Monica Rial

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search
Monica Rial
Monica Rial.jpg
Monica Rial in 2014
Born Monica Jean Rial
(1975-10-05) October 5, 1975 (age 49)[1]
Houston, Texas, U.S.
Residence Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Houston, Texas, U.S.
Ethnicity Spanish[2]
Alma mater University of Houston[3]
Occupation Voice actress, ADR script writer, ADR director
Years active 1999–present
Agent Mary Collins Agency

Monica Jean Rial (born October 5, 1975) is a far-left American voice actress, script writer, and ADR director for Funimation and Seraphim Digital/Sentai Filmworks. She has provided voices for a number of English-language versions of Japanese anime films and television series.

Biography

Rial was born in Houston, Texas. Her father is from Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain. When she was young, her family would often visit Spain. She would translate for her younger brother some of the European Spanish-dubbed cartoons which included anime shows Doraemon and Dragon Ball Z, often imitating the various characters.[2] She studied ballet, tap, and jazz, but transitioned to musical theatre when was 12.[4] She studied acting through high school as well as college at the University of Houston.[3] In an interview with Otaku News, Rial mentioned voice actor inspirations from The Simpsons, Family Guy and Beavis and Butt-head.[4] She was working on a theatre show with Jason Douglas, who suggested she audition for ADV Films. Her first voice-over role was some walla in the 1999 dub of Martian Successor Nadesico. In an interview with Otaku News, Rial said she had to talk for two minutes straight as folks in a crowd telling the Jovians to go home.[4] She would later land main character roles as Miharu in Gasaraki, Natsume in Generator Gawl, and the title character in ADV Films' production of Hello Kitty's Animation Theater,[5][6] the last of which one of ADV's best-selling DVDs.[7] In 2001, she voiced Izumi in the baseball anime Princess Nine and in 2002, she got to voice Hyatt in Excel Saga, which she listed among her absolute favorites.[5]

In 2003, she voiced best-friend character Kyoko Tokiwa in Full Metal Panic!, and got to reprise her for Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu and Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid. She voiced Kirika Yuumura, the quiet assassin partner in Noir. Rial said that Kirika was challenging because she had very few words but had to convey a lot of emotions.[5] She also noted that Kirika's personality changed over the course of the series, so she voiced her to be more emotional in later episodes which drew some criticism from fans. She also voiced Lila in Najica Blitz Tactics where she also got to do a DVD commentary along with fellow actress Kira Vincent-Davis. The commentaries have become popular as she receives feedback from fans about them at anime conventions.[6] She voiced female protagonist Haruka Shitou in the sci-fi show RahXephon.

Rial started voice-over work with the anime dubbing company Funimation in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. In 2004, she voiced Amy in the long-running detective anime series Case Closed, and Lyra (aka Dante) in the drama series Fullmetal Alchemist. Both of these shows were featured on Cartoon Network. She also voiced co-lead character Lumiere in Kiddy Grade. Meanwhile, with ADV, she voiced Nyamo-sensei in the school comedy Azumanga Daioh. She had also taken over some character roles as Momiji in Blue Seed and Maya in Neon Genesis Evangelion. Rial said that it was very difficult to try to sound like the previous voice actors, especially Maya's low voice, so she tried her own approach. She also got to voice Pen-Pen the penguin in Evangelion.[8] In 2005, she voiced the serious lead character Jo in a team of mercenary girls in the cyberpunk science fiction series Burst Angel.[9]

Rial continued to land leading roles in anime shows. In 2006, she voiced the title character in Nanaka 6/17, about a 17-year-old girl who through an accident, has amnesia and regresses to her 6-year-old self. In Speed Grapher she voiced female protagonist Kagura Tennōzu, and in the ADV Films remake of Macross, she voiced Misa Hayase.[7] In 2007, she voiced Sakura in the English anime adaptation of Clamp's Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle; Maria in Witchblade;[10] Misuzu Kamio, a heroine in Air, and the title character in Kurau: Phantom Memory. She also voiced lead characters Misao Shinohara, Sasami's best friend in Sasami: Magical Girls Club; and heroine Asa Shigure in the harem comedy Shuffle!.

In 2010, when Dragon Ball Z was remade as Dragon Ball Z Kai, Rial got to voice the heroine character Bulma. She voiced other lead girl characters in Sekirei, Soul Eater, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, and Casshern Sins. Both Soul Eater and Brotherhood have had sizeable runs on Adult Swim's Toonami block. She voiced the title character Mina Tepes in Dance in the Vampire Bund, as well as several lead female characters in ensemble shows Rosario + Vampire, Highschool of the Dead, and Fairy Tail in 2011.

Rial voiced more leads in 2012 with Shiro in Deadman Wonderland which also broadcast on Adult Swim, Stocking in the raunchy comedy Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. In 2013, she voiced the heroine character Haruko Amaya in the harem comedy Maken-ki! and Iori Nagase in the school anime series Kokoro Connect. With regards to her lead role of Michiko Malandro in Michiko & Hatchin, which was released on DVD in 2013 and was broadcast on Adult Swim in 2015, Rial said that out of the 300 or so characters she had voiced, only two of them were Hispanic, and she liked that her character wasn't a stereotype.[2] In 2014 and 2015, she voiced the title characters in the comedies Watamote and Maid Sama!.

In addition to voice acting, Rial has been steadily involved in ADR script writing, with work in the English dubs for D.N. Angel, Madlax, and Gatchaman. In an interview with Active Anime, Rial said she would "take the direct translation and write it into a coherent scene that matches the lip flaps".[7] At later anime conventions, Rial has mentioned that ADR script writing has kept her quite occupied, especially with "broadcast dubs", that is, shows that are locally dubbed soon after the original broadcast. She has also written columns for Newtype's USA edition.[11]

Filmography

Anime

List of voice performances and production work in anime
Year Title Role Crew role, Notes Source[3]
1999 Martian Successor Nadesico Mikako, Miss Kobayahshi, walla Debut roles [5][4]
2000 Gasaraki Miharu [5]
2000 Generator Gawl Natsume [5]
2000 Hello Kitty's Animation Theater Hello Kitty ADV and Sanrio production [7]
2001 Princess Nine Izumi Himuro
2002 Excel Saga Hyatt [5][12][13]
2003 Angelic Layer Tamayo Kizaki
2003–05 Full Metal Panic! series Kyoko Tokiwa [5][14]
2003 Those Who Hunt Elves II Bruno, Presiding Judge, others [15]
2003 Najica Blitz Tactics Lila [16]
2003 Noir Kirika Yuumura [5][7]
2003 RahXephon Haruka Shitou [4][8]
2003 Blue Seed Beyond Momiji Fujimiya [8]
2004 Aquarian Age: Sign for Evolution Yoriko Sannou [7]
2004 Azumanga Daioh Minamo "Nyamo" Kurosawa [8]
2004 Case Closed Amy Yeager
2004 D.N.Angel Towa ADR script writer [12][7]
2004 Neon Genesis Evangelion Maya Ibuki Director's Cut [8]
2004 Fullmetal Alchemist Lyra/Dante [7]
2004 Kiddy Grade Lumière
2004 Spiral Rio Takeuchi
2004 Super Milk Chan Tetsuko
2005 A Tree of Palme Mu [17]
2005 Burst Angel Jo [18][9]
2005 Ghost Stories Momoko Koigakubo [7]
2005 Godannar Mira Ackerman [7]
2005 Kodocha Aya Sugita
2006 Madlax ADR script writer [12][7]
2006 Gatchaman ADR script writer [7]
2006 Rumbling Hearts Mayu Tamano [19]
2006 Black Cat Kyoko Kirisaki
2006 Nanaka 6/17 Nanaka Kirisato [20]
2006 Negima! series Konoka Konoe, Kazumi Asakura, Satsuki Yotsuba [21]
2006 Speed Grapher Kagura Tennōzu
2006 Shin-Chan Ai Suotome [4]
2006 The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Misa Hayase [7]
2007 Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle Sakura [15]
2007 Witchblade Maria ADR script writer [10][22]
2007 Pani Poni Dash! Sayaka "Number 6" Suzuki
2007 Air Misuzu Kamio
2007 Air Gear Simca
2007 Kurau: Phantom Memory Kurau Amami
2008 Ouran High School Host Club Renge Houshakuji
2008 Sasami: Magical Girls Club Misao Shinohara [23]
2008 Shuffle! Asa Shigure [24]
2009 El Cazador de la Bruja Lirio
2010 Casshern Sins Ringo
2010 Dragon Ball Z Kai Bulma Funimation dub [5]
2010 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood May Chang
2010 Initial D Sayuki Funimation dub
2010–12 Sekirei series Miya Asama [15][25]
2010 Soul Eater Tsubaki Nakatsukasa [5]
2011 Chaos;Head Shino Hazuki [15]
2011 Dance in the Vampire Bund Mina Tepeş [26]
2011 Fairy Tail Mirajane Strauss Lead Writer, Script Writer [27][28][29]
2011 Heaven's Lost Property Daedalus
2011 Highschool of the Dead Shizuka Marikawa
2011 Rosario + Vampire series Yukari Sendo
2012 Ōkami-san and her Seven Companions Ringo Akai [30]
2012 Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt Stocking [31][32]
2012 Deadman Wonderland Shiro [33]
2012 Freezing Attia Simmons [15]
2012 A Certain Magical Index series Index   [34][35][36]
2013 Guilty Crown Tsugumi [37]
2013 Michiko & Hatchin Michiko Malandro [2][38]
2013 Maken-ki! Haruko Amaya [39][40]
2013 Kokoro Connect Iori Nagase [15]
2013 Eureka Seven AO Noa [41]
2013 Campione! Erica Blandelli
2013 Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero Kuzuha Doumoto [42]
2014 Robotics;Notes Junna Daitoku [43]
2014 Kamisama Kiss Numano Himemiko [44]
2014 Hetalia: The Beautiful World Female England (Nyotalia) [45]
2014 Senran Kagura Homura [46]
2014 WataMote Tomoko Kuroki [47]
2014 Psycho-Pass 2 Mizue Shisui [48]
2014 Rozen Maiden Zurücksplen Kanaria [49]
2015 Assassination Classroom Kaede Kayano [50]
2015 Blood Blockade Battlefront Sonic [51]
2015 Danganronpa: The Animation Sayaka Maizono [52]
2015 Dog & Scissors Yayoi Honda [53]
2015 Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions Kuzuha Togashi [54]
2015 Maid Sama! Misaki Ayuzawa [55]
2015 Mikagura School Suite Eruna Ichinomiya [56]
2015 Ninja Slayer From Animation Yamoto Koki [57]
2015 Nobunagun DOGOO [58]
2015 The Rolling Girls Yukina Kosaka [59]
2015 Selector Infected WIXOSS Tama [60]
2015 Show by Rock!! Moa [56]
2015 Super Sonico Fuuri Watanuki [61]
2015 Tokyo Ravens Kon [62]
2015 Tokyo Ghoul series Rize Kamishiro Script Writer [63]
2015 Ultimate Otaku Teacher Kanan Chinami [64]
2015 Unbreakable Machine-Doll Henriette Belew [65]
2015 Wanna Be the Strongest in the World Elena Miyazawa [66]
2015 Yona of the Dawn Yona Script Writer [67]
2015 Yurikuma Arashi Ginko Yurishiro [68]
Birdy the Mighty: Decode ADR script writer [69]
2015 Riddle Story of Devil Chitaru Namatame [70]
2015 Seraph of the End Krul Tepes ADR Script Writer
Lead Writer (season 2)		 [71][72][73]
2015 Sky Wizards Academy Head Writer [74]
2013 Aquarion Evol Shush [75]
2013 Sankarea: Undying Love Babu [76]
2013 Is This a Zombie? Head Teacher [77]
2013 Appleseed XIII Deia Chades [78][79]
2013 Future Diary Kamado Ueshita (8th) [80]
2012 C – Control – The Money and Soul of Possibility Q [81][82]
2013 Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing Sara [83]
2013 A Certain Scientific Railgun series Index [84]
2013 Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar Doll [85]
2013 Another Mei Misaki [86]
2012 Shakugan no Shana Pheles Seasons 2-3 [87]
2012 Cat Planet Cuties Aoi Futaba [88]
2012 Black Butler II Mey-Rin [89]


Film

List of voice performances in feature films
Year Title Role Notes Source[3]
2014 Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods Bulma, Seer [90]
2015 Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' Bulma [91]
List of voice performances in direct-to-video and television films
Year Title Role Notes Source[3]
Summer Wars Yumi
Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies Bulma Funimation re-dub [15]
2006 Case Closed: The Time Bombed Skyscraper Amy [15]
2012 Towa no Quon Tei Ryumonji OVA series [15]
2012 King of Thorn Alice [15][92]
2012 Mass Effect: Paragon Lost Treeya [15][93]

Animation

List of voice performances in animation
Year Title Role Notes Source[3]
2015 Aqua Teen Hunger Force Forever Jubilee Ep. "Knapsack!" [94]


Video games

List of voice performances in video games
Year Title Role Notes Source[3]
2010 Blazing Souls Accelate Little Snow
Borderlands 2 Ms. Tediore, Morningstar [95]
Case Closed: The Mirapolis Investigation Amy Yeager [15]
Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley Nana
Gunstringer Lady of the Dead
Lux-Pain Natsuki
Monster Tale Zoe [15]
Ms. Splosion Man Ms. Splosion Man
2014 Smite Hel, Sobek's Parrot [15]
Tribes: Ascend Diamond Sword
Unlimited Saga Marie, Silver Hair

References

<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />

Cite error: Invalid <references> tag; parameter "group" is allowed only.

Use <references />, or <references group="..." />

External links

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Resumes:
    • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
    • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
    • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
    • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ 15.00 15.01 15.02 15.03 15.04 15.05 15.06 15.07 15.08 15.09 15.10 15.11 15.12 15.13 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  16. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  17. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  18. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  19. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  20. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  21. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  22. ↑ http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/convention/2007/otakon/funimation-entertainment
  23. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  24. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  25. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  26. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  27. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  28. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  29. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  30. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  31. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  32. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  33. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  34. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  35. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  36. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  37. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  38. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  39. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  40. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  41. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  42. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  43. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  44. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  45. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  46. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  47. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  48. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  49. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  50. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  51. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  52. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  53. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  54. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  55. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  56. ↑ 56.0 56.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  57. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  58. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  59. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  60. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  61. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  62. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  63. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  64. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
    Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  65. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  66. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  67. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  68. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  69. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  70. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  71. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  72. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  73. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  74. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  75. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  76. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  77. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  78. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  79. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  80. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  81. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  82. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  83. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  84. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  85. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  86. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  87. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  88. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  89. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  90. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  91. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  92. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  93. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  94. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  95. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Retrieved from "https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=Monica_Rial&oldid=726553033"