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What will happen to the future of anime dubs?

Spotlesseden wrote:

i don;t like anime dub anymore because they use the same 6 people all the time. It's getting annoying when ever characters sound the same. Hire some 18-15 years old please. You can probably pay a 20 years old less than 40 years old VAs.

they have a large talent pool, but most have other full time, better paying jobs, so they can't always make it to auditions. Thus, the ones you usually hear get the main roles since they also do other work at funimation.

Funi on the other hand when they got the Fafner movie, they decided to dump the cast in favor for an in-house cast because it would be cheaper. If Funi got those, would they do what Sentai did, or would they just dump those casts in favor for in-house casts because "it would be cheaper".

Domayv wrote:

Funi on the other hand when they got the Fafner movie, they decided to dump the cast in favor for an in-house cast because it would be cheaper. If Funi got those, would they do what Sentai did, or would they just dump those casts in favor for in-house casts because "it would be cheaper".

I don't see what's wrong with a company deciding to do something because it saves them money. Making money is the reason they're in business. Why would they spend extra money on something that probably won't return the investment just to help out a competitor? That make no sense.

Sentai got FSN Movie, Mahoromatic & Rozen Maiden OVA, and K-on season 2 and outsourced to the original casts. If Funi got those instead, would they outsource like what sentai did or would they dump it instead? Pick your choice

Sentai got FSN Movie, Mahoromatic & Rozen Maiden OVA, and K-on season 2 and outsourced to the original casts. If Funi got those instead, would they outsource like what sentai did or would they dump it instead? Pick your choice

Domayv wrote:

Sentai got FSN Movie, Mahoromatic & Rozen Maiden OVA, and K-on season 2 and outsourced to the original casts. If Funi got those instead, would they outsource like what sentai did or would they dump it instead? Pick your choice

Because those were mostly non-union pay, to begin with. There was a reason why an original VA was replaced. Because she was a union worker and it was non-union work.

Domayv wrote:

Sentai got FSN Movie, Mahoromatic & Rozen Maiden OVA, and K-on season 2 and outsourced to the original casts. If Funi got those instead, would they outsource like what sentai did or would they dump it instead? Pick your choice

I don't really see what that has to do with what I said, but whatever. If fans really love and are attached to the dubs and would refuse to buy anything that had a different cast, then it would make more financial sense for Funi to outsource. If most fans aren't attached to the original cast and would buy regardless of the dub, then it would make more financial sense for Funi to do the dub themselves. Funimation is a business. They're in it for the money. If doing something doesn't make financial sense, then they're not going to do it.

I just got done watching Blue Drop on CR and was halfway through it before I released that a dub was available. And with Hillary Haag in the lead, no less.

So is what's happening is that the streaming market will actually license a sub directly from Japan rather than go to a domestic distributor with a dub? If so the I don't see the economics of the dub market working out too well for anything but the biggest titles.

Are we going to get a dub for the rest of Fariy Tail? We didn't see one for anything past the first season of Hell Girl. There have been a number of latter seasons for shows where the dub was abandoned. Too many for me to remember.

Too bad -- I'm going to miss the talent pool that included Haag, Rial, Ayers, Christian, Bailey, and all the old guard. Nothing good lasts forever I guess.

Those stuff (Mahoromatic & Rozen Maiden OVA, FSN Movie, and K-on s2) were outsourced to a union studio (Bang Zoom!)

Blue Drop was actually one of the shows that Sentai first put out, back when they were doing strictly sub-only releases. It sold well enough that they later re-released it (along with several other titles) with English audio.

Yes, it was recording at Bang Zoom, but it doesn't mean the VAs are union. I'll tell you right now that Ko-n was a non-union dub because Laura Bailey voiced in it and she still does work with Funimation (non-union). When it comes to the LA and NY dubs, they can be both union and non-union, it all depends on who they want to cast and how much they want to spend. Such as, Freeman is a union worker, his agent doesn't allow him to work non-union jobs. But JYB, he can work non-union.

SpacemanHardy wrote:
Blue Drop was actually one of the shows that Sentai first put out, back when they were doing strictly sub-only releases. It sold well enough that they later re-released it (along with several other titles) with English audio.

And that's were you would be wrong. Sentai only went back to dub it because it got international support, other places wanted a dub if it and they covered the bill for the dubbing cost. They have said it would've never gotten a dub if it wasn't for the fact other places licensed it off of them.

In Los Angeles, there are two major actors' unions: the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Most voice actors are members of these two unions, and almost all TV shows or movies recorded in the area are officially authorized by the unions, as well as most western video games recorded in the area and some anime.

However, in order to save money, a lot of game companies record in Los Angeles but don't officially make deals with the unions. Thus, the project is considered non-union. The major rule about being a SAG member is that they aren't allowed to work non-union jobs. In many non-union projects, union actors are hired on the down low. They aren't credited in order to avoid getting into trouble with the unions. In the past, an alternative route was to use pseudonyms (done in many late '90s and early 2000s anime dubs), but this is now rarely done.

Persona 4 used union voice actors despite the game not being unionized, so the voice actors didn't get credited (boo!). Nearly all games developed by Atlus (as well as many other companies, particularly Namco-Bandai, Koei, Konami, and others) are guilty of this practice.

Well, that still doesn't explain why Funi didn't outsource the fafner movie to the original cast, especially since now you mentioned that LA & NY dubs can also be non-union. Possibly Scott McNeil may be non-union because he was in FMA & Samurai 7.