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NEWS: Shout! Factory Releases Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna Anime Film on BD/DVD in Octob

How come Philece Sampler isn't reprising Mimi?

Aside from Mimi, can anyone confirm if the original actors/Tri cast have returned? And man, is it so hard to get Michael Reisz on board? I thought with so much fan demand we’d have a chance to get him back even with interest from the man himself

How come Philece Sampler isn't reprising Mimi? I mean, it makes sense for Cody to be recast, since he's an adult now, and his voice needed to change, but Sampler is capable of doing adult woman voices. How come she isn't coming back as Mimi even though she played her in all of the Tri movies?

On the other hand, there's no question to be made on why Matt got recast yet again.

A bit surprised that Kate Higgins took over as Mimi from Philece Sampler along with Christopher Swindle and Griffin Burns replacing Neil Kaplan and Brian Donovan as Hawkmon and David Montomiya respectively. Either it was union issues or they weren't asked to return but who can say, I guess Union issues could be one factor as Brian Donovan hasn't done ANY anime VO work besides voicing Rock Lee in the Naruto franchise so it's understandable why he didn't come back

Update- In an interview with Anime Chronicles (27 minutes in), Brian Donovan was asked about Kizuna, and a few details:
He doesn't do many non-union projects, but he was coming back for Davis.
He was going to speak at the Japanese premiere (we take this to mean the US screening that didn't happen, likely to announce the dub cast.)
An issue with his home studio (after the pandemic shut down traveling, etc.) means they had to recast and he is not Davis in Kizuna.

Sadly, I just got confirmation that I will NOT be rueprising the role of Hawkmon on the upcoming release. The production company decided to go in another direction. The timing was awful and they just couldn’t find a way to make it work.

I’m sure whoever they got will be okay.

Sadly, no. I wanted to. But, the studio and I just couldn’t find a way to make it work due to deadlines and Covid.

It's such a shame that it is probably because of COVID-19 and how not all of them got the quality home studio set ups done in time before the deadline is why certain voice actors are unable to come back but it's understandable though.

Also, no surprise that he who shall not be named is not coming back and got a new voice actor I have never heard of before replacing him as the new voice for Matt and I am still surprised that Michael Reisz isn't back after expressing interest in returning but that's life.

Now what I am really interested in is whether or not there will be an English dub of the Digimon Adventure reboot that had just came back to air not too long ago.

Lycosyncer wrote:

It's such a shame that it is probably because of COVID-19 and how not all of them got the quality home studio set ups done in time before the deadline is why certain voice actors are unable to come back but it's understandable though. Also, no surprise that he who shall not be named is not coming back and got a new voice actor I have never heard of before replacing him as the new voice for Matt and I am still surprised that Michael Reisz isn't back after expressing interest in returning but that's life. Now what I am really interested in is whether or not there will be an English dub of the Digimon Adventure reboot that had just came back to air not too long ago.

Not to break it to you, but are you getting a little ahead of yourself of this?