The Ocean Group

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The Ocean Group is a production company located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada that specializes in localizing anime into English, including doing translation, dubbing and subtitling. As of 2005 they've also started providing DVD authoring services to some of their clients. They own and operate Ocean Studios. Their casting arm, InterPacific Productions, is a signatory to the Union of BC Performers.

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[edit] Notable works

Popular anime include InuYasha, Ranma ½ and most of the installments in the Gundam meta-series, including Mobile Suit Gundam, Char's Counterattack, Gundam Wing, Endless Waltz, and both Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny. They also did the original English dub to both the first and second seasons of Dragon Ball Z, the first three DBZ movies, and have also worked on Hamtaro, Cardcaptor Sakura, Monster Rancher, Infinite Ryvius, Jin-Roh, Silent Mobius, The Vision of Escaflowne, Zoids: New Century Zero, The SoulTaker, and .hack//Roots.

Outside of anime, they have recorded the voices for American cartoons like Exosquad, X-Men: Evolution, and Fantastic Four (2006).

[edit] Blue Water Studios

As of 2000, The Ocean Group has also been recording some of their projects at Blue Water Studios in Calgary, Alberta through their affiliates Chinook Animation and 420 Inc. Located outside the jurisdiction of the UBCP, these companies use different voice actors hired at lower pay rates, and has done G Gundam, Zeta Gundam, Zoids: Chaotic Century, Zoids: Guardian Force, DICE, My-HiME, and a few other animes. They are also doing future Mega Man games from this point on. They have so far did voice acting for Mega Man X8, Mega Man X: Command Mission, Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X, and Mega Man: Powered Up.

[edit] Notable voice actors

[edit] Common misapprehensions

Because of the company's name, many fans have assumed that they are a "group" of voice actors who've joined together to work on certain projects. This is incorrect, as Ocean's staff are mainly technical and adiministrative personnel, and all the voice actors are freelancers employed on a project to project basis.

Also, this belief, combined with the fact that Ocean is the most publicly known voice over producer in Vancouver, has fostered a frequent assumption in fandom that all projects featuring Vancouver voice actors were done by The Ocean Group. This, again, is incorrect, as there are several other companies drawing from the same talent pool, including BLT Productions (He-Man), Voicebox Productions (Transformers: Armada, Transformers: Cybertron, Zoids: Fuzors), Studio B Productions (Class of the Titans, Being Ian), and Mainframe Entertainment (ReBoot, Beast Wars).

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