Hello, everybody. I’d like to talk about a certain pop singer and a certain Japanese voice actor.

It’s BoA. She is one of my favourite singers, but that’s not the point. She is Korean but she speaks fluent Japanese, has released six albums in Japanese and is famous in Japan.

She also played Heather in the Japanese dub of Over the Hedge:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IWcfgxdN4gg

See that? The Japanese dub of Over the Hedge. I bet a lot of people think that this is completely made of Win. Some might even think that she is better than Avril Lavigne, who was the original actress.

And I bet that a lot of you people who think that the Japanese version is always superior will recognise this chap here…

It’s Kappei Yamaguchi, who appears to be quite a well-respected voice actor in Japan (although I’m not exactly sure how famous he is) and seems to have quite a significant number of English-speaking anime fans too. He played Inuyasha in the original version, apparently. But not only that, but he also plays the Japanese voice of Goofy’s son Max in House of Mouse (and apparently A Goofy Movie as well although I have no idea about Goof Troop or An Extremely Goofy Movie):

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lZNTRqerBMI

 
Now, I bet you guys think that this is really cool and think that he is absolutely brilliant as Maxie already.

 If so, is it brilliant and amazing enough for you to stop saying that all English dubs are full of fail and stop bashing English dubs just because the English actors are celebrities? Please? I have yet to hear anybody complain about BoA and Kappei Yamaguchi doing dubs (in fact, I’ve heard quite the opposite their cases). What's up with that?