO dont soil the guy who plays the American Inuyasha like that
R.I.P Captain America.
A lot of people who do cartoon voices in America have the ability to produce different voices.
I knew a guy who's doing a dubbing for a local tv can produce at least 20 voices.
This dubbing people can easily mimic Naruto's voices, so you don't need to worry about Naruto's voice being to lame.
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My best pic is the guy who dubbed the voice of Ashitaka in Mononoke
I think the american inuyasha is ok...but..as the plot moves along in inuyasha..im reallying beginning to lose interest..all they are doing each episode if fighting/finding something...its soo boring..
thats i thing i like about naruto..tis different..u dont go on fighting other shinobi every episode...
Princess Mononoke is the greatest anime of all time.
i can't stand the american dubs. they sound jacked up, especially cowboy bebop. wow, so horrible.
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