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[Armin is male](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/16706/what-is-the-
gender-of-armin-in-shingeki-no-kyojin). There are good reasons why females
voice young male characters. This may explain why a female, Marina Inoue,
voices Armin in the original Japanese, BUT

How do you explain why a male, Josh Grelle, voices Armin in the dub?

Guess:

In the dub, Armin and possibly other characters...are older? I'm guessing it's
like in [Kaguya-sama where the heights differ in sub vs
dub](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/66626/what-is-the-height-of-
kei-shirogane).


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Given Armin is voiced by a female in original Japanese (Marina Inoue), why is Armin voiced by a male in English dub (Josh Grelle)?


[CBR](https://www.cbr.com/attack-on-titan-eren-armin-voice-actors-interview/)
contains a transcript of an interview with Josh Grelle, posted back in
December 2020. In this interview, Josh pointed out that when the Attack on
Titan anime was being casted and "filmed", the future of the manga at the time
was unknown and the director was accounting for various outcomes

> _One interesting detail about Armin is that his Japanese voice actor is a
> woman. Does that at all color your approach to voicing him, Josh?_
>
> JG: Yes and no. I mean, Mike McFarland when he was casting the show,
> obviously he knew that Armin was voiced by a female, and that was a really
> big decision for him to make on whether he wanted to go with a female or a
> male. I think ultimately he ended up going with a male because there was so
> much potential for the show. At that time we didn't know where it was gonna
> go if there was ever going to be a time skip or anything like that. But just
> because of the sheer possibility of being with these characters for a while
> and having Armin eventually potentially grow up into a man, **he wanted to
> have someone's voice that could cover the full age range. And that's one
> thing that at least I'm able to do.**
>
> (Emphasis my own)


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