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#ZAGPAYUP- Give The Miraculous Voice Actors A Raise
WHAT IS GOING ON?
Several voice actors for the English dub of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir (or Miraculous), a popular animated television series airing in over 120 countries on major networks like Disney and Netflix, requested a pay raise for the upcoming fifth season of the series. The production company behind the series, ZAG, refused to give the voice actors a pay raise, instead opting to give the main cast raises and forcing them to not tell anyone about the raises.
Production staff such as animators have also reported being underpaid and have been given a lower budget to work with, even as the popularity of the series increases.
Due to this, SAMG, a Korean animation studio and the main animation studio for Season 1, has mostly left Miraculous, and 4 voice actors, Joe Ochman, who voices the supporting character Mayor Bourgeois, Reba Buhr, who voices 3 roles, including 2 of the heroes, Anne Yatco, who voiced the main character's mother, and Cassandra Lee Morris, who voiced a classmate of the main characters, quit the show because they wouldn’t agree to another season without a raise.
WHY IS THIS WRONG?
Miraculous is an internationally-beloved show and the number one children's program in countries like Brazil and France, where the recent season 4 finale special The Last Attack of Shadowmoth attracted over half of all TV viewers ages 4-10. Despite this and the increasing popularity of the show since its release in 2015, the voice cast and animators have been underpaid.
Later this year, the first animated movie in the Miraculous franchise- budgeted at over $100 million- will release. If ZAG can afford a movie at that budget, they can afford to pay the artists that make this show miraculous.