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** When Cassandra Morris moved away from 4Kids, Yubel received a new voice for the 10th movie as well as the twins from 5Ds from episode 65 onward.

** Carly's Japanese VA (Satomi Toyohara, artistic name Li Mei Chang) was replaced on episode 130 onward (by Aki Kanada) due to unrelated issues with the VA that caused her to resign.

** Between seasons three and four (episodes 64 and 65), the North-American dub voice for Ranma abruptly changed from Sarah Strange, [[Cross-Dressing Voices|a woman playing a boy's voice]], to Richard Ian Cox -- a man playing a boy's voice after the former wanted to move on with her career. After the first six episodes Ranma's female voice actor also changed from Brigetta Dau (who also voiced the character in the first two OVA episodes) to Venus Terzo, but the change was arguably more subtle since it was fairly early on in the series, and the voices were similar.

** When Angela Costain, the English voice of Nabiki Tendô, wanted to attend flight school, her sister Elaina Wotten-Costain took over the character for Season 6. (Unlike many vocal Darrins, the difference between the two performances was virtually nil -- many viewers never noticed the change). Angela returned for Season 7 after getting her pilot's license.

* ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' had the same seiyuu cast from almost 20 years, including the original TV series as well as the movies. Then came the Hades Saga and several actors were replaced (i.e.: the dead [[Kaneto Shiozawa]] was replaced by [[Takumi Yamazaki]] as Mu, the also deceased [[Kazuyuki Sogabe]] was followed by ''both'' [[Ryotaro Okiayu]] and Akio Nojima as the twins Saga and Kanon, [[Toshihiko Seki]] as as Milo instead of [[Shuichi Ikeda]], [[Takeshi Kusao]] as Shura and not [[Koji Totani]], etc.)

** ''Then'' came the Tenkai-hen movie, after which practically ''everyone'' (including [[Tohru Furuya]] aka Seiya, replaced by [[Masakazu Morita]]) was changed.

**** Although just recently it was announced that [[Tohru Furuya]] is reprising his role as Seiya in ''[[Saint Seiya Omega]]''

* In ''[[Getter Robo]]'', [[Akira Kamiya]] voiced Ryoma Nagare for decades. When the ''Armaggedon'' OAV's came, Hideo Ishikawa replaced him and tried to give his own spin to the role due to the [[Darker and Edgier]] settlement... which caused ''much'' [[Internet Backdraft]].

*** Two other changes, however, were especially jarring. Around episode 100 of the original series, Kakashi's voice actor quit (his reason being he simply didn't have time anymore to continue the dub), and episode 169 changed Orochimaru's voice as well. Neither of their new actors sound like the originals.

** On the Japanese side, Akiko Koike took over for Konohamaru at the beginning of Shippuden, when [[Ikue Ohtani]] was on pregnancy leave. Since this was after a [[Time Skip]], it actually wasn't jarring...but Ohtani eventually took over the role again anyway.

** The late [[Tomoko Kawakami]] as Soifon was replaced by [[Houko Kuwashima]] in 2008.

*** She also replaced her as Fuyuki in the Japanese version of Sgt. Frog.

** Starting with episode 244 of the English dub, Kenpachi is voiced by [[Patrick Seitz]] instead of David Lodge.

* ''[[Vampire Princess Miyu]]'' - Miyu went from being voiced by Kimberly J. Brown to Dorothy Elias-Fahn after 7 episodes. In addition, Pamela Wielder had earlier voiced the role in the OVA.

** Since the TV series was made almost a decade after the OAV, Miyu's role went from [[Naoko Watanabe]] to [[Miki Nagasawa]]. Similarly, [[Kaneto Shiozawa]] had already passed away, so [[Shinichiro Miki]] took over as Larva.

** When Funimation was set to record episode 18 of [[Tenchi Muyo! GXP]], which reintroduced the original OVA cast, none of the original cast members could return and thus everyone got new voices (one could say Mihoshi was the only one to return, but she was already an Other Darrin, as she was the voice of Mihoshi from [[Tenchi in Tokyo]]).

** Staying with Funi and Tenchi, when they got ahold of the third OVA series, they ''were'' able to get most of the voices back. However, Ryoko's voice actress had retired, so they ended up using her GXP VA to reprise her role. To their credit, though, they ''tried'' to make her sound like the original.

* Shamisen, the cat [[Touched by Vorlons|briefly given]] [[Talking Animal|the ability to speak]] in ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', was voiced by Steve Kramer in the English dub of Season 1, and Michael McConnohie in the more expanded appearance in Season 2.

* When Disney went on to dub the "remaining" (at the time) movies of ''[[Digimon]]'' years after the series' runs, they couldn't get hold of all the voice actors, so replacements happened:

** The entire voice cast of the Finnish ''Adventure'' dub changed around the middle of the season when negative feedback they got pretty much forced the original dubbing company, Agapio Racing Team, to give up the series. The dubbing was then taken over by the much more Tuotantotalo Werne.

* Averted with ''[[Nurse Witch Komugi]]''. The anime is a [[Spin-Off]] / [[Self-Parody]] of [[Soul Taker (anime)|The Soultaker]]. ADV got the rights to dub [[Nurse Witch Komugi]], but didn't dub its predecessor (the Ocean Group handled that job). Instead of using new actors, ADV got the original Soultaker dub cast to reprise their roles, and thus ensuring consistency

** Illich Guardiola played Takamatsu from episodes 8-13 and Kalob Martinez played Takamatus for the first seven episodes.

** Elizabeth Bunch played Hisako in episodes 3-4 and Yusa in episodes 10 and 14. [[Jessica Boone]] played Hisako in 5-6, 12 and 14 while Serena Varghese played Yusa in the first nine episodes.