Best dub Kid Goku voice actress?

SHINOBI-03 · Post by **SHINOBI-03** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:35 am

Who is the best voice actress of Kid Goku from the dub?

Ocean's Saffron Henderson?

FUNimation's Stephanie Nadolny from the series?

Or FUNimation's Ceyli Delgadillo from movies 2 & 3?

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My personal choice is Ceyli Delgadillo. DB Movie 3 is the first thing from the dub that I've ever watched, and I really liked Goku's voice from it.

Ceyli Delgadillo sounded natural, not forsed, and it really fitted Goku's personality and age.

Saffron Henderson sounded good for me, I liked it, but not as much as Delgadillo.

As for Stephanie Nadolny... I don't like it...!! It feels to me like a grown-up lady who forces herself to copy a voice of a kid way too hard, and her grunts annoys the hell out of me.

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opinions?

dragondyle · Post by **dragondyle** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:47 am

I completely agree. I despise Stephanie. Ugh.

The Time Traveller · Post by **The Time Traveller** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:51 am

I kinda liked Stephanie Nadolny in the games, but in the series, she's terrible, even as kid Gohan. The other two are good though.

Super Sonic · Post by **Super Sonic** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:58 am

Personally I thought Stephanie Nadolny's Goku from DB was the best dub Goku voice. Hate Ceyli Delgadillo's as it sounds too much like Dende for my taste. That's why I don't watch DB movie 3 dubbed much.

jda95 · Post by **jda95** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:06 am

Stephanie Nadolny is one of my favorite English voice actors.

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:32 am

I cannot stand Nadolny, that raspy voice gives me earache.
Zoe Slusar (The Blue Water voice for Goku) was great though, in my opinion.

Travis Touchdown · Post by **Travis Touchdown** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:33 am

I liked both Saffron Henderson & Stephanie Nadolny, but I like Nadolny more. Much more character and emotion and effort put into her Goku above all of the others. I didn't like Ceyli Delgadillo. Along with sounding EXACTLY like Dende, her voice was too soft. You couldn't believe this kid would grow up to have the loud hard sounding voice of adult Goku.

ssjcj · Post by **ssjcj** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:37 am

The only dub Kid Goku I have listened to is Stephanie. I think she does the job adequately, although she over acts a lot of it and the raspy-ness gives me a headache. The fight between Daimao and Goku was the reason I switched to the japanese version, in actual fact.

Captain-Sora · Post by **Captain-Sora** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:22 am

I enjoy Stephanie Nadolny's Kid Goku the most. Way back when she was doing Gohan, that was when I could really agree with many people that she has such a raspy voice for those type of characters but all of that disappeared when she started getting used to playing Goku. It turned into a much more playful and joyful type of voice and she can play out Goku's emotions nicely whether he's angry, sad, happy, etc.

I really don't like the other dub voices for him, although he looks quite young, I'd rather Goku have that type of voice Stephanie gives him considering he's in his teen years for most of the sagas before the 23rd Budokai and the other English voices don't really suit those ages considering they sound way more higher, making him less intimidating to boot. Nadolny gives him a convincing voice that suits both his looks and his age.

The Time Traveller · Post by **The Time Traveller** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:51 am

He's more of an actor than an Actress, but Peter Kelamis also played Kid Goku.

SHINOBI-03 · Post by **SHINOBI-03** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:07 am

Hey, he's not bad!! I liked it!!

It has nothing with him being my favorite dub adult Goku voice actor... or maybe it is...!!

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:36 am

Wow. How is it possible that the Ocean Group went from being amazing when dubbing the Saiyan and Namek Sagas, to being such absolute garbage? Roshi sounds terrible. The music is terrible. Child Goku in this scene sounds disgustingly bad. Where did they go wrong? ANYWAY.

I really like Saffron Henderson, but Stephanie Nadolny voiced the character now from beginning to end, which probably is the reason I like her work. She made the distinction between Gohan and Goku, which is good, since in the Japanese version we have Gohan, Goten, and Goku sounding the same as kids and as adults. So I think it's nice that there's a bit of a voice difference in the series. Sometimes Nadolny's Goku was hard to stand, but at other times, she was great. Really choking up moments where Goku was laughing a lot or crying, she pulled it off well. As for Delgadillo, REALLY? I think she had the worst Goku of them all! Her Goku wounded like Nadolny got hit in the throat by a baseball bat. I'm sure she's good at other things, but voicing Goku just was not one of them.

Big Boss · Post by **Big Boss** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:13 am

The Time Traveller wrote:He's more of an actor than an Actress, but Peter Kelamis also played Kid Goku.

That's disgusting.

Anyway, Nadolny is my favourite. I never actually considered her Goku to be raspy, compared to her Gohan anyway. I mean, if you play Infinite World, she seems to have changed her Goku voice a bit; it's quite a bit higher, with the "raspyness" gone.

B · Post by B » Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:30 am

Stephanie Nadolny, definately.

Her Gohan, though, is a mixed bag. Listening to it now, it's kind of grating and annoying. That may be the FUNi script or Gohan being a genuinely annoying character, I don't know.

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:49 am

I've really grown a liking for Stephanie Nadolny's Goku.

The Tori-bot · Post by **The Tori-bot** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 11:04 am

Rory wrote:I cannot stand Nadolny, that raspy voice gives me earache.
Zoe Slusar (The Blue Water voice for Goku) was great though, in my opinion.

What he said.

VenomSymbiote · Post by **VenomSymbiote** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 11:05 am

Sorry, my Kid Goku is in fact Stephanie Nadolny.

bkev · Post by **bkev** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 11:53 am

Stephanie Nadolny is... all right. I think she's better as Goku than Gohan somehow, even though the voice is practically the same. Zoe Slusar's all right too, but that may be because I enjoyed her in G Gundam as Sai Saici.

Dr. Casey · Post by **Dr. Casey** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:13 pm

I never liked Stephanie even when I was a dub fan, but there was one section of Dragon Ball where I remember her doing a great job - during the episodes immediately following the first Piccolo Daimao fight, where Yajirobe brings Goku to Korin Tower. It's been about six years since that arc's initial run on Cartoon Network, but I remember her weakened voice as being so much more genuine, natural, and easy on the ears.

jjgp1112 · Post by **jjgp1112** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:16 pm

B wrote:Stephanie Nadolny, definately.

Her Gohan, though, is a mixed bag. Listening to it now, it's kind of grating and annoying. That may be the FUNi script or Gohan being a genuinely annoying character, I don't know.

Yeah, I couldn't stand hger as Gohan during the Frieza and Android sagas. It was the Cell saga when she stopped getting as raspy. But ever since Movie 5, her Gohan's been perfect.