Ocean Productions

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Ocean Productions
Type Private
Industry ADR production, Pre-production, Post-production, Voice recording, Video editing, Video production
Genre Animation/Anime,
Video games
Founded 1992
Headquarters Vancouver, British Columbia
Divisions Airwaves Sound Design,
Blue Water Studios,
Ocean Studios,
Westwood Studios

Ocean Productions Inc. is a voice-recording production company located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Their services include localizing foreign animation (mostly anime) into English, as well as translation, script writing, original music scores, sound FX and video production.

Their most prolific clients include Bandai Visual, Funimation, Geneon and Viz Media.

A great deal of their work is recorded at Ocean Studios, which they own and operate. Other studios they frequently use include Westwood Studios and Blue Water Studios, the later of which is used for more high profile productions. They can also be known as The Ocean Group and as Ocean Media because of their e-mail address. They do not have a corporate web site.

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[edit] Notable works

Ocean has dubbed popular animes including the hit series InuYasha and Ranma ½ as well as most of the installments in the Gundam metaseries, including Mobile Suit Gundam, Char's Counterattack, Gundam Wing, Endless Waltz, and both Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny.

Ocean was contracted by Funimation to dub the first and second seasons of Dragon Ball Z (as well as the first three Dragon Ball Z movies) until episode 54 when Funimation started using their Texas-based recording studio. Ocean continued to assist Funimation with scripting and editing.

They also worked on Hamtaro, Dragon Drive, Cardcaptor Sakura, Maison Ikkoku, Monster Rancher, Infinite Ryvius, Jin-Roh, Silent Mobius, The Vision of Escaflowne, Zoids: New Century Zero, The SoulTaker, .hack//Roots, Hikaru No Go, Elemental Gelade, Death Note, Black Lagoon, MegaMan NT Warrior, Pretty Cure, Hunter x Hunter, NANA, Tetsujin 28-go, Shakugan no Shana, Ronin Warriors and Powerpuff Girls Z.

Their most recent projects are Gundam 00, Tara Duncan, Deltora Quest and Viper's Creed.

Outside of anime, they have recorded the voices for several Western-made productions including Exosquad, X-Men: Evolution, Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes, Iron Man: Armored Adventures, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures.

[edit] Notable voice actors

Note: Ocean does not represent actors.

  • Michael Dobson: Nappa, Dr. Gero (Dragon Ball Z), Duke Dermail (Gundam Wing), Dekim Barton (Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz), Starscream (Transformers: Armada, Transformers: Energon), Gindo (Ranma 1/2), Jinenji (InuYasha), Dylan (Hamtaro), Mojo Jojo (Powerpuff Girls Z)
  • Ellen Kennedy: Baba (Dragon Ball Z), Eries Aston (Escaflowne), Kyoko (Maison Ikkoku), Sarah (Zoids: New Century), Cappy, Cindy Iwata (Hamtaro), Lebia Maverick (Silent Möbius), Destiny (X-Men: Evolution),
  • Pauline Newstone: Frieza (Dragon Ball Z), Mistress Centipede (InuYasha), Kaitlin Endo, Mr. Yoshi's Mother (Hamtaro)
  • Laara Sadiq: Chi-Chi, Bulma, Erasa (Dragon Ball Z), Orfus (Elemental Gelade)
  • Lee Tockar: Ian Lee (Gundam SEED Destiny), WoodMan, Higsby (MegaMan NT Warriors),

Sylvia Zaradic: "Kodachi Kuno" (Ranma 1/2); "Vision of Escaflowne" (Sola); "Brain Powered" (Midori); "Mobile Suit Gundam" (Lt. Matilda); "Starship Operators" (Sei); "Human Crossing" (Sanae); "Galaxy Angel S" (Major Mary)

[edit] References

Ocean Productions Inc. Staff.

[edit] External links

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