#also half the cast is voiced by lara croft apparently

So I knew about the legend of the DA2 Japanese Dub, but I was today years old when I learned that Merrill was literally voiced by Pikachu and now I’m even sadder that this version of DA2 seems to be somehow lost to time forever.

I’m so fascinated with this, because no one is able to find anything about this Dub anymore, let alone a Japanese copy of the game, which only adds to its myth status, to a point where you question if it ever existed at all.

One of the few hard evidence of its existence we still have is this single trailer, so I did a little bit of digging about the cast and apparently, the following people share the same Japanese VA (btw, this was literally how the names were spelled/romanized on the website that translated the credits):

Male Hawke and Justin Timberlake

Female Hawke and Ciri from Witcher 3

Varick (Varric) and Batista and Scooby-Doo

Bethany and Lara Croft

Meryl (Merrill) and Pikachu (also the little boy from The Shining)

Fenrisu (Fenris) and the talking Pikachu in Detective Pikachu (also the narrator from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Anders and The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Cassandra “Knight Quest” and Bayonetta, Yennefer from Witcher 3 and Lara Croft (again)

Furemesu (Flemeth) and Disney’s Fairy Godmother, Grandmama in the Addams Family (and basically every elderly lady in everything ever)

The Arishoku and Carl from Up

Meredith and Sir Integra from Hellsing

Erushina (Elthina) and Dolores Umbridge

Reriana (Leliana) and Lara Croft (again)

Alistair and Leonardo DiCaprio

I hope this useless information brightened your day as much as mine.