Why does Japan take voice acting serious compared to the West? They rarely ever replace the VA's

Why does Japan take voice acting serious compared to the West? They rarely ever replace the VA's.

For example, Sonic has had the same Japanese VA since Sonic Adventure, while in the West he has had 3 different VA's since then.

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Based and motivatedpilled

Japan has more pride

Blame Sega of America for that one. They wanted the voices for the games to match the shitty, low budget anime dub.

Wasn't the first sonic VA fired because he joined a Union?

Voice acting is way bigger in Japanese culture. A character can't be your waifu or husbando if you don't love their voice.

Western voice acting is a low-budget shitfest for failed actors.

So that's why Smash has shitty VA's now

He wasn't fired because of it, but he wasn't brought back for generations because of it, or more accurately, he refused to come back because Sega wanted to screw him.

Who?

I hope they recast Sonic again, just to get rid of Roger Craig Smith.

Autism. If the voice changes it reminds them that the drawings on screen aren't real.

because you're supposed to work until you die in Japan, so you voice your characters until you die like Mr. Satan and Bulma did.

Voice actors aren't very respected in America.

Look what they did to Veronica Taylor.

The pay is good in Japan so they rarely leave, American VAs get paid like shit because they usually do a horrible job or they work in a horrible company expecting a good pay and a easy permanent job.

He's voiced Sonic longer than the other two fucks combined. Only way you're getting rid of Roger is if he is outed for doing something nasty.

But even then, if it's anything like Vic, he'll have his army of gremlins.

voice acting is a serious profession while america is not

>Sonic has had the same Japanese VA since Sonic Adventure
>Sonic Adventure
A lot longer than that zoomer.

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We are talking about games here

Historical reasons due to the predecessor of the movie theater.

That, and sexual connotations of waifuism towards VOICE, fueled by the shouting of high pitched AHH IKKUUU on their pornography, compared to the UHH YOU'R SO FUCKING HOT IMMA BANG YOU GURRRLL of the low pitch tone in the west - thus the alpha bald marine of the west, versus the kawaii maiden.

> If he got something wrong, he's a zoomer
I will never understand this mentality

Sonic wasn't voiced by Kanemaru in the OVA

I miss Jason Griffith

He was the best shadow

Unless you voice act for Disney

Really? I remember playing BK in Japanese and I swear he sounds the same as he did in the 90's ova.

In America, voice acting is what you do when you're failed star and actor.

In Japan, voice acting is what little girls dream to do when they're 8.

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Vic did nothing wrong.

wrong

based and truthpilled

if you have more credits for dubs than originally english media you are not an actor

Honestly the guy they got for the movie sounds like a mix of Ryan Drummond and OVA Sonic so I would love him to take over, but I doubt it'll ever happen

The Simpsons is why.
tl;dr in the early 90's when the show was just getting uber-popular the voice actors threatened to walk unless they were getting as much as a MILLION DOLLARS PER EPISODE, which was the most ANYBODY in the TV industry had ever made per episode at the time. More than regular fucking actors, even.
Fox caved and gave it to them because they had been established at the voices of the show at that point. A couple seasons later the voice actors had to accept pay cuts or else the show was going to be shut down because Fox was spending so much money on it.

Ever since then animation studios (and later video game studios) started making the effort to use different voice actors and not let any one VA become "established" as a character so they can't pull stupid fucking shit like that ever again.

If you or anybody else ever wonder why voice actors in America don't get any respect, they have Dan Castellaneta, Hank Azaria, and Nancy Cartwright to thank.

Western voice actors work for years on things too, Simpsons VAs won't change until they die, excluding the hiccups from early seasons.
Guess western franchises don't really last long enough for that thing to be recognizable in video games.

James Arnold Taylor, Jim Cummings, and Rob Paulsen are more talented and have longer resumes than 98% of nip VAs

Zoomer taste

The simpsons didn't even start airing until 1990, the fuck are you even on about?

1. Japanese voice acting industry is more respected, with more talent and money going into it.
2. Voice actors are much more likely to get huge popularity and be closely associated popular characters they play, meaning replacing them would cause as much fuss as replacing an actor for a live-action character.
3. Japan is a small country, with more companies based in a single city (Tokyo), so location and scheduling issues aren't nearly as much of a problem.

>Why does Japan take voice acting serious compared to the West?
*compared to USA

Mexico and Brazil take their dubs seriously.