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The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Dub Cast Announced


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I know there are a few Haruhi fans here (didn't someone post a site that had different samples of auditions or something?), and it's fairly recent news, so I figured I'd might as well post it.

Haruhi Suzumiya - Wendee Lee

Mikuru Asahina - Stephanie_Sheh

Yuki Nagato - Michelle Ruff

Kyon - Crispen Freeman

Itsuki Koizumi - Johnny Yong Bosch

Ryouko Asakura - Bridget Hoffman

Tsuruya-san - Kari Wahlgren

Some of the voice actors have me scratching my head a bit, but I've been hearing that a lot of effort has been put into getting the dubs perfect (though I'm sure that's what they all say.)

Volume 1 comes out May 29th.

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Oh, wow. Looking at those, I can see lots of characters voiced by the same people I didn't know before. For example, I didn't know the person who did Albedo (from Xenosagas) did Straight Cougar (from s-CRY-ed). But actually, that makes a lot of sense.

Anyway, every one of them, I can find a role that I liked them in. I don't know if they're fit for the Haruhi role (since I've never read nor watched any translations), but I know I've seen all of them do some good VA.

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No, stop.

You CANT explain Haruhi to people. It just dosent work. It's not something that can be explained.

Please do yourself a favor and just watch the first two episodes on Youtube.

And dont judge it by just the first episode alone because thats a huge mistake.

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=gtGYqqTcKn0

Is that it? I just youtube searched for "Haruhi Dub" and found that.

Yea...suddenly it looks kinda...meh...should have switched Kyon and Koizumi's VA's, cause they're perfect for each other's roles.

That's all the clips from AnimeTV segment but with the stupid commentary by the cast of morons removed.

It's a tough call, since all of the characters have lengthy dialogs at some point, which is where the bad acting is sure to make it unbarable...

For comparison, this is the original audio of one of those clips (Audio is untouched but video is ugly-compressed to reduce file size)

Edit: Dur... forgot to post the link

http://www.sonicfangameshq.com/smidge/koizumi.avi

http://www.sonicfangameshq.com/smidge/yuki.avi

http://www.sonicfangameshq.com/smidge/kyon.avi

http://www.sonicfangameshq.com/smidge/haruhi.avi

http://www.sonicfangameshq.com/smidge/mikuru.avi

These clips give spoiler-free views of each character so you can get a feel for the personalities.

Can someone explain the series to me please?

It's nearly impossible to explain the series without spoiling it. Basically, the title character is displeased with how boring the world is while being completely oblivious to the fact that the world is almost exactly the way she wishes it to be. The story is told in past/present tense from the point of view of a different character, who we only know as 'Kyon' (Not his real name). In other words, Kyon's is recounting his experience of the storyline, so his narratives have an omniscient feel to them even though Kyon the character doesn't know what's going on. (This is the most interesting aspect of the narrative, IMHO, and makes for many subtle moments)

And anime is also not in chronological order, so you have the main story with some side-stories mixed in, but those side stories take place after the main story arc. This is both a little confusing and makes for great foreshadowing because the characters change so randomly.

=Smidge=

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No, stop.

You CANT explain Haruhi to people. It just dosent work. It's not something that can be explained.

Please do yourself a favor and just watch the first two episodes on Youtube.

And dont judge it by just the first episode alone because thats a huge mistake.

Yea, when I showed my friends, we started at #2, then watched a couple, then I showed them #1.

Also, the episodes are out of order. Unless you know that ahead of time, you're going to be very confused :P

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Which I didn't the first time. Until the jump from 3 to 7 or whatever. Then I realized something was up and finally figured it out... that was also the moment I became hooked and somewhat obsessed with the series.

And Azu, I had the heart attack, but somehow I'm still alive, GO ME! And actually I SUCK at papercraft, so this is a no. Origami on the other hand is just fine.

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But papercraft is just taping and or glueing tabs and sticking them together :E

And yea, when I got to the episode where they're playing baseball, and not only was a competely new character just chillin' and everyone knew him, but they all knew about some important event that never happened. I thought maybe the uploader goofed up the numbers, until I saw a comment saying that it was out of order intentionally.

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Im renaming all my porn into that.

I wonder how many people will take me seriously.

::raises hand::

Those PDO files are actually pretty cool. The program that runs them has a 3d model that you can move around with the mouse, and you can see how it all fits together, then the 2D printout on the side. I tend to get pretty confused about where things go sometimes, so I find that neat.

I also just went and got Suiseiseki and Souseiseki papercrafts as PDOs too. I'll probably only do Souseiseki, cause she's fucking badass and comes with her giant scissors :3

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We're talking about papercrafts...I'm assuming you know what that is...

the PDO files are for this program that lets you view the papercrafts as if they were folded (so you can see how it pieces together) and the 2d printouts.

I have a massive stash of papercrafts, though on my laptop. A full sonic and shadow one (I think), Link (Majora's Mask style), Wolf Link (brand new), the King of Red Lions, Vash's gun, a few others...

Oh, and Suiseiseki and Souseiseki are anime characters; one's a 4Chan meme, one kicks ass.

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We're talking about papercrafts...I'm assuming you know what that is...

I wish there were an emoticon for a big " fuck you ", but since there isnt..

Yes I _DO_ know what the heck papercraft is, thanks for asking.

Oh, and Suiseiseki and Souseiseki are anime characters; one's a 4Chan meme, one kicks ass.

I should edit my posts much more often. Now for some youtube links of this "anime" you speak of [/ obviously joking about the quotation marks ]

and boo for 4chan.

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