Fandub Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance [Jump Festa 2011] Fandub Production

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Hello KH-Vids. Today is the day! The KINGDOM HEARTS Dream Drop Distance Fandub Production has finally arrived! I have worked hard to prepare for this new trailer since it released at this year's Jump Festa. Partnership has been brought between two KINGDOM HEARTS fan-based websites (KH-recharged.com, kh-vids and our new partner The Brotherhood of Gaming). This fandub will be showcased on both KH-Recharged and KH-Vids. As far as auditions, I've received anywhere between 70-80 auditions from the community including VAA (Voice Acting Alliance). If you're interested, watch the whole video - including the credits. The time spent making this trailer on my end and William Morris from The Brotherhood of Gaming has been phenomenal.

Now let's get ready for the first fandub production in Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance. This trailer features new talents from KH-Vids and VAA. Members such as Greater_bloo, Newkidaye, Atiragrame3, Ref-Chan, Genshie, TheVader74, Hlmactiii and myself (Mike - CGNET) return along with new talents from Saru4life, Chaser of the Dawn, SonicTheVA, Ross (PaW), Shadowsvoice and HeroicRoxas. There are also understudies that are lsited below. These users from VAA and KHV were close to making the final product. Remember, this is not an official production.

On a last note, I want to thank everyone in the community. This couldn't possibly happen if it wasn't for the fans and everyone who has spent their time auditioning. Also, if you feel this is the end, don't worry because we are not even close to that. As more scenes are released, I will be looking to cast more characters from this new title, so make sure you stay alert in our community. Congrats to the Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance fandub production cast. Please give some feedback in for our cast and any suggestions. For those of you that have auditioned and didn't make the final cut, feel free to contact me at cgnetproductions@aol.com. I would love to dedicate my time and give what ever feedback as possible. Thanks so much and until next time, see you guys later!

Vocal Team
Axel: Voiced by Newkidaye
Beat: Vocied by Shadowsvoice
Frollo: Voiced by Ross (PaW)
Jiminy Cricket: Voiced by HeroicRoxas
Joshua: Voiced by Genshie
Phoebus: Voiced by HeroicRoxas
Pinocchio: Voiced by Saru4life
Maleficent: Voiced by Ref-Chan
Mickey: Voiced by Chaser of the Dawn
Neku: Voiced by Mike (CGNET)
Riku: Voiced by Hlmactiii
Rhyme: Voiced by Saru4life
Shiki: Voiced by Saru4life
Sora: Voiced by Zekkai
Vanitas: Voiced by Greater_bloo
Xemnas: Voiced by TheVader74
Yen Sid: Voiced by TheVader74

Additional Voices
Cat: Voiced by Atiragrame3
Donald: Voiced by SonicTheVA
Goofy: Voiced by Newkidaye
Pete: Voiced by William Morris
Minnie: Voiced by Atiragrame3

Understudy
Steven855: Mickey
Red Haired King: Riku
greater_bloo: Sora
dukemon22: Riku
StrawhatSoul: Jiminy Cricket
StrawhatSoul: Joshua
NemesisPrime: Xemnas

Production Team
SFX: William Morris
Audio/Video: William Morris
Director: Mike (CGNET)
Translations: SQEX☆GAL

Please Note
This is a fandub production which was voiced and edited by fans across the Kingdom Hearts series. Music that was featured in this video was composed by Yoko Shimomura. All characters are copyright Square-Enix. The same exact trailer was released by Square-Enix (JP) in December 2011.

Release Dates
Japan: march 2012
North America: 2012
Europe: 2012

 

While it is a shame that I didn't make it into the final product, I'm happy to see my voice acting getting appreciated. With over 80 auditions, I'm surprised that I was on the short list for Jiminy Cricket and Joshua, the two voices that I thought I did the best job in. If there is another chance to audition Jiminy Cricket and Joshua anywhere else like on the VAA, I'll probably go for it and see where it takes me.
Now that I'm a member of the VAA, I can open myself to new opportunities and get into this great community of intelligent, mature and friendly people.

 

Woops I didn't end up auditioning ;) Anyway, I really liked the voices for Sora, Mickey (almost exact), and Lea/Axel. I liked all of the other voices too; it was great watching this and not having to watch the subtitles.

As for the voice of Sora, if anybody was looking for an audition for Tidus in Final Fantasy X, I think he should give that a try :)

 

Aaaaah, you guys did such a great job~

I'm very excited for this game and I'm glad you guys did a fandub of it~ <3​

 

This was great voice acting, and the VA who dubbed Mickey almost made me forget this was a fandub. :O

 

Great video everyone, I'm glad I at least got mentioned.

Maybe when the game comes out there maybe a need for a Master Xehanort. If so, I've got his voice down almost to a T and working on Ansem SoD now.

 

over all i think the production quality was really good, some of the voices were hit and miss, not saying any body isnt a good actor in their own right, but i suppose some characters really can be played only by their legit actors. cant blame em though, some of these guys are just really hard to do and have such unique voices

 

Nicely done! I think you guys did a great job :)

 

Woah. I didn't even know those lines would be used, I thought it'd be audition and then the real lines would be done.
I'm surprised I made it. My audition lines were **** I I thought the second line was more of a regretful tone on mine, not a triumphant and smug one. Damn I wish I'd known! :0

Nice work on the voicing guys, all did a fab job.
Mike, keep it up eh? :D

 

Good job guys! ^-^ I'm glad that I at least auditioned for this. It makes me feel like that I was a part of it in some way. Now I can post my clips on Youtube. XD Yay!

 

Wow, that was great. Good work. It's great to finally understand what was said in the trailer.

I agree with LostMemory, Mickey's voice was well-done.

I also loved Shiki's voice. Overall, it's really good.

 

Sounds good!

edit: lol just realized I made it as an understudy

 

I really loved Shiki's voice in this :)
Sad one of Josh's lines are not in here though :/
I wonder why there isn't a voice for Jimminy though.

 

Whoa FANTÃSTICO! great job on that! now i want this thing 1000 times more since i actually understood the dialect!

 

This was awesome! Gotta hand it to the whole team you guys did excellent! Voices, sound effects, even video quality were all top notch! Now for the critiques ahem *readies paper*:

Newkidaye as Axel: Pretty awesome, there is seriously no flaws whatsoever! I’m sure you’ll make the Axel fan girls swoon over this performance! XD

Shadowsvoice as Beat: Kinda hard to critque a 5 word appearance lol. But from what I can tell you did very well! You timed that pause between lines pretty well and your emotion was right on!

Ross as Frollo: That was pretty well done as well, very faithful to the original voice in the movie!

Side note: 8 minute trailers are epic when watched, hard to crtique when you can’t find where the characters make an appearance! @_@

HeroicRoxas as Jiminy: Great job I see that you were pretty close to the original voice as well! Seriously you guys are just too good I can’t find any faults in these!

Genshie as Joshua: Ah you again! I remember you! You were that guy who started voice acting at the Birth by Sleep fan dub! …stay on topic, stay on topic. You were great in the first line but it got a little awkward on the 2nd. It’s a pretty hard line to say I know since I auditioned for him too. It seems pretty rushed but I blame that on the lines themselves since they’re too much for that amount of time, since it seems you actually fit the window of when he was speaking. Also the 3rd line doesn’t exist he was just mouthing words to Neku haha, well those Yaoi fan girls can now place something they like there like a love confession lol.

HeroicRoxas as Phoebus: Wow, you basically make up that world’s characters lol. Anyway that was pretty on key as well. Phoebus doesn’t have the most recognizable voice in the world but you did great!

Saru4life as Pinocchio: WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? Why are you still fan dubbing!? Go get a real job! As a voice actress! Lol sorry for yelling at you but you’re just so damn good it’s people like you that make me think people who get paid for voice acting don’t deserve their money (but they do really).

Ref-Chan? (thought your name was Refi-Chan?) as Maleficent: Just getting better and better keep it up and eventually you’ll get the real job. @_@ But yeah all that is missing is that effect that makes her sound like she is speaking grandly (is it an echo effect?).

Chaser of the Dawn as Mickey: You give Bret Iwan a run for his money! XD Thought that “What in the world do you want†line was kinda awkward. It seems that you were trying to match the lip flaps of Mickey which marks the sign of a great dubber, though it probably would’ve been better if that line was rewritten to accommodate those lip flaps anyway. Also “Wah†XD

Mike (CGNET) as Neku: Gotta be honest most of my anticipation for this trailer was to hear you do something other than Roxas/Ven lol. Though there are some problems with it I must say. His voice needs to sound deeper, if you need something to compare it to it’s a bit like a young Cloud (FF7). Also that line where he says “It’s nothing special†should sound like he’s embarrassed when Sora compliments him. I know you’ve been playing the light-hearted Ven for awhile but Neku is one of those loner-type characters which means you need to say his lines in a different way, in a kind of I don’t care about anyone else type of way. You definitely did change up your performance from Ven but it comes off as “I’m bored†a few times. However I do see some potential there, both your voice and the emotion could shape into Neku’s quite well with a little practice. ^_^

Hlmactiii as Riku: Ah I see you’ve donned the grey hair of Riku again! Great job overall, I don’t really have any problems with it at all. :D

Saru4life as Rhyme: Hmm…Nothing wrong with your Rhyme you sound quite good. Though it isn’t as cute as the Japanese Rhyme, though that is more of a personal feeling. I don’t know, once I heard Japanese Rhyme I was like “All Rhyme’s after this are irrelevant.†You sounded very boyish if that makes sense, which confuses anyone watching this for the first time since when I first saw Rhyme in TWEWY I thought she was a boy. Again not criticizing you, you did very well.

Saru4life as Shiki: AGAIN!? If this isn’t proof enough that you’re not made for voice acting as a career idk what will. Lol Anyways another great job, very…spunky…I guess heheh.

Zeekai as Sora: Ah the main character himself, you did an excellent job overall. Emotion, line delivery, pacing of the lines are all top notch. The only problem for me personally is that you sound a bit too old for Sora, I mean sure Haley Joel Osment is getting noticeably deeper with his Sora voice but this was just more deeper into maturity than HJO. Add to the fact that this is Sora’s younger incarnation and it just comes off a little odd to me. Again great job, a little too mature sounding for me.

Greater_bloo as Vanitas: WHO THAT SEXEH VOICE!? I just want to hear him talk about his X-blade and call me idiot all day! XD Lol Seriously though thanks Mike for letting me be a part of this.

TheVader74 as Xemnas: Very good, could be a little deeper but I seriously think only a few people can go as deep as Richard Epcar…or Billy Zane.

TheVader74 as Yen Sid: I hereby declare you the official deep, old man, voice of the kh-vids fan dubs Congrats! XD You were one of the most important parts of the trailer, you set the mood (the intro), carried us through the middle (the gameplay parts) and I think you did a fine job!

Reached the end huh that took me…yikes about 2 hours to do lol. Anyway great job everyone, there were hardly any problems and if there were most of them were just me being nitpicky. Also I would like to thank everyone who auditioned I got to know some of you lately and although some of you didn’t make it you are all outstanding people. Remember if it wasn’t for you guys this thing would never have happened THANK YOU! XD

 

Don't sugar coat it man. It wasn't a special performance, I'm not sure I've captured anything with Neku's voice. I really should've left his voice out for me...

Nice work with you role man!

 

I'm quite honest with my critique Mike you do have potential. Everyone starts out not sounding anything like the character they're voicing when they first start voicing them. Yes, there are some roles that aren't meant to be given to some people (Like I'll probably never be able to play Terra or Xehanort) but you are still in Neku's voice range. All it takes is practice, what I mean by practice is researching the role, find characters that have the same personality as Neku and try to copy every little nuance they put into their character. In the words of Quintin Flynn himself he says that if you want to be a voice actor start by copying every line, phrase, sentence you hear, while trying to emulate their performance, sure your take might not sound alike in voice but it's the performance you are trying to nail down. Now, you are within Neku's voice range all you need to do is get his nuances down and you're golden.

 

I can actually sound like him when I do his lines from TWEWY. I was interested in showing you if you have msn or skype?

 

Yo Mike, I have to ask...So in case TheVader can't do his lines does that mean I get to fill in?