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Fellow Kingdom Hearts VA Ben Diskin (best known as Young Xehanort) joins the main Pokémon anime today in Horizons as Paldea gym leader/Elite Four member Larry. He previously was in the Generations shorts as Lance and the Pokémon Masters mobile game.

Amusingly the third recent dub he's been in with Billy Bob Thompson - the other two being Mars Express and Ghost Cat Anzu (where he voiced a frog, coincidentally Billy Bob also voices a frog with Greninja in Pokemon).
 

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Fellow Kingdom Hearts VA Ben Diskin (best known as Young Xehanort) joins the main Pokémon anime today in Horizons as Paldea gym leader/Elite Four member Larry. He previously was in the Generations shorts as Lance and the Pokémon Masters mobile game.

Amusingly the third recent dub he's been in with Billy Bob Thompson - the other two being Mars Express and Ghost Cat Anzu (where he voiced a frog, coincidentally Billy Bob also voices a frog with Greninja in Pokemon).
so odd how many union actors they've been picking up in the dub only for it to still have the same abysmal mixing and written-for-children-only dialogue. I feel like Pokemon is leaving a lot of money on the table with how they do their dub, considering the ultra massive adult fanbase Pokemon has.

I'm not saying make it for adults, but the show has a pre-school cadence to it, along with incidental music that always, always drowns out what the actors are saying. shit is not crisp at all.
 

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so odd how many union actors they've been picking up in the dub only for it to still have the same abysmal mixing and written-for-children-only dialogue. I feel like Pokemon is leaving a lot of money on the table with how they do their dub, considering the ultra massive adult fanbase Pokemon has.

I'm not saying make it for adults, but the show has a pre-school cadence to it, along with incidental music that always, always drowns out what the actors are saying. shit is not crisp at all.
It's been like this since it moved away from 4kids. I wonder if its an intentional in house decision. The flanderisation just keeps getting worse with every passing season.
 

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Here's a question for you: who voices Selphie?
Molly Marlette (who otherwise is called Glume Harlow) voiced Selphie in Kingdom Hearts I and II (and Re: Chain of Memories via archival audio). However, given the passage of time from the release of those games, I am unsure if she would be able to reprise the character.
 

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Molly Marlette (who otherwise is called Glume Harlow) voiced Selphie in Kingdom Hearts I and II (and Re: Chain of Memories via archival audio). However, given the passage of time from the release of those games, I am unsure if she would be able to reprise the character.
Otherwise known as Molly Keck? Which is the credit given in KH1.
 

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She also doesn't have any spoken lines, archived or otherwise, in Chain of Memories.
 

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in light of the fact that his bday was yesterday, I want to highlight how fucking good Haley Joel Osment is at playing Sora. His KH3 and ReMind performances were spot on (even within KH3's weird ass voice direction). I think people tend to put a lot of undue pressure and expectation on actors to have an intimate understanding of the story and events, but Haley has almost 0 understanding of anything in KH and still provides a voice for Sora that feels experienced, lived-in, and dynamic. Playing the hero in a game that transitions from western Disney fun to *super* Japanese RPG territory is not an easy job, and, no shade, most of the main cast don't succeed at it, but Haley makes light work of it without even knowing what the fuck is going on.
 

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Isabela Merced has really blown up since Back Cover released in 2017 so I really hope Square Enix is able to get a schedule that works with her for returning to voice Master Ava.
 

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Just going to get ahead of this: Haley Joel Osment was arrested for public intoxication. While he was being transported he went on a rant that included slurs.

He has gone on record as being horrified and very sorry. He's going through a lot but that doesn't excuse what happened.

That's the long and the short of it. There's no point in posting about it, defending him, or speculating on how this will affect Kingdom Hearts, so don't bother.
 

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I appreciate that pretty much nobody said anything about it anyway.

Unrelated, when David Gallagher started a twitch channel, I was very worried that people would brigade him with Kingdom Hearts/Riku shit under the assumption that it's anything he cares to engage with beyond work... And that they did, definitely a lot of people popping up in the chat and calling him Riku. But he actually seems to take it in stride and smile when people bring up KH, which is nice. Dude's interests are far nerdier than KH however and I'm hoping that if he continues streaming he can carve out an audience of people who just wanna watch him play his dorky ass space sims rather than asking about Riku
 
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