Poll: Best Female Voice Actor?

[Stryc9]

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Aww. You might like other animes though.

Is that so? I've only heard of Oni - Never played. I wonder if it was an inspiration...

I'd say that Oni took inspiration from Ghost in the Shell and ran with it. If you can find a copy for the PC on eBay or some such you should get it and play it. It had a great hand to hand combat system with all kinds of special moves and combos you would unlock as you progressed. The story while it was pretty hammy wasn't that bad for 2001 standards, it's got plenty of cheesy dialogue and nonsensical techno-babble.

Here's a link to a Let's Play of it I've been watching while playing through myself.
Bubblegum Tank Police in the Shell - Let's Play Oni [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsACbWHLJxE&feature=g-u-u]
He tries to update about once a week, and while he pokes fun at the game he's not mean about it and it's still informative.

Edit: Also, I've watched some other animes, I was really into it for a while in the late 90's early 2000's which also happened to be when they were really expensive and hard to find, at least in my area. The idea of being able to watch them online was a far off dream 56k and all that. I did rather like the three episode thingy of Gunsmith Cats, which also featured Amanda Winn Lee as the voice of the main character Rally Vincent. If you haven't seen Gunsmith Cats you should check it out, it's pretty good too even though it's really short.

 

[Cranky]

Laura Bailey beats Tara Strong by just a bit.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

Here's something that should make for an interesting poll. I've noticed there were few notable females in voice acting. Since less answers make for a good poll, I decided to make this. Not much else to say. Answers are above, if it's not there pick "Other", yadda yadda yadda. Just, GO!

Lisa Ortiz, voice of Lina Inverse and many, many others. Very favorite voice actress ever. I have her autograph. ^^

Tiffany Grant, Kotono Mitsuishi, and Rica Fukami also leap to mind.

 

[Trivun]

I love all of them, they all voice some of my favourite characters in animation at the moment. However, my vote goes to Tara Strong, purely because Bubbles was always my favourite Powerpuff Girl, and she gives the incredibly sexy Harley Quinn an awesome and pretty damn sexy voice in Arkham City ;D. Not to mention she voiced Rikku in FF/KH, and again, one of my favourite characters xD

 

[Tayh]

I only know of one, Jennifer Hale, so that's my vote.

 

[SquidVicious]

Tara Strong got my vote because she's in the most amount of stuff that I like and if I see her name attached to something I usually give it a second look. Just a few examples of the things she was in that I liked.

Killer7- KAEDE Smith
Babar
Beetle Juice
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
Drawn Together
The Boondocks
Samurai Jack
Afro Samurai
Lollipop Chainsaw (Didn't care much for what I played of the game, but I enjoyed her character for reasons other than the obvious)
Psychonauts

While she's not always a big presence in everything on my list, she's still apart of things I like.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

I was thinking Hale for Mass Effect, but chose Strong for... doing pretty much every other female voice I enjoy.

Other than Cortana. Who voices Cortana?

Jen Taylor, at least in the games. The animated Halo movies had a different woman for both Halsey and Cortana.

 

[Slash Joel]

Grey DeLisle for one character Princess Motherfucking Azula. Now that is a crazy psycho. Her role in Avatar is what sets her apart from the rest.

Runners up is Hale for femshep and Ms. Marvel. Tara Strong for Quinn, Twilight, and Raven

 

[schtingah]

As more of a gamer I went with jennifer hale for voicing alot of my favourite chars (FemShep, Bastilla, Samus) and alot of other stuff i'm just not gonna start listing.

 

[repeating integers]

Tara Strong's the one who can basically do a hundred million completely different voices, right?

Yeah, her.

 

[saluraropicrusa]

I am sorely, sorely disappointed at the lack of recognition for Nancy Cartwright. Of course she's most well known for playing Bart Simpson, but she's been in many other shows and movies [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Cartwright] including Animaniacs.

I do like Hale's work as femShep, and I appreciate any good voice actor, but come on, guys. Nancy Cartwright is awesome.

 

[SonOfMethuselah]

Lack of Ellen McLain up in here. Or the voice of GLaDOS for those unfamiliar.

Thisthisthisthisthisthisthisthisthis.
She made the first game, easily. Wheatly made me laugh more often in the second one, but she was still the stronger voice.

Grey Delisle would be my second choice, though, followed pretty damn closely by Jennifer Hale.

 

[Tono Makt]

Jennifer Hale. Because of her voice acting, I consider the default protagonist in Mass Effect to be FemShep. I hope someone makes a game like Mass Effect again, with her as the lead character... and market the game with the female protagonist as the default, not the male character.

 

[Gabanuka]

Oh look, the peasants are unable to acknowledge their true ruler. How amusing.
I'll make a note of all your names for future reference.

 

[Wereduck]

Voted "other" as a toss-up between Laura Bailey & Mary McGlynn.
Not at all upset to see Hale in the lead though - go Bastila!

 

[ninjaRiv]

Grey Delisle is the female version of John Dimagio. She's everywhere! But all of those are very talented.

 

[DSK-]

That's such a hard question and I just simply can't answer it :S

 

[Rene Brungs]

Jennifer Hale. I remember playing femshep in ME1 and i was so impressed by her voice acting that i looked her up online, because i had to know who that voice belonged to. I had never done this before.