The English dub is very listenable, but I agree with you on JF versus JYB. JYB good, JF stellar. Though the English CC actually brings me closer to liking the character, which the original voice actor did not do. (I don't hate CC, I just don't see her as a character. More like a plotpoint. I'm like that with all the madgirls in fiction.) Lloyd's English voice is the one that hit me as abso-freakin-lutely perfect, because that IS what Britannian Earl Asplund should sound like in my head: dry, erudite, and British.