So... Merlwyb will be voiced

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Originally Posted by Abriael

No. It's not ok in either case, so you may want to stop pulling out "double standards" where they don't exist to try and paint the heroic western voice actors as the poor victims of the cruel "weaboo" fanbase.

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That was pretty spot on actually, people will crucify a VA for mis-pronunciation of a name but JP voice actors get a free pass when they butcher Western names and words phonetically.

I guess It's because they are superior in every way It's not held over their heads as a fault like other VAs. :rolleyes:

I can only say that I cringe at broken English just as much as I cringe at any broken language... on the inside that is.

What I see happening here is, once again, a group of people being judged by the minority of their members. How many "OMFG KAWAII DESUUU UGUUU" people do you really know?

Queen Latifah.

Make her a sassy black woman.

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Originally Posted by Vilhem

There is a wind...it blows...but what does it say?

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The Dark Wind Howls... or something.

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Originally Posted by Keith_Dragoon

That was pretty spot on actually, people will crucify a VA for mis-pronunciation of a name but JP voice actors get a free pass when they butcher Western names and words phonetically.

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Get a free pass from who again?

Sounds like hearsay to me: "hey, some people I may or may not know give Japanese VAs a free pass for name pronunciation, obviously everyone must do that!"

Sorry. Doesn't work like that.

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Originally Posted by Vilhem

There is a wind...it blows...but what does it say?

Meh dun care >.>

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The fact that you wasted a post to comment means that you quite obviously care.

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Originally Posted by Soukyuu

I can only say that I cringe at broken English just as much as I cringe at any broken language... on the inside that is.

What I see happening here is, once again, a group of people being judged by the minority of their members. How many "OMFG KAWAII DESUUU UGUUU" people do you really know?

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Bingo.

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Originally Posted by Soukyuu

How many "OMFG KAWAII DESUUU UGUUU" people do you really know?

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in real life? a few.

in these forums? far more than i ever, ever wanted to

English, Japanese, German, or French...Doesn't matter. I doubt any language is capable of capturing Merlwyb's personality.

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Originally Posted by Fleurette

anyways, back to the poster, though...my main question is: who do the other two signatures belong to?

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If I interpreted* Google Translate properly at this link:

A signed script used during the recording will be shown(?) at the Nico Nico Cho Kaigi 2. Also three voice actors are making an appearance: April 27: "Mr. Shinnosuke Tachibana and Mr. Yuichi Nakamura" (中村悠一さんと立花慎之介さん) April 28: Ms. Rie Tanaka (田中理恵さん)

Corrections from expert/native speakers welcomed. :)
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*Yes, as usual, Google Translate jumbled most of the names and other words.

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Originally Posted by fusional

in real life? a few.

in these forums? far more than i ever, ever wanted to

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I call BS. I've yet to run into any Kanon references here other than your own.

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Originally Posted by Kallera

I call BS. I've yet to run into any Kanon references here other than your own.

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Don't bother, fusional seems to see everyone who says anything even remotely positive about anime/manga as a weeaboo.

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Originally Posted by Soukyuu

Don't bother, fusional seems to see everyone who says anything even remotely positive about anime/manga as a weeaboo.

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Surprise surprise!

Looks like he ain't the only one.

We made sure the person portraying Merlwyb would fit her personality just right! We hope you'll all be pleasantly surprised come launch!

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Originally Posted by Hvinire

We made sure the person portraying Merlwyb would fit her personality just right! We hope you'll all be pleasantly surprised come launch!

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You tease :D

And thanks for removing the weaboo comments, they were starting to get old :D

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Originally Posted by ZephyrFox

English, Japanese, German, or French...Doesn't matter. I doubt any language is capable of capturing Merlwyb's personality.

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I don't think you or any of us really understands her personality in the first place. It can only be defined with how she speaks in each language, together with the actual dialog. Her personality is going to vary slightly in each language, tehre isn't much avoiding that.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

I don't think you or any of us really understands her personality in the first place. It can only be defined with how she speaks in each language, together with the actual dialog. Her personality is going to vary slightly in each language, tehre isn't much avoiding that.

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I think everything will be fine so long as it isn't Keira Knightley.

I do wonder sometimes what the other languages are seeing for dialogues.

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Originally Posted by Arkine

Queen Latifah.

Make her a sassy black woman.

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Who don't need no man!

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Originally Posted by Hvinire

We made sure the person portraying Merlwyb would fit her personality just right! We hope you'll all be pleasantly surprised come launch!

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Just promise me that not all of the English voices will sound European/British. Not that there's anything wrong with it, but it would be nice to hear a bit more variety. Maybe add in some Southern accents, or even a Brooklyn accent. Or maybe a Western accent for some fun.

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Originally Posted by Hvinire

We made sure the person portraying Merlwyb would fit her personality just right! We hope you'll all be pleasantly surprised come launch!

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Is she single?

<3

I was checking the NicoNico event livestream, and they have the scripts on display. Looks like there are at least three scripts, not just the one we've seen in the letter from the producer live.

They have quite a lot of signatures on, so we might get more voice acting than (I) expected. Which is nice :D

Edit: My bad, four scripts.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8525/8...1ca5a195_b.jpg

Also, they just interviewed two of the male voice actors: Yuichi Nakamura and Shinnosuke Tachibana.

Unfortunately I didn't manage to catch who they're voicing. Nakamura is a top tier VA (he voiced Alto in Macross Frontier, Cid in Final Fantasy XIII and a ton of other primary characters), he'd probably fit very well as the voice of either Thancred or Cid..

so that's weird how i used a word people claim doesn't describe them, then i mention passive-aggressive retribution resulting in my using a word they claim doesn't describe them, then they passive-aggressively report the posts where i used the word that they claim they're not, getting those posts deleted.

so... guilty conscience or cognitive dissonance? you decide!

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p.s. protip for the w-word apologist moderator- you may want to also delete the posts referencing the posts you deleted. makes the job you did look either sloppy or biased, chief.

I'm curious to hear both the english and japanese voice of Merlwyb. Although I remain skeptical, considering I hated how Yda and Papyl...something sounded like.

hopefully it's aisha tyler

Mostly I am wondering about the german voice actor for Merlwyb. Can't think of a voice that'd fit.
Makes me pretty curious xD

To the person talking about different accents:
In the german 1.0 client I remember at least 2 minor NPCs which had an accent. A french one (roegadyn close to the gate to Limsa's ferry dock) and a bavarian/austrian (dunno really) one at uhm... 'Owls nest'? I liked that a lot and would be cool if there were some voiced NPCs with such in 2.0 too. I'd appreciate at least the pirate slang xD"

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Originally Posted by Coris

Mostly I am wondering about the german voice actor for Merlwyb. Can't think of a voice that'd fit.
Makes me pretty curious xD

To the person talking about different accents:
In the german 1.0 client I remember at least 2 minor NPCs which had an accent. A french one (roegadyn close to the gate to Limsa's ferry dock) and a bavarian/austrian (dunno really) one at uhm... 'Owls nest'? I liked that a lot and would be cool if there were some voiced NPCs with such in 2.0 too. I'd appreciate at least the pirate slang xD"

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Limsa Lominsa, where every day is "Talk like a pirate day"!

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Originally Posted by Coris

Mostly I am wondering about the german voice actor for Merlwyb. Can't think of a voice that'd fit.
Makes me pretty curious xD

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Originally Posted by fusional

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Christoph Waltz? o.o

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Originally Posted by fusional

so that's weird how i used a word people claim doesn't describe them, then i mention passive-aggressive retribution resulting in my using a word they claim doesn't describe them, then they passive-aggressively report the posts where i used the word that they claim they're not, getting those posts deleted.

so... guilty conscience or cognitive dissonance? you decide!

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Mad? I'm guessing people reported you simply because your comments were against the rules. Some times it does catch up to you, you know?

Anyone think this song would be awesome for Roegadyn women?

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Originally Posted by Hvinire

We made sure the person portraying Merlwyb would fit her personality just right! We hope you'll all be pleasantly surprised come launch!

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Hmm... Merlwyb personality... (Digs through meme thread.)

On the clock?

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Originally Posted by Seraphe

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Or off?

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Originally Posted by Andrien

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Originally Posted by Kallera

I think everything will be fine so long as it isn't Keira Knightley.

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I'm not going to speculate on names, especially in this thread, since the ones I know of don't have kanji on their birth certificates. :p

Actually I was wrong, it's SEVEN scripts, on which I can count 30 autographs. That is, I guess, how big the voice cast is.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8123/8...f6c75a61_b.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8258/8...34e3684f_b.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8265/8...70952e8e_b.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8404/8...9b2ae42f_b.jpg

Looks like Tachibana will play a completely new NPC named Alfino
http://www.4gamer.net/games/199/G019...017/TN/010.jpg

While as I suspected Nakamura will play Thancred.

Come on guys shes a Roegadyne Female if anything she'll be voiced by Geoffrey Rush Mwo-hohohoho!

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Originally Posted by Abriael

Mad? I'm guessing people reported you simply because your comments were against the rules. Some times it does catch up to you, you know?

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why would i be mad? what offended me? which posts am i reporting? right, exactly. so settle down with the projection, chief. just because your butt's hurting, that doesn't mean mine is.

as far as whether or not i actually did say anything that was 'against the rules', go read a manga about it, desu desu

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Originally Posted by Coris

Christoph Waltz? o.o

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well, obviously ;)

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Originally Posted by fusional

why would i be mad? what offended me? which posts am i reporting? right, exactly. so settle down with the projection, chief. just because your butt's hurting, that doesn't mean mine is.

as far as whether or not i actually did say anything that was 'against the rules', go read a manga about it, desu desu

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Yep. You're mad.

After watching Wreck-it Ralph I know what voice I want to hear.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md...jycwo3_500.gif


I think if toned down a bit the German pendant of Calhoun would do a good job on Merlwyb as well (speaking of the German version, obviously).

Kind of funny how they put those "confidential" stamps on all those materials then show them to the public ^^
So could anyone identify more names? Going off their signatures is almost impossible unless you already seen them somewhere...

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Originally Posted by Abriael

Yep. You're mad.

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systematically report all my posts about it desu

well um i have an update that's on-topic on the japanese VA front:

I was browsing some Japanese blog posts from people who went to the NicoNico event on the lodestone today, as well as looking over Rie Tanaka's wikipedia article for confirmation (bad confirmation i know), and according to both sources, she will not be playing Merlwyb. Instead, she'll be playing both Kan-E-Senna and Garuda. here's what i found:

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h1...2/nooooooo.png

okay so my japanese isn't great but the blog post title says: "Tanaka Rie is Kan-E-Senna and Garuda!" the wikipedia snip on the picture is from her article and had her credited for "Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn - Kan-E-Senna/Primal Garuda"

so she's out for merlwyb. so...i guess now it's a mystery who'll be playing her in japanese. i guess whoever is the remaining female voice on that one script cover with the GC leaders.

this is probably gonna sound dumb but for english i'd actually really like it if mindy sterling played merlwyb; her voice has been what i imagined merlwyb to sound like since i heard it. she was lin bei fong in the legend of korra and she did a really good job. :D

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Originally Posted by Loggos

After watching Wreck-it Ralph I know what voice I want to hear.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md...jycwo3_500.gif


I think if toned down a bit the German pendant of Calhoun would do a good job on Merlwyb as well (speaking of the German version, obviously).

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*googles*
Vera Teltz? :O

I also like the following german voices, but not sure if they'd fit to any of the characters:
Tanja Geke (Karla -> Scrubs, Neytiri -> Avatar)
David Nathan (*_* Sometimes for Johnny Depp)
Manfred Lehmann (Bruce Willis, Gérard Depardieu)
Matthias Deutelmoser (Orlando Bloom)
Martin Kessler (Vin Diesel)
Anke Reitzenstein (Sookie St. James -> Gilmore Girls, Dr. Miranda Bailey -> Grey's Anatomy)
Martina Treger (Trinity -> Matrix, Lois -> Malcolm Mittendrin, Ellen -> Supernatural)

Some examples of their voices:
http://youtu.be/XNlgyen5jjc
http://youtu.be/CKK4FWVSZsw (Bernd Rumpf also speaks Severus Snape)

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Originally Posted by Loggos

After watching Wreck-it Ralph I know what voice I want to hear.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md...jycwo3_500.gif


I think if toned down a bit the German pendant of Calhoun would do a good job on Merlwyb as well (speaking of the German version, obviously).

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I was thinking the same thing. This is the only logical choice.