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 the group has also started providing DVD authoring services to some of their clients. They own and operate Ocean Studios.

1 Notable works
2 Notable voice actors
3 Common misapprehensions
4 External link

[edit] Notable works

Popular anime include the hit series 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 animated series like Exosquad, X-Men: Evolution, and Fantastic Four (2006).

[edit] Notable voice actors

Scott McNeil: Rattrap/Dinobot/Waspinator (Beast Wars), Proto Man (Mega Man), Duo Maxwell (Gundam Wing), Piccolo (DBZ), Koga (InuYasha)
Brad Swaile: Quatre Raberba Winner (Gundam Wing), Amuro Ray (MSG, CCA), Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler (X-Men: Evolution)
Ted Cole: Chang Wufei (Gundam Wing), Yamcha (DBZ), Tatewaki Kuno (Ranma ½), Gilbert Durandal (Gundam SEED Destiny)
Kirby Morrow: Trowa Barton (Gundam Wing), Miroku (InuYasha), Van Fanel (Escaflowne)
Brian Drummond: Zechs Merquise (Gundam Wing), Vegeta (DBZ), Jetstorm (Beast Machines)
Paul Dobson: Zarbon (DBZ)), Naraku/Myoga (InuYasha), Happosai (Ranma ½), Sideways (Transformers: Armada)
Michael Dobson: Starscream (Transformers: Armada, Energon), Dekim Barton (Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz)
David Kaye: Megatron (BW/BM, Armada/Energon/Cybertron), Soun Tendo (Ranma ½), Treize Khushrenada (Gundam Wing), Sesshomaru (InuYasha)
Richard Ian Cox: InuYasha, Ranma Saotome, Kai Shiden (Mobile Suit Gundam)
Gary Chalk: Optimus Primal (BW/BM), Optimus Prime (Armada/Energon/Cybertron)
Matt Hill: Kero (Cardcaptors), Kira Yamato (Gundam SEED), Bankotsu (InuYasha)
Terry Klassen: Krillin (DBZ), Hachi (InuYasha)
Lisa Ann Beley: Chichi (DBZ), Relena Peacecraft (Gundam Wing), Murrue Ramius (Gundam SEED), Override (Cybertron)
Willow Johnson: Kikyo (InuYasha), Kasumi Tendo (Ranma ½), Lalah Sune (Mobile Suit Gundam)
Kelly Sheridan: Sango (InuYasha), Hitomi (Escaflowne), Ukyo Kuonji (Ranma ½), Shino (.hack//ROOTS)
Saffron Henderson: Gohan (DBZ), Lucrezia Noin (Gundam Wing)
Maggie Blue O'Hara: Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat (X-Men: Evolution), Mariemaea Khushrenada (Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz)
Cathy Weseluck: Mirai Yashima (Mobile Suit Gundam), Shampoo (Ranma ½), Dorothy Catalonia (Gundam Wing)
Moneca Stori: Kagome Higurashi (InuYasha), Videl (Dragon Ball Z)
Jocelyne Loewen: Merle (Escaflowne), Milfeulle Sakuraba (Galaxy Angel), Asagi Caldwell (Gundam SEED)
Tabitha St. Germain: Flay Allster, Pink Haro, Birdy (Gundam SEED), Pashmina (Hamtaro)

[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 administrative 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).