Ocean Productions
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. There 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.
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, 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.
Notable voice actors
Note: Ocean does not represent actors.
- Richard Ian Cox: InuYasha (InuYasha), male Ranma Saotome (Ranma ½), Allelujah Haptism (Gundam 00), Kai Shiden (Mobile Suit Gundam), Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver (X-Men: Evolution), Sabu (Hamtaro), Bit Cloud (Zoids: New Century Zero), Zaacro, Spice (Dragon Ball Z), Top Hat, Big Billy (Big Boy), Noodlehead (Powerpuff Girls Z)
- 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)
- Paul Dobson: Folken (Escaflowne), Zarbon (Dragon Ball Z), Naraku, Myoga (InuYasha), Happosai, Yutaro, Gora (Ranma ½), Sideways (Transformers: Armada), Howdy, Jack Iwata (Hamtaro), Gilbert, Beetle Bob, Dunga Din (Powerpuff Girls Z), Midgel (3-2-1 Penguins!)
- Brian Drummond: Vegeta, Yajirobe, Baba, Pikkon (Dragon Ball Z), Zechs Merquise/Milliardo Peacecraft (Gundam Wing), Tiger of the Wind (Monster Rancher), Jetstorm (Beast Machines), Allen Schezar (Escaflowne), Ryuk (Death Note), Renkotsu (InuYasha), Keo (Yakkity Yak), Aidan Avalon (Cardcaptors), Hambeard (Hamtaro), Poncho (Powerpuff Girls Z), Andrew Waltfeld (Gundam SEED, Gundam SEED Destiny)
- David Kaye: Recoome, Brocco (Dragon Ball Z), Megatron (Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Transformers: Armada, Transformers: Energon, Transformers: Cybertron), Soun Tendo (Ranma ½), Treize Khushrenada (Gundam Wing), Sesshomaru (InuYasha),
- 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),
- Scott McNeil: Piccolo, Jeice, Goz, Mez, Android 16, Majin Buu (Dragon Ball Z), Dinobot, Waspinator, Silverbolt (Beast Wars, Beast Machines), Proto Man (Mega Man), Duo Maxwell (Gundam Wing), Koga (InuYasha), Principal Kuno (Ranma ½), Phillip Yoshi, Mr. Foster (Hamtaro), Tobi (Naruto Shippuden), Fuzzy Lumpkins (Powerpuff Girls Z), Cain (Dragon Booster),
- 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)
- Kelly Sheridan: Sango (InuYasha), Hitomi Kanzaki (Escaflowne), Shino (.hack//ROOTS), Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (X-Men: Evolution), Nana Komatsu (Nana), Louise Halevy (Gundam 00), Shurei Hong (The Story of Saiunkoku), Leena Toros (Zoids: New Century Zero), Ukyo Kuonji, Kurumi (Ranma ½), Hilary, Glitter, Daisy, Ivy (Hamtaro), Princess Morbucks (Powerpuff Girls Z)
- Tabitha St. Germain: Rarity (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic), Flay Allster (Gundam SEED), Pink Haro, Birdy (Gundam SEED, Gundam SEED Destiny), Pashmina (Hamtaro), Soma Peries (Gundam 00), Shana (Shakugan no Shana), Ms. Keane, Sapphire, Violet, Ivy (Powerpuff Girls Z)
- Brad Swaile: Setsuna F Seiei (Gundam 00), Quatre Raberba Winner (Gundam Wing), Amuro Ray (Mobile Suit Gundam, Char's Counterattack), Gohan (Dragon Ball Z) Mousse, Sentaro (Ranma ½), Dearka Elsman (Gundam SEED, Gundam SEED Destiny), Auel Neider (Gundam SEED Destiny), , Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler (X-Men: Evolution), Light Yagami (Death Note), Lan Hikari (MegaMan NT Warrior), Maxwell (Hamtaro) and Kimba (The New Adventures of Kimba the White Lion), Johnny Cosmo (Powerpuff Girls Z), Maxwell (Hamtaro)
- Lee Tockar: Ian Lee (Gundam SEED Destiny), WoodMan, Higsby (MegaMan NT Warriors),
- Cathy Weseluck: Dorothy Catalonia (Gundam Wing), Kati Mannequin (Gundam 00), Chiaotzu, Puar, Trunks (Dragon Ball Z), Mirai Yashima (Mobile Suit Gundam), Shampoo, Azusa, Yuka (Ranma ½), Kagome Higurashi's Mother (InuYasha), Near (Death Note), Marion Haruna, Snoozer, Omar (Hamtaro), Ken, Bubbles' Grandmother (Powerpuff Girls Z)
References
Ocean Productions Inc. Staff.
External links