Who is the least demanding character to voice in Dragon Ball?

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Who is the least demanding character to voice in Dragon Ball?

Post by Dragon Ball Ireland » Sun Oct 12, 2025 10:51 am

Like the previous thread, but in reverse. Which Dragon Ball character do you think is the easiest or least demanding to voice?
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Re: Who is the least demanding character to voice in Dragon Ball?

Post by JulieYBM » Sun Oct 12, 2025 11:06 am

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Re: Who is the least demanding character to voice in Dragon Ball?

Post by Tian » Sun Oct 12, 2025 1:34 pm

Well, every role has its own complexity but if we talk about which is the least complex of the franchise, that would be the narrator.

Let's be honest, not all the voice directors around the world cared enough to cast a Yanami-like or Tatsuta-like voice for the role because since it is a off-screen character, they would often cast anyone whose voice is way different than the former two (Yanami and Tatsuta) or in some cases, themselves.

For example, there are narrators who sound like they are narrating for some documentary rather than Dragon Ball as heard in the in-house FUNimation dub in its early days or the the Hungarian dub (check at 8:01)
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Re: Who is the least demanding character to voice in Dragon Ball?

Post by SupremeKai25 » Mon Oct 13, 2025 6:21 am

It would have to be someone with a very, very short screentime and basically no personality, no? I don't know, maybe one of those irrelevant fighters from the Tournament of Power who lost to one punch? Maybe one of the robots from the Third Universe or one of those weird monsters from the Fourth Universe?
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Re: Who is the least demanding character to voice in Dragon Ball?

Post by coola » Mon Oct 13, 2025 7:12 am

That cameo character from Battle of Gods movie VegettoEX mentioned in "Worst voice acting in original Japanese" they hired sportswomen celebrity.
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Re: Who is the least demanding character to voice in Dragon Ball?

Post by nineko » Mon Oct 13, 2025 5:51 pm

What about this guy?

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Re: Who is the least demanding character to voice in Dragon Ball?

Post by TheRed259 » Wed Oct 15, 2025 7:01 pm

Although he is not considered a character, I would say the narrator.

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Re: Who is the least demanding character to voice in Dragon Ball?

Post by AlexSketchy04 » Thu Oct 16, 2025 8:45 pm

Scratch, Barry Watson nailed that role

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