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[dan2026]

All I want is the option for Japanese voices.
Why is this so difficult for Atlus to accomplish?

 

[butman]

Where's Nolan-kun and Troy-kun?

Enough of this guys.

 

[LiK]

She has about 4000 roles in Western games these days which I imagine might pay more and thus get booking priority, or at minimum take up a lot of time.

Quit a shame, tbh. I discovered her from more niche games and now she only does AAA stuff cuz better pay etc. But at least fresh blood can have their chance at a big franchise.

 

[skypunch]

Wait Matt Mercer is Lao from Xenoblade X?

Unfortunately. The dub of XCX is pretty uninspired compared to Xenoblade's British dub by going back to using the usual American voice actors who voice 98% of JRPGs.

The voices in the trailer give the game a very Saturday morning children's cartoon feel.

 

[Archtreyz]

Leon Kennedy AND Albert Wester are in this? Dream team is dope.

 

[FSLink]

Pretty sure it's Mishima the Moon Slink.

That's what I thought. Sounds fine to me.

 

[zerokoolpsx]

The Smash Announcer as the protagonist? I'm cool with this haha.

Matt Mercer will always be Leon and Alvin to me. Wait, he's McCree and Gangplank? Couldn't tell it was him.

 

[asagami_]

OMG, Casandra Morris! First Airi Ban, later Toki, and now she is Morgana? She is voicing my favorite characters! Or I hope Morgana turns my favorite

 

[KoroEunectes]

I'm still mulling it over a bit, but I'm not feeling it right now either. The brief presumed protag line was good, and Morgana was 'okay', but the others (Ruyji and maybe Ann) did not sound particularly good.

Hoping it's due to the fact that it's just VO overlay over random trailer footage, but...idk.

I thought that Ryuji's voice was awful.
Hoping that it is just one badly delivered line but I'm not getting my hopes up.

I mean, I get it: Morgana is supposed to sound paradoxically cute and young, but talk in a serious and older manner. However, it's really hard to pull off the charm of Otani.

Agreed.
It is pretty hard to match Otani but I was hoping for something a little more bearable.

On my phone, so I can't actually watch the video.
How is this going to affect crossovers, if he'll still voice Kanji? Would've preferred Kaiji Tang if Baker's not coming back. He'd be good for Yusuke's eccentric awkwardness.

Otherwise stoked for Mittelman Ryuji and Daymond Goro. This marks the first time Atlus has ever come forward with the full main cast of one of their games, much less this far in advance. They're clearly putting a lot behind this.

They will do the same thing as they did with Adachi/Yu and Yosuke/P3MC.
Just use slightly different voices for each of them.
Also really excited to see that Daymond is Goro.

 

[hemo memo]

Wait!! So IGN is the one who stole it. Hmmm

 

[Akhe]

Morgana Japanese and English.

https://youtu.be/Zi02DkJ0jHw

 

[_Ryo_]

Wait so the protag has voiced lines? Sorry, I'm really in the dark with P5.

Or is it minor stuff like grunts and battle noises?

edit: so does this mean IGN broke into the Atlus offices?

He says stuff like

Spoiler

Shit
damn
Later!
Yeah!
Alright!
Show me your true colors/who you really are!
I'll expose you
as well as calls out the persona names

and he has text thought bubbles for his inner monologue

Protag is much more talkative than in past Persona games.

 

[Notbenny]

So glad they didn't use those same old actors they use for every Persona game. (looking at you, Yuri Lownethal)

 

[CSX]

Noticing some crossovers between VA for SMTIV:A and P5.

Atlus USA with dat double booking technique

 

[Sesuadra]

But what about JPN voices as DLC?

there is only hope, b/c without them I won't buy it. hell, make it a 5€ dlc and I'll buy the game and the dlc..

 

[Korigama]

All I want is the option for Japanese voices.
Why is this so difficult for Atlus to accomplish?

As with other publishers, it usually either comes down to added expense or talent agencies refusing to license (IIRC, it was the latter for Catherine).

 

[Suzushiiro]

Xander will probably play another major character just like Yuri Lowenthal and Johnny Yong Bosch did

I dunno- in P3 they did it because the Japanese version did it because there was an actual story reason for it. In P4 they seemed to do it in the English cast as a way of echoing that despite the Japanese version not doing so, which got them into trouble when the billion adaptations started in which the protagonist was no longer silent and JYB had to talk to himself sometimes. If they're smart they won't risk that happening again (unless, of course, the JP version *also* double-casted the protagonist like they did in 3.)

Then again, that's more of a problem with *who* they chose to double-cast than the fact that they double-casted him- I like Johnny Yong Bosch, but I've never heard a character voiced by him that I did not recognize as being voiced by him almost immediately. Maybe Xander's range is enough that he could voice two characters and not make them sound like they are obviously voiced by the same person.

 

[Lusankya]

Neat, I see some of my fave VAs from DanganRonpa in it~

Basically all females with the exception of Xanthe.
Looking really good so far, mostly fresh actors.

 

[CrazyDude]

People are going say VO sucks no matter what since people are used the Japanese voices. Most would have shit on P4's VO if they were used to the JP one.

 

[tiebreaker]

Whoa Xander is the announcer in Smash 4? That's crazy that he now is the Protagonist! Also, yay Matthew Mercer is back! Can't wait for the spotlight trailers.

Well, if you think about it, the MC has probably the fewest line.

 

[Suzushiiro]

The Smash Announcer as the protagonist? I'm cool with this haha.

Matt Mercer will always be Leon and Alvin to me. Wait, he's McCree and Gangplank? Couldn't tell it was him.

Matt Mercer will apparently sometimes say "it's high noon" in voice chat as McCree's voice while playing Overwatch just to scare the shit out of the rest of his team.

 

[Psycho_Mantis]

You would probably know Matt Mercer the best.

He voiced:
- Leon
- Chrom
- Walter (SMT4)
- Jesse McCree
- Gangplank
- Alvin
- Cor (FFXV)
- Ryoma
- Rexxar
- Stryker
- Edge Maverick
- Kanji in all the P4 spin-offs

Xander Mobus is most famously known as the Smash Bros 4 announcer but he's done some other great work in anime and other video games. Max Mittleman is a newcomer but he recently did a fantastic job as Saitama in the One-Punch Man dub. Erika Harlacher was the original voice for Kyoko Kirigiri in the video games so you might know her from there. Cassandra Morris, Matt Mercer and Cherami Leigh are veterans of the VA world and have been heard in tons of your favorite anime. Erica Lindbeck and Xanthe Huynh dont have a lot of roles under their belt but if you've seen Love Live!, then you might recognize them as Eli Ayase and Hanayo Koizumi respectively. And finally Robbie Daymond is a relatively new VA but he has a lot of big roles under his belt including Tuxedo Mask in the new Sailor Moon dub, Joe in Digimon Tri and the protagonist of the God Eater anime. Overall, i'd say it's a fantastic cast. Really looking forward to it.

Going over some of their roles for myself (already knew of roles that were Matt Mercer's work ahead of time):

Max Mittelman - Saitama (One Punch Man)
Erika Harlacher - Kurapika (Hunter x Hunter)
Cherami Leigh - Kudelia (Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans)
Erica Lindbeck - Misty/Vita (Trails of Cold Steel)
Xanthe Huynh - Nagisa (Pulla Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion), Altina (Trails of Cold Steel II)
Robbie Daymond - Tuxedo Mask (Viz dub of the original Sailor Moon, as well as Sailor Moon Crystal), Prompto (Final Fantasy XV)

Very promising. Looking forward to it.

Thanks. Sounds promising. I've been very happy with the P3/P4 dubs.
Oh wow Leon S Kennedy 0_0

 

[Vic_Viper]

is there a youtube like for people that have issues with the IGN player?

 

[rochellepaws]

Really great cast. Good work, Atlus!

Morgana's voice is Kyubey? I'm keeping my eye on that cat...

 

[asagami_]

Maybe Xander's range is enough that he could voice two characters and not make them sound like they are obviously voiced by the same person.

Hoe, you need listen his voice as Dadga from SMT IV. It's amazing. I don't even know he was the Smash Bros 4 announcer.

 

[dan2026]

As with other publishers, it usually either comes down to added expense or talent agencies refusing to license (IIRC, it was the latter for Catherine).

That doesn't make any sense.
Why would they refuse to licence?
Isn't that basically saying no to money?

 

[Coolbgdog12]

I don't like Morgana's voice in English. I have to get used to it.

 

[TWILT]

Yooo Xander Mobus as the P5MC!? Interesting choice, but by no means a bad one. The man's got range. I didn't even know he was Dagda in SMTIVA until I looked it up lol.

 

[Kenzodielocke]

I like it and don't see a problem?

 

[TangerineCloud]

Wait, which line belongs to the MC? The "Show me your true form" one? Or the "shitty adults" one?

 

[KoroEunectes]

Wait, which line belongs to the MC? The "Show me your true form" one? Or the "shitty adults" one?

The "Show me your true form" one

 

[Yui]

Matt Mercer seems like the perfect fit for Yusuke, so yay for that one.
Morgana sounds cute I guess (that's really all I was hoping for).

Not so sure about the others though.
The short trailer we got now sounds pretty generic, but we will see.

Spoiler

The JP voice dlc dream is dead, right? Q_Q

is there a youtube like for people that have issues with the IGN player?

I guess it's this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRrgWu7XzQw

 

[Kthulhu]

I like it. Looking forward to more character trailers.

All I want is the option for Japanese voices.
Why is this so difficult for Atlus to accomplish?

Probably contract issues with the JP VAs. That or the localization budget isn't enough to pay for royalties.

 

[DarknessTear]

Some people in the cast that have done well in the Cold Steel games. It should be good stuff. Morgana especially.

 

[Schneider]

has there been anymore news on whether west will get jp vo? for some reason the protagonist vo annoys me, and i wanna enjoy this game

 

[Blackleg-sanji1]

Max mittleman will always get my respect after he did such a fantastic,Fantastic! Job as kousei from your lie in April

 

[muteki]

Don't really like the choice of font. :/

I have to hope that is a temporary trailer font. Looks almost photoshopped over the trailer.

That doesn't make any sense.
Why would they refuse to licence?
Isn't that basically saying no to money?

Yes and it is stupid. From what I have read some contracts come down to "fuck you, no".

 

[Zekes!]

Matt Mercer will apparently sometimes say "it's high noon" in voice chat as McCree's voice while playing Overwatch just to scare the shit out of the rest of his team.

That's great

 

[Miroku129]

Thats a damn good cast!!!

 

[Zhao_Yun]

has there been anymore news on whether west will get jp vo? for some reason the protagonist vo annoys me, and i wanna enjoy this game

They said that they'll look into what they can do, but as of now the game will launch with EN dub only.

 

[Lusankya]

Don't really like the choice of font. :/

That's not ingame footage, though, just something pasted on the Japanese trailers.

 

[varkuriru]

Man, Matthew Mercer is everywhere and I like it.

Currently playing trails cold steel 2 and Pillars of eternity and hearing hearing him is so good.

 

[PK Gaming]

1 out of 8, damn

At least I guessed 3 of the actors, even if they're in different roles

 

[Forkball]

I can't believe Persona 5 guy is confirmed for Smash.

 

[Shengar]

All I want is the option for Japanese voices.
Why is this so difficult for Atlus to accomplish?

You haven't heard about Japanese Voice Actor Union(s) and their laws aren't you?

 

[Mihos]

I was really hoping for Laura Bailey. Oh well. Great cast otherwise!

I was kind of hoping too, but having voiced Rise', it would have been a little weird. I love her, but she really only has 2 voices High and low.

 

[Tinfoilhatsron]

I like it and don't see a problem?

Me too. Japanese dub DLC would be nice though.

 

[Skinpop]

what about the original va, will it ship with the game in the west? hope to do without these awful dubs...

 

[Jawmuncher]

I'm sure I've heard these voices before, but I sure never heard of the names.

 

[LiK]

what about the original va, will it ship with the game in the west? hope to do without these awful dubs...

You played it already or just judging from some clips?