DaBair's avatar
I remember that they had to change Tails' voice actor almost constantly because his voice actors were getting too old to voice him. That's why in recent games he's been voiced by a woman.

Pokemon had this for a while too, with the whole "Save Our Voice Actors" campaign.
Karasu-96's avatar
Yeah, and he sounds young already, so why can't they get a woman to do that? The fans should've known already that males can't keep the young voice forever since they tend to become be more naturally masculine as time passes.

And that's still going for about 9 years. Seriously, they really took the change THAT seriously. TPCi provided us many of the Pokemon franchise's merchandise outside of japan, and the whole company is being hated for just their dub... to the point fans tried to boycott the merchandise, including the games...
Never mind the dub change happened nearly 10 years ago.

A shame that TPCi gets so much hate seeing as they allowed many forms of Pokemon merchandise to be available for the fans.

Then again, the people that still complain are just not willing to accept the old VAs are never coming back. It's all just denial on their part.
Karasu-96's avatar
Just as bad as the 4Kids haters, huh?
Yeah. You could say that.

It's amusing (and also really idiotic) that people are still insisting that the old VAs return. Veronica Taylor is in LA now, and the others have laid quite low. You can't really blame people like DaBair for being fed up with the fans of 4kids Pokemon.

I don't even think the dub of XY is that bad myself. I've grown accustomed to the dub now. And yet, they are those who still can't get over the dub change. So yes, all the complaining about TPCi's efforts now has gone beyond ridiculous.
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Yeah, and they're trying to find some info to make the actors bad. Even if the actors are bad people, it goes to show how desperate they're becoming to get them back. And before any of you anti-TPCI fans say, yes, ppinions are opinions, and that's fine, but treating the TPCI dub like it's the product of the devil is a bit much, don't ya think?
I've recently seen those posts. I think it's really stupid for them to resort to such desperation. Come to think of it, it makes one curious as to how the 4kids actors themselves would view this kind of behaviour. If I were one of the previous actors, I'd be very appalled to see fans going to these kind of lengths to support my work.

And as you said, opinions are opinions. Unfortunately you have imbeciles on the Pokemon (could also be applied to DBZ) fanbase that go on as if their opinion is fact. But yeah, I do think that people are taking this too far now. I'd love to know how both the TPCi and 4kids VAs would make of the debacle. Maybe it might actually set some people straight. One can hope, right?
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I think the same thing, and I'm bothered by the fact that those same fans seem to never had that in mind. I bet they're so blinded by their hatred, they really think the actors would be so proud of their tactics, including Veronica.

Yep.
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DaBair's avatar
Some Pokemon fans are just really, really stupid. Makes me ashamed to be a Pokemon fan.
Karasu-96's avatar
I've seen some dumb fans like some extreme shippers, but the TPCi dub group we're talking about right is just as ridiculous.
AnimeChildhoodFan's avatar
Well, TPCi's voice actors suck to this day, so there's that.