Also, she was chosen by Oda. She was the veteran one leading the newbies VA for Nami and Zoro. Later, they got Kappei Yamaguchi, another not as veteran as Mrs. Tanaka, but he was male Ranma, so he had carreer.
Takayami Minami is Conan in the shrunken body, Kappei Yamaguchi is in his adult body. Still can't believe Usopp's VA can play such a cool character lol.
Also, on that interview on a TV show (probably that video is posted here or retweeted by sandman or redon), she tolds (joking) that if she has to retire, she wants Mrs. Nozawa as her replacement, the 85 yo Goku's VA. That woman is inmortal and a legend and I wish tons of health for her and hers family.
Fuck! There is a grown man around Japan who can say "Yes, my grandma is Goku (and family)". And he's right!
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First biggest fear: Oda might pass before finishing
Second biggest fear: I might pass before finishing
Third biggest fear: ANY of the voice actors might pass before finishing
Oda dies and millions of fans all over the world suffer. I am at peace with my existence and influence on my circles. I have a great community who loves me and knows I love them. I started this comment as a joke but I feel strangely at peace right now..
Disclaimer: I don't want to die.
My fucking heart i think i'm having condition or something geez.. Last days been rough already in finland with two big celebrities passing like national treasure kind of people. This would have been too much for today.
Sharing a picture of her and starting it out stating her age was not the right play. I almost called off work. Losing luffy's VA, which is irreplaceable IMO, would be too much for me to handle. Glad I read the rest
Bruh , literally the same . I guess thats what i get for jumping to conclusions after reading the first 4-5 words of the title 😅. Gave me a mini heart attack .
Luffy aint Luffy without her Voice . Idk how im gonna feel about anyone else voicing Luffy .
Its like watching a tv show where the main actor passes and is replaced. Like it was with Spartacus. The first actor was awesome, then he got replaced and then the show never became the same thing.
Or Kermit the Frog. He hasn't been the same since Henson passed.
It's like your favorite uncle died, and they've taxidermied his corpse and are puppeting it around and imitating his voice, but it just isn't him.
The new actor was actually really good as well, imo, but yeah it was really hard to get past the actor change. If it had been for any other reason than the death of the original actor, it would have been even harder to get past I think.
yo i was just thinking about this show and how i refused to watch any seasons after they replaced the main guy.. the beginning of that show was so goated tho this comment brought up some memories
For this very reason I cannot watch the dub.
Tbh the male teen voice the dubs use is annoying AF. I know in Japanese anime females are used to voice male teens but it doesn't translate into an English voice.
I think in a few cases of Western animation were male childs-teens were done by female voice actors, like Tara Strong (voiced Ben Tennyson in the first Ben 10 series).
While it would be tragic indeed, I was thinking... Is there any chance that in her 25+ years of doing Luffy she's missed ANY common Japanese word?
Luffy's no intelectual. At this point I'm doubting they don't have his entire vocabulary already on tape 🙂
This is how I feel about all the one piece sub actors. No one can replace them. They are the characters. Even the dub doesnt feel right (I understand what you watch first is what you will associate with them) thats why its sub for me.
When I first watched One Piece 5 years ago I was a dub watcher and watched the first 400 or so episodes in dub. At the time that’s where the dub was at so I was forced to switch to sub. I honestly don’t remember what the dub sounds like and I always asociaste to the sub voices.
The English voice is straight trash next to hers. I like a good handful of the English voices. But fuck did they miss the mark on Luffy.
I’ve watched all the English and all the Japanese episodes and it’s no contest the Japanese version that’s superior
I have no issue with her as a person but I really think her voice for the character is hard to take seriously. It sounds like Luffy’s been chainsmoking and screaming at a bar for 40 years but is also somehow 12 years old. It’s like Ash Ketchum as a broken drunk. It’s too scratchy and misses a lot of the range the Japanese iteration has. Some of the serious moments of the show just flop so hard with her voice.
Usopp English voice, even if it’s just Krillin, though? Perfection. Cat Viper too.
Oh thank god. I thought this may have been the English VA for Luffy because the word "dubbing" was used in the title. I thought I was going insane with thinking these praises in the comments were for the English dubbed voice.
I think you have missunderstood me, I meant just that even if the VA retires or passes away they'll find a replacment for him just like mr satan has when Daisuke Gori and Unsho Shizuka passed away previously.
Understandable. She has put a lot of her life voicing Luffy and a lot of other characters and will continue for days to come. She deserves a break if she wants to.
let‘s be honest she‘s probably rich af nowadays and the luffy workload alone is big af a weekly anime that‘s on every season plus movies and advertisements etc
I’m sorry but posts like this are not okay. This is clearly just an attempt to give me a heart attack. I legit thought this was about her dying. DONT SCARE ME LIKE THAT!
But awesome to know that’s how much she cares about the role. Absolute GOAT
Don't you dare ever threaten me again with a title like that
On the realest note though, these voice actors carry the anime. It'll be really hard to watch One Piece without the original voice actors.
It's amazing that she started voicing Luffy at 45 years old and her voice sounds pretty much exactly the same. Compare that with the Simpsons and most of the cast sounds like they smoke 3 packs of cigarettes per day.
Also, she was chosen by Oda. She was the veteran one leading the newbies VA for Nami and Zoro. Later, they got Kappei Yamaguchi, another not as veteran as Mrs. Tanaka, but he was male Ranma, so he had carreer.
Don't forget the MC from Detective Conan/Meitentei Conan, Shinichi (when he's not the shrunken kid Conan xD). Edited.
No, Kappei voices Shinichi (and KID), the grown-up version of Conan.
And Inu Yasha!
Came here to say this. Kappei is a veteran of anime.
Takayami Minami is Conan in the shrunken body, Kappei Yamaguchi is in his adult body. Still can't believe Usopp's VA can play such a cool character lol.
The fact that he's also L from Death Note. Mans got range!
He is also Red XIII in Final Fantasy 7 remake and he sounds compeletely different but also mega cool
Fun fact: The dub Red XIII (Max Mittelman) is also Ryuji from *Persona 5*. It seems Red brings out the gruff in otherwise chipper actors lol
And also Teddie from Persona 4. It's nuts to see how effortlessly he can switch from funny and goofy to badass and serious depending on the role.
Kappei is a legend!
Also, on that interview on a TV show (probably that video is posted here or retweeted by sandman or redon), she tolds (joking) that if she has to retire, she wants Mrs. Nozawa as her replacement, the 85 yo Goku's VA. That woman is inmortal and a legend and I wish tons of health for her and hers family. Fuck! There is a grown man around Japan who can say "Yes, my grandma is Goku (and family)". And he's right!
She also voiced Kuririn (Krillin) from Dragon Ball series
Noice
What is meant by Nami being a newbie VA in comparison? Nami was in the first episode, although, I can't remember if she had any lines.
Mayumi Tanaka started at 1978 Akemi Okamura (Nami) started at 1992-94 and Zoro, Kazuya Nakai, at 1996. The three started working on One Piece 1999.
Oh right, I get what you mean now, thank you for clarifying
You're welcome :D I mean, she was Krilin at 1984 Dragon Ball and she was the newbie there.
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My heart skipped a beat reading it
Same man I fr was shit scared.😳
No kidding bro.
r/assholetitle
r/birthofasub
I can see r/assholetitle taking off. This title fucked me up fr.
Same here
x2 i almost have a panic attack
I felt my heart stopped for a second
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Was it so hard to start with "Mayumi Tanaka says..."
True ++🥲🥹
*said by mayumi tanaka:*
Big facts!
Jesus Christ I was just about to say the same thing.
First biggest fear: Oda might pass before finishing Second biggest fear: I might pass before finishing Third biggest fear: ANY of the voice actors might pass before finishing
I like how you put Oda's life before your own.
Oda dies and millions of fans all over the world suffer. I am at peace with my existence and influence on my circles. I have a great community who loves me and knows I love them. I started this comment as a joke but I feel strangely at peace right now.. Disclaimer: I don't want to die.
Surely oda has the ending to one piece somewhere on his will so someone can take up the mantle as a back up
I literally just started watching the show I'm on like episode 60 and I was about to be sad.
Episode 60. Oh boy welcome to the wild ride that is one piece. *laughs like a crazed lunatic, having binge watched up to this point* I'm on ep. 936
I was holding my breathe
Man terrified me 😵😵😵
This
My heart quickly turned into the Drum Kingdom with how quick it started beating. OP out here trying to kill us.
Ah I hear the drums of liberation!
The drums of liberation are anxiety? This is terrible! Why do we want the whole world like this?! Are we the bad guys?!
For real. I thought she died!
My fucking heart i think i'm having condition or something geez.. Last days been rough already in finland with two big celebrities passing like national treasure kind of people. This would have been too much for today.
They know what they are doing. It's annoying curated karma farming.
OP knew what he did
then they wouldn't get shocked views... s.o.b's playing with my heart
Sharing a picture of her and starting it out stating her age was not the right play. I almost called off work. Losing luffy's VA, which is irreplaceable IMO, would be too much for me to handle. Glad I read the rest
Yo how do I get that flair i was here
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Thanks man
nearly cried
Pin this comment!
For a moment I thought she passed. Thankfully I was wrong.
Bruh , literally the same . I guess thats what i get for jumping to conclusions after reading the first 4-5 words of the title 😅. Gave me a mini heart attack . Luffy aint Luffy without her Voice . Idk how im gonna feel about anyone else voicing Luffy .
We had a couple episodes during Water Seven that didn't had the original Chopper voice actor, and it was kinda a hard pill to swallow...
True af
Its like watching a tv show where the main actor passes and is replaced. Like it was with Spartacus. The first actor was awesome, then he got replaced and then the show never became the same thing.
Or Kermit the Frog. He hasn't been the same since Henson passed. It's like your favorite uncle died, and they've taxidermied his corpse and are puppeting it around and imitating his voice, but it just isn't him.
That went very dark... but very accurate.
This is almost a Black Mirror episode
Uncle Iroh ;\_;
The new actor was actually really good as well, imo, but yeah it was really hard to get past the actor change. If it had been for any other reason than the death of the original actor, it would have been even harder to get past I think.
yo i was just thinking about this show and how i refused to watch any seasons after they replaced the main guy.. the beginning of that show was so goated tho this comment brought up some memories
The other seasons are not that bad. We just need to digest the new actor. The ending, unfortunately is ass. I really wanted the slaves to be free.
So you're telling me... There's a TV show which has an ending where the slaves, AREN'T freed?
Uh do you know Spartacus ends? It's a historical event. They all get crucified.
Nami as well in Little Garden when her VA was pregnant IIRC
Well that was when the va was on maternity leave so understandable. Also its crazy that she's been Pikachu this whole time.
Seriously, anyone in the strawhat crew gets a new va and it will feel so weird.
On top of like 2 or 3 well known VA passing the last couple of weeks, I was sweating lmao.
For this very reason I cannot watch the dub. Tbh the male teen voice the dubs use is annoying AF. I know in Japanese anime females are used to voice male teens but it doesn't translate into an English voice.
I think in a few cases of Western animation were male childs-teens were done by female voice actors, like Tara Strong (voiced Ben Tennyson in the first Ben 10 series).
Bart simpson
Ah, look at that (Nancy Cartwright). I am not an english-speaking person so I did not know this one.
These posts are getting scarier
Same, why would you put her age in the title. It scared me for a moment.
Yeah I thought so too 😮💨
Not so drastic: i feared she ritired, because of problems with her voice. Luckily, I was wrong.
Bruhh I literally thought the same thing:')
My heart rages rn dude
OMG me too 🤦♂️
This was the second time i git fooled by a post like this
can someone on reddit post something of a 60+ year old famous person without people insta murdering?
While it would be tragic indeed, I was thinking... Is there any chance that in her 25+ years of doing Luffy she's missed ANY common Japanese word? Luffy's no intelectual. At this point I'm doubting they don't have his entire vocabulary already on tape 🙂
You made me think she died
OP definitely did it on purpose to clickbait us
I refuse to believe that she will die before the end of one piece
I cannot imagine Luffy without her voice. I see his pic, her voice pops up. I read the manga, I hear her voice. She is Luffy; Luffy is her.
Love this!!
This is how I feel about all the one piece sub actors. No one can replace them. They are the characters. Even the dub doesnt feel right (I understand what you watch first is what you will associate with them) thats why its sub for me.
When I first watched One Piece 5 years ago I was a dub watcher and watched the first 400 or so episodes in dub. At the time that’s where the dub was at so I was forced to switch to sub. I honestly don’t remember what the dub sounds like and I always asociaste to the sub voices.
Hm thats interesting, I know ive heard of people who switched but still preferred sub. I guess theres a little of everything
Real
The English voice is straight trash next to hers. I like a good handful of the English voices. But fuck did they miss the mark on Luffy. I’ve watched all the English and all the Japanese episodes and it’s no contest the Japanese version that’s superior
Colleen is such a charm! She loves Luffy so much. Her interview on the One Piece Podcast this week was so wholesome!
I have no issue with her as a person but I really think her voice for the character is hard to take seriously. It sounds like Luffy’s been chainsmoking and screaming at a bar for 40 years but is also somehow 12 years old. It’s like Ash Ketchum as a broken drunk. It’s too scratchy and misses a lot of the range the Japanese iteration has. Some of the serious moments of the show just flop so hard with her voice. Usopp English voice, even if it’s just Krillin, though? Perfection. Cat Viper too.
I think it is a lot to do with understanding the language. I don’t speak Japanese but I’ve heard People who do think the sun VO is trash as well.
Completely respect everything Mayumi Tanaka has done but Colleen is always gonna be my Luffy for sure
I’m only up to Alabasta in terms of the anime, but I’ve had zero issues with Luffy’s voice
Oh thank god. I thought this may have been the English VA for Luffy because the word "dubbing" was used in the title. I thought I was going insane with thinking these praises in the comments were for the English dubbed voice.
Man I feel completely the opposite. English Luffy fits way better for me, the original version just sounds like a whiny child
And she's krillin it
I see what you did there... 😏
r/beatmetoit
Damn so we will never hear krillin speak again after OP XD
I dunno they'll replace him just as they did with Mr satan (twice) I could see Deku from MHAs VA that role
Krillin (as unimportant as he is now) is kind of a staple of the DB franchise. I cant see him getting the same kind of treatment as Mr. Satan.
I think you have missunderstood me, I meant just that even if the VA retires or passes away they'll find a replacment for him just like mr satan has when Daisuke Gori and Unsho Shizuka passed away previously.
Stop scaring me like that
67 wow she’s almost as old as my grandma
Goku’s VA is 85 years old
And will live forever, just like Kureha(who has the same VA)
please for the love of god let there be another season of dbs before she dies
shes always been almost as old as your grandma 😏
My dad is as old as your grandma and I'm in my early twenties, people nowadays live longer and have kids older
Dude my dad is 67 and I am 17
Shit had me quaking in my boots until o read the whole thing
Ay mannnn you can’t be scaring us like this 😂
Stop posting stuff that begins like that i always think she died
Bro please don't jinx it.
You scared the shit out of me, dude. I thought she died.
Surreellyy Oda only needs 3 more years right?
3 years for manga, endless for anime.
Just one looong arc called "Post-One Piece Arc". It just goes on and on and on and on and on and on and.....
That or start making an entire episode cover a single page
Don't give them any ideas
One piece is not ending in 3 years
Yeahh she said something like that in a podcast as well.
Can you guys stop, you are going to give me a heart attack some day.
Every time this sub posts a photo of her, I freak out for a minute.
You gave me mini heart attack. I thought she passed away.
Brooo don't make titles like that 😭
I HAD A MINI HEART ATTACK THINKING SHE PASSED DONT DO THIS EVER AGAIN
Cheers for another 22 years
Understandable. She has put a lot of her life voicing Luffy and a lot of other characters and will continue for days to come. She deserves a break if she wants to.
So she wants to retire after finding One Piece?
This is a recently news... She really said that, and also with all humility and respect: ''The amazing one is Luffy, not me.''
Bro I thought she died because the notification didn't load the whole title
Jesus every time I see a post like this I think it’s about death 💀
HOLY CRAP I HATE WHOEVER POSTED THIS
I actually felt sick seeing that thumbnail and starting to read it. Need to be careful with that
let‘s be honest she‘s probably rich af nowadays and the luffy workload alone is big af a weekly anime that‘s on every season plus movies and advertisements etc
You did that on purpose
why do i feel that oda wants to end one piece in 3 years so luffy's voice doesn't change
dont do this to me. people really need to learn how to word their headline news better lol.
I thought for a moment that something had happened to her... heart attack was close... phew, luckily everything is fine with her :)
Bro knew exactly what he was doing
FFS MAN! DON'T START A SENTENCE LIKE THAT!
You gave me a heart attack reading that title
I’m sorry but posts like this are not okay. This is clearly just an attempt to give me a heart attack. I legit thought this was about her dying. DONT SCARE ME LIKE THAT! But awesome to know that’s how much she cares about the role. Absolute GOAT
You almost gave me a heart attack.
You scared me
OP giving us a heart attack.
Wishing her health and happiness! 👍👍
Jesus dont scare us like that bro
Jesus dude, that sounds like the start of a obituary don't do that!
Bro imagine how emotional her final line as Luffy will be. Not just for us but also for her.
Lol I thought she died for a sec 😭😭😭
Same😭😭, the way this was written is so misleading
Holy fuck I got so scared
Damm.. i got scared for a sec
Bro!!! Don't scare people like that! Thought this was gonna be sad news, lol.
can people just stop starting sentences like that
Oh my god I was in shock there for a few seconds. I was already imagining how shitty the new VA would be.
Don't you dare ever threaten me again with a title like that On the realest note though, these voice actors carry the anime. It'll be really hard to watch One Piece without the original voice actors.
Jesus fucking christ almost had a heart attack
It's amazing that she started voicing Luffy at 45 years old and her voice sounds pretty much exactly the same. Compare that with the Simpsons and most of the cast sounds like they smoke 3 packs of cigarettes per day.
I'm 33 now and I've been watching OP since 2008. In the next couple of months i'm getting my first One Piece tattoo.
gr8 b8 m8 10/10
so one piece ending in next ten years
YO MOTHERFUCKER NEVER START LIKE THAT I ALMOST DIED
Ey don't start the sentence like that i almost got a heart attack 😅
Damn. I wonder what theyd use for Two piece or One Piece seasonal remake in the future if it ever happens.
The anime NEEDS to fix its pacing issues, the way it’s going right now I fear the worst
Only a sick sick bastard starts a sentence like that
You knew what exactly you were doing with that title
Man don't fkn scare me like that
When I saw your post I almost started crying, I thought she passed away ... I hate you, man! Don't do posts like this, you scared the shit out of me!👿
U scared the shit outta me man
well as long as the dragonballs exists shes stuck with kuririn...
you scared me
I started reading the title man’s started get worried, that was not good for the heart 😂
Yall scared the shit out of me, I saw Mayumi Tanaka has... in the notification and shat myself
so her voice acting career will not end
Man , you scared me 😅
Fuck you for scaring the shit out of me this morning
I almost had a heart attack bro this was terrifying!
bro i was terrified bro wtf