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Hmm... I guess this is the exact same problem Role Association had when it was known as "Hey, It's That Guy!" and "Hey, It's That Voice!".
Yeah, it's been known for some time that Relationship Voice Actor has pretty much just been the latest dumping ground for this sort of nonsense. I have no idea why it is some tropers seem to be so invested in tracking everything about different actors' appearances, but it's still as off-mission as ever.
TBH I'm not 100 percent convinced Relationship Voice Actor is a trope at all. I'm not sure how many legitimate, intentional examples it has.
I posted a longer response in your Is This An Example thread post
but also, what in the world is even the "relationship" that's supposedly being described in Relationship Voice Actor? There's no context at all unless you've watched each show on each bullet point and know everything about the character to draw your on conclusions. All the trivia pages do is link a bunch of creator pages and works. They're just a bunch of zero-context effortless links and I'd vote on just nuking them until someone fixes them a la what I think is a better-explained example in that link.
I'd suggest nuking the ZCEs, then we can examine what's left to see if it's tropeworthy. A cleanup thread would probably be helpful.
Even if we got rid of the ZCEs, that doesn't change the fact that Relationship Voice Actor is just a reskinned Those Two Actors.
This sort of thing is frequently shoehorned into Hilarious in Hindsight as well- usually along the lines of "These two characters are voiced by actors who previously played [other characters] in [anime], so it's almost as if their previous characters were now doing something different!"
Edited by BlackMageJ
^^ Didn't know about that trope. Does seem rather similar. Might warrant a Duplicate Trope TRS thread.
I recently deleted a similar entry on Trivia.How Heavy Are The Dumbbells You Lift with the justification that it did nothing but list series in which the VAs appeared together without ever explaining how that's relevant in Dumbbell's casting. Frankly, a lot of Trivia pages I cover have that problem, too, but I really want a TRS to choose a verdict before anyone goes on a purge.
"They played us like a DAMN FIDDLE!" — Kazuhira Miller, Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain
@nrjxll There's a segment of the wiki that's creepily obsessed with voice actors (and I mean beyond being regular fans). Like 2 years ago we had to have a giant clean up of the various voice actor pages because they were fill with weird ass overly specific personal details and nonsensical entry that'd list voice actor x as the Texas version of voice actor y from Japan and voice actor z from new york.
I think this is an artifact of those same entries. We didn't clear those at the time since they had a legitimate trope page we'd have had to work on redefining or tightening and coz those entries are on work pages.
I suggest opening a trs thread myself.
Edited by Ghilz
I see the misuse continues, with Levius and Astra Lost in Space'' being the latest victims. If it's all the same to you, I'm gonna delete them.
Bumping this again since the Trivia.My Hero Academia entry is huge.
Yeah, the same actors showing up in different animes is not tropeworthy. In many animes where their characters have similar backgrounds, sure.
And yeah, that part of the MHA page is way too long.
I'm seeing that a lot of trivia pages for anime like Granbelm, Domestic Girlfriend, Record Of Grancrest War, Ulysses Jeanne D Arc And The Alchemist Knights and Rascal Does Not Dream Of Bunny Girl Senpai have entries for Relationship Voice Actor that list every last connection between voice actors that worked in the same anime, even if those connections are mild at best and those actors' characters rarely interact. What should we do about this?