Blu-ray would be awesomesauce. I kind of already knew about this, but I kept it to myself until FUNi made their announcement to protect Sonny's job. FUNi is particular about things like that.
Can't wait to hear more of his awesome -not nerdy- Lupin voice then. I really don't think you guys would have this problem if you would stop hearing Krillin whenever he spoke. I love DBZ as much as anyone but I don't think Picollo when I hear Funi's Jigen...well at least not all the time. Just as you shouldn't with his Lupin.
No, when I hear his Jigen, I hear the generic Chris Sabat voice he uses for nearly everything.
My problem with Strait's Lupin has nothing to do with Kuririn and has everything to do with he just can't sound cool.
That's the same with me. I've never watched Dragonball Z, so I no problem hearing anything other than Lupin. Although, I just looked at a few clips of Krillin, and both voices don't sound close enough to be annoying if I would have heard Krillin already. You guys probably grew up with DBZ, so I guess I can still see your issue.
Sonny Strait's Lupin is an okay version for the previous Specials. He's the 2nd best choice for a Lupin voice out of the 7 people who have played him in English. That I know for certain. However, he sounds too generic when he talks in his deeper voice, like when he's having a date with Fujiko at the beginning of "Columbus Files." He didn't sound like any sort of Lupin there; only after he dressed up as Fujiko and appeared in the mirror opposite her did he sound like Lupin. When he's all wild and crazy, he works as Lupin. When he talks in his deep, semi-normal voice (even though Lupin does talk like that sometimes) he just doesn't fit as well.
In the case of the "Fujiko Mine" series, I just don't believe he is the right choice for this particular incarnation of the Lupin character.
I've drawn many connections between Lupin the 3rd and the Dr. Who franchise; so I will use that as a way of making my point. Imagine if you will the least liked 6th Doctor, with the rainbow coat, and imagine casting the previous 3rd or 4th Doctor to play him. They are wildly different interpretations of the same character because the 6th doctor is a reborn version of the Doctor. So he now has a different combination of personality traits and facial features. The previous actors were good for playing their versions of the Doctor because of their voice, their manor and the personalities of their respective versions of the Doctor.
So in short: Sonny is an okay personal to play
a Lupin, just not
this Lupin.
