Tom Dincht wrote:I'm not a fangirl, and I HATE to gravedig, but is David Lucas his real name?
As MJL knows, he's my favorite VA.
I think David Lucas is a psuedonym, not the other way around. Back when Cowboy Bebop was dubbed, most anime voice over work wasn't unionized (I think some still isn't, but I'm not sure). You can get kicked out of your union if you do work that's not sanctioned under them, so a lot of times voice actors will use a psuedonym instead of their real name to avoid any penalities. That's also why Metal Gear Solid has different names in the credits than its remake, MGS: Twin Snakes, even though almost all of the same voice actors returned (Jimmy Flanders=Cam Clarke, for example).
Actually, he used to actively deny that he and Lucas were the same person to avoid getting in trouble, even going so far as to
write a letter to a fan group saying that he and Lucas were just friends that happened to have extremely similar voices. I'm not even sure if he's ever actually said "yeah, that's me"--but it IS him, he just...can't say it is.