Saint Seiya Hades Arc Sequal Confirmed

[Sumdumgai]

Okay guys the Saint Seiya Hades Arc sequal has been confirmed. They're continuing with the series with a brand new OVA.

Bad news though.

Seiya fans cry your eyes out, his seiyuu has been replaced. Shun's seiyuu has been replaced as well.

Kurumada's website with the news in English:

http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~saint/e-kinkiyou2005b.htm

Ergh. I hope the rest of the cast doesn't get replaced.

[Eternal_D]

oh, that kinda sucks...why would they do that??

[areaseven]

Don't we already have a Saint Seiya super thread?

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=5662

[Sumdumgai]

Don't we already have a Saint Seiya super thread?

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=5662

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Well actually it's more on the toys, although we started to get off-topic...

[mpchi]

Is there a particular known reason why the seiyuu has changed? Seems like both voice actors are still young enough, and somewhat active in the business. Seiya just had a feature movie less than a year ago. Why make that change? Unless they lost their voices or had some kind of accident.

[Valk009]

Well, here is one possible reason why they had to find new voices

Money talks and bull$#!t runs a marathon!

[Sumdumgai]

I'm guessing that Seiya was replaced by this new guy, because the new guy did the voice of one of the characters in Kurumada's pet anime Ring ni Kakero. I think he also does the voice of the main character in Bleach.

Other than Kurumada pulling strings, I'll hazard a guess on money issues. Maybe some of the Seiyuus wanted too much money.

Unless Seiya and Shun's seiyuus retired and we haven't heard about it (like Milo's original seiyuu who did Captain Harlock's voice, as well as Hiko Seijuro in RK).

[Eternal_D]

so do you have any idea when production is supposed to start and when we can expect these to come out?

[ogami]

I will never watch this OVA... NEVER!

How can they replace the whole cast...

[Sumdumgai]

Other than the info supplied on that page I have no idea.

I first heard about it from the Saint Seiya doujinshi booths at comic market, but couldn't confirm anything until recently.

If I get any more info, I'll post it in this thread.

I'm just hoping none of the rest of the cast got replaced. Radamanthys already had a good seiyuu (Koyasu Takehito). Saga/Kannon's seiyuu rocked.

[Eternal_D]

yah...they should realize, for something like this...we're used to the original voice actors...they shoudln't change them unless they absolutely sound exactly the same...and that goes for the personality too.

[mpchi]

Seems like the whole main cast got new voices, not just a couple. I saw a japanese page some days ago with list of new seiyuus for each of the main characters. I am really not liking this. Not just that the voice is different, the emotions will be very different too, as different seiyuu will have different take on the acting. And if all they are trying is to mimic the originals, then whats the point of switching in the first place?

This is really a wrong move I think, especially when most of the Seiya fans are grown-ups that always remember the voices from more than a decade ago...

Edited September 12, 2005 by mpchi

[Sumdumgai]

Seems like the whole main cast got new voices, not just a couple. I saw a japanese page some days ago with list of new seiyuus for each of the main characters.

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Could you post a link to that page?

Because the complete anime cast isn't supposed to be announced until the 18th of this month. Are you sure that isn't for the radio drama? Because the radio drama has a different cast list from the anime. So far only Seiya and Shun's seiyuu have been announced.

[mpchi]

You could be right. It could be the cast of the radio drama.

[mpchi]

Its confirmed that all main characters have new casting on the anime, not just radio drama.

http://sj.shueisha.co.jp/contents/seiya_hades2/index.html