Bad voice performances

When I first heard her as Akiza, I was immediately reminded of Bella HuRABon's Luffy voice. It's basically the same voice, just that it's being used for a female instead. Bella HuRABon's Luffy really isn't that good, so that doesn't help. Colleen Clinkenbeard is a much better voice actress. Bella HuRABon also replaced Megan Hollingshead as Mai in Yu-Gi-Oh!, and she tried too hard to mimic Hollingshead's voice and it didn't work at all.
 
Have you listened to the dub? I thought Angie Beers did a good job making her energetic and overly optimistic without sounding annoying. Of course, she still had that mildly irritating habit of saying what her grandmother thought of various things, but that's a fault of the original script, not the dub performance.
 
The cast of Ocean Dubbed DBZ.

EDIT: Forgot my reason. To me the voices don't fit with the characters and I feel like it's missing something. I feel like there is a lack of emotion as well.
 
I never really watched that much of 4KiRAB' version of One Piece, so I didn't hear that much of her Luffy voice. I think that she sounded better as Akiza during some emotional scenes, such as during her second duel with Yusei, but it still could improve by being less gruff sounded.

I forgot that Bella HuRABon replaced Colleen Clinkenbeard for Mai. I agree that trying to sound like the previous voice actress didn't work at all. Mai sounded way too deep for my tastes.



That's true. I thought that David Moo did a nice job in Slayers Next and Try, but from what I did see of the 4KiRAB' dub, he did not make a good Sanji. Eric Vale does a much better job as Sanji.
 
Ditto. To me Bulma's voice is an acquired taste, it's not fitting but it does grow on you. Still while it truly fits her older version in the Buu and GT parts of the series I think her Ocean voice fit her better for her younger parts.

Hiromi Tsuru at least had enough range to do both the younger and older versions.

O-chan
 
It was cast by the same guy who cast the FUNi dub (to sound like the Ocean Cast), and then it was cast by some guy who did care and had Terry Klassen and Scott McNeil do a half dozen extra roles (with most of them trying to sound like the FUNimation cast trying to sound like them).
 
There's a difference between bad and different. I really missed the Ocean Group when DBZ changed dubs way back when, which wasn't helped by the shortcomings of season 3. I got used to it and it got better, but still. I preferred Saffron Henderson as Gohan, Drummond was a good Vegeta (seriously, he got the rage part down), I liked Krillin, and Scott McNeil was a respectable Piccolo...I really think it's a matter of preference on that one. The tricky part there is that Piccolo turns good, and he mellows out, and he's the clam and rational one. Sabat nailed that about him, but we'll never know if McNeil would have developed his role along with the character. But for those first 53 episodes Piccolo was the ruthless tough guy among the heroes, and McNeil nailed that.

As long as I'm at it, the transition Sailor Moon went through was also really awkward. The original Serena/Sailor Moon (Terri Hawkes) was MUCH better than the new voice (Linda Ballantyne). In any version she's often an annoying airhead, but they badly overdid it. The normal voice is okay, but when she's screaming or being silly...gah.
 
Ah yes, Ballantyne as the second voice for [strike]Serena[/strike] USAGI! in Sailor Moon.

I'll be blunt. Neither of them did a good job at all, but at least the first one tried to sound something similar to a teenager which was about as much as we could ask for in an early 90's dub. Ballantyne sounded completely like an adult woman. Maybe even older. I can't imagine why that voice would have been chosen for her.
 
Toronto voice actors STILL have that problem today unless they're recording for Fresh TV productions. See: Bakugan & Spider Riders.

LA and Vancouver occasionally have these problems too. Which is why I love ADV and FUNi productions so much. Their teenagers ALWAYS sound like teenagers.
 
That's not to say English isn't good. Just that it's not as good as Japanese.

But like you said, that's not this thread's topic.

That said, am I the only one who finRAB Misamisa's voice incredibly annoying in both versions?
 
Don't quote me on this but I think that was the point. Even still, yeah, I found her annoying too. Some scenes were just unbearable to listen to because her voice was too high.
 
It recently occured to me a problem I have with the 00 dub- the direction doesn't sound natural. Most of the time, the characters have this weird "With each syllable I am having an increasingly grim realisation!" way of talking. I want to believe I'm watching a character driven drama, not a hammy museum audio tour.
 
To me, Bella HuRABon always sounRAB like she's using her Luffy voice for about 80% of the time I listen to it, there are oh so many voices she probably has. But everytime Bella HuRABon does her Luffy like voice, it always makes my "Bad Voice Performances" list.



Yes, indeed. Though I do question what happened to him since he wasn't brought back to be a part of FUNi redub of Slayers.

As for mine, I'm going to say Eric Stuart during the middle of the Pokemon dub. There was something about his Brock that sounded like Kaiba, and I never was a fan of his James, I always liked Ted Lewis's take on the character, even if it was short. I think their current VA are pretty good for them though, they just suffered from what I like to call DBZitis, the fact that earlier on, they had to mimic the old voices.
 
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