Oh hell no. Adult Lelouch sounds like "Jonny Yong Bosch as Lelouch!"
I'm usually pretty easygoing about English dub actors, but I've gotten a bit irritated lately with the whole "take a sexy male lead character's voice and make it into a higher-pitched high school student voice--'cause . . . he's in high school, ya know?" thing. (Can anyone say Light?)
Half of Lelouch's charm is his ability to portray himself as someone much older than he is--and the way he does that is with his low voice. It seems that BANDAI is following the trend of using high-school-sounding dub VAs, darnit. I'm not convinced that JYB can pull this one off. I'm afraid he'll end up sounding like Ichigo.
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I'm usually pretty easygoing about English dub actors, but I've gotten a bit irritated lately with the whole "take a sexy male lead character's voice and make it into a higher-pitched high school student voice--'cause . . . he's in high school, ya know?" thing. (Can anyone say Light?)
Half of Lelouch's charm is his ability to portray himself as someone much older than he is--and the way he does that is with his low voice. It seems that BANDAI is following the trend of using high-school-sounding dub VAs, darnit. I'm not convinced that JYB can pull this one off. I'm afraid he'll end up sounding like Ichigo.