TheBlackPaladin wrote:Piccolo Daimao wrote:I'll just say that Sabat's Piccolo never sounded like a black guy to me. And besides, why would he? Sabat's white. I mean, I've heard people make jokes that Piccolo's basically "the black guy of Dragon Ball Z", but it's just a deep, sagely voice. He sounds nothing like Samuel L. Jackson.
McNeil's Piccolo was deeper anyway, and he certainly didn't sound black.
Ignoring the fact that there is no (universal or regional) "blaccent" anyway, unless you want to stereotype. Stop trying so hard to find things wrong in a perfectly decent performance from Sabat in Kai.
Well, to be fair, to say that a voice "sounds black" is not particularly wrong. I mean, on the one hand, there's something to be said for stereotyping, but on the other hand, I can tell you that on voice-casting websites that post jobs for voice actors, it's not at all uncommon to see jobs that specifically request either "urban-sounding" or, "African American-sounding" voices. Happens all the time.
I understand; it's just that, while they're probably in the minority, there are loads of white guys that sounded "black"/urban, just like there are loads of black guys that sound "white" (potentially offensive contextual terminology I'm using here, but I hope you know what I mean). Think Carlton from
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
penguintruth wrote:The point isn't to "sound black", it's to "sound Piccolo". Which both McNeil and Sabat do pretty well by now.
Also, some of my best friends are Namekians.
Agreed.
theawesomepossum777 wrote:Piccolo Daimao wrote:I'll just say that Sabat's Piccolo never sounded like a black guy to me. And besides, why would he? Sabat's white. I mean, I've heard people make jokes that Piccolo's basically "the black guy of Dragon Ball Z", but it's just a deep, sagely voice. He sounds nothing like Samuel L. Jackson.
McNeil's Piccolo was deeper anyway, and he certainly didn't sound black.
Ignoring the fact that there is no (universal or regional) "blaccent" anyway, unless you want to stereotype. Stop trying so hard to find things wrong in a perfectly decent performance from Sabat in Kai.
Sorry, if it I sounded racist then.
I was really just speculating. Plus, weren't you the person who found the Weekly Tube Show's adaptation of Piccolo to be funny? Whatever, I find WTS to be funny too.
EDIT: Speculating is the wrong word. I was just adding on to what somebody else said about what Piccolo sounded to him. Japanese Piccolo
certainly didn't give me this impression.
No, you didn't sound racist, and I understand. I was kind of just spilling my thoughts on the page. And yes, I find
WeeklyTubeShow's parody of Piccolo funny because it's just so unorthodox and exaggerated.
dbboxkaifan wrote:Piccolo Daimao wrote:I'll just say that Sabat's Piccolo never sounded like a black guy to me. And besides, why would he? Sabat's white. I mean, I've heard people make jokes that Piccolo's basically "the black guy of Dragon Ball Z", but it's just a deep, sagely voice. He sounds nothing like Samuel L. Jackson.
So because Sabat's skin colour is white it automatically means he's unable to sound black? Huh.
Weeeeeell...
I guess it'd be harder or feel somewhat forced, at the least. Although that might be if he was actually
trying to "sound black", which I doubt he was. I know he's improved in
Kai, but beforehand, when he was trying to do an Australian accent for Jheese, it was obviously forced and exaggerated. Like pretty much most of the other original accents that FUNimation decided to use (no amount of facepalms could show my embarrassment at Mike Marco's French Sauza). It just seems to be a strange observation that never occurred to me.
But obviously, white people can sound "black", just like black people can sound "white".
dbboxkaifan wrote:Piccolo Daimao wrote:McNeil's Piccolo was deeper anyway, and he certainly didn't sound black.
No one was saying he did.
Yeah, I know, in hindsight. I don't know why I said that; maybe I was just picking up on the "deep" bit and kind of ignored the "black guy voice" part.