cornerofmadness

So I watched D. Gray-man, Ghost Hunt & FMA Brotherhood this weekend. Two of the voice actors are in all three of them, Travis Willingham & Todd Haberkorn. After hearing the latter as Allen Walker & Yao Ling I was thinking he might have been like a friend from my college theatre days, utterly unable to act straight. Everything he did had the queeny lisp. So I found myself comparing the VA's thru the three series.

Haberkorn - Allen Walker sounds far too whiney, lispy and frankly flat and emotionless. I didn't care for him here at all. Then I heard him as Ling. Holy hell, Ling sounds like he should be dressing for a Drag race. It's cringeworthy. He can at least act a little here. I ended up looking Haberkorn up since people seemed to know and actually like him and found out he did Kazuya Shibuya (the lead in Ghost Hunt). WTF? No lisp to be heard. He actually acts. He has arrogant know it all down cold. So...he can act. He doesn't always sound like he's heading to Gay Day in Disney so why in the hell is he pulling that crap for Ling and Allen? Ugh.

Willingham - I loved the timber of his voice in the first anime but I'll be the first to admit half the time he sounded like he's reading off a cue card. Half the time in FMA he STILL sounds like he's just reading it and other times he is acting (I wonder what's up with that). Still, I will admit that rich deep voice is forever what Roy sounds like to me. Moving on to D. Gray-man, he's Kanda. At first I didn't recognize him. My only thought was Kanda is under 18 I believe. No way he should have such a deep and obviously mature voice. Then I realized it was Travis. Sadly, this is his stiffest work among the three. Kanda only growls and yells. (granted Kanda is a pissy dude but still) Ghost HUnt...what is it about Ghost Hunt that brings out the best in them? He plays my favorite character Houshou Takigawa (Monk-san) and he's acting almost always. very rarely does he sound like he's reading it.

Ah well, just wanted to get that off my chest.

Do if you scrolled past in search of Denver pictures here you are.

okay this is in IN one of the many places ELD wanted to take me and didn't. For the last two years she's been saying you have to try this or that place when you come back. Ask her how many she remembered once i got there.

how to play the guitar on the 16th st Mall

sadly you can't see the glitter paint on his hooves

cool building on 16th st

piece of the capitol

everyone was invited to play these. There were several up and down the mall

don't ask

playing a board game I hope these profs market

taken thru a train window but snow on the mountains. whee

Denver Convention center

view out my window at the hyatt

a bunch of us at Kate Mullins

the A&P queens

cool crap in Kate Mullins