Just because the income is consistent doesn't mean it's good. The union rate for dubbing is $64.25/hour with a 2-hour minimum. Sure, that adds up after a while if you're consistently working on a character that frequently shows up (a generous assumption, but one that for the sake of playing devil's advocate, I'll entertain since we are talking about the lead character of DBZ in this instance). Still, even in that circumstance, it's not close enough to make a full-time living out of. And again, that's the union rate...except for some once-in-a-blue-moon occasions when they get the rights to the sequel/spin-off of a show that was previously done with a union dub, FUNimation's dubs are non-union.precita wrote: ↑Fri Sep 25, 2020 6:22 pm I always see him complaining when he finishes voice work on a show and says, "I need a new job." Dragonball has given him a consistent source of income because he's always dubbing the videogames every year as well...so he's almost continuously voicing Goku outside the shows.
As others have said, though, that would add up for FUNimation after a while taking into account all the actors they'd have to bring back. Plus the ADR writers. Plus the directors. Plus the engineers. Plus the mixers. For 290-something episodes and thirteen movies. This isn't a matter of FUNimation being cheap, it's simply a matter of fact that, while an individual actor may not make much on a dub, producing a dub is quite the expensive endeavor overall, and I agree that there's absolutely no way FUNimation would make their money back producing a new dub.
