History TheOtherDarrin / Naruto

*** Interestingly, several cases of TalkingToHimself were avoided later on, as Zaku (done by Creator/SamRiegel) would face Shino in the Chūnin Exams and Guy (Creator/SkipStellrecht) would face Itachi after the Sand/Sound Invasion Arc.
* Zetsu, Deidara, Kakuzu, and Pain are yet more cases where the dub voice for the character was someone completely different on their first (cameo) appearance at the end of Part I: Zetsu went from Creator/BrianBeacock and Peter Lurie (each one voicing [[SplitPersonality a different of Zetsu's halves]]) to Creator/TravisWillingham, while Pain went from Creator/DaveWittenberg to Creator/TroyBaker, Deidara went from Creator/QuintonFlynn to Creator/RogerCraigSmith, and Kakuzu went from Creator/PaulStPeter to Creator/FredTatasciore. Pain's switch also avoided the TalkingToHimself trope as Kakashi, already voiced by Wittenberg, would fight the Akatsuki leader during the Invasion of Pain arc.

** Shimon Hijiri, Tonbo Tobitake, and Mozuku's voices changed throughout their sparse appearances. Shimon was voiced by Creator/RobbieRist for one line in the first phase of the Chūnin Exams before Cansino did in the Invasion of Pain, and Mozuku was voiced in the former-mentioned arc by Creator/KyleHebert before Creator/ToddHaberkorn took over in the latter.[[note]]Likely to avoid TalkingToHimself as Inoichi Yamanaka, also voiced by Kyle, played a semi-important role in the arc.[[/note]] Tonbo had it the worst, however, going through ''three'' different actors. Creator/StephenApostolina voiced him in the Chūnin Exams, while Creator/BobJoles played him in his cameo during the Mizuki Strikes Back filler arc, and finally, Creator/DerekStephenPrince voiced him in the Invasion of Pain.

* Karui was initially voiced by Creator/CindyRobinson, [[TalkingToHimself also the voice of her teammate Samui,]] but Danielle Nicolet took over the part starting from episode 176. Later towards the series end, when Nicolet's commitments to ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' caused schedule conflicts, she dropped out of voice work for a while, leaving Sascha Alexander to voice Karui from ''Shippūden's'' end and into ''Boruto''.

* Due to [[Creator/TroyBaker Troy Baker's]] increasing schedules with voiceover for video games, both his roles of Pain and Yamato were recast with Creator/MatthewMercer, even in the ''Naruto''-related video games over time. Mercer took over for Pain (and by extension Yahiko) in episode 324 whereas he took over Yamato about eight episodes into the Paradise filler arc (episode 230) and up to his capture by Kabuto. Baker didn't want to drop out, apparently, but the tight schedules forced his hand.

** The first installment of the ''Ultimate Ninja'' series had a lot of irregularities in the cast due to its dubbing occurring while only the first two seasons of the anime were produced. Some characters would be voiced by someone completely different despite being well into airing Season Two at the time. The most notable example is likely Jiraiya being voiced by Creator/RichardCansino instead of [[Creator/DavidLodgeAmericanActor David Lodge]] who'd book the role in the show.

* Karui was initially voiced by Creator/CindyRobinson, [[TalkingToHimself also the voice of her teammate Samui,]] but Danielle Nicolet took over the part starting from episode 176. Later towards the series end, when Nicolet's commitments to ''[[Series/TheFlash2014 The Flash]]'' caused schedule conflicts, she dropped out of voice work for a while, leaving Sascha Alexander to voice Karui from ''Shippūden's'' end and into ''Boruto''.

''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'', as a LongRunner that aired for over fifteen years (2002-2017) in Japan and was dubbed in America for almost the same amount of time (2005-2019), it should come as no surprise that there'd be changes to its vocal cast on both sides of the Pacific. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/NarutoObitoUchiha One character]] had enough complications with his portrayal that he needed '''HIS OWN FOLDER'''. Even with the higher pay on the Union dub's side, some actors would retire or leave the voiceover gig. The show was lucky it didn't have '''MORE''' recasts.

* Boruto originally had the same voice as his father, Maile Flanagan. Starting from ''Boruto the Movie'', he was given a new voice actress, Creator/AmandaCelineMiller, which makes him sound more individual. Himawari also had this happen to her, going from Creator/StephanieSheh to Creator/MelissaFahn.

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** The first installment of the ''Ultimate Ninja'' series had a lot of irregularities in the cast due to its dubbing occurring while only the first two seasons of the anime were produced. Some characters would be voiced by someone completely different despite being well into airing Season Two at the time. The most notable example is likely Jiraiya being voiced by Creator/RichardCansino instead of [[Creator/DavidLodgeActor David Lodge]] who'd book the role in the show.

** Hidan and Kakuzu went through some changes before Chris Edgerly and Fred Tatasciore became their definitive voices. Kakuzu was, as stated above, voiced by Paul St. Peter for his cameo in Episode 135 and later by Creator/JBBlanc for his chiding Hidan during Gaara's sealing ritual in episode 17 of ''Shippūden''. The next episode had Travis Willingham providing his two lines with Neil Kaplan doing Kakuzu's one line in ''Road to Ninja'' (Tatasciore is still credited for whatever reason). Hidan was voiced by Pain's actor Troy Baker in all of those earlier episodes and Creator/WallyWingert would briefly voice him in ''Clash of Ninja Revolution 3''.

** Hidan and Kakuzu went through some changes before Chris Edgerly and Fred Tatasciore became their definitive voices. Kakuzu was, as stated above, voiced by Paul St. Peter for his cameo in Episode 135 and later by John [=DeMita=] for his chiding Hidan during Gaara's sealing ritual in episode 17 of ''Shippūden'' before Tatasciore took over for the next episode onward. Neil Kaplan did Kakuzu's one line in ''Road to Ninja'' (Tatasciore is still credited for whatever reason). Hidan had three different voices during Gaara's sealing, the first being Skip Stellrecht (previously Itachi's original voice) in episode 12 when he volunteers to stall Team Guy with the second being Roger Craig Smith (Deidara) in episode 17 when he's complaining about not finding his jinchūriki quick enough. Creator/WallyWingert would briefly voice Hidan in ''Clash of Ninja Revolution 3'' before Edgerly would take over for episode 18 of ''Shippūden''.

* The granddaughter of Granny Cat's, Tamaki, was voiced by Creator/MeganHollingshead in her first appearance but was replaced by Creator/StephanieSheh for her appearance as a child in the Konoha History filler arc. It wasn't too jarring a change at the time given the circumstances, but Stephanie seems to have permanently made the character her own after Tamaki returned in the finale of ''Shippūden'' and continues voicing her in ''Boruto''.

* While averted[[note]]Except in the Rock Lee spin-off[[/note]] by Naruto himself, his Sexy Jutsu persona [[FanNickname "Naruko"]] has had a few changes. Mainly, at least early on, Stephanie Sheh voices the sexy persona, but Jeannie Elias supplied the voice during Jiraiya's training with Naruto, and Mary [=McGlynn=] herself took over for "her" appearance in the "Please, Mr. Postman?" filler episode plus in one episode during the Konoha History filler arc and again for "her" unsuccessful seduction of Killer Bee. Cindy Robinson voices "Naruko" for two other episodes during said arc whereas Kate Higgins took over for the jutsu's appearance in the Paradise filler arc.

** Even after Obito's reveal, there was one inconsistency with this real voice. The video game ''Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution'' had Yurchak as "goofy" Tobi and Kaplan as "Madara" Tobi but Obito Uchiha was voiced by Creator/ToddHaberkorn instead of Yurchak. This was corrected later in ''Ultimate Ninja Revolution 4'', which put Yurchak in the proper role in addition to the anime's dub.

* The Fire Daimyō's first animated appearance was in ''The Will of Fire'' where he was voiced by Creator/SteveKramer, but his canon appearances after the Invasion of Pain were performed by Creator/GrantGeorge.

** Hidan and Kakuzu went through some changes before Chris Edgerly and Fred Tatasciore became their definitive voices. Kakuzu was, as stated above, voiced by Paul St. Peter for his cameo in Episode 135 and later by John [=DeMita=] for his chiding Hidan during Gaara's sealing ritual in episode 17 of ''Shippūden'' before Tatasciore took over for the next episode onward. Hidan had three different voices during these scenes, the first being Skip Stellrecht (previously Itachi's original voice) in episode 12 when he volunteers to stall Team Guy with the second being Roger Craig Smith (Deidara) in episode 17 when he's complaining about not finding his jinchūriki quick enough. Creator/WallyWingert would briefly voice Hidan in ''Clash of Ninja Revolution 3'' before Edgerly would take over for episode 18 of ''Shippūden''.