AnimeGamer183 wrote: Finally watching Initial D 5th stage on youtube. Its insane how dedicated some of these japanese voice actors are to reprising their roles, this anime started in 1998 for christs sake. Then again, I think in general anime voice actors are very dedicated to continuing their work/characters when they can.
It's also a much smaller industry over there, so it's easier to keep things like that going. In the US, it's sometimes harder to get hold of an actor at any given time, because they might be thousands and thousands of miles away, and the scheduling just doesn't work. Japan's a tiny country though, so a scant few hours on a train or whatever, and you can get just about any actor in the country to the right place at the right time. Works to their benefit.