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Answerman - Why Do Dub Voice Actors Stick To The Same Studios?

I'm not holding the production to it but I'm still hoping for some "for the dub fan" casting choices like Skip Beat had.

And while I'd mention Skip Beat as well, I'm still waiting to hear it. I kind of even forgotten I backed now.

P.S.: No one has mentioned Patrick Seitz (an LA actor) flying over to Texas to do voice work for Funimation.

Is it really that hard for Funimation to cover whatever expenses necessary for their respective VAs? I mean, now that Funimation is owned by Sony, couldn't they just borrow some money from them since they're a much bigger branch?

I don't know if this would help (and please excuse me since this is off topic), but if there were high-speed (or even better hyperloop) rails built between LA and Texas, would that spare them the cost or trouble of traveling by plane in the least bit?
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Her wikipedia page does not list here as dead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrea_Burchard

and she has a website where she seems to blog stuff, and has posts as recent as last week: http://petreaburchard.com/

So, I think that it's safe to say that she's still alive.

She doesn't seem to have done much acting in the last decade though: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0120838/

As a Canadian, I have the opposite feeling. I once read a guide to Canada which talked about Canadians having no trouble driving for 4 hours and peed myself laughing at the idea that 4 hours is a long, let alone unimaginable, time to drive. I was talking to a Sri Lankan man about his home and he stated that something on one side was X km away from the other side; Without thinking, I said "Oh, you mean X00". "No, X." I blushed as I realized my unconscious blunder: My brain had automatically said that 2 borders can't be THAT close.

Is it really that hard for Funimation to cover whatever expenses necessary for their respective VAs? I mean, now that Funimation is owned by Sony, couldn't they just borrow some money from them since they're a much bigger branch?

I don't know if this would help (and please excuse me since this is off topic), but if there were high-speed (or even better hyperloop) rails built between LA and Texas, would that spare them the cost or trouble of traveling by plane in the least bit?

Kalessin wrote:

Her wikipedia page does not list here as dead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrea_Burchard and she has a website where she seems to blog stuff, and has posts as recent as last week: http://petreaburchard.com/ So, I think that it's safe to say that she's still alive. She doesn't seem to have done much acting in the last decade though: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0120838/

Interesting. I wonder if that means she didn't want to do the role anymore and no amount of persuasion and negotiation would've convinced her otherwise.

CANimeFan88 wrote:

Is it really that hard for Funimation to cover whatever expenses necessary for their respective VAs? I mean, now that Funimation is owned by Sony, couldn't they just borrow some money from them since they're a much bigger branch? I don't know if this would help (and please excuse me since this is off topic), but if there were high-speed (or even better hyperloop) rails built between LA and Texas, would that spare them the cost or trouble of traveling by plane in the least bit?

Sony is not a bank. FUNimation can't just simply borrow or ask for money from Sony unless they know it'll increase sales by enough for it to be profitable, if the relationship is even that close. They may just be owned in the sense that part of the profits go to Sony with no further interaction. (Then again, as Greed1914 points out, the deal hasn't been finalized yet.) And frankly, Character A being voiced by Actor Y instead of Actor X isn't really a dealbreaker for that many people.

As for rail travel, North America is just too spread out for it to be financially viable. It'd be an extremely expensive project to set up (and I'm pretty impressed the US Interstate system even exists), and each trip would be very expensive too due to the large distances covered. It works in New England and in Europe due to their high population densities. You also get a lot of opposition any time a new rail system goes into serious consideration. (The California High Speed Rail, as it's currently planned, is near unrecognizable from when it began due to complaints from various communities, for instance.)

With voice acting, there is the possibility that Petrea Buchard may have lost her Ryoko voice since our voices do change as we get older like Aaron Dismuke can't be Alphonse anymore even if he is much younger actor and that was more of just a him becoming an adult with his voice maturing when Brotherhood came out.

Maybe there won't be a rail built between California and Texas but I know that Texas is nonetheless planning to built its own high speed rail between Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston. Once it's completed and ready for service, it should be more convenient than going on the road or by air. I wouldn't be surprised if VAs use it to travel back and forth to record voice work for Funimation and Sentai. And anyone who is against the idea of a high speed rail are just stubborn in my opinion.

This reminds me of the days when ADV used to exact same stable of actors for everything they did.

Of course, they did a good job, so it wasn't a big deal, but it did get kinda repetitive after awhile.