Favorite Adult Gohan Voice

[Bansho64]

A very hated character within the community seems to be Adult Gohan. The subject of this particular Gohan's voice really doesn't appear as much as it does with Goku. Who is your favorite voice of this particular version of the character? My personal favorite is Nozawa but I like his Mandarin Kai voice and his Korean Champ voice too. Kyle Herbert is good too.

[Saikyo no Senshi]

Why do you say Adult Gohan is hated a lot in this community i don't infact Great Saiyaman is my favorite Gohan. The only ones who hate him are the fans of only the BADASS SSJ2 Gohan and i don't consider them a fan of Gohan at all.

As far as my favorite voice is concerned it is Masako Nozawa by a country mile. Really no contest.

- Travis

[Bansho64]

Why do you say Adult Gohan is hated a lot in this community i don't infact Great Saiyaman is my favorite Gohan. The only ones who hate him are the fans of only the BADASS SSJ2 Gohan and i don't consider them a fan of Gohan at all.
- Travis

Believe me man, I feel exact same way. What I meant is that I see a lot of people claiming that he "failed to take up the mantle" or that he "was ruined by Toriyama". I don't agree with any of that. I probably should have said misunderstood instead because the majority of the people who say that don't really see Gohan for who he really is. My apologies, I should've worded what I said better.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Nozawa's by a big margin.

[MadSaiyantist]

Nozawa for me. Gohan's high school antics like Baseball and the Great Saiyaman are some of my favorite parts of the series thanks to her. I've heard people giving Hebert a hard time over his Gohan voice but I don't think it's bad at all.

[Lord Beerus]

Nothing tops Nozawa.

[Trunksuu]

It makes me sad that such an innocent and adorable character gets so much hate for either dumb reasons, or illogical reasons, speaking that he's also my favorite character in the show. But besides that, as much as I love and respect Masako Nozawa, mine has to be Dameon Clarke and Kyle Hebert, only because I've grown up with the Funimation dub, and those Gohans are in an important part of my life.

[gregoryluis09]

My favorite voices for Adult Gohan are Vagner Fagundes from the Brazilian dub and, obviously, Nozawa.

[linkdude20002001]

Brad Swaile is fantastic as Gohan. Unlike Kyle Hebert, who sounds much older and/or macho/badass (as my memory puts it), Swaile gives him a more innocent and young sounding voice. I felt it really fit the character. It was one of the few good things about the Westwood dub.

[NitroEX]

Brad Swaile is fantastic as Gohan. Unlike Kyle Hebert, who sounds much older and/or macho/badass (as my memory puts it), Swaile gives him a more innocent and young sounding voice. I felt it really fit the character.

Couldn't agree more, Brad Swaile all the way.

I've always felt that Kyle Herbert sounded wrong for the part, though his natural voice does have a young man vibe to it, something about it is off. I think it's a combination of his voice being slightly too deep and "macho" but also the fact that he sounds like he'd be more appropriate for a cool guy archetype rather than an awkward teenager. I also feel Brad Swaile's voice just naturally has a innocent sound to it whereas Kyle Herbert seems to lack the same quality, it's very hard for me to buy his performance during tender moments because the "cool guy" aspect of his voice always seems to shine through. I honestly think he'd be a better fit for a character like Yamcha or Sharpner rather than someone like Gohan but alas, we have to live with these casting choices despite how flawed they fundamentally are.

I will say that Dameon Clarke sounded pretty good as Future Gohan, for a hardened version of the character I had no issues with him in that role.

Nozawa is Nozawa, I really don't have much of an opinion to add to the Japanese conversation. I wouldn't have personally cast her as adult Gohan if I'm honest, kid Gohan is fine though.

[SaintEvolution]

Davide Garbolino from the italian dub:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICba_z6CBvU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yq9BwZgEBs

Vagner Fagundes from the brazilian dub:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPLIZg8XiFw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcfX4Khf2Gw

He Guoxiong from the original Cantonese dub:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lIIF5jBfK0 (Gohan is a teen in this movie, but they used his adult actor to perform him here)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1StEPcaCEOE

There are others, but I can list those 3 as my favorites. I like Robert Brillantes from the Tagalog dub too, but it's hard to find tagalog dubbed videos from the Buu Saga. Also, Mark Lesser from the french dub have improved his acting in Kai, comparing with the original french dub. I think he(after Kai) is one of my favorites too.

[SingleFringe&Sparks]

Why do you say Adult Gohan is hated a lot in this community i don't infact Great Saiyaman is my favorite Gohan. The only ones who hate him are the fans of only the BADASS SSJ2 Gohan and i don't consider them a fan of Gohan at all.
- Travis

Believe me man, I feel exact same way. What I meant is that I see a lot of people claiming that he "failed to take up the mantle" or that he "was ruined by Toriyama". I don't agree with any of that. I probably should have said misunderstood instead because the majority of the people who say that don't really see Gohan for who he really is. My apologies, I should've worded what I said better.

Agreed, Adult (Tournament Saga) Gohan is actually mt favourite character because of it, and all the reasons people apparently hate him - is what made
me disliking the "Teen" Gohan's mainstream incarnations because of the thick echo-chamber in that fandom. Those that go on and on about the "mantle/potential/torch" or saying "Future Gohan is what he was supposed to be until Goku fanboys....." whatever, don't care what Gohan's character actually was.

As for my preferred voice, I like Kyle Herbert on Adult Gohan just fine; while I would have preferred Daemon Clarke as Future Gohan, just because they're personalities are so different. Daemon gives that more assertive, adamant character that Future Gohan was.

[DemonRin]

Nozawa to be sure, but Kyle Herbert isn't bad at all.

In fact, he's gotten better as an actor as time has gone on, I do think he's better in BoG and RoF than he was during the Boo arc of Z, which is why I'm excited to hear him return in Boo Kai..... whenever it finally happens...

[ryou766]

Nozawa takes the cake for me. Though, I did like Dameon Clarke's performance as Mirai Gohan.

[B]

Nozawa. None of the English choices are any good, but I guess Brad Swaile is the least not good.