The E7 story is... Yuri Lowenthal (Sasuke in Naruto) was originally cast as Renton. After dubbing part of the series with him they decided that his voice was too low for Renton and recast Johnny Bosch. (In the Japanese version Renton was done by the woman who did the voice of the brat who played the piano in that one episode of Ouran so his voice was kinda low anyway.) So Johnny came into the series without really knowing anything about the character. He had to dub the first season (1-13) in like half the time it would normally take and the director kept trying to get him to higher and higher into a range that Johnny himself said was uncomfortable for him. After they hit the second season he was able to take it down a bit into a place that he was comfortable (which is about the same as what he used for Last Exile and Paranoia Agent.)

But people have been griping about his performance constantly for weeks now. The dub is all over the place though. Mispronunciations, miscasting, even using the wrong terms for things and translating things in one episode, but leaving them untranslated in another.


Yumichika better sound just as prissy as the Japanese and Ikkaku's voice better be hot.