Dear 🏳️⚧️ Friends & Allies in Texas:
Below, you'll find links to two organizations that have made it their mission to defend Trans/Queer Rights in Texas. In this time of crisis for Trans Texan Youth, they could use our support. Stay in the fight. ❤️
I’ve been telling the ranking brass in my industry for years that if we speak directly to the queer segment of anime fandom with authenticity, we will find an army of enthusiastic support.
May this be the DING that rings their bell! 🔔
Thank you
@Crunchyroll
!!!
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Behind the
#givendub
- Representation
Who tells our stories best? 🏳️🌈We do.🏳️🌈
The entire GIVEN dub team, from production, direction, and adaptation, through casting, is roughly 90% LGBTQIA+.
And we know how to make an entrance.
GIVEN Season 1 Dub on
@Crunchyroll
TOMORROW!
Stranger By The Shore streams on
@Funimation
on July 9th. Directing this dub has been a dream, and working with these actors has been an honor. It’s the proudest I’ve ever been of anything.
And probably the gayest thing I’ve ever done. In public.
How’s that for a PRIDE post? 🏳️🌈
Behind the
#givendub
for Music Nerds:
@BranMci
and
@JoshGrelle
‘s natural speaking voices resonate between a 4th and 6th apart. Once I had those actors in place, I wanted that harmony everywhere, so I cast each duo with the same interval in mind. 🎶😲🎶
On
@Crunchyroll
Monday!!!
The
#givendub
was produced at
@StudioNanoCo
and was produced, staffed, written, directed, and cast with predominantly LGBTQIA creatives who know these experiences because we’ve had them. It was intended for those who are having them now. But the rest of y’all can enjoy it too. 🏳️🌈
ADAM is no stranger to victory. I, on the other hand, am not as well practiced and feeling kinda emotional. 😭
Thanks to
@TopTierDubClips
and all who voted!
❤️🛹❤️
Hey bitches, and bros, and nonbinary hoes. Which Voice do you love the most? In a landslide victory, the answer is clear.
@DavidWald_VA
elegantly skates his way to victory as Adam, getting 1st Place in Best Secondary Performance.
Boys, girls, theydies, and gentlethems! 😁I couldn’t be more pleased to be nominated, nor for the love that Sk8 has received this year. Sparkly Blessings Upon You All! ✨
ANNOUNCING THE NOMINEE FOR THE 2021 VIEWER'S CHOICE DUBBIE AWARD FOR BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE:
@DavidWald_VA
for SK8 The Infinity
Cast your vote right now!
HAPPY
#PrideMonth
my loves!
I’m spending this one a lot like the last one- deep in the studio, directing another gloriously queer anime. 🏳️🌈😁🏳️🌈
More to come!!! Meanwhile, be good to each other!
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Spilling Secrets:
I can’t say much yet, but here’s what I can tell you: I’m about to undertake my most gloriously rainbow-colored endeavor so far and I’m kinda freaking out about it. 😳
🏳️🌈❤️🏳️🌈❤️🏳️🌈❤️🏳️🌈
That’s right, my darling
#Borderlands3
fam! You can hear me as Wainwright Jakobs in your favorite new shooter! Equal parts Colonel Sanders, Doc Holliday, and Tulip O’Hare. ..😜
The Case Study of Vanitas dub is all up! It has been an honor and a pleasure to present it to you, and to work with this magnificent cast, too few of whom I’m able to tag here!
My thanks to them, to you, and to
@Funimation
and
@Crunchyroll
for this treasure. ❤️🧛♂️❤️
Hello, my dears. For those that knew her, the Walds are now absent their Reigning Queen. My mother Nancy Wald passed Friday afternoon, very much at home at my sister’s in Ohio, and very well loved. She was a rare creature, and the world shall never see her like again. 💔
ANNOUNCING THE NOMINEE FOR THE 2021 VIEWER'S CHOICE DUBBIE AWARD FOR DUB OF THE YEAR:
The Stranger by the Shore directed by
@DavidWald_VA
Cast your vote right now!
It all started with a broken string. 🎸
All 11 episodes of given arrive this Monday in English dub on Crunchyroll.
Mafuyu -
@BranMci
Ritsuka -
@JoshGrelle
Haruki -
@YungiChang
Akihiko -
@ImMrTransistor
🎶 CAST & CREW:
Vampires. 19th century Paris. A legendary book with midnight pages.
Fall into the world of The Case Study of Vanitas when the English dub premieres tomorrow!
✨Vanitas -
@childishgamzeno
✨Noé -
@That_Fu
Find out more:
Because representation matters. Because love is love. Because everyone deserves to hear a Song of Themselves. And because anime has so many songs to sing. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
I have never had more pride in any company I’ve ever worked for than I do for
@FUNimation
today. They knew they’d get blasted by hate mongers for this post, I assure you. But they said what they knew to be right, and I salute them for it.
Because, YES,
#BlackLivesMatter
For
@Chrisayresva
, for his family, for
@GregAyres
, and for
@WowSuchKrystal
: my heart is yours. Chris was an amazing director, a rare and wonderful human, and a better friend. He will always be with me. ❤️
Spend your weekend watching this beachside love story over and over and over again.
The Stranger by the Shore is now available in English sub and dub on Crunchyroll.
🌊 WATCH:
Non-binary friends, I feel my previous post has inadvertently done you a disservice and I apologize. I hope to understand your struggle better, not to invalidate you, and interaction with that post is helping me do that. I will continue to listen and learn. Keep talking.
❤️❤️❤️
It’s a Dark Day to be an American. What will history call the period this nation seems to be entering? 🤔
The Big Regression? The Age of Dissonance?
My heart is with the roughly 50% of Americans who became victims of SCOTUS today. 😞
Thanks, Snow Bunny! I thought those words might bite harder if viewers heard a gay man spitting them back at them. Our experiences of homophobia are acute and specific, and Shun’s memory had to be the same. But I didn’t want to ask another actor to put themselves through that.
@DavidWald_VA
I absolutely loved strangers by the shore You did an amazing job along with
@JoshGrelle
and
@justinbriner
And so many others! I do have to ask, Mr. Wald, how hard was it playing the dad, saying those lines?
I know you're acting but still. Made me cry hearing
🏳️🌈❤️HAPPY COMING OUT DAY!!!❤️🏳️🌈
It’s not a day for anyone to feel like they HAVE to come out. It’s to let you know that, when you do, there’s a whole community out here to support you. So however you spent your day, I hope it was FABULOUS! ✨
Some are not ready for this dub. Some may never be. This is for the ones who’ve been waiting far too long to hear a song of themselves out there, somewhere, just as I have. This is for my Rainbow Tribe. You have never been, and will never be, alone.
It is so wonderful to be able to talk so openly about these things. There was a time, not so long ago, when it was much more difficult. It Gets Better!
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Thanks so much to The Rainbow Times for this in-depth view of both the presence and potential of LGBTQ+ representation in anime! 🏳️🌈✊ Special thanks to
@SentaiFilmworks
for seeing that potential!
Welcome, welcome newcomers
@HannahAlyea
and
@GabeKunda
to the
#FAIRYTAIL
fam! The legacies of these characters reside in very capable hands and Gajeel looks forward to sitting with y’all at the cool kids’ table! 😎👆
Extremely honored to say I’m the English voice for Levy in Fairly Tail 100 year Quest. I’ll do my upmost to carry on the legacy of Levy, in a series that’s very dear to me.
Thank you
@CrisGeorgeVA
for trusting me &
#Jeremy
for the engineering magic.
#FAIRYTAIL100Yearquest
You guys. YOU GUYS! Been waiting to let this cat outta the bag. I couldn’t be prouder of this cast and I don’t think it’s legal to laugh harder than we do in these sessions...
I’ve had a lot of grandiose reasons for fighting the fight to get this material adapted. But to me, this is the reason that matters most.
#LoveStage
#SometimesLoveLooksLikeThis
@HIDIVEofficial
Okay but really.
By dubbing LGBTQ anime...do you guys realize how many lives you are saving?
Like for real. A year ago I had no idea these titles existed. And I'm so grateful that you are allowing us to seen them.
Thanks you so much.
Ain’t no outbreak of any kind gonna stop this weddin! One does not nail down a man like
@JMichaelTatum
and let his nuptials give way to frivolity. Fill your hands, Vault Hunters! 😜
The festivities are quite well in full swing! “Guns, Love, and Tentacles: The Marriage of Wainwright & Hammerlock” is out now for
#Borderlands3
! Learn more:
So,
@SentaiFilmworks
is doing an English adaptation of Hitorijime My Hero, a show about young men in love. With each other. And it’s about time, isn’t it? 🌈✊ And if the numbers are good, they’re likely to dub more! You can per-order here:❤️❤️❤️
Today, I get to announce that I have the honor of voicing “Varush” in Final Fantasy Brave EXVIUS: War of the Visions. My dearest thanks to Square Enix for having me along! ❤️❤️❤️
#WOTVFFBE
Twitter doesn't give me enough characters to properly express how thankful and how proud I am of
@SentaiFilmworks
for entrusting me with
#HitorijimeMyHero
or of the astounding cast I was lucky enough to assemble. We offer this to you all with love.
@Borderlands
Thank you,
@GearboxOfficial
, for giving us Winny + Hammy! I couldn’t be more proud to have been part of it, and I couldn’t be happier to lend voice to any character anywhere. A thousand hearts to
@JMichaelTatum
, the best BF I’ve never had! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Happening this Saturday, friends! We’ll have a gay old time answering your questions about
#SK8THEINFINITY
and SO MUCH MORE! Please look forward to it.
🏳️🌈🛹💘🛹🏳️🌈
As a Valentines gift to all of you and especially ourselves, we're proud to announce
@DavidWald_VA
as our Guest of Honour for
#CitrusCon2023
! Not only can you see him at the Con, he'll be hosting a special Q&A session at our upcoming Sk8 watch party! 🍋⬇️Links Below⬇️🍋
This
#TransDayOfVisibility
is a good time to recognize that in many cultures, people who live outside traditional gender norms are revered for having a view of the world the rest of us cannot. I have much to learn from my Trans and Non-Binary fam, and I stand with them.
You GUUUUYYYYS! I’m very, very excited and happy about this! Gay, even! 😘 My deepest, dearest congratulations to all the
@Borderlands
team, to director
@AtYes2Ats
and to my dear Game Husband,
@JMichaelTatum
❤️❤️❤️🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈❤️❤️❤️
Announcing the winner of the 2021 Viewer's Choice Dubbie Award for Best Supporting Performance. Your winner is...
@DavidWald_VA
as Adam in SK8 the Infinity!
Check out the winning moment:
My Pride Month appeal to you all: As you know, I’ve been engaged in featuring LGBTQ stories in anime dubs, culminating in
@SentaiFilmworks
dub of Love Stage!! Now it’s in your hands. Your support will be what makes this work. So please, preorder here:
🏳️🌈❤️
When I was a gay kid in Texas in the 70s-80s, there was a lot to fear. It wasn’t an awesome time. But I found my refuge rollerskating around my garage to the Xanadu soundtrack and pretending I was Olivia Newton John. I still know every note of every song. Happy Coming Out Day!
❤️
Behind the Dub: For this and a few other key scenes in
#HitorijimeMyHero
, we recorded the actors together in the booth. Putting actors like
@austintindle
&
@DavidMatranga1
next to each other in a studio is like putting two bolts of lightning in a bottle. ⚡️
The final ep of
#HitorijimeMyHero
is on HIDIVE in English today. I haven’t words to express my gratitude to Sentai, HIDIVE, and the cast and crew for entrusting me with this extraordinary show. Binge away! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
#SometimesLoveLooksLikeThis
In the throes of my obsession with the fact that
#LoveStage
is out there in English now, I want to let those interested know that
@SentaiFilmworks
adaptation of
#HitorijimeMyHero
is also available on
@HIDIVEofficial
and offers quite a different take on the Queer coming-of-age.
Thanks, my dears, for your birthday wishes these last few days! They made this one even better than my Chuck E. Cheese party at age 8, when I dove into that nasty ball pit and barely escaped a concussion. The head heals and the legend lives on! 🥰
So, I have an impersonator, which is cute. Apparently, they’re posting booty pictures of anime girls, which means they clearly didn’t do any research on me at all. 🙄
Using my name, but with an upper case “i” instead of a lower case “L,” or so it seems. Please report. 🤨
Alright, friends. The post will go. I appreciate all the discussion in the thread, but I don’t want to do continued harm. So let’s not end the discussion.
Let me ask my non-binary friends: what questions should we, the cis-gendered community, really be asking you?
My dearest thanks to
@BrichibiTweets
for this article about the
#GivenDub
! A LOT of good folks put their whole hearts into this dub, and I’m honored to have been a part of it. ❤️
Our dub of
#given
is up for both Best Ensemble and Dub Of The Year, and
@YungiChang
is up for Best Supporting/Dub!!!
I’m biased, but Yungi totally deserves it. Such a rich and nuanced performance! Go vote for him! ❤️🏳️🌈❤️
And THANK YOU
@DubTalkPodcast
!!!
Today, voting for the 2022 Viewer's Choice Dubbie Awards begins! See if some of your favorite performances and dubs from last year made the cut.
Voting closes on March 3rd, with results coming on April 14th along with our own Dubbie Awards show!
Yes, friends, that was me as the voice of Napapa from Universe 10 in Dragon Ball Super! It was a delight to be part of that HUGE battle! Word to the wise: don’t fight Caulifla... 😜
I re-watched Thor: Ragnarok today, for no reason other than to see Thor throw down in the climactic battle to Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” again.
Favorite Marvel Movie Moment so far!
MARK YOUR CALENDARS! We get to chat with the incredibly talented
@DavidWald_VA
next Friday! Join us in the Sk8 Park server as we extend our celebration of our favorite Matador of Love!! 🌹🛹
The link to join is in our bio.
I like to think that Mafuyu's therapist would be so proud of him for writing the song from the Given movie. My cover of it just dropped, so get your trauma processing inspiration on and TAKE A LISTEN! (info in reply tweet!)
#givendub
It’s been a good year for anime! My most heartfelt congratulations to all the winners and nominees!
Also, I’m certain that
@Funimation
intends to celebrate ALL its wins on its Twitter feed and not just the ones that won’t upset anyone. Those Character Limits are real, y’all! ❤️