geeky ramblings and more picspam, Denver this time

[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

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I love the pictures, especially the glitterati horse and the cool crap in Kate Mullins.

I'm brain dead. We discussed this already.

[enemytosleep]

God I hated like, everyone in the DGM dub. But Allen and Kanda are notable tragedies. I tried watching two episodes of the Brotherhood dub (one pre and one post LIng) and yeah, not so hot on everybody there. Have not seen Ghost Hunt yet, but it is on my Netflix. :D

I really enjoyed Travis in Mushishi though. It was a really great role for him.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

the DGM dub is painful. Hell the anime itself is painful. Especially when so obviously both Haberkorn and Willingham CAN do better.

The women on FMA are horrid always have been. You know I didn't mind Vic in the first anime but now he drive me nuts.

I DO like him in Mushishi. Travis can act and from what I've read he seems like a nice guy. I need to bump Mushishi to the top of n etflix once i finish up d grayman

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes but i'm just as brain dead since i made a point of showing it to you

[marynachaotica.livejournal.com]

Loved the pic of the great big bear! And yeah....the don't ask pic...Cylons? *grinning*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

a joking cylon with a really big afro. He was interesting.

the bear is really neat in person, looking in the windows

[marynachaotica.livejournal.com]

I would be so fascinated by the bear peeking in, I would lose all track of time just staring back at it.

Cylon with an afro....*giggling*

[chiharu-octavia.livejournal.com]

Agreed on the d. Gray-man dub. Wtf were they thinking, getting Travis to do Kanda?? Although the way they pronounce half the names shows they weren't thinking at all. e.e;

However, as usual with side characters, it seems, Komui and the rest of the science department have great voice actors. XD The murderous rage I felt at hearing someone yell "KoMUi!" every ten seconds was quenched by Komui's actual appearance. XD Whoever that guy is, he does a great job~

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

oh yes Travis doesn't fit Kanda. Actually I think I hate Komui the most to be honest. Lavi isn't bad

I swear they have a bizarre love affair with Kanda on the anime since they keep creatinghim scenes

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard the D.Gray-Man dub, but Travis as Kanda just spins my head. Roy to me sounds like Miki Shinichiro - I love how he's got Roy's serious and goofy sides down.

Great photos! I like the cool crap. Helen and I have a little collection of old medicine bottles and things. My favourite is the liquid paraffin that people used to drink as a health tonic (antique shop lady: my mum drank a teaspoonful every day and she lived to 90!).

Colorado looks wonderful. I've never been but I'd love to.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know. :D

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

well yes i do prefer listening to the japanese va's but since that ties me down to actually reading a screen (easier said than done with my eyesight) I often don't so I don't get attached to the voices

I love old bottles like that. ..well of course she lived to be 90, she was preserved in wax from the inside out

Colorado is rather pretty

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

Wow. You got to go somewhere and have a view out a hotel window. It's been forever since I took pictures out a hotel window. Or even a motel window. And you got to see big-city freakiness and hang out at pubs. I'm soooo jealous.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it was a lot of fun. Next year I'll be in Victoria on Vancouver Island. google that if you want to be jealous