Were there hard feelings between Linda Young and Funimation after she was recast?

[Cure Dragon 255]

At first I wanted to make this thread about Linda Young finding work on One Piece recently and wanted to point out I was happy there were no hard feelings between her and Funimation... But then I remembered Funimation doesnt exist anymore. It's Crunchyroll now. Were there hard feelings that didnt dissipate until Funimation was no more or what?

[DB1984]

Wonder if Dale Kelly will be part of Crunchyroll? I think he said that he had issues with Funimation, too.

[TheGreatness25]

Linda Young voiced Baba in Kai and Super after being replaced as Freeza. So, I don't think there were hard feelings. These things happen.

[jjgp1112]

I mean her own son is still on the dub so I doubt it's a big deal. It's a job, that stuff happens.

[MasenkoHA]

What Jjgp said about Young still voicing Baba in Kai and Super and her son voicing Tenshinhan and being the head ADR writer for Super (and Kai? I can't remember)

But also

.. But then I remembered Funimation doesnt exist anymore. It's Crunchyroll now. Were there hard feelings that didnt dissipate until Funimation was no more or what?

Wonder if Dale Kelly will be part of Crunchyroll? I think he said that he had issues with Funimation, too.

Like, guys, the people at Funimation who made these decisions* didn't disappear just because of a company name change. Chris Sabat and Justin Cook and so so and so are all very much around just working for Crunchyroll instead of Funimation


*I guess Barry Watson or Gen Fukanaga could have fired Dale Kelly and they're long gone, but no he's not going to come back just because the company is now called Crunchyroll. His narrative style doesn't work for the approach Funimation/Crunchyroll has been trying to do since 2010.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

Linda Young voiced Baba in Kai and Super after being replaced as Freeza. So, I don't think there were hard feelings. These things happen.

Funimation also tried to keep Linda Young as Freeza for Kai, she actually played him in episode 1. Her style of performance didn't fit the way Freeza was portrayed in the Kai dub so it didn't work out. It happens in the workplace all the time, sometimes a task doesn't work out so someone is assigned (in this case reprising) to one better suited to them, which was the case with Young and Baba.

I doubt there's any hard feelings.

[SuperSaiyaManZ94]

Linda Young voiced Baba in Kai and Super after being replaced as Freeza. So, I don't think there were hard feelings. These things happen.

Funimation also tried to keep Linda Young as Freeza for Kai, she actually played him in episode 1. Her style of performance didn't fit the way Freeza was portrayed in the Kai dub so it didn't work out. It happens in the workplace all the time, sometimes a task doesn't work out so someone is assigned (in this case reprising) to one better suited to them, which was the case with Young and Baba.

I doubt there's any hard feelings.

It really seems like it was a case of them going for a closer more accurate approximation of Ryusei Nakao's take, which is why they went with Chris Ayres in Kai once the character proper appeared beyond that flashback with footage recycled from the Bardock special stuck at the beginning of ep 1, where Linda's voice was used as his laugh was clearly her. Because of course it just didn't work with that fact in mind, so she was one of the legacy VA's from the original in house days who didn't return to the character she was most known for. I honestly felt she was better fit as Baba and Genkai (old) in Yu Yu Hakusho's dub. She was just plain miscast as Freeza, though of course her initial hiring fit with FUNi's mindset back in 1999 of hiring people who could imitate the Ocean Studios cast (with Linda basically doing an impression of Pauline Newstone) but miscast and unfitting for the character overall.

I really don't think there were hard feelings, it seems like she apparently accepted the recasting and understood so it was all good.

[Vegard Aune]

I seem to recall hearing that part of why she was recast was that she was genuinely not able to keep up with how verbose Freeza was in the Kai dub. Like, FUNi by their own admission had no idea what kind of character Freeza was supposed to be back in the Ocean days, which was partially down to the absolutely atrocious translations they had been given to work with from Toei, which were barely even English. And so they went for a completely different, more slow and almost snakelike vibe with Pauline Newstone, and Young was able to mimic that kind of performance, but when you get to a more true-to-Toriyama performance where he's talking a million miles a minute and expressing everything in the most eloquent, verbose way possible... She just couldn't keep up. Her age might have also had something to do with that, but I can't really say anything for certain there, one way or the other.

[jjgp1112]

I seem to recall hearing that part of why she was recast was that she was genuinely not able to keep up with how verbose Freeza was in the Kai dub. Like, FUNi by their own admission had no idea what kind of character Freeza was supposed to be back in the Ocean days, which was partially down to the absolutely atrocious translations they had been given to work with from Toei, which were barely even English. And so they went for a completely different, more slow and almost snakelike vibe with Pauline Newstone, and Young was able to mimic that kind of performance, but when you get to a more true-to-Toriyama performance where he's talking a million miles a minute and expressing everything in the most eloquent, verbose way possible... She just couldn't keep up. Her age might have also had something to do with that, but I can't really say anything for certain there, one way or the other.

Yup, that's what Chris Sabat said.

[jjgp1112]

I seem to recall hearing that part of why she was recast was that she was genuinely not able to keep up with how verbose Freeza was in the Kai dub. Like, FUNi by their own admission had no idea what kind of character Freeza was supposed to be back in the Ocean days, which was partially down to the absolutely atrocious translations they had been given to work with from Toei, which were barely even English. And so they went for a completely different, more slow and almost snakelike vibe with Pauline Newstone, and Young was able to mimic that kind of performance, but when you get to a more true-to-Toriyama performance where he's talking a million miles a minute and expressing everything in the most eloquent, verbose way possible... She just couldn't keep up. Her age might have also had something to do with that, but I can't really say anything for certain there, one way or the other.

Yup, that's what Chris Sabat said.

[jjgp1112]

I seem to recall hearing that part of why she was recast was that she was genuinely not able to keep up with how verbose Freeza was in the Kai dub. Like, FUNi by their own admission had no idea what kind of character Freeza was supposed to be back in the Ocean days, which was partially down to the absolutely atrocious translations they had been given to work with from Toei, which were barely even English. And so they went for a completely different, more slow and almost snakelike vibe with Pauline Newstone, and Young was able to mimic that kind of performance, but when you get to a more true-to-Toriyama performance where he's talking a million miles a minute and expressing everything in the most eloquent, verbose way possible... She just couldn't keep up. Her age might have also had something to do with that, but I can't really say anything for certain there, one way or the other.

Yup, that's what Chris Sabat said.

[Cure Dragon 255]

Yup, that's what Chris Sabat said.

Spoiler:

LOL

[Hellspawn28]

I'm glad that we no longer have old lady Freeza voice anymore. She is a decent voice actor, but her voice did not work for Freeza. It sound like she was trying to be like Rita Repulsa or Cruella de Vil. Many fans didn't like her voice and wasn't until the late 2000s when you had people that would defend her voice as Freeza.

[Super Sonic]

She was on Fairy Tail, Nobunagun, and other shows so I would guess that's a no.

[Lance Freeman]

Probably not, seeing as she's doing work for them to this day. Like, she was just in the Yu Yu Hakusho OVAs and Chainsaw Man.

[8000 Saiyan]

Most unlikely.