Despite Voicing Ash in World’s Richest $88B Franchise, Pokémon Voice Actor Veronica Taylor’s Staggeringly Low Annual Salary Left Fans Stunned

Despite Voicing Ash in World’s Richest $88B Franchise, Pokémon Voice Actor Veronica Taylor’s Staggeringly Low Annual Salary Left Fans Stunned
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Veronica Taylor is a famous voice actor best known for voicing Ash from Pokémon. Voice actors, often known as seiyu, play an important part in bringing fan favorites to life. Voice artists, irrespective of language, are extremely gifted. There is a lot of emphasis on these specific artists because they are the ones who give the characters their first persona by lending their voices. Their choices influence how the character is introduced to the world. With that in mind, it’s expected that these actors deserve far more credit than they’ve gotten.

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A professional Japanese anime voice actor will most likely earn at least $500 per episode. However, more experienced anime voice performers earn substantially more, with Megumi Hayashibara (Rei Ayanami in Evangelion) earning $630,000 per year and Masako Nozawa (Goku in Dragon Ball) earning $360,000 per year.

Japanese anime voice actors
Japanese anime voice actors

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Fans are taken aback by Veronica Taylor’s shockingly low yearly salary

Veronica Taylor has lent her voice to a variety of popular shows and films, including Pokémon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Sailor Moon, and Yu-Gi-Oh! Taylor has been a fixture in the field for over two decades and remains popular among anime lovers all across the world. Fans have been intrigued by her net worth and earnings due to her outstanding career.

Veronica Taylor
Veronica Taylor

Ash Ketchum from Pokémon is without a doubt Veronica Taylor’s most well-known character. She voiced the character for eight seasons, making it synonymous with the franchise. She has also voiced a number of other minor and supporting characters in Pokémon, including May’s mother and Ash’s mother, Delia Ketchum. Veronica Taylor’s estimated net worth as of 2023 is $5 million. Her main source of income is her voice work in animated television shows and movies. Her wealth has increased as a result of her work as a teacher, playwright, and theatrical director.

She receives an average annual salary of $50,000 as a voice actress. And fans began to wonder why the actress is making so little money while Satoshi Tajiri’s Pokémon is currently the highest-grossing media series in the entire world, with a projected total revenue of almost $100 billion. Well, the reason is unknown. She may not have had as much experience as other voice performers at the time, according to some fans’ speculation. Some have hypothesized that it’s because the Pokémon Company was looking for ways to cut costs. Irrespective of the reasoning, Taylor’s pay contrasts sharply with the wealth of the Pokémon Company.

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Pokémon, the richest franchise

It’s not surprising that the Pokémon anime franchise has earned the most money ever. In 2019, The Pokemon Company ceased disclosing the overall value of Pokémon. Around $71 billion was the estimated value of Pokémon at the time. The overall net worth allegedly increased to almost $100 billion in 2023. The expeditions of a young boy named Ash and his devoted Pokémon Pikachu are chronicled in the Pokémon animated series. Ash explores the Pokémon world in search of the title “Pokémon Master.”

Ash and Pikachu
Ash and Pikachu

Although Pokémon has a hugely successful anime, trading card game, and video game lineup, its primary source of income is licensed merchandise. Pokémon anime, manga, cards, and video game sales are constantly surpassed by sales of licensed goods like toys and books. The key to Pokémon’s success as the highest-grossing media franchise, which earns almost $4 billion annually, is its capacity to adopt new technologies.

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Since introducing Pokémon cards for the first time in 1996, the Japanese anime craze has kept shifting its focus. The Pokémon Go app, which gained 50 million users in just 19 days, is currently the franchise’s most well-known achievement in terms of popularising augmented reality.

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Kukilkalyani Borgohain is a content writer at FandomWire. Previously a Journalist and a Better India featured NGO worker, she has always been a passionate literature student with a penchant for creative writing.