Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children English Cast and U.S Release Date Now Official
Yup it’s in the books, Square Enix’s long awaited CG continuation of the supremely successful RPG Final Fantasy VII, will hit DVD and UMD on April 25th… In the U.S. A U.K date? Well Somewhere in mid-June sounds reasonable to me, but I wouldnt be surprised if it slipped back to September.
As far as the English voice cast goes, there are a couple of Hollywood alumini there, such as Mena Suvari as tear-jerking Aerith Gainsborough and Rachel Leigh Cook as feisty Tifa Lockheart. There are also a couple of anime mainstays in there too, such as Steve Blum (Spike in Cowboy Bebop and Mugen in Samurai Champloo) as Vincent Valentine, and Crispin Freeman (Alucard in Hellsing) as Turk flunky Rude.
Although the casting choices seem good for the most part, I cant help but think that Mr. Freeman and Mr. Blum should have their roles reversed. Crispin Freeman would prove to be an excellent Vincent Valentine, based on his performance as Alucard in Pioneer’s Hellsing, I thought it was a dead lock, but oh well.
Here’s the list of folk contributing their vocal talents to the English dub.
Steve Burton as Cloud Strife
Mena Suvari as Aerith Gainsborough
Quinton Flynn as Reno
Rachael Leigh Cook as Tifa Lockhart
Steve Staley as Kadaj
Wally Wingert as Rufus ShinRa
Andrea Bowen as Girl
Beau Billingslea as Barett Wallace
Benjamin Bryan as Denzel
Bettina Bush as Elena
Chris Edgerly as Cid Highwind
Christy Romano as Yuffie Kisaragi
Crispin Freeman as Rude
Dave Wittenberg as Yazoo
Fred Tatasciore as Loz
George Newbern as Sephiroth
Grace Rolek as Marlene Wallace
Gregg Ellis as Cait Sith
Jamieson Price as Reeve
Liam O’Brien as Red XIII
Rick Gomez as Zack
Ryun Yu as Tseng
Steven Blum as Vincent Valentine
Apparently the delay of the Western release of Advent Children has been down to the finialising of the voice cast, which if you look includes many crossover performances from the recently announced Kingdom Hearts II dub, and also the inclusion of extra bonus features.
While the film may be old news to those who have downloaded it from the internet, I still implore those of you who have to stump up the funds for either the region 1 or 2 release, as the film is such that it deserves it. Well i’ll get off my soap box now 🙂 Review coming as soon as I get my hands on the Reigon 1 DVD.
Stay tuned.
Leave a Reply