With the animated TV show coming along and the wait for more details I thought I'd ask, what are some of your personal fancasts for the main characters? I'll go first, starting with Maika herself.
Pictured here is Dianne Doan as my top pick for Maika. Now you might know her from her work in Descendants, Vikings and Warrior (freaking love that show). When reading the comic I couldn't help but imagine her voice for Maika, she has such a natural sweet voice, even on her 30's I think she could pull off someone of Maika's age just fine. A lot of it steems from how she played Mai Ling in Warrior, she's this traumatized girl who saw the worst of the world as a child so she puts up the cold and ruthless persona of a shotcaller to survive in a crapsack world of violence but you can still see the cracks every now and then. I recommend you watch some clips of her in there, you might draw the parallels and get a good look at her range, for me personally it ties into the way we see Maika switching between the innocent orphan of war and the downright terrifying menace she can turn into. As a plus she's Canadian with mixed Vietnamese and Chinese heritage, that oughta tie nicely into Maika's ethnic identity, the comic's themes and Marjorie's own history and intent.
Now I know Dianne hasn't done a lot of voice acting, just that one time she voiced Lonnie in the Descendants Wicked World shorts but I think they can work with that. I mean, shows like Arcane and Invincible had a balance between regular voice actors (which I hope the Monstress show gets a lot of, I can picture Kimberly Brooks as Tuya) and TV screen actors, take Jeffrey Dean Morgan for example, guy had little to no voice acting credits before but he still killed it as Conquest. I just hope they don't go too crazy casting celebrities, that'd take up a lot of budget and a huge part of it should go to animators if they're to do Sana's art justice imo, can't half ass that part.
I'd also like to emphasize the importance of casting Asian actors and having an overall diverse cast to match the characters. Some of the Arcanics are more tricky, same goes for the Monstrum as we all have our ideas of what Zinn should sound like but characters like Maika and her family should be 100% played by Asian actors imo. Still trying to think of other picks for the rest of the cast so let me know your suggestions in the comments.