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>>18175855
Because almost all dubs use the same few actors. There are plenty of good voice actors in the west, but they don't work in dubbing, and when dub VAs get recognition for their work, they stop doing dubs and move on to bigger things (see Troy Baker, Nolan North, Laura Bailey). The dubbing industry in the west is all about being buddy buddy with the staff involved and nepotism. This is why Yuri Lowenthal is in everything, not because he's a good actor.
As for the VA's voices themselves, dubbing is obviously not taken seriously in the west like it is in Japan. In the west people don't expect VAs to be able to sing or to put on shows, they just expect them to go in, read a few lines, and leave. I remember I once also saw an interview with Yuri Lowenthal where he said that "we don't put on voices, that's not what being a voice actor is about, we just raise our pitch a little, lower it a little, we focus on acting, not making cartoon voices". Lowenthal is an absolute fucking joke who can barely act in the first place, let alone act in dozens of different voices like people like Nolan North and Chiwa Saito over the fence.
Fuck dubs, basically.

>>18175872
Speaking of directors, it also doesn't help that you have people with no qualifications working in that position. Let's look at Christina Vee, she's a dub VA that's gotten more popular over the years. What training did she have before she started working? She made fandubs on youtube. That's it. Then she got roles in anime and video games, and then she did the voice directing for Skullgirls, and you can all see how fucking horrible the voices are in that for almost everyone, and even though Liam O'Brien normally does good work he still did an awful job in that.
The dub industry is fucked.

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