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Recast Masako Nozawa's Roles

Post by jcogginsa » Sat Mar 21, 2015 4:13 pm

If Masako Nozawa were to, for any reason, become unable to portray Goku or her other characters, who would you want to replace her?
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Post by LordCrumb » Sat Mar 21, 2015 4:15 pm

The only obvious choice would be for Sean Schemmel to learn fluent Japanese and do it.
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Post by JulieYBM » Sat Mar 21, 2015 4:17 pm

Park Romi is the one name actor I can think of who could play all of the characters with vigor.
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Post by Tzigi » Sat Mar 21, 2015 4:18 pm

A guy.

This answer is not meant to be snappy or otherwise unpleasant. It is simply what I'd love to change about the Japanese version - for male characters to be voiced by males and female characters by females.
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Post by Rocketman » Sat Mar 21, 2015 4:35 pm

Gilbert Gottfried, the only man who can capture the essence of Nozawa's voice acting.
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Re: Recast Masako Nozawa's Roles

Post by RandomGuy96 » Sat Mar 21, 2015 5:26 pm

Chris Tucker is the only one who can do her justice as a successor.
Rocketman wrote:Gilbert Gottfried, the only man who can capture the essence of Nozawa's voice acting.
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Re: Recast Masako Nozawa's Roles

Post by jcogginsa » Sat Mar 21, 2015 5:29 pm

Neither can speak Japanese
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Post by TheGmGoken » Sat Mar 21, 2015 5:43 pm

Kamina(TTGL) JPN Voice. Only his voice can capture Goku's charisma
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TheGmGoken wrote:Kamina(TTGL) JPN Voice. Only his voice can capture Goku's charisma
Goku has charisma?
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Post by Cure Dragon 255 » Sat Mar 21, 2015 5:44 pm

Isnt there a thread about this already? I'm not a mod,though so its up to them to decide anything.
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Re: Recast Masako Nozawa's Roles

Post by TheGmGoken » Sat Mar 21, 2015 5:46 pm

Kamiccolo9 wrote:
TheGmGoken wrote:Kamina(TTGL) JPN Voice. Only his voice can capture Goku's charisma
Goku has charisma?
Umm yeah. Why wouldn't he? Almost every character besides Ten or Chaozu has charisma
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Re: Recast Masako Nozawa's Roles

Post by fadeddreams5 » Sat Mar 21, 2015 5:49 pm

They'll probably pick someone who could emulate her voice.
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Re: Recast Masako Nozawa's Roles

Post by Kamiccolo9 » Sat Mar 21, 2015 5:49 pm

TheGmGoken wrote:
Kamiccolo9 wrote:
TheGmGoken wrote:Kamina(TTGL) JPN Voice. Only his voice can capture Goku's charisma
Goku has charisma?
Umm yeah. Why wouldn't he? Almost every character besides Ten or Chaozu has charisma
exercising a compelling charm that inspires devotion in others.
Goku has some charm, I guess, but he doesn't particularly inspire devotion.
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Re: Recast Masako Nozawa's Roles

Post by ABED » Sat Mar 21, 2015 5:54 pm

Goku has some charm, I guess, but he doesn't particularly inspire devotion.
Devotion among who? Given how his friends pretty much give in to him, I'd say that he does inspire devotion, especially amongst his enemies who can't stop thinking about him.
Gilbert Gottfried, the only man who can capture the essence of Nozawa's voice acting.
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Re: Recast Masako Nozawa's Roles

Post by TheGmGoken » Sat Mar 21, 2015 5:57 pm

Kamiccolo9 wrote: Goku has charisma?
Umm yeah. Why wouldn't he? Almost every character besides Ten or Chaozu has charisma[/quote]
exercising a compelling charm that inspires devotion in others.
Goku has some charm, I guess, but he doesn't particularly inspire devotion.[/quote]
love, loyalty, or enthusiasm for a person, activity, or cause.
He loves his friends. He loves fighting.
He's loyal to his friends. Hes loyal to fighting.
He's has great enthusiasm for fighting.

Soo..?
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Post by Kojiro Sasaki » Sat Mar 21, 2015 5:59 pm

Tzigi wrote:This answer is not meant to be snappy or otherwise unpleasant. It is simply what I'd love to change about the Japanese version - for male characters to be voiced by males and female characters by females.
Don't you like Junpei Takiguchi as Uranai Baba? 8)
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Re: Recast Masako Nozawa's Roles

Post by Rocketman » Sat Mar 21, 2015 6:01 pm

ABED wrote:
Gilbert Gottfried, the only man who can capture the essence of Nozawa's voice acting.
Oh, you're so clever. :roll:
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Re: Recast Masako Nozawa's Roles

Post by Gyt Kaliba » Sat Mar 21, 2015 8:35 pm

I don't really have any predictions as to who will play her roles, since my number one pick - Mayumi Tanaka - is already kind of Kuririn, and her being Goku as well as Luffy would probably be a bit much (not that it's stopped the English side of things... :P ). What I do have though is a prediction/guess/kind-of-a-want for role distribution.

Honestly, I don't think they'll ever be able to find someone who has the talent to play not only Goku in his various ages, but Gohan, Goten, and all of her other roles too. Nozawa makes it work for the most part, but it'd be a pretty tall order for most others. So the way I predict it is this - one woman (because I can't see Japan breaking that trend and ostracizing what Japanese fans are used to) will end up playing Goku, both kid and adult, and this woman may well end up playing Bardock and Turles as well, for 'similarity' reasons. Another woman will get cast as Gohan, again for all of his ages. Finally a third will probably get the role of Goten. I suppose it's possible Goten could go to either the new Goku or Gohan actresses, but while they're splitting it up a bit, may as well go all the way.
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Post by Dyno » Sat Mar 21, 2015 9:24 pm

Can't imagine Bardock with another voice actor/actress. And this serves for Brazilian and English dubs, which I'm so used to.
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Re: Recast Masako Nozawa's Roles

Post by SaiyamanMS » Sat Mar 21, 2015 9:30 pm

I've said it before in similar threads and I'll say it again, Rica Matsumoto (Best known as Satoshi [Ash Ketchum] from Pocket Monsters) would make a good replacement for Nozawa.
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