Glad someone shut down that dumb Persona 5 R rumor, hurt my head everytime i read people who speak of it like if 100% confirmed by Atlus or something.
Haru really, really needs to be recast for a better actress.
I think is the first time i read someone dislike Haru voice at the point to consider she
need a recast , dont get me wrong i love Xanthe Huynh even think she is underrated.
But i can understand why her delivery as Haru is a love / hate thing , is super cheesy , at first i thought she was trying to mimic the japanese actress , but surprised the japanese actually sound more like Xanthe natural voice , so i dont understand why they went that way with her delivery , in some scenes works but other like her awakening it feels off , like someone point out the matter with the p5 dub is not the actors , those guys had the potential , things people dont like can be direction / studio fault , like some delivery or pronunciations.
I hope everyone from the original cast returns for PQ2.
I was talking with some dude about that , i think the P3 dub cast for both PQ2 (implying SEES is in the game) and Dancing Moon is gonna had like 1-2 new recasts.
Going for recent projects characters like Yukari or Aigis i think is safe they will be back , Ruff and Strassman are in Atlus / PCB favorite list after all and they always got time for these projects it seems.
The ones i had doubt are Mitsuru and Akihiko for example , like Tara Platt (Mitsuru) is ever doing VA recently , the last i remember of her was in God Eater 2 i think ,but besides that i dont remember her to be in something recently , hell even her more "stable" gig got her recasted in Neptunia (which is basically a game for year series now) and got Caroline / Justine actress (Carrie Keranen) to voice her character (so i dont be surprised if she end up as the new Mitsuru too if Platt is not available).
And in Akihiko case , i remember reading somewhere Liam o Brien move on to "bigger" projects like Bailey and Troy Baker did in the past , and even he has working more as a director than actor...
Even his character in SMT IV got recast , so maybe Akihiko had a new voice too for the new games.
The rest of the P3 cast seems safe it seems to me (including Wendee Lee's Fuuka and Cindy Robinson's Ken) , for the P4 cast too i suppose Ashly Burch will return as Rise in the P4 side and the rest stay the same , unless they give the role to Alexis Tipton which is literally low budget Bailey (their voices are so similar i swear) ...
And the p5 cast is way too soon to see recasts unless something happen by the time they dub those games..