I think Vic is mediocre at best as an actor, but in most cases he doesn't sound bad enough for me to really have that much of a problem with him as far as listening to his voice in a dub. I actually thought he was really good in one role he did; Femio from Princess Tutu.
It was always unavoidable for him to be in the Hetalia dub from the moment FUNimation licensed it; even without Vic and FUNi being BFFs, the cast for Hetalia is huge and anime dubbing studios prefer to use people they've already worked with over new people, that pool of established actors that are still around looking for voice acting work is small, and Vic's in it. So fussing about him being in the dub or not is pointless. Honestly, so long as he's not voicing any of my personal favorites, or someone that he couldn't possibly play well given his capabilities, I don't care. And honestly, I don't really so much care about him voicing my favorites because of my opinion of him as a person or whatever. It's more that my favorites are also characters that Vic would not pull off well. Austria, Germany, and France would all sound really bad if voiced by Vic (none of my other favorites are relevant since they're either female, extremely minor to non-existent in the anime, or both).
I'd kind of prefer he play America, really. If they're doing accents, he'd really have to be America or Canada, since I doubt he could pull off a convincing foreign accent, and it would be amusing to watch all the silly little USUK and Russia/America fangirls and Vic both behaving like children about guy on guy pairings.
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Date: 2010-04-29 05:22 am (UTC)It was always unavoidable for him to be in the Hetalia dub from the moment FUNimation licensed it; even without Vic and FUNi being BFFs, the cast for Hetalia is huge and anime dubbing studios prefer to use people they've already worked with over new people, that pool of established actors that are still around looking for voice acting work is small, and Vic's in it. So fussing about him being in the dub or not is pointless. Honestly, so long as he's not voicing any of my personal favorites, or someone that he couldn't possibly play well given his capabilities, I don't care. And honestly, I don't really so much care about him voicing my favorites because of my opinion of him as a person or whatever. It's more that my favorites are also characters that Vic would not pull off well. Austria, Germany, and France would all sound really bad if voiced by Vic (none of my other favorites are relevant since they're either female, extremely minor to non-existent in the anime, or both).
I'd kind of prefer he play America, really. If they're doing accents, he'd really have to be America or Canada, since I doubt he could pull off a convincing foreign accent, and it would be amusing to watch all the silly little USUK and Russia/America fangirls and Vic both behaving like children about guy on guy pairings.