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I have noticed most of the reviews here are for the voice of Anzu Mazaki/Téa Gardner, from what I have heard of the Japanese version, I do think the voice is good for her so I give this actress credit for that.
Her voice of Max on Pokémon, while I have never heard his Japanese voice so I can not tell the difference, as I have no hatred on Nintendo 4Kids dubs, I am neutral on this one but I think it was a nice voice for him.
Now I get to the Sonic X anime which I hate the dubbed version of to be honest. In the original Sonic series on Sonic Heroes, Charmy was voiced by Emily Corkery who fit Charmy's personallity perfectly. She gave Charmy the voice you would expect from a 6 year old boy in real life and fitted his hyperactive, scatterbrained and childish personallity perfectly like his Japanese voice actress did. While Amy Birnbaum does not fit Charmy at all. The voice she gave Charmy makes his sound much older then he is (makes him sound about 14 IMO) and she also does not fit his personallity well. Instead of making Charmy hyper and energetic as he is supposed to be, she made him sound sarcastic and slightly mellow. It bothers me that some people like the voice for that, but it's not SUPPOSED to be like that, it's out of character for Charmy. It's in Charmy's bio and the Team Chaotix theme song for him to be hyper and scatterbrained.
And now Cosmo, while she gave her a nice voice, she lack a LOT of the emotion that Cosmo's japanese voice actress Etsuko Kozakura gave to her. She sounded less caring then she did in the Japanese version and less conserned in certain areas. While the sound of her voice was good for Cosmo, her attitude and personallity were not.
A 7.2 for Amy Birnbaum
Despite the fact that Tea is not one of my favorite characters, (okay I really don't like Tea at all... but I am one of the boy crazy fangirls so I am allowed) I do think that Amy is the perfect voice for her. She also did the voice of Bonz from the same show and I was amazed when I found that out...really they don't sound anything alike. She has a wide range of voices (I don't know what else to call it) and is very talented indeed. I would like to see her (or hear her) on more shows and / or movies, because I like her.
Amy is the perfect Tea. Amy really captures Tea's emotion when Tea makes those long boring speeches about friendship. "It's a symbol of our friendship. The ink will eventually fade away, but our bond never will. There is nothing more powerful than our friendship." She also captures how boring those speeches are. She plays Max on Pokemon which is the only male role I know she has. She plays Max really well, especially with Max's sassiness(and I know that's not a word). In the soon coming Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, I hope Amy or Veronica Taylor plays the character Sho who is a boy.
Amy she did a great job for Tea she should part of Yugioh GX as foe Sho she do great cause he will sound so cute like Mokuba how cute would that would be since I like that women are doing voice for the little boy in anime like Mokuba for example if women does it sound super cute
