Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-30602727-20160202181457/@comment-53539-20160406100845

I can remember when people discovered Dan green (Yugi from Yu-gi-oh, "Zolo" from One Piece, Knuckles from Sonic when 4Kids were handling things) was discovered to have been in old 18+ anime dubs. He used a pseudo name...

Actually it was more light reaction then you'd think, I mean there were a lot of jokes where people replaced Yugi's words with extracts of Dan Greens 18+ anime dubs, especially since he used the voice of Yugi once or twice, but he was one of the few well loved 4Kis VAs. He just took it in his stride - as did the fans.

Even to date, Dan still has a lot of fans and I've seen him acts out the Yugioh Abridged series words before. He just is what he is - Dan Green the man. ITs certainly better then Jason Griffith who at some points failed to distinguish Sonic from Shadow in Sonic X. Jaon Griffith can't display emotion at all in his characters, in contrast to Green, so while he is a master of many voice, he is very flat.

Most hated voice actor? Karen Neill. Even playing the One Piece games, Vivi was the most broken character if you knew how to play her, but often I quit because Karen's vocal grind into you. She has 1 monotone level of emotion for Vivi. While some complained Luffy only knew "scream" as an emotion but at least the scream had different tones to it... If Vivi was happy, if she was sad, she was the SAME TONE every time. It wouldn't had been so bad if it was boring, annoying, and considered one of the worst VA of the 4Kids. It didn't seem so bad at first, but as Vivi appeared more and more Karen became worst and worst at being her... Emotions that did show up ended up being forced and poorly acted anyway at best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4jXZbJ31xk

I'm not saying the voice acting was good at all, because 4Kids and "Mew Mew Power" were considered their worst dubs... Its that the director never tried to get the best out of the voice actors. Lines that SHOULD have been rejected were not and instead made it into the dub. At one point in the finale of Sonic x, Griffith accidentally switched to his Ussop vocal, resulting in Shadow just sounding stupid for a few lines =_=. So this was pretty common within the show. In contrast, the voice actress of Rarity in MLP does her lines sometimes more then once. Even for sound effects such as a "sigh"... She doesn't expect them to all be used, though in one of the EQ Girls movies, the show staff used all 3 of her sound effects when she expected them to use it once.

Its why Vocaloid still has a long way to go... In truth every Vocaloid vocal is nothing more then a flat monotone vocal on its own, so its like listening to the 4Kids dubs all over again. If this was unacceptable in 00s for this reason, I often find it amusing its acceptable for Vocaloid. Unless you switch tones via extra vocals, a lot of the Vocaloids have such an issue with this... :-/