Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24213465-20131027181510/@comment-24893759-20150103014337

SpyroGuy wrote: That's a bit awkward considering that the Japanese voice actors are still the very same people since Sonic Adventure. What about their contracts? What exactly drives Sega to keep changing the English voice actors, but not the Japanese ones? :P Actually that's only the case for Jun'ichi Kanemaru, Nobotushi Kanna, and Chikao Ohtsuka (the actors who voice Sonic, Knuckles, and Dr. Eggman respectively), in Japan, Tails was first voiced by Kazuki Hayashi in Sonic Adventure, then it was Atsuki Murata in Sonic Shuffle and Sonic Adventure 2, then, ever since Sonic Heroes, he has been voiced by Ryo Hirohashi, with the exception of Takuto Yoshinaga who voiced Classic Tails in Sonic Generations, Amy, the same thing but, yeah, she's been voiced by Taeko Kawata in all her Sonic game appearances, except Sonic Shuffle, where she was voiced by Emi Motoi. Big was voiced by Shun Yashiro in Sonic Adventure, then because of his death, he was replaced by Takashi Nagasako, who also voices Donkey Kong. The other ones appeared at a later time but do indeed still have their Japanese voice actors.