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If you wanna know where is he, he’s the third guy on the front right

If you watched the footage of early 1996 rehearsals at Los Angeles or Florida, you’ll discover that the tank that was used usually on Earth Song during the HIStory Tour has a California license plate on the back that says “DNGROUS”.

Legendary Transformers alumni Peter Cullen unfortunately passed away (but also other celebrities that you’re aware of).

If the English dub of Inazuma Eleven had a bigger budget, I think voicing Kageno Jin/Jim Wraith would be scary but awesome at the same time. He could have channeled a mixture of both Optimus Prime and Eeyore

Also he could have voiced Mikado Haruma/Rex Remington. He would have delivered a commanding presence as the captain of Teikoku Gauken/Royal Academy in the GO era

Another Jack Ryan alumni is passed away.

“You’ll receive the Order of Lenin for this, Captain!”

Jack Black could have been an awesome Saginuma as a teenager during the Alius Academy days, while Tommy Lee Jones could have channeled his William Strannix role to the adult Saginuma in GO. This would have a big missed opportunity in terms of casting.

My best picks would be:

- Jaret Reddick (Bowling for Soup) who performed the theme of Phineas and Ferb

- Dennis St. James, known for providing his vocals on the Sega videogame Daytona USA 2

- Steve Harwell (Smash Mouth)

- Dexter Holland (Offspring)

The special effects look really good for a TV movie. I can’t believe that the writer of Child’s Play directed this!

Colm Meaney (Under Siege, Con Air, Layer Cake, Star Trek: The Next Generation/Deep Space Nine) plays the Windsor 114 pilot

Stephen Gregory Foster (The Dead Pit, Deadlock) plays the Windsor 114 co-pilot

James Lancaster (Titanic, Gettysburg, Days of Our Lifes) played the Windsor 114 navigator

Imagine if NBC got the rights to distribute the Inazuma Eleven series in the US, with an all-Star casting

Imagine if NBC aired the show probably around 2009, maybe with an all-star casting

I’ve been thinking about an alternate timeline where Inazuma Eleven didn’t premiere on Disney XD or Cartoon Network in the West, but instead aired on NBC as part of a Saturday morning programming block in 2009.

Here’s how I imagine it:
The series gets a big marketing push as NBC’s flagship action-comedy cartoon, similar to how networks promoted shows like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Pokémon.

The English dub would probably have a more Americanized cast and script, while still keeping the soccer theme (although I could see them calling it “soccer” instead of “football” throughout)

One thing I think would have been interesting is the voice cast. If NBC had commissioned its own dub in 2009, I could imagine several well-known American voice actors—or even a few live-action actors like Willem Dafoe or Robert Redford—joining the project, like Yuri Lowenthal as Endou, Crispin Freeman as Gouenji, James Arnold Taylor as Kidou

Would it have been more successful than the version we actually got in the West?

How do you think American audiences in 2009 would have reacted to a soccer-focused anime?