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A list of English character voices in Arknights, the first of which were introduced in Break the Ice on the Global server. The English voicelines in Arknights are recorded at and produced by Side Global, Keywords Studios, and Voice Trax West, and directed by Jason Baughan, Patrick Seitz, and Toni Smith.[1][2][3][4]
Arknights initially featured lesser-known English voice actors based in the United Kingdom (with some being expatriates from the United States) who nonetheless have prior experience in voicing video game characters such as Emma Ballantine, although some are better known as actors from various live-action movies and TV series, making their ACGN voice acting debut in Arknights. Since Stultifera Navis, well-known English VAs based in the US and Canada (including Cristina Vee) are featured as well, in addition to other European voice actors such as Jesse Grimm and Nina-Mercedés Rühl making their debut in English voice acting.
List[edit]
Out of 339 Operators released in Global (excluding Team Rainbow, Laios's Party, Elite⁎, and Reserve Operators, Luo Xiaohei, Nine-Colored Deer, and the Terra Research Commission), 301 currently have English voices. Those who do not are listed below.
Trivia[edit]
- Due to production issues, the English dialogue of Ch'en (Amy Lennox) was not added in Break the Ice despite being announced prior to the event's Global release. The dialogues are added in A Light Spark in Darkness, almost two months after BI.
- Starting from Episode 10: Shatterpoint, many English dialogues use dialects/accents that matches the real-world analogue of the respective Operators' Terran country of origin and even speaks in the corresponding language at times such as Horn (Anna Burnett), Bagpipe (Lauren Conroy), and Toddifons (Annes Elwy) speaking Received Pronunciation, Scottish English, and Welsh English, respectively; Irene (Lizzie Waterworth) and Caper (Vanessa Marroquin) speaking in Spanish accents; and Ebenholz (Atilla Akinci), Istina (Risa Mei), Penance (Allegra Clark), Whislash (Barbara Blanka), and Suzuran (Karin Kagami) sometimes speaking German, Russian, Italian, Polish, and Japanese, respectively.
- From An Obscure Wanderer to Il Siracusano, the English translations of non-English parts of Operator dialogues are written in parentheses after it. It is unknown why these were later removed, although this might have been done to clean up the texts and to allow players to interpret the translations themselves.
- Prior to the Dorothy's Vision update, the in-game dialogue texts of Operators whose English CVs were introduced in Ideal City does not match the spoken dialogue, which is most noticeable in earlier Operators such as Gavial and Istina.
- After the DV update, some Operators' in-game dialogue texts were reworded/paraphrased and others had their dialogue lines re-recorded to correct inconsistent pronunciations (particularly Nearl the Radiant Knight pronouncing "Kazimierz").
- Arknights was affected by the year long SAG-AFTRA video game strike, as the English dub production from the US side is union-based. During this period, the English dub production was held outside the US, with UK/EU-based voice actors being primarily cast for new Operators released from Path of Life to Such is the Joy of Our Reunion (bar Kelsey Jaffer as Underflow and Cristina Vee as Blaze the Igniting Spark, the latter of whom recorded her lines after the suspension of the strike), while US-based voice actors refrained from sharing their involvement (though they still acknowledge their roles in their work portfolios).
- Possibly because of this, the release of the accompanying English voicelines for Allmind As One, Diversity Oneness, and All-Round Actor have been delayed. In response to a fan's question on Twitter/X concerning this issue, Cat Protano (Virtuosa) claimed that she was not informed of a recording for said voicelines.[5]