| Katsucon Saturday -
American Voice Actors and Anime Companies |
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Tristan MacAvery started the day for the voice acting
contingent by showing fans how decisions are made on anime dubs. MacAvery
feels that films can be improved by changing the dub dialogue to fit the
intended audience. Some silent stretches in anime need dialogue to advance
the story, MacAvery feels. He showed examples of how the dubs he has directed
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A group of voice actors later gathered to talk about
their work. While Amy Howard has done only the Nova role from Star Blazers
(although that could change with a new role this year), Jessica Calvello
(on the right, in the blue hair) has done dozens of roles. the most recent
was Mink in Dragon Half, dubbed in January. Calvello said that the voice
director on that show told her to make up a Mink voice as if it was the
offspring of Cutey Honey and Fam from Ruin Explorers. |
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Lisa Ortiz, who made a late arrival at the convention
because of flight delays, said she has gotten a non-anime voice role -
as an evil midget in a sci-fi show. Her character dies after it's split
in half by an axe. Ortiz joked that her friends say she sounds more and
more like Lina Inverse from Slayers every day. |
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Just before Calvello (in her real hair this time)
and Dave Williams of ADV Films handed out prizes to fans at their panel,
the Texas-based company said they were going to join the direct sales world.
They're calling the sales program ADV Fansubs, but these videos will be
legal and licensed. The plan is to sell some ADV tapes, all subtitled,
through the World-Wide Web and mail order, to get them onto the market
without the distribution delay of retail sales (the process of listing
videos for wholesale takes several months). The first of these releases
will have four episodes per tape for $20, and starts in March with Nadia
of the Mysterious Seas and City Hunter, the company said. Coincidentally,
those titles are among those that ADV is shopping around for telecast or
cablecast. ADV also will start selling music CD's |
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One of The Right Stuff's big announcements from 1999
was the acquisition of the Kimba the White Lion series, the 1960's Americanized
version of Jungle Emperor from Osamu Tesuka's studio. Jeff Thompson of
the Iowa-based company had samples of the first tape at Katsucon, and said
it would be released in the same order the programs were shown on U.S.
TV (which wasn't the same order in which they were broadcast in Japan).
Thompson had no release date for His and Her Circumstances aka Kare Kano,
saying that series might not be released by The Right Stuf until 2001. |
