One Piece voice cast announced.

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Thus far...

Monkey D. Luffy-Collen Clinkenbeard (Hawkeye in Fullmetal Alchemist, Rachel Moore in Case Closed)
Zoro-Chris Sabat (Piccolo in Dragon Ball Z, Armstrong in Fullmetal Alchemist)
Nami-Luci Christan (Wrath in Fullmetal Alchemist, Kaname Chidori in Full Metal Panic!)
Ussop-Sonny Strait (Krillin in Dragon Ball Z, Hughes in Fullmetal Alchemist)
Sanji-Eric Vale (Future Trunks in Dragon Ball Z, Ryuusuke in Beck)
Chopper-Brina Palencia (Nina Tucker in Fullmetal Alchemist, Eve in Black Cat)
Robin-Stephanie Young (Miranda Maverick in Solty Rei, Elfriede in Moonphase)

Thoughts?
 
Colleen as Luffy, well I never would have seen that one coming. ( Admitedly I only know her from Full Metal Alchemist and Kiddy Grade so maybe she's got more of a range than I thought she had. :?

Lucy as Nami, Hmm... Fair enough I can handle that, surprised they didn't have her doing Luffy though to be honest.

Can't really comment on the others as it's been ages since i've heard any of them.

Surprised they havn't managed to squeeze in Monica Rial and Hilary Haag though, as they seem to be a Funimation staple these days. :D
 
Here's the full story in greater detail:

At the One Piece panel, hosted jointly by Toei Animation and FUNimation Entertainment, Mike McFarland, the voice director of Funimation's dub of the series confirmed the new cast for the upcoming Cartoon Network broadcast of the third season of One Piece. The new voices are:

Luffy: Colleen Clinkenbeard
Nami: Luci Christian
Zorro: Chris Sabat
Usopp: Sonny Strait
Sanji: Eric Vale
Chopper: Brina Palencia
Robin: Stephanie Young

He also mentioned that the DVD box sets of the series that will be released starting next year will keep the original spellings of all of the characters' names. The eighth One Piece movie, Episode of Alabaster will be released on DVD sometime in 2008 as well. Unfortunately, while Funimation had hoped to release the first two seasons of the series, Viz still holds the rights to those episodes.

Here are my views:

Coleen as Luffy. I'm a bit skeptic with this one. Not because it's a female, but because I looked at Coleen's past works from the site and there wasn't any roles she had done that were male roles. So it should be interesting to hear how she sounds.

Luci as Nami. Perfect, just perfect. I've been a huge fan of her work since her role as Kaname Chidori from Full Metal Panic! and I think she would be a perfect role for Nami.

Chris as Zoro. Interesting that Funi decided to get the man who voiced Vegeta to do Zoro, it could work.

Sonny as Ussop. Again, another Dragonball Z VA that Funi brought back, this time Krillin. Again, it could work.

Eric as Sanji. I could see a possible fit. I've seen him as Yuki from Fruits Basket and Kimblee in Fullmetal Alchemist, it could be interesting how he works in comedic moments.

Brina as Chopper. I don't know who she is, so I can't comment on that.

Stephanie as Robin. This one pissed me off because I had high hopes that Laura Bailey (Lust - FMA) would get the role as Robin. I don't know who this VA is that's doing Robin instead, but I hope she's good.

Horray for TV series box sets and Funi putting Toei in their place and keeping the original names.

Boo for Movie coming out in 2008. Why? What's the point? The movie sucked balls. There were so many inconsistencies in the movie, I can't count. (Like, why did they use the same music from Lucci's defeat for Crocodile's defeat instead of using the same song from the TV series?)

Oh, and a big **** YOU to Viz for still holding the license of the first 2 seasons of One Piece and not giving them to Funi.
 
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I have a question. How much does the manga cover of the anime from episode 1 to 143? In other words, which volume of the manga catches up to the anime by episode 143? I might get the boxsets from there when I get that far in the manga.

Oh, and did the anime have anything the manga didnt from...you know which eps. ;)
 
Luffy and Chopper require the most in terms of vocal range - especially Chopper - who's voice is high, innocent and fairly androgynous. For me the quality will rest on those two performances - in other words, if they're bad, then the whole thing goes down the drain.

I don't watch English dubs, but being such a massive One Piece fan and all, I'll be curious to see whether or not they can pull it off. Fingers crossed it's a success, I'd love to see a proper version of the show airing in the UK!
 
Angelic Lapras King said:
I have a question. How much does the manga cover of the anime from episode 1 to 143?
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That's about volume 26 it ends, IIRC.

I'm fine with the entire cast... except Chris Sabat, it's inevitable he's be Zoro, really, and I personally don't like the choice.
 
Monkey D. Luffy-Collen Clinkenbeard
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I'm concerned. She voiced Beet in "Beet the Vandal Buster" and her voice was remarkably similar to 4Kids' Luffy, although less abrasive. I hope she has the ability to evoke a more vehement voice when required.

Edit: A better comparison would perhaps be a cross between 4Kids' Luffy and Veronica Taylor's Ash Ketchum.
 
Ooo, Luci Christian as Nami, brilliant that will work well i think. She was great as Kaname especially in TSR so i'm hoping for this one to work out.

Colleen as Luffy...i don't know if it will work, i think his voice would be a tough one to do, but i'll wait and see.
 
The Straw Hats cast is great. If Colleen can change her voice a little, to sound a little older she'll do a perfect Luffy and I really like Nico Robin's voice. <3
 
No idea who the person is who's gonna voice Niceo Robin...Luci has a decent voice and I suppose Sanji's isn't bad...But zoro's doesn't look too good...I hated vegeta's voice. They should of kept the original voice for Zoro in dub thoguh it porbably weren't possible.
 
skikes said:
who cares
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Not me personally but One Piece has a huge fanbase and i'm going to take a wild stab and guess that they are going to find this news extremely interesting.
 
Trowa_Ayanami said:
Oh, and a big **** YOU to Viz for still holding the license of the first 2 seasons of One Piece and not giving them to Funi.
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i couldnt agree more.
also after watching your youtube video about the voice cast, i thought they were all ok i suppose but eitherway i would be still watching it in its original form with the subs.

why can't VIZ lighten up?
 
Viz won't lighten up because a lot of money can still be made from One Piece, especially since they haven't released all they own yet.
 
skikes said:
who cares 1 piece is **** anyways ¬_¬
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Paul cares, A handful of members here cares. I don't, but doesn't mean its crap... (Though One peice beats Naruto any day)

You know, you shouldn't really swear, there are Kids who visit this site, no matter if its a small majority. I for one managed to keep my swearing out of Forums and into MSN XD
 
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