But that's so wrong! I like Jounouchi! He's probably my third favorite character (umm. if you count the Kaiba bros as number 1, and both Yugis as number 2...) But yes, even just the little bit I saw of him in that eppy...it wasn't just the accent, it was the script, too. Jou's supposed to be funny and sweet and not quite as stupid as he can seem (he's impulsive and a gambler, but he's not actually dumb)! not...that...voice, if you can go as far as to call it that...
Yami's voice is just a really, really bad narrator's diction. Which makes sense considering they seem to need to narrate every single freaking event in the duels and elsewhere. I thought the duels were over-explained already but this is ridiculous...and Kaiba, yeah, his voice wasn't as painful as the others, but it has so much less emotional range - at least the ep I saw, but Kaiba goes through a lot of emotion in that ep, so...yes, 'pissed', 'angry', and 'gloating' are all important Kaiba expressions, but he also needs 'shocked' and 'caring' and 'thoughtful' and a lot of others...he's the definition of a complex character, and his voice should reflect that. Also his voice should be hot. But American VA casting rarely considers that quality...
Ahahah I'll see you the virus chain and raise you a FUCKING MAGIC SILK HATS. If Yami uses that ploy one more time I'm gonna scream. The duels would be less annoying if for like half of them they're so bloody obvious that I'm watching thinking oh for pity's sake just gimme the damn deck and I'll beat him. And I don't even play these games. This is more true in the beginning, the later matches have had some pretty clever stuff. ...and then I realize I'm fanning on card games and consider killing myself to end my shame. Though in Kaiba's defense, a couple of the times he uses the virus chain was in the filler, in which they all play worse and tend to repeat past moves a lot. It actually did work against Yugi at Duelist Kingdom, and against Isis (though she let him do it as part of her trap).
...And now I must go commit ritual suicide for actually knowing the mechanics of those duels.
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Date: 2005-07-20 03:31 pm (UTC)Yami's voice is just a really, really bad narrator's diction. Which makes sense considering they seem to need to narrate every single freaking event in the duels and elsewhere. I thought the duels were over-explained already but this is ridiculous...and Kaiba, yeah, his voice wasn't as painful as the others, but it has so much less emotional range - at least the ep I saw, but Kaiba goes through a lot of emotion in that ep, so...yes, 'pissed', 'angry', and 'gloating' are all important Kaiba expressions, but he also needs 'shocked' and 'caring' and 'thoughtful' and a lot of others...he's the definition of a complex character, and his voice should reflect that. Also his voice should be hot. But American VA casting rarely considers that quality...
Ahahah I'll see you the virus chain and raise you a FUCKING MAGIC SILK HATS. If Yami uses that ploy one more time I'm gonna scream. The duels would be less annoying if for like half of them they're so bloody obvious that I'm watching thinking oh for pity's sake just gimme the damn deck and I'll beat him. And I don't even play these games. This is more true in the beginning, the later matches have had some pretty clever stuff. ...and then I realize I'm fanning on card games and consider killing myself to end my shame. Though in Kaiba's defense, a couple of the times he uses the virus chain was in the filler, in which they all play worse and tend to repeat past moves a lot. It actually did work against Yugi at Duelist Kingdom, and against Isis (though she let him do it as part of her trap).
...And now I must go commit ritual suicide for actually knowing the mechanics of those duels.