History Main / CastingGag

* Atsuko Ishizuka, the director of the anime adaptation of ''Literature/NoGameNoLife'', has previous experience on ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou''. Perhaps it's no coincidence that Creator/YoshitsuguMatsuoka and Creator/AiKayano, who voiced the lead pair of lovers in ''Sakurasou'', would be once again cast to play, in ''No Game No Life'', a pair of gamer-siblings. The gag went further due to the names of the characters involved: Sorata and Mashiro[[note]]"Sky-the-eldest" and "Pure-white"[[/note]] in ''Sakurasou'', and Sora and Shiro[[note]]"Sky" and "White"[[/note]] in ''No Game No Life''.

** In the Latin American Spanish dub, Priya's dub voice actress, Alicia Velez, also voiced another girl hanging around with a dragon girl who also transforms into a human and vice versa, [[LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesFor300YearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel and said dragon is also red like Mei]]. Curiously enough, Estefania Piedra (Mei) voiced Eno, which also sports red hair like Mei after her Red Panda form was awakened.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'':

* The English dub of ''Anime/NinetyOneDays'' was directed by Tyler Walker, the ADR director of the English dub of ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', another show about gangsters during Prohibition era and even stated to have cast anyone who appeared in the ''Baccano'' dub to have their characters get killed off in ''91 Days''. For example, Creator/JMichaelTatum and Creator/CaitlinGlass, who voiced Isaac and Miria in ''Baccano'', played Avilio's deceased parents in ''91 Days''.

* ''Manga/BloodBlockadeBattlefront'' is often compared to ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' mainly from its [[BigApplesauce New York setting]]. Interestingly enough, many of the voices in the latter appear in the former with Creator/DaisukeSakaguchi, Creator/YuuKobayashi, Creator/MitsuruMiyamoto, Creator/KeijiFujiwara, etc. Ditto for dub with Creator/PhilParsons, Creator/IanSinclair, Creator/TrinaNishimura, Creator/JMichaelTatum, etc.

* In ''Literature/{{Haganai}}'', Creator/YukaIguchi voices Maria who is basically [[LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex Index]] with lavender hair and a dark blue habit.

* In ''LightNovel/GuinSaga'', Kenyu Horiuchi plays Guin, an amnesiac hero with an animal head in a world with magic on a quest to restore his appearance and memory. In ''Manga/{{Dorohedoro}}'', he plays En, the leader of magic users who fight an amnesiac hero with an animal head in a world with magic on a quest to restore his appearance and memory.

* Atsuko Ishizuka, the director of the anime adaptation of ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'', has previous experience on ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou''. Perhaps it's no coincidence that Creator/YoshitsuguMatsuoka and Creator/AiKayano, who voiced the lead pair of lovers in ''Sakurasou'', would be once again cast to play, in ''No Game No Life'', a pair of gamer-siblings. The gag went further due to the names of the characters involved: Sorata and Mashiro[[note]]"Sky-the-eldest" and "Pure-white"[[/note]] in ''Sakurasou'', and Sora and Shiro[[note]]"Sky" and "White"[[/note]] in ''No Game No Life''.

* In ''Manga/SpyXFamily'', Loid and Yor Forger are voiced by Creator/TakuyaEguchi and Creator/SaoriHayami. AKA [[LightNovel/MyYouthRomanticComedyIsWrongAsIExpected Hachiman and Yukino]]. And to make things more complicated, Fiona Frost (who has a crush on Loid) is voiced by Creator/AyaneSakura who also voices Iroha in ''[=OreGairu=]''.

* In both the Japanese and English versions of ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'', Sage, a ReiAyanamiExpy, is voiced by [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Reid Ayanami's]] voice actress.

* ''Anime/GaReiZero'': Creator/{{Funimation}} cast many of their ''most popular'' voice actors to play the five Agency squad members in Episode 01 only. [[spoiler:Why Episode 01 only? [[DecoyProtagonist . . . because they all get killed off!]]]]

* The English dub of ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' gives us Creator/JeannieTirado who voices Catarina Claes and also voiced Android 21 from ''VideoGame/DragonBallFighterz''. The two characters are very endearing and dorky girls with [[SweetTooth addictions to sweets]] in initial villainous roles. The main difference between the two is that Android 21's sweet addiction is played up as HorrorHunger.

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': Creator/PatrickSeitz being cast as DrillSergeantNasty Keith Shadis was most likely a reference to his role as Germany in ''Hetalia'', who had a similar personality, though he frequently showed a softer side, especially to Italy. [[FantasyCounterpartCulture The world of AoT also has a strong German-flavoring]].

* Male protagonist Joshua Radcliff of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsDestiny'' is voiced by Creator/YuuichiNakamura in the ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration Second Super Robot Wars Original Generation]]''. This means players will see a robot-piloting [[VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}} Tomoya Okazaki]] (since both Tomoya and Joshua have blue hair and near-similar hairstyle), surrounded by [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam]] [[{{Expy}} lookalikes]] (Nakamura's role in Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 is Graham Aker who memetically [[BeamMeUpScotty shouts]] "I LOVE YOU, GUNDAM!!"), fighting creatures empowered by despair (making him an anti-[[VideoGame/BlazBlue Hazama]]), alongside [[LightNovel/{{Oreimo}} an orange-haired younger sister that can't be this cute]]. For [[RelationshipVoiceActor bonus gag]], said sister is to be voiced by [[VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}} Tomoyo Sakagami's]] [[Creator/HoukoKuwashima seiyuu]].

%% * Creator/SigourneyWeaver's role in ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' is a deliberate nod to the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' series. Also ''Film/GalaxyQuest'', where her "one stupid job" was to be the mouthpiece for (and to) the ship's computer. %% How does this apply to Alien? %%

* TheChainOfHarm:
** An example of unintentional harm being passed along. Ming winds up putting her own daughter under the same stifling expectations that her own mother did.
** Beautifully inverted in the climax. After being forgiven for her betrayal by her friends, Mei [[PayingItForward repays that debt]] by [[spoiler: extending a hand of caring and understanding to her traumatized mother. That support gives Ming the inner strength she needs to apologize to ''her'' mother for losing control and scarring Wu so long ago.]]

* Who's that playing übercapitalist Andrew Ryan in ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}''? Why it's Armin Shimerman, who you might remember as Quark the Ferengi from ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space 9]]''!

** Amusingly, his AlternateCompanyEquivalent, the security-obsessed [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Robert House]] is played by the same guy as Odo.

* The 2022 remake of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' has Creator/ToshioFurukawa, the original voice of Ataru, as Ataru's father.

* The 2022 remake of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' has Creator/ToshioFurukawa, the original voice of Ataru, as the voice of Ataru's father.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Haganai}}'', Creator/YukaIguchi voices Maria who is basically [[LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex Index]] with lavender hair and a dark blue habit.

** The prequel ''Anime/LupinZero'' sees Lupin's father voiced by Creator/ToshioFurukawa, who infamously [[TheOtherDarrin Other Darrin'd]] Creator/YasuoYamada as Lupin in ''Anime/TheFumaConspiracy''. His grandfather, meanwhile, is voiced by Creator/YoshioYasuhara, who nearly succeeded Yamada as Lupin's primary seiyuu before losing the role to Creator/KanichiKurata.

* ''Manga/BloodBlockadeBattlefront'' is often compared to ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' mainly from its [[BigApplesauce New York setting]]. Interestingly enough, many of the voices in the latter appear in the former both in sub (Creator/DaisukeSakaguchi, Creator/YuuKobayashi, Creator/MitsuruMiyamoto, Creator/KeijiFujiwara, etc.) and in dub (Creator/PhilParsons, Creator/IanSinclair, Creator/TrinaNishimura, Creator/JMichaelTatum, etc.).

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has several:
** Creator/KoukiUchiyama voices a villain that is bred practically since birth to be an all-powerful ruler. Are we talking about Shigaraki or [[Manga/HunterXHunter Meruem]]?
** Creator/JunichiSuwabe, [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight once again]], voices a stern and pragmatic hero that scoffs at idealism and early on outright tells the young protagonist that he's unsuited to be a hero.
** The A-Rank villain Muscular is sadistic, menacing, and has a missing eye. Muscular's Japanese voice actor, Kosuke Takaguchi, voiced [[VideoGame/StarFox Wolf O'Donnell]] in ''VideoGame/StarFox64'' and ''VideoGame/StarFoxZero'', who fits this description to a T.
** This isn't the first time Creator/JustinBriner was cast as the teenage, GeniusBruiser protagonist of a shonen series meant to be a successor to the original WorldsBestWarrior. That said, his stint as the ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' version of Son Gohan was merely a CallForward until the Buu Saga was adapted, which, unfortunately, never panned out due to ''DBZA''[='=]s cancellation in February 2020.
** [[Creator/ChristopherSabat All Might]] tells Midoriya that One For All was a Quirk that could be [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist "passed down for generations"]].
** Creator/DavidWald once again voices a character who can [[Manga/FairyTail turn his body into steel and consumes a steady diet of iron]].
** Hiroshi Tameda, the "can't you see" kid, looks a lot like [[Manga/FairyTail Natsu Dragneel]] in the anime. Funimation evidently noticed this and cast Creator/ToddHaberkorn as his voice.

* In ''Manga/SpyXFamily'', Loid and Yor are voiced by Creator/TakuyaEguchi and Creator/SaoriHayami. AKA [[LightNovel/MyYouthRomanticComedyIsWrongAsIExpected Hachiman and Yukinoshita]]. And to make things more complicated, Fiona Frost (who has a crush on Loid) is voiced by Creator/AyaneSakura who also voices Isshiki in ''[=OreGairu=]''.

* The English dub of ''Anime/NinetyOneDays'' was directed by Tyler Walker, the ADR director of the beloved English dub of ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', another show about gangsters during Prohibition era and even stated to have cast anyone who appeared in the ''Baccano'' dub to have their characters get killed off in ''91 Days''. For example, Creator/JMichaelTatum and Creator/CaitlinGlass, who voiced Isaac and Miria in ''Baccano'', played Avilio's deceased parents in ''91 Days''.

* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'', Graham Akre/Mr. Bushido is played by Creator/YuichiNakamura, the voice actor. In the 2020 run of the ''00'' stage play, Bushido is played by...[[NamesTheSame Yuichi Nakamura]], the live-action actor best known for his roles in the ''Franchise/KamenRider'' franchise.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}'', two minor characters are Bravo and Victor, two Navy F-18s, who feel "The Need for Speed". The characters were voiced by Creator/AnthonyEdwards and Creator/ValKilmer, both of whom flew fighter jets in ''Film/TopGun''. Well...both were in ''Film/TopGun'', but Edwards' character was a Radar Intercept Officer (RIO), not a pilot...er, [[InsistentTerminology "naval aviator"]]

* The English dub of ''Anime/AceAttorney'' has Phoenix Wright impersonator Furio Tigre be voiced by Creator/SamRiegel, the voice of Phoenix in [[Franchise/AceAttorney the video game series]] this anime is based on.

** In the anime adaptation, Creator/KanaUeda voices Yuzuki Fuwa, the Class E student with a knack for mystery solving. She previously voiced Yako Katsuragi, the amateur detective and heroine of the author's [[Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro previous series]].

** [[Toys/{{Jewelpet}} Dian]] has the same power, the same motivation and even a human form that resembles Lelouch, however, he's more sinister and vengeful (in [[Anime/Jewelpet2009 the first series]]).
** ''Anime/TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughSpace''[='=]s Leopard is a Brain Colony, which consists basically of an AI that has full control over his body, which is basically a ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}''[='=]s space colony, and Leopard's personality is basically that of [[Anime/CodeGeass Lelouch]], but in an action-comedy setting here.

** Daisuke Jigen, modeled by creator Monkey Punch after the great Creator/JamesCoburn of ''[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Seven]]'' fame, has been voiced in almost every anime production until 2021 by Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Coburn's designated seiyuu.

** The Funimation dub maintains that gag with the English voice actors but goes a step further. The voices for Fake Sanji (Creator/ChristopherSabat) and Fake Robin (Creator/LuciChristian) mimic the voices for the characters from the earlier 4Kids dub (David Moo and Creator/VeronicaTaylor).

* Creator/TakehitoKoyasu voiced Takuma Saiou from ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', who uses a UsefulNotes/TarotCards based deck filled with the Major Arcana. His particularly favorite card is The World and he enjoys saying and using it ''a lot''. Koyasu would later be the voice of Dio Brando from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', whose minions have Stands related to the Major Arcana and has the power of The World who also enjoys shouting its name and using its power multiple times.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Planes}}'', two minor characters are Bravo and Victor, two Navy F-18s, who feel "The Need for Speed". The characters were voiced by Creator/AnthonyEdwards and Creator/ValKilmer, both of whom flew fighter jets in ''Film/TopGun''. Well...both were in ''Film/TopGun'', but Edwards character was a Radar Intercept Officer (RIO), not a pilot...er, [[InsistentTerminology "naval aviator"]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'' the mayor of New Urbem is voiced by Barry Bostwick, who played the bumbling mayor of New York city in the sitcom ''Series/SpinCity''.

** Two of them happens in the Japanese dub and both involve Creator/MutsumiTamura, Priya's dub voice actress:

** In the Latin American Spanish dub, Priya's dub voice actress, Alicia Velez, also voiced another girl hanging around with a dragon girl who also transforms into a human and viceversa, [[LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesFor300YearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel and said dragon is also red like Mei]]. Curiously enough, Estefania Piedra (Mei) voiced Eno, which also sports red hair like Mei after her Red Panda form was awakened.

** Shimerman also voiced one the of the villains from the ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank'' series - the main rival of a character named 'Qwark'.

* In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestHeroes'', Creator/RieKugimiya voices Homiron, a slime. She already voiced a slime before, [[Anime/QueensBlade except it was an humanoid-looking, evil one]].

%%Needs more context about Mizuki's characters.* Just as Creator/NanaMizuki finished voicing Ange from ''Anime/CrossAnge'', she was cast almost immediately as half Japanese Ann Takamaki in ''VideoGame/Persona5'' where the first boss is essentially Embryo as he is perverse and as despicable as Embryo was. Bonus point for Ryuji's voice actor being Creator/MamoruMiyano aka Tusk.

* In ''VideoGame/Hitman2'', Creator/SeanBean voices the Elusive Target codenamed: "The Undying", real name Mark Faba, a target known for coming back from the dead when the [=ICA=] tries to assassinate him, and has canonically two seperate contracts from the ICA as even 47 can't keep him dead for long . He's basically his ''Film/GoldenEye'' character Alec Trevelyan in videogame form, crossed with the notoriety of Sean Bean being a ChronicallyKilledActor.

** Creator/RichardPetty voiced one of the cars, named The King (a ShoutOut to his FanNickname). It's a Plymouth Superbird with a #43 on it (his most famous car), [[spoiler:and in the climax, it even crashes in a frame by frame recreation of his famous 1988 Daytona 500 crash.]]

* In the English dub of ''Manga/TheCaseStudyOfVanitas'', Chloé and Jean-Jacques are voiced by Creator/BrinaPalencia and Creator/JMichaelTatum which isn't the first time they voiced [[Manga/BlackButler a master and a servant in a 19th century setting]]. On the other hand [[spoiler:this isn't also the first time they voiced [[LightNovel/SpiceAndWolf a duo where one of them turns into a wolf-like creature.]]]]

* In ''Manga/LuckyStar'', Konata works in a CosplayCafe and dresses as LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya, both characters having been voiced by Creator/AyaHirano, as well as Creator/WendeeLee in the English dubs (though ''Lucky Star'' as a whole is full of [[ShoutOut shout-outs]] and other things like these).

** Creator/YukoGoto is known for playing [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Mikuru]], who was often forcibly dressed up as a maid. Her role as Georgie loves to dress up as and pretend to be a maid.

* Creator/SatomiArai once voiced a lesbian UsefulNotes/{{Pettanko}} character who admires an older-looking lightning user, specifically [[Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun Kuroko Shirai]], and then voiced a different lesbian Pettanko character who admires an older-looking lightning user, namely [[LightNovel/ProblemChildrenAreComingFromAnotherWorldArentThey Shiroyasha]].

* In ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'', Ren Amaki, the Sword Hero, is supposed to be a parody of Kirito from ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', being a teenager who enjoys playing VRMMO videogames, has a preference for swords and dressing up in black clothing. Both are voiced by Creator/YoshitsuguMatsuoka.