Crunchyroll’s Mob Psycho 100 season 3 recasting strikes a nerve with the anime world
Crunchyroll came under fire on Tuesday after announcing that the upcoming third season of Mob Psycho 100 would see a new English-language voice actor take over the series’ starring role. The news arrives just a few weeks before Mob Psycho 100’s season 3 premiere in early October.
In a video uploaded to YouTube and Twitter, voice actor Kyle McCarley, the original voice actor for Shigeo “Mob” Kageyama, explained to fans that he would likely not be returning to perform the role of Mob in the upcoming third season of the Mob Psycho 100. The reasons, as he understood them, wasdue to a breakdown in negotiations between McCarley and Crunchyroll pertaining to the actor’s desire to work under a union contract.
“It has been abundantly clear to me that in the case of season three of Mob Psycho 100, Crunchyroll is not going to be producing that show on a SAG-AFTRA budget,” McCarley says in the video. “And I want to put this little note in here to be very, very clear, it’s not about money. They were prepared to pay me at least what I would be getting on a union-scale contract, possibly more. They just don’t want to put it on a union contract.”
McCarley goes on to explain that, in lieu of a SAG-AFTRA contract, he agreed to perform on the upcoming season of Mob Psycho 100 under a non-union contract on the condition that Crunchyroll would meet with SAG-AFTRA representatives to negotiate a potential contract intended for future productions.
“Crunchyroll has historically been very, very hesitant to take anything they produce onto a SAG-AFTRA contract, and because of the role that I have in this particular show, and this particular show’s popularity with you guys, it seemed like maybe there was an opportunity to change that.”
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