Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-3207457-20161020233334/@comment-679780-20161021153141

Myself 123 wrote: Well 4Kids is an anime dubbing company, maybe Sega didn't have the resources at the time so production was done by 4Kids. 4Kids have their own actors, so perhaps in order to maintain consistency, the 4Kids cast took over voice work for the games too. Once their contract expired, Sega wouldn't have had use of the 4Kids actors (Sonic X) had finished at this point, so they probably decided to get a new voice cast. Hm, I dunno. I mean, Ryan Drummond loved his job. Granted he lived far away from Sega's studios at the time but was willing to relocate in order to commit to his work. Sega didn't even give him a decent heads up or any honouraries that he was fired.

It seemed 4Kids was simply the cheaper alternative to Sega.

But to be fair Sega's voicecast for most of their dreamcast games at the time were rather... bland. qyIuDxOUOUc But not entirely the fault of the voice actors given Dreamcast models were a bit atiff back then.