History TheOtherDarrin / AnimeAndManga

* Takemoto was voiced by KenjiNojima in the final episode of the second season of the Japanese version of ''Manga/HoneyAndClover'' because the original voice actor, HiroshiKamiya, was hospitalized, Kamiya re-recorded the episode for the DVD version.

** Mai's voice has changed during the series. She was originally voiced by MeganHollingshead for the first three seasons, and by Erica Schroeder for the fourth season. [[TheOtherMarty She was later voiced by Caren Manuel for the short-lived Uncut DVDs]].

*** In the Latin American dub, the Hades Saga had two parallel dubs. The original cast led by JesusBarrero only returned for the DVD dub, but the TV version included a whole cast change led by IrwinDaayan as Seiya.

* In the second episode of ''Anime/RoninWarriors'' the show experienced very noticeable differences in the cast only to have the actors from the first episode to return for the remainder of the season. The reason for this was that many of the actors had gotten sick. With limited time, some of the hired actors were required to fill in for multiple roles while other characters were voiced by office employees. The episode was not redubbed with the correct actors for the DVD sales.

** Well, kinda. Kadokawa USA produced the English dub with ADV for consistency. FUNimation just distributed the DVDs. The Houston and Dallas talent pools do have differences, and before Kadokawa USA stepped in, FUNimation confirmed that Hilary Haag would NOT be reprising her role, since her day job kept her from doing so (she, to this day, has only carried one role for FUNimation). Fortunately, since the dub did end up being recorded in Houston, Haag was able to reprise her role after all.

* Takemoto was voiced by KenjiNojima in the final episode of the second season of ''Manga/HoneyAndClover'' because the original voice actor, HiroshiKamiya, was hospitalized, Kamiya re-recorded the episode for the DVD version.

** Mai's voice has changed during the series. She was originally voiced by MeganHollingshead for the first three seasons, and by Bella Hudson for the fourth season. [[TheOtherMarty She was voiced by Caren Manuel for the short-lived Uncut DVDs]].

** When Cassandra Morris moved away from 4Kids, Yubel received a new voice for the 10th movie as well as the twins from 5Ds from episode 65 onward.

** Kodachi Kuno was voiced by Teryl Rotherly for the first four seasons before the character was recast with ErinFitzgerald for Season 5. Ironically, she was recast AGAIN for Seasons 6-7 with Sylvia Zaradic taking over the role (who actually sounded much closer to Teryl than Erin).

** The English version had several cases of this. Halfway through the first season, CentralParkMedia took a break from dubbing the series for about a year to evaluate video sales, and during that time period, lost contact with several of the voice actors. The most notable replacements are Creator/CrispinFreeman replacing Daniel Cronin as the voice of Zelgadis (making this his first anime role), and VeronicaTaylor replacing Joani Baker as the voice of Amelia. With them are Zangulus (TedLewis replacing Liam O'Malley), and Prince Phillionel. This was consistent for the first three seasons.

* The American dub of ''DragonBall Z'' returned from being UnCanceled with the third season having an entirely new cast. (Behind the scenes {{FUNimation}} eliminated their partnership with Saban, which also voided their ability to afford the expensive Vancouver actors of the first two seasons). For most of the new actors, this was their first voice acting role (DBZ was the first Dallas-based English dub), and it was obvious. Some had only minor differences in sound, but the performances varied heavily. Christopher Sabat alone replaced some six or seven of the major characters (although a couple were later reverted to new actors later on). After a few seasons, they had effectively created their own interpretations.

*** Even after the entire cast changed, and the show was being dubbed by Funimation in Dallas, there were some cast changes. Mark Britten left the series to go on a comedy tour in 2001, and many of his voices were recast. Burter and Korin were recast with Christopher R. Sabat, Mustard and the other world tournament announcer were recast with Brandon Potter, and the Ox King was recast with Kyle Hebert. In addition, Dale D. Kelly, the Funimation narrator and Captain Ginyu, left the series in 2000, and was replaced with Kyle Hebert for the Narrator, and Brice Armstrong for Captain Ginyu. John Burgmeier replaced Chris Cason as Tien, Christopher R. Sabat replaced Chris Cason as Mr. Popo, Bill Townsley replaced Dylan Thompson as Guldo, Leah Clark replaced Daphne Gere as Maron, J. Michael Tatum replaced Bart Myer as Spice, Markus Lloyd replaced Kyle Hebert as Blueberry, Douglas Burkes replaced Chris Cason as Rasberry, Stephanie Nadolny replaced Ceyli Delgadillo as Young Goku, Tiffany Vollmer replaced Leslie Alexander as Bulma (Leslie only played the role in DB Movie 2), and finaly, Meridith [=McCoy=] replaced the team of Christine Marten and Monika Antonelli as Launch (who only voiced the role in DB Movie 2).

** The late TomokoKawakami as Soifon was replaced by HoukoKuwashima in 2008.

* ''Manga/VampirePrincessMiyu'' - Miyu went from being voiced by Kimberly J. Brown to Dorothy Elias-Fahn after 7 episodes. In addition, Pamela Wielder had earlier voiced the role in the OVA.
** Since the TV series was made almost a decade after the OAV, Miyu's role went from NaokoWatanabe to MikiNagasawa. Similarly, KanetoShiozawa had already passed away, so ShinichiroMiki took over as Larva.

* The second ''FullmetalAlchemist'' gets this in force, as the only main cast members reprising their roles from the first series are RomiPaku (Edward), RieKugimiya (Alphonse), KenjiUtsumi (Armstrong), KeijiFujiwara (Hughes), HidekatsuShibata (Bradley), and Shoko Tsuda (Izumi). Some of the new arrivals include ShinichiroMiki as Mustang, FumikoOrikasa as Hawkeye, KikukoInoue as Lust, and KentaMiyake as Scar.
** The dub has much less of this, but still happened with Al (AaronDismuke to Maxey Whitehead, justified since Aaron grew up), Scar (DameonClarke to JMichaelTatum), Marcoh (Brice Armstrong to Jerry Russell), and Hohenheim (ScottMcNeil to John Swasey). Note that the now teenage Aaron still has a role -- [[spoiler:young Hohenheim]].

* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'''s dub stayed pretty consistent except for the role of Akio, who was played by Creator/CrispinFreeman (Touga's voice actor) for episode 13, and by Josh Mosby for everything else. Also, Sharon Becker plays the third Shadow Girl player during the Black Rose Arc, but after that, LisaOrtiz plays the third girl while Becker keeps on playing the second.

* In ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'', the seiyuu for Priss Asagiri, the primary focus character of the ensemble, was originally Ohmori Kinuko. Ohmori was already an established synth-rock/J-rock singer, and performed most of the music for the series. When the sequel series, ''Bubblegum Crash!'' was made; she chose to focus on her musical career with her band {{SILK}}, and was replaced by Tachikawa Ryoko.

* The dub voice of Eiko Magami from ''Anime/ProjectAKo'' was Stacey Gregg in the original movie. Gregg was replaced by [[StargateSG1 Teryl Rothery]] for the remainder of the OVA series.

* In the English dub of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' Kim Strauss as Sajin Komamura was replaced by J.B. Blanc for some reason.

** Starting with episode 244 of the English dub, Kenpachi is voiced by PatrickSeitz.
*** Just after everyone got used to the fact that DougErholtz replaced MichaelLindsay as Urahara.

** In Latin America, Gabriel Gama voiced Brock until the beginning of Diamond, then Alan Prieto took over. Similarly, May's first LA-VA was Anna Lobo, then Mariana Ortiz followed.
*** Ash was darrin'd by Irwin Daayán by the last chapters of the Season 11 and later their original voice actor (Gabriel Ramos) returned for the Season 12 (although eventually replaced, hopefully temporarily, by Miguel Leal, because he's right now in Argentina) , but we can't say the same for the Dawn's voice, which was changed from Gaby Ugarte to Leyla Rangel, by a change of the dub studio, from ''Candiani'' to ''AF: The Dubbing House''.
*** The same happened with Paul, who was voiced by Gerardo García, but it had to be changed for Season 12. The first time that he appeared in that season, the voice was made by Gabriel Ortiz, and in the latest appearances his voice is Miguel Angel Ruiz.

* The English ''Manga/SailorMoon'' adaptation practically had a revolving door of actors for various reasons, mainly because the dub's production was stopped and restarted several times for unusually long gaps, leaving plenty of time for actors to leave or have scheduling conflicts when it was time to produce more dubbing. While fans often blame the switchover of the rights from [=DiC=] to Cloverway, the same dubbing studio, Optimum, handled the entire series and made the casting choices.
** The most notable changes came to Sailor Moon herself, who was originally voiced by Tracey Moore and then switched over to Terri Hawkes gradually (the earlier episodes might have been dubbed out of order) and then permanently for the remainder of the [=DiC=] run (Tracey's very last episode was Jupiter's debut episode). During the S production, Terri Hawkes was on maternity leave during the recording period and was replaced with Linda Ballantyne for all of the S and [=SuperS=] seasons (which were recorded fairly close together), who tried to mimic Hawkes at first, but developed her own take on the character. Though her overall performance is sometimes regarded as an [[{{Flanderization}} exaggerated imitation]] of Hawkes' voice.

** Of the other Senshi, Mercury was voiced by the very British-sounding Karen Bernstein for the first two seasons and movies, and the not-so British Liza Balkan in later episodes. Liza was handpicked by Bernstein herself, and was instructed to mimic her voice as best she could. Mars was voiced by Katie Griffin for pretty much the whole series, however EmilieClaireBarlow filled in for the last 17 episodes of the second season while Griffin was away filming a movie. Venus was originally voiced by Stephanie Morgenstern and Rini by Tracy Hoyt, but for the S and [=SuperS=] seasons they were replaced with EmilieClaireBarlow (who had previously stood in for Mars) and StephanieBeard respectively. Sailor Pluto was voiced by Sabrina Grdevich (Ann's voice) originally, and Susan Aceron in the S season, though her first appearance actually used ''Luna's'' voice as a placeholder. In this crop of voice swapping, the characters apparently were not told to mimic the old actors and their voices are more distinct.

** Sailor Jupiter was thankfully exempt from this. She was the only one of the original five Senshi to not change her VA for any reason, being voiced by SusanRoman for all four seasons and the movies.
** The dubbers for the Italian version of ''Sailor Moon'' had a curious roundabout... Rei was dubbed for Season 1 by Alessandra Karpoff, and from Season 2 onward by Giusy [=DiMartino=]. Karpoff went on to dub Michiru in Season 3, and funnily enough she replaced Donatella Fanfani as Makoto's voice in Season 4 and 5. Michiru then ended up being voiced by Patrizia Scianca, who funnily had dubbed a major enemy, Kaolinite, in Season 3. Also, dubber Lara Parmiani voiced enemy Eudial in Season 3 and Princess Kakyuu in Season 5.
** While the Latin-American dub for ''Sailor Moon'' kept 90% of the cast through the season, Mamoru's first voice actor Genaro Vasquez was replaced mid R season by Gerardo Reyero. This was jarring because of the ''huge'' voice difference: Vasquez was a tenor, Reyero was a ''bass''.

** The French dub of ''Sailor Moon'' pulled this when attempting to cover up the relationship between [[HoYay Haruka and Michiru]]. "Frédérique" originally had a female actress full time. A few episodes into S, they cast a male voice actor for her civilian identity and explained that Frédérique was trying to hide her identity as Uranus and Mylene (Michiru) helped by pretending to be "his" girlfriend.
** Even the original Japanese production of ''Sailor Moon'' had this happen - during the recording of the final episodes of the first series (44-46) and the early portions of ''Anime/SailorMoon R''(47-50), KotonoMitsuishi (Usagi) [[IllGirl had her appendix removed]] and Kae Araki took over for her. Amusingly this includes episode 46 which ends with the insert song "You Are Just My Love", a duet between Mitsuishi and TohruFuruya (Mamoru). Araki returned to do the role of Chibi-Usa ten episodes after her stint as Sailor Moon.
** The Brazilian dub of Sailor Moon also suffered [[UnCancelled uncancelling]], with the R (and subsequent) season airing much later than the first season. The entire cast of the first season was replaced, although the new recordings happened in the same State as the first (that is, the dubbers didn't even look for the old voice actors). Curiously, the Amazon Quartet in ''[=SuperS=]'' was voiced by almost all of the Senshi's old voice actresses; probably a way to acknowledge the fans' reaction to the recast.

** Mai's voice has changed during the series. She was originally voiced by MeganHollingshead for the first three seasons, and By Bella Hudson for the fourth season. [[TheOtherMarty She was voiced by Caren Manuel for the short-lived Uncut DVDs]].

** Rex Raptor was originally voiced by Sam Riegel for the first 3 seasons of the series before the role was recast with Sebastian Arcelus for Season 4 (and the uncut [=DVDs=]). Anthony Salerno filled in as Rex for his few Season 5 appearances.

* The American Dub of ''Manga/DragonBall Z'' returned from being UnCanceled with the third season having an entirely new cast. (Behind the scenes {{FUNimation}} eliminated their partnership with Saban, which also voided their ability to afford the expensive Vancouver actors of the first two seasons). For most of the new actors, this was their first voice acting role (DBZ was the first Dallas-based English dub), and it was obvious. Some had only minor differences in sound, but the performances varied heavily. Christopher Sabat alone replaced some six or seven of the major characters (although a couple were later reverted to new actors later on). After a few seasons, they had effectively created their own interpretations.

*** FUNimation's dub later expanded to the original ''Dragon Ball'', ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', movies, specials, video games, and pretty much all other DB media. FUNimation later redubbed everything from the first 2 seasons with their new cast, since the original versions of Seasons 1-2 were edited. FUNimation also partially redubbed themselves for the remastered release (mostly at the Season 2-3 gap) since a few voices had changed since then (such as Captain Ginyu, Tien, Dende, Burter, Guldo, Oolong, Mr. Popo, and a few others), and were different for the Seasons 1-2 redub, and needed to be revoiced in later episodes for consistency. Several consistent actors also redubbed themselves, since they sounded vastly different earlier, and the transition would've been very jarring.
*** The Japanese version of the franchise also had recasts. Chi Chi was voiced by Mayumi Shou in DB and DBZ seasons 1-2. She was replaced by Naoko Watanabe for the rest of the franchise. Master Roshi's voice changed several times after Kohei Miyauchi's death in the middle of Season 9. Other casting changes in ''Anime/DragonBallKai'' include Gregory's voice (YujiMitsuya), Dende's voice (to AyaHirano in Kai), and the entire Ginyu Force.

*** And of course, ''[[MarketBasedTitle Dragon Ball Z Kai]]'' has MonicaRial as Bulma, ColleenClinkenbeard as Gohan, Chris Ayres as Freeza, John Swasey as Dodoria, JMichaelTatum as Zarbon and several other changes, including most of the Ginyu Force, with GregAyres as Guldo, VicMignogna as Burter, JasonLiebrecht as Jeice and R Bruce Elliot as Captain Ginyu, among others.
*** The Latin American voice of Bulma switched from Rocio Garcel after the "Cell Games" saga to Monica Manjarrez in the Majin Buu saga (with Laura Ayala in a few episodes), to Isabel Martinon in "Path to Power". Garcel returned to voice Bulma in the Latin version of ''Dragon Ball Z Kai''.
*** Speaking of the Latin version of ''Dragon Ball Z Kai'', Goku and Gohan were notably recast with new voice actors (despite their originals showing an interest in returning). The same happened in the French version with Goku.

* The second ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' gets this in force, as the only main cast members reprising their roles from the first series are RomiPaku (Edward), RieKugimiya (Alphonse), KenjiUtsumi (Armstrong), KeijiFujiwara (Hughes), HidekatsuShibata (Bradley), and Shoko Tsuda (Izumi). Some of the new arrivals include ShinichiroMiki as Mustang, FumikoOrikasa as Hawkeye, KikukoInoue as Lust, and KentaMiyake as Scar.
** The dub has much less of this; but still happened with Al (AaronDismuke to Maxey Whitehead, justified since Aaron grew up), Scar (DameonClarke to JMichaelTatum), Marcoh (Brice Armstrong to Jerry Russell), and Hohenheim (ScottMcNeil to John Swasey). Note that the now teenage Aaron still had a role -- [[spoiler:Young Hohenheim]].
** ChrisPatton returned to reprise his role as Greed in the first half of the dub. For the second half, he's replaced by TroyBaker. It's kind of justified considering it happens when [[spoiler:Greed gets a new body]], and they still use Patton's voice for [[spoiler:flashbacks of his original body]], even though Greed was portrayed by YuuichiNakamura for the whole series.

** Kodachi Kuno was voiced by Teryl Rotherly for the first four seasons before the character was recast with Erin Fitzgerald for Season 5. Ironically, she was recast AGAIN for Seasons 6-7 with Sylvia Zaradic taking over the role (who actually sounded much closer to Teryl than Erin).

** The English version had several cases of this. Halfway through the first season, CentralParkMedia took a break from dubbing the series for about a year to evaluate video sales, and during that time period, lost contact with several of the voice actors. The most notable replacements are CrispinFreeman replacing Daniel Cronin as the voice of Zelgadis (making this his first anime role), and VeronicaTaylor replacing Joani Baker as the voice of Amelia. With them are Zangulus (TedLewis replacing Liam O'Malley), and Prince Phillionel. This was consistent for the first three seasons.
** In addition to this, ADV Films handled all the Movies and [=OVAs=] and used their Houston-based talent pool instead of the original New York cast for the series. They tried to get LisaOrtiz back as Lina, but they were unable to, so CynthiaMartinez notably replaced Ortiz as Lina in the movies and OVA series, and in ''Slayers Premium'', ChrisPatton filled in for EricStuart as Gourry, LuciChristian filled in for Veronica Taylor as Amelia, and Kurt Stoll filled in for David Moo as Xellos; however, Crispin Freeman returned to play Zelgadis.

* In the ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'' English dub, Shino was voiced by SamRiegel in his first appearance, but was replaced by DerekStephenPrince later on. Itachi received this treatment as well, going from SkipStellrecht to CrispinFreeman.

* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'''s dub stayed pretty consistent except for the role of Akio, who was played by Crispin Freeman (Touga's voice actor) for episode 13, and by Josh Mosby for everything else. Also, Sharon Becker plays the third Shadow Girl player during the Black Rose Arc, but after that, LisaOrtiz plays the third girl while Becker keeps on playing the second.

** ...at least until the second half of the series. CrispinFreeman originally played both the protagonist Spark and Maar; as time passed, the voices for Gaberra, Groder, and Garrack had all dropped out, so Freeman played ''all three of them'', along with his original two roles.

** In the Film/{{Rebuild| Of Evangelion}} movies, only Shinji's, Asuka's, and Misato's voice actors reprised their roles (though Gendo's voice actor from the Director's Cut episodes also reprised his role).

* The third season of ''StarBlazers'' had a completely different dub cast from the first two seasons, since the dubbing was taken over by Peter Fernandez and his ''SpeedRacer'' voice team.

* When Disney went on to dub the "remaining" (at the time) movies of ''{{Digimon}}'' years after the series' runs, they couldn't get hold of all the voice actors, so replacements happened:

** In the ''[[DigimonFrontier Frontier]]'' movie, DaveWittenberg replaced Michael Reisz as Takuya; in ''Frontier'' itself, Wittenberg also took over as Takuya whenever he became [=EmperorGreymon=] because Reisz refused to go through with the amount of [[{{Kiai}} yelling]] involved at that point. Ironically, there was actually a comparitively small amount of shouting involved during [=EmperorGreymon=]'s scenes.

** The American voice actor for Tristan changed after episode 9 of the first season, replacing his original, perpetually cold-ridden nasally voice (Sam Riegel) for one less annoying and much more fitting (Greg Abbey AKA Frank Frankson). ''WebOriginal/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' naturally spent an entire episode on it, and it ''stuck''... until the next episode, where the voice actor and writer of ''The Abridged Series'' changed the voice back, as he said it was easier to write jokes about it.

* In ''KimagureOrangeRoad'', the roles of the three main characters were changed from the pilot episode to the main series. For Kyosuke, YuuMizushima was replaced by TohruFuruya, HiromiTsuru replaced SaekoShimazu as Madoka and YokoOgai was replaced by ErikoHara for Hikaru.

* In ''KimagureOrangeRoad'', the roles of the three main characters were changed from the pilot episode to the main series. For Kyosuke, YuuMizushima was replaced by ToruFuruya, HiromiTsuru replaced SaekoShimazu as Madoka and YokoOgai was replaced by ErikoHara for Hikaru.

* In the pilot episode of ''KimagureOrangeRoad'', Hikaru Hiyama and Madoka Ayukawa were voiced by YokoOgai and SaekoShimazu respectively, but in proper series, they were replaced by ErikoHara and HiromiTsuru.

* In the pilot episode of ''KimagureOrangeRoad'', Hikaru Hiyama is played by YokoOgai, but in proper series, she is played by ErikoHara.

* In the pilot episode of ''KimigureOrangeRoad'', Hikaru Hiyama is played by YokoOgai, but in proper series, she is played by ErikoHara.

* According to [[WordOfGod an employee]] at {{Nelvana}}, some characters in the first {{Bakugan}} series had this. Naga in particular was bad about this, [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=7738 going through three different actors during the run]].

*** Over the years, several ''Gundam'' actors have left their various reasons, such as Mark Gatha (''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'''s Domon, retired to become a doctor) and MarkHildreth (''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'''s Heero, refuses to reprise his role after [[FanDumb being harassed by fans over his performance]]). This means that their appearances in video games and the like require Darrins. Heero gets a humorously ironic case in ''DynastyWarriorsGundam 3'', where he's played by BrianDrummond, who appeared in ''Wing'' as Heero's [[TheRival Rival]] and resident CharClone Zechs Merquise.

* ''Anime/SaberMarionetteJ'', ''Saber Marionette J Again'' and ''Saber Marionette J To X'', while all licensed by Bandai in North America, were each dubbed into English at different studios. The ''entire'' cast changed between each series (although ''Saber Marionette R'' did share some cast with J). This means Otaru changed from [[DeathNote Light Yagami]] to [[MagicKnightRayearth Ascot]] to {{Betterman}}. Lime was Bulma, a Tachikoma, and Meifon Li. Etc.

* Takemoto was voiced by KenjiNojima in the final episode of the second season of ''Manga/HoneyAndClover'' because the original voice actor, HiroshiKamiya, was hospitalized.

** ChrisPatton had retired from anime dub work, but returned to reprise his role as Greed in the first half of the dub. For the second half, he's replaced by TroyBaker. It's kind of justified considering it happens when [[spoiler:Greed gets a new body]], and they still use Patton's voice for [[spoiler:flashbacks of his original body]], even though Greed was portrayed by YuuichiNakamura for the whole series.

* After ''GundamSEED'' ended, Mami Matsui retired and RomiPaku took over her character Nicol Amalfi for the {{Compilation Movie}}s and subsequent video game appearances.
** More famously, the ''ZetaGundam'' {{Compilation Movie}}s recast the role of Four Murasame, replacing SaekoShimazu with {{Yukana}} despite YoshiyukiTomino's explicit instructions to bring back every actor that they could. This lead to a major controversy in Japan, where some [[YokoOhNo accused Yukana of only getting the role]] [[CastingCouch because she slept with the director]], a stigma that only [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap lifted]] when she took on roles like [[CodeGeass C.C.]]

** HiroshiKamiya was injured in a car accident after finishing two of three episodes of ''Gundam SEED C.E.73 Stargazer''; MamoruMiyano took over his character Shams Couza for the last episode and the compilation release. This makes ''{{Gundam 00}}'' HilariousInHindsight, as it stars both actors and Kamiya's character begins the series hating Miyano's character.
** ''GundamUnicorn'' pulls a twist on this, as two characters return from ''GundamZZ'' after quite some time both in-universe (8 years) and out (24 years). In this case, AyumiFujimura plays Audrey Burne and YukoKaida plays Marida Cruz, taking over from MikiIto and ChiekoHonda ([[spoiler:as Mineva Lao Zabi and Elpeo Puru and her clones]]) respectively.

** On the other side of the Pacific, a voice actors strike in Canada meant that the Ocean Group (who dubbed ''[[GundamWing Wing]]'' and the majority of the Gundam titles) was unavailable to dub ''ZetaGundam'', meaning ''the entire series'' had to be "recast" with another VA group, Bluewater (who dubbed ''GGundam''.) This gets confusing in ''[[GundamVsSeries Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam]]'', which uses both studios and thus has moments where, for example, Amuro switches from BradSwaile's voice to MatthewErickson's and back again during a single conversation.
*** Over the years, several ''Gundam'' actors have left their various reasons, such as Mark Gatha (''GGundam'''s Domon, retired to become a doctor) and MarkHildreth (''GundamWing'''s Heero, refuses to reprise his role after [[FanDumb being harassed by fans over his performance]]). This means that their appearances in video games and the like require Darrins. Heero gets a humorously ironic case in ''DynastyWarriorsGundam 3'', where he's played by BrianDrummond, who appeared in ''Wing'' as Heero's [[TheRival Rival]] and resident CharClone Zechs Merquise.

** Kohaku: Danny McKinnon --> Alex Doduk

*** In the Latin American dub, the Hades Saga had two parallel dubs. The original cast led by Jesus "Chucho" Barrero only returned for the DVD dub, but the TV version included a whole cast change led by Irwin Daayan as Seiya.
* In ''Manga/GetterRobo'', AkiraKamiya voiced Ryoma Nagare for decades. When the ''Armaggedon'' OAV's came, Hideo Ishikawa replaced him and tried to give his own spin to the role.

** The Japanese version of Utena replaced the Actor for Akio for the movie.
*** The reason for that was probably that Akio is a very different character in the movie, far from the sexy MagnificentBastard that he is in the series.

*** The ''Zeta'' movies also recast Katz Kobayashi (replacing Keiichi Nanba with DaisukeNamikawa) and Rosamia Badim (replacing Kayoko Fujii with YuuAsakawa).

* ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' went through many dubbing crews for the English version, and thus, the series went through many talent pools (North Carolina for the OVA, Los Angeles for the movie and Mini-Goddess, and New York for the TV series). However, the Japanese version stayed pretty consistent, though KikukoInoue was briefly replaced by AkemiOkamura in the Mini Goddesses series. ''Major'' PlayingAgainstType moment, as Okamura often plays {{Action Girl}}s and not {{Yamato Nadeshiko}}s.

* In the Japanese version of ''[[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Hellsing Ultimate]]'', NorioWakamoto replaced Nachi Nozawa as Alexander Anderson. And then proceeded to inject as much [[LargeHam hamminess]] as only Wakamoto can do.

** Similarly, in the Latin-American dubs five Digidestined changed their [=VAs=] from the first season to the second: Taichi (Gerry Meza -> Enzo Fortuny), Yamato (Uraz Huerta -> Jose Vilchis), Koushirou (Monica Estrada -> Alfredo Leal), Takeru ( ? -> Irwin Daayan), and Hikari (Cristina Hernandez -> Martha Ceceña - [[TalkingToHimself as well as Tailmon]]).

* When the second season of ''StrikeWitches'' was being produced, ''SaekoChiba'' was on maternity leave, so Saori Seto was brought on board to play Mio Sakamoto.

** The English version had several cases of this. Halfway through the first season, CentralParkMedia took a break from dubbing the series for about a year to evaluate video sales, and during that time period, lost contact with several of the voice actors. The most notable replacements are CrispinFreeman replacing Daniel Cronin as the voice of Zelgadis (making this his first anime role), and VeronicaTaylor replacing Joani Baker as the voice of Amelia. With them are Zangulus (TedLewis replacing Liam O'Malley), Prince Phillionel (JimmyZoppi replacing Matt Black) and Vrumugun (also Zoppi, replacing Carter Cathcart). This was consistent for the first three seasons.

* The entire American voice cast of ''{{Pokemon}}'' was replaced midway through the Advanced arc (specifically, for the [[Anime/PokemonTheMastermindOfMiragePokemon anniversary special]] and ninth season), due to Nintendo reacquiring the rights to dub the anime from 4Kids, and the then-current ADR studio, Taj Productions, being concerned about paying the original voice actors' unusually high salaries, and opted not to even CONTACT the original voice actors about future episodes. Thanks for all the years of hard work!