Great performances by DB cast in other series?

[foxfang4]

What other series are the Dragon Ball voice actors generally excellent in? Recently, I've been watching a lot of older animes and I was surprised by how familiar a lot of the voice actors were. In my view, these were some standout performances:
Note: Can be from any dub: Japanese, English, Spanish...

1. Kenji Utsumi (In DB: Shenron, Tenkaichi Budokai Announcer, Commander Red)
He's excellent in Hajime No Ippo (boxing anime) as the main trainer Kamogawa. The rest of the cast is amazing, so I can't say he steals the show. But he's definitely memorable.

2. Tōru Furuya (In DB: Yamcha)
I was shocked to find that he actually voices Saint Seiya ("Knights of the Zodiac" in English). In fact, I think he's by far the best voice actor in the show. He's basically playing "Yamcha", so you know he can handle the comedic scenes very well. He carries the show.

3. Ichirō Nagai (In DB: Korin, and the Crane hermit)
You could tell he was really good with comedy just from Dragon Ball. But he's phenomenal in Hajime No Ippo as the rival of the main mentor character. He's also very good as General Muoro in Castle in the Sky.

[8000 Saiyan]

Akira Kamiya, Kenji Utsumi, Banjo Ginga and Toshio Furukawa are terrific in Fist of the North Star. Hirotaka Suzuoki was one of my favorite seiyuu and aside from being great as Tenshinhan, he was great in Ranma 1/2, Captain Tsubasa and Gundam. Tessho Genda has an amazing deep voice that he used to great effect in Yu Yu Hakusho.

[Xeogran]

I'll just leave this here

Koichi Yamadera (Beerus):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6sfIBoPL_Y

[SuperSaiyaManZ94]

Here's some performances i can think of that relate to the JPN cast, living or deceased in other series.

Daisuke Gori- Moss (Ginga Nagareboshi Gin)

Masako Nozawa- Kitaro (GeGeGe no Kitaro series 1 and 2)

Toshio Furukawa- Portgas D. Ace (One Piece)

Toru Furuya- Saint Seiya

Kenji Utsumi- Senbei Norimaki (Dr.Slump Arale-Chan)

Tessho Genda- Convoy/Optimus Prime in Japanese dub of Transformers G1 (Fight!! Super Robot Life Form Transformers/FSRLFT 2010)

Mayumi Tanaka- Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece)

Takeshi Kusao- Hanamichi Sakuragi (Slam Dunk)

Takeshi Aono- Benizakura (Ginga Nagareboshi Gin)

[DragonBallFoodie]

We're speaking the general regular cast, right?

Well, off the top of my head...

Masako Nozawa (Goku/Gohan/Goten)
Tetsuro Hoshino - Galaxy Express 999
Hinata Urashima - Love Hina


Miki Ito (Android 18)
Battle Angel Alita - Alita
The Fate franchise - Taiga Fujiwara
Ako Magami - Project Ako


Mami Koyama (Lunch)
Balalaika - Black Lagoon
Esmeraude - Sailor Moon
Chiyoko Fujiwara - Millennium Actress
Kaguya - Naruto


Toshio Furukawa - Piccolo
Ataru Morobishi - Urusei Yatsura


Shigeru Chiba - Pilaf
Sebas - Overlord
Buggy - One Piece


Norio Wakamoto - Cell
Anderson - Hellsing
Matsudaira - Gintama


Toru Furuya - Yamcha
Pegasus Seiya - St Seiya
Kyōsuke Kasuga - Kimagure Orange Road
Casshern Sins - Casshern
Gundam - Amuro Ray


Ryo Horikawa - Vegeta
Reinhard von Lohengramm - Legend of the Galactic Heroes


Mayumi Tanaka - Krillin
Luffy - One Piece


Sonny Strait (Krillin)
Arsene Lupin III
Korosensei
Kyuzo - Samurai 7


Meredith McCoy (Android 18)
Lupin III - Fujiko Mine


I'll come back for more later on.

[sunsetshimmer]

I can't say much about japanese voice actors. But can say something about polish ones that i liked in other series, even though we never had real dub until DBS except for DBZ movies 12&13 (with completely different cast tho).

Monika Kwiatkowska (Videl in DBZ movies 12&13)
-Kitty Pride/Shadowcat (X-men Evolution)
-Rarity (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Agnieszka Kunikowska (Bulma in DBZ movies 12&13)
-Fiona (Shrek)

Agnieszka Fajlhauer (Bulma in DBS)
-Wonder Woman (Justice League/Unlimited)
-Trixie (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Mirosław Wieprzewski (Roshi in DBS)
-Meowth (Pokemon)
-Gargamel (Smurfs)

Grzegorz Drojewski (Kibitokai/Gregory in DBS)
-Robin (Teen Titans/GO)
-Yang (Yin Yang Yo)

Ziemowit Pędziwiatr (Hit in DBS)
-Bobo-Bo (Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo)

[MasenkoHA]

Sean Schemmel and Sonny Strait
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3HoL5DYUUss

[Bebi Hatchiyack]

One thing I find funny about Japanese seiyu for Dragon Ball is that Toru Furuya and Ryo Horikawa share several franchise in common.

Saint Seiya with Seiya & Shun.
Mobile Suit Gundam with Amuro Ray & Kou Urraki.
Dragon Ball with Yamcha and Vegeta.
Dragon Quest with Abel & Adonis.
Sailor Moon with Mamoru Chiba/Tuxedo Kamen & Several voice for Horikawa

Let's not forget their works for the Super Sentai series, where Toru-san voice Aka-Red and Ryo-san voice Akumaro Sujigarano a famous villain from Shinkenger.

Fun Fact Pippin Took from Lord of The Rings is voiced by Ryō Horikawa for the japanese dub I find that really funny imagine Pippin screaming FINAL FLASH

Another thing that I love it's about the voice of Android 17 and Cell Shigeru Nakahara along with Norio Wakamoto worked together on Dancouga – Super Beast Machine God.

Norio Wakamoto voice character Shapiro Keats who betray earth to works with an Alien force that wants to conquer earth, here Shigeru Nakahara character Masato Shikibu works with Shinobu Fujiwara (Franky from One Piece and Judau Ashta from Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ), Sara Yuki (Yuria from Fist of the North Star & Eagle Marin from Saint Seiya) and Ryo Shiba (Gray Fox from Metal Gear Solid & Strider Hiyu from Strider Hiyu) to defeat the traitor.

Now as for Seiyu proper I would love to have Junko Takeuchi the voice of Naruto to voice an importante Dragon Ball character.

We have Mayumi Tanaka that voice Luffy but also Kuririn
We have Masakazu Morita that voice Ichigo Kurosaki but also Whis

The only missing from the trinity NaruBleaPiece is Naruto and her main voice actress ♥

[coola]

Norio Wakamoto:
Coach Ōta (Gunbuster)
Father (Azumanga Daioh)

Akira Kamiya:
Shutaro Mendou (Urusei Yatsura)

Toru Furuya:
Mamoru Chiba (Sailor Moon)
Kyosuke Kazuga (Kimagure Orange Road)

Toshio Furukawa:
Ataru Moroboshi (Urusei Yatsura)

Hiromi Tsuru:
Madoka Ayukawa (Kimagure Orange Road)

[gokaiblue]

One I can think of is Chris Sabat as All Might in MHA. Couldn't think of anyone else who could portray that role in English. While we're talking English VAs, Sonny Strait gave such a gripping performance as Maes Hughes in FMA Brotherhood

I'm not as familiar with other roles the Japanese cast has played, but I do recall Masako Nozawa portraying Tetsuro Hoshino in Galaxy 999 Express well long with Joji Yanami playing the Dr. Zero in Captain Harlock. And who can forget Ryo Horikawa as Captain Falcon? He did a good job as Edward Falcon in Power Stone too. Shinichiro Miki has been playing James/Kojiro since 1997, so it was nice to find out he was voicing Zamasu too (really wonder what would have happened if they got Eric Stuart to voice him in the English dub).

[TheRed259]

Watching some scenes from the Greek dub of Rurouni Kenshin lately made me remember again how good Yiannis Papaioannou (Vegeta from DBZ) was there. His main role in this dub was Sanosuke Sagara and he was really good in the emotional scenes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRE--FV8hms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BVuX8v4Hl8

He was voicing other characters as well like Seijuro Hiko and Sadojima Hōji.
https://youtu.be/rOAzanoozks?t=57
https://youtu.be/2sZX_hInbe4?t=269

From the English dub of Yu Yu Hakusho, Chuck Huber (Android 17) was a very fitting voice for Hiei and John Burgmeier (Tien) as Kurama was awesome as well.

[SSJ1Gohan]

It's only in one episode, but Masako Nozawa did the Zawa voice for the final episode of Middle Manager Tonegawa.

If you couldn't tell, the running joke or the series was for the Zawa voice to have 'Zawa' somewhere in their name. She was actually pretty fun in the role as well.