@@_mango_ I think it really comes down more to accent and pronunciation. Particularly early on his English lines have still have had a fairly distinct Japanese accent
All the more reason I think Drummond should have continued to be Sonic, he and Junichi have very similar voices that Ryan made for a perfect english counterpart
hearing Junichi's voice saying the English dubbed lines explains everything about the Voice Direction, is like re-watching a movie after the Plot Twist
I am a Japanese Sonic fan, but I find it hard to recognise this as Kanemaru's voice. They all sound like Ryan or Jason's voice. However, Sonic 06's 'Smile' and Generations' voices sound like Kanemaru's.
@@Overseer190 I don’t listen to kanemarus sonic as much as I should (absolute goat) but I also second this. I believe it’s something about the cadence of his phrases, which may or may not just go hand in hand with the accent he has ?
@@Overseer190 I think the heavy accent widely adds to the recognizable nature of Japanese Sonic’s English lines. Without that, Kanemaru’s voice heavily resembles Ryan Drummond and Jason Griffith. Not that it’s a bad thing, but it definitely feels different as a result. Also, Kanemaru tends to extend words for dramatic effect in a way that an English voice actor doesn’t (because English dubs are rhythmically different by default). That being said, this video is pretty cool.
@@SonicTheHedgehogX15 As much as I like Ryan as Sonic, I always did feel something was different about his take on the character but never knew why. Apparently, AI reveals that with an American accent, Junichi sounds like them. It is an interesting thing to note, isn’t it…
This voice is perfect! he has that perfect blend of a mature voice, but it actually sounds young. You could actually believe that this sonic is 15 as opposed to sounding like an adult TRYING to sound like a teen. I love Ryan, Jason, Roger and Ben, but they don't really sound 15. THIS is awesome.
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I’d love if the lines spoken by Junichi as Sonic in the video were Windiis translations instead of the dub script. That’s an idea for the next one, especially if you can find AI of Chikao Otsuka, Koji Yusa & the rest to voice their lines in English too, though Mike as Eggman also works.
@@Overseer190 I don’t know how hard it normally is, though sourcing the words is easy: Windii’s videos on her channel (and backups of such from her old channel on that of Demon Deathchase) let you find the cutscene dialog without needing to install Retranslated mod & playing the game (though when simply playing for fun you should totally install those mods anyway)
Aw c’mon don’t give Roger a hard time. He does a good job, and the voice direction isn’t his fault in some instances People didn’t like Jason Griffith at first either lol
Thinking about this video. There are some mods for Sonic games that offer a retranslated script for the cutscenes from Japanese to English. Mainly for Sonic Adventure 2. It would be interesting to see this voice say those retranslated lines in those mods. Or just retranslated stuff in general for Sonic cutscenes.
I expected this to sound kinda cursed, but it actually sounds so close to Drummond's performance that it fits pretty well. Not so much for Generations tho, kinda hard to imagine post-colors Sonic with a voice other than Roger Craig Smith's, specially as his voice has gotten deeper over the years.
Oh tons of original clips sounded really cursed. Kanemaru did not sound that good between Sonic Colors through Forces (generations was pretty good) because of the bad scripts. Roger was able to work with the goofy and niche themes of the meta-ish era.
Ryan Drummond still my favorite of all the Sonic voices, but I would also take this over Roger's voice for the modern model, however if they made modern Sonic closer to boom sonic design-wise I think Roger's voice would work way better for Sonic if they want to keep Rodger, I don't hate Rodger Craig Smith he's an amazing voice actor I just never thought he matched up with modern Sonic's character design and proportions, sonic boom sonic is the only time I ever actually could believe Roger's voice coming out of a Sonic
I was expecting Sonic X japanese dub with english lines soundalike, instead I got a perfect sonic english voice. Maybe it's just me, but I wish we got this sonic voice back for the english. Nothing against the new actor but he lacks the energy and excitement of the older sonic voices. I still like his chill and more laidback voice though (gives me a sonic OVA dub vibe) but that energy is what pulled me in as a kid; which makes sense that someone running fast everywhere would be loud and energetic.
Kanemaru "can I not just talk normally? It's worked for the past 20+ years in Japan." Sega of America "no! Because the only way anyone is going to take Sonic seriously again - after our mishandling of him in the 2010s - is to have him sound old and boring! Now ditch that cartoony voice and sound dull!"
Kanemaru is already my favorite voice for Sonic, but this is actually making me wish he voiced Sonic in English as well. He's already fluent in the language.
As someone who has listened to a lot of Jun'ichi Kanemaru's songs (yes, I don't listen to him in the games because I'm dyslexic). This sounds of. Like a impression. I'd still love to hear him in the English dub, especially since he KNOWS ENGLISH!!!! Because I want to hear his sonic without having to struggle to read fan subs!
I love Drummond, but the reason Kanemaru sounds like him to ppl is because his cadence is the most similar. To me every clip just sounds like their respective VA with a Kanemaru tone filter (which is exactly what AI does). That said, personally a good Sonic voice has to resemble both Kanemaru's cadence and tone/timbre. Jason was eventually good in Secret Rings and Black Knight, but it was still miscast in my opinion. He was great as Shadow tho!
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junichi over roger is surprisingly goated. his delivery is probably the best foundation for preserving the chillness of junichi's sonic and it has none of that... indescribable gross rogeriness
Ehhh.. I know its AI and all, but this really just sounds like the original voice clips with a slight overlay So, for a more realistic concept, maybe someone should impersonate the actual voice and redub these clips themselves :p
Tbh sonic would've been so much better with that guy as the va, Idk whats about roger, even when he tried to act serious in frontiers, he seemed like a joke, lifeless, idk if its the model or the voice acting, some people say he acts to childish, but he acts to lifeless, we need more emotion like the idw
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I love this. This is how Sonic sounds in my head. I cannot understand for the life of me the current voice direction in Frontiers. No disrespect to RCS, but the deep, serious voice they made him use sounds awful for the character IMO.
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He sounds almost exactly like Drummond
He's the GOAT.
You mean, Drummond sounds more like him
Don't forget about fact - Sonic was a Japanese Franchise :)
@@neurudalthough Junichi started voicing Sonic along Drummond at the same time so it’s fair to say they sound similar
You think like this because it's AI. Junichi voice sounds like Jason Griffith as well.
Drummond and Griffith = legends ❤
Imagine if Junichi knew how to speak perfect English fluently, he would have voiced both versions of Sonic for decades.
He does speak fluent English, Junichi is actually an English instructor in Japan
@_mango_ which is why sega hired him in the first place
@@chaosspider5765He was also chosen for his work on an anime called Future GPX Cyber Formula, a series Sonic Team were fans of at the time.
That would've been amazing
@@_mango_ I think it really comes down more to accent and pronunciation. Particularly early on his English lines have still have had a fairly distinct Japanese accent
All the more reason I think Drummond should have continued to be Sonic, he and Junichi have very similar voices that Ryan made for a perfect english counterpart
Exactly!
@@kingkazma3246 The problem is that Drummond is a union actor, which is why Sega refuses to pay him. Roger was the cheaper option.
Exactly bro
@@orangeslash1667What about Jason?
@@demongamer_IX Not an option.
hearing him speak full on english sentences rather than random english words
sounds pretty unique
@@rankii_hats EnGRISH ALL RIGT!
I love how it sounds like a mature version of the ova sonic, its fitting cause they came out around the same time
Exactly what I was thinking.
This is so trippy hearing his voice without the accent
hearing Junichi's voice saying the English dubbed lines explains everything about the Voice Direction, is like re-watching a movie after the Plot Twist
Not only does he sound so close to Drummond, but he also sounds so good with an American voice
They should just hire him for english va
I am a Japanese Sonic fan, but I find it hard to recognise this as Kanemaru's voice. They all sound like Ryan or Jason's voice. However, Sonic 06's 'Smile' and Generations' voices sound like Kanemaru's.
This is an interesting comment. Could it be because of the delivery of the lines?
@@Overseer190 I don’t listen to kanemarus sonic as much as I should (absolute goat) but I also second this. I believe it’s something about the cadence of his phrases, which may or may not just go hand in hand with the accent he has ?
@@Overseer190 I think the heavy accent widely adds to the recognizable nature of Japanese Sonic’s English lines. Without that, Kanemaru’s voice heavily resembles Ryan Drummond and Jason Griffith. Not that it’s a bad thing, but it definitely feels different as a result. Also, Kanemaru tends to extend words for dramatic effect in a way that an English voice actor doesn’t (because English dubs are rhythmically different by default). That being said, this video is pretty cool.
@@trevinodudeyou know what this means, jason and ryan where good choices, while roger dont sound like sonic soo…
@@SonicTheHedgehogX15 As much as I like Ryan as Sonic, I always did feel something was different about his take on the character but never knew why. Apparently, AI reveals that with an American accent, Junichi sounds like them. It is an interesting thing to note, isn’t it…
This makes me wish we had more of a consistent English Sonic voice actor over the years
This voice is perfect! he has that perfect blend of a mature voice, but it actually sounds young. You could actually believe that this sonic is 15 as opposed to sounding like an adult TRYING to sound like a teen. I love Ryan, Jason, Roger and Ben, but they don't really sound 15. THIS is awesome.
Ryan and Junichi were casted at the same time and were meant to have similar voice styles. That’s why it probably fits well.
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Ben also sounds similar.
And it’s for this reason that I think Ryan Drummond should’ve been THE definitive voice for Sonic in English. He sounds like an English Kanemaru
Me too man
nope jason does more, and roger is just mid.
@@Safalmaohe said ryan not roger
Either way ryan or jason would be the definitive choice, cuz roger just doesnt sound like sonic
@@SonicTheHedgehogX15 yeah we know
I knew that Kanemaru was the best voice, but damn, if he could voice the english games as well, that would be a dream come true.
@@MiguelMartinon He'd basically be the Charles Martinet of the Sonic series.
@@ibrahim24685which is what we need
Watch out, you're gonna crash! Ah.
I’d love if the lines spoken by Junichi as Sonic in the video were Windiis translations instead of the dub script. That’s an idea for the next one, especially if you can find AI of Chikao Otsuka, Koji Yusa & the rest to voice their lines in English too, though Mike as Eggman also works.
I could do this for Sonic and Shadow, but doing a new script might be harder.
@@Overseer190 I don’t know how hard it normally is, though sourcing the words is easy: Windii’s videos on her channel (and backups of such from her old channel on that of Demon Deathchase) let you find the cutscene dialog without needing to install Retranslated mod & playing the game (though when simply playing for fun you should totally install those mods anyway)
He sounds soo much like he’s 15! While roger sounds like Sonic if his 32 years old.
Aw c’mon don’t give Roger a hard time. He does a good job, and the voice direction isn’t his fault in some instances
People didn’t like Jason Griffith at first either lol
@@ZeeecksLegends The difference is Jason got better, Roger only got better in Sonic Dream Team.
I still love roger's voice (especially in sonic boom), he doesn't deserve all that hate
Sonic has no official age
@@miadatenshi9903 but it's definitely not 32 lol
A deeper jaleel white
@@K7TZ …or a fluid Ryan Drummond, at least for the majority.
I like how Sonic actually sounds like an actual teenager, really really cool
Now i want the american voice of Sonic to speak in japanese, what it gonna be?
Bro that is literally just Ryan Drummond omg haha
Which is why he was chosen, too bad sega decided to get roger…
This voice sounds exceptionally great!
Bro Junichi is a master at English, why have so many voices for sonic in English when they can just have this goat, bro he IS sonic
Imagine if he was born in either Taiwan or Hong Kong and learned English properly, he would be known in English as Johnny Kanemaru.
he sounds like a really young ryan drummond.
8:09 Sonic be runnin on that Windows XP background 💀
2:49 how did you manage to make it even more awkward 😂
Ahh.
Thinking about this video.
There are some mods for Sonic games that offer a retranslated script for the cutscenes from Japanese to English. Mainly for Sonic Adventure 2. It would be interesting to see this voice say those retranslated lines in those mods. Or just retranslated stuff in general for Sonic cutscenes.
"Watch out! You're gonna crash! あ"
The lone fact he sounds like Ben Schwartz during Generations
Okay dont expect the next video to be out for awhile. Modding games with DRM protection is painful.
I expected this to sound kinda cursed, but it actually sounds so close to Drummond's performance that it fits pretty well. Not so much for Generations tho, kinda hard to imagine post-colors Sonic with a voice other than Roger Craig Smith's, specially as his voice has gotten deeper over the years.
Oh tons of original clips sounded really cursed. Kanemaru did not sound that good between Sonic Colors through Forces (generations was pretty good) because of the bad scripts. Roger was able to work with the goofy and niche themes of the meta-ish era.
Ryan Drummond still my favorite of all the Sonic voices, but I would also take this over Roger's voice for the modern model, however if they made modern Sonic closer to boom sonic design-wise I think Roger's voice would work way better for Sonic if they want to keep Rodger, I don't hate Rodger Craig Smith he's an amazing voice actor I just never thought he matched up with modern Sonic's character design and proportions, sonic boom sonic is the only time I ever actually could believe Roger's voice coming out of a Sonic
If Junichi agreed to voice Sonic in English too to be like:
But he already rocks in Japanese sooooo....
I was expecting Sonic X japanese dub with english lines soundalike, instead I got a perfect sonic english voice.
Maybe it's just me, but I wish we got this sonic voice back for the english. Nothing against the new actor but he lacks the energy and excitement of the older sonic voices.
I still like his chill and more laidback voice though (gives me a sonic OVA dub vibe) but that energy is what pulled me in as a kid; which makes sense that someone running fast everywhere would be loud and energetic.
*whistle* greeeeeeaaaaat
I should’ve included the whistle. A lot of Kanemaru’s English is iconic.
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It’s sounds like the perfect blend between Jason and ryan
Yup!
I'm glad you didn't do Frontiers. I'm not ready for the breaks in low-pitched kanemaru
Kanemaru "can I not just talk normally? It's worked for the past 20+ years in Japan."
Sega of America "no! Because the only way anyone is going to take Sonic seriously again - after our mishandling of him in the 2010s - is to have him sound old and boring! Now ditch that cartoony voice and sound dull!"
Plus Japanese ai sonic might sound same
@@VirtuaMaster its funny you say this when Kanemaru also does a deeper voice in the jp dub but sure
Sonic voice actors are always good at their job
He sounds like ova sonic but older
Kanemaru is already my favorite voice for Sonic, but this is actually making me wish he voiced Sonic in English as well. He's already fluent in the language.
As someone who has listened to a lot of Jun'ichi Kanemaru's songs (yes, I don't listen to him in the games because I'm dyslexic). This sounds of. Like a impression. I'd still love to hear him in the English dub, especially since he KNOWS ENGLISH!!!! Because I want to hear his sonic without having to struggle to read fan subs!
AI is only as good as impressions and can never really replicate actual voice styles.
True 'dat
やっぱこの方による英語ボイスはAIとは思えんほど超カッケェ！
3作目の「ザ・ムービー」の吹き替えもずっと彼でおって欲しい💙
AIはときどきいいと思います．
例えばこの動画は金丸が英語ゲームで話すシナリオをあげます。
（すみません、日本語をならっています．何が話すを分かりましたか。）
He's like a higher pitched Drummond
I love these Sonic voice actors!
So many happy memories watching this is actually depressing 😢
*OH! WHAT A GREAT VIEW-U!*
IM SO USED TO HEARING "and..poke!" when Sonic taps the robot with his foot THAT I FORGOT IT WASNT IN-GAME :skull:
there should be a Ben Schwartz AI for the Ruan Drummond script
Omg I love it I swear it’s amazing in English dub and Japanese original
That’s because junichi kanemaru is a legend 🤩🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Looking at this video, i was thinking, how about we used ai to redub sonic x into english using jp voice
Whoa his voice sounds so beautiful in English
Is it odd I hear a bit of Ben Schwarts in this AI voice? Its like a mix of Drummond and Ben at the same time :)
Bro omg he sound litterally like Dummond
Because Ryan was chosen based on Jun'ichi
Nowadays they make JUN'ICHI sound more like ROGER . That's so odd
やっぱこの方による英語ボイスは超カッケェ！
3作目の「ザ・ムービー」の吹き替えもずっと彼でおって欲しい💙
この人は金丸純一ですがソニックの声俳優は映画を出ていませんでした。
もっとコンテントなら、私のYTチャネルをサブスクライブしてください🙂
(すみさせんー日本語は第一言語じゃないですが学んでいますよ！)
I do like the the inflection has a bit of a japanese type of pronounciation when speaking.
If only we could have this
Been saying this is how it should be for a long time lmao
Holy shit, Jaleel White was perfect
0:23 Now I realize that the lanscape is NY
I love this voice
Next: Shadow but Koji Yusa voiced the english dub
This sounds so much better
was hoping to see this for frontiers too, his voice would be so much better with this tone lol
I love Drummond, but the reason Kanemaru sounds like him to ppl is because his cadence is the most similar. To me every clip just sounds like their respective VA with a Kanemaru tone filter (which is exactly what AI does).
That said, personally a good Sonic voice has to resemble both Kanemaru's cadence and tone/timbre. Jason was eventually good in Secret Rings and Black Knight, but it was still miscast in my opinion. He was great as Shadow tho!
Okay unironically I've thought about exactly this before and wanted to see it done. This is the only ethical use of AI voice acting lol.
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oh yeah! I love this new sonic generations update!
junichi over roger is surprisingly goated. his delivery is probably the best foundation for preserving the chillness of junichi's sonic and it has none of that... indescribable gross rogeriness
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@@Overseer190 subbed-it was really neat! i’d love to see both of them, especially junichi over more of roger’s lines :D
Can you please do one with Amy’s Japanese voice actor?
I will consider that! Many have requested me to do Shadow first however.
7:05 sounds so damn good
Its like drummond and schwartz combines
8:44 the butterfly Lands in Sonic the hedgehog’s nose.
8:54 Princess Elise the third release the butterfly in sonic’s nose.
So good
MAKE THIS A MOD!!!!
I could technically do this for the earlier games
7:12 Of course not, he's blue!
Love every moment in 06😁😁😁
8:39 smile.
Ehhh.. I know its AI and all, but this really just sounds like the original voice clips with a slight overlay
So, for a more realistic concept, maybe someone should impersonate the actual voice and redub these clips themselves :p
have you ever considered overlaying ryan over jason? i tried but always got bad results
Maybe. I’ll try it when I have more time
That would put Sonic on par with Terry Bogard.
Sounds like Ryan and not gonna lie pretty cool
Amazing 🤩
How did you do that ?
ElevenLabsAI and audio splicing / mixing
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Tbh sonic would've been so much better with that guy as the va, Idk whats about roger, even when he tried to act serious in frontiers, he seemed like a joke, lifeless, idk if its the model or the voice acting, some people say he acts to childish, but he acts to lifeless, we need more emotion like the idw
I promise i follow rules
He IS sonic
Bartek Tomoe and Sonic is Junichi Kanemaru Voice
Permission to get your elevenlabs account and use this myself? (This is a joke)
Still, thisis amazing bro!
Now for the real question, ca I use your audio for any animations i could make in the future? Ill be sure to credit lol
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@@Overseer190 oh goodness I never got the notification on your reply!
Thanks lol.
And yeah! I'll be sure to take it into consideration!
Now use the ai voice for the snapcube fandub
That will be difficult as ElevenLabs has trouble isolating pre-recorded dubbed audio.
@@Overseer190 oh :(
I need this man to learn english now, Im so sick of roger's performance.
He’s actually fluent. Even used to be an English teacher before getting into voice acting full time, it’s just he obviously has a super thick accent
Hey guy, take care!
He sounds like a teenaged Goku
Voice to voice AI
7:02
Cooll
Now how about to do the same for Shadow voise actor?
The purpose won’t be the same since the Japanese VA for Shadow doesn’t speak English.
@@Overseer190 I thought the voice sample would be enough... Or will he speak with an accent without a sample of English?
@@ЛестатДаркi could try it
I love this. This is how Sonic sounds in my head. I cannot understand for the life of me the current voice direction in Frontiers. No disrespect to RCS, but the deep, serious voice they made him use sounds awful for the character IMO.
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this is cool, but have anybody done this with deem bristow's eggman voice? no offense to mike pollock, but i prefer mr bristow's voice.
I could try that
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