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Sentai Filmworks Sets August 22 Release Date for Beyond the Boundary Films

I wonder who they'll get to voice Mirai for the dub...

MarkyMarc413 wrote:

I wonder who they'll get to voice Mirai for the dub...

Imagine considering the TV anime had an English dub, Krystal LaPorte will be reprising the role.

As for the remainder of Sentai's August slate, only Food Wars has my attention. But will hold off on doing anything until I know the full series is being released.

Except there was some falling out between Sentai and Krystal, and her previously reprised roles were re-assigned (like in Chaika, IIRC), so....

MarkyMarc413 wrote:

Except there was some falling out between Sentai and Krystal, and her previously reprised roles were re-assigned (like in Chaika, IIRC), so....

Okay, just dug up the news. Pardon my language, but sounds like a dick move on Sentai's part to ditch her without any reason provided.

I'm just saying -- we don't have all the facts here... Might not be a good idea to assume it's the company here.

GeorgeC wrote:

I'm just saying -- we don't have all the facts here... Might not be a good idea to assume it's the company here.

I haven't read any of the news involved, but if they didn't give a reason why they recast her (and it sounds like they didn't), then there could be a whole host of reasons why she was recast, most of which are going to be personal issues of the actress and not the company. It's certainly possible that they decided that they had a problem with her and refuse to work with her now, but it's far more likely that something in her life makes it so that it doesn't work now. Maybe she moved. Maybe she got married and that changed her situation enough that it didn't work anymore. Maybe she got a new job where the schedule is such that doing dub work doesn't work anymore. Maybe she has an elderly family member who she has to take care of now, and her time is more limited. Maybe she decided that other stuff in her life mattered more and is now focusing her time on that instead. There are a lot of personal reasons why voice actors stop voice acting that have nothing to do with the dubbing company.

AFAIK, the list of cases where there has really been a falling out between a voice actor and one of the dubbing companies is pretty small. In the vast majority of cases, the actor couldn't do it anymore due to changes in their life. Occasionally, the dubbing company and the actor can't come to an agreement when they want them to reprise a role (e.g. with the 3rd Tenchi OVA, Funimation and Petrea Buchard couldn't come to an agreement, so she didn't play Ryoko - but she also hadn't done any anime dubbing in years, so who knows what her situation was), and sometimes the dubbing company simply doesn't bother to contact the original actor (usually when a different company is doing the new dub). But a falling out between the studio and the actor? It's probably happened before, but the only cases like that that I've heard of where I didn't later hear a completely different reason for the actor not reprising a role have been the few cases where the actor was arrested for a serious crime.

So, was there a falling out between Krystal LaPorte and Sentai Filmworks? I have no idea. Maybe there was, maybe there wasn't. But without either party saying that that's what happened, it seems like a stretch to argue that it did given that the alternatives are way more common. Now, if she starts doing a bunch of work for Funimation and never does anything else for Sentai, then that would certainly imply that there was a falling out, but that could also simply mean that she moved to Dallas. Without either of them saying anything, there's no way to know.

Now, I totally agree that it sucks when a voice actor is replaced, and I wish that it never happened, but sometimes there isn't much choice, and usually it seems to be that the actor isn't able to come back due to life changes rather than there being any problem between them and the dubbing company.

And maybe we'll get lucky and Krystal LaPorte will actually reprise her role in this series even though she didn't in some others. We'll just have to wait and see.

http://fightingfornippon.com/sentai-filmworks-replaces-krystal-laporte/

There's a good article from last year, documenting what happened to Krystal, as well as this note she posted on Twitter last February after she found out she was replaced/recast in shows she was working on.



Like others have said, there could be any number of reasons why Sentai let her go, but it genuinely seems like none of them were caused by her. She mentions how she wasn't even in Texas at the time the decision must have been made. She was at Katsucon at the time, and I met her there and she was sweet and funny, very down-to-earth and nice, so I doubt anything about her work ethic or personality would have caused her to get fired from Sentai.

I had heard that she was in a relationship with Chris Ayres, and that perhaps their relationship caused some trouble at Sentai because he was always casting her in shows he was directing, but that should really be his fault and not Krystal's.

Either way, she has been VERY absent from social media in the year since she was let go from Sentai Filmworks, and it's sad because she seemed very into whatever she worked on. I can hope that, at least for the sake of vocal continuity, she gets to voice Mirai again for these films. Then again, I doubt Sentai cares that much about the work they do, or their fans. At least Funimation, Aniplex and Viz try.

-Marc.

First of all, your making assumptions based on nothing but claims on the internet. No one has coaberated any of her story, and for all any of us know, she could have been lying about being out of state, or not knowing the reason why they stopped casting her. She is, at least part time, an actress. Not to mention, actors are hired per role, per project, and she completed the work she was contracted for. She wasn't terminated. They just chose to not hire her for any further projects.

Also, as someone who had worked a number of anime conventions, in a variety of roles, I can tell you that the persona a VA presents when meeting fans at a convention can be very different from the one they present when working or behind closed doors. There is a certain VA/director who's work I refuse to buy because of how badly he treated staff at a convention, and the comments he made about anime fandom in general a few years back. But boy was the guy friendly in his autograph sessions and Q&A's.....

You're letting your personal opinions of an actor blind you to the fact that none of us outside of Krystal and Sentai know what happened. Saying that they care less about their fans than Aniplex, who has completely ignored frequent, loud requests for re-releases of long out of print titles, home video releases for streaming only titles, lower priced collections, or even bringing their collector's sets up to the level of Sentai and Funimation is laughable. All of the R1 companies care about their fans to some extent, but there are limits to what they can do and what kind of behavior they can tolerate. Media Blasters is probably the only company that is more fan unfriendly than Aniplex, and that's most likely due to limited resources and low staffing.

Just remember that there are always two sides to a story, and it's extremely rare for anyone official to discuss why an actor is no longer contracted.

Reading the posts she did would have negated half of your post.