Best voice acting (Japanese or English) done in anime

[Spanky The Dolphin]

She can't sing, though. That's one advantage that her Japanese VA has over the American one.

[Rubberanvil]

Best Japanese VA hands down has to be Megumi Hayashibara. A fine actress whose vocal and character ranges are quite remarkable. And she's a fantastic singer.

Megumi Hayashibara haves the distinction of being the best known seiyuu to the western anime fans, but she's isn't the single greatest female seiyuu there ever was, yet.

[JME2]

Tristan Macavery as Gendou Ikari for the English dub of Evangelion.

[Spanky The Dolphin]

I would highly disagree with you there...

[GrandMasterTerwynn]

Best Japanese VA hands down has to be Megumi Hayashibara. A fine actress whose vocal and character ranges are quite remarkable. And she's a fantastic singer. :)

My personal favourite, however, is Ai Orikasa. Her voice is so sensual and warm, and she also has an outstanding singing voice, particularly with songs that don't go too rapid and let her hold onto the notes.

Mugihito was great as Keel Lorentz in Eva, in my slightly biased opinion. :mrgreen: Masako Nozawa as Son Goku (and Gohan and Goten) was also quite good, too.

For English VAs, while Wendee Lee is excellent, it's slightly annoying that most of her characters sound too similar in both voice and characterisation.

As ADR Director for the Love Hina dub, she should have known better when she casted herself as Kaolla Su, making what was a great character in the original into a jabbering idiot with a horrendous voice. Then again, considering that virtually every character in the dub was attrocious, as the ADR Director you really want to ask her just what the hell anyone was thinking for the whole thing. Worst modern mainstream dub ever... :roll:

David Lucas is excellent, and I also like Richard Cox (Inuyasha, Kai Shiden from Mobile Suit Gundam) and Juliet Cesario (OVA Beldandy)...

Yesss, the Love Hina dub was not only just bad, it was criminally bad. Perhaps so criminally bad that it requires no less than the death of all involved. I stayed away from the Love Hina anime as a result, which is probably something of a shame since the manga was good.

[NeoGoomba]

The American VA who did M. Bison for all the Street Fighter anime I thought was great.

Thats all I know, really. Street Fighter TAM and II V is the only anime I ever watch anymore

[JME2]

I would highly disagree with you there...

He has a certain eloquence to his voice, sinister yet fascinating. Other actors whose voices have this effect on me include Keith David, David Warner, and the late Vincent Price.

[Spanky The Dolphin]

Perhaps, but he was poorly cast as Gendo. The English VAs for Gendo and Fuyutsuki should have switched roles.