In contrast, it’s extremely unusual for Japanese voice actors to voice more than one recurring character in the same series.
“I wish the Japanese anime industry could pay creators, the foundation the industry is built on, like the Simpsons cast gets paid.”
Compare that to the 70 million yen (US$630,000) top-earning Japanese voice actress Megumi Hayashibara (Evangelion’s Rei Ayanami, Slayers’ Lina Inverse) reportedly earned in 2017.
But despite all that, Japanese Twitter users were startled to learn how much higher the pay ceiling is for American voice acting, prompted by a recently published-in-Japanese article that details how much the English-language voice cast for The Simpsons earns.