So does anyone else notice how much Jason Liebrecht loves Dabi?
I follow him on Twitter and he constantly reposts and likes fan art of him (including one of my partner's pieces that they did for my OC and Dabi), and he's mentioned at panels and interviews just how much he relates to the character and how cathartic it is for him to play Dabi since he went through some of his own similar familial trauma.
Which I realize isn't unusual for voice actors at all, especially since Colleen Clinkenbeard is an amazing director who gives roles to people who are a lot like the characters they end up playing, but back when the chapters where Dabi was about to explode and Endeavor was about to pull a murder-suicide before Rei stepped in were coming out, Jason was liking posts about the leaks. Everyone was worried if Dabi would end up surviving for several weeks worth of chapters, and it seems like he was right there with the rest of us, and I've never really seen voice actors keep up with the manga for anime they're in, much less the leaks for the manga.
It's just nice to see someone so invested in the character they play like that, and he seems like a very sweet guy in person.
Day one of the con is done. Met the coolest people - some for the first time, some for the second. Jason Liebrecht called me sweetheart like 5 times and told me that he loved my Dabi art while he signed it 🥹
Zach Aguilar is just as sweet as Tanjiro is, so is Chris Wehkamp. J Michael Tatum and I had a great talk about how incredible Erwin and Scar are as characters, and Austin Tindle and I agreed that Knives did nothing wrong. I love them all. More cool people to come tomorrow.
For all the Dabi fans out there (specifically fans of his dub voice), check out Darker Than Black. It's one of Jason Liebrecht's favorite roles besides Dabi, and the voice he uses is pretty similar. There are also a ton of other MHA voice actors in it.
In the follow-up movie to the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist series, Conqueror of Shamballa; Alfons (voiced in Japanese by Shun Oguri and in English by Jason Liebrecht) is one of the secondary main characters. He is the character related to the movie only where he meets Ed after being sent to Munich in 1921 and ends up boarding with him. Alfons is a rocket scientist and Alphonse Elric’s counterpart in that world. Al has short, light blonde hair, and light blue eyes. He wears a plain white button-up shirt, black suspenders, loose black slacks, and black loafers to finish the look. Collect all the accessories of the Alfons Heiderich costume from Fullmetal Alchemist The Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa.