Full Fairy Tail cast revealed

[Joshawott]

FUNimation have started streaming the English dub of Fairy Tail on their American-only video portal. However, with that, a longer English cast list for the first few story arcs has been revealed:

(Character -> Actor. Major characters in bold)
ALZACK Austin Tindle
ANGELICA Heather Walker
AQUARIUS Jessica Cavanagh
BELNO Wendy Powell
BISCA Angela Chase
BOB Antimere Robinson
BOBO Elias Taylorson
BORA Ian Sinclair
BYARD Tyson Rinehart
CANA Jamie Marchi
ELFMAN Christopher R. Sabat
ERIGOR Jonathan Brooks
ERZA Colleen Clinkenbeard
DUKE EVERLUE Christopher Ayres
GRAY Newton Pittman
HAPPY Tia Ballard
HOROLOGIUM Ben Bryant
JET Michael Chinnici
KABY Dave Trosko
KAGEYAMA Chad Cox
KARACKA Chris Cason
KEMU Jerry Russell
LAKI Apphia Yu
LAXUS Patrick Seitz
LEVY Kristi Bingham
LOKE Eric Vale
LUCY Cherami Leigh
LYON Jerry Jewell
LYRA Kristin Sutton
MACAO Brian Mathis
MAKAROV R Bruce Elliott
MIRAJANE Monica Rial
MOKA Kenny Green
MYSTOGAN Rob McCollum
NAB Mike McFarland
NARRATOR Bob Magruder
NATSU Todd Haberkorn
RAYULE Will Christoferson
REEDUS Sonny Strait
ROMEO Kayla Carlyle
SIEGRAIN Rob McCollum
SHERRY Trina Nishimura
TOBY Chad Halbrook
UR Kira Vincent Davis
ULTEAR Lydia Mackay
VIJEETER Tyler Walker
WAKABA Charlie Campbell
YUKA Anthony Bowling
ZARTI Mark Stoddard

Source: http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2 ... fairy-tail

 

[Ryo Chan]

MIRAJANE Monica Rial

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[Joshawott]

Biggest shock is that FUNimation actually has that many actors/actresses.

I'm happy with:
Cana (Jamie Marchi)
Elfman (Christopher R. Sabat)
Erza (Colleen Clinkenbeard)
Loke (Eric Vale - if his voice is more like Francisco in Romeo x Juliet, and not Kimblee in FMA xD)
Lucy (Cherami Leigh)
Mirajane (Monica Rial)

Iffy about:
Happy (Tia Ballard)
Mystogan (Rob McCollum)

Not happy about:
Grey (Newton Pittman)
Laxus (Patrick Seitz)

Not a fan of at all:
Natsu (Todd Haberkorn)

Rest are pretty minor characters, so meh. Also, it seems like R Bruce Elliott is FUNimation's old man.

 

[ilmaestro]

Biggest shock is that FUNimation actually has that many actors/actresses.

My first reaction was "wow, they need that many actors?". I couldn't think of enough major speaking roles in FT that they couldn't have some people doing multiple voices.

 

[Joshawott]

Biggest shock is that FUNimation actually has that many actors/actresses.

My first reaction was "wow, they need that many actors?". I couldn't think of enough major speaking roles in FT that they couldn't have some people doing multiple voices.

I guess the problem is, as the manga is still ongoing, they don't know who might have a bigger role in the future, for example Loke just before the Tower of Heaven arc and Cana in the S-Rank Trial arc . So if they have a character who is voiced by an actor who voices a main character, and both end up having big roles in an arc, it might get confusing.

At least they had sense to give Siegrain, Jellal and Mystogan the same voice actors. I was pretty disappointed at how Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood's dub didn't retain Truth having the same seiyu as whoever was seeing Truth at the time.

 

[Ryo Chan]

Natsu's voice reminds me of Vic Mignogna for some reason

 

[ilmaestro]

So if they have a character who is voiced by an actor who voices a main character, and both end up having big roles in an arc, it might get confusing.

Not a bad point, I'll give you that.

At least they had sense to give Siegrain, Jellal and Mystogan the same voice actors.

Have to be careful not to make it obvious, though.

 

[Ryo Chan]

So if they have a character who is voiced by an actor who voices a main character, and both end up having big roles in an arc, it might get confusing.

Not a bad point, I'll give you that.

At least they had sense to give Siegrain, Jellal and Mystogan the same voice actors.

Have to be careful not to make it obvious, though.

that's easy untill battle for fairy tail, Mystogan doesn't even speak, and at that point Laxus has pointed it out

 

[Joshawott]

At least they had sense to give Siegrain, Jellal and Mystogan the same voice actors.

Have to be careful not to make it obvious, though.

Well to be honest, Mystogan doesn't talk much anyway. Although, looking at McCollum's previous roles; he could probably do Mystogan a bit deeper, but not too deep that the voices sound completely different.

EDIT: @Ryo Ryo - I think he had like, the odd couple of lines before that, but yeah, he didn't really get any sort of prominant speaking roles (or screen time for that matter) until Battle of Fairy Tail.

 

[reborn]

The first ep for the dub is also on Funi's Youtube and is open to the UK.

I'm not a big fan of Happys voice.

 

[Joshawott]

Todd Haberkorn using his usual Todd voice = bad. Sure, Todd's voice kinda suits Natsu when he's just talking...but shouting? Todd needs to make Natsu sound angrier, more aggressive. During the action scene at the end, I couldn't sense any anger from Natsu, and Todd cannot shout.
Happy's voice = Bad. What the hell happened to the cute "Aye!"? It sounds horrible!
Aquarius' voice sure could sound harsher...

Lucy's voice sounded odd at first, but I was used to it by the second half of the episode.

Link to the episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAxbI5Fo ... ture=feedu

 

[Ryo Chan]

tbh, lucy's voice seemed the least fit to all the others to me

 

[daichi383]

Y'all be hatin. it sounds fine to me. we gonna get used to the voices eventually i'm just happy todd managed to makes the attacks sound good and jusging from the trailer funi has up, the way he says the other attacks is fine too :wink:

 

[Joshawott]

Y'all be hatin. it sounds fine to me. we gonna get used to the voices eventually i'm just happy todd managed to makes the attacks sound good and jusging from the trailer funi has up, the way he says the other attacks is fine too :wink:

I wish he could be a bit louder though; the sound effects kinda dwarfed his voice.

 

[daichi383]

Y'all be hatin. it sounds fine to me. we gonna get used to the voices eventually i'm just happy todd managed to makes the attacks sound good and jusging from the trailer funi has up, the way he says the other attacks is fine too :wink:

I wish he could be a bit louder though; the sound effects kinda dwarfed his voice.

Its probably gonna get fixed when the dvd/blu ray hits. but it was wierd i admit.

 

[Otaku-san]

Biggest shock is that FUNimation actually has that many actors/actresses.

My first reaction was "wow, they need that many actors?". I couldn't think of enough major speaking roles in FT that they couldn't have some people doing multiple voices.

Whats the odds they probable pulled a few people of the streets "Hey You! street urchin, want a job?"