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Entry tags:	fandom entitlement, fandom: pokemon

PokéWank, Part II!
This is a followup to the PokéWank I posted a while ago.

As expected, efforts to try and convince The Pokémon Company to keep the English dub's voice actors (who were replaced when 4Kids lost their rights to produce the dub) have failed. Today a 10th anniversary special, "Master of the Mirage Pokémon", was aired on Kids WB, showcasing the new VAs.

Of course, Pokéfen are mad as hell about it! There's a bitty wank on the pokemaniacs community here, but the spooge has been flying fastest on Serebii.net's forums. Here's the thread discussing it, and a sampling of comments can be found below.

From Laplace: i live in ohio and im watching it now and THEY ARE TERRIBLE THE VOICES ARE GIVING ME A HEAD ACE AND THE ACTING IS SO TERRIBLE

fireKP1: The new voices....SUCK!

Ash's new voice Sucks.
Misty's new voice sucks {but not as bad}
Brocks' new voice really sucks
Max and May's new voices suck
And Professor Oaks' voice is the suckest voice of them all.

CyberCubed: Good god does Brock suck. Fire this guy NOW!

porygon2lover: I HATE THE VOICES!!!! MAKE THEM STOP,MAKE THEM STOP!!!!!! WWAAAAA!! WAAAAAA!!....hic

AdvanceX: This ruined my day. I hate the voices WITH A PASSION!! ESPECIALLY BROCKS AND ASH!!!!!!!

Kit-Bit: Okay, Misty's voice is just too high pitched for her character. X_X Like she's four or something. Why does Misty sound too young and May sound like a depressed housewife?

ChakiChu: Hm...these voices are growing on me....ahhh! NO! I must stay loyal! *hits self on head*

Cyber Dragon: Remember,this is just a test of the new voiceovers.(THEY REALLY SUCK BRING BACK THE OLD ONES!!!!!)

Red: Man, the show has been ruined, I hate all the new voices.

Geki:I'm going to stop watching the dub after the Fighting Dojo episode because they're so horrible. I'm not even going to comment on them.

And those were just from the first 7 pages of the 27-page (at the moment) thread. *g*

If anybody's curious as to the sound of some of the new voices, a clip's been put up on YouTube.

ETA: I just stumbled across a Save the VAs LJ community. According to a post in it, the new VAs have been contracted for season 10, so there's not much that can be done about that. Also, apparently a big reason the VAs were changed in the first place is because The Pokémon Company et al got the mistaken impression that it was what the fans wanted, because 4Kids is so wildly unpopular with so many people. However, fen just wanted the stupid dialogue/editing to be done away with, not the VAs.

I know a lot of y'all in the comments are sympathizing with the wankers, and I totally understand, but the new voices aren't _that_ bad. The old VAs sucked when they first had the roles, too.

ETA 2: Another clip from YouTube; this one has Brock, May, and Max in it. OK, I'm really starting to sympathize with the wankers a little. Brock's voice is just... *shudder* His is hands down the worst of the lot.