Eli5: Anime subbed and dubbed

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When an anime has subbed and dubbed episodes do the same voice actor pairs always get chosen. Ill try to articulate it better. Let’s say for show “A” they have Japanese voice actor “1” and English voice actor “2” for the same character on the subbed and dubbed versions.

If a different show casted “1” to be a character, is it common practice for the English version to cast “2” as the dubbed version?

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The English dub will not necessarily cast an actor just because they previously did a role that had the same original Japanese performer. For instance, Megumi Ogata has played Sailor Uranus from the original Sailor Moon anime, a tough teenage lesbian warrior, and Yugi from Yu-Gi-Oh, a young boy who loves playing card games. Those roles had very different people playing them in the English dubs.

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