Sailor Moon Cosmos announced for Summer 2023 [SPOILERS ALERT]

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imaginationgirl said:
But Netflix did had the same cast as the viz dub.I think there might be a requirement to keep the same cast.
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That's Netflix, Sentai is a different story because they're based out of Houston and all of their dubs have been in-house there since 2014 including for shows which previously had California casts whether it's a sequel, a spinoff or a show Netflix won't give up their dub for.
 
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NJ_ said:
That's Netflix, Sentai is a different story because they're based out of Houston and all of their dubs have been in-house there since 2014 including for shows which previously had California casts whether it's a sequel, a spinoff or a show Netflix won't give up their dub for.
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The IP owner is still Toei.
They aren't neglectful about who voices their characters, and doesn't matter which licensor picks their shows, they have to abide by their localization guidelines. And that includes voices. Just look at their news release about changing Saint Seiya's Brazilian voice cast after almost three decades. Crunchyroll actually tried to keep the original cast on board, but they were the ones to have the final say on replacing everyone.
And in Sailor Moon's case, we also have Naoko into the picture. She approved the Los Angeles cast back in 2014 and she isn't letting them go because of mishandling by a different company that eventually licenses her property. She is notorious for botching having a say on localizations of her franchise, just like Evangelion's Studio Khara.
 
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Masquerade said:
The IP owner is still ToeI.
They aren't neglectful about who voices their characters, and doesn't matter which licensor picks their shows, they have to abide by their localization guidelines. And that includes voices. Just look at their news release about changing Saint Seiya's Brazilian voice cast after almost three decades. Crunchyroll actually tried to keep the original cast on board, but they were the ones to have the final say on replacing everyone.
And in Sailor Moon's case, we also have Naoko into the picture. She approved the Los Angeles cast back in 2014 and she isn't letting them go because of mishandling by a different company that eventually licenses her property. She is notorious for botching having a say on localizations of her franchise, just like Evangelion's Studio Khara.
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Precesily, evan if Sentai license the movies.They would still have to used the cast.They would just have to pay travel fees.
 
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imaginationgirl said:
Precesily, evan if Sentai license the movies.They would still have to used the cast.They would just have to pay travel fees.
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The pandemic made remote recording a thing for voice actors, but that depends on the project's confidentiality. Though a new Sailor Moon movie probably wouldn't allow that and traveling to a recording facility would be needed.
 
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Masquerade said:
See? This is the reason I can't see why Sailor Moon wouldn't be able to get new animated content unless something between the original creator and Toei was going on behind the scenes.
Saint Seiya is literally a nobody in Japan and even though Sailor Moon is niched now, its popularity actually covers places where Saint Seiya never even dreamt of being a thing, like North America and Eastern Europe. It even has a history of box office bombing in Japan, just like Eternal. Which I think only applies to Part 2 in Eternal's case, because at the very least Part I went to the top 10 and I doubt Saint Seiya's 2004 entry did so.
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The Saint Seiya CGI project is a curious case because they try to appeal to a new American audience. The original dialogues for this series are in english.

The last anime of Saint Seiya directed towards a Japanese audience like Soul of Gold and Saintia Sho have received the same treatment of Crystal S1-S2 (ONAs). This is because Toei seems to have lost expectatives that Saint Seiya could attract new fans in that market.

Toei originally has more expectatives on Saint Seiya to attract new audience in Japan, but these were lost after the failures of the TV anime Omega and the movie Legend of Sanctuary.


Toei doesn't seem to have a lot of expectatives in Sailor Moon Crystal to attract new audience from the beginning. That's why S1/S2 were ONAs.
 
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animenerd99 said:
No they would've redubbed them. This is has been thing with Sentai when the license shows from Netflix we would've gotten a completely different cast. It would be cheaper from them that way
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Sorry, you're speaking out of your personal opinion only.
Toei isn't like your average anime production company who doesn't care if two different seasons of the same show get different casts because the licensor feels like changing.
I even shared a link that proved they have a huge say on localization of their properties even in third world countries such as Brazil. Let alone the United States, where the major cash comes from. Anyone saying some random local licensor would be able to change the cast of one of Toei's major IPs out of a pure whim is going the "Prince of Uranus" route.
 
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