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ultraericthered · 2 years

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Pokemon English Voice Compare/Rank, Villains

In which I rank the English dub voice actors of Pokemon characters from strongest to weakest, and sometimes throw in my 2 cents of who I think would be solid casting choices. This one is for villains.

GIOVANNI: 1. Ted Lewis - Voice of Giovanni in the main anime. This is what most kids growing up with Pokemon, especially from the very beginning, no doubt hear in their heads for Giovanni. His fancy Italian accent he put on at first was a little inconsistent prior to him dropping it in favor of a transatlantic Yami Bakura type voice, and nowadays he blends the best of both into his deliciously evil voice. And he’s always killed it in giving Giovanni the menacing presence and charm that he needs. 2. Jamieson Price - Voice of Giovanni in Pokemon Origins and by far one of the strongest casting choices and strongest performances in that dub. The tone he takes is very cold but suave and intelligent sounding, and his naturally deep voice just commands authority. 3. Andrew Russell - Voice of Giovanni in Pokemon Masters. Given his minimal amount of previous work, this was an unorthodox casting choice, but Andrew really nails the smooth, shady, devious criminal mastermind voice, often sounding like a Keith Silverstein impression. 4. Richard Epcar - Voice of Giovanni in Pokemon Generations. On paper, this is solid casting, but his material was so lackluster that all he had to do was phone it in, making his Giovanni very forgettable. 5. Craig Blair - Remember that one season where this frankly awful (and thankfully now retired) voice actor filled in for Ted Lewis twice, and sucked big time at imitating him? You’re forgiven if you didn’t. FANCAST OPTION - Keith Silverstein. For whatever reason, I was henging my bet on him being the VA they’d use for Giovanni in Pokemon Masters, so when Andrew Russell ended up channeling him so much I can’t help but wonder if that was the initial idea. He’d be a perfect fit given how he’s performed in villainous roles such as Ougai Mori, Gabriel Agreste, Gild Teroso, and Masayoshi Shido. Other spot on voice talents to cast as Giovanni would be Crispin Freeman and Chris Rager, who’d easily measure up to Price’s take.

JESSIE: 1. Rachael Lillis - Her original dub voice. Much like she did with Misty, Rachael just nailed absolutely everything about the character. 2. Michele Knotz - When her Rachael Lillis impression is on, it is SPOT ON. But when it veers off into this really high pitched, shrill, over-the-top voice in Jessie’s more shrewish moments, it’s grating. FANCAST OPTION(S) - Mari Devon would be a natural fit for Jessie, especially under Jamieson Price’s Giovanni. If not her, I would’ve actually really liked to see Lauren Lapkus take on the role since she did voice a parody of the character appearing on Big City Greens.

JAMES: 1. Eric Stuart - Eric started as just an understudy to Ted Lewis for this role, but in retrospect having Misty and Brock’s VAs also voicing Jessie and James was a stroke of brilliance, especially since Eric just took the role and ran with it with such campy, preening Tim Curry-eseque rich boy flair. Late into the Johto seasons, he unfortunately dialed up the goofiness and made James more annoying to listen to, but he always put in an effort to sell the character’s funny lines.

2. Edward Bosco - Dub VA for James in the To Be A Master limited series that closed out Journeys. Ed, I wish you’d been with us for longer prior to this point. This rendition of James is closer to how Cathcart used to approach the role, nailing his flamboyance perfectly. 3. Ted Lewis - The first VA to be assigned the role of James. He did alright, but was mostly very generic and lacking especially compared to his later Giovanni. Recasting him with Eric Stuart was for the best.

4. James Carter Cathcart - This one kind of hurts since not only is he actually named James, but his James was really good in the Battle Frontier and Black & White seasons, actually better than Ted Lewis’ AND better than Eric Stuart’s later work. But his James everywhere else, especially as of now, is just way overdone and insufferable. FANCAST OPTION(S) - Kirk Thornton would be a natural fit for James, especially under Jamieson Price’s Giovanni. If not him, I would’ve actually really liked to see Thomas Middleditch take on the role since he did voice a parody of the character appearing on Big City Greens. Yeah, it’s just the exact same deal as Jessie. MEOWTH: 1. Maddie Blaustein - She was irreplaceable, especially as Meowth. 2. Nathan Price - The initial dub VA for Meowth. His voice and line delivery was consistently hilarious, making for many a fondly remembered moment. I don’t know why he got replaced by Maddie, but it might’ve been necessary since I’m not sure he could’ve pulled off some of the character’s later, more serious material. 3. James Carter Cathcart - Eeeeh, it was a nice effort at first, but casting this guy as both James and Meowth did not work out in the long run. His Meowth has gotten just as grating as his James.

4. Mick Wingert - Dub VA for Meowth in the To Be A Master limited series that closed out Journeys. OK so, how did Mick go from remedying one terrible James Carter Cathcart role with Professor Oak to doing a hundred times worse than Cathcart with Meowth? This could’ve been a slam dunk had Mick been allowed to do his own thing with the role, but having to impersonate what Cathcart did impeded his performance, making this easily his worst Poke’ role. FANCAST OPTION(S): Brian Beacock would accompany Mari Devon’s Jessie and Kirk Thornton’s James - listen to this laugh here and tell me it’s not Meowth material! If not him, then Martin Billany, AKA LIttleKuriboh, since his Iruka-sensei voice, as he’s even acknowledged, is the perfect successor to Maddie’s Meowth voice.

ARCHIE:

1. Jamieson Price - Voice of Archie in Pokemon Generations. Despite some truly awful writing for the character, Jamieson’s deep, gruff, booming voice and manic performance was perfectly suited for the part, the closest to perfect you could expect the guy to sound. 2. Adin Rudd - Voice of Archie in Pokemon Masters EX. His voice for Archie is really, really solid, even if a bit Discount Richard Epcar at points. He’d be as near perfect a fit as Jamieson were it not for the voice direction leading him to some lukewarm line readings at times. 3. Sean Schemmel - Voice of Archie in the main anime. I get what he was going for, but he was not able to actually pull it off well, as he sounds like a big, dumb doofus of a villain with little credibility. FANCAST OPTION(S): Clancy Brown is my ideal Archie voice but they’d never be able to land him for any official project so the next best thing would be Richard Epcar, who Adin Rudd sounds like he’s emulating. Also, props to Austin Lee Matthews for his decent take.

SHELLY:

1. Cristina Vee - Voice of Shelly in Pokemon Generations. She pretty much just does her Rei Hino/Sailor Mars voice, but it ironically fits this water-themed villainess perfectly. 2. Dani Chambers - Voice of Shelly in Pokemon Masters EX. Her take on Shelly is good, but just a bit deeper than the design’s sleekness seems to warrant, she could’ve dialed it back a little.

3. Erica Schroeder - Voice of Shelly in the main anime. Her voice really fits this interation of Shelly, but the performance is overall bland and generic because that’s largely what the material for her was.

MATT:

1. Mike Smith - Voice of Matt in Pokemon Masters EX. For a fresh newcomer VA with not many roles to his name, the vocal depiction he provides for Matt is pretty much pitch-perfect; imposing yet affable. 2. Richard Epcar - Voice of Matt in Pokemon Generations. Look, if you’re not going to cast Epcar as Archie, why have him there with Team Aqua at all? And unlike the above, I only hear an imposing, thuggish quality to his Matt. This series just squandered Epcar’s talents all around. He fares much better as Sawyer in Masters EX.

MAXIE: 1. Lex Lang - Voice of Maxie in Pokemon Generations. While we sadly don’t get to hear him in pompous nerd mode (which we know from Dr. Neo Cortex that Lex can totally nail), his Harold Ramis-esque “serious man of science” and “commanding leader” tones are down pat. Like Jamieson Price’s Archie, it’s just ideal voice casting. 2. Jarred Kjack - Voice of Maxie in Pokemon Masters EX. Sort of a middle ground between Lex Lang and Marc Thompson, his take on Maxie is also as solid as you could ask for...well, for the most part. Opposite of Archie, the voice direction let him go a little too hard on the pomposity at times, leading to some unnatural line readings. 3. Marc Thompson - Voice of Maxie in the main anime. Like with Sean Schemmel as Archie, I get what he was going for but he just ends up sounding like a cartoonish impression of Richard O’Brien in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Nothing about Maxie’s character, even in this anime, suggests that he ought to have a creepy voice. FANCAST OPTION(S): Tom Kenny is my ideal Maxie voice but, again, they’d never land him for this, so the next best thing would be David W. Collins, a more smoothed out version of Kjack’s Maxie. Also, props to Sean Chiplock for his almost identical sounding take.)

TABITHA: 1. Doug Erholtz - Voice of Tabitha in Pokemon Generations. I don’t know what it is about Doug’s voice for this character that suits him so well, but it just does. It’s a great match for his look and attitude. 2. Van Barr Jr. - Voice of Tabitha in Pokemon Masters EX. He does a decent enough job, but I have to wonder if they had the original Gen 3 Tabitha in mind when they cast him, as he’d fit that Tabitha better. 3. Greg Abbey - Voice of Tabitha in the main anime. His voice really fits this interation of Tabitha, but the performance is overall bland and generic because that’s largely what the material for him was.

COURTNEY: 1. Anjali Kunapaneni - Voice of Courtney in Pokemon Masters EX. Not much to be said other than they get Courtney right in every way. 2. Sandy Fox - Voice of Courtney in Pokemon Generations. The high, child-like pitch just sounds off, and she totally fails on the crazy.

ZINNIA: 1. Vivian Lu - Voice of Zinnia in Pokemon Masters. I’d not heard this VA in anything before she voiced Zinnia, but her voice and the way she says all of her lines are just amazingly on point for the role. 2. Laura Stahl - Voice of Zinnia in Pokemon Evolutions. She also uses a fitting voice and kills it in the delivery, especially for Zinnia’s emotional moments towards the end, but Vivian Lu still has her beat. FANCAST OPTION(S) - Bang Zoom could’ve also cast Dawn M. Bennett in this role, since she’s done some great Zinnia-esque voice acting elsewhere. Or for a VA from the Sentai Filmworks/Funimation side of things, Juliet Simmons would be perfect casting for the role.

CYRUS: 1. Armen Taylor - Voice of Cyrus in Pokemon Masters. His voice for Cyrus is EVERYTHING I could ever imagine and want the character to sound like - like some sort of android or computer-minded alien being with sinister undertones akin to George Newbern’s Sephiroth. 2. Michael Sorich - Voice of Cyrus in Pokemon Generations. While no doubt the most competently acted dub voice for Cyrus, the voice itself is the only holdback. Sorich’s signature gruffness is still here. Oddly enough he loses the growl when he shouts, which is when he sounds at his best. Certainly sounds younger than he actually is.

3. Sean Schemmel - Voice of Cyrus in the main anime. Schemmel fits this role better than he did Archie, and if he’d played it like his Nail, he’d be great. But he unfortunately plays it ludicrously over-the-top and bombastic, which fits Cyrus’ first appearance but becomes a distracting nuissance in the episodes he appears in afterwards. FANCAST OPTION(S) - While Peter Jessop or Corey Burton would be ideal, the former doesn’t really do much for Bang Zoom anymore and the latter would not ever be sought for the part. So aside from DC Douglas (who was a VA for Lysandre) the only credible rival to Armen Taylor remaining would be David Lodge, if he’d been cast to voice Cyrus like his Fire Emblem: Three Houses (and Three Hopes) narrator voice, except with some actual passion and presence! Bang Zoom has also used JP Karliak, who could rival Sean Schemmel.

SATURN:

1. Mike Haimoto - Voice of Saturn in Pokemon Masters EX. Distinct and fairly different from his usual roles, Mike’s Saturn is very pleasing to listen to and nails down the character’s smugness and zealotry. 2. Ricky Ryba - Voice of Saturn in Pokemon Generations. Despite not being a voice actor, he played his bit part as Saturn really well. 3. Marc Thompson - Voice of Saturn in the main anime. His take didn’t really do it for me, as he sounds too snooty and James-like. FANCAST OPTION(S) - For a dub voice that would accurately translate the main anime’s JP voice, Mona Marshall would be the one to go for. Or if we wanted another male VA, Todd Haberkorn, who Mike Haimoto even sounds a lot like (his Muruta Azrael voice.)

MARS: 1. Christie Cate - Voice of Mars in Pokemon Masters EX. She’s not done much, yet she conveys with total accuracy the way Mars sounds and how she talks in the JP language anime and Masters. 2. Lisa Ortiz - Voice of Mars in the main anime. Uh, what made anyone think that Mars sounding exactly like Amy Rose was a good idea? This take just didn’t work, especially on her final line/scream. Admitedly, she did show some improvement in the dub for The Arceus Chronicles - why couldn’t she do that for her Korrina? 3. Unknown VA - Voice of Mars in Pokemon Generations. Uh, I think someone might’ve got Mars and Jupiter’s casting switched around. FANCAST OPTION - Cassandra Lee Morris! Seriously, you had her right fucking there and made her voice Jupiter instead of Mars???

JUPITER: 1. Brittany Cox - Voice of Jupiter in Pokemon Masters EX. Thank you, Brittany - this is exactly how Jupiter is supposed to sound like! 2. Suzie Yeung - Voice of Jupiter in Pokemon Evolutions. She did what Eileen Stevens was trying to do, and pulled it off correctly! 3. Eileen Stevens and Kira Buckland - Voices of Jupiter in the main anime. Eileen was not suited for this kind of role, as her femme fatale tones come off as laughably forced, as does her burst of madness in her arc’s finale. Kira could be a great Jupiter on her own, but was unfortunately saddled with having to do an impression of Eileen. 4. Cassandra Lee Morris - Voice of Jupiter in Pokemon Generations. A true “what were they thinking” type of miscasting. Cassandra’s distinctly light and youthful voice coming out of Jupiter is just wrong. FANCAST OPTION: Michelle Rojas would also be a great choice.

CHARON: 1. Mike Pollock - Voice of Charon in the main anime. The one casting for a Team Galactic member that was just absolutely flawless, as Mike doing a lighter, more weaselly sounding Eggman voice was perfect for Charon’s character in every way, including accuracy. 2. Keith Silverstein - Voice of Charon in Pokemon Generations. While he does a decent enough Pollock soundalike voice, Keith’s “evil old man” voices have typically never fully convinced me, so it’s not something I can imagine him holding up for a fuller performance.

FANCAST OPTION: Charon ain’t due for a Pokemon Masters debut, but the one VA Bang Zoom would need for him is Frank Todaro.

GHETSIS: 1. Mick Wingert - Voice of Ghetsis in Pokemon Masters EX (though on the record, it “wasn’t him” who provided this voice, gotta uphold that NDA and all). A+ absolutely inspired casting. Easily the most talented and versatile of the VAs cast in this role, and he gives Ghetsis exactly the sort of voice I’d always imagined him to have. 2. Patrick Seitz - Voice of Ghetsis in Pokemon Generations. Being the voice of many a dapper, handsome male or big, monstrous brute made Patrick an ideal English equivalent to Sho Hayami, and the performance he gives is chillingly good (pun fully intended) at capturing Ghetsis’ faux regal front and his true demented nature. 3. Armen Taylor - Voice of Ghetsis in Pokemon Evolutions. For the most part his take works, and the silky, meticulous snake-in-the-grass quality he puts into his voice is spine-tingling. He falters only on three points - he sometimes veers right into his Cyrus voice, his delivery sometimes fails to match up so badly that it’s distracting, and when he emotes he does this Discount Patrick Seitz thing that you can imagine would sound better when done by Patrick Seitz himself. 4. Bill Rogers - Voice of Ghetsis in the main anime. I can certainly see where one would concieve of this kind of voice for Ghetsis due to B2W2 and even his anime potrayal, but it really does not work at all - sounds way too snarly and eeeevil to the point of parody. This failure is on Tom Wayland, though, since we’ve heard Bill Rogers do better.

FANCAST OPTION(S): While I’d love hearing Richard Doyle or David Dayan Fisher (or Richard Doyle sounding like David Dayan Fisher) for Ghetsis, they’d not be readily available, so I could settle instead for Edward Bosco or Kellen Goff. The perfect equivalent straight from the Sentai Filmworks/Funimation aisle would be John Swasey, known for voicing Gendo Ikari and All For One.

N: 1. Nicholas DeMichele - Voice of N in the main anime. The only N VA whose name begins with that letter, he’d not voiced much roles and hasn’t since, but he’s a case of striking casting gold if there ever was one. Everything he brought to the table was spot on for N’s character. 2. Daman Mills - Voice of N in Pokemon Masters EX. Lighter and raspier than the above, but just as fitting in the tone and delivery. 3. Grant George - Voice of N in Pokemon Generations. Solid casting decision on its face, and in his very last lines in the short Grant performed well, but beforehand he was notably off, first sounding too deep and then sounding like just another Grant George perfromance. 4. Tom Wayland - Voice of N in the animated trailer for Black 2/White 2. Only has a single line - “Think of you and your Pokemon - what are you striving for?” - but delivers it in a stupidly hammy way in a voice that does not fit with the design of who it’s coming out of at all. 5. Chris Hackney - Voice of N in Pokemon Evolutions. Only has a single line - “Zekrom, come to me!” - but...yeah, same as above. FANCAST OPTION(S): Alessandro Juliani, of course. But since he’s Canadian and might be tough to get ahold of, then I also would’ve been keen on hearing Clifford Chapin voice the role. We have one Kaworu VA as N (Daman Mills), so this would fit nicely too.

COLRESS: 1. Eli James - Voice of Colress in the main anime. This turned out to be just as golden a casting decision as N’s, as Eli nails the cold, calculating scientist voice, the casual, friendly guy voice, and the maniacal power enthusiast voice of the character at most of the right points. His performance is especially good in his last four episodes.

2. Yung-I Chang - Voice of Colress in Pokemon Masters EX. With his chillaxed, smug, intellectual, analytical tone of voice and perfect delivery of his more passionate or threatening lines, he’s almost as good as Eli James in the role in spite of the more limited material. Also somehow sounds EXACTLY like older VA David Vincent here! 3. Chris Niosi - Voice of Colress in Pokemon Generations. While the voice fits, not sounding too unlike the above two, the material effects his delivery and makes him come off a bit bland and throwaway. 4. Sean Schemmel - Voice of Colress in the animated trailer for Black 2/White 2. Three strikes, you’re out, Sean! That forced Crispin Freeman impression and laughably melodramatic “I DISAGREE!” failed you. FANCAST OPTION(S): Bill Timoney would’ve been an equally perfect pick for the anime. Other VAs that would work well elsewhere would be Nolan North, or the actual David Vincent, or the actual Crispin Freeman, or another Siebold VA Sean Chiplock, or fellow nerdy villain VA Jarred Kjack, or fellow Acting Boss VA Christian La Monte, or even fellow Plasma Boss VA Mick Wingert.

LYSANDRE: 1. DC Douglas - Voice of Lysandre in Pokemon Masters EX. As with Cyrus and Ghetsis’ voices in this game, this casting for Lysandre was perfect. Whatever your feelings on Douglas, he’s got the right voice and tones for a bitter, snobby and driven genocidal madman like Lys. 2. Tyler Bunch - Voice of Lysandre in the main anime. Very refined and eloquent yet rough sounding, he set a good standard for how the character needs to sound. His one drawback is that, opposite of Colress, his performance just plummeted in his last four episodes. 3. Adin Rudd - Voice of Lysandre in Pokemon Evolutions. While he delivers on the emotional intensity that Tyler Bunch failed at, most of his performance is too emotional so as to be melodramatic and awkward sounding, and it just fails to leave much of an impression. 4. Dean Wein - Voice of Lysandre in Pokemon Generations. For real, who is this guy? ‘Cause he sounds totally disinterested in his line readings and the voice itself does not suit Lysandre at all. Out of all villain voices in this series, easily the most horrendously miscast. FANCAST OPTION(S): JB Blanc would be a no-brainer, but like Peter Jessop he doesn’t really do non-union work for Bang Zoom anymore. Like with Giovanni, Keith Silverstein would be obvious given past roles. But for a Sentai Filmworks/Funimation crowd counterpart, Chris Rager would be the best suited for this role. Another ideal casting option would be Trevor Devall, who even voiced a similar looking character before. MALVA:

1. Morgan Berry - Voice of Malva in Pokemon Masters EX. Her doing the Yohane voice for Malva should be distracting, yet it’s an exact match for how I’d imagine Malva sounding, with the deep huskiness, haughty tone, cool-headed smugness and fiery passion (and a semi-posh accent) that the character needs to have vocally conveyed.

2. Samara Naevmi - Voice of Malva in the main anime. Gives Malva this smug, aristocratic tone that the remaining VAs for her lack, which is what I feel is needed to help Malva really stand out as a character.

3. Marissa Lenti - Voice of Malva in Pokemon Evolutions. Her part is brief, but the solemn tone harboring an emotional undercurrent is deliverted perfectly for what that bit part requires of her.

4. Kira Buckland - Voice of Malva in Pokemon Generations. She sounds like a female newscaster, alright. That’s literally about it.

FANCAST OPTION - Sabrina Weisz, given her work in Miraculous.

LUSAMINE:

1. Dawn M. Bennett - Voice of Lusamine in Pokemon Evolutions. Not a VA I’d thought could really deliver THAT to the role, but she really, really did. Her Lusamine totally captures her haughtiness and cruelty.

2. Bobbi Hartley - Voice of Lusamine in the main anime. Despite voicing a very different Lusamine from the games, she has a voice that fits naturally into the character and sells her multiple facets.

3. Michelle Ruff - Voice of Lusamine in Pokemon Masters EX. Adequate casting choice, though not as good as her Plumeria and she sounded a bit flat and inconsistent at first. Thankfully she’s stepped it up and come into her own as Sygna Suit Lusamine.

FANCAST OPTION(S) - Two Bang Zoom contracted VAs, Laura Post and Wendee Lee, would’ve nailed the role even better, though.

FABA:

1. Alexander Gross - Voice of Faba in Pokemon Masters EX. He puts on this very grating, weasely voice that sounds like an unholy hybrid of Jim Rash, Tony Hale, and Tom Kenny, and he makes it really work for the character, especially with appropriately insufferable and smarmy line delivery as well as cartoonishly over-the-top shrieks.

2. Kaiji Tang - Voice of Faba in Pokemon Journeys. Goddammit, why’ve we this voice for Faba in just one episode? Tremendous improvement over the Daniel J. Edwards performance we had for the SuMo dub! Kaiji does it so perfeclty, giving Faba the pompous, hammy, frantically emotive voice acting he was meant to have.

3. Daniel J. Edwards & Unknown VA stand-in - Voice(s) of Faba in the Sun & Moon anime dub. It sounds like the voice direction boiled Faba’s entire character down to “evil creep” and told the VA to run with it. He doesn’t sound good to start with and only gets worse when he sticks with the cartoonish bad guy voice even when Faba’s not a bad guy anymore. It’s not funny, it’s just offputting and grating.

FACAST OPTION(S) - Jim Rash, Tony Hale, Tom Kenny, Keith Ferguson, or William Salyers would all be dream casting picks.

GUZMA: 1. Doug Erholtz - Voice of Guzma in Pokemon Masters EX. Doug has got a voice that just begs for casting in a role like this, and the tone and inflections he uses for Guzma make the fullest use of it. 2. Evan Maltby - Voice of Guzma in the main anime. There’s nothing in the voice or the delivery that reflects Guzma. He’s just some dude! FANCAST OPTION(S) - Definitely no offense to Doug Erholtz, but if they’d managed to cast Andrew Kishino, Sam Riegel, Robbie Daymond or even Austin Lee Matthews in this role, any one of those guys would kill it as well or possibly even better than he does.

PLUMERIA: 1. Michelle Ruff - Voice of Plumeria in Pokemon Masters EX. Like with Doug Erholtz as Guzma, Michelle is just all too well suited for roles like this where she gets to use her tomboyish Rukia tone. 2. Jo Armeniox - Voice of Plumeria in the main anime. Unlike Ruff, Jo was not suited for roles like this and it showed in her performance. FANCAST OPTION(S) - Diana Kaarina is, again, Canada-based so it’d be tough to get her. So on the Sentai Filmworks/Funimation aisle, Christina Kelly would be my ideal casting choice for this role.

CHAIRMAN ROSE: 1. Keith Silverstein - Voice of Chairman Rose in Pokemon Twilight Wings. Probably Keith’s best Pokemon role that he was cast in, he brings such a laid back charm and warm, delicate smoothness to Rose’s voice that you totally buy why he’d win the trust of so many.

2. Maaz Ali - Voice of Chairman Rose in Pokemon Masters EX. Probably the voice that best fits Rose’s characterization and even has a posh British accent. The only thing putting him below Keith’s take is the delivery; sometimes he sounds too fruity a la Maxie and at other times too deep and unintentionally threatening! 3. Barron Bass - Voice of Chairman Rose in the main anime. Blegh. This is like Lysandre in Generations all over again - Barron is not a voice actor and his inability to emote as Rose even in moments where he clearly should be make his a dull performance. FANCAST OPTION(S) - Mick Wingert again, since he’s got the Tony Stark voice down pat and can do a convincing British accent. and if not him, then Matthew Mercer would be the other best option.)

OLEANA: 1. Julia McIlvaine - Voice of Oleanna in Pokemon Twilight Wings. A few words spoken from her mouth in her voice and you know what Oleanna’s all about, she just fits this role that perfectly.

2. Linsay Rousseau - Voice of Oleana in Pokemon Masters EX. Her voice and accent works for Oleanna in feral rage mode, but it leaves something to be desired when applied to Oleanna as she regularly is. 3. Jennifer Losi - Voice of Oleanna in the main anime. Unlike Rose, her acting ain’t bad, but the voice is just too youthful sounding. FANCAST OPTION - Morgan Berry, who aside from being the best voice for Malva was also in Twilight Wings and who we know from Love Live! Sunshine!! how great she can play a character whose mood and entire persona can shift on a dime in an insane way.

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With upcoming roles in not just in “Cherry,” the British star is also currently filming the still-untitled “Spider-Man” sequel from director Jon Watts. Holland opens up about preparing for his role as a soldier turned drug addict and then turned bank robber, along with what we can expect from the new superhero movie next year, which he calls “the most ambitious standalone superhero movie ever made.” Finally, he touches upon getting an itch for directing and how his dream role is to play James Bond and work with Maggie Smith. Listen to the podcast below!

Why did you choose “Cherry” for your first project following the MCU films?

Tom Holland: I don’t really know why now. I would have accepted this job; whoever it was, it’s the gift that keeps on giving. And I got to work with the Russos [Anthony and Joe] again. People that I really respect and I look up to and admire their work. The subject matter is really important. I think we’re doing a service to society by shining the light on a problem that is happening on everybody’s doorstep, which is substance abuse, overmedicating people, and not treating PTSD in the correct way. And also, it was a challenge. I love a challenge. I love pushing myself. Hard work is good work. So it was a bit of a no-brainer, this film, and I can’t imagine there was any way in which I would have turned it down and walked away.

As a former child actor, was there a particular film that really inspired you to get into this business?

Holland: That’s a good question. There are definitely films that I’ve watched as a young kid where I’ve gone “Wow, I would love to be able to play a character like that.” I was 11 when I first went on stage for “Billy Elliot,” and I was too young to think about the future of my career. I never decided to become an actor. It’s just something that happened to my life. It happened to me, and I just never stopped. I was just really lucky that I was able to continue doing it for as long as I have been doing it. Working with Naomi Watts on “The Impossible” was the time where I realized that this was something that I could do for a living. The first time I was like, “Oh, wow, I could actually maybe be an actor.”

Is there a film or performance that’s your favorite of all-time?

Holland: “Primal Fear” for me is one of my all-time favorite performances from Edward Norton. I think he is just picture-perfect, and there is not anything about his performance that you could tweak to make it better. So that’s a film I’ve to continue to learn from.

What was it like working with your co-star Ciara Bravo on “Cherry?”

Holland: Let me start by saying what a pleasure it was to work with her and get to know her. She’s an amazing actress, and the film wouldn’t be half the film without the performance that she gives. I remember I wasn’t at all involved in the casting process of Emily’s character. And I remember The Russos sent me Ciara’s audition tape two or three months before we started production. And for the first time in my career, I was so intimidated. I saw her tape, and I was like, “Oh, she’s like, too good,” and I need to do more work, because she’s going to act me off the screen, and no one’s going to want to follow my character. I thought the Russos were going to be like, “fuck you, Tom Holland, we’re rewriting the film with her now.”

I was so intimidated, and we were so lucky that she was so confident. You can only imagine she’s a young actress. She’s working with the two biggest directors, arguably of all time at the moment, and, and she’s working on this really difficult film with the tricky subject matter. She was so confident, brave, talented, and unselfish in the way that she went about making the film.

How did you prepare your unnamed character in “Cherry” in terms of meeting with addicts or veterans?

Holland: We did quite a lot of research. We spent a lot of time at the VA in Cleveland, and we were interviewing veterans who were suffering from PTSD and substance abuse and trying to seek help. It was an amazing process because it really showed me that therapy works. That these men and women were healing, and they were getting better. We met people at the beginning of their treatment, and they were really closed off, and they weren’t quite comfortable enough to share the stories.

We had people in the middle of their treatment who were getting to that stage where they were willing to open up. So some of them didn’t want to open up to a 24-year-old actor making a movie. Then the people at the end of their treatment who have made peace with their decisions and their mistakes were able to own it. They would tell us the stories and almost tell them proudly. I think one of the big problems in our society is that if you say to someone, “I’m going to rehab,” immediately the reaction is like, “Oh my god, that must mean that you’re really messed up.”

But what the reaction should be is, “Congratulations…that’s amazing. I’m really proud of you that you’re seeking help and that you’ve recognized that you’re in trouble.” I’m hoping that this film can do that for some people. And that, we can maybe stop some kids from falling into this trap of addiction in the future.

After working so much with The Russo Brothers, are you getting an itch to direct in the future?

Holland: Yes, absolutely. I’ve been trying to scratch that itch for a really long time. And my younger brother Harry and I have been writing a script together. We managed to acquire the rights to a book series that we loved as kids. So we’ve been sort of chipping away at that. I now have so much more respect for writers because it’s so difficult, man. I mean, trying to put something on the page is really, really quite difficult. I’d love to direct one day. We’re not rushing anything because I think the project we’re working on is amazing and can be quite powerful. So we want to make sure we get it right. But hopefully, within the next five years, you’ll see Harry and I sitting in the director’s chairs shouting action.

Can you tell us anything about the upcoming “Spider-Man” movie that you’re filming?

Holland: Obviously, I can’t really say anything.

You can tell us what happens at the end, right?

Holland: [pauses] What’s funny is like, I nearly told you then. You were so close to getting what you want.

I can say that it’s the most ambitious standalone superhero movie ever made. You sit down, read the script, and see what they’re trying to do, and they’re succeeding. It’s really impressive. I’ve never seen a standalone superhero movie quite like it. And I’m just, you know, again, that lucky little shit who happens to be Spider-Man in it. We got a lot more shooting to do. We started before Christmas and shot for like seven weeks. We stopped for the Christmas break, and then we’re starting again. I’m just as excited as everyone else to see it, let alone be a part of it.

What’s a role from a book or a series that you would really like to play?

Holland: I’ve got two roles coming up that I’m playing in the next few years that I’m really excited about, but I can’t talk about them yet. But I mean, ultimately, as a young British lad who loves cinema, I’d love to be James Bond. So, you know, I’m just putting that out there. I look pretty good in a suit.

What actress are you dying to work but haven’t as of yet?

Holland: I really want to work with Maggie Smith. I love her. She’s so like English and just seems so sweet. I’d really love to work with Maggie Smith.

You’re eying the “Downton Abbey” universe now I see.

#tom holland #interviews #long post

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Isabelle Huppert: The Most Dangerous Actress in European Cinema

Etre actrice, c’est avant tout faire l’apprentissage de sa liberté.

- Isabelle Huppert

At 66 years old, Isabelle Huppert has had a long, celebrated career and is regarded in the highest echelon of French actors. Among actresses, Isabelle Huppert holds the record for César Award nominations (France’s Oscar award), with a whopping sixteen. She has also had twenty of her films in competition at Cannes, more than any other actress. And she is among just four actresses who have won the Best Actress prize at Cannes twice.

Not a bad track record.

Though she has appeared in a few American productions over the years, including “Heaven’s Gate” (1980), “The Bedroom Window” (1987) and “I Heart Huckabees” (2004), her best films have all been European.

Extraordinary women marked by tragedy and surrounded by mystery — these are Huppert's trademark cinematic roles. The films of Isabelle Huppert tend to be filled with sociopaths, self-mutilators, and murderers.

There was the jealous postmaster in “La Cérémonie,” the gun-toting young bride in “Coup de Torchon,” and the prostitute who poisons her family in “Violette Nozière. “The Piano Teacher,” “Elle” and “Greta” would make a crazy triple feature. Overall Isabelle Huppert, one of the iconic dames of French cinema, has garnered a reputation for being cold and steely. The French actress, now in her mid-60s, consistently chooses roles that are morally complex and sometimes hard to watch. And yet we can’t bring ourselves to look away.

Susan Sontag, who once called Huppert “a total artist,” said she had never met “an actor more intelligent, or a person more intelligent among actors.”

Huppert has been called France’s Meryl Streep for her technical skill, but for all her shape-shifting, Streep’s strongest women have never gone so dark as the roles Huppert has played.

Huppert expresses the moods and mental state of her characters with precision and great sensitivity. Her seemingly expressionless face and sparing facial expressions have become something of a trademark.

Fiction has a tendency to inflate things, she said once in an interview with The Financial Times in July 2017. "But when I look at people on the street, I find that most of them are pretty empty in their eyes. I have to do even less." To observe, she has been taught, you have to take away, not add something.

Isabelle was the youngest of five children, born in Paris to an engineer father and a mother who taught English. Her mother is credited with spotting her talent early on, and encouraging her to develop it. She was already well on her way as a teenager, getting acting jobs while studying at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris.

Huppert’s résumé is remarkable over five decades: Just over 140 films since her debut in 1972, for many of cinema’s most audacious visionaries, including Claude Chabrol, Claire Denis, Curtis Hanson, Hal Hartley and François Ozon.

In “Things to Come,” a wistful, funny drama by the French director Mia Hansen-Love. She plays Nathalie, a Parisian philosophy teacher whose husband leaves her for a younger woman, whose mother dies, whose publisher won’t reissue her book — and yet, who finds unexpected freedom in all of these losses. Nathalie heads toward the light and Michèle toward the dark, but both roles showcase Huppert’s great ability to derive power from vulnerability.

What directors loved about Huppert — and she prides herself on being an auteur’s actor — was her ability to convey moral complexity in the most unique ways.

Working with such auteur directors, Huppert can inhabit extreme characters — "survivors who can be victims and rebels simultaneously," says the actress. "My films give these women a voice. Because even though they live on the edges of society, they are there: women who live brutal lives. It's a brutality that they themselves never sought out," Huppert told Zeit Magazine.

Paul Verhoeven who directed her in “Elle” described Huppert as a “pure Brechtian actor,” in that she puts distance between herself and the audience, without trying to seduce it or seek its sympathy.

The actress is notorious for her illegibility - her almost Bressonian lack of expression, and the profound unrest she’s able to convey from behind the stillness of her freckled resting face. Pauline Kael, the famous film critic, once complained that “when [Huppert] has an orgasm, it barely ruffles her blank surface.” If Kael had lived to see “Abuse of Weakness,” “Elle,” or “I Heart Huckabees,” perhaps she would have come to appreciate how the stillness of Huppert’s unbeatable poker face allows her to normalize even the strangest and most perverse of characters; to make it seem as though any of their behaviors, no matter how unusual or demented, are as natural to them as we are to ourselves.

It’s a quality that European directors and audiences have embraced, but which can seem more foreign to Americans. Huppert loves American cinema, but she also knows her sensibility is distinctly French.

Huppert is known for her privacy and reserve - she generally doesn’t talk to the press about anything other than her films - and if there’s a connection between her autobiography and the roles she chooses, that’s something that only she knows.

Aware of her own enigmatic appeal, she has no qualms about exploiting it. She has even less desire to charm, although her formidable impassivity sometimes betrays a hint of vulnerability. Not that she will let the viewer get too close, however, as she is forever intent on remaining “more like a question mark than a statement”.

Isabelle Huppert is not just courageous when it comes to choosing film roles and artistic collaborators. She is fearless, and such is her integrity that we trust her instincts and follow wherever she leads. That’s what makes her the most dangerous actress of our time.

Below is a top ten list of Isabelle Huppert films. They are not in order nor are they her very best. There are simply too many films in her body of work that would deserve equal consideration. Instead the list is made up of films that given an introduction to her wide ranging talents.

1. The Lace Maker 1977

Isabelle Huppert won the most promising newcomer award for her graceful, guileless performance as Pomme in Claude Goretta’s masterly adaptation of a Pascal Lainé novel, which took its title from a Vermeer painting. Whether doing her chores at a Parisian beauty salon, playing blindman’s buff on a Cabourg clifftop with dashing Sorbonne student Yves Beneyton, trying to eat an apple without disturbing his reading or choking over dinner with his snooty parents, Huppert is mesmerising.

2. Violette Nozière 1978

The first of her seven collaborations with Claude Chabrol earned Huppert the best actress prize at Cannes. She was 25 when she played the demure schoolgirl who shocked 1930s Paris when details of her double life as a prostitute emerged following the poisoning of her father. Violette claimed he had abused her, but Chabrol thinks otherwise and exploits Huppert’s genius for switching between fragility and cruelty to counter the surrealist myth that the teenage parricide was an anti-bourgeois icon.

Huppert embodies this character that’s chiefly concerned with finding love. She walks the streets at night, characteristically promiscuous, but don’t call her a prostitute. She’d refute. Throughout the film, she gives more money to the men then vice versa. At night, when she leaves her quiet bourgeois home, and finds a man to accompany her, she looks unusually bothered. The film is sometimes maddeningly ambiguous but perhaps that’s the point - Chabrol and Huppert want us to feel mixed about her.

Violette is a woman with an air of mystery around her. She’s precocious but not as clever as she thinks. Huppert gazes and kisses her own mirror reflection. She writes fictional love letters to herself as well. Huppert quietly stresses the motivation behind the character: desperate to find someone to love, or else she’ll have to love herself. Except, she can’t even love herself because she feels stifled by her home life. And as ever with narcissism, there are dangerous consequences.

3. La Cérémonie 1995

“Chabrol only ever cast me as fairly ordinary characters,” Huppert once revealed. “They just have rather particular destinies.” While she would go on to embody Chabrolian womanhood (“not victims, not fighters, somewhere in between”) in Rien ne va plus (1997), Merci pour le chocolat (2000) and Comedy of Power (2006), she gave her finest performance for him in this seething adaptation of Ruth Rendell’s A Judgement in Stone.

An upper-class family warns their meek maid (Sandrine Bonnaire) about the local mail lady, Jeanne (Isabelle Huppert). They become friends regardless. Huppert plays Jeanne as kooky, comic, and rebellious. We gradually find out more cryptic background on her character, which gives her spirited attitude a darker edge. She’s either heartbroken or heartless. Huppert portrays a character with so many contradictory traits without ever making it feel false.

Huppert performs the role cunningly. Jeanne is energised like a child, but she’s smart enough to know how to win over the maid. She’s a little silly - when she enters the family’s home while they’re away, she touches everything. Huppert balances all of this next to the near-mute Bonnaire, both slowly exacting their revenge against the upper class. Chabrol’s trademark: clash of the classes.

Huppert thoroughly deserved her first César.

In 2014, Huppert performed Jean Genet’s play The Maids with Cate Blanchett. The play was inspired, as was La Cérémonie, on the same true-story about the Papin sisters.

4. The Piano Teacher 2001

The Piano Teacher is an elegantly made film about the deranged endeavors of love. Huppert plays a buttoned-up music instructor, Erika, who attracts the eyes of an unassuming man half her age. She still lives with her mother and there’s a danger that lurks behind her carefully placed gaze. She’s been sexually repressed for such a long time; her repression and self-hatred has slowly evolved into masochism. It drives her to haunt peep shows, spy on copulating couples and mutilate her own genitals. This disturbing film really made an impact world wide.

Nobody said this film was an easy watch!

Haneke gives the spectator all the intricacies of the concept of perversion inserted in Huppert’s character of Erika, a successful piano teacher and an apparently impeccable social life. Well, that’s what Erika keeps on the surface.

Huppert declared the second of her four collaborations with Haneke to be the film she had long been searching for.

5. 8 Women 2002

There’s no validity in the truism that Huppert doesn’t do comedy. In fact she proved she could both dance and sing (the plaintive ‘Message personnel’ is a career highlight) in François Ozon’s chic 1950s musical whodunit. Sporting a tight bun, a buttoned-up twin-set, pursed red lips and butterfly spectacles, Huppert invokes the spirit of legendary farceur Louis de Funès as Catherine Deneuve’s argumentative sister. She gives an indelible display of neurotic, spinsterly bitchiness that is simultaneously piteous and hilarious.

6. Elle 2016

A successful woman enters a real ordeal after being raped by a stranger in her home. Powerful, ‘Elle’ unravels all the nuances of a character’s life inserted into a completely incongruous personal, social and psychological reality. Here, the character will demonstrate how her attitude towards the world follows a sociopathic pattern of acting, despising any form of emotional attachment and using other individuals solely to satisfy her most primitive instincts. The film earned her an Oscar nod for Best Actress, which was fabulous but also made me wonder what took so long. Certainly she’s turned out enough superb performances over her nearly five decade career to have earned this recognition sooner.

7. Coup de Torchon 1981

Having survived a seven-month stint in Montana for Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate(1980), Huppert ventured to Saint-Louis in Senegal for Bertrand Tavernier’s Oscar-nominated transposition of Jim Thompson’s pulp novel, Pop. 1280, from a small Texan town in the 1910s to west Africa on the eve of the Second World War. Although Pierre-William Glenn’s sun-scorched Steadicam imagery seems antithetical, this is a darkly droll noir that sees Huppert in an unusually skittish mood, as the abused colonial wife who forges an unlikely alliance with Philippe Noiret’s pathetic rogue police chief, who is humiliated by everyone around him, and suddenly wants a clean slate in life - but resorts to drastic means to do so.

8. Merci pour le chocolat 2000

The film follows the nuances of a French upper class family, exploring the destructive ways in which each member acts on the world. Directed by Claude Chabrol, ‘Merci pour le Chocolat’ is an interesting film, bringing a more cadenced plot that values studying each meander of the behavior of its central characters.

The movie is set in Lausanne, and that Swiss location, having an ambient sense of buttoned-up severity and menace, is an appropriate setting with a Nabokovian mien for this horrid tale of sociopathy.

Huppert dominates the film with the slightly frigid poise of a great dancer who has retired to become an exacting teacher. She plays Mika, a woman who presides wearily and almost negligently over the prosperous chocolate business built up by her late father. But however disengaged she is in the boardroom, in the kitchen she loves chocolate with a passion - concocting various types of drinking chocolate, using subtly differing recipes, with fanatical and murderous care.

There is something fascinating about Huppert's face here. In repose, it has a kind of unsettling serenity, the serenity of a cunning and covert predator who has already decided on an unspeakable course of action.

9. La Séparation 1994

Isabelle Huppert and Daniel Auteuil play a couple on the verge of a separation. The relationship’s mainstay is their child, one-year-old Loulou. Autueil gets most of the film’s focus, but he’s essentially a sitting duck, nervously shifting between passive-aggressive contempt and hopeful endearment, as he prepares for the outcome of his girlfriend’s infidelity. He says, “Never two without three.” This could be the quote-totem of the film.

The director smartly leaves the interloping lover out of the film (he’s never seen or even named). Instead, we study Auteuil’s growing impatience and Huppert’s pivotal decision. She adds a lot of depth to a character that could’ve just been the unsympathetic partner of the cuckold.

Huppert gives her character integrity and even though she’s ostensibly guilty, she never comes off as purely selfish. She’s troubled, as well, by their situation - we sense her detachment not due to ego but because she’s boggled in trying to assess the right mode of conduct. Huppert and Auteuil have great chemistry, changing gears effortlessly between vitriol and affection.

Huppert’s distinctive talent for suppressing suffering is readily evident in her slowly disintegrating relationship with Daniel Auteuil, as Huppert imparts chilling intimacy to a withdrawn hand, an unanswering gaze, a treacherous silence and a careless word in conveying the pain of falling out of love.

10. Madame Bovary 1991

Not her greatest film but certainly one of the most accessible for anyone not familiar with the talents of Huppert. Based on Gustave Flaubert’s fabulous novel, the film brings the exacerbated trajectory of a young girl who has a highly romanticised view of the world and craves beauty, wealth, passion, as well as high society. It is the disparity between these romantic ideals and the realities of her country life that drive most of the novel, leading her into two affairs and to accrue an insurmountable amount of debt that eventually leads to her suicide.

This adaptation of ‘Madame Bovary’ is perhaps the best of any adaptation to date. Claude Chabrol manages to capture even the most emblematic nuances of Flaubert’s book, elevating a unique atmosphere for the unfolding of scenes.

However, the main point of distinction between this work and the others is the presence of Isabelle Huppert as protagonist, delivering a powerful and visceral performance from the first to the last scene.

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The rhythm of my heart

Summary: Street racing wasn’t something that Race was particularly proud of. He didn’t like the shitty attitude that people in the scene had and he sure as hell didn’t enjoy spending time after time breaking several laws in one go.

What he did enjoy was the rush of adrenaline, the way his body almost disconnected from his brain. The way his brain assumed that he was almost flying.

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Hey you guys, this is a prequel to a fic I’m currently writing and I thought why not share it. This is for my street racing AU featuring Race and this lil’ thing is mainly me figuring out plot holes so.

Disclaimer: I don’t know anything about street racing and I’m pretty sure it’s shows, but bear with me. Also English isn’t my first language but I think I did okay.

Rated: T for language, I guess. There’s a lot of cursing. ~1500 words

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The engine roared loudly, the entire car vibrating from it’s force, being pushed into third gear with the hand brake still on.

The wheels were turning and had started smoking against the dark asphalt, making sounds that any other person would’ve deemed hurtful to their ears.

To Race though, they sounded like a melody, an old familiar song, that accompanied him on the street. He took the pedal down to the metal and looked straight ahead, where some female thing was waving around flags like she was a shitty circus performer.

Race never knew where the guys got the girls they put on the spot, but he didn’t really care either. They enjoyed the feeling of being part of something like this, so who was he to judge?

Suddenly her waving pattern changed, a pattern Race would recognize anytime anywhere. He checked his rearview mirror one last time.

Three. Two. One.

He put down the break and almost flew into the night, the lights of the city traveling by faster than shooting stars. He barely registered them, focus unwavering and locked on the road in front of him. He knew the streets by heart, knew every bump and sign, knew the way the curves tightened and loosened.

He was confident he could win this thing and he got Albert to listen to the police radio and inform him in time if a car was headed up their way. He rarely got into races with that much confidence but today just seemed to be one of those days. He shifted up to the next gear within a mere blink of an eye.

Street racing wasn’t something that Race was particularly proud of. He didn’t like the shitty attitude that people in the scene had and he sure as hell didn’t enjoy spending time after time breaking several laws in one go.

What he did enjoy was the rush of adrenaline, the way his body almost disconnected from his brain and did all the driving while he focused on the traffic and made sure to let his opponents think they could beat him, just long enough to not end up in a giant brawl in the end, because they could count his win off as luck. It was tactics that helped him survive out here.

Aside from that. there was also the fact that his brain couldn’t quite tell they were driving anymore. It straight up lost all common sense and assumed that he was flying. There was nothing Race could do that would even come close to that sense of freedom (and he had tried to find a less dangerous pasttime).

Race also loved the car that Finch had assembled for him. Well, maybe less for him than for Charlie, but he was the one who took her out for drives at night and beat her up to over 140 mph in the city.

This year Charlie had chipped him a Toyota Supra despite Race’s protesting (“only the best for the best, Race”) and Finch had modified the sleek sportscar with gadgets and technology Race didn’t even pretend to understand. What he did understand though, was that Finch wouldn’t dare to disappoint Charlie and that’s why he trusted in the car. Well that, and because he assumed that Finch wasn’t one to go out and try to get people killed.

Halfway through the course that he had agreed on with his competitor, Race realized he should’ve taken the Toyota out a bit more before racing. Every now and then his driving got weird, whenever the car handled the speed and wind differently than he expected it too and he felt like his handling was going to get him to lose grip and send him flying into the next wall.

He started checking his rearview mirror more regularly, a slight insecurity starting to settle in his stomach, but realized that he couldn’t find a trace of the other’s car behind him. That was beyond weird. Morris Delancey most definitely had not managed to overtake him, yet he shouldn’t be far back either. At least not so far, that Race couldn’t even see his lights in the mirror. Morris’ car was a damn powerhouse and with any other driver surely would’ve come out top of each race.

Race was starting to feel sick. He definitely could not lose this race. Not with high stakes.

Race was well aware that the decision to race Morris was hella risky. Most of the city’s racers went under nicknames, trying to make sure that they couldn’t be ratted out and the plice couldn’t trace them. Or for that matter, other racers.

Morris Delancey though, he didn’t need a nickname to be safe. His daddy’s money made sure of that all by itself. If the police ever got him he’d be free again sooner than sunrise. The racers around the city were cautious of him; not only did he have supplies and money to boost his ride, he also was known for not following the few rules that street racing had.

So when word got to Race that Morris Delancey wanted to race him, the one person nicknamed after his talent in street racing, Race’s initial reaction had been to decline. He was good at what he did, but that didn’t make him stupid.

But now here he was, in Charlie’s car, getting more nervous by the minute, because Morris Delancey had made him an offer he couldn’t pass up. The same Morris Delancey who apparently had cheated and took a shortcut, because there was no way in hell he was that far behind Race.

“Crutch, you read me?”, he asked while speeding up even more, having to use the handbrake to make the turn and partway drifting through the turn that got him back on track to their starting point. His vision started blurring and he took a deep breath in an attempt to calm his nerves. The alarm that had started blaring in his head as soon as he had realized that Morris wasn’t where he was supposed to be, didn’t really help as he tried to concentrate on getting back as fast as possible, throwing any caution to the wind and pushing the car to it’s limits.

A small crackling sound reached him through the radio, followed by Charlie’s voice. “Yeah, man. What the hell is going on out there? We lost signal on Morris’ car a few miles ago. His team ain’t any wiser.”

Shit. Race, contrary to popular belief, wasn’t stupid or slow. He knew damn well that could only mean one thing.

“Crutch, he’s taking a blackout. Haven’t seen his car for a bit and there’s no way he took the lead. He’s playin dirty. I can’t lose this one, you hear me, Crutch?”

When he got no answer, Race started to panic and for split second forgot he was supposed to be handling a monster of a machine at a speed that would kill him if he made one mistake. He heaved the car off the course into the street lamp back onto the road. His knuckles had turned white a couple minutes ago from the death grip he had on the wheel.

“Crutchie?” Nothing.

Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Fucking Morris Delancey. Fucking asshole.

Another crackled sound made it to the radio. “Yo, Race, it’s Al. I had Charlie take over the radio station. Give me a sec and I will find where that ass is hiding.”

Race breathed out a sigh of relief, thanking the gods for giving him a best friend that had too much free time on his hands and tought himself how to hack pretty much any system. He knew the race couldn’t take that much longer; if he kept up his speed he’d probably be back in around 15 minutes.

“Al, how are we lookin? I need good news and preferably now.” Another turn, another neigh drift. Shifting gears, using the momentum for faster acceleration.

“I got something and… Shit.” The connection went down for a second before - “Race, he went right through that old lane that belongs to the outer parts of the red-light destrict. I don’t know how you can overtake him, man, he’s got a couple miles on you.”

A string or curses left Race’s mouth, some of them slipping right back to Italian. Merda. Va’ a fare in culo!

“I feel ya. So what you wanna do now?”, Albert asked through the com.

What do you wanna do now? Race didn’t need to think twice. He had raced cheating assholes before, making sure they got a lesson for trying to best him under entirely unfair conditions.

“Funny you should ask, my dear Al. Because I have quite the idea.” He got off the road he was supposed to be taking and drove down a lane that would save him a good couple minutes on his way.

“I wanna take out that motherfucker and I sure as hell won’t let him beat me at my own damn game. Al, get your systems started, I want a route that will put me in front of him me, pronto! I want his sorry ass to eat dirt.”

He heard laughter on the other line, then frantic typing. A beat of static noises and then - “There you go, dude. Show him who’s the King of ‘Hattan!” A small clicking noise let him know that Albert had cut the connection for now, most likely because he knew that any kind of distraction might cost Race his win.

A mere second later the screen inside the car lit up, providing him navigation and - on top of that - let him keep track of Morris’ position.

“Alright, baby, let’s see what you got”, he murmured and took the car down the trail that would cost Morris his sweet, sweet victory.

Race only had one thought as he flew down the streets of Manhattan: I am going to win this thing!

#newsies #newsies fanfiction #racetrack higgins #crutchie newsies #crutchie morris #racetrack newsies #albert dasilva #albert newsies #finch newsies #writing #english isn't my first language #I'm genuinely sorry about weird wording or grammar mistakes #Street racing AU #I don't know anything about street racing and it shows #I just liked the idea of Race being nicknamed after actually being a Racer #morris delancey

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Started chapter 2 of V3!

So... what the heck was that intro to chapter 2? Who were those people talking when mourning Kaede?

Interestingly my attitudes on the characters are kind of shifting. Kaito I don’t like as much as I used to because some of the macho manliness stuff just rubs me the wrong way. I like Tenko even less at this point, I’m tired of this straw-feminist shtick. Angie I’ve just become numb to and am all “oh guess we’re stuck with miss racial stereotype”. Kokichi hasn’t changed much, sometimes he’s annoying, sometimes he’s amusing and/or intriguing. Korekiyo has been growing on me, I like his whole weird anthropology and effeminate attitude thing. Miu has grown lesser in my favourite books, though surprisingly I still don’t outright dislike her.

Okay if Tenko and Teruteru are like polar opposites that still reach unlikeability what happens when they meet?

Everyone loves Kirumi! Who wants to bet she dies soon? :v

What IS with the “horse a” carving anyway?

Wow, Shuichi doesn’t eat breakfast... I’m guilty of that more than I’d like to be.

I forgot to mention last time that macho man aside, seeing Kaito really take Kaede’s words to heart was sweet. Seeing him apologise for the punch was cool too.

Okay Kokichi is definitely this game’s Byakuya and pre-Peko death Fuyuhiko analogue (the latter is funny because apparently they have the same English VA). He’s still hard to read, but he doesn’t seem like he’s up for being a team player. Also... he had a pretty creepy yet amusing face in the first trial... here in the dining hall, he takes it even further by basically having his face enveloped in shadow and honestly it’s just creepy. He feels like the obvious choice as the mastermind if it’s one of the students, but given how antagonistic he already is I kinda doubt it as well, with outwardly antagonistic characters in DR they never end up being the actual big bad from the looks of it. Also, he’s supreme leader of an evil organisation... what if he’s just the leader of an army of Internet trolls? :v He has the perfect personality for one.

So now we have to use basically keys to unlock new areas, heh. Was a bit taken back initially, but it does kind of add more immersion to be honest.

Come to think of it, why aren’t everyone’s labs available from the start? I mean, we see what is presumably Shuichi’s even in the first chapter and it’s still unavailable to visit.

Monokubs are getting heated with each other, Monosuke seems pissed about Monokid’s death but the others don’t mind, especially Monodam. Monodam is still the best one, being more assertive has kept him just as fun as before.

Okay so they bring up Jack the Ripper when they go to Kirumi’s lab... um, is this the serial killer of the game? A Jack the Ripper wannabe? Weird if it’s the case.

Maki has probably been the most forgettable character so far, but one still has to wonder what’s in her room. I imagine she’s probably just sensitive because of her dislike of being a child caregiver despite it being her talent.

Okay, Miu, I’m pretty sure saying two men should just go in a shower sexually as a mean spirited joke is homophobic.

Aww, Ryoma seems sad about tennis. He feels trapped whether he’s in this game or in actual prison. Also ouch, he actually admits he doesn’t want to survive the whole killing game. Seriously I bet he does have some tragic backstory. Don’t tell me he’s gonna be one of the survivors because he’s fine with dying too. :v

On the other hand, with the way he’s drawn seeing Ryoma’s dramatic reaction to Miu’s still awful and in poor taste joke is pretty hilarious, his face still lacks a lot of expression but it has JUST enough to convey a feeling. I like him TBH. I keep forgetting he’s still a teen too, even though he sounds and acts far older (unless he got held back or something, I mean I’m preeeety sure Himiko is still a kid).

A swimming pool... I worry about what this could mean down the line. Also I am NOT buying that key of love or whatever it’s called.

A casino... Monokuma encourages gambling... oh wait he actually freaking does. RIP poor Kaito. Sometimes you’re recklessness doesn’t help you, dude. Though his super dramatic expression is hilarious.

Kaito reminds me a lot of Poe Dameron actually, I mean he’s even the ultimate astronaut.

Okay, the big thing... they get more memories back. However... are they really getting memories back? I mean, they went all in with the truth and lies in the trial, so one has to wonder if they’re really regaining memories or it’s just fabricating even more of a past for them.

That being said, with what we have, it seems like them all lacking talents at the start was because they erased their memories to hide from the Ultimate Hunt? Given they’re focusing on their talents, one has to wonder if the Ultimate Hunt is tied to the Tragedy, because I mean, it does sound like what happened there. Common people rebelling against those seen and promoted as talented to the point where a part of the Tragedy is basically the genocide of those seen as talented fits all this pretty well. Of course, more info will probably completely recontextualise this, but I’m surprised at how well this fits.

Was the technology they used to erase their memories of their talented selves Neo-World related? Shuichi with the machine looked just like when we saw Kaede with it.

With this stuff we found, it’s looking more and more like Rantaro basically had his remembering process fucked up somehow, hence not remembering his talent but the Ultimate Hunt (and I guess anything else he knows).

What the fuck was the line of Shuichi wanting to die with everyone else about when we saw that flashback of the memory wipe?

Okay so this is pretty weird... so if the Monokubs used the remembering machine to make them remember their talents, it also means that somehow led them to forgetting that they lost them? So it made them remember AND forget so their minds would be pre-Hunt essentially? Of course, assuming this isn’t some brainwashing bullshit that’s implanting fake memories altogether.

Did some more free times with Tsumugi because she’s adorable, and I’m seeing an interesting duality. On one hand, she seems to view herself as plain and it feels like she cosplays to try and gain attention (or emphasizing plainness is in its own way a ploy for attention)? On the other, she seems to hate cosplayers who get caught up in their own self-image and get into drama, treating it more serious when the real joy is just dressing as characters you like, and as a result prefers making costumes to wearing them.

I’m up to a rather intriguing point where the Monokubs leave something for Shuichi it seems... but that will have to wait.

Also I can’t believe I forgot about Ryoma pointing out the now I realise really obvious symbolism with Shuichi’s hat and how he’s kinda shielding himself from reality, lol.

#danganronpa V3

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straydays7-blog · 7 years

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My Day6inNYC Experience!

EDIT: I typed this up in word and pasted it into Tumblr. Tumblr kinda make some things look a little weird so excuse that please.

This is super late coming but as soon as I left NYC I had to cram for a ton of exams and now that most of those are over I can take the time to talk about my experience seeing Day6 perform live and even hi-touching them;;;; This post might be a little bit all over the place, but I cant help but to feel SO MANY FEELINGS when I think about this okay. Its still so surreal I cant believe it actually happened it felt like a really good dream okay. Also, I wish my English were better to express myself here I have so many emotions I wish to express but honestly, I dont know how Id even describe these feelings in any other languages I know SO ILL TRY MY BEST WITH ENGLISH. Also, fair warning, thisll probably be really long so prepare yourself.

Okay, first things first. I arrived like 30 mins early to pick up my P2 wristband and apparently had I been a little earlier I could have seen day6 enter the Town Hall! Somehow, even though I was not the first that arrived at the venue to pick up my wristband, I did end up being first in the P2 line. And lord behold. Someone opened the backstage door. Then and there, I caught a glimpse of Sungjin, playing his guitar singing his part in the You Were Beautiful chorus. EVERYONE AROUND ME STARTED SCREAMING LOL. I was in such shock. Sungjin is so beautiful (in present tense) and has one of the best voices Ive ever heard okay. I dont think I really realized until then I was going to see Day6, like the band that inspires me to work hard every day and makes me so happy. Even though I had bought the ticket and everything that brought me to NYC, it felt surreal and then I knew it was R E A L. Theyre real and I was about to watch them perform live and even meet them afterwards like what the heck? After getting my wristband, I picked up a fanproject banner that would later be used to move day6 to tears:) These boys are so wholesome.

I went back to my hotel for a while after that because it was rainy and windy so walking around didnt sound so nice. Around 5:30 I left to get a bite to eat and then head back to the venue. Ended up getting a burger at Five Guys (and okay totally off topic from seeing Day6, but the Five Guys burger I had in NYC was so much better than any Ive had here in VA? Or maybe excitement makes stuff taste better.) I arrived at the venue at like 6:00 and the line was already pretty long! There were some My Days handing out photocards and I bought a Sungjin badge from one girl. (This experience is gonna make me sound so Sungjin biased but omg my bias is definitely Young K)

Once I was in the Town Hall I decided to buy a lightstick to cheer for the band! Id already ordered some of the other merch from the Subkulture Shop, because I was literally only traveling with one backpack and didnt want to buy more than I could fit in to take back home.

I had no idea on which side my seat would be, I only knew I would be 12 rows away from the stage. So, when I found my seat I was beyond happy to see I was on Young K and Wonpils side of the stage omg. With a really clear view of the both of them also! All the MyDays there were so sweet man, I had a great time talking with some while waiting for the concert to begin. Though I do honestly really wish that @mikulinneamew or @reading-river would have been there with me. Day6s instruments were already set on the stage and oh my goodness I fell in love with Sungjins Gibson Les Paul. Its white body with the black pickguard and golden hardware is SO BEAUTIFUL. Makes me want to go out and buy a Les Paul just like it, but going to this concert I used money I was originally saving for a new Fender P-Bass (That aint happening for a while now lol) but I am so not complaining. Sungjins Martin acoustic is also really beautiful, but I still prefer Taylors. Young Ks bass is also super pretty. Really, I was drooling over these instruments while waiting for the concert to begin.

Its two minutes before the concert was set to begin and everyone is already chanting â€œDAY6! DAY6! DAY6! DAY6!â€. Shortly after the lights went dark and the screen behind the stage started to play a video introducing the members (And can I say I love how so many of their songs were mashed up perfectly in that video like wow Id love the audio of just that)! One by one then the members came on stage. First Dowoon, then Wonpil, followed by Young K, Jae and last but not least, leader Sungjin! While the video was finishing playing I could see Young K getting his bass tuned and ready to perform. I started tearing up here already because they were right in front of me? Unreal, but yet so real.

And then, the first song was: I WAIT! One of my favorite songs already ;; (what am I saying, all of their songs are my favorites) Such a high energy song for the first one. It was perfect to get the crowd hyped and pumped for what was to come! Then there was me crying of happiness and singing along though omg. DAY6 IS SO COOL PERFORMING. Sungjin and Jae rocking out on their guitars, Young K thumping on the Bass, Wonpil playing the Synth and Dowoon rocking the drums! I loved how connected the audience was with the band too like out of all the live performances from bands Ive seen, this one was definitely the one with the most chemistry with the audience and music! All of the â€œI WAIT!â€ chants were so nice to hear with the music aaaa. THE SONG ENDED SO FAST. All songs went by so quick really, but hey that just means youre having a great time.

The second song was: HUNT! I was NOT prepared for this song so early on in the show already. If I had to summarize this performance in two words: Younghyuns rap (I love it so much). I really love the guitar riffs in this song so I payed a lot of attention to Jae and Sungjin at first but man, as soon as it was rapping time my eyes were focused on Young K. His rapping timbre is soooOOO darn good. And hes such a good performer too when he does it. HE FEELS EVERY WORD HE SAYS. Hunt is such a good song. I loved it. So much.

After the first two songs, lights went back on for a moment and Jae hyped up the audience! Young K shook his head the first time everyone made noise at Jaes request, but the second time Jae asked us to make some noise BOY THAT WAS GOOD VOLUME MYDAYS HAVE GREAT LUNGS.

That was followed by: IM SERIOUS! This song is so fluffy and catchy Im pretty sure everyone was singing along in the â€œI cant stop loving youâ€ part. I mean, how could anyone stop loving day6 theyre so wholesome and talented and KIND AND SWEET. Wow. Its SO FUN to watch Sungjin play his acoustic guitar he was smiling the whole time. Everyone was smiling during that performance EVEN DOWOON HE WAS SO CUTE. Its such a sweet song how can you not smile playing it or listening to it. During the acapella part Young K was shooting finger hearts and did an AMAZING adlib. I was m e l t i n g. Turning me into a puddle.

The next song was: MAN IN A MOVIE! I REALLY LOVE THIS SONG A LOT. Another really soft and fluffy song, but soOOO musically interesting. Day6 is one of the few groups that not only produces earcandy, but earcandy that is also thinking candy for people who enjoy music theory (a n d I d o) This is the only day6 song Ive actually written out a fingerstyle ukulele arrangement for (totally weird instrument choice, but Im working on rewriting it for guitar LOL). Im EXTREMELY fond of everyones vocals on this song. Especially Sungjins and Young Ks :)

After this song it was game and Q&A time! I cant remember if the preference game or Q&A was first so Im just going to talk about the preference game first.

Firstly though, all the members introduced themselves. They all looked so happy that it made me even happier LOL. For the preference game, all of the audience had to stand up and participate in a game with day6! It was so fun! First up the audience had to guess which one Jae like more, by either raising their left or right arm: The statue of liberty or Brooklyn bridge. The right answer was Brooklyn bridge and the majority of the audience (including me) had guessed it right! The MyDays who guessed wrong, had to take their seat again. Second was Bob (Sungjin). I guessed his wrong already! >3< The question was if he preferred playing Overwatch or Fifa. The correct answer was Fifa. Sadly, most people had guessed this one wrong. Next was Dowoon. We had to guess if he prefers skirts or jeans on girls LOL. His answer was jeans but it got too loud that I couldnt quite hear his reasoning. Then was Young K. Does he prefer sneakers or high heels? His answer was sneakers, because high heels are very uncomfortable (he said hes even tried them on before what a cutie). Wonpil had the most far fetched question in my opinion it was kinda funny! The audience had to guess if he likes Ariel or Snow White more. His answer was Snow White because he feels more sorry for her. Lastly was a question that would decide the faith of a lot of Jae stans hair LOL. Does he like long hair or short hair better on girls? His answer was short hair, because it makes them seem more confident. After all of those guesses only four lucky MyDays out of about 1500 were left standing! They got invited onto the stage and got a bag full of (signed!) tour merch gifted to them by Day6! It was so sweet and kind that the winners even received such a gift from Day6 themselves!

MOVING ON TO THE Q&A! Before they picked their questions to answer, Sungjin said â€œThis! Is! Paradise!â€ and Dowoon sang the â€œOh you are My Daaayâ€ part of their song MY DAY to the NYC MyDays. Wonpil went first to pick his question. While each member would choose their question, the audience would sing the jeopardy theme song. It was hilarious. He chose the question: â€œWhere did your interest in music come from?â€ Right when he was about to answer the question someone in the audience screamed â€œI LOVE YOU YOUNG Kâ€ but Young K shut her down so fast saying â€œIts Wonpil time!â€ Wonpil was flustered for a sec but then resumed to answer his question and said that he listened to a lot of hip hop when he was young and that got him interested. Next up was Young K! He chose the question: â€œWhat was the funniest moment in your life?â€. He began to say that since Chuseok hes been eating more. And his most funny moment was before he came onto the stage. Apparently his pants didnt fit him anymore and he had to expand them a bit! The way he told this story was utterly hilarious and cute I can highly recommend finding a fancam of this moment omg. After him was Dowoon. His question was: â€œIf you could have a superpower what would it be?â€ He said he wishes he could talk to animals. When he was in college he had a pet cat which he neglected and now he feels bad for that. He said if he could only communicate with one kind of animal though it would be bear LOL. Sungjin started imitating a bear after that and it was so hilarious omg he puffed himself up and was clawing at him. Next was Sungjin! He was lowkey dancing along to the jeopardy theme omg. His question was: â€œWhat is the hardest thing you have ever done?â€. He said working towards Day6s debut was the hardest time in his life ;; He shouted out collapsedone who helped them a lot towards their debut and he was actually at the concert right there ;; Jae was the last one to get a question. He chose: â€œWhat inspired you to pursue music?â€. He said he was getting into a bunch of Youtube musicians and thought he should try it out too. He met Wong Fu Productions Phil who also further inspired him to pursue music. And so Yellowpostitman was born. That concluded the Q&A! Day6 left the stage for a quick moment while the NYC Vlog-like video they made for the tour started playing. This time it was Wonpils cut! It showed the boys having fun at times square (someone in the audience screamed I SEE MYSELF and everyone laughed it was so funny) and Wonpil loosing his phone while dancing on the street LOL. I really love this vlog concept they had to play during intermission its so sweet of them.

Once the vlog was over they came back on stage and started to perform You Were Beautiful. THIS SONG IS SO BEAUTIFUL. Its one of the first songs of theirs I heard that got me into them ;; I was tearing up during this whole performance its such a heartfelt song and you could truly feel the emotions of the song being conveyed in their performance. They all sing it so softly yet powerfully. I really love Young Ks vocal parts in this song and his voice was so stable too (everyones was really) aaa ;;

The next song they performed was their debut song CONGRATULATIONS! Everyone in the audience had received a red sticker to cover their phone flashlight with during this song to create a red ocean. I wasnt in a good seat so see if it was a success or not but the lighting definitely seemed more red :) Everyone was singing along to EVERY BIT of this song it was fantastic. I love this song so much aaa. Young Ks rap makes me feel so many FEELINGS. This song was over way too quick I wish itd last forever.

After Congratulations Jae was saying that the last two songs are coming now and everyone was getting a LIL SAD that the night was coming to an end soon. (Jae didnt count the encore though ;D) Jae also took a moment to tell everyone that they should follow their dreams and not let anyone tell them that they cant make it. Even when it seems impossible to make it to your dreams he believes that we can make the jump and achieve them ;; Hearing those words from him made me a sobbing mess. For a few reasons I think. Even just seeing them perform live was a dream come true. Being in NYC (if even just for two days) was a dream come true. Its a city Id been dreaming of seeing someday since I was a little kid. Probably because music as a career has almost always been my dream. And NYC is one of the worlds music capitals. I used to want to become a concert pianist. Then I wanted to become a music teacher. Right now Im leaning more towards songwriting, production and playing guitar LOL. But as someone whos in the position where I need to decide what I want to do with my future relatively soon, Jaes words helped me so much.

Their next song was LETTING GO! And oh my goodness. I was not prepared for those buttery sweet harmonies in the beginning. I was thinking so much about what Jae had said before during this performance so Im a little blank on what special happened during this performance but I totally remember it being mesmerizing;;

Their last song before encore was I SMILE! The fanchants on this one were so strong! Everyone held their banner up which read â€œMy Day6 which I thought I only met in my dreams is right in front of meâ€. I could see Young K tear up when he read it. It was so sweet :) I do wish that Wonpils synth had been a tiny bit louder because he has that cool solo part in it, but I could hardly hear it. But the whole performance was so overwhelmingly beautiful that I was crying.

After performing I SMILE they left the stage and everyone started chanting â€œDAY6! DAY6!â€ again. Shortly after they came back on stage and THEY PERFORMED DANCE DANCE. This song is so upbeat and happy and makes you forget all the stress so much I love it to bits. I absolutely love Jaes guitar part in this song too so I tried to focus on him until Brians rap distracted me AGAIN (rapper K is my weakness okay). The entire performance was so high energy it was perfect buildup to the next song they performed which was also their last performance for the night. FREEí•˜ê²Œ! This is my go-to song for escaping from the stress of life and simply basking in how powerful music truly is. So, hearing it live, as the encore really touched me (and I cried more). I felt so many emotions go through me during this performance. It felt like a reminder of why I love music so much, which sometimes is well needed. Its so energetic and uplifting. My highlight of this performance: â€¦Young Ks rap (wow surprise surprise). Also Sungjins high note! And Jae jumping into the crowd and hyping us up even more! (If Jae tells you to jump, you have to jump.) This performance was a perfect end for the concert. I really didnt want it to end though.

After this performance Day6 bowed and thanked the audience. I dont know where to begin describing how I felt after that. I still had the high touch left but the main event was over. I felt (still feel and always will) so extremely blessed to have been able to experience that. Theyre such a wholesome, hardworking and admirable band. I felt such extreme happiness.

The night was nearly over, but the hi-touch was still left for those who had purchased a P2 ticket! Id never done a hi-touch before, so I didnt know what to expect. I only knew itd go by super quick. What I did NOT expect however, is to walk around a corner and BAM there standing is Young K, Mr. Brian Kang, THE KANG YOUNGHYUN, BASSIST RAPPER GODLY VOCALS FULL TIME COLLEGE STUDENT BUT ALSO FULL TIME BANDMEMBER HE WORKS SO HARD OK. It is a lot to take in when you see your ultimate bias being the first in line for the hi-touch. My first thought was how pretty his NOSE is. Like dang, boys got the finest nose Ive ever seen. My second thought was how intimidating he seemed though omg. But as soon as it was my turn for a brief second with him it seemed like he was glowing and flowers were blooming around him? Hes got the sweetest smile and eyes. Instead of high fiving him I held onto his hand for a second and all I could say was â€œI love you so muchâ€ I WAS IN SUCH AWE. He gave my hand a bit of a squeeze and said he loves me back. SUCH A NICE MAN IM CRYING.Â Then it was already time to move on though and next was Dowoon! My mind was completely blank from Young K being first (I was hoping hed be last for this reason LOL) I also grabbed onto Dowoons hand for a moment and I mustve not said anything at first, because he was like â€œThank you!â€ first (his Korean accent is adorable) so I said thank you back to him and he then gave a teeny bow like how polite omg. Thats all I had with Dowoon though (Wish I could have said more I wanted to tell him how cool he is!) But next was Jae. First impression: Hes so TALL. Second impression: Hes so NICE. I think Jae made it a thing to keep eye contact with his fans for as much as he could. I told him â€œThank you so much Jaeâ€ because man especially his speech about following dreams hit me hard as I had mentioned before. Hes honestly the member I was most thankful for that night (Im thankful for them all though please dont misunderstand!) I would have hugged him if I could. His face is so pretty up close too, how can someone manage to look handsome but like a personification of Chicken Little at the same time? Jae can. Next was Wonpil! And I must say I was taken a back a little like â€œWho is this man?â€ HE LOOKS SO DIFFERENT IN REAL LIFE. In a good way of course! I held onto his hand for a moment and said â€œThanks Wonpilâ€ he nodded and had such a smug look on his face like omg. SUNGJIN WAS NEXT AND BOY THIS WAS MY FAVORITE ENCOUNTER. He was already like pulling his arm back to give a really hard high five so I was BRACING myself, because it looked like it might be painful omg. Hes the only member I actually high fived whoops. BUT his high five was so happy and so energetic! Yet it was aggressively soft? It was definitely a hard high five but it didnt hurt at all LOL. He was like â€œAh yeah!â€ after that and I thanked him for the great show. Then the hi-touch was over for me. Even though I wish I could have had a little more time with them, I was so thankful to have had the experience in the first place.

IN CONCLUSION: This was the best night of my life so far. This definitely is not going to be the last time I see them live. If they come back to NA while Im still here you can count on me doing my best to get that P1 or P2 ticket. They better come to Europe someday too! For their next tour if it works out I might even try to go to more than one of their concerts. I was trying to go to the Toronto concert for this tour too, but my exam schedule wouldnt allow that. But I am so blessed that NYC happened. I will also definitely plan any trip to Asia around their concert schedule!

Tl;dr: I love day6 so much. See them live someday plz. Tell Brian I love him plz.

#day6innyc #day6 #day6inna2017 #zan rambles

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sage-nebula · 7 years

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Are there any english voices that you think would fit the RFA members if Mystic Messenger were to get a dub?

HMMM . . .

707 / Seven / Choi Luciel / Choi Saeyoung:

Troy Baker.

Seven’s Korean voice actor has a deep voice naturally. While it’s not as deep as Jumin’s, it’s still a deeper register than you would expect, and it’s a register that Troy Baker naturally hits. Additionally, Troy has shown skill when it comes to playing characters who can be lethally serious (as Seven can be) while also being snarky and sassy on the regular (as Seven also is). A good example of this is his portrayal of Yuri Lowell in Tales of Vesperia. While he would of course need to inject a little more enthusiasm into his voice at times (for times when Seven is being ridiculous instead of serious), Troy’s a talented voice actor, and I think he could pull it off.

Unknown / Choi Saeran:

Yuri Lowenthall.

Identical twins can have quite different voices depending on their hormones and the circumstances they grew up in / environment they’re in / external things they’ve done to their bodies, and the Choi twins show this pretty readily even in the Korean dub, where they have two different actors and sound quite different from each other. (Particularly with how high-pitched and shrill Saeran gets at times, goodness.) Nonetheless, I still think that Yuri Lowenthall could provide enough of a twin match for Troy Baker, even if he’s not an exact match (like Matthew Mercer would be---but sorry, Matthew would not be a good fit for Saeran at all). His voice can go deep as well, as proven by his portrayal of characters such as Uchiha Sasuke in Naruto, but he also knows how to go high and panicky when need-be, as proven by his portrayal of characters such as Luke fon Fabre in Tales of the Abyss (I love Luke, but let’s be real, he did a lot of yelling). Yuri Lowenthall has a good range and I think that he would be a good fit for Saeran with some voice direction.

Han Jumin:

J. Michael Tatum.

It’s a bit of typecasting, but J. Michael Tatum has experience in playing characters similar to Jumin, so I think that he would be able to do a good job. Aside from having a very deep voice (necessary for Jumin), his experience in playing characters such as Ootori Kyouya from Ouran High School Host Club, Lin from Ghost Hunt, and (though it’s a different type of character) Scar from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood would make him a good fit for Jumin’s role, I feel.

Kang Jaehee:

Kari Wahlgren.

My most familiar experience with Kari Wahlgren is when she voiced Raine Sage in the original Tales of Symphonia, but she has an extensive resume of different roles and I’m confident that she would do an excellent job as Jaehee. Not only did her portrayal of Raine cover a wide range of necessary emotions (stern and responsible teacher, but also ruins fangirl, similarly to how Jaehee is very serious about her work but still fangirls over Zen), but she has also portrayed other businesswomen over time (e.g. the reporter in Gravity Falls), and so I think that she would be a good fit for Jaehee.

Zen / Ryu Hyun:

Travis Willingham.

This might seem like an odd choice, considering that Travis is typically known for his very, very deep deliveries (think Gaius from Tales of Xillia). However, Travis Willingham isn’t all guttural growls and smooth baritones; he can go a bit higher in register as well (just a bit!), and I think that would make him a nice choice for Zen. For instance, consider his portrayal of the character Monk in Ghost Hunt. I think that if he played Zen like that, it would be a good fit.

Kim Yoosung:

Bryce Papenbrook.

Bryce Papenbrook is known for voicing energetic, youthful characters, which I think would make him a good fit for Yoosung. In particular, though, I was imagining his portrayal of Asbel Lhant in Tales of Graces F when considering him, since Asbel has a youthful voice, but can be serious (though still young sounding!) when need-be, which I think would be a good fit for Yoosung. If you want to take a listen, you can do so here.

Rika:

Laura Bailey.

Laura Bailey has a wide range, and while her role as Cheria Barnes in Tales of Graces F makes this a bit funny when you consider Bryce was given the role of Yoosung, I think that if Laura portrayed Rika as a blend between her Cheria voice and her Lust voice from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, she could do an excellent job. In the original Korean, after all, Rika has something of a higher, more feminine voice, no doubt to sell the fragile, delicate, sweet image she wanted others to buy. I think that Laura could do an excellent job of portraying that, and thus would be a good fit for Rika.

Matthew Mercer.

The similarities between Matthew Mercer’s voice and Troy Baker’s voice might seemingly cause problems for this at first. However, we hear V so infrequently that I don’t think it would be a problem. Additionally, V is the type of person to have a softer voice, something soft and deep and good, and I think that Matthew Mercer would do an excellent job portraying that. Namely, I just think of how he delivered the line, “You deserved better from me than one sword and a world of troubles” as Chrom in Fire Emblem: Awakening, and that makes me think he’d be an excellent casting choice for V.

Vanderwood:

Eric Vale.

Personally, I consider Vanderwood to be genderfluid due to all of the confusion surrounding their gender (like, I’ve looked on the Wiki and it seems that Vanderwood is supposed to be male, but the game itself makes it so confusing that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), but that said, Vanderwood does have a male VA in the original Korean, so I’m continuing that here. To that end, Eric Vale has experience in voicing androgynous characters (or male characters that have feminine characteristics) such as Rideaux in Tales of Xillia 2, and as such I think that he could pull off Vanderwood with ease.

#mystic messenger #decadeoldtiger

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