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Re: Voice actors that you want to be replaced

Post by coola » Wed Apr 08, 2026 3:55 pm

Looks like Nadolny won't be coming back voicing Kid Goku ever again... https://x.com/AnimeAjay/status/2041890236720922792
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Re: Voice actors that you want to be replaced

Post by Lance Freeman » Wed Apr 08, 2026 5:38 pm

It's kind of odd they brought her back in the first place, the Texas crew has been more than happy to let Colleen work as Goku and Gohan.

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Re: Voice actors that you want to be replaced

Post by WittyUsername » Wed Apr 08, 2026 5:56 pm

I believe Toei were the ones who requested they bring her back.

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Re: Voice actors that you want to be replaced

Post by WittyUsername » Wed Apr 08, 2026 10:20 pm

On the subject of Stephanie Nadolny, unless this is someone else using her Twitter account, it seems she’s apparently not incarcerated at the moment.

https://xcancel.com/Stephvox/status/204 ... 88937325#m

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Re: Voice actors that you want to be replaced

Post by Jord » Thu Apr 09, 2026 1:54 am

WittyUsername wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2026 10:20 pm On the subject of Stephanie Nadolny, unless this is someone else using her Twitter account, it seems she’s apparently not incarcerated at the moment.

https://xcancel.com/Stephvox/status/204 ... 88937325#m
That is weird, since official government sites show she is, including mugshots.

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Re: Voice actors that you want to be replaced

Post by TheBigBoy » Thu Apr 09, 2026 6:50 am

Maybe Nadolny posted bail? Either way it's too bad. I actually didn't mind her Kid Goku outside of the gravelly voice that a lot of female VAs use when they're voicing little boys. I'm watching some old DB with my kids and I think she captures his ignorant goofy side pretty well
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There’s a noticeable difference in quality between the legacy cast and the actors who were new additions in Super tbh. Like I didn’t think too much of it in Kai when 90 percent of the cast had been with the show since 1999 but it really stuck out watching Super dubbed.
I'll be fair, there's honestly a massive improvement in VA quality as early as the Android arc outside of a few weird outliers like #19.

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Re: Voice actors that you want to be replaced

Post by Lance Freeman » Thu Apr 09, 2026 7:43 am

I was doing a rewatch of the Android arc recently and, yeah, once you get into the 17 and 18 part of the story, it sounds like the actors are trying to sound less and less like they're just doing impressions of the Canadian cast. Sabat's modern Vegeta performance kicks in around Vegeta vs. Cell.

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Re: Voice actors that you want to be replaced

Post by Metalwario64 » Thu Apr 09, 2026 10:59 am

Lance Freeman wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2026 7:43 am I was doing a rewatch of the Android arc recently and, yeah, once you get into the 17 and 18 part of the story, it sounds like the actors are trying to sound less and less like they're just doing impressions of the Canadian cast. Sabat's modern Vegeta performance kicks in around Vegeta vs. Cell.
Yeah. During the cell arc sometime probably would have been a better time for sabat to stop redubbing Vegeta in the orange brick redubbing. Hell if he had redubbed piccolo into the point he fuses with Kami, it would have been an okay consistency fix up. But if course it's just observational. I'm still a bit annoyed that the redubbing wasn't a bonus track or something and they essentially wiped the old dub out. But we got Kai so it's all moot I suppose lol.
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Re: Voice actors that you want to be replaced

Post by rweasp » Thu Apr 09, 2026 9:56 pm

coola wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2026 3:55 pm Looks like Nadolny won't be coming back voicing Kid Goku ever again... https://x.com/AnimeAjay/status/2041890236720922792
Doesn't mean much. She has had previous issues with arrests going back to the very early 2000s and she was still voicing Goku and Gohan until 2009. IIRC she has has been struggling with personal issues ever since her mother died suddenly a while back. Toei requested her back despite those previous convictions, which are all personal in nature and not directed at other people, which I do have sympathy for.

Also judging by Nadolny's response, we don't know the full context of what happened anyway. So its best to just wait and see what happens instead of perpetuating potentially false information that will impact someone's professional career. Her responses on X are 100% lawyer language.

I also do not want Nadolny to be replaced. I thought she was VASTLY improved in Daima, which was the first time we have heard her as Goku since post-Kai Funimation (better voice directors, more accurate script and understanding of the characters, etc). Colleen just never sat right with me as Goku, but her Gohan is completely fine.

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Re: Voice actors that you want to be replaced

Post by Jord » Sat Apr 11, 2026 2:51 am

rweasp wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2026 9:56 pm
coola wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2026 3:55 pm Looks like Nadolny won't be coming back voicing Kid Goku ever again... https://x.com/AnimeAjay/status/2041890236720922792
Doesn't mean much. She has had previous issues with arrests going back to the very early 2000s and she was still voicing Goku and Gohan until 2009. IIRC she has has been struggling with personal issues ever since her mother died suddenly a while back. Toei requested her back despite those previous convictions, which are all personal in nature and not directed at other people, which I do have sympathy for.

Also judging by Nadolny's response, we don't know the full context of what happened anyway. So its best to just wait and see what happens instead of perpetuating potentially false information that will impact someone's professional career. Her responses on X are 100% lawyer language.

I also do not want Nadolny to be replaced. I thought she was VASTLY improved in Daima, which was the first time we have heard her as Goku since post-Kai Funimation (better voice directors, more accurate script and understanding of the characters, etc). Colleen just never sat right with me as Goku, but her Gohan is completely fine.
Weird how TOEI specifically wanted her back, considering how strict those Japanese companies are with actors that get into scandals, arrested and such. They easily replace cast members who do so.

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Re: Voice actors that you want to be replaced

Post by BootyCheeksJohnson » Sat Apr 11, 2026 4:37 am

Jord wrote: Sat Apr 11, 2026 2:51 am
rweasp wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2026 9:56 pm
coola wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2026 3:55 pm Looks like Nadolny won't be coming back voicing Kid Goku ever again... https://x.com/AnimeAjay/status/2041890236720922792
Doesn't mean much. She has had previous issues with arrests going back to the very early 2000s and she was still voicing Goku and Gohan until 2009. IIRC she has has been struggling with personal issues ever since her mother died suddenly a while back. Toei requested her back despite those previous convictions, which are all personal in nature and not directed at other people, which I do have sympathy for.

Also judging by Nadolny's response, we don't know the full context of what happened anyway. So its best to just wait and see what happens instead of perpetuating potentially false information that will impact someone's professional career. Her responses on X are 100% lawyer language.

I also do not want Nadolny to be replaced. I thought she was VASTLY improved in Daima, which was the first time we have heard her as Goku since post-Kai Funimation (better voice directors, more accurate script and understanding of the characters, etc). Colleen just never sat right with me as Goku, but her Gohan is completely fine.
Weird how TOEI specifically wanted her back, considering how strict those Japanese companies are with actors that get into scandals, arrested and such. They easily replace cast members who do so.
Nadolny said that Toei's U.S. branch requested that she re-audition because they'd supposedly been hounded with fan email requesting that she return after Daima was announced.
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Re: Voice actors that you want to be replaced

Post by Jord » Sat Apr 11, 2026 1:52 pm

So does TOEI US have the final say on the voices? I fully expected TOEI Japan to have thal.

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Re: Voice actors that you want to be replaced

Post by Yellow Flower King » Sat Apr 11, 2026 2:44 pm

No, its always Toei Japan but it is Toei USA who commisions the dub by now because Funimation doesnt exist anymore and Crunchyroll is not the direct licensee like Funimation used to be.

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