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NEWS: Funimation Announces Partial English Cast for Hetalia

Charred Knight wrote:

What's important in voice acting is location, for example the character JYB played in the first FMA anime was in one episode, he could have done that in a very short time period, and not need to stay in Texas for a long time. Also because Hohenheim's role was severely reduced in the first FMA anime they where able to get Scott Mcneil who works in Vancouver.

One problem with this is the part JYB did in Beck was major (character is in at least 3/4 of the show). Also, JYB has mentioned (I think I saw this in con vids on YT) that his family is original from Texas and he actually doesn't have a issue with going back and working in Texas because of this. So while it is unlikely JYB is going to play one of the major character in Hetaila just because we've pretty much ruled him out from the clips, he can't be ruled out of Funimation dubs like some of the other L.A. actors are due to location and union issues. There are actually a few non-Texas based actors who are showing up more often in Funi dubs and Johnny has been one of them in the past (a couple of the others are Stephanie Sheh and Patrick Seitz).

Last and OT for a moment, Trigun wasn't a Union dub and I can't think of any of the main character's VA's who's gone Union only since so they could conceivably be in the movie dub.