Haruhi Suzumiya dub audition online; vote for your favourite

[Paul]

Continuing the hype built up by The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya's license announcement, Bandai and Kadokawa Pictures USA have published a bunch of "hidden" [1] [2] online dub actor auditions for a female characters starring in the show; you can vote for your favourite voice (out of 4), with the poll winners presumably being chosen as the official dub actor.

 

[Paul]

The second actress captures the high pitched Japanese style best, I voted for her in the end.

 

[Espy]

...What is happening in this clip? :shock:

 

[Lupus]

That first voice actress sounds like Stephanie Sheh. Agreed with Paul, 2nd one is the best.

 

[Sy]

What an interesting idea.

 

[Paul]

Another audition has recently gone live:

http://asosbrigade.com/auditions/arandomfile.php

This time I went for number 1.

 

[Espy]

Why is the site designed to look like it's either Japanese or translated from Japanese? Is it some kind of viral marketing?

 

[Lupus]

It's probably for people to vote and have an option, you do know if this dub is screwed up this company may be hated at the amount of fans there are for this series?

 

[Espy]

It's probably for people to vote and have an option, you do know if this dub is screwed up this company may be hated at the amount of fans there are for this series?

Who, me? I think you misunderstood my question.

 

[Gawyn]

Why is the site designed to look like it's either Japanese or translated from Japanese? Is it some kind of viral marketing?

Well, the whole thing has been a case of viral marketing, from hijacking the Anime on DVD site with "SOS" to the launch of the website, so yeah that about fits it.

The website is designed to capture the general randomness of the series itself and is supposed to look hacked together from its Japanese counterpart, which it does...

 

[McIcy]

I have passed my judgement

 

[arthur_webb]

2 for Mikuru and 1 for Yuki. I must say, I hope they get it right...