Cristina Valenzuela, also known as Cristina Vee, is an American voice actress.
She caught the attention of dubbing studio Bang Zoom! Entertainment from a voice acting panel at Anime Expo 2004, an anime convention in Southern California. Since then,
Bang Zoom! has continually invited Valenzuela to do voice work in anime, foreign films, and commercials. She has appeared at conventions throughout the United States where she sometimes sings live concerts (this apparently landed her
the live action role as ASOS Brigade leader
in
Haruhi Suzumiya season 2). Cristina's also one of the co-hosts of
Anime Olympics and season 2 of
Anime TV. She made up a dub of a
BlazBlue webcomic, voicing... who else? Noel (the video has been made private). As you can guess, she's
One of Us. Recently she has been working as the voice director of
Skullgirls.
Despite her new start, she quickly racked up popularity amongst the new age of voice actors, making her a
fan favorite and most of her appearances in many projects will be met with
much rejoicing. Yes, that's right, in a quick moment, she is starting to rival the popularities of accomplished ones, the likes of
Johnny Yong Bosch,
Michelle Ruff,
Stephanie Sheh,
Yuri Lowenthal, etc... (although still a long way to go until she reaches the memetic status of
Crispin Freeman or
Steve Blum)
Not to be confused with
Christine V (though if FSS ever gets another animated production, the casting choice for her in the English version is fairly obvious...).
Also has
Formspring,
Youtube, and
Twitter accounts. Mind you that since she's really busy on her voice acting work, she may not have time to reply to any submitted questions at her Formspring account. But she does reply to them, eventually.
Notable roles include:
Tropes Associated With Cristina Valenzuela
- Adorkable
- Ascended Fangirl
- Ban On Politics: She specifically states in her Formspring account NOT to ask anything about politics, religion, and fansubs *
Fansubs are often seen as a "political" topic within the anime community for
damn good reasons - Bilingual Bonus: She sings songs in Japanese. Competently, too!
- This even includes things like singing "Bad Apple!!" in english. Yes, THAT "Bad Apple!!"
- But Not Too Foreign: She says that she has some Mexican/Lebanese ancestry.
- Cool Big Sis: To Christine Marie Cabanos and a lot others in her group.
- Cosplay Otaku Girl: She's been known to be cosplaying some characters she voiced. Including Noel, Mio, and Alisa.
- Even the Girls Want Her: Damn right! This link has it all.
- Idol Singer: She sings some popular J-pop songs and some OP and ending songs in English in some of her free time and posts them on Youtube.
- Irony: She's voiced the two most known, yet different, badass magical girls: Nanoha Takamachi and Homura Akemi.
- Loony Fan: Someone recently sent her something. According to herself, it give's her something to talk about at 18+ panels.
- One of Us: On many numerous anime, video games, Disney, and lots of things.
- Pigeonholed Voice Actor: either Badass Adorable characters (Nanoha), Adorkable characters (Mio) or both (Noel)
- According to her, she feels that she is typecast into the "sweet girl."
- Her roles as Noel's clone and Superpowered Evil Side (Nu/Lambda and Mu, repectively) subvert this, as one is mostly deadpan, while the other is a bit more...aggressive in her monotony.
- And of course Homura is also a subversion. She sounds more deadpan and monotone like Nu, until some of her tender side got revealed.
- Cerebella is yet another subversion, but then again she was in charge of voice acting in Skullgirls, so this may have been a conscious choice on her part..
- Relationship Voice Actor: Cristina has a 'group' of voice actresses, mostly new ones, that usually accompany her and will not be seen without her. These include Jennifer Alyx, Lauren Landa, Cassandra Lee *
She's not a newcomer though, see her trope page for details
, Christine Marie Cabanos, Shelby Lindley and recently Sarah Williams, to name a few. They've worked together (the one who's present in these works constantly is just Cristina) in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, BlazBlue, K-On!, Zero No Tsukaima and Skullgirls. - Suspiciously Specific Denial: She made a Twitter comment that she wasn't in the Madoka dub (which was later deleted), in the Crunchyroll Live Stream on December 16th, 2011, they announce she will be voicing Homura in the dub.
- Subverted that in her defense, it was because she wasn't cast yet when the first three characters of the dub (Madoka, Kyubey, and Sayaka) were announced. The fans took that statement and assumed she won't be in the cast.
- Zettai Ryouiki: This is the trope that defines her.
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