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** 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.

* ''[[Ranma ½ (Manga)|Ranma One Half]]''

** 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.

** 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.

** Kodachi Kuno was voiced by Teryl Rotherly for the first four seasons before the character was recast with [[Erin Fitzgerald]] for Season 5. Ironically, she was recast AGAIN for Seasons 6-7 with Sylvia Zaradic taking over the role (who actually sounded much closer to Teryl than Erin).

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** When [[FUNimation]] and NYAV Post dubbed Slayers Revolution and Evolution-R, Ortiz, Stuart, Taylor, and Freeman all returned to play the four leads; however, everyone else was replaced: [[Michael Sinterniklaas]] replaced David Moo as Xellos, [[Stephanie Sheh]] replaced Stacia Crawford as Sylphiel, [[Liam O Brien]] replaced Peter Davis as Rezo, David Brimmer replacing [[Jimmy Zoppi]] as Philionel, and Marc Thompson replacing Roger Kay as Shabranigdo.

** The Japanese cast has stuck through for the most part; however, Minoru Inaba would become Prince Phil's second Japanese voice in the third season after his first, Masahiro Anzai, because of the latter's severe case of diabetes.

* The American dub of ''[[Dragonball]] Z'' returned from being [[~~Un Canceled~~]] with the third season having an entirely new cast. (Behind the scenes [[FUNimation]] eliminated their partnership with Saban, which also voided their ability to afford the expensive Vancouver actors of the first two seasons). For most of the new actors, this was their first voice acting role (DBZ was the first Dallas-based English dub), and it was obvious. Some had only minor differences in sound, but the performances varied heavily. Christopher Sabat alone replaced some six or seven of the major characters (although a couple were later reverted to new actors later on). After a few seasons, they had effectively created their own interpretations.

* The American dub of ''[[Dragonball]] Z'' returned from being [[Uncanceled]] with the third season having an entirely new cast. (Behind the scenes [[FUNimation]] eliminated their partnership with Saban, which also voided their ability to afford the expensive Vancouver actors of the first two seasons). For most of the new actors, this was their first voice acting role (DBZ was the first Dallas-based English dub), and it was obvious. Some had only minor differences in sound, but the performances varied heavily. Christopher Sabat alone replaced some six or seven of the major characters (although a couple were later reverted to new actors later on). After a few seasons, they had effectively created their own interpretations.

** Before the full-cast switchover, Goku and Master Roshi had to be recast when Ian Corlett left over a combination of pay concerns and frustration with the production schedule. Peter Kelamis replaced him as Goku in both roles.

*** Even after the entire cast changed, and the show was being dubbed by Funimation in Dallas, there were some cast changes. Mark Britten left the series to go on a comedy tour in 2001, and many of his voices were recast. Burter and Korin were recast with Christopher R. Sabat, Mustard and the other world tournament announcer were recast with Brandon Potter, and the Ox King was recast with Kyle Hebert. In addition, Dale D. Kelly, the Funimation narrator and Captain Ginyu, left the series in 2000, and was replaced with Kyle Hebert for the Narrator, and Brice Armstrong for Captain Ginyu. John Burgmeier replaced Chris Cason as Tien, Christopher R. Sabat replaced Chris Cason as Mr. Popo, Bill Townsley replaced Dylan Thompson as Guldo, Leah Clark replaced Daphne Gere as Maron, J. Michael Tatum replaced Bart Myer as Spice, Markus Lloyd replaced Kyle Hebert as Blueberry, Douglas Burkes replaced Chris Cason as Rasberry, Stephanie Nadolny replaced Ceyli Delgadillo as Young Goku, Tiffany Vollmer replaced Leslie Alexander as Bulma (Leslie only played the role in DB Movie 2), and finaly, Meridith McCoy replaced the team of Christine Marten and Monika Antonelli as Launch (who only voiced the role in DB Movie 2).

*** [[FUNimation]]'s dub later expanded to the original Dragon Ball, ''GT'', movies, specials, video games, and pretty much all other DB media. [[FUNimation]] later redubbed everything from the first 2 seasons with their new cast, since the original versions of Seasons 1-2 were edited. [[FUNimation]] also partially redubbed themselves for the remastered release (mostly at the season 2-3 gap) since a few voices had changed since then (such as Captain Ginyu, Tien, Dende, Burter, Guldo, Oolong, Mr. Popo, and a few others), and were different for the seasons 1-2 redub, and needed to be revoiced in later episodes for consistency. Several consistent actors also redubbed themselves, since they sounded vastly different earlier, and the transition would've been very jarring.

*** The Japanese version of the franchise also had recasts. Chi Chi was voiced by Mayumi Shou in seasons 1-2. She was replaced by Naoko Watanabe for the rest of the franchise. Master Roshi's voice changed several times after Kohei Miyauchi's death in the middle of Season 9. Other casting changes in ''[[Dragon Ball Kai (Anime)|Dragon Ball Kai]]'' include Gregory's voice ([[Yuji Mitsuya]]), Dende's voice (to [[Aya Hirano]] in Kai), and the entire Ginyu Force.

*** Junpei Takiguchi originally voiced [[Cross Dressing Voices|Uranai Baba]], the Grand Elder, and Polunga, but left the show for unexplained reasons (although he did reprise the Elder in Kai). His roles were taken over by [[Mayumi Tanaka]], Masaharu Satou, and [[Daisuke Gouri]] respectively.

*** Junpei Takiguchi originally voiced [[Cross-Dressing Voices|Uranai Baba]], the Grand Elder, and Polunga, but left the show for unexplained reasons (although he did reprise the Elder in Kai). His roles were taken over by [[Mayumi Tanaka]], Masaharu Satou, and [[Daisuke Gouri]] respectively.

*** And of course, ''[[Market-Based Title|Dragon Ball Z Kai]]'' has [[Monica Rial]] as Bulma, [[Colleen Clinkenbeard]] as Gohan, Chris Ayres as Frieza, John Swasey as Dodoria, [[J Michael Tatum]] as Zarbon and several other changes, including most of the Ginyu Force, with [[Greg Ayres]] as Guldo, [[Vic Mignogna]] as Burter, [[Jason Liebrecht]] as Jeice and R Bruce Elliot as Captain Ginyu, among others.

*** The Latin American voice of Bulma switched from Rocio Garcel after the "Cell Games" saga to Monica Manjarrez in the Majin Buu saga (with Laura Ayala in a few episodes), to Isabel Martinon in "Path to Power". Garcel returned to voice Bulma in the Latin version of ''Kai''.