Talk:Porco Rosso

Identifying voices
Since the BTVA.com forums will be down for the weekend, I’ll share whatever I can find regarding the JAL Dub here.

Firstly, I think I’ve identified Mike Worman as a minor role. I feel pretty confident in saying he’s the Bank Teller who only has 2 lines (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fhq1qCbt7Ps). His voice fits Worman’s typical voice pretty well, only more aged and relaxed in comparison to previous roles like Aladdin or Swan Lake, obviously due to being dubbed about a decade after those 2 examples.

Aladdin Frontier Dub (Worman starts at 35:55): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW5LGbzl6jo

Swan Lake (Worman starts at 0:16): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YjP2nvpy__4

I also can’t help but get the feeling the son of the Munitions Engineer (Barry Gjerde) is played by Jeff Manning. Which is weird because Manning’s never played any child roles as far as I know, it’s obvious it’s a grown adult doing a young boy voice but for some reason my mind keeps reading it as Manning. Any thoughts? That being said, the Journalist guy is definitely Jeff Manning from the sound of it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qBFoIeqTyKo

--Graystoked (talk) 09:41, August 3, 2019 (UTC)

So I recently watched the dub of the Tezuka OVA Rain Boy (Amerfuri Kozou) on animefive.com based on the fact Lynn Harris was credited as being the titular character on ANN and the listing was correct, it was definitely Harris’ voice. Harris could also be heard voicing a few minor young girl characters which leads me be to believe that all the Kidnapped Girls were voiced by Lynn Harris and I feel really stupid for not coming to this conclusion sooner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_0_ofaPZAM

Speaking of the Rain Boy OVA, 2 other familiar voices also showed up in the dub (This dub has no credits), the main character’s dad definitely sounded like Mike Worman and there was also a narrator who briefly said things like “A year later” and “40 years later” that was unmistakably William Ross.

--Graystoked (talk) 21:33, August 3, 2019 (UTC)

Okay so I was recently looking over the voices again, and I found THIS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0Ts5hSsixU&app=desktop

Like woah.

--Graystoked (talk) 10:13, August 6, 2019 (UTC)

Listening to Worman's role in Covert Ops - Nuclear Dawn, you may be correct. I myself am not too sure; Worman's pretty distinct and I'm not really hearing it. The voice has more of a Ted Lehmann/John Baddeley quality to it that Worman typically doesn't have. https://youtu.be/KtJklwON2rs?t=265

As for Ross, I'm not too sure about that because it seems there's not a whole lot to work with beyond that one line. One thing to note is that Ross had a habit of casting himself in more major roles so him only having a one-liner seems odd (assuming he and Frontier was behind the JAL dub at all).

Everything else sounds correct, but I'm not too familiar with Tokyo's talent pool. --Bladez636 (talk) 17:56, August 7, 2019 (UTC)

Watched a little bit of Swan Lake again and looking back, I think there’s also a chance the Bank Teller was played by Don Johnson because his Benno voice has a similar sound to it.

--Graystoked (talk) 20:57, August 8, 2019 (UTC)