Voice actor Kyle Hebert said he enjoyed working in the English dub of the series as his two characters, Dorulumon and Balistamon, offered diverse characterization.
(meta data) TITLE: Narrating Your Life with Kyle Hebert (meta data) PUBLISHER: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Otaku-USA-Magazine/121192007937111 10 captures 06 Sep 2017 - 20 Oct 2021 About this capture COLLECTED BY Organization: Internet Archive These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved. Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors. The goal is to fix all broken links on the web. Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. Collection: GDELT A daily crawl of more than 200,000 home pages of news sites, including the pages linked from those home pages. Site list provided by The GDELT Project The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20180514090437/http://www.otakuusamagazine.com/narrating-your-life-with-kyle-hebert/ Narrating Your Life with Kyle Hebert by Danica Davidson November 13, 2013 If you read Otaku USA, there's a good chance Kyle Hebert narrated your childhood. In addition to narrating Dragon Ball Z, he's the voice behind adult Gohan, Kiba in Naruto, Aizen in Bleach and countless other characters. Okay, so besides narrating your childhood, he's probably narrating your adulthood, too. I caught up with Hebert at Youmacon in Detroit to get a scoop on what he's been up to lately. The first bit of excitement we talked about was his being in Wreck-It Ralph. "My connection to Street Fighter is what facilitated that," he said. "Disney called my agent. She said, 'Disney wants you.' I said, 'Awesome! Tell them I'm there! I'll do it for free!' She said, 'No, you won't do it for free.' So there was a little Ryu cameo in Wreck-It Ralph." In terms of anime, his main gigs right now are Tenkai Knights and Digimon Fusion. "I voice Commander Beag on Tenkai Knights," he said. "He's silly and over-the-top and doesn't quite understand the lingo the kids in the main cast use, so he nods and smiles, and says, 'Okay, let's just do this! Let's defeat the bad guys!' I kind of based my voice on an actor from an obscure, awful sci-fi '50s movie called Plan 9 From Outer Space. There's an alien character that's, 'Very rigid and everything is overdone!' And I found an excuse to turn that into a performance, so that's pretty sweet." Should I mention he tends to lapse into the characters' voices while he talks about them? "In Digimon Fusion, I voice two recurring Digimon in the main cast," Hebert continued. "There's Dorulumon and Ballistamon. So many 'mons. So I basically have a lion and a robot. My lion is a deep, dark, serious, lower register sort of guy. Doesn't have much of a sense of humor. Ballistamon is a comedic, comic relief guy, and I sort of based him on a Phil Hartman, Troy McClure sort of thing." He's got other excitement going on with his work with Kevin Smith. You know, Clerks, Comic Book Men, Silent Bob, that Kevin Smith? "I started out as a fan of Kevin Smith watching Clerks and everything," Hebert said. "He started a podcast called SModCo Internet Radio. It streams live 24/7. That started with a podcast he did called SmodCast, and that's grown into a whole network of podcasts. He does one weekly called Hollywood Babble-On. They did a show and they started getting fans emailing produced intros for the segments, and I thought it would be kind of funny to do the intro for the show, as sort of the narrator for Dragon Ball Z, but there are F bombs and everything. They played it and Kevin Smith's people emailed me and said, 'Hey, Kevin really likes your voice. Would you like to be the promo voice, the sound of the network?' It was, 'Oh my god, yes!'" He continued, "So I get to write promos and voice them. His show Comic Book Men is really successful now, and Hollywood Babble-On might get picked up as well. They're going to shoot a pilot soon, and I'm hoping to at least get my voice heard on it. I've met Kevin a handful of times and he's super, super friendly. He says, 'Hey, Kyle!' and I get a big hug. I think, 'This is great.'" So Kyle loves Disney, Kevin Smith and anime, and he also loves anime conventions. When asked about the most common requests he gets at conventions, he said, "Ohh, yeah, autographs, voices, voice mails, video clips for friends who didn't make it. The most common thing has been the narrator, because people say, 'You narrated my life! Could you say something for my voice mail?' So I'll go, 'Johnny's not here right now. He's training to be a Super Saiyan.' Lately, because League of Legends is popular, people ask for a voice from those characters. I'm just honored and flattered. I love what I do for a living, and this is icing on the cake. I get to meet cool fans and I get to hang and meet other people in the industry as well. This is the greatest job in the world." While convention season's slowing down now, that doesn't mean he isn't already ready for more cons. "I'm already booking shows for 2014," he said. Gurren Lagann 33dragon ball z 126kyle hebert 203tenkai knights 1voice acting ### Related Posts AnimeAya HiranoThe Melancholy of Haruhi Susumiyalucky starnews ##### Haruhi VA Ate Tissues To Survive Her Early Anime Career May 12, 2018Julian Gnam ##### New Digimon Project Announced as Final tri. Film Debuts May 4, 2018Joseph Luster ##### Live-Action Bleach Film's Trailer Samples Theme By [ALEXANDROS] April 20, 2018Joseph Luster ##### Get a Peek at Naruto Kabuki Play's Naruto, Sasuke April 2, 2018Matt Schley Cinemalive-action adaptationnarutonews ##### Live-Action Naruto Movie Gets Update from Director Michael Gracey March 30, 2018Joseph Luster ##### Viz Media Anime Joins Verizon's go90 Streaming Platform March 20, 2018Joseph Luster Evangelion 3.0 to Screen in US and Canada in 2014 Soul Eater Not! Anime Adaptation Confirmed ### Comments Subscribe to our mailing list to get the latest news to your email inbox #### Tags Otaku Life336 Live-Action Adaptations268 live action236 Bonus Content234 dragon ball208 One Piece193 Attack on Titan190 print articles183 Studio Ghibli149 Cosplay/Cons137
train01482
Digimon Fusion
Reception.
On its Japanese premiere, "Digimon Fusion" had a rating of 4.1 viewers. "Digimon Xros Wars: The Boy Hunters Who Leapt Through Time" was nominated for the 2012 International Emmy Kids Awards for "Best Animation". "Famicom Tsūshin" scored "Digimon Story: Super Xros Wars" 32 out of 40. Early responses by Anime News Network praised the pilot, stating nostalgic "Digimon" fans would enjoy it based on its new approach to power-ups within the main cast and compared it to the highly acclaimed mecha series "Gurren Lagann" despite suffering from cliches often seen in other anime.