[tai]

According to several confirmed sources, the entire Pokemon voice cast is being replaced for the Tenth Anniversary Special and following seasons. "We who work on the show care very much about it and are heartbroken over the possibility of not continuing production," says Veronica Taylor, who has played Ash since 1998. "Unfortunately we have no say in what is going on. We are simply forced to wait for the outcome."

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=8530

i must say this news makes me kind of sad, i really liked Veronica Taylor as Ash and Rachael Lillis as Misty.

didn't 4Kids loose the licence for pokemon to Nintendo........who do i blame for this Nintendo or 4Kids? lol

[GabeXorn]

I thought Disney had some kind of rights to Pokemon. I think I was either told or read about a few years back or I could have dreamed it. I'm just amazed they still make pokemon

[darktruth]

Not surprised with this actually as seeing Sailor Moon too had a lot of the dub voice actors replaced. It was interesting to find out that Veronica Taylor played Ash since I only knew her from hearing her normal voice for the dub of His and Her Circumstances.

[Moelman]

heh, when I actually watched Pokemon I never knew that Ash was played by a girl XP Well she did a good job for being a girl I thought.

[Lynk Former]

People always look at Nintendo when Pokemon is mentioned. For the most part Nintendo only really cares about the videogames that appear on their consoles. The rest Nintendo leaves to The Pokemon Company which they own a majority share of. The Pokemon Company took over the license from 4Kids not long ago, but from what I've heard it wasn't meant to affect anything with the actual anime itself, it was just meant to be internal changes... but I guess not. I don't see any reason why their needs to be a change but *shrugs* what can ya do.

[Moelman]

Yeah why change now? After eight years of success, I guess granted the anime isn't as popular as it was when it first came out, but still after all this time why would you change the voice actor for the main character in the anime? Makes no sense to me.

But I guess I don't really care, I only play the videogames anymore anyways.

[Scar da Kookee]

heh, when I actually watched Pokemon I never knew that Ash was played by a girl XP Well she did a good job for being a girl I thought.

most young male characters on cartoons are voiced by women.

take bart simpson for instance.

[Analog]

This won't bother me... but my kids are a different story. They are just in that right age bracket and have essentially "grown up" on Pokemon.

I'm debating if I should tell them or let them figure it out for themselves. It might be easier telling them there is no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny XP

[Lynk Former]

XD Probably better if they figure it out for themselves. If they khew conciously that something was different they'd focus all their attention on it.