“I've worked on Final Fantasy XIV for 8 years now, but I've never been to a dubbing session. I have my principles on this. If I go, since I also write some dialogues I would like to impose myself and say my opinion, and give the impression that there are two sound directors in the session. And I think it would make it harder for the voice actors if the producer comes in and says different things about the sound director. So I don't go to the dubbing sessions.

I'm also not going to Final Fantasy XVI voiceover recording sessions. Since I am not in charge of the story. During writing meetings, I express my opinions as “I think this line of dialogue should be changed, in view of the emotions of Clive, the protagonist…” Although the team was very accommodating in taking into account take my advice into account.

This time, the English language dubbing sessions go first. And we decided to focus on British English. We also need to record the facial captures. We couldn't animate every shot of a scene by hand. So this time around we're going to do it all with full face capture motions and add the voices on top. However, it is not just about the cutscenes. So that's one of the reasons the English version comes first. We will start the Japanese version soon. "