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NEWS: Anairis Quiñones to No Longer Voice Yoruichi in Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Anime's Englis

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?

But by this logic shouldn't dubbed anime have exclusively asian casts in most cases?

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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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?

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?

He's literally playing the role of "Gonzou Kosugi" in a current show, a Japanese character. Asians are people of color as well. Price is just posturing for social media points. If he really meant that statement, he should only be doing voices for clearly white characters. But he's still voicing Asian (Japanese) characters so he's just a hypocrite.

Wendee was unfairly attacked by a lot of people. She said a lot of bad things but people even attacked her for just explaining why the casting was a mistake to begin with.

As an Asian person though, I can't understand why the color of a voice actor matters anyway. Most anime characters are Japanese. Most English voice actors are not Asian. It doesn't matter and roles should not be decided by the actors skin color. It's honestly just racism to choose by skin color. Yoruichi isn't even black. She's Japanese with dark tone. So casting a black actor in the role to "match" wasn't even accurate. Cast for acting ability and if the voice fits the character. Nothing else matters. Cast completely unknown people if need be, if they're the best fit.

Racists reveal themselves more with every word that comes out of their mouths. Wendee Lee can’t act.

We are NOT about to do this revisionist history with Bleach here. You’re saying Yoruichi isn’t BLACK? Would you say the same thing about Tousen Kaname or are you just here to troll?

That's not what revisionist history is. You have to agree on something or present an undisputed fact before someone can try to revise it. The burden of proof should be on person making a claim, not the other side to disprove it. Occam's Razor would have us assume Yoruichi is Japanese just like every other character in the show unless otherwise stated, which Kubo has had no issues doing so in the past such as we've seen with Sado.

The alternative is to assume Kubo simply forgot to mention Yoruichi is also mixed race or a foreigner. But given the characters name, and her entire power-set being based off the raijin, the safest bet is to assume she's Japanese just like Rukia, Byakuya, and all the other characters no one ever questions the ethnicity of.

Nor do people seem to mind Rukia being voiced by Michelle Ruff, or any of the other Japanese characters being voiced by non-Japanese actors.

The only argument people have about Yoruichi being Black is she has a darker skin color than the other characters, but Black people do not have a monopoly on that. That's just as much evidence to suggest she's South Asian. Indian, Polynesian, or any of the other ethnicity that can have dark skin, which includes plenty of other Asian groups as well if one wants to keep the character within the Asian territories. I assume it's the same reason why you see people assume anime characters are white or look white: ethnocentrism.

As most of this discussion happens in America people often only look at things from an American perspective where racial issues are primarily dominated by White/Black talking points, leaving alternative views and arguments to be overshadowed. Perhaps in the Hindi anime fandom you'll find many people saying Yoruichi must be Indian, since that would be more relevant to them. Perhaps those in the Pacific Islands would think she's Polynesian. Those arguments have the same amount of weight as the one being presented by those saying she's Black.

Why is there always so much drama around US anime dubs? Will that side of the industry ever evolve?