Huh.

[ltgmars]

I know you guys don't care about this nearly as much as I do, but here's a clip of the new Pokémon voices (the special seems kind of interesting). It looks like they didn't get an entirely new cast, though... Ikue Ohtani still plays Pikachu.

XDD

T____T


And I wonder if binsento-kun would be up to subbing the Princess Princess drama...

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[silence-glaive.livejournal.com]

Actually, the voice actors were not booted. A good friend of mine is one of the senior staffers at Pokemon, and the whole story is quite simple. When Pokemon USA took the rights back from 4Kids, obviously 4Kids was unhappy that they were losing such a cash cow.

As a result, they told the VA's that if they chose to continue working for Pokemon, their contracts for all of the other series they do would be revoked. Trust me, Pokemon tried desperately to make deals with people like Veronica Taylor (Ash) and the others to stay, but the amount of work they would have lost was just too significant.

As a humorous point, the girl who is the Videographer at AnimeNEXT this year does the voices for May, Misty and Jessie. lol

[ltgmars.livejournal.com]

Ah, thanks for the clarification. I can go back to being mad at 4Kids and loving Nintendo again. =^_^=