Luffy's VA Mayumi Tanaka said that she attempted to request to find a different voice actress for Luffy's role for the remake (?), but the request was rejected.
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Is this actually a thing with Japanese voice actors, where they are bound to their role of voicing X character by contract, and can't choose to not voice a character? It would be the opposite of Western voice actors, which are expendable and get replaced because of things like having the wrong political takes, being of the wrong ethnicitiy/race compared to the character they previously portrayed, being a union or non-union worker. because they make a stupid take on Social Media while they should keep their mouth shut, etc.