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Answerman - Why Do Voice Actors Get Re-Cast In Sequels and Reboots?

For what i understand from the article and the knowledge i have the big difference between a re-cast in the original cast and the dub cast is the difference between what is a voice actor in Japan and US.

In Japan voice actors are idols, some of the are even well know outside the anime fandom, with a very big pool of talent and were a re-cast happens mostly from personal matters as health matters, the Seiyū retired from voice acting, been moving to a different career or marriage.

Even when a different studio take over the project most, if not all talent are the same. Looking at Fate franchise.

In the US there a small pool of talent were voice acting is seen more as a part time job until a better deal appear. There are changes in the voices in a many of the anime franchises.
Not many voice actors stick around for much time.

Then there's the Scott Freeman/Illyich Guardiola reason for a recast...

One very prominent hentai voice actor once completely seemed to disappear from the face of the earth in between episodes of a show he starred in; the part had to be recast halfway through the series.

I'm pretty sure Kari will be back for the the upcoming seasons of FLCL, the head of Toonami stated they intend to bring back both the Japanese and English casts of the show. Besides she's still pops up in anime from time to time, recent examples being Fate/Zero, F/SN Unlimited Blade Works, Nagato Yuki-chan, Durarara x2 etc. I wouldn't sweat it.

One example of both the Japanese and English cast getting recast is Ghost in the Shell Arise. From what I heard Funimation wanted to get the original cast back ,but they were ordered by Production I.G. to recast everyone in order to follow what the Japanese version did.

the original Ritsuko Akagi

Jonny Mendes wrote:

For what i understand from the article and the knowledge i have the big difference between a re-cast in the original cast and the dub cast is the difference between what is a voice actor in Japan and US. In Japan voice actors are idols, some of the are even well know outside the anime fandom, with a very big pool of talent and were a re-cast happens mostly from personal matters as health matters, the Seiyū retired from voice acting, been moving to a different career or marriage. Even when a different studio take over the project most, if not all talent are the same. Looking at Fate franchise. In the US there a small pool of talent were voice acting is seen more as a part time job until a better deal appear. There are changes in the voices in a many of the anime franchises. Not many voice actors stick around for much time.

Voice actors in Japan are NOT idols or famous and voice acting pays roughly the same as U.S. LA dubs and certainly less than U.S. union American cartoon work. The differences aren't superficial, but they're not that pronounced. Also....

animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?most_prolific=cast

Then there's the Scott Freeman/Illyich Guardiola reason for a recast...

that there is an understatement. though funi can pull it off from time to time. they did found a way to get most of the dub cast from the tenchi muyo series to do the ryo-oki ova's as well did a cameo for ep 17-18 of the gxp series. .

Well it's perfectly understandable that some voice actors can't return or don't want to since they have their own lives and besides it's not as if the production team doesn't atleast try to get them back.

jr240483 wrote:

that there is an understatement. though funi can pull it off from time to time. they did found a way to get most of the dub cast from the tenchi muyo series to do the ryo-oki ova's as well did a cameo for ep 17-18 of the gxp series. .

You are horribly mis-remembering. The only 2 returners from the 90's series for GXP ep 17 were Bob Pappenbrook and Rebecca Forstadt (and they themselves were replacements for the original originals), and hilariously enough? They recast Rebecca as AYEKA, when she played MIHOSHI, yet Bob still played Katsuhito?

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice."

And most of the time in Funimation's case, it's both, because....

AnimeLordLuis wrote:

Well it's perfectly understandable that some voice actors can't return or don't want to since they have their own lives and besides it's not as if the production team doesn't atleast try to get them back.

Why don't you go ask Jeff Nimoy and Petrea Burchard why they didn't return? Because from their accounts Funimation cared about enough to get them back as they do farting. Both were also VERY disrespected by the people from Funimation who contacted them for the roles, being treated virtually identical.

And you can absolutely tell when the producers for the dub don't give a crap in the world about getting the originals back.

Almost every single voice actor I've ever talked to would LOVE to return to just about any big role they've had, but the company doing it has to be willing to care with their checkbook, and if they don't? well "You get what you pay for"

Really ,cause from what I heard Jeff Nimoy was contacted by Funimation to come down to Texas if he wanted to return for the Trigun movie ,but was told he would have to pay his own travel expenses to get there, so either he decided it wasn't worth it or he took to long to decide and they already started dubbing. Also if Funimation didn't care about getting people back for their roles they would go out of their way to do so, for instance they didn't have to get Johnny Yong Bosch back for the Trigun Movie, they could have very easily recasted him with someone like Micah Solusod. Not to mention they decided to outsource the Black Lagoon OVA's to Ocean in order to get the cast back even though it would have been cheaper to recast everyone. If Funimation recasts everyone it's usually because of money issues.

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I don't really mind recasting when it comes to remakes because it's going to be a new iteration of the characters, although there might be character voices I've grown attacted to. Sequels definately need the old cast back, however. It definitely seems more of a problem in the American industry than the Japanese one due to unions, cheap companies, and people moving away. Though to be fair, companies know American fans aren't as obsessed with voice actors as Japanese fans are so their product will still sell.

This can be a double edged sword when it comes to redubs, though. Seeing the old 4Kids/Saban cast back for the Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters and Digimon Adventure movies is disappointing since it means they wouldn't get a proper dub. In cases where the old actors were part of an extremely censored version, recasts are more than welcome, like One Piece and Sailor Moon.

-Stuart Smith