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NEWS: Anairis Quiñones to No Longer Voice Yoruichi in Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Anime's Englis

Apparently it's been known Wendee Lee has been problematic within the anime industry for years and nobody has spoken up about it till now even though everyone knew. What else is being hidden from fans by the industry? And people are saying Wendee should have never been recast even though the Bleach dub has already done dozens of recasts for this new season and recasting only became a problem when a black woman was cast in the role.

I have no idea what you are on about. Fans caring about keeping an original VA is not "ugly precedent". When you have a series that's been around as long as Bleach has, studios messing with the way things were is asking for fan reaction. I thought the decision to bring her back was a breath of fresh air - means the industry listened to what the fans wanted. Isn't that the point? Pleasing the consumer?

And people are saying Wendee should have never been recast even though the Bleach dub has already done dozens of recasts for this new season and recasting only became a problem when a black woman was cast in the role.

Listening to fans always sounds like a good idea to me. They are your customer base, after all. The only way I can see it being bad is if they listen to the wrong kind of fans, like, the people who demand a show be censored or something. Listening to a mob that wants to ruin something is obviously bad, but in this case seeing fans disappointed at a recasting and the studio going out of their way to bring them back seems like a pretty standard thing. Weren't people super exciting they got most of the original cast for Digimon back to reprise their roles for the recent re-dub for Adventure?

Although I guess it can be a bit annoying... like the people who kept asking for Pokemon to bring back the original 4Kids VAs up until the series ended. At some point it's probably best to move on and accept it's not happening, but given the timeframe it seemed like they were pretty quick on the recasting this time around and it was possible to get the original VA back an episode or two after they were replaced.

There's an entire thread with close to 100 comments for when they replaced Chad and you're even in it so I don't know where this take is coming from.

Though the funny thing is they actually brought her back for an interview on Reloaded with the new dub cast. I think Yuri is in the game as Yukari's dad so I wonder if they have her voicing somebody else in the new dub.

I think it was because you had some VAs expressing their disappointment she accepted the role back after Quinones started. I saw one of them said Lee was shitty for accepting the role back after it was recast and she should have simply accepted the fact she was no longer playing Yoruichi anymore and to move on. It probably stuck a nerve for her to see her peers say stuff like that.

I have no idea what you are on about. Fans caring about keeping an original VA is not "ugly precedent". When you have a series that's been around as long as Bleach has, studios messing with the way things were is asking for fan reaction. I thought the decision to bring her back was a breath of fresh air - means the industry listened to what the fans wanted. Isn't that the point? Pleasing the consumer?

Of course, she did react badly afterwards, but that's a discussion about her as a person - not about the fans.

I know that to some she's viewed as a WoC but to me she comes off more Japanese compared to other characters in Bleach

They should have just stuck with the recast instead of yanking it away from, on top of that all Wendy Lee had to do was stay quiet about it instead she acted unprofessional on Twitter and got into an argument with other VAs who said nothing against her to begin with.

Couldn’t agree more. Wendee should’ve kept her mouth shut. She knows EXACTLY what this represents, yet another dark skinned character voiced by a white actor.

You know that Japanese aren't White right? She is Japanese, but that means she is a WoC.

But by this logic shouldn't dubbed anime have exclusively asian casts in most cases?