Thread:Hyocaso/@comment-28818979-20170607032631/@comment-27971189-20170610150213

Mind you that the most difficult job in Japan is seiyuu / entertainers; politicians not even come close, you're comparing apple and orange here.

High popularity doesn't guarantee them always stay above. If they found someone good enough to replace her by time she's absent, they will do it, and the chance of comeback is very little even to VA like Hayami Saori and Taneda Risa.

Goto Yuko is good example of this, she never had any major role again since her break that come with illness announcement, which by your words, should be taken with grain of salt. Right now the only saving grace for Taneda Risa is her role as Himeragi, like it or not.

As for mangaka, mangaka themselves can staying high only if they are on same level of popularity with those like Toriyama, Kishimoto, Oda or Togashi; hell, even Gintama mangaka, Sorachi said that his work is not as easy as people think despite Gintama popularity and said to his fans that only mangaka with popularity as high as Oda, Kishimoto and Toriyama can really 'taking hiatus with ease'.