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flamemasterelan
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Your understanding is wrong. There are at least four locations commonly used for anime in America. The first being in Dallas, Texas, which is what Crunchyroll owns. The second most common location is in the LA area, where there are several dubbing studios that work in anime including Studiopolis, Bang Zoom and others, which Crunchyroll outsources to and Netflix uses as a primary. There's a second studio in Houston, Texas, which is used by Sentai. And the least used for anime is in Canada, which dubbed InuYasha, much of the Beyblade franchise, and most recently The Adventure of Dai. Adding an extra layer onto why VAs change so frequently is the fact that the LA-based studios work under SAG-AFTRA, while Texas is anti-union, and Canadian actors aren't members of the union in the US. So if a video game gets an anime adaptation, the video game might have been dubbed by SAG-AFTRA, but the company most likely to get the rights to it will be Crunchyroll, and unless they choose to outsource the project to an LA studio, they're likely to replace the cast. See the Trails of Cold Steel anime. |
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NeverConvex
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I'm not sure if this is what they're claiming? This: There was a misunderstanding that "Yoruichi Shihoin" was part of the list of the original cast members who were unavailable to participate in Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War. Sounds like it means "we didn't think the original VA was available" (which is a little embarrassing but not totally unbelievable), not "we didn't think Yoruichi was a character who appeared in the original series" (which does beggar belief). |
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Aresef
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Reading the statement from Studiopolis, I understand how it happened, but I think where they messed up was in trying to "correct" the problem without understanding the optics and morality of doing so.
I understand the desire to have casting carry over from show to show. But this isn't like the Digimon Tri/LEK/movie dubs, where there are no characters specifically coded as POC. I think they should have rolled with this and let Anairis Quiñones shine. There are a million other parts out there for Wendee Lee. |
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Nyren
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Just wanted to throw out that there are three big dubbing locations in the US. New York(NYAV Post), Texas(Funimation), and California(Bang Zoom). Crunchyroll/Funimation dub out of Texas and California, Aniplex dubs out of California, not sure who Sentai goes to, and smaller licensors have a tendency to use New York. Funimation/Crunchy primarily use Texas because Funimation has their own in-house dubbing studio, but they sometimes go to Bang Zoom in California because there are a lot of veteran voice actors there like Crispin Freeman. Once upon a time a decent number of dubs were made in Canada at The Ocean Group, not sure about now though. |
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flamemasterelan
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I missed New York, but covered this in more detail further up. |
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KitKat1721
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Yeah I definitely read the statement too quickly my bad, but honestly this isn't any more believable to me. Wendee Lee was already recording numerous other characters in TYBW. Even if it was a simple typo or error on a spreadsheet, someone in the pipeline would have caught it before it got to the point they said it did. |
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AsuraTheDestructor
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No offense, but do you have any proof to say that this is actually true? |
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Villain-chan
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Regardless, a large chunk is done in TX and even if it weren't, I pointed out that doesn't matter anymore and can be done from most anywhere in the world (Albeit not everywhere in the world as parts of the world still have lower tech and or worse internet). I also want to ask the question since it wasn't mentioned (And I hadn't intended to ask till now) but where even in Japan does most of the VA take place? If its truly just a few places, like the US, then if Japan can have so many VA stay the same I don't see why the US can't as well. (Besides greed ofc, since I know some are gonna mention in response to what I just said, union vs non union, worth mention I've no idea if Japan has a similar thing or not though) and even if its not then again, the US has a way to now do it outside of where they've been recording. A shame though that they seem to have stopped using the tech. |
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BadNewsBlues
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He did do all of that yes including voicing the character in stuff that took place outside of the DCAU. But even still he wasn’t used in The Batman, Beware The Batman, Young Justice, or Arkham Origins all of which was done around the same time as all the other stuff he voiced the character in. Like yeah in some American works you can have actors that will voice the same character for decades without them ever being substituted but that’s not for all roles.
? George Newbern replacing Tim Daly as Superman in the DCAU? Any Transformers property not set in the G1 timeline that brought back Peter Cullen or Frank Welker? Last edited by BadNewsBlues on Thu Oct 26, 2023 4:53 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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NJ_
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Sentai dubs out of Texas in the Houston area (like ADV did back in the day which also included Austin) while Funiroll dubs out of Dallas.
Ocean's dubs these days are if commissioned by Japanese companies (see Toei & Bushiroad) but it's true, they were used a lot in the 90s and early-mid 00s. |
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flamemasterelan
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A "large chunk" as in less than 50% of the voicework in English dubs. You can say "I'm talking about anime," but we're talking about keeping the same voice actors between different series, different licensors, and different forms of media. As I've already pointed out with Trails of Cold Steel, most of those actors are union and centered in LA, so when it came time for CR to simuldub the series, the majority were replaced without warning. And, no, it can't be done most anywhere. You need the proper equipment. Most VA's have to live near a voice acting hub like LA, Houston, Austin, or New York if they want to continue working, and in the case of returning series, the licensing company has to contract out to other studios. Quality equipment is generally too expensive for home use, especially when most VA's work for so little per project. |
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Aresef
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And another thing: Why is Studiopolis only coming out with a statement now? Why was Anairis Quiñones hung out to dry?
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GNPixie
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This just screams incompetence to be honest, given both have had multiple roles in the show. Anairis is doing both Mera and covering Hiyori and Lee's already reprised Tatsuki and was clearly excited about coming back as Yoru. How the hell do you **** that up? Like, this just makes Studiopolis seems incomptent as hell. Did they even bother to contact Lee in the first place? |
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penguintruth
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A PoC was given the part, racists complained, the PoC was relieved of the part. Correlation may not necessarily imply causation, but there's certainly enough evidence there to conclude it did in this case. What do you think happened? The bullshit Studiopolis just described? Don't be naive. |
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Nonaka Machine Gun B
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LossThief pretty much summed it up. I 100% believe in the carelessness/incompetence. The studio kowtowing to online trolls is laughable considering they are spammed with "Bring back David Lodge! Bring back Roger Craig Smith!" on every post they make.
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