I managed to meet all four original Ninja Turtle actors while in San Francisco yesterday! And Mr. Rob Paulsen went out of his way to tell my mother she did a great job raising me, ♥️ and Mr. Townsend Coleman was so happy to hear Michelangelo was Ma’s favorite, he went right over to thank her🥰🧡
I almost missed Mr. Can Clarke three times but he’s so devoted to his fans, he made sure I got a conversation, an autograph and my picture.💙
And Mr. Barry Gordon was ticketed pink that I named one of my cats after his character Jacob “Razor” Clawson from SWAT Katz. 💜
Monsuno had only FIVE voice actors: A thought about multi-casting
I recently finished an American-Japanese co-produced Anime that had aired on Nicktoons. And I say Anime since it was animated largely in Japan with the usual trademarks of a TV Anime rather than something like Avatar or Teen Titans that mimics the look of Anime.
But the animation aside, you got the voice cast. All five actors for the five leads and many supporting characters.
You have Cam Clarke, Kirk Thorton, Chris Smith and Keith Silverstein spreading themselves thin but Karen Straussman had to carry every single female character on her back, main, minor and secondary.
The way they went about it was somewhat impressive with Cam Clarke balancing between spunky teen Chase and his straight laced dad, Jeredy. Keith Silverstein also is a quick shot with accents with Aussie Dax, Southerner Kilo, stoic Six and proto-Hisoka Don Pyro.
Yet also ridiculous when Karen had to sound like she was having a perpetual orgasm to distinguish her performance as Madea of the Dark Spin mercenaries from "Strong Female Character(TM)" Jinja. And Charlemagne's accent must've been a challenge without bursting out laughing.
It's honestly fascinating given how Anime dub VAs are criticized (by those who don't watch dubs usual) about the "same 12 voice actors" or that they "lack range." Part of me finds Monsuno's super limited casting interesting since most dubs have Additional VA casting to avoid this and they're funds barely match a franchise that flew under the radar.
Where I'm going with this is that I actually ponder if dubs could experiment more with an actor's range and double casting. Especially with recent demands for Union talks and the like. That is, you'd never truly know two characters in the same scene had the same actor until pointed out.
Bottleneck Gallery will release Akira 24x36 giclee prints by Morgan Girvin today, June 13, at 12pm EST. The standard edition (left) is limited to 100 for $50, while the art variant is limited to 50 for $60.
Honestly, I never thought I would see the day I would get to meet my childhood heroes, well the four legendary vocal talents behind them.
From left to right: Cam Clarke, Rob Paulsen, moi, Townsend Coleman and Barry Gordon. All of them were lovely and such gentlemen and making them smile as much they made me smile was rewarding.