YMMV / Marvel Anime

• Broken Base:
  • Fans are divided as to which particular anime surpasses the other and vice versa.
  • All four anime shows, as well as the movies, are divisive in terms of loyalty and faithfulness to the source material.
• Complete Monster: See Marvel Animation.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • This certainly won’t be the only time that Adrian Pasdar would be voicing Iron Man, nor would it seem to be the last.
  • In Marvel Anime: Wolverine, Stephanie Sheh voices a character named Agent Tsukino. Two years later and she begins voicing another, much more famous character with that surname.
• Questionable Casting:
  • In all things X-Men recently, Steve Blum has been the voice of Wolverine. In the Marvel Anime X-Men serial, he's also voiced by Blum... but not in Marvel Anime: Wolverine, or any of Wolvie's cameos in the other serials for that matter, in which Milo Ventimiglia voices him, and Steve Blum voices his Enigmatic Minion rival. Word of God claims that they were aiming for a younger voice to match Logan's younger looking Hugh Jackman-ish design rather than his traditional look but retained Blum as Logan on the X-Men story.
  • Adrian Pasdar was also frequently criticized as Iron Man, with many finding the voice to be very unfitting.
  • Subverted by the Hungarian dub of Marvel Anime: Iron Man. Tony's voiced by the same actor as in the movies (as is generally every character that appeared in movie adaptations), but his performance is so different, lacking all the slick charm, that some thought they had replaced him with an untalented no-name.
• The Scrappy: This version of Logan/Wolverine was not very well received by fans, particularly for his Bishōnen appearance and his slender, delinquent Pretty Boy image. Likewise, his voice acting from Milo Ventimiglia was also reviled, with many criticizing him as completely unfit to play Wolverine, despite what the creators intended (see below). Many fans lamented that Steve Blum, the man most famous for voicing Wolverine, was not even remotely considered for voicing the role, despite him repeatedly proving his vocal versatility, and instead had him voice someone else entirely. Fortunately, by the time the X-Men anime was made, Blum was back to being his famous role to life once again, complete with his characteristic gruff, hairy, bulky, and intimidating appearance that fans recognize.

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