Kari Wahlgren
Sometimes Credited As:
Renee Emerson / Lucy Hudson / Jan Irving / Jennifer Jean / Kay Jemsen / Kay Jensen / Kay Jenson / Kara Wahlgreen / Kari Walgren / Kari Whalgren

The voice cast for FFX was mostly people you can say, "oh, he did that? awesome, I can sort of hear it now."

The voice cast for FFXII is.. strange. Either they never did anything notable before, or they did stuff that was completely different (Bloo = Basch!), or in this case, have far too many names.

A young desert-dwelling, bright-eyed man who is just learning his destiny, an old, grizzled soldier full of wisdom, a slightly-rude and greedy-but-moral gun-preferring vagabond, and his tall, furry, non-human co-pilot and partner blast off from a city in the middle of the desert (filled with people of all shapes and sizes, from very short to scaly) in their roundish ship, in order to save a young lady from the evil empire.

Of course, I'm talking about FFXII. What did you think I was talking about?

I'll post some stuff about Anime North tonight or tommorow, right now I want to talk about Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

It's cool, yes.  The fights are so over the top to the point of ridiculousness, and that's neat, but there's two HUGE problems with it:

(I'd put a spoiler warning but the movie has next to no plot anyway so who cares.)

• Sephiroth doesn't get beaten.  At the end, after, the super-duper-ultra-omnislash-lots-of-swords thing, Sephiroth doesn't react.  He sprouts a wing, basically says "Well, see ya later!" and then dissapears.  He -leaves-.  Cloud doesn't beat Sephiroth, he hits him with a big attack and then Sephiroth just floats there and says "ok, bye".  For a movie so full of over-the-top, for the end of the final boss fight to be so.. under-the-bottom is unthinkable.  He died with more ceremony on the playstation.
• That's the other thing: FFVII Advent Children basically undoes FFVII's ending.  Sephiroth is still 'out there' in an ethereal sense.  If it wasn't for Meteor FFVII would now have been an entirely pointless exercise.  At least we know the entire human population wasn't wiped out (that was one of the ending theories.)