| 1 | %% Page is now alphabetized by title; when adding new entries, please make sure to add them in the appropriate letter/folder. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | As with it's [[TheOtherDarrin/WesternAnimation American counterpart]], Japanese animation has saw its various voice talents -- be it in its original native language or in foreign dubs (namely English) -- get replaced from time to time. This is especially prominent in English dubs, either due to the distributors of the dub [[ChannelHop changing dubbing studios]] or the actors moving on to bigger projects after their anime stardom and/or becoming [[UsefulNotes/UnionsInHollywood union]], which prevents them from reprising their roles in non-union works unless the studio/distributor had agreed with the labor union. |
| 4 | ---- |
| 5 | !!Anime and Manga with their own page |
| 6 | |
| 7 | [[index]] |
| 8 | * ''TheOtherDarrin/{{Digimon}}'' |
| 9 | * ''TheOtherDarrin/DragonBall'' |
| 10 | * ''TheOtherDarrin/LupinIII'' |
| 11 | * ''TheOtherDarrin/HelloSandybell'' |
| 12 | * ''TheOtherDarrin/{{Naruto}}'' |
| 13 | * ''TheOtherDarrin/OnePiece'' |
| 14 | * ''TheOtherDarrin/{{Pokemon}}'' |
| 15 | * ''TheOtherDarrin/SailorMoon'' |
| 16 | * ''TheOtherDarrin/VoltesV'' |
| 17 | [[/index]] |
| 18 | |
| 19 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 20 | |
| 21 | !! Series examples |
| 22 | [[folder: ''Gundam'' Series]] |
| 23 | * After ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed Gundam SEED]]'' ended, Mami Matsui retired and Creator/RomiPark took over her character Nicol Amalfi for the {{Compilation Movie}}s and subsequent video game appearances. |
| 24 | * ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'': |
| 25 | ** The ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'' {{Compilation Movie}}s recast the role of Four Murasame, replacing Creator/SaekoShimazu with Creator/{{Yukana}} despite Creator/YoshiyukiTomino's explicit instructions to bring back every actor that they could. This lead to a major controversy in Japan, where some 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 [[Anime/CodeGeass C.C.]] |
| 26 | ** The ''Zeta'' movies recast Katz Kobayashi (replacing Creator/KeiichiNanba with Creator/DaisukeNamikawa), Hayato Kobayashi (from Katsumi Toriumi to Creator/NobuyukiHiyama), and Rosamia Badam (replacing Kayoko Fujii with Creator/YuuAsakawa). |
| 27 | * Creator/HiroshiKamiya was injured in a car accident after finishing two of three episodes of ''Gundam SEED C.E.73 Stargazer''; Creator/MamoruMiyano took over his character Shams Couza for the last episode and the compilation release. This makes ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]'' HilariousInHindsight, as it stars both actors and Kamiya's character begins the series hating Miyano's character. |
| 28 | * ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn'' pulls a twist on this, as two characters return from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Gundam ZZ]]'' after quite some time both in-universe (8 years) and out (24 years). In this case, Creator/AyumiFujimura plays Audrey Burne and Creator/YukoKaida plays Marida Cruz, taking over from Creator/MikiIto and Creator/ChiekoHonda ([[spoiler:as Mineva Lao Zabi and Elpeo Puru and her clones]]) respectively. |
| 29 | ** ''Unicorn'' recast Creator/KenNarita as fan-beloved "Eternal Captain" Bright Noa, marking the first time since Creator/HirotakaSuzuoki's death in 2007 that the character wasn't played with recycled audio clips. |
| 30 | ** Then Dozle Zabi's VA was replaced by Creator/TesshoGenda after Creator/DaisukeGori passed away. |
| 31 | ** For the remaining episodes of the OVA, this would now be the case for Marida's current seiyuu, as Creator/ChiekoHonda (Elpeo's original seiyuu) also passed away during their production. |
| 32 | * Generally speaking however, Unicorn typically averts this as the Japanese voice actors all reprise their roles, even for minor parts like Dr Hasan. |
| 33 | * In the English dub of Unicorn, Creator/SeanSchemmel was replaced with Creator/PatrickSeitz as Flaste Schole after episode 3 due to Schemmel moving to Los Angeles. Bright also got another voice change, this time going from Chris Kalhoon to Christopher Corey Smith. Char and Lalah were also recast, going from Michael Kospa to Keith Silverstein and Willow Johnson to Lipica Shah, respectively. |
| 34 | * On the other side of the Pacific, a voice actors strike in Canada meant that the Ocean Group (who dubbed ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Wing]]'' and the majority of the Gundam titles) was unavailable to dub ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'', meaning ''the entire series'' had to be "recast" with another VA group, Blue Water (who dubbed ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]''.) This gets confusing in ''[[VideoGame/GundamVsSeries Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam]]'', which uses both studios and thus has moments where, for example, Amuro switches from Creator/BradSwaile's voice to Creator/MatthewErickson's and back again during a single conversation. |
| 35 | * 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 Music/MarkHildreth (''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]''[='=]s Heero, who claims he isn't aware of why he has never been called back to voice the character again). This means that their appearances in video games and the like require Darrins. Heero gets a humorously ironic case in ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriorsGundam 3'', where he's played by Creator/BrianDrummond, who appeared in ''Wing'' as Heero's [[TheRival Rival]] and resident CharClone Zechs Merquise. |
| 36 | * The Gundam movie trilogy was dubbed years before the Gundam TV series, and used a different studio, in a different country with different voice actors. The TV series dub gets a hit-or-miss reception while the movie trilogy dub is considered one of the worst ever, strange considering the voice actors/director usually put out solid work. It happened to the original series ''again'' with the English dub of the ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamTheOrigin'' movies, using the same studio that did ''Unicorn'' (which does have the fortuitous side-effect of closing a minor DubInducedPlotHole in the latter's final episode now that Char and Frontal are once again voiced by the same actor as in the original Japanese). |
| 37 | * The HD Remaster of both ''Gundam SEED'' and ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny'' will have brand-new English dubs provided by NYAV Post (as opposed to The Ocean Group for the original ones) due to [[https://fandompost.vbulletin.net/forum/anime-manga-discussions/us-blu-ray-dvd-and-simulcast-industry-news/37363-rightstuf-sunrise-to-release-gundam-franchise?p=605392#post605392 the edits in the remaster that make syncing the original dub track a nightmare to implement]]. |
| 38 | * Over the years a total of five talent pools have lent their voices to the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise (Vancouver, Los Angeles, Calgary, New York, Hong Kong). |
| 39 | * While the second trailer and updated official website ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDFreedom'' confirmed that almost the entire returning cast would be [[RoleReprise reprising their roles]] from ''SEED Destiny'', it also revealed that the role of Cagalli Yula Atha would be the exception, as the character would be played by Creator/NanakoMori instead of Creator/NaomiShindo. |
| 40 | [[/folder]] |
| 41 | [[folder: ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'']] |
| 42 | * The American voice actor for Tristan changed after episode 9 of the [[Anime/YuGiOh first season]], replacing his original, perpetually cold-ridden nasally voice (Sam Riegel) for one less annoying and much more fitting (Greg Abbey). ''WebVideo/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. |
| 43 | -->'''Tristan:''' My voice gives me super strength! |
| 44 | * Honda's Japanese voice changed too--from Creator/TakayukiKondo to Hidehiro Kikuchi. |
| 45 | * Mai's voice has changed during the series. She was originally voiced by Creator/MeganHollingshead for the first three seasons, and by Erica Schroeder for the fourth season after Hollingshead moved to LA. [[TheOtherMarty She was later voiced by Caren Manuel for the short-lived Uncut [=DVD=]s]]. |
| 46 | * Mokuba was recast for his last few appearances in Season 5 with Creator/CarrieKeranen when his original voice actress, Tara Jayne, had moved to California, and quit all of her roles in New York. Keranen also voiced Mokuba in the short-lived uncut [=DVDs=]. Tara later returned to play as Mokuba in the movie ''Anime/YuGiOhTheDarkSideOfDimensions''. |
| 47 | * 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. Rex/Ryuzaki's Japanese voice actor changed as well, as he was voiced by Kin Fujii in the first two seasons and by Creator/YuuichiNakamura in season 3 onwards. |
| 48 | * On the Japanese side, Creator/RicaMatsumoto took over as Bakura for Creator/YouInoue, who was diagnosed with lung cancer and shortly after passed away. Notably, this is a case where the other Darrin had a completely different approach--whereas Inoue's Dark Bakura was quiet, calm and sinister, Matsumoto's Bakura had barely any lines where he wasn't shouting, [[EvilLaugh laughing]], and in general, [[ChewingTheScenery tearing the scenery to shreds]]. |
| 49 | * German Yami Bakura underwent a similar change of character (from a calm and collected villain to a loud, rude and completely insane maniac), but at a different time. In this version, the change occurred when Peter Reinhardt took over the role from David Nathan with the beginning of season 5. |
| 50 | * The "dedication" segment in [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries the Abridged Series]] also lampshaded the other two characters who had their voices eventually changed sometime during the course of the dub. Mokuba wasn't that bad, but Mai's voice was actually changed ''mid-episode'' by 4Kids to make the cast change less noticeable. They did the same for James in Pokemon. |
| 51 | * When [[Creator/CassandraLeeMorris Cassandra Morris]] moved away from New York to California, Yubel received a new voice for the [[Anime/YuGiOhBondsBeyondTime 10th movie]] as well as the twins from ''[[Anime/YuGiOh5Ds 5Ds]]'' from episode 65 onward. |
| 52 | * Carly's Japanese VA (Satomi Toyohara, artistic name Li Mei Chang) was replaced on episode 130 onward (by Aki Kanada) due to unrelated issues with the VA that caused her to resign. |
| 53 | * Anzu (Tea) was voiced by Aki Maeda during Dueliest Kingdom and by Maki Saitou for the remainder of the series. |
| 54 | * It also should be noted that pretty much most of the major early Yu-Gi-Oh characters all underwent this thanks to the original anime from the 90's by Toei. This ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' anime featured big-name seiyuu voicing most of the major characters such as Creator/MegumiOgata as Yugi, Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa as Jonouchi, and Creator/HikaruMidorikawa as Kaiba, while the better known "Duel Monsters" anime moreso relied on [=VAs=] who were unknowns at the time and often performers who otherwise had little to no experience with voice acting, including idol singer Shunsuke Kazama as Yugi. Amusingly enough, thanks to the use of this trope it also meant the CrossdressingVoices trope was inverted for Yugi and Bakura. |
| 55 | * On the Latin-American Spanish side, Creator/YamilAtala as Bakura was replaced by Creator/JoseGilbertoVilchis almost at the same canon point where Creator/YouInoue was replaced by Creator/RicaMatsumoto. |
| 56 | * In the Italian dub of ''[[Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL ZEXAL]]'', Creator/MonicaBonetto was replaced with Creator/BenedettaPonticelli as Tokunosuke/Flip's voice starting from the Yuma vs Tron/Vetrix episode. The first voice actress came back for the last few episodes. |
| 57 | * The Italian dub of ''Anime/YuGiOhTheDarkSideOfDimensions'' keeps the original voices for Yugi, Joey and Kaiba while replacing everyone else, as the dub moved from Milan to Rome. Veronica Puccio replaces Debora Magnaghi as Tea, Emanuele Ruzza replaces Gabriele Calindri as Tristan, Lorenzo D'Agata replaces Irene Scalzo as Mokuba, Davide Albano replaces Felice Invernici as Bakura, Silvio Anselmo replaces Enrico Bertorelli as Yugi's grandpa, Alberto Bognanni replaces Maurizio Trombini as Roland and Mauro Gravina replaces Diego Sabre as Shadi. |
| 58 | [[/folder]] |
| 59 | ---- |
| 60 | |
| 61 | !! Other examples |
| 62 | [[folder:A to D]] |
| 63 | %% A |
| 64 | * ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'': |
| 65 | ** The series went through many dubbing crews for the English versions of the various pieces of the franchise, and thus, the series went through many sets of voices. Creator/AnimEigo licensed and dubbed the original five [=OVAs=] at Coastal Carolina Studios in Wilmington, North Carolina. Creator/{{Geneon}} licensed and dubbed the movie and the Mini-Goddess shorts at Animaze in Los Angeles (there was even an Other Darrin here as Urd was voiced by Creator/MaryElizabethMcGlynn in the movie and by Creator/WendeeLee in the shorts). Creator/MediaBlasters licensed and dubbed the first season of the TV series at NYAV Post in New York while Creator/ADVFilms licensed and dubbed the second season of the TV series with NYAV back with their cast, although this time, the dub was recorded in both New York ''and'' Los Angeles. Interestingly, Urd's movie voice was able to come back and voice Hild, and Belldandy's OVA voice came back to voice Peorth. |
| 66 | ** The Japanese version, on the other hand, has stayed pretty consistent, though Creator/KikukoInoue was briefly replaced by Creator/AkemiOkamura as Belldandy in the ''Mini Goddess'' series due to Inoue being on maternity leave for its first half. ''Major'' PlayingAgainstType moment, as Okamura often plays {{Action Girl}}s and not {{Yamato Nadeshiko}}s. |
| 67 | * ''Anime/AldnoahZero'': Since Shinji Ogawa died just before the show could be finished, Creator/TakayukiSugo replaced him as Emperor Reyregalia Vers Rayvers for the last episode. |
| 68 | * ''Anime/AngelBeats!'': The English dub had a few minor characters that shifted actors: |
| 69 | ** Illich Guardiola played Takamatsu from episodes 8-13 after Kalob Martinez had earlier played the role for the first seven episodes. |
| 70 | ** Elizabeth Bunch played Hisako in episodes 3-4, but was later replaced with Creator/JessicaBoone for her remaining appearances. |
| 71 | ** Creator/SerenaVarghese voiced Yusa in the first nine episodes of the series, but was replaced for episodes 10 and 14 with... Elizabeth Bunch due to Varghese moving to Los Angeles. |
| 72 | * ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'': |
| 73 | ** The franchise gets a new Japanese voice cast in every project, while the English cast is a bit more consistent. The 2003 film was originally dubbed by Geneon/Animaze in Los Angeles in 2004, but the 2007 ''Ex Machina'' film was released by Warner Bros. with a dub by Houston-based Seraphim Digital. When Creator/SentaiFilmworks rescued the 2003 film in 2011, they redubbed it for their Blu-ray release with the entire ''Ex Machina'' cast. When [=FUNimation=] got the ''XIII'' TV series in 2013, they got ''most'' of the Houston cast back, though there were a few replacements, such as Hitomi, Yoshitsune, and Lance. The 2014 ''Alpha'' film (released by Sony) was created in English from the beginning with the Houston cast (though there is a Japanese dub), who also performed the motion capture work. Hitomi was once again recast. |
| 74 | ** Also, the (now obscure) late 80s OVA adaptation, which was dubbed by Manga UK, had a different voice cast in English and Japanese. |
| 75 | * ''Anime/ArmoredTrooperVotoms'' had two examples of early recasting: Yuri Nashiwa voiced Fyana in episode 3, but was replaced by Kazuko Yanaga afterwards. Meanwhile, Creator/KenichiOgata initially voiced Albert Killy, but was replaced by Saburo Kamei. |
| 76 | * ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'': Several different people have voiced Koro-sensei throughout the franchise: Creator/MasayaOnosaka in the VOMIC, Creator/TomokazuSeki in the first OVA and ''VideoGame/JStarsVictoryVS'', Creator/JunFukuyama in the anime and the 3DS game (''Assassination Classroom: Grand Siege on Korosensei)'', and [[Music/{{Arashi}} Ninomiya Kazunari]] in the live action movie. |
| 77 | * ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': While the English dub of ''Manga/AttackOnTitanJuniorHigh'' retained the original English voice actors from ''Attack On Titan'', Ian Dietrich is now voiced by Garret Storms. His original voice actor, Creator/ScottFreeman, was unavailable due to [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor being incarcerated for possession of child pornography]]. |
| 78 | * ''Anime/AvengersConfidentialBlackWidowAndPunisher'' is a sequel to ''Anime/IronManRiseOfTechnovore'' with many of the voice actors of the returning characters coming back. However, the English dub of the ''Avengers Confidential'' saw the titular duo's voice actors replaced with Clare Grant being replaced as Black Widow by Creator/JenniferCarpenter and Creator/NormanReedus as the Punisher by Creator/BrianBloom (The Japanese dub kept Creator/MiyukiSawashiro and Creator/TesshoGenda in the respective roles). Creator/MatthewMercer also replaced Creator/TroyBaker as Hawkeye, though that probably has something to do with the character only getting one line, and Mercer already being around to reprise his ''Tecnhovore'' role as Iron Man and it just being easier and cheaper to get him to just voice the one line. |
| 79 | %% B |
| 80 | * ''Anime/{{Bakugan}}'': According to [[WordOfGod an employee]] at Creator/{{Nelvana}}, some characters in the first 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]]. |
| 81 | * ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': |
| 82 | ** The ''Golden Age'' film trilogy replaced the entire Japanese cast from the 1997-98 TV anime: |
| 83 | *** Guts: Creator/NobutoshiCanna --> Creator/HiroakiIwanaga |
| 84 | *** Griffith: Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa --> Creator/TakahiroSakurai |
| 85 | *** Casca: Creator/YukoMiyamura --> Creator/ToaYukinari |
| 86 | *** Zodd: Creator/KenjiUtsumi --> Creator/KentaMiyake |
| 87 | *** Charlotte: Creator/YuriShiratori --> Creator/AkiToyosaki |
| 88 | *** Judeau: Creator/AkiraIshida --> Creator/YuukiKaji |
| 89 | *** Rickert: Creator/AkikoYajima --> Creator/MinakoKotobuki |
| 90 | *** Adon: Creator/TesshoGenda --> Creator/RikiyaKoyama |
| 91 | *** Gaston: Masahito Kawanago --> Creator/KazukiYao |
| 92 | ** The English dub, amazingly, mostly averts this (thanks largely to the fandom's insistence) as many of the 1997-98 TV series' English voice actors reprised their roles, including the three leads. However, a few roles were still Darrin'd due to the original VA's having left the business: |
| 93 | *** Pippin: Jeff Ward --> Creator/PatrickSeitz |
| 94 | *** Corkus: Mark Sebastian --> Creator/DougErholtz |
| 95 | *** The King of Midland: Jeff Swarthout --> Creator/ChristopherCoreySmith |
| 96 | *** Julius: Dick Brunting --> Jesse Corti |
| 97 | *** Princess Charlotte: Creator/RachaelLillis --> Creator/GKBowes (except for the first movie when Lillis ''did'' return) |
| 98 | ** The German voice actor of Guts was Ozan Ünal in the first movie, but Marcel Collé played him in the second. The second voice actor played him with a manlier voice. |
| 99 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' |
| 100 | ** In the English dub, Creator/KimStrauss as Sajin Komamura was replaced by Creator/JBBlanc due to Strauss retiring. |
| 101 | ** Kaien Shiba's role was also switched from Strauss to Dave Mallow. Somewhat awkward when they had to redub copious amounts of Rukia flashbacks. |
| 102 | ** In the Japanese version, the late Creator/TomokoKawakami was replaced by Creator/HoukoKuwashima as Soifon in 2008 when Kawakami fell ill with cancer. |
| 103 | ** Starting with episode 244 of the English dub, Kenpachi is voiced by Creator/PatrickSeitz instead of Creator/{{David Lodge|AmericanActor}} following a pay dispute when a few members of the cast asked for a union salary. The only feuding voice actor that ended up with what they wanted was Michelle Ruff as Rukia. |
| 104 | *** Hiyori was originally voiced by Creator/MelaLee before Creator/LauraBailey took over the role as a result of the same pay-dispute. This caused a case of ActingForTwo, as Bailey was already voicing Tier Harribel and Mashiro Kuna, resulting in all 3 characters sharing the same voice during the Winter Battle arc. |
| 105 | *** Creator/DougErholtz took over for Creator/MichaelLindsay as Urahara starting with Episode 231. |
| 106 | *** Creator/MarcWorden started off as the voice of Chad, before being replaced by Creator/JamiesonPrice for the rest of the original series. When it came time for the ''Thousand-Year Blood War,'' Price stepped down from the role as he no longer took auditions for non-white characters, and Alain Mesa stepped in. |
| 107 | *** Similarly, Shara Kirby replaced Creator/ErinFitzgerald as Franceska Mila Rose for the English dub of ''Thousand-Year Blood War''. |
| 108 | ** The Netflix English dub of the live action movie recasts ''everyone'' except Johnny Yong Bosch, Derek Stephen Prince, Stephanie Sheh (though she uses a more deeper voice closer to her natural speaking voice), and Doug Erholtz. |
| 109 | * ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' |
| 110 | ** The Japanese seiyuu for Priss Asagiri, the primary focus character of the ensemble, was originally Kinuko Ohmori. 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 Ryoko Tachikawa. |
| 111 | ** In both English and Japanese, the entire cast changed for the Tokyo 2040 remake. |
| 112 | %% C |
| 113 | * ''VideoGame/{{Caligula}}'': Owing to Creator/YuichiroUmehara's hospitalization during the airing of the anime adaptation, his role as Izuru Minesawa was taken over by Creator/TomoakiMaeno for the latter half of the series. |
| 114 | * ''[[Manga/CardCaptorSakura Cardcaptors]]'': |
| 115 | ** Li's voice actor was replaced around the Star Card arc as the original actor's voice broke. |
| 116 | ** Averted in the Mexican Spanish dub, where Uraz Huerta's voice broke as well but he still returned to voice Li in TheMovie. One cannot help but notice that [[VocalEvolution Li's voice got rougher all of a sudden]], but it works anyway. |
| 117 | * ''Manga/CaseClosed'': |
| 118 | ** As Creator/KanetoShiozawa died in 2000, his role of inspector Shiratori has been replaced by Creator/KazuhikoInoue. |
| 119 | ** Kogoro Mouri in October 2009, when Creator/AkiraKamiya left the show to become a seiyuu trainer instead. He had been the voice of Kogoro Mouri since the show first started in 1996, and the new voice (Creator/RikiyaKoyama) is distinctly different. |
| 120 | ** The English dub of ''Case Closed'' had a couple of casting changes as well. |
| 121 | *** The most notable was George who was originally voiced by Dameon Clarke for the first 3 seasons and part of the fourth. He also voiced George in the first movie. Because of his move to Los Angeles to focus on live-action media (and subsequent retirement from voice acting), Mike [=McFarland=] took over the role of George beginning partway through the fourth season and into the fifth. He also voiced the role in all the remaining English movies. |
| 122 | *** The English voice for Booker Kudo (Randy Tallman) died shortly after finishing production on the fifth season. John Swasey filled in for Booker's movie appearance (''The Phantom of Baker Street''). |
| 123 | *** For unknown reasons, Melinda Wood Allen (who also voiced Ilene Adler) filled in for Laurie Steele as Vivian Kudo for the same movie. |
| 124 | *** When Creator/DiscotekMedia acquired the rights to the anime, they began to dub various movies and specials using a brand new LA voice cast, not retaining ''any'' of the original Funimation [=VAs=]. The dub also keeps all the Japanese names intact. Most notably, Griffin Burns plays Shinichi, while Wendee Lee plays Conan. |
| 125 | ** In the Italian dub: |
| 126 | *** Nicola Bartolini Carrassi, Genta's voice actor, was replaced with Creator/LucaBottale after the first 123 episodes. |
| 127 | *** In 2009, when the series returned after a year and half hiatus, the role of Ayumi went from Creator/FedericaValenti to Creator/PatriziaScianca for unknown reasosns. Few months later Ai's voice actress, Creator/TosawiPiovani, retired from voice acting, and she was replaced with... Federica Valenti, though Valenti used a different, more mature tone compared to how she had voiced Ayumi. |
| 128 | *** Conan's voice actress, Creator/IreneScalzo, also retired in 2012, and Monica Bonetto took the role in 2013. This was actually a good replacement, since Bonetto's voice is spot on to the Japanese one; however, the dub was stopped in 2016, and Bonetto died in 2017. In 2022, Federica Simonelli took over the role for the second half of ''[[Manga/MagicKaito Magic Kaito 1412]]'' episodes (as well as redubbing Bonetto's lines in the first half of episodes) and the TV special ''Detective Conan - Episode One". |
| 129 | ** In the Latin-American Spanish dubs: |
| 130 | *** The three dubs of the franchise were done in three different countries: the first 250+ episodes were dubbed in Los Angeles (USA), the fist two movies and later the 18th and 19th ones in Mexico, and the rest of the TV series in Chile. Naturally, every studio switch involved changing the whole casts. |
| 131 | *** When the Mexican dubbing companies regained the rights to the {{non serial movie}}s, which [[TroubledProduction had been lost several years ago in VERY messy circumstances]], almost all the Mexican VA's involved retook their roles. There were some big exceptions, however: Creator/ElsaCovian took up Conan (while Creator/VictorUgarte remained as Shinichi), while Arturo Cataño and Hugo Gómez took up Ninzaburo Shiratori and Genta Kojima respectively after Creator/JesusBarrero's passing. |
| 132 | * ''Manga/CatsEye'': |
| 133 | ** The 2019 ''Manga/CityHunter'' movie ''[[Anime/CityHunterShinjukuPrivateEyes Shinjuku Private Eyes]]'' brought back Creator/KeikoToda and Creator/ChikaSakamoto as Hitomi and Ai Kisugi. However, as Creator/ToshikoFujita passed away the previous year, Toda also took over her roll as Rui Kisugi. Creator/RikaFukami would subsequently take over as Rui in both ''Anime/LupinIIIVsCatsEye'' and ''City Hunter The Movie: Angel Dust''. |
| 134 | ** For ''City Hunter'' itself, the English dub for ''Shinjuku Private Eyes'' has none of the English cast from the ADV dubs, instead being comprised of at-the-time newer and younger actors (for example Ryo Saeba being voiced by Creator/StephenFu instead of Martin Blacker). Given that the original cast has since moved on to bigger projects/other jobs, were unavailable, and, in the case of Lou Perryman, who played Umibozu in the ADV dub, died, the decision to recast the characters were necessary, though Sound Cadence Studios (who recorded the dub) did initially consider bringing back the OG cast. |
| 135 | * ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'': |
| 136 | ** The first dub was started by Los Angeles-based Vitello Productions in 2001, when TV Asahi and Lacey Entertainment decided to market the series worldwide. Even though Vitello bowdlerized the series to a small degree, it was still unable to reach a TV deal in the US but found success overseas airing on Fox Kids UK (later Jetix), Fox Kids Australia and RTÉ Two in the Republic of Ireland. This version featured some California voice talent who were prominent around the time in American cartoons[[note]] Eric Loomis, Anndi [=McAfee=], and Russi Taylor being among the names[[/note]], with Shin-chan and his mother both voiced by Kath Soucie. Creator/GreyDeLisle most notably made her debut in the dub as Shin's friend Cosmo. 52 21-minute episodes have been produced by Vitello and at least 78 by Phuuz. Various other dubs that aired overseas [[note]]Brazil, Denmark, Germany, Greece, France, Italy, (Spanish) Latin America, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal[[/note]] used Vitello's version as the basis for their scripts. |
| 137 | ** In 2003, Lacey Entertainment decided to give the series another chance, and contracted Phuuz Entertainment, also based in Los Angeles, to continue where Vitello left off with Diane Michelle voicing Shin. The other characters were all recast with current LA actors. These episodes also aired on Jetix UK until Lacey's license to Shin-chan expired in 2005. Some European countries after airing a translation of the Phuuz dub also aired a translation of the Phuuz dub. |
| 138 | ** In 2006, Funimation would license the title and their more adult-oriented dub that was completely different from the Japanese original was shown on Adult Swim, with Creator/LauraBailey now providing the title character's voice and the rest of the cast coming from their talent pool. This covered 78 episodes and three "seasons" of material. |
| 139 | ** In 2015, a fourth English dub has been produced in Hong Kong commissioned by LUK Internacional, the company that commissioned the Spanish and Portuguese dubs of Shin Chan and produced the Doraemon dub that aired on Boomerang UK (different from the dub that aired in the U.S. on Disney XD). The dub was released in the European and South African Nintendo 3DS eShop on December 22, 2016, consisting of 14 episodes. |
| 140 | ** In the Malay dub of the cartoon, the titular character is played by an actor who voices him with a deep voice (much like the original Japanese actor). In the dub of the movie "The Storm Called: The Battle of the Warring States" he is instead played by an actor who voices him with a higher-pitched voice. |
| 141 | ** While the first part of the Italian dub, as mentioned above, used the Vitello dub for its scripts, later they changed to a translation of LUK Internacional's Spanish dub, which is close to the original Japanese version, in order to go further. When this happened, the voices of Shin and his parents were replaced, while everyone else kept their voices. |
| 142 | ** When ''Crayon Shin-Chan Spinoff'' was dubbed in 2022, a brand new Miami-based voice cast was used, although they appear to be using the Funimation voice cast as a reference (Christina Jopling's Shin is a very close voice-match for Laura Bailey). |
| 143 | * ''Manga/Cyborg009'': |
| 144 | ** Only the actors of 002, 004, 005, 007, and Dr. Gilmore were carried over from the first two '60s films to the '68 TV series. Even then, 004's actor changed mid-run from Hiroshi Otake to Kenji Utsumi (who had previously voiced ''008'' in the films), likely due to the character's very sporadic role. The '79 TV series brought in a new cast to voice the characters, although Creator/KeiichiNoda had previous experience with the franchise (having voiced 008 in the '68 series, but now cast as 002). |
| 145 | ** "The Legend of the Super Galaxy" carried over the cast from the '79 series due to a fan popularity vote, save for the voice actors for Dr. Gilmore, 008, and 001. While Gilmore was voiced by Kosei Tomita in the TV series, his original voice actor Joji Yanami was brought back specifically to voice him in the film. 001 followed a similar theme, being voiced by Sachiko Chijimatsu in the series but his film voice actor being Fuyumi Shiraishi, reprising her role from the '68 series. Meanwhile, 008 was voiced by Koji Totani in the series, but Kazuyuki Sogabe in the film. The reason behind that casting remains unknown. |
| 146 | ** When it comes to the English dub of the 2001 series (recorded in Los Angeles by Animaze), Joshua Seth voiced 009 in all episodes save for 5 and 9 where Derek Stephen Prince filled in for the role, making for a ''very'' noticeable difference in the character's voice. This was actually due to Seth retiring from voice acting altogether and being replaced. After Prince was given the role and recorded about a dozen episodes, the [[ExecutiveMeddling higher-ups at Sony]] decided that his voice sounded "too wimpy", and that they wanted Seth back. The ADR director was able to convince Seth to briefly come out of retirement to finish the show, and so he did. They attempted to re-record all of Prince's episodes, but 5 and 9 were ones they simply couldn't get to. |
| 147 | *** When it came time to dub the 009 RE: Cyborg film (recorded in both New York and LA by NYAV Post), none of the 2001 anime cast cast returned, except for Michael Sorich, although he's now playing 006 instead of 007. |
| 148 | *** ''Anime/Cyborg009VsDevilman'' had almost no returning voice actors in any language. However the English dub (recorded in LA by Spliced Bread Productions) had Michael Sorich reprising 006 from 009 RE:Cyborg; Creator/StephanieSheh also returned from that film, although now voicing 003 instead of 001. |
| 149 | *** ''Anime/Cyborg009CallOfJustice'' also had a brand new voice cast acoss all languages, despite the English dub once again recorded in LA (this time at Bang Zoom). |
| 150 | *** The first Cyborg 009 property to be dubbed in English was ''Anime/Cyborg009TheMovieLegendOfTheSuperGalaxy'', recorded at the Tokyo-based Frontier Enterprises around 1987, with another completely different voice cast. |
| 151 | ** Before the '60s animated films were produced, Asahi Sonorama produced a vinyl record with a voice drama that contained a very early, different theme song and a different voice cast (although only 009, 003, 007, and 006 spoke). Sachiko Chijimatsu voiced 009, in a much more higher, androgynous and youthful voice than what the character would come to be associated with in the films and on. |
| 152 | ** In Latin-America there are Spanish dubs for the 60's film ''Monster Wars'', the 2001 series, the RE: Cyborg film and the ''Call of Justice'' film trilogy. Each dub has completely different casts. i.e, 009 has been voiced by Manuel de Llata (''Monster Wars''), Creator/IrwinDaayan (2001), Uraz Huerta (RE: Cyborg) and Carlo Vásquez (''Call of Justice'') |
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| 154 | * ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'': |
| 155 | ** Nobuyo Oyama originally played the role of the BigBad Monokuma. However, Oyama had to retire from voice acting due to suffering dementia, so her fellow VA Tarako Isoyama (better known just as Creator/{{Tarako}}) took her place in ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool'' and ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony''. |
| 156 | ** In [=FUNimation=]'s dub of ''Anime/DanganronpaTheAnimation'', they replaced all [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc the game]]'s voice actors except for Creator/BrycePapenbrook (who had worked with [=FUNimation=] before, on ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' one year earlier) as Makoto Naegi. These actors are kept in their dub of ''Danganronpa 3'', though many of the original actors show up as other characters. |
| 157 | * ''Manga/DearBrother'': Creator/YukoMizutani played Nanako in the pilot episode. However, in the proper series she's voiced by Creator/HirokoKasahara instead. |
| 158 | * ''Manga/DeathNote'': |
| 159 | ** Masumi Okamura originally voiced Kiyomi Takada in her earlier appearances (in the L arc), but was let go for unexplained reasons. Maaya Sakamoto provided the character's voice for the rest of the series. This was averted in the dub, with Creator/HeatherDoerksen voicing the character for the entire run (although Lisa Ann Beley voiced her in the film adaptation's dub). |
| 160 | ** Kelly Metzger voiced Sayu in the earlier episodes in the English dub, but was replaced with Kristie Marsden in Sayu's later appearances (and in the dubbing of the live-action films). |
| 161 | ** The dub of the live-action ''Death Note'' films attempted to retain the same voice cast as the anime, but a few changes cropped up: |
| 162 | *** Watari: French Tickner —> Ron Halder |
| 163 | *** Naomi Misora: Tabitha St. Germain —> Nicole Oliver |
| 164 | *** Rem: Colleen Wheeler —> Michael Dobson (due to [[ShesaManInJapan Rem being male in that adaptation]]) |
| 165 | ** An early test dub trailer by Viz (before they decided to have the dub produced in Canada by Ocean) was done in California, and featured L and Light with completely different, unknown voice actors. When the dub officially premiered, a redubbed version of the trailer was produced to promote it, with Creator/AlessandroJuliani and Creator/BradSwaile voicing the characters. |
| 166 | ** [[Series/DeathNote The TV drama]], uses a completely different cast, even for the Shinigami; Ryuk is voiced by Creator/JunFukuyama instead of his original voice actor, Shido Nakamura. |
| 167 | * ''Manga/DGrayMan'' had this happen. The original series ran from 2006-2008, before being cancelled at 103 episodes. However, a continuation started up in 2016, 8 years after the previous series ended. All of the Japanese voice cast has changed, to the disappointment of Western fandom. |
| 168 | ** [[http://www.funimation.com/blog/2016/07/29/d-gray-man-hallow-broadcast-dub-cast-announcement/ Averted with the English cast, where everyone returns]]... except Creator/TravisWillingham, who was replaced by Creator/IanSinclair as Yu Kanda for both this season, and the second half of the original series. |
| 169 | ** Also, during the recording of the original season, Creator/JasonLiebrecht was in a bad motorcycle accident that left him unable to work, so Creator/ChrisPatton filled in his role of Lavi during episodes 27-39, while Creator/ToddHaberkorn ([[ActingForTwo Allen's voice]]) took over as the Millenium Earl in the same period. |
| 170 | * ''Anime/DiGiCharat'': |
| 171 | ** For the franchise's tenth anniversary in 2008, Broccoli, Inc. decided to recast Dejiko, Usada, and Puchiko. Dejiko went from Creator/AsamiSanada to Satomi Akesaka, Usada from Kyoko Hikami to Rieka Yazawa, and Puchiko from Creator/MiyukiSawashiro to Nao Minakami. The recast proved to be unpopular, and the fifteenth anniversary in 2013 saw Broccoli revert to using the original actresses and [[{{Retcon}} retconning]] the tenth anniversary redesigns as imposter versions of the characters in a comic. |
| 172 | ** The many different anime series for the franchise were licensed by several different companies in the US- [[Anime/DiGiCharat1999 the original anime series]] and ''[[Anime/DiGiCharatTheaterLeaveItToPiyokoPyo Leave It To Piyoko-pyo!]]'' by Creator/SynchPoint (Sentai Filmworks now licenses the former following Synch-Point's closure), ''Anime/PanyoPanyoDiGiCharat'' by Creator/ADVFilms, and ''Anime/DiGiCharatNyo'' by Creator/BandaiEntertainment. As their dubs were not recorded in the same area (the Synch-Point dub in Los Angeles, the ADV dub in Houston, and the Bandai dub in Vancouver), the characters had different voices depending on where it was recorded (while Sentai Filmworks licensed the TV specials following the original anime and ''Winter Garden'', their releases are sub-only): |
| 173 | *** Dejiko was voiced by Creator/JessicaGeeGeorge in the Synch-Point dubs, Creator/LuciChristian in ''Panyo Panyo'', and Chris Simms in ''Nyo!''. |
| 174 | *** Usada was voiced by Creator/MichelleRuff in the Synch-Point dubs and Carol-Anne Day in ''Nyo!''. |
| 175 | *** Puchiko was voiced by Creator/KarenStrassman in the Synch-Point dub of the original series, her Japanese voice actress Miyuki Sawashiro played her in the first six episodes of ''Leave It To Piyoko!'''s English dub, though Karen Strassman played her for the last two episodes due to scheduling conflicts, Creator/HilaryHaag in ''Panyo Panyo'', and Mariette Sluyter in ''Nyo!''. |
| 176 | *** Gema was voiced by Creator/StephanieSheh in the Synch-Point dubs, Creator/TiffanyGrant in ''Panyo Panyo'', and Lucas Gilbertson in ''Nyo!''. |
| 177 | *** Piyoko was voiced by Creator/SandyFox in the Synch-Point dub and Kira Vincent-Davis in the ''Panyo Panyo'' dub, and Leda Davis in ''Nyo''. |
| 178 | * ''Literature/DirtyPair'' had this happen when the movies were ([[DuelingDubs re]]-)dubbed years after the OVA series. Creator/JessicaCalvello had left Texas and wasn't available to reprise her role of Yuri, so Alison Sumrall took her place. However, Pamela Lauer was able to return as Kei. Of course the movies' original dubs had a different voice cast, and so did ''Anime/DirtyPairFlash'' (in both languages). Calvello [[TheOriginalDarrin returned to voice Yuri]] when the original TV series was finally dubbed in 2022, while Lauer [[RoleReprise also returned to voice Kei]]. |
| 179 | * ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'': |
| 180 | ** In 2005, the entire voice cast was replaced by younger actors. The main cast had played their characters for 25 years. |
| 181 | ** The initial Nippon TV version of Doraemon, aired in 1973, had a completely different cast of its own where compared to the more popular 1979-2005 series. Doraemon himself went through two actors in the short-lived adaptation (Kosei Tomita, then Masako Nozawa), while the voice actress for Nobita's mom (Noriko Ohara) would go on to voice Nobita himself in the 1979 series. |
| 182 | * ''Anime/DuelMasters'': Every dubbed season replaced the entire voice cast, apart from one or two returning actors. Being [[GagDub the kind of show that it was]], later seasons made jokes about this. |
| 183 | * ''Literature/{{Durarara}}:'' |
| 184 | ** The English dub featured two characters from ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' make a cameo appearance in episode 11 of the first season. The characters were Isaac Dian and Miria Harvent, who were both voiced by Creator/SamRiegel and Creator/JennieKwan instead of Creator/JMichaelTatum and Creator/CaitlinGlass. This was because ''Baccano'' was dubbed in Creator/{{Funimation}}, located in Dallas, whereas ''Durarara'' was dubbed in Creator/BangZoomEntertainment, located in Los Angeles[[note]]Oddly enough, Glass did some of the ADR Script for the anime's second season (and both she and also Tatum have worked in LA-based dubs after ''Durarara'')[[/note]]. |
| 185 | ** Averted in the second season's English dub, three characters got recast. |
| 186 | *** Ran Izumii, Creator/DougErholtz was replaced by Creator/RobbieDaymond. |
| 187 | *** Kasuka Heiwajima/Yuhei Hanejima, Blake Lewis was replaced by Creator/VicMignogna. |
| 188 | *** Mika Harima, Creator/CarrieSavage was replaced by Creator/KiraBuckland. |
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| 192 | %% E |
| 193 | * ''Manga/ElfenLied'': |
| 194 | ** The OVA had a few key changes in the English cast since it wasn't dubbed until the series was released on Blu-ray in 2013. |
| 195 | ** Lucy[=/=]Nyu, previously played by Creator/KiraVincentDavis, is now played by Creator/CarliMosier. |
| 196 | ** Bando, previously played by Creator/JasonDouglas, is now played by David Wald. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since Douglas now lives in Dallas, plus the fact that he spends a good portion of his acting on Live-Action TV series shot in Dallas. |
| 197 | ** Kouta, previously played by Adam Conlon, is now played by Creator/BlakeShepard. |
| 198 | * ''Anime/EurekaSeven'': Due to Creator/BobPapenbrook's death from chronic lung complications, his role as Ken-Goh was replaced by Creator/KyleHebert for the rest of the series. |
| 199 | * ''Anime/ExcelSaga'': |
| 200 | ** In the American dub, after Creator/JessicaCalvello strained her voice doing Excel for the first 13 episodes, Creator/LarissaWolcott took over the role for the rest of the series. |
| 201 | ** Interestingly, Wolcott even [[FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin re-dubbed bits during the Pedro flashback episode]] so that her voice was heard instead of Calvello's. This is good for consistency, but it meant there were two different voices for the same scene. |
| 202 | ** There were apparently some contract issues as well, as Jessica's contracted stated that she was allowed a four-month rest between volumes. When Creator/ADVFilms didn't follow up on this, Jessica's contract was terminated, her voice was left strained and her career was put on hold. She was also replaced (this time with Creator/AllisonSumrall) as Yuri in the Dirty Pair franchise, and lived in New York for about a decade doing some voice work, but her career was arguably not nearly where it used to be. She's now healed her wounds with ADV, and is now living in Austin and providing voices for Funimation and Sentai Filmworks since 2013. |
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| 204 | * ''Manga/FairyTail'': |
| 205 | ** The English dub had to replace several characters' voices after Season 1 and beyond, since no-one was certain that Funimation would continue dubbing it beyond Season 1 at that time. It keeps getting more complicated when even minor roles do return several arcs later, even for one line. |
| 206 | ** Corey Cleary-Stoner replaced Michael Chinnici as Jet starting at Season 2. |
| 207 | ** Lindsay Seidel replaced Kayla Carlyle as Romeo only halfway through Season 1. |
| 208 | ** Also in the dub, Magic Council member Leiji went from Jim Johnson to Keith Kubal when the new council is formed in episode 96. |
| 209 | ** Plue was voiced by Majken Bullard in Season 1 before being replaced by Creator/MonicaRial for the rest of the series (she is also Mirajane), because Majken moved. |
| 210 | ** And now, Eric Cherry has replaced Shelton Windham as Max Alors in Season 3. |
| 211 | ** Goldmine was originally voiced by Steve Summers before being replaced with Chris Ryan in episode 157. |
| 212 | ** Lyra's voice actress moved after Season 1, so expect her actress to be a different one after the Tenrou Island arc ended in the dub. Also the narrator died, so expect that voice to change too. Also, Bixlow's voice change because his voice actor was arrested for child pornography. |
| 213 | ** In Japanese, Creator/MaiNakahara, Juvia's actress, briefly replaced Creator/SatomiArai as Bisca during the Fighting Festival arc due to the latter's pregnancy, with Arai returning to the role soon after. |
| 214 | * ''Franchise/FateSeries'': |
| 215 | ** With ''Literature/FateZero'' and ''Anime/FateStayNightUnlimitedBladeWorks'', the only English voice actors to reprise their roles from the original ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' series and movie were Creator/MelaLee (Rin), Creator/StephanieSheh (Illya), Creator/JulieAnnTaylor (Taiga), and Creator/TonyOliver (Lancer), who also took over as voice director. For everyone else, Creator/BangZoomEntertainment, and Oliver, chose to completely re-evaluate the cast, and the following replacements happened: |
| 216 | *** Saber: Creator/KateHiggins --> Creator/KariWahlgren |
| 217 | *** Shiro: Creator/SamRiegel --> Creator/BrycePapenbrook |
| 218 | *** Archer: Creator/LiamOBrien --> Creator/KaijiTang |
| 219 | *** Gilgamesh: Creator/GrantGeorge --> Creator/DavidVincent |
| 220 | *** Kiritsugu Emiya: Creator/KirkThornton --> Creator/MatthewMercer |
| 221 | *** Kirei Kotomine: Creator/JamiesonPrice --> Creator/CrispinFreeman |
| 222 | *** Sakura: Creator/SherryLynn --> Creator/CristinaVee |
| 223 | *** Caster: Creator/TaraPlatt --> Creator/MeganHollingshead |
| 224 | *** Shinji Matou: Creator/DougErholtz --> Creator/KyleMcCarley |
| 225 | *** Assassin: Creator/DavidVincent --> Creator/ToddHaberkorn |
| 226 | *** Tokiomi Tohsaka: Creator/MichaelMcConnohie --> Creator/MarcDiraison |
| 227 | *** Rider: Creator/KarenStrassman --> Creator/MelissaFahn |
| 228 | *** Soichiro Kuzuki: Creator/PatrickSeitz --> Creator/LexLang |
| 229 | *** Ayako Mitsuzuri: Creator/JennieKwan --> Creator/BrinaPalencia |
| 230 | *** Issei Ryudo: Creator/LexLang --> Creator/RobbieDaymond |
| 231 | *** In addition, Saber had already been replaced for the UBW movie with Creator/MichelleRuff, who was replaced by Wahlgren for the new anime. This results in an interesting case of TheOtherDarrin ''and'' RoleReprise when Ruff returned to voice Saber's cameos in ''Literature/FateApocrypha'' over Wahlgren. |
| 232 | ** The ''Manga/FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya'' spinoff series is dubbed by Creator/SeraphimDigitalStudios instead of Bang Zoom, and every returning character has a different voice actor: |
| 233 | *** Illyasviel von Einzbern: Creator/CynthiaMartinez (instead of Creator/StephanieSheh) |
| 234 | *** Rin Tohsaka: Creator/CarliMosier (instead of Creator/MelaLee) |
| 235 | *** Luviagelita Edelfelt: Creator/ShelleyCaleneBlack (instead of Creator/LaurenLanda) |
| 236 | *** Sella: Beth Lazarou and later Creator/TiffanyGrant (instead of Creator/RachaelLillis) |
| 237 | *** Leysritt: Meaghan Avacado (instead of Creator/BriannaKnickerbocker) |
| 238 | *** Shiro: Patrick Poole (instead of Creator/BrycePapenbrook) |
| 239 | *** Taiga Fujimura: Creator/AllisonSumrall (instead of Creator/JulieAnnTaylor) |
| 240 | *** Irisviel von Einzbern: Creator/MaggieFlecknoe (instead of Creator/BridgetHoffman) |
| 241 | *** Waver Velvet/Lord El-Melloi II: Leraldo Anzaldua (instead of Creator/LucienDodge) |
| 242 | *** Saber: Elise Moore (instead of Creator/KariWahlgren). Her fourth North American voice actress. |
| 243 | *** Berserker: Creator/JohnSwasey (instead of Creator/MichaelMcConnohie from the original ''Fate/stay night'') |
| 244 | *** Caster: Creator/AllisonSumrall (instead of Creator/MeganHollingshead) |
| 245 | *** Kiritsugu Emiya: Kyle Colby Jones (instead of Creator/MatthewMercer) |
| 246 | * ''Anime/{{Free}}'': Rin Matsuoka is voiced by Creator/AustinTindle in Creator/{{Funimation}}'s dub of the 2020 movie, as Creator/VicMignogna was fired in early 2019. |
| 247 | * ''Manga/FruitsBasket'': When it was rebooted in 2019, the entire Japanese voice cast was replaced (for instance, Creator/YuiHorie was replaced with Creator/ManakaIwami as Tohru) because Natsuki Takaya wanted a complete reboot without any trace of the 2001 anime adaptation, which had a lot of behind-the-scenes drama involving Takaya and that show's director, Akitaro Daichi. However, she didn't exude such control over the English dub, which mostly brings back the original anime's English cast, including Creator/LauraBailey as Tohru, Creator/JerryJewell as Kyo, Creator/EricVale as Yuki, and Creator/JohnBurgmeier as Shigure, but the following replacements have happened: |
| 248 | ** Akito Soma: Chad Cline --> Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard |
| 249 | ** Kagura Soma: Meredith [=McCoy=] --> Creator/TiaBallard |
| 250 | ** Momiji Soma: Kimberly Grant --> Creator/MikaelaKrantz |
| 251 | ** Arisa Uotoni: Parisa Fakhri --> Creator/ElizabethMaxwell |
| 252 | ** Saki Hanajima: Daphne Gere --> Creator/JadSaxton |
| 253 | ** Kyoko Honda: Julie Mayfield --> Creator/LydiaMackay |
| 254 | * ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' |
| 255 | ** The second anime gets this in force, as the only main cast members of the Japanese version reprising their roles from [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003 the first series]] are Creator/RomiPark (Edward), Creator/RieKugimiya (Alphonse), Creator/KenjiUtsumi (Armstrong), Creator/KeijiFujiwara (Hughes), Creator/HidekatsuShibata (Bradley), Shoko Tsuda (Izumi), Creator/MiyokoAso (Pinako), Creator/YoshinoTakamori (Trisha), Shin Aomori (Basque Grand), Creator/KazukiYao (Yoki) and Seiji Sasaki (Sig). Some of the new arrivals include Creator/ShinichiroMiki as Mustang, Creator/FumikoOrikasa as Hawkeye, Creator/MegumiTakamoto as Winry, Creator/KikukoInoue as Lust, Creator/MinamiTakayama as Envy, and Creator/KentaMiyake as Scar. |
| 256 | ** Somewhat ironically, the English cast is not nearly as affected. But changes still happened with Al (Creator/AaronDismuke to Maxey Whitehead, justified since Aaron went through puberty), Scar (Creator/DameonClarke to Creator/JMichaelTatum), Marcoh (Brice Armstrong to Jerry Russell), Hohenheim (Creator/ScottMcNeil to John Swasey), and Breda (Josh Berry to Creator/JeremyInman). Note that the now teenage Aaron still got a role -- [[spoiler:young Hohenheim]]. |
| 257 | ** Creator/ChrisPatton returned to reprise his role as Greed in the first half of the dub. For the second half, he was replaced by Creator/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 in Japanese, Greed was portrayed by Creator/YuuichiNakamura for the whole series. |
| 258 | ** In the Hungarian version of the original anime, both King Bradley and Envy had their voices changed -- Bradley's new actor became Rókus Varga after the dubbing team realized that his original voice, András Faragó, was more fit to play the role of Alex Louis Armstrong; and Envy swapped [[CrossdressingVoices Erika Lázár]] for a male voice, namely Gábor Seder. Much of the same cast continued to voice their roles in the second series, some of the notable exceptions being Hawkeye (from Bea Nyírő to Andrea Makay), Barry the Chopper and Trisha Elric (from Eszter Nyírő to Mónika Fehér). Characters that have changed voices within the series include [[spoiler:young Hohenheim (Károly Moser to Attila Király, Hohenheim's adult voice)]], the ruler of Xerxes, Bido, and for the last episode, which got dubbed a bit later than the rest of the series, Maria Ross and [[spoiler:the real Selim Bradley]] also received new voices. |
| 259 | ** In the Latin-American Spanish side, almost all the original VA's reprised their roles. The execptions were: Riza (Giannina Jurado -> Rocío Mallo), Winry (Yensi Rivero -> Melanie Henríquez), Izumi (Minerva Hernández -> Citllaly Godoy), Nina (Lidia Abbout -> Leisha Medina), Selim (Mercedes Prato -> Karina Parra), Hohenheim (Carmelo Fernández -> Héctor Indriago), Falman (Antonio Delli -> Jesús Fernández), Fuery (Ezequiel Serano -> Paolo Campos) and Denny (Kaihiamal Martínez -> Emerson Gutiérrez) |
| 260 | ** The Brazilian dub for Brotherhood kept most of the voices of the previous series, save for Scar, Barry, Breda, Bido, Selim, Hohenheim (whose previous VA was given to Knox) and Pinako's (who had passed away in 2007). In a weird twist, Trisha and Tucker's actors got replaced midway through the 2003 series, but when the Brotherhood dub came around, [[TheOriginalDarrin their first voice actors were called to reprise their roles]]. |
| 261 | * ''[[Literature/FullMetalPanic Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid]]'': Averted. While ADV had handled the first season and ''Fumoffu'', Creator/{{FUNimation}} took over for ''Second Raid''. They initially suggested that Creator/HilaryHaag would NOT be reprising her role of Tessa, since her day job kept her from driving to Dallas-Ft. Worth for recording. However, Kadokawa USA stepped in and outsourced the entire localized production to ADV in Houston (even the translation/subtitles), and the entire cast (including Haag) was able to return after all. Creator/{{FUNimation}} just acted as distributor. |
| 262 | * ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula'': Tatsuya Matsuda has been the voice actor of Ryohei Sumi in the TV series, ''11'' and ''ZERO''. In ''SAGA'', he was replaced by Naoki Tatsuta, who also voiced Bootsvortz. |
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| 264 | * ''Manga/GegegeNoKitaro'': The show had 4 different voice actresses playing the main character over the course of 5 TV series. The movie ''Japan Explodes'', [[MilestoneCelebration commemorating the 40th anniversary of the anime]], opened with a unique scene which brought together all incarnations of Kitaro (and his co-stars) with each of them voiced by the original voice actress. |
| 265 | * ''Manga/{{Genshiken}}'': |
| 266 | ** The English cast stayed remarkably consistent considering that each batch of episodes (1st season, 3 OVA episodes, 2nd season) was separated by a two-year gap in recording. The only major replacement was Sasahara's sister Keiko – played by Jessica Calvello in the first season but by Anna Morrow later. |
| 267 | ** ''Genshiken'''s ShowWithinAShow, ''Kujibiki Unbalance'', did a complete replacement of its Japanese cast when the in-show OVA was made into a full series, with only Creator/YukoGoto reprising her role. Oddly, the English dub retained nearly all of its cast between incarnations, with Jessica Calvello's President being the only significant change (to Anna Morrow). |
| 268 | * ''Manga/GetterRobo'': Creator/AkiraKamiya voiced Ryoma Nagare for decades. When the ''Armaggedon'' OAV's came, Creator/HideoIshikawa replaced him and tried to give his own spin to the role due to the DarkerAndEdgier settlement. |
| 269 | * ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'': |
| 270 | ** For the English dub, Motoko Kusanagi was voiced by Mimi Woods in the original movie, but by Creator/MaryElizabethMcGlynn for everything else, due to Woods moving away from Los Angeles. In addition, Togusa was played by an actor under the name "Christopher Joyce" in the first movie and Creator/CrispinFreeman in everything else. |
| 271 | ** Creator/BandaiEntertainment decided to send the compilation OVA's – "Laughing Man" and "Individual Eleven" – to Creator/TheOceanGroup in UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}} (because Animaze had gotten far too expensive), so the entire voice cast is different, despite being basically the same animation. |
| 272 | ** In both English and Japanese, the entire voice cast was replaced for ''Ghost in the Shell: Arise'', the official explanation being that the characters are younger. Creator/AtsukoTanaka was replaced with Creator/MaayaSakamoto as the Major in Japanese (Sakamoto had previously voiced her in a child's body in the original film). In English, [=FUNimation=] got ''Arise'' and cast Elizabeth Maxwell as the Major, while [=McGlynn=] returned to voice Kurutsu instead. Creator/ChristopherSabat took over Creator/RichardEpcar's role as Batou while Alex Organ was now Togusa. |
| 273 | * ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'': The movie was dubbed by Creator/SentaiFilmworks in 2011 with a Houston-based cast starring Creator/ChrisPatton as Gintoki. Six years later, Platform/{{Crunchyroll}} and Creator/TheOceanGroup began dubbing the TV series with episode 266 and a Vancouver-based cast starring Creator/MichaelDaingerfield as Gintoki. |
| 274 | * ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'': Creator/TakumiYamazaki voiced Tsuyoshi Tsukai for the first two episodes, but was replaced for some reason by Creator/ToshiyukiMorikawa in the fourth. Morikawa also voiced the villain of the fifth and final episode, Kunito Nakajo. |
| 275 | * ''Manga/GunslingerGirl Teatrino'': When this came out four years after the original anime, everyone got a new voice in Japan. The English dub opted for {{Role Reprise}}s. |
| 276 | %% H |
| 277 | * ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'': Shamisen, the cat [[TouchedByVorlons briefly given]] [[TalkingAnimal the ability to speak]], was voiced by Steve Kramer in the English dub of Season 1, and Michael [=McConnohie=] in the more expanded appearance in Season 2. |
| 278 | * ''[[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Hellsing Ultimate]]'': |
| 279 | ** In the Japanese version, Creator/NorioWakamoto replaced the deceased Creator/NachiNozawa as Alexander Anderson.%% And then proceeded to inject as much [[LargeHam hamminess]] as only Wakamoto can do. |
| 280 | ** The only notable recast in the English dub is Zorin Blitz, who was voiced by Hellena Taylor in episode 4 and by Rachel Robinson in episodes 5-7 following a gap in dubbing and Taylor having moved back to the UK. Ironically, it's Robinson's take that's become the more well-known one, and it's a big part of what put her on the map in the anime dubbing scene. |
| 281 | * ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' had a few changes in its cast: |
| 282 | ** Chibiromano was initially voiced by Creator/DaisukeNamikawa, but was later voiced by Aki Kanada when he got more focus. The Creator/{{FUNimation}} dub follows along this pattern, with Chibi-Romano first being voiced by Creator/IanSinclair and later by Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard (although unlike Kanada, Clinkenbeard doesn't voice Chibitalia). |
| 283 | ** Latvia was initially voiced by Creator/RieKugimiya in his first drama CD appearance, but the role was given to Kokoro Tanaka for the anime and later character [=CDs=]. |
| 284 | ** In the Funimation English dub, Poland was first voiced by an actor named Ryan Bijan. Joel [=McDonald=] took over the role for ''World Series'', the movie and beyond. |
| 285 | ** Due to Creator/CassandraHodges's untimely death via suicide, the role of Seychelles was recast for the dub of ''Hetalia: The Beautiful World'', with Creator/CaitlinGlass taking over. |
| 286 | ** Although the child version of Austria was initially voiced by Aki Kanada, he was later voiced by Akira Sasanuma (the actor of adult Austria) in ''Hetalia: World Series'' for unexplained reasons. The dub averts this by having Chuck Huber always voicing Austria at both ages. |
| 287 | ** Jeanne d'Arc was originally voiced by Creator/MichikoNeya in her cameo in an early episode, while her ''Beautiful World'' voice actress is Creator/HekiruShiina. Averted in the dub, where both Jeanne d'Arc and Lisa were both voiced by Dana Schultes; this was lampshaded in a commentary for season five. |
| 288 | ** The revolutionary-war era incarnation of England was voiced by a different actor (Sho Sudo) in the early commercial Hetalia drama [=CDs=], while young America was voiced by Ryoko Shimizu. In the anime, Creator/NoriakiSugiyama voices all versions of England, while young America was recast with Ai Iwamura. |
| 289 | ** Before the official drama CD releases, Himaruya had produced an independent CD with his own hand-picked amateur voice actors (from a group called "Code for the Flower of Iris"). Needless to say, none of these actors made it past this version. |
| 290 | ** Denmark's dub voice actor switched from Montgomery Sutton to Greg Ayres by the time of ''Beautiful World'' due to the delay in production. |
| 291 | ** After Creator/ScottFreeman was [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor arrested and convicted for possession of child pornography]], all his roles were given to other actors. In the case of England, Creator/TaliesinJaffe was cast as his replacement for ''The World Twinkle''. |
| 292 | * ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'': The English simuldub of season 3 recast Issei (Scott Freeman to Creator/JoshGrelle) and Akeno (Teri Rogers to Creator/BrynApprill[[note]]Under the pseudonym of Kelly Angel[[/note]]). A lot of fans blamed the rushed schedule of simuldubbing for the change, but [=FUNimation=] confirmed that time was not the reason for the changes. It was later revealed that Freeman was convicted of possessing child pornography, and thus [=FUNimation=] had to sever ties with him. Rogers' absence remains unexplained. |
| 293 | * ''Manga/HimitsuNoAkkoChan'': Voice actress Noriko Tsukase (Gammo) died of cancer during the filming of the second series in 1988. She had to be replaced by Yuuko Mita. |
| 294 | * ''Manga/HoneyAndClover'': Takemoto was voiced by Creator/KenjiNojima in the final episode of the second season of the Japanese version because the original voice actor, Creator/HiroshiKamiya, was hospitalized, Kamiya re-recorded the episode for the [=DVD=] version. |
| 295 | * ''Literature/HorizonInTheMiddleOfNowhere'' had a few changes in the English cast in season 2: |
| 296 | ** Tenzou, previously played by Creator/JohnGremillion, is now played by Creator/MikeYager |
| 297 | ** Naito Margot, previously played by Kris Carr, is now played by Creator/AllisonSumrall |
| 298 | ** Noriki, previously played by Creator/JohnGremillion, is now played by Creator/DavidMatranga |
| 299 | ** Innocentius, previously played by Creator/JohnSwasey, is now also [[ActingForTwo played by]] Creator/DavidMatranga |
| 300 | ** Azuma, previously played by Creator/JenniferAlyx, is now played by Creator/MollySearcy |
| 301 | * ''Manga/HunterXHunter'': all voice actors who worked on the 1999 series got recast for the 2011 series, in both English and Japanese. |
| 302 | * ''Anime/HyperdimensionNeptuniaTheAnimation'': When Creator/FUNimation picked up the rights to dub the series, they also agreed to [[RoleReprise bring back the cast from the games]], as the games the anime was based on were recorded at Creator/BangZoomEntertainment in Los Angeles while [=FUNimation=] is Texas-based. However, a few of the game's cast were replaced with [=FUNimation=]'s regulars. |
| 303 | ** IF: Creator/KateHiggins --> Creator/MeganShipman |
| 304 | ** Peashy: Creator/SandyFox --> Creator/TiaBallard |
| 305 | ** CFW Trick: Creator/DerekStephenPrince --> Creator/JoshGrelle |
| 306 | ** Rei Ryghts: Creator/JulieAnnTaylor --> Creator/MorganGarrett |
| 307 | ** 5pb.: Julie Ann Taylor [[note]] Who herself replaced Creator/MelaLee from the [[VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptunia first game]]. [[/note]] --> Creator/CaitlinGlass |
| 308 | ** Warechu: Creator/GKBowes --> Sara Ragsdale |
| 309 | ** Linda: Unknown [[note]] While some sources state that Creator/EricaMendez voiced her in ''mk2/[=Re;Birth2=]'', all of them have been debunked by the actress[[/note]] --> Creator/MorganBerry |
| 310 | [[/folder]] |
| 311 | |
| 312 | [[folder:I to L]] |
| 313 | %% I |
| 314 | * ''Manga/IkkiTousen'': |
| 315 | ** The show had an inconsistent English cast. The first season was dubbed by Geneon and Los Angeles-based New Generation Pictures. The second season was licensed by Creator/MediaBlasters who opted to use a different studio (New York-based Headline Studios) with an entirely different cast. Seasons 3 and 4 were later licensed by Creator/{{FUNimation}}, who got New Generation Pictures back to handle the dubbing, which mostly brought back the Season 1 cast, however recording was also done in New York's [=DuArt=] Film and Video to reunite the Season 2 voice actors for most characters that debuted in that season (such as Chou'un). A few characters also got entirely new voice actors (notably Kanu) where NEITHER of their original voice actors could return. |
| 316 | ** Likewise, a few Japanese voice actors ended up changed as well in between Seasons 1 and 2 such as Genpou, Genjou, Bunwa, Kanu, Yojo, Ganryo, and Bunshu. |
| 317 | * ''Manga/InitialD'': |
| 318 | ** Miki was voiced by Creator/WataruTakagi ([[ActingForTwo who is also the voice of Kenji]]) in First Stage, but was replaced by Creator/TakumiYamazaki in Third Stage. Yamazaki would return as Miki in [[VideoGame/InitialDArcadeStage Arcade Stage 8 Infinity]]. |
| 319 | ** There was a dub cast change for Third and Fourth Stage after Creator/{{FUNimation}} acquired the rights from Tokyopop (including Creator/JoelMcDonald, Creator/BrinaPalencia, and Creator/JMichaelTatum), and they also redubbed the seasons Tokyopop did the "tricked out" dub on. |
| 320 | ** For the rebooted ''Initial D'' movie trilogy, the entire Japanese cast was replaced with younger voice actors. Creator/SentaiFilmworks licensed the three films in North America, and ''mostly'' brought back Creator/{{FUNimation}}'s English cast, but the following replacements happened: |
| 321 | *** Bunta Fujiwara: Creator/KentWilliams -> Bill Wise |
| 322 | *** Takeshi Nakazato: Chris Burnett -> Brian Mountbatten |
| 323 | *** Keisuke Takahashi: Creator/ToddHaberkorn -> Gray G. Haddock |
| 324 | *** Mako Sato: Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard -> Amber Marie Flores |
| 325 | *** Yuichi Tachibana: Creator/ChuckHuber -> Charlie Campbell |
| 326 | *** Kenta Nakamura: Creator/GregAyres -> Jeff Collins |
| 327 | *** Hiroshi Fumihiro: Chris Cason -> Michael Federico |
| 328 | *** Shingo Shoji: Creator/VicMignogna -> Creator/ChristopherWehkamp |
| 329 | * ''Manga/InuYasha'': |
| 330 | ** The Viz/Ocean Studios dub has the following: |
| 331 | *** Sota Higurashi/Eri: Creator/SaffronHenderson --> Creator/RebeccaShoichet |
| 332 | *** Kohaku: Alex Doduk --> Danny [=McKinnon=] |
| 333 | ** and their dub of Inuyasha: The Final Act has: |
| 334 | *** Kagome Higurashi: Moneca Stori --> Kira Tozer |
| 335 | *** Sesshomaru: Creator/DavidKaye --> Creator/MichaelDaingerfield |
| 336 | *** Kaede: Pam Hyatt --> Linda Darlow |
| 337 | *** Kohaku: Danny [=McKinnon=] --> Aiden Drummond |
| 338 | ** The reasons for these recasts vary. Kaye confirmed early on that he declined to return as Sesshomaru because he had moved away to Los Angeles and was unwilling to commute back to Vancouver. It's unknown exactly why Kagome was recast, but it's believed that Stori had also moved away, and appears to have retired from voice acting altogether. Ocean has always cast real children to voice Kohaku, and his voice is obviously changed when the actors go through puberty. |
| 339 | ** ''Anime/YashahimePrincessHalfDemon'': |
| 340 | *** For the spinoff, Creator/BangZoomEntertainment in Los Angeles took over ADR production from Ocean Studios, but they still managed to bring back the original Ocean cast to reprise returning characters through seperate recording in Vancouver (with Tozer still replacing Stori as Kagome). However, this scenario allowed David Kaye to return as Sesshomaru, and Kohaku was recast yet again, this time with Alan Lee taking over the role. |
| 341 | *** Unfortunately, due to the untimely death of Creator/KirbyMorrow, the English dub has had to recast Miroku. Interestingly enough, it's with Creator/IanJamesCorlett, the original Goku from the Ocean dubs of [=DBZ=], who was replaced by Peter Kalemis, who was then replaced by Morrow. |
| 342 | ** On the Japanese side, Katsumi Suzuki replaced the late Ginzo Matsuo as Kagome's grandfather. |
| 343 | ** It happened twice in Latin-America. First, the TV series was dubbed in Mexico but the movies were dubbed in Venezuela, meaning ''all'' the VA's were recast. Later, when ''Final Act'' was picked up, some of the VA's were replaced: Naraku (the late Luis Alfonso Padilla -> Alan René Bressant), Kana (Lupita Leal -> Diana Nolan), Tsubaki (Creator/MonicaManjarrez -> Diana Huicochea), Jaken (Creator/CarlosInigo -> Alfredo Gabriel Basurto), Hakkaku (Carlos Hurtado -> Gerardo Ortega), Ginta (Gabriel Ortiz -> Román Abreo), Yuuka (Xochitl Ugarte -> Diana Huicochea). |
| 344 | %% J |
| 345 | * ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'': The anime's English dub has an interesting situation with Star Platinum. Because Creator/MatthewMercer's (Jotaro's English VA) Star Platinum [[BattleCry ORA ORA ORA]] voice wasn't good initially, Viz Media decided to use the ORA ORA ORA voice clip recorded by Creator/PatrickSeitz during the test dub. Eventually as the dub progresses, Mercer's version of the ORA began to improve, and thus Seitz's ORA was slowly phased out with Mercer's version. Both versions of ORA ORA ORA are still used though, with fans generally considered that if the ORA scene is more intense, they're more likely to use Seitz's version instead of Mercer's. |
| 346 | %% K |
| 347 | * ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'': |
| 348 | ** The English dub expirienced this when the actor for Hermit (Jason Liebrecht) was replaced with Eric Vale for Season 2 following Jason's motorcycle accident, which left him hospitalized and out of voice acting for over a year. |
| 349 | ** The Japanese voice actress of Miu (Creator/TomokoKawakami) passed away after the series ended and was replaced with Creator/RieKugimiya for the OVA. |
| 350 | ** Likewise, Yuzuru Fujimoto (Hayato) replaced the deceased Hiroshi Arikawa. |
| 351 | * ''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad'': The roles of the three main characters were changed from the pilot episode to the main series. For Kyosuke, Creator/YuuMizushima was replaced by Creator/ToruFuruya, Creator/HiromiTsuru replaced Creator/SaekoShimazu as Madoka and Creator/YokoOgai was replaced by Creator/ErikoHara for Hikaru. The Drama CD's would also bring new seiyuu: Creator/RyoHorikawa as Kyosuke, Creator/TomoSakurai as Madoka, Creator/YukaImai as Hikaru, Creator/YukoMiyamura as Kurumi and Creator/EmiMotoi as Manami. |
| 352 | * ''Literature/KonoSuba'': As the English dub of the first season of ''Anime/IsekaiQuartet'' was released after only the dub of the first season of ''Konosuba'', Vanir was voiced by Anthony Bowling. For the dub of season 2 of ''Konosuba'' proper, Creator/RobbieDaymond was cast as Vanir. |
| 353 | %% L |
| 354 | * ''Anime/LaSeineNoHoshi'': |
| 355 | ** Korean dub: Simone was originally voiced by Seyeong Yujin and then by Jeyong Miyeon. |
| 356 | ** French dub: Danton was voiced by Creator/JackieBerger and then by Odile Schmitt. |
| 357 | * ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'': Since voice actor Creator/KeiTomiyama died on September 25th 1995, his role as Yang in his last appearances was replaced by Creator/HozumiGouda. |
| 358 | * ''Anime/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteelNorthernWar'': |
| 359 | ** Creator/AlanLee replaces the late Creator/BillyKametz as Wallace Bardias. |
| 360 | ** Rean and Altina's voice actors Creator/SeanChiplock and Creator/XantheHuynh were originally announced to be reprising their roles from the games, but were recast at the last minute. There is also speculation that Creator/ValerieArem, who voices Aurelia Le Guin in the games, was also replaced. |
| 361 | * ''Anime/LittleLulu'': The title character was voiced by Creator/EikoMasuyama in the anime's first three episodes, and by Creator/MinoriMatsushima from the fourth episode on. |
| 362 | * ''Franchise/LoveLive'': Creator/TomoriKusunoki, the voice of Setsuna Yuki from the Nijigasaki High School Idol Club unit since 2017, retired from the role in 2023 following a diagnosis of hypermobile Ehler-Danlos syndrome, a genetic disorder that prevents her from continuing live stage performances due to chronic joint pain. The role was succeeded by Coco Hayashi, who began voicing the character in ''VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestival2MiracleLive''. |
| 363 | * Creator/YasuoYamada, most recognizable as the voice of ''Anime/LupinIII'', died of a brain hemorrhage in 1995, a month before the release of ''Anime/FarewellToNostradamus'', the movie that would mark the series' return to the big screen in ten years. Fortunately, his will stated that, if he were to pass away, the baton should be passed to Kanichi Kurita (a popular comedian and impersonator), who voices Lupin from that movie onwards. In honor of Yamada, a message was placed at the end of the film's credits: "[[InMemoriam To Yasuo Yamada, Eternal Lupin the Third: Thank you!]]". |
| 364 | [[/folder]] |
| 365 | |
| 366 | [[folder:M to P]] |
| 367 | %% M |
| 368 | * ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'': When the show was [[SpinOff spun off]] from ''VisualNovel/TriangleHeart3SweetSongsForever'' and was turned into an anime, nearly every character received a new seiyuu, with Kyouya Takamachi (Creator/HikaruMidorikawa), the main character of ''Triangle Heart 3'', and Shirou Takamachi (Creator/KazuyaIchijo) being the only characters to retain their original voice actors. |
| 369 | ** Nanoha Takamachi: Hitomi --> Creator/YukariTamura |
| 370 | ** Shinobu Tsukimura: Yukiko Iwai --> Creator/MiyuMatsuki |
| 371 | ** Momoko Takamachi: Aki Fujisawa --> Erica Amano |
| 372 | ** Miyuki Takamachi: Satomi Kodama --> Ryouko Shiraishi |
| 373 | * ''Manga/MaisonIkkoku'': After the English dub stopped production after Ep. 36 in 1998 and came out of hiatus in 2004, many main voices were changed for the remaining 60 episodes: |
| 374 | ** Yusaku Godai: Jason Gray-Stanford -> Creator/BradSwaile |
| 375 | ** Hanae Ichinose: Daphne Goldrick -> Kathy Morse |
| 376 | ** Yotsuya Ichinose: Gerard Plunkett -> Ron Halder |
| 377 | ** Kentaro Ichinose: Creator/SaffronHenderson -> Sharon Alexander |
| 378 | ** Kozue Nanao: Rochelle Greenwood -> Anna Cummer |
| 379 | ** Ikuko Otonashi: Creator/AndreaLibman -> Nicole Bouma |
| 380 | ** Ritsuko Chigusa: Creator/KathleenBarr -> Patricia Drake |
| 381 | ** Mr. Ichinose: Campbell Lane -> Robert O. Smith |
| 382 | ** Notably the only regular voice actors that DID return were Creator/EllenKennedy (Kyoko Otonashi), Creator/JanyseJaud (Akemi Roppangi), and John Payne (Shun Mitaka). |
| 383 | ** The Italian dub also initially stopped production after episode 52, and the rest of the series was dubbed a few years later with another cast. Unlike the English dub, none of the old voice actors returned in their roles. |
| 384 | * ''Anime/{{Mazinkaiser}}'': When the original version was released (the first major Mazinger-based anime in nearly 30 years), the only two original voices from the Mazinger trilogy was Creator/HiroyaIshimaru (Kouji Kabuto) and Haruko Kitahama (Baron Ashura's female half). When ''Anime/ShinMazinger'' was made, the two were replaced with Creator/KenjiAkabane and Kaori Yamagata respectively |
| 385 | %%N |
| 386 | * ''Franchise/{{Negima}}'': |
| 387 | ** This happened to quite a few characters in the English dub of the anime between Seasons 1 and 2 following a two-year gap in dubbing: |
| 388 | *** Setsuna Sakurazaki: Dana Schultes -> Creator/CheramiLeigh |
| 389 | *** Nagi Springfield: Creator/TroyBaker -> Creator/JMichaelTatum |
| 390 | *** Akira Okouchi: Jenny Phagan -> Creator/CheramiLeigh |
| 391 | *** Satomi Hakase: Jayme Westman -> Creator/CarrieSavage |
| 392 | *** Anya Cocolova: Creator/KateBristol -> Creator/BrittneyKarbowski (despite Kate still voicing Sayo) |
| 393 | *** Madoka Kugimiya: Susan Huber -> Mary Morgan |
| 394 | *** Dean Konoemon Konoe: Randy Tallman -> Creator/RBruceElliott (because Randy passed away) |
| 395 | ** From the first ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' anime, ''Anime/NegimaSecondSeason'', and all the way till the third episode of the OVA series, Hazuki Tanaka was the voice for Ku Fei in Japanese. When the fourth OVA was distributed, she was replaced by the more popular Creator/KanaAsumi. Similarly, Chao's original actress Chiaki Oosawa was replaced by Creator/MegumiTakamoto around the same time. |
| 396 | * ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' |
| 397 | ** Through the various movies, recuts, and compilations that have been made in the last 15 years, several of the English cast have changed. For example, Gendo has had two separate [=VAs=], Touji has had three, and Kaworu has had a different voice actor for the series, movies, [[TheOtherMarty and director's cut]]. It's become something of an in-joke in Eva fandom that the cast has a habit of vanishing off the face of the earth. |
| 398 | ** In the Anime/{{Rebuild| Of Evangelion}} movies, only Shinji's, Asuka's, and Misato's voice actors[[note]] Creator/SpikeSpencer, Creator/TiffanyGrant, and Creator/AllisonKeith, respectively[[/note]] reprised their roles (though Gendo's voice actor from the Director's Cut episodes also reprised his role). |
| 399 | ** One that really irked some fans was the English dub of ''Rebuild'' replacing Creator/AmandaWinnLee with Creator/BrinaPalencia as Rei. The official reason was Lee taking time off to look after her ailing son, and years later, she did indeed confirm that she didn't think it was worth her while to travel back to Texas, and wanted to move on from the franchise anyway (she also co-directed the original TV series and movie dubs). |
| 400 | ** Maya is probably the worst. She's had a different VA in every installment of the series (Series, End of Eva, Directors cut, and Rebuild). While all of them fit her character, most of them sound totally different from one another. |
| 401 | ** None of the English actors of the TV series and ''Rebuild'' films reprised their roles for the 2019 Creator/{{Netflix}} release, due to the dub being recorded at VSI Group instead of ADV Films, which had filed for bankruptcy 10 years prior. |
| 402 | *** Shinji: Creator/SpikeSpencer --> Creator/CaseyMongillo |
| 403 | *** Rei: Creator/AmandaWinnLee --> Creator/RyanBartley; the former having retired from voice acting at the time. |
| 404 | *** Asuka: Creator/TiffanyGrant --> Stephanie [=McKeon=] |
| 405 | *** Misato: Allison Keith --> Creator/CarrieKeranen |
| 406 | *** Gendo: Tristan [=MacAvery=] [[note]] Creator/JohnSwasey in the Director's Cut [[/note]] --> Creator/RayChase |
| 407 | *** Kōzō: Guil Lunde --> JP Karliak |
| 408 | *** Ritsuko: Sue Ulu --> Creator/EricaLindbeck |
| 409 | *** Ryōji: Aaron Krohn --> Creator/GregChun |
| 410 | *** Kaworu: Kyle Sturdivant [[note]] Creator/GregAyres in the Director's Cut [[/note]] --> Creator/CliffordChapin |
| 411 | *** Pen Pen: Creator/AmandaWinnLee [[note]] Mandy Clark in the Director's Cut [[/note]] --> Creator/CheramiLeigh |
| 412 | ** Only Shinji (Victor Ugarte) and Gendo (Humberto Solorzano) kept their original voice actors from the first Latin American dub. I.e., Rei is voiced by Victor Ugarte's sister Gaby in the second dub, which becomes HilariousInHindsight when recalling [[spoiler:that Rei, as a clone of Shinji's mother Yui, is essentially his half-sister.]] |
| 413 | *** When ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' was dubbed for theatrical release, Touji's VA Enrique Mederos had passed away so he was replaced by Creator/JesusBarrero. At the same time some actors from the first dub retook their roles, most noticeably Ernesto Lezama as Kaworu and Circe Luna as Rei [[spoiler: though in the third movie, Luna does ''not'' voice Rei-Zero; she's voiced by Ana Lobo instead.]] |
| 414 | *** And speaking ''of Rebuild,'' when Creator/AmazonPrime picked up the license for the final film, they decided to also redub the first three films, but with an interesting twist: Shinji, Asuka, Misato, and Gendo retain their voices from when ''Rebuild'' was first dubbed, Amanda returned to voice Rei, and the actors of Toji, Maya, Aoba, Fuyutsuki, Hikari, Keel, and Yui from Creator/MangaEntertainment's dub of ''End'' returned to reprise their roles. All the others, including Mari, get new actors; keep in mind that, except for Shinji, Asuka, Misato and Gendo, ALL the characters that appeared in the first three films had their actors replace pre-existing ones. Only one actress from Funimation reprised her role for Amazon: Creator/FeleciaAngelle, who did Sakura. |
| 415 | * ''Manga/{{Noragami}}'': Creator/CaitlinGlass said on her Twitter that she will be taking over Creator/ShelbyLindley as Aimi "Ami" Tabata in the second season simuldub Aragoto due to the latter's lack of time and availability. Lindley returned to redub Glass's lines for the DVD/Blu-ray release. |
| 416 | * ''Anime/NurseWitchKomugi'': Averted. The anime is a SpinOff[=/=]SelfParody of ''Anime/TheSoulTaker''. ADV got the rights to dub ''Nurse Witch Komugi'', but didn't dub its predecessor (the Ocean Group handled that job for the returning characters). Instead of using new actors, ADV got the original dub cast to reprise their roles, thus ensuring consistency. The new characters introduced in the series, however, were dubbed at Houson. |
| 417 | %% O |
| 418 | * Ginzo Matsuo, the voice of Oyajide from ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'', died a day before episode 29 of ''Mo~tto!'' aired. His role would be replaced by Nobuaki Kanemitsu. |
| 419 | %% P |
| 420 | * ''Anime/PaniPoniDash'': The English dub had everyone able to play their roles throughout the whole series with the interesting exception of Mike Macrae as the Alien Captain, who he voiced for the first 14 episodes before being replaced by a then-unknown Creator/AndrewLove for the remaining 12 -- the reason being that Macrae went off to be involved on ''The Late Show with Creator/DavidLetterman''. |
| 421 | * ''Franchise/{{Patlabor}}'' has four English dub casts: The TV series and [=OVA=]s were dubbed in New York City by Creator/CentralParkMedia, the first two movies were dubbed in the UK by Creator/MangaEntertainment, and the first two movies were redubbed and third dubbed in California respectively by [[Creator/BandaiEntertainment Bandai Visual USA]] and Creator/{{Geneon}} (albeit with different casts). |
| 422 | * ''[[VideoGame/Persona4 Persona 4: The Animation]]'': |
| 423 | ** Creator/TroyBaker reprised his role as Kanji Tatsumi from the game for the first half of the dub; for the second half the character is voiced by Creator/MatthewMercer (Baker had to drop out for personal reasons). |
| 424 | ** Creator/MaryElizabethMcGlynn also replaces Anna Graves, who voiced Naoto in the games. |
| 425 | * ''Anime/PrettyCure'': |
| 426 | ** In ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'', Foop and Kaoru were originally voiced by Creator/YukaImai. When Imai went on maternity leave, Creator/AkemiOkamura took over the roles for the remainder of the series. |
| 427 | ** In the Finnish dub of ''Anime/GlitterForce'', Kelsey was voiced by Creator/AmyBurgess in Season 1, and Creator/ViiviTamminen in Season 2. |
| 428 | * ''Manga/PopTeamEpic'': With the series being the [[QuirkyWork balls-to-the-wall firestorm of insanity]] that it is, the show manages to take this trope and stretch it far beyond its logical conclusion, with Popuko and Pipimi being recast every '''half'''-episode (each episode consists of a 12-minute series of skits played twice, with one having Popuko & Pipimi voiced by women, and the other having them voiced by men); typically, each pair of voice actors has some sort of connection. Even within the same episode, Popuko & Pipimi change voices for certain skits: for instance, the [[StylisticSuck "Bob Epic Team"]] shorts has them voiced by said segments' animators. |
| 429 | * ''Anime/ProjectAKo'': The first movie was dubbed in the UK by Manga Entertainment UK, but the three sequel [=OVAs=] were all dubbed in Vancouver by Creator/TheOceanGroup with Creator/CentralParkMedia:[[note]]This was still in the early 90s, before CPM dubbed their shows in New York.[[/note]] |
| 430 | ** A-Ko: Stacey Gregg -> Creator/TerylRothery |
| 431 | ** B-Ko: Denica Fairman -> Creator/VenusTerzo |
| 432 | ** C-Ko: Julia Brahms -> Creator/CathyWeseluck |
| 433 | ** Miss Ayumi: Liza Ross -> Lynda Boyd |
| 434 | ** Captain Napolipolita: Jay Benedict -> Creator/ScottMcNeil |
| 435 | ** Spy D: Marc Smith -> Robert O Smith |
| 436 | * ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'' |
| 437 | ** The English dub saw all of its main cast return with the exception of Junko Kaname, played by Creator/CarrieSavage in the TV series and now played by Creator/JulieAnnTaylor due to Savage living in New York City at the time. |
| 438 | ** In the Italian dub, Emanuela Damasio replaced Creator/AlessiaAmendola as Homura, thus spoiling ActorAllusion to the Italian dub of ''Series/Zoey101''. |
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| 443 | * ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' was the ''very'' first anime TV series to receive a straight uncut dub into English, and it took ''10 years'' to dub all 161 episodes (plus all three movies and eleven original OVA episodes), so naturally there were a few people that left at some point in that duration. The show is lucky it didn't have even more recasts. |
| 444 | ** Between Seasons 3 and 4 (episodes 63 and 64), the North-American dub voice for Ranma abruptly changed from Sarah Strange, [[CrossDressingVoices a woman playing a boy's voice]], to Richard Ian Cox -- a man playing a boy's voice after the former wanted to move on with her career (although this can also be interpreted as Ranma's voice maturing). Because the series was dubbed out of order, Sarah's voice is also heard in episode 69 and all the movies/[=OVAs=]. |
| 445 | ** After the first six episodes Ranma's female voice actor also changed from Brigitta Dau (who also voiced the character in the first two OVA episodes) to Venus Terzo following Dau's move to the US, but the change was arguably more subtle since it was fairly early on in the series, and the voices were similar. |
| 446 | ** When Angela Costain, the English voice of Nabiki Tendô, wanted to attend flight school, her sister Elaina Wotten-Costain took over the character for Season 6. (Unlike many vocal Darrins, the difference between the two performances was virtually nil -- many viewers never noticed the change). Angela returned for Season 7 when her schedule worked out. |
| 447 | ** Kodachi Kuno was the only unlucky character with ''three'' voice actors, being voiced by Teryl Rotherly for the first four seasons and later by Creator/ErinFitzgerald for Season 5 after Teryl became too busy with her live action work. Later Erin moved to the US and the role was recast again for Seasons 6-7 with Sylvia Zaradic (who ironically sounded much closer to Teryl than Erin). |
| 448 | ** Both the Jusenkyo Guide and Dr. Tofu were recast beginning in Season 6 with new voice actors (Michael Donovan and Kirby Morrow respectively) when their original voice actor, Ian James Corlett, quit all voice acting for anime following a nasty fallout with Ocean Studios. |
| 449 | ** Cologne was voiced by Creator/KathleenBarr in the [=OVAs=] and movies (which were among the first things dubbed), and by Elan Ross-Gibson in the TV series. |
| 450 | ** On the Japanese side of things, Creator/KoujiTsujitani filled in for Creator/HirotakaSuzuoki for three episodes as Tatewaki Kuno. For the 2008 OVA, Tsujitani once again filled in, as Suzuoki had passed away a few years earlier. |
| 451 | * ''Manga/Reborn2004'': The ''seiyuu'' voicing the character of Dino goes from Kenta Kamakari to Creator/{{KENN}} from episode 34 on. |
| 452 | * ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar'': |
| 453 | ** Most of the Japanese cast for the cast of the OVA series was changed for the TV series, ''Chronicles of the Heroic Knight:'' For the latter, Creator/NobutoshiCanna replaced Creator/TakeshiKusao as Parn, and Creator/ShihoNiiyama replaced Creator/YumiTouma as Deedlit (who herself was later replaced with Creator/JunkoNoda after her death). The TAJ Productions English cast, on the other hand, remained the same for these characters... |
| 454 | ** ...at least until the second half of the series. Creator/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 ''[[ActingForTwo all three of them]]'', along with his original two roles. |
| 455 | ** A few members of the English cast were also temporarily replaced for a couple episodes due to the quick pace in dubbing, leaving little opportunity for scheduling conflicts. For instance, Creator/LisaOrtiz was sick with a cold for a very short period of time, and AJ Parks filled in as Deendlit for 3 episodes instead. |
| 456 | * ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': |
| 457 | ** Creator/KibaWalker stood in for Creator/DallasReid as Carlos Whitrow in the English dub of "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E07Reversi Reversi]]". |
| 458 | ** Creator/MarikoHigashuichi (Japanese) and Creator/TristanBonner (English) voice the younger Joseph Albright in his TroubledBackstoryFlashback in "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E11Duty Duty]]". |
| 459 | * ''Literature/RestaurantToAnotherWorld'': While Adelheid's voice actress in Japanese, Creator/ReinaUeda, remained the same for both series, her English voice actress changed between seasons, going from Creator/JeannieTirado in Season 1 to Creator/AlexisTipton in Season 2. |
| 460 | * ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'': |
| 461 | ** The dub stayed pretty consistent despite a gap in dubbing, except for a few minor roles that changed once the characters became important: |
| 462 | ** The role of Mamiya was played by Creator/CrispinFreeman (Touga's voice actor) for episode 13, and by Liam O'Brien for everything else. |
| 463 | ** Likewise, Dios was voiced by Creator/CrispinFreeman for his brief line in Episode 1. Later on, Josh Mosby (Akio's voice) took over. |
| 464 | ** The Shadow Girls were were voiced by Sharon Becker (Anthy's voice) and Mandy Bonhomme (Juri's voice) in the Student Council saga, but for the Black Rose saga, Carol Jacobanis (Mari's voice) took over Becker's role as the first girl while Bonhomme kept on playing the second and the new third one. For the Apocalypse saga, Kerry Williams (Kanae's voice) took over the third girl. For the movie, Bonhomme voiced two of the girls while Roxanne Beck (Wakaba and Kozue's actress) voiced the third. |
| 465 | ** In addition, two of Nanami's friends (Aiko and Yuko) didn't have fixed voice actresses for a while (sometimes within single episodes), with Rachael Lillis, Mandy Bonhomme, Sharon Becker, Roxanne Beck, Kerry Williams, and Carol Jacobanis voicing at least one of them at different points until they finally settled on Jacobanis as Aiko and Williams as Yuko with episode 21 (the only episode where they were important), and they only appeared one more time. Keiko however, was consistent with Mandy Bonhomme voicing her for all of her appearances. |
| 466 | ** Shiori was voiced by Creator/LisaOrtiz once she became a larger role, but her early appearance in a flashback had Creator/RachaelLillis (Utena's voice) filling in. |
| 467 | ** Kanae was voiced by Mandy Bonhomme for her very brief appearance in the movie and Kerry Williams for her more expanded appearance in the anime. |
| 468 | ** The Japanese version of Utena replaced the voice actor for Akio for the movie with a celebrity on-camera actor. |
| 469 | * ''Literature/ReZero'': |
| 470 | ** English: |
| 471 | *** Julius Juukulius was voiced by [[Creator/ChrisNiosi Christopher Niosi]] in Season 1. After several allegations of emotional and sexual abuse went public in 2019, and him confirming they were true, [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor he stepped down from the role]] and was [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]] by Creator/AlejandroSaab. [[https://twitter.com/Kirbopher/status/1326634717383307264 Niosi did congratulate Saab on the role, though]]. |
| 472 | *** Frederica Baumann's cameo appearance in Season 1 had her initially voiced by Creator/FayeMata, but after becoming a major character in Season 2, she is now voiced by Creator/DawnMBennett. |
| 473 | *** Wilhelm was initially voiced by Creator/MarcDiraison, but he was unable to reprise the role for Season 2 and [[https://twitter.com/Casonworld/status/1307020508563558400 has been replaced by]] Brock Foster Powell. |
| 474 | ** Japanese: |
| 475 | *** Aldebaran was voiced by Creator/KeijiFujiwara in Season 1, but due to his declining health in 2016, Creator/TomokazuSeki replaced him for the game ''Death or Kiss'', and later became his permanent replacement after Fujiwara passed away on April 12, 2020. |
| 476 | * ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': After his diagnosis for (and eventual death from) colon cancer, Naofumi's original English VA Creator/BillyKametz was replaced by Creator/StephenFu for season 2. |
| 477 | * ''Anime/RoninWarriors'': |
| 478 | ** Episode 2 was dubbed first as a test pilot, but when the series was picked up, a few voice actors changed, and the episode was not re-recorded with the permanent voice actors. These changes were: |
| 479 | *** Kento: Ward Perry -> Jason Grey-Stanford [[note]]Despite Ward still voicing Rowen.[[/note]] |
| 480 | *** Mia: Teryl Rothery -> Lalainia Lindbjerg [[note]]This one was arguably the most glaring; Teryl's voice was much deeper and mature-sounding than Lalainia's, and made the character sound a good 15-20 years older than she was supposed to.[[/note]] |
| 481 | *** Cale/Annubis: Peter Wilds -> Richard Newman |
| 482 | *** Dais: Peter Wilds -> Matt Smith |
| 483 | ** Creator/ScottMcNeil also filled in for Richard Newman as Annubis for episodes 31, 32, and 35. |
| 484 | ** When the [=OVAs=] were dubbed later in 2003, several voice actors were replaced: |
| 485 | *** Kento: Jason Grey Stanford -> Creator/AndrewFrancis |
| 486 | *** Mia: Lalainia Lindbjerg -> Maggie Blue O'Hara |
| 487 | *** Sage: Michael Donovan -> Matt Smith [[note]]Despite Michael still voicing Cye.[[/note]] |
| 488 | *** Ully: Christopher Turner -> Danny [=McKinnon=] |
| 489 | * ''Manga/RozenMaiden'' was dubbed by [=Geneon/BangZoom=] for the first two seasons, but they went under. When Creator/SentaiFilmworks rescued the show, they reunited the cast for the two-part prequel OVA. However, they opted to dub the third season in-house at Seraphim Digital, replacing the entire cast. |
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| 491 | * ''Anime/SaberMarionetteJ'', ''Saber Marionette J Again'' and ''Saber Marionette J To X'', while all licensed by Creator/BandaiEntertainment in North America, were each dubbed into English at different studios (Vancouver-based Ocean Studios, Los Angeles-based Animaze and Calgary-based Blue Water Studios). The ''entire'' cast changed between each series (although ''Saber Marionette R'' did share some cast with J). For a more concrete example, Otaru was originally voiced by Creator/BradSwaile, then by Creator/MonaMarshall in ''J Again'', and then by Jonathan Love in ''J To X'', while Lime went from Creator/MaggieBlueOHara to Creator/JulieMaddalena to finally Mariette Sluyter. |
| 492 | * ''Manga/SaintSeiya'': |
| 493 | ** The series had the same ''seiyuu'' cast for almost 20 years, including the original TV series as well as the movies. Then came the Hades Saga and several actors were replaced (i.e.: the late Creator/KanetoShiozawa was replaced by Creator/TakumiYamazaki as Mu, the also deceased Creator/KazuyukiSogabe was followed by ''both'' Creator/RyotaroOkiayu and Creator/AkioNojima as the twins Saga and Kanon, Creator/ToshihikoSeki as as Milo instead of Creator/ShuichiIkeda, Creator/TakeshiKusao as Shura and not Creator/KojiTotani, etc.) |
| 494 | ** ''Then'' came the Tenkai-hen movie, after which practically ''everyone'' (including Creator/ToruFuruya aka Seiya, replaced by Creator/MasakazuMorita until [[RoleReprise reprising his role]] in ''Anime/SaintSeiyaOmega'') was changed. |
| 495 | ** In the Latin American dub, the Hades Saga had two parallel dubs. The original cast led by Creator/JesusBarrero only returned for the [=DVD=] dub, but the TV version included a whole cast change led by Creator/IrwinDaayan as Seiya. |
| 496 | ** Dubhe Alpha Siegfried was first voiced by Creator/AkiraKamiya in the original and by Mario Raúl López in the Latin-American dub. When Kamiya retired and López died of illness, Creator/MitsuakiMadono and Creator/RicardoMendoza took over the role for the game ''Soldier's Soul''. |
| 497 | ** Brazilian voice actor Antonio Akira, known for playing Dragon Ryuhou in the local dub of ''Anime/SaintSeiyaOmega'', succumbed to meningitis in July 26th, 2015. This, along with the passing of veteran voice actress Maralisi Tartarine, who played Ophiuchus Shaina, left the state of the second season's dub up in the air for some time. It resumed in 2016, with Fred Mascarenhas replacing Akira and Patricia Scalvi replacing Tartarine. |
| 498 | * Due to its long run, ''Manga/SazaeSan'' had numerous casting changes throughout, with Sazae herself (Midori Kato) being the only exception: |
| 499 | ** Katsuo was the first to be recast, after Nobuyo Ooyama voiced him for just 12 episodes in 1969. Kazue Takahashi voiced him until 1998, when Miina Tominaga took over. |
| 500 | ** Yoshiko Yamamoto voiced Wakame from the beginning until 1976, when she was replaced by Michiko Nomura. She retired from the role in 2005, after which Makoto Tsumura took over. |
| 501 | ** Masuo was voiced by Shinsuke Chikaishi until 1978, after which Hiroshi Masuoka voiced him until his retirement in 2019. Hideyuki Tanaka now voices him. |
| 502 | ** Namihei was voiced by Ichirō Nagai until his death in 2014. Chafurin would take over from then on. |
| 503 | ** Fune was voiced by Miyoko Asō from the beginning until her retirement in 2015 (except for one episode in 2009 when Ikuko Tani substituted for her due to illness). She is now voiced by Yorie Terauchi. |
| 504 | ** Takako Sasuga, the longtime voice actress for Tarao Fugata, passed away in early 2023. As a result, the role of Tarao was filled in by Rikako Aikawa. |
| 505 | * ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'': |
| 506 | ** In the first English adaptation, known as ''Anime/BattleOfThePlanets'', fans generally associate the voice actors Ronnie Schell and Alan Dinehart with their respective characters of Jason and Tiny. But in the first episode dubbed by Sandy Frank, Jason had a much different and lower voice provided by an unspecified actor while Tiny was voiced by Schell and had a gruffer, raspier voice than the slow "big guy" one that Dinehart would make famous. To this day, it remains unknown who was the original Jason, though it is suggested that it was likely David Jolliffe (who was credited for the episode, with the Jason voice sounding identical to his "Larry" voice from ''WesternAnimation/ClueClub''). |
| 507 | ** The green Spectra commander that appeared in the first two episodes was first voiced by Alan Oppenheimer, and then by Keye Luke ([[ActingForTwo who also voiced Zoltar and the Luminous One]]). This switchover was due to the fact that the second Gatchaman episode was actually sent over and translated as the sixteenth in line, and the dubbing team had likely forgotten that Oppenheimer had previously voiced the character, or that it was intended to be the same character for that matter (as the first dub script calls the commander "Octo", while the script for the latter episode called him "Commander Gorok"). |
| 508 | ** The USA-exclusive creation 7-Zark-7 was voiced by Alan Young in the original ''Battle of the Planets'' adaptation, although the character was recast in a 2002 compilation movie by Sandy Frank, which had his segments redubbed by David Bret Egen (who gave him a more robotic sounding voice). |
| 509 | ** ''[[Anime/GForceGuardiansOfSpace G-Force: Guardians of Space]]'': |
| 510 | *** In the case of the second English adaptation, the characters of Hooty, Dr.Brighthead, and Computor were alternatively voiced by Jan Rabson or Gregg Berger, depending on the episode. As this dub lacked credits for the cast, it's become a chore for fans to pick out which episodes are "Berger" ones and which ones were done by Rabson. |
| 511 | *** Cam Clarke was unavailable for the recording of at least two episodes (39 and 40), with Dirk being voiced by either one of the other actors in the voice pool or a stand-in actor only for those sessions. |
| 512 | ** One particular character in the original Gatchaman series went through at least three actors, due to her limited role. The female Galactor commander [[spoiler: aka Katse's female form]] was first voiced by Hiroko Mori when she formally debuted in episode 31, but was then voiced by Toshiko Sawada for her next four appearances (in episodes 32, 33, 46, and 70). By the time of her final appearance towards the end of the series, Aiko Konoshima voiced her. ADV's dub of the series had Laurie Gallardo voicing her for the first three appearances, then the role briefly shifted to Kira Vincent-Davis for her fourth cameo. Gallardo would resume voicing the commander for episodes 70 and 102. |
| 513 | ** With the sequel ''Gatchaman II'': The auto-pilot robot Pimer was voiced by Kazue Komiya when he appeared in the first episode, but was then voiced by Creator/YouInoue for all episodes afterwards. |
| 514 | ** The three-episode OVA remake was initially dubbed by Harmony Gold (through Urban Vision) in 1997, using a Los Angeles-based cast of voice actors for the characters [[note]]Eddie Frierson as Ken, Richard Cansino as Joe, Lara Cody as Jun, Mona Marshall as Jinpei, and Richard Epcar as Ryu[[/note]]. After Harmony Gold's license expired, the OVA was included in Sentai Filmworks' deal with Tatsunoko and was redubbed in 2013 with the voice pool from ADV Films' dub of the series [[note]]Leraldo Anazaldua as Ken, Brian Jepson as Joe, Kim Prause as Jun, Creator/LuciChristian as Jinpei, and Victor Carsrud as Ryu[[/note]]. The only voice actor from ADV's version who did not return was Laurie Gallardo, who had her role (the female Galactor commander) passed to Claire Hamilton. However, despite popular belief, Leader X did NOT undergo this trope. He was always voiced by Charlie Campbell, the ADR director. However, he used an alias (Winston Parrish) for the original TV series switching to his real name for the OVA. |
| 515 | ** The original Japanese version of the OVA series recast the characters, to have a more modern and younger pool of actors (as well as taking into account that Ryu's original voice actor, Shingo Kanemoto, had passed away a few years prior). |
| 516 | ** Aside from the various actors that voiced their dubbed counterparts in previous English adaptations of ''Gatchaman'' (pre-ADV Films), Ken and Jun's cameos in the original dub of the ''Anime/TimeBokan'' OVA were voiced by two obscure New York actors, Todd Garbeil and Ami Shukla (as the dub was done in New York City). Although Sentai Filmworks originally intended to redub the Time Bokan OVA with a Texas cast (presumably to have Ken and Jun's ADV [=VAs=] reprise the roles), this plan fell through. |
| 517 | * ''Manga/SeiyusLife'' has an in-universe example that's PlayedForDrama. Futaba had a part in a Drama CD and was looking forward to the anime adaptation since it'd mean that she could work with Creator/RieKugimiya again. [[spoiler: Then she finds out that Rin was given the role instead.]] |
| 518 | * ''Literature/ShakuganNoShana'': The entire English voice cast was replaced for the second and third seasons when Funimation opted not to reunite the original Geneon/Ocean cast, likely as a cost-cutting measure. [[Anime/DragonBallZ It's not the first time FUNi has replaced an Ocean voice cast]]. |
| 519 | |
| 520 | * ''Anime/{{Slayers}}'' |
| 521 | ** The English version had several cases of this. After episode 13, the dubbing was put on hiatus for Software Sculptors and Central Park Media to evaluate video sales. The hiatus lasted nearly two years, during which time TAJ Productions lost contact with all but a few of the voice actors. When dubbing finally continued (with a different studio but same production company), only leads Creator/LisaOrtiz (Lina) and Creator/EricStuart (Gourry) returned to their old roles. The most notable replacements were Creator/CrispinFreeman replacing Daniel Cronin as the voice of Zelgadis, and Creator/VeronicaTaylor replacing Joan Baker as the voice of Amelia. With them are Zangulus (Creator/TedLewis replacing Liam O'Malley), and Prince Phillionel (Creator/JimmyZoppi replacing Matthew Black). The only other characters who got to keep their original voices were Vrumugun (Creator/JimmyZoppi) and Rezo (Peter Davis). The voices were consistent for the rest of first three seasons. [[note]]Except one time in Season 2 when Anthony Salerno filled in for Matthew Sussman for as King Moros for an episode where he had one line.[[/note]] In an example of Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, the replacement voices in this show are almost universally considered better than the originals. |
| 522 | ** 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 Creator/LisaOrtiz back as Lina, but they were unable to, so Creator/CynthiaMartinez notably replaced her, and in ''Slayers Premium'', Creator/ChrisPatton filled in for Creator/EricStuart as Gourry, Creator/LuciChristian filled in for Veronica Taylor as Amelia, and Kurt Stoll filled in for David Moo as Xellos; however, Creator/CrispinFreeman returned to play Zelgadis since he was in the area at the time anyway. |
| 523 | ** When Funimation outsourced the ''Slayers Revolution'' and ''Evolution-R'' dubs to NYAV Post (who records in both New York and Los Angeles), Ortiz, Stuart, Taylor, and Freeman all returned to play the four leads. Pretty much everyone else however, was replaced: Creator/MichaelSinterniklaas replaced David Moo as Xellos, Creator/StephanieSheh replaced Stacia Crawford as Sylphiel, Creator/LiamOBrien replaced Peter Davis as Rezo, David Brimmer replacing Creator/JimmyZoppi as Philionel, and Creator/MarcThompson replacing Roger Kay as Shabranigdo. The only other character to keep their original voice was Gaav (Creator/DanGreen), as well as Hellmaster Phibrizzo (Creator/WayneGrayson) for his brief cameo. |
| 524 | ** The Japanese cast has stuck through for the most part; however, Creator/MinoruInaba would become Prince Phil's second Japanese voice in the third season after his first, Masahiro Anzai, was incapacitated by a severe case of diabetes. |
| 525 | * ''Manga/SoulEater'': |
| 526 | ** Mostly averted for the English cast of ''Soul Eater Not!'', where the entire original ''Soul Eater'' cast reprised their roles for the returning characters, even Creator/LauraBailey as Maka. The one exception was Mira Naigus, who was voiced by Shay Moore in the original series, and instead by Creator/AnastasiaMunoz in the spinoff. |
| 527 | ** Barely averted for Harvar D. Eclair, who was voiced by the above-mentioned Creator/ScottFreeman. Reprising the role ended up being one of his very final projects before his career-ending arrest. |
| 528 | * ''[[Anime/SpaceBattleShipYamato Star Blazers]]'': The third season had a completely different dub cast from the first two seasons, since the dubbing was taken over by Peter Fernandez and his ''Anime/SpeedRacer'' voice team. |
| 529 | * ''Manga/SquidGirl'': The first season was dubbed at Creator/BangZoomEntertainment in Los Angeles by Creator/MediaBlasters. After their license expired, Creator/SentaiFilmworks rescued the entire series, but dubbed the second season and OVA at their local studio in Houston, with a brand new cast. However, Creator/ChristineMarieCabanos returned as Squid Girl herself due to fan demand. |
| 530 | * ''Manga/StrikeWitches'': When the second season was being produced, Creator/SaekoChiba was on maternity leave, so Saori Seto was brought on board to play Mio Sakamoto in the Japanese version. Creator/KiraVincentDavis reprised her role in the English dub though. |
| 531 | * ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'': |
| 532 | ** When this received an English dubbed release in 2006, all of the old ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'' cast was replaced. A peculiar and startling aversion, however, came from the character of Lynn Minmay. Perhaps remembering how much Minmay's lackluster actress in ''Robotech'' had contributed to making her TheScrappy, the producers went out of their way to hire Mari Iijima, the ''original Japanese actress'', for the dub (although not even she was safe from that dub's criticism, mostly due to her Japanese accent standing out sharply among the otherwise American cast). |
| 533 | ** Though he's only performed the role in video games [[note]]Creator/ShojiKawamori hasn't had any interest in revisiting Hikaru, Misa and Minmay since 1987's ''Macross Flashback 2012''[[/note]], Kenji Nojima has taken over portraying Hikaru Ichijyo since the 1996 death of the character's original voice actor, Arihiro Hase. |
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| 535 | * ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'': |
| 536 | ** Notably after ''Tenchi Universe'', Mihoshi, Kiyone, Tenchi's Father, Tenchi's Grandfather, Tsunami, Misao, and minor characters Kazuhiko, Azaka, and Kamidake were all recast at the same time for various reasons: |
| 537 | *** Creator/WendeeLee took over the voice of Kiyone Makibi despite the fact that her original VA, Creator/SherryLynn, was still active as Sasami and Tsunami. Ironically, she does later voice ''a'' Kiyone in the later [=OVAs=] -- Kiyone ''Masaki'', Tenchi's mom, who was originally voiced by Petrea Burchard (Ryoko's original voice) for her brief appearance in the original [=OVAs=]. |
| 538 | *** Sherry was also briefly replaced as Tsunami as well, for the final two episodes of the ''Magical Girl Pretty Sammy'' OVA, where Lara Cody voiced the character instead. |
| 539 | *** Also in Pretty Sammy, Misao was recast after the first episode from Susan Turney Cray to Creator/DebiDerryberry. Yuka and Yuma (Ayeka's assistants) also went from Ellen Gerstell and Kate T. Vogt respectively to Lara Cody and Wendee Lee at the same time. |
| 540 | *** The big recast was Creator/RebeccaForstadt taking over for Ellen Gerstell as Mihoshi in 1998 following Gerstell's retirement. |
| 541 | *** Also, the late Creator/BobPapenbrook took over the roles of Tenchi's father and grandfather after Jay Hopper moved away. |
| 542 | ** When Creator/{{Funimation}} was set to have episode 18 of ''Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP'' recorded, which reintroduced the original OVA cast, none of the original cast members could return for time and budget reasons and thus everyone got new voices (one could say Mihoshi and Tenchi's grandfather were the only ones to return, but they were already Other Darrins; it was their ''second'' voices that returned). |
| 543 | ** The third OVA series: |
| 544 | *** When [=FUNimation=] got ahold of the third OVA series, they ''were'' able to get most of the voices back. However, Ryoko's voice actress (Petrea Burchard) notably couldn't return for unknown reasons (rumor says it was a pay dispute), so the studio ended up using her GXP VA (Mona Marshall) to reprise her role. To their credit, though, they ''tried'' to make her sound like the original, but not even that could save this recast from being one of the most notoriously controversial ever in English anime. |
| 545 | *** Tokimi and D3 also found themselves with new voices for this. Tokimi's was odd, as her original VA, Creator/JenniferDarling, had returned as Ayeka. Also, Noike was voiced by Kari Wahlgren in OVA 3 after Mona Marshall had voiced the role for her brief appearance in GXP. However, Sherry Lynn did get her role of Tsunami back. |
| 546 | ** When ''Anime/SasamiMagicalGirlsClub'' was being made, the decision was made not to use Creator/ChisaYokoyama, Sasami's Japanese seiyuu since the Tenchi franchise began, in favor of an actual child. Likewise, Funimation didn't rehire Creator/SherryLynn for the English dub either, however instead of casting a real kid, they cast an adult actress, Alison Viktorin, who had experience voicing children. Mihoshi, Washu, and Misao also found themselves with all-new voices (Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard, Creator/LuciChristian, and Creator/MonicaRial respectively). They were all also recast in Japan. |
| 547 | ** ''Ai Tenchi Muyo!'': |
| 548 | *** With the release of ''Ai Tenchi Muyo!'', all but one of the original Japanese cast returned with Creator/HaruhiNanao replacing Creator/YumiTakada as Ayeka, who retired years ago. When the 4th Tenchi OVA debuted in 2017, Mihoshi was also recast with Creator/MichieTomizawa, due to Creator/YukoMizutani's untimely death in the previous year. |
| 549 | *** The English release of ''Ai Tenchi Muyo'' is an interesting case as they got back Petrea Buchard as Ryoko, but they couldn't get back Kate Vogt as Washu or Jennifer Darling as Ayeka (though Jennifer's case makes a little more sense as she's over 70 at this point) |
| 550 | * ''Anime/TekkamanBlade'': The show has two English dubs (both titled "Teknoman") produced by Saban, one for international broadcast (Australia and other countries) and one for the USA, the latter airing on UPN. An actor named David Thomas voiced the lead in the international version, but his lines were redubbed by Bob Bergen for the UPN version (the character's dub name also shifted from being Nick Carter/Teknoman Blade, to Ness Carter/Teknoman Slade). Ringo Richards' actor also changed between dubs, from Kerrigan Mahan to Michael [=McConnohie=]. |
| 551 | * ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': While almost every other character kept the same voice actor after the TimeSkip in the dub, ([[spoiler:except Simon and Rossiu in the DistantFinale]]) Nia went from being voiced by Creator/HyndenWalch to Creator/BridgetHoffman (though the fact that it happens over the TimeSkip makes it less noticeable as characters frequently change actors over such periods) It was later explained in a press release that Hynden had to drop out of the show for personal reasons. |
| 552 | * ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'': |
| 553 | ** In the Italian dub, Tart's voice actress in the last ten episodes was changed without any reason. |
| 554 | ** The Blue Knight was voiced by Ryo's voice actor for most of his appearances, then it was replaced with Masaya's voice actor some episodes before TheReveal. |
| 555 | ** Same happened with Deep Blue. Made even more jarring because the first voice is [[CrossdressingVoices a female one]]. |
| 556 | ** The entire Portuguese cast of ''Tokyo Mew Mew'' was replaced for the second half of the series since the first half was based off the 4Kids English dub, and the company doing the second half completely ignored everything that was done for the first half. Not only was the entire voice cast different (despite the same voice pool being used), but the character names and attack names were changed as well. The only voice that carried over was Mark/Aoyama's, but this is usually assumed to be a coincidence, since he was not instructed to use the same voice. |
| 557 | * ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'': |
| 558 | ** Megatron himself is voiced by a different actor in the English pilot. Lori is also played by a stand-in in three episodes. |
| 559 | ** [[DuelingDubs Both of the]] Hungarian dubs suffered heavily from this. The first was subjected to a major recast near the end of the Speed Planet arc, which also saw the character Override [[ShesAManInJapan changing his/her gender]], and the rest of the episodes kept switching around the voices of side characters randomly. In the second dub, which is just a tad less inconsistent, there are oddities like Backstop getting a different voice in the final episode, even though his original VA was still there playing his other role. |
| 560 | * ''[[Manga/{{Trigun}} Trigun: Badlands Rumble]]'': For the English dub, any character from the original series who showed up, except for Vash, got a new voice actor. This was due to the TV series being dubbed in Los Angeles by Geneon/Animaze, and the movie being dubbed in Texas by [=FUNimation=]. Creator/DorothyEliasFahn and Jeff Nimoy, who voiced Meryl and Wolfwood respectively in the TV series dub mentioned that they did inquire about returning, but [=FUNimation=] refused to pay their travel fees. After they asked for salaries that would compensate these costs, both were quietly replaced. However Lia Sargent, who voiced Milly, retired from voice acting years ago and wasn't expected to return anyway, and Creator/JohnnyYongBosch was able to return as Vash because of his regular work at [=FUNimation=]. Bosch was also able to reprise his role in ''[[Anime/TrigunStampede Stampede]]'' making him pretty much the only actor who appeared in all three iterations of ''Trigun''. |
| 561 | ** Speaking of which, all of the Japanese voice actors have been recast in ''Stampede'': |
| 562 | *** Creator/YoshitsuguMatsuoka replaces Creator/MasayaOnosaka as Vash the Stampede. |
| 563 | *** Creator/JunyaIkeda replaces Creator/ToruFurusawa as Millions Knives. |
| 564 | *** Sakura Andou replaces the late Creator/HiromiTsuru as Meryl Stryfe, after Tsuru died in 2017. |
| 565 | *** Creator/YoshimasaHosoya replaces Creator/ShowHayami as Nicholas D. Wolfwood. |
| 566 | *** Creator/KoukiUchiyama replaces Creator/ToshihikoSeki as Legato Bluesummers. |
| 567 | *** Creator/MaayaSakamoto replaces Creator/AyaHisakawa as Rem Saverem. |
| 568 | *** Creator/{{TARAKO}} replaces Creator/HiroshiKamiya as Zazie The Beast. |
| 569 | ** Same can be said with the rest of the English voice actors: |
| 570 | *** Creator/AustinTindle voices Millions Knives instead of the late Kirk Baily, who died in 2022. |
| 571 | *** Creator/SarahRoach replaces Creator/LuciChristian[[note]]who herself replaced Creator/DorothyEliasFahn for ''Badlands Rumble''[[/note]] as Meryl Stryfe. |
| 572 | *** Creator/DavidMatranga replaces Creator/BradHawkins[[note]]who replaced Jeff Nimoy in ''Badlands Rumble''[[/note]] as Nicholas D. Wolfwood. |
| 573 | *** Creator/EmilyFajardo voices Rem Saverem instead of Creator/BridgetHoffman. |
| 574 | *** Creator/MadeleineMorris voices Zazie The Beast instead of Creator/DerekStephenPrince. |
| 575 | *** Creator/DamanMills voices Legato Bluesummers instead of Creator/RichardCansino. |
| 576 | * ''Anime/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'': The German voice actress of Sakura is Manja Doering, who played Sakura Kinomoto in ''Anime/CardCaptorSakura''. On the other hand, Syaolan's voice actor is someone else, Konrad Bösherz. However, in the movie, Sakura is voiced by another voice actress, but Doering reprises her role in season 2 and in ''Tsubasa Tokyo Revelation''. In season 2, Syaolan's voice actor Bösherz was replaced by David Turba, who played Shaoran Li in ''Card Captor Sakura'', but in ''Tokyo Revelation'', Bösherz reprises his role as Syaolan. The odd part is that David Turba, who also played Nataku in ''Manga/{{X1999}}'' (movie, OVA and series), reprises his role as Nataku in ''Tokyo Revelation''. Toya and Yukito's voice actors from ''Card Captor Sakura'' reprises their roles in ''Tsubasa'', except that Yukito's voice actor is replaced in season 2. However, many characters got different voice actors in season 2. |
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| 578 | * ''Manga/{{Unico}}'': |
| 579 | ** In Japan, Unico has been voiced by seven different voice actors in anime and other media. He was originally voiced by Hiroya Oka in the 1979 pilot ''Anime/UnicoBlackCloudAndWhiteFeather'' by [[Creator/{{Sanrio}} Sanrio Animation]]. When Sanrio decided to turn the manga into two feature films (''Anime/TheFantasticAdventuresOfUnico'' and ''Anime/UnicoInTheIslandOfMagic'') in the early 80s, the titular foal was replaced by Katsue Miwa. When Unico returned to animation in 2000 with the [[ShortFilm anime short]] ''Saving Our Fragile Earth: Unico Special'', Katsue Miwa was replaced by Creator/AkikoYajima for the short film. In the 2005 animated short ''Dr. Pinoko's Forest Adventures'', Rumiko Tezuka (daughter of Creator/OsamuTezuka) was chosen to voice the character. |
| 580 | ** Similar to Japan, Unico was originally voiced by late voice actress Matilde Vilariño in the 1984 dub of ''The Fantastic Adventures of Unico''. In the 2010 Spanish dubs for ''Unico in the Island of Magic'' and ''Unico Black Cloud and White Feather'', Rosa Romay would take over the role as the character due to retiring from voice acting due to old age. |
| 581 | ** In Italy, the 2022 Italian dub of ''Unico in the Island of Magic'' replaced the original Italian voices of Unico and The West Wind. [[LateExportForYou This is due to a 36 year gap]] between the 1986 Italian dub of the first movie and its sequel. [[DuelingDubs Alongside the first Unico movie getting a second Italian dub in 2022.]] |
| 582 | * ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'': |
| 583 | ** While Megane is usually voiced by Creator/ShigeruChiba, Naoki Tatsuta filled in for his absence for episode 3. |
| 584 | ** Chibi was originally voiced by Tomohiro Nishimura for his appearances in episodes 1, 3, and 5, but was voiced by Issei Futamata for the rest of the series and the [=OVAs=]. |
| 585 | ** Ran was first voiced by Creator/YouInoue, and then by Kazue Komiya. |
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| 590 | * ''Manga/VampirePrincessMiyu'': |
| 591 | ** Miyu went from being voiced by Creator/KimberlyJBrown to Creator/DorothyEliasFahn after 7 episodes. In addition, Pamela Wielder had earlier voiced the role in the Creator/AnimEigo dub of the OVA, and Annemarie Zola voiced her in the (now rare) Manga UK dub of the OVA. |
| 592 | ** Since the TV series was made almost a decade after the OAV, in the Japanese version, Miyu's role went from Creator/NaokoWatanabe to Creator/MikiNagasawa. Similarly, Creator/KanetoShiozawa had already passed away, so Creator/ShinichiroMiki took over as Larva. |
| 593 | * ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'': |
| 594 | ** For some reason, Van's German dub voice actor, Byorn Schalla, didn't reprise his role in the movie, and was replaced by Robin Kahnmeyer. |
| 595 | ** In the Ocean English dub, a number of secondary characters had voices changed for various reasons. Yukari was first voiced by Willow Johnson at the start of the show, but was later replaced by Creator/SaffronHenderson (she was also the voice of Eriya and Celena Schezar). Willow returned as Yukari for the movie, however. |
| 596 | ** The Dragon Slayers under Dilandau were especially notorious for this. Dallet, Shesta, and Gatti all had at least three (actors/actresses) per man. Sometimes their voices would change in the same episode! All three were voiced by Creator/VenusTerzo (Millerna) at various points while in others actors, such as Creator/BrianDrummond (Allen), Creator/AndrewFrancis (Dilandau), Creator/CathyWeseluck, Terry Klassen (Moleman), and even Van's voice actor Creator/KirbyMorrow provided their speaking parts. Shesta even got a fourth voice in the movie (Creator/TrevorDevall, in case you were wondering). |
| 597 | ** Two of the three Zaibach generals (Zodia and Getin) had multiple actors as well — Creator/MichaelDobson and later his brother Creator/PaulDobson for Zodia and Drummond, Don Brown (Balgus), and Richard Newman (Dornkirk) for Getin. |
| 598 | ** Young Van was voiced by Creator/AndrewFrancis in the TV series but was changed to Jocelyn Loewen (Merle) for the movie dub. |
| 599 | ** The new [=FUNimation=] redub of the series will invoke this yet again with an entire new voice cast. [[Anime/DragonBallZ This isn't the first]] [[Literature/ShakuganNoShana and second time FUNi has replaced an Ocean voice cast]]. |
| 600 | * ''Anime/VoltesV'': |
| 601 | ** Italian dub: |
| 602 | *** The Narrator was voiced by Valeriano Leo (episodes 01-26), Ribaudo Ermanno (episodes 27-37) and Cosolo Carlo (episodes 38-40). |
| 603 | *** Ippei Mine was voiced by Allegrini Carlo, then by Pannofino Francesco and then Ioannucci Marco. |
| 604 | *** Hiyoshi was voiced first by Andreini Gabriella, and then by Cadueri Monica. |
| 605 | *** Daijiro was voiced first by Pescucci Gastone, and then by Cosolo Carlo. |
| 606 | *** Like Daijiro, Jangal was voiced first by Pescucci Gastone, and then by Cosolo Carlo. |
| 607 | *** Kentaro Go was voiced first by Valeriano Leo, and then by Santi Giulano. |
| 608 | ** Greek dub: |
| 609 | *** Creator/MatinaKarras voiced Megumi, Hiyoshi and Katherine, but those roles later went to Katerina Petousi. |
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| 612 | * ''Manga/{{X1999}}'': |
| 613 | ** The entire Japanese and English cast of TheMovie was replaced in the series. |
| 614 | ** This is almost averted with the German cast. Most of the characters were voiced by the same actors, except Kotori, Sorata (who got Shogo Asagi's voice actor; Sorata's movie voice actor played Daisuke in the series) and Arashi. And for some reason, the German cast for the OVA, aka episode 0, is exactly the same as the movie's cast. |
| 615 | ** Some of the voice actors still play their characters in ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' with some changes. Shogo got two different voice actors in two seasons, Sorata and Arashi got different voice actors in season two, Kusanagi got a different voice actor. Later in ''Tokyo Revelation'', Kusanagi is still played by the same who played him in the ''Tsubasa'' series, Yuuto got Sorata's voice actor from the ''X'' the series and ''Tsubasa'' season 1, who still plays Sorata in ''Tokyo Revelation'', Yuzuhira is suddenly played by Satsuki's voice actress despite Yuzuhira's voice actress played her in the ''Tsubasa'' series while she's playing Mokona the time whole time, Karen got different voice actresses in the ''Tsubasa'' series and in ''Tokyo Revalation'', and Kakyo got a different voice actor. |
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| 617 | * ''Anime/YokaiWatch'': |
| 618 | ** In the German dub, Whisper was initially voiced by Oliver Krietsch-Matzura. Following Oliver's death from cancer on September 29, 2016, Martin Bross continued as the role of Whisper following episode 14. |
| 619 | ** In the Italian dub, Monica Bonetto was the voice of Komajiro until episode 37, when she died after a brief illness. Komajiro is now voiced by Cinzia Massironi. |
| 620 | ** The English dub switched from Creator/BangZoomEntertainment to SDI Media in its third season, leading to the following roles being recast: |
| 621 | *** Nate / Keita goes from being voiced by Creator/JohnnyYongBosch to Creator/GriffinBurns . |
| 622 | *** Katie / Fumiko goes from being voiced by Creator/MelissaHutchison to Creator/MorganBerry. |
| 623 | *** Eddie / Kanchi goes from being voiced by Brent Pendergrass to Creator/BrycePapenbrook . |
| 624 | *** Bear / Kuma goes from being voiced by Paul Greenberg to Tony Azzolino. |
| 625 | *** Whisper goes from being voiced by Joey D'Auria to Michael Sorich. |
| 626 | *** Jibanyan goes from being voiced by Alicyn Packard to Creator/KiraBuckland. |
| 627 | * ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': |
| 628 | ** A minor version of this was experienced when Funimation licensed the series after Central Park Media and Media Blasters had each dubbed a movie (the short first movie had been dubbed in Los Angeles by Animaze, and the main second movie had been dubbed in New York by Taj Productions). Two different casts were used for them alone, and when Funimation dubbed the series, their own Dallas-Ft. Worth talent was used instead, essentially a third cast that ended up becoming the officially known English voices (due to their dominance in the TV series). Funimation later redubbed the first movie, and also dubbed the [=OVAs=], but the second movie remains the only part of the franchise without their voices. A fourth English cast from Hong Kong was used for the Animax dub of the TV series for South-East Asian broadcast (but it, like almost all Animax dubs, is entirely unknown in North America). |
| 629 | ** The Philippine dub of ''Yu Yu Hakusho'' had this due to a change in TV stations. It was particularly glaring since the change in voice happened after a HeroicSacrifice with Genkai's spirit speaking through another character. Viewers took a while to realize that this was the new voice for Genkai. (Yusuke's change in voice-actors was less obvious but disconcerting for a while.) |
| 630 | ** The Japanese dub has a confusing example with Kurama. Usually voiced by Creator/MegumiOgata, he was voiced in his Yoko form by Creator/ShigeruNakahara. After the Dark Tournament arc, however, Ogata voiced Kurama in both forms (with the exception of a flashback in the last arc, where Nakahara provided a single line). |
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