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He's been super quiet since November 11th.What’s the status on Quinton’s Twitter? Did it explode yet?
If Axel is only Quinton Flynn for you, it's already your problem that you judge a character only by his dubbing voice. Take my word for it that most likely no one will find out about this situation outside of Twitter and this forum. Not everyone is actively following VA, most are just enjoying the game and the characters. (Sometimes people should remember that Kingdom hearts is first and foremost a game, and then everything else) Therefore, these people most likely will not even understand who voiced Axel there, and even if he is replaced, they will also not be in the know. I'm already silent about the Japanese audience for which Quinton Flynn is absolutely nobody. I'm sure even Nomura is not aware of who voices his characters overseas, other than English VA Eragus and Xehanort, whom he hand-picked. The Japanese audience should not be held responsible for the fact that overseas one of the VAs has problems.Nothing, but Axel is now sullied by that disgusting voice. Whatever like I have for him is gone, and I couldn't care less what happens with the subject X plot. Not like it'll change my initial opinion about trios becoming bland.
To the people saying Axel should be shelved because of this, tell me; how would you feel if your favourite character from some other movie, show, game, or whatever, was shelved because their, let’s say, French voice actor, or German voice actor, turned out to be scummy? How would you feel if that favourite character was suddenly exiled from the series all because of a voice actor in a foreign dub that means nothing to you?
Would suck pretty hard, wouldn’t it?
I’m sure it’d suck for the creator too. “Hey so this character you’ve been putting a lot of work and development into and who everybody loves, we want them gone now. Oh it’s nothing you’ve done, it’s just our VA for them did something bad and now we can’t listen to them without associating the two. Yeah it sucks for all the international fans out there who don’t even hear our dub, but those are the breaks.”
Pierre Taki wasn't it? He was the Japanese VA for Olaf from Frozen. He also got replaced in Sega's Judgment.Iirc, this isn’t the series’ first rodeo with a VA scandal, right? I think there was a Japanese VA who dubbed for Disney that was embroiled in a sex scandal as well. Can’t remember who…
If you’re talking about Pierre Taki; it was a drug scandal, not a sex one.Iirc, this isn’t the series’ first rodeo with a VA scandal, right? I think there was a Japanese VA who dubbed for Disney that was embroiled in a sex scandal as well. Can’t remember who…
Pierre Taki wasn't it? He was the Japanese VA for Olaf from Frozen. He also got replaced in Sega's Judgment.
Ah, yeah, him. Thanks for the clarification. I wonder if he’s part French or his parents just hate him or something.If you’re talking about Pierre Taki; it was a drug scandal, not a sex one.
Hard to say for the longest time, in the entertainment industry these things tended to be swept under the rug.It must really suck to be an Axel fan right now, at least for English speaking fans (or other language fans that heavily associate his character with his English VA).
This is beyond politics or opinions, I don't see him being that employable in voice dubbing work after this; unless I'm here wrong and outed predatory VAs routinely don't lose their jobs over things like this? I didn't know this sort of scandal was common in the VA/ dubbing industry.
Hard to say for the longest time, in the entertainment industry these things tended to be swept under the rug.
But I think that's been changing recently. If I remember correctly Qrow's VA from RoosterTeeth's Rwby had a similar scandal and it took awhile for it to reach the boiling point, but once it did, they dumped and replaced him. We'll just have to wait and see how Disney and Square will handle this.
Oh man, and I'm hearing for the first time today that Vexen's and Tidus's VAs also got into some shit.
Really? What happened there? Was it their English VA's?
What is parler?
And Derek Stephen Prince said slurs. He was also accused of being a pedophile but I haven't seen any proof of that yet so take that with a grain of salt.
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So you're saying that what Flynn did is only bad if it's illegal (which I'm pretty sure it is)?If it isn't illegal then just filter the dude. Put the pitchforks down
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