What are the instances when you didn't agree with the voice casting choice for a character?

Well I don't really care who is voice acting a character.

bro, chainsaw man was years ago, I don't wanna get enraged anymore, thinking about the casting of my favorite just saddens me nowadays. I hope we'll get a remake in 30 years, if shit like huntrash x garbage got one then chainsaw will surely

I was devastated when it was announcced that Kaiser from Blue Lock is going to be voiced by Miyano Mamoru. He doesn't fit him at all and he doesn't sound like Kaiser, he just sounds like Miyano Mamoru. That decision basically turned me into a MiyaMamoru hater. There were so many good choices, including Kakihara Tetsuya who, in my opinion, would be a perfect casting, but they just had to choose the popular VA.

bro, chainsaw man was years ago, I don't wanna get enraged anymore, thinking about the casting of my favorite just saddens me nowadays. I hope we'll get a remake in 30 years, if shit like huntrash x garbage got one then chainsaw will surely

The One I Disagree with the Most is J Balvin Being The English Dub of Kargalgan, He Only Got The Role Because He Famous and He Just Sounded Off, It Should’ve Went To Ray Chase or Kaiji Tan Heck Even Bryce Papenbrook.

@JoshBoy Oh God, I have to agree with you on this. That voice absolutely does NOT fit the character. It's as bad as that old dub for Escaflowne with the voices of the Dragon hunters...

Sean Schemmel is honestly not really good as Goku in the in-house FUNimation dub of the Dragon Ball franchise and is an all around downgrade over Ian James Corlett and Peter Kelamis when it comes to representing the character. He doesn't rally get across the softer side of Goku as well as IJC and Kelamis did for the English versions of the show. Even though Goku's hick speech patterns weren't carried over into the English dub, Kelamis and IJC overall felt much more accurate in terms of representing both sides of Goku's character rather than the deep "superhero" kind of voice Schemmel gave Goku. Kelamis was also much better able to capture some of Masako Nozawa's vocal range as can be seen in the Pioneer video dubs of DBZ Movies 1-3 where his screams and yells have a much more similar pitch to Nozawa compared to Schemmel's deeper more "masculine" yells. While the Ocean dub has a lot of issues in regards to script accuracy, censorship, and missing episodes, the voice cast was one of the things that they nailed and it took a while for FUNimation's cast to even come close to the level of quality Ocean did, and even then some casting choices like Schemmel were rather questionable. Even outside of the show, Schemmel is kind of an asshole and doesn't really respect any of the other Goku actors.

Honestly pretty much the whole cast in the dub for the original Beyblade series was not really cast well and I honestly do not blame the actors for their performances as most of them were literally children with little experience in voice acting, and the voice direction in the show was not of the highest quality. The kids were all pretty much setup to have a subpar performance but some of them have done well in other projects. Daniel DeSanto and David Reale (Ray and Kai respectively) were both in the movie Mean Girls and were pretty good in that. DeSanto had some other roles in animation after Beyblade such as Totally Spies, and one of the seasons of Total Drama, but Reale was one of the more successful actors coming off of Beyblade having stuck with the franchise and voicing Tsubasa in the Beyblade Metal Saga, having other animated roles such as Ren Krawler from Bakugan, and he's even had a role in the superhero show The Boys. These actors could have had a better time had the voice direction been better and they had more experience in animation at the time as they have shown that they can be good in other works. Some actors didn't do much of note before or after Beyblade, only really doing those 3 original seasons and not much else, with one of the exceptions being Alex Hood, but she has moved on from acting and now draws comics under the Haus of Decline username. Overall the idea to use child voice actors for the kids in the original Beyblade was a very questionable choice and combined with poor direction it leads to the dub being incredibly stiff and not holding up all that well. Nelvana, Ocean, and Bang Zoom did a much better job at directing the series from the Metal Saga onwards, not using child actors and significantly improving the voice direction, with the dubs of Beyblade Burst and Beyblade X probably being the best in the franchise in terms of vocal direction and performance, but that original dub of the classic Beyblade series has not aged well at all

@LSSJ_Gaming you're watching the dub for beyblade X???

@Fluffygreygrass

With the Beyblade franchise I had a much harder time finding fansubs (I can't watch Japanese Raw just yet as my listening comprehension needs some work) so I pretty much exclusively watch them in dub for consistency. X's dub is pretty solid with a great voice cast, although some of the character name changes are a little strange

Well I still don't think Masako Nozawa should have kept being the whole Son family as adults, but at the same time if you ask me to name a male seiyuu from the 80s to voice them I couldn't, so yeah.

The Nanatsu no Taizai cast in general seem a bit off for me.

An early Kenjiro Tsuda sounded wrong as Kaiba, and man did he suck at voicing him haha, I'm sure he got better with time.

It is not really because they don't fit or anything, but I'm getting tired of seeing Saori Hayami and Kana Hanazawa in anything. I have no issues with Rie Takahashi for now.

I didn't understand how angry some people got about that, and it's surprising to see this still talked about.

What did these people really expect Makima to sound like? Were they all expecting a sultry middle-aged woman?

These people taking issue with the casting must have been manga readers, right?


As I was watching the show, I thought the VA was a good fit for Makima, and pretty soon I forgot about the "controversy."

I don't know if this is a common opinion, but I didn't like the Japanese voice for Spike Spiegel very much.

Cowboy Bebop is pretty much the only dub I've seen, and I thought the English voice actor was a good fit for Spike; laid back, wry humor, kind of done with it all.

I've only seen a few episodes of the Japanese version, and Japanese Spike's voice was a little too deep and the typical "hero man voice." Maybe I would've gotten used to it with more episodes, but I just moved on to other things...

keeping the old cast for the Ranma remake was a mistake. they are all in their sixties now, and you can hear it.

also, really anytime they keep the female VA for a young boy character even after the character becomes a fully grown adult. it can work if the character is somewhat androgynous or has some childish or femine characteristics, like Rudeus in Mushoku Tensei, but even then I'd much prefer a recast, or just a young male VA to begin with.

take Avatar TLA for example: Zach Tyler Eisen, the VA for Aang, was the same age as Aang, and that was 100% the right decision. (obviously they also poke fun at women being cast for young male roles in that one episode)

meanwhile, half the Son family sounds like an 88 year old lady. I have mad respect for Masako Nozawa for still delivering some strong performances at her age, but Goku should have gotten a male VA for DBZ. they could have kept her as Gohan until the next time skip, and then for Goten, and it would have been perfect, but they somehow thought it was a good idea to have her voice every single character that is even remotely related to Goku, regardless of age or build.

Probably one of the most infamous dub-wise is Linda Ballantyne for Sailor Moon S3 and onwards. She makes her sounds like she's 30 and sharply contrasts with Tracey Moore and Terri Hawkes. Then again, bad voice direction likely had a part, because the dub production felt incredibly cheap under Cloverway.

I was going to complain about Michele Knotz initially not sounding anything like Rachael Lillis when Misty came back in Pokémon Sun and Moon, but I think she eventually got better at the role.

@perseii I think it might not be a common opinion just because most people probably haven't seen the Japanese dub of "Cowboy Bebop" lol I've seen about two episodes in Japanese and do agree that I prefer Steven Blum's performance of Spike more. It's very hard to beat.

My hot take is probably that I wished they hadn't re-used him in "Samurai Champloo" for Mugen.

Hmm I don't like the sound of that either... Not sure why they cast him.

I've only seen the Japanese version, and the Mugen I remember is almost a delinquent, a raging monkey type... English Spike would be way too cool and suave for that character.

(I might eat my words once I do see the English dub, though)

@perseii It's probably not something most people think (then again, I haven't looked into it), but to me it's distracting since it ties Mugen to Spike too much for me.

@bucciest
It's unfortunate but unavoidable when someone becomes too famous in a single role. I chose to watch Blood Blockade Battlefront in English because I disliked the thought of Shinpachi from Gintama as the protagonist. And I chose not to watch Arslan at all, because the art style makes it look like a Fullmetal Alchemist spinoff.

Oh yeah, I have another answer for your original question. I don't agree with the decision to have an adult male voice a child's thoughts in Jobless Reincarnation.

Yuma Tsukumo's voice sounds pretty awful, they got the right voices for other protagonists like Yugi and Yusei but not him.

She was never going to voice Makima to begin with, so I don't understand. Leaks aren't always accurate.