So it seems like at least for Shenmue II, they changed it so that now everything has the JPN audio grunts on the fights and crowd even when set to English Audio.
So now instead of the game ALWAYS having English for the fights regardless of language selected, it's now Japanese regardless of language selected. (Fights and crowds only) The same problem but it's the opposite way now. *Sigh*
Update: So i restarted Shenmue II and did the first fight with Sam and Larry in English and Ryo's voice in the fight was in English (It was Corey Marshall's voice) while Sam and Larry's were in Japanese. Yikes. I hope this gets sorted. Seems like they were tinkering with the voices in the fights but it isn't fixed properly yet.
Edit2: Seems like a couple of chatter from the crowd in a couple gambling places are still in English regardless of language selection and others like the Arm wrestling places in Worker's Pier contain Japanese chatter only. Yeah it seems all over the place now. The only hope i have is that since they did tinker with this, it will be fixed at some point.