Favorite Vocal Performances?

[Wezenheim]

This one could be fun, I think. The Dragon Ball anime is full of wonderful voice actors, and these actors have provided so many superb performances over the years. What are some of your favorite pieces of voice acting in the series?

If I were to make a list it would be a mile long, but I'll start the conversation with a few obvious ones:
Kusao's Super Saiyan Trunks transformation.
Nozawa's Super Saiyan 2 Gohan transformation.
Yeah, both of these are really fantastic screams. That Gohan scream is one of my favorite Nozawa screams, and that's saying something!

This one is pretty random and it's more of a me thing, but Furukawa and Wakamoto having a conversation in their prime is just amazing.

[Saikyo no Senshi]

Some of my favorites are

- Roshi's Kamehameha to stop the fire in Gyumao's castle. Miyauchi was phenomenal especially his delivery.

-Whenever Nakao maniacally laughs as Freeza it sends chills down my spine.

-Nozawa's scream in all 3 transformations is amazing.

-Hirotaka Sizuoki's Kikoho in the 22nd TB and against 2nd form Cell was mind blowing. I love it to death.

- Travis

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

Any of Nozawa or modern Schemmel's screams.

Also any of Nakao or Ayre's lines as Freeza.

[Nejishiki]

Goku reunites with his Grandpa.
Turtle Hermit has his last stand against Piccolo Daimao.
Vegeta is in disbelief that low-level trash is harming him. I particularly like his expressions of pain here.
Vegeta and Freeza face off, Vegeta with bravery, Freeza in broken composure. The Kai version of this in the English adaption is also well done.
Goku explodes with anger.
Gohan and Cell have wildly different tones as Gohan calmly blows away his Kamehameha. I forgot that the Narrator takes Cell's line from the manga. That's a tad disappointing.

I think I'm getting carried away, so I'll leave it at that. Searching for the clips I want is also a bother. I skipped a lot of the moments I wanted to share, but YouTube isn't the greatest platform for this, short of uploading myself.

[Bansho64]

Vegeta's scream when 18 broke his arm (Japanese)

[Lord Beerus]

Anything from Nozawa, Wakamoto, Horikawa and Nakao is fantastic in any regard. Also, Schemmel since Kai and Ayre's performance's as Freeza have been simply wonderful.

[B]

Tanaka mourning Goku's death at the hands of Raditz and Piccolo is raw and painful. Anything Naoki Tatsuta says as Oolong is funny.

EDIT: Aw, damn, Tanaka mourning Goku's supposed death at the 21st Budokai is also great; screaming "murder!" at Jackie Chun with his stone-like expression(in the anime, the tournaments take place over the course of a few days instead of one whole day like the manga, so all this is happening at sunset; there's a certain ambiance created as a result). Kuririn knows how to mourn!

I guess the title match between Goku and Jackie Chun has to be at the end of the day, even in the manga, if the moon is out... But you don't really get that full effect in black-and-white.

[Doctor.]

I don't think I have a favorite, but recently Bardock's line/scream here has really stuck with me as a fantastic performance.

Also Freeza's "IT HURTS!!" following Goku's 20x Kamehameha.

[Wezenheim]

I don't think I have a favorite, but recently Bardock's line/scream here has really stuck with me as a fantastic performance.

Also Freeza's "IT HURTS!!" following Goku's 20x Kamehameha.

Yeah, Nozawa almost ends up sounding like a wild animal in that one, it's pretty great!

Anytime Nakao throws a temper tantrum as Freeza it's superb. He has some of the best breakdowns.

Tanaka mourning Goku's death at the hands of Raditz and Piccolo is raw and painful. Anything Naoki Tatsuta says as Oolong is funny.

EDIT: Aw, damn, Tanaka mourning Goku's supposed death at the 21st Budokai is also great; screaming "murder!" at Jackie Chun with his stone-like expression(in the anime, the tournaments take place over the course of a few days instead of one whole day like the manga, so all this is happening at sunset; there's a certain ambiance created as a result). Kuririn knows how to mourn!

I guess the title match between Goku and Jackie Chun has to be at the end of the day, even in the manga, if the moon is out... But you don't really get that full effect in black-and-white.

Tanaka's got a lot of gems. I never really thought about it, but she really does do fantastic in mourning scenes! And almost every other scene for that matter.

[Baggie_Saiyan]

Dub wise Sean's I am speach definitely 100% that sends chills down me every time I watch.

Sub wise Nozawa as Black all lines especially the recent episode she crushed it. Holy crap have I underestimated her all these years!

[huzaifa_ahmed]

Anything from Nozawa, Wakamoto, Horikawa and Nakao is fantastic in any regard. Also, Schemmel since Kai and Ayre's performance's as Freeza have been simply wonderful.

Norio Wakamoto FTW!

Koichi Yamadera as Beerus, & Morita (Tidus!) as Whis. Hikaru Midorikawa (he's like the Jack Angel of Japanese VO, & still working!)

Also, I have no clue how, but Peter Mayhew in DBGT's dub. Wow.

& Troy Baker, Travis Willingham, & Laura Bailey, in the opposite order. I still can't believe that, to this day, we have someone of the caliber of Laura Bailey making reprisals.

* Also, it was pretty cool to hear LA dubbing actors like Tom Wyner, Steve Blum, Wendee Lee, Barbara Goodson, in the HG dub & a game dub.

* Finally, while I love Scott McNeil's Piccolo, I'd have much, much preferred him as Cell, if it were possible.

[Bansho64]

Eric Legrand can really pull off the maniacal and arrogant aspects of Vegeta terrifically. The man laughs and screams amazingly. Seriously. Though, him screaming in the booth while recording BOG was probably one of the moments where I really felt a VA being the character.

[Bansho64]

Also, am I the only one that thinks Phillipe Ariotti does an AWESOME PICCOLO!!! Seriously, the man's awesome and probably nails the rough part of him the best imo. He's my favorite right behind Ryo Horikawa. Seriously, he does not get enough love.

[nite_jay]

One of my favorite recent performance's has been Nozawa's Black. The way she says 'subarashii' is great.

My favorites in general are Nozawa's meteor combo against Piccolo in the 23rd Budokai and Ryo Horikawa's Vegeta speech before he went SSJ and the actual SSJ transformation.

[DragonBallFoodie]

ENGLISH
Sean Schemmel - His Goku was a wonderful mix of goofy and badass.

Christopher Sabat - He voiced Vegeta, Piccolo, Shenron and Yamcha, all in distinctly different voices.

Meredith McCoy - She voiced the menacing and hot Android 18, and made both sides of Lunch enjoyable.

Mike McFarland (Master Roshi) - he made Master Roshi a very lovable pervert.

Sonny Strait (Krillin)
Cynthia Cranz (Chi-Chi)
Pauline Newstone (Frieza)
Richard Newman (Capt Ginyu)
Eric Vale (Trunks)



JAPANESE
Masako Nozawa - a great and classic voice for Goku, Gohan, Goten (maybe) and Black Goku

Ryo Horikawa - he was able to make the anti-heroic jerk Vegeta a charismatic and appealing character.

Miki Ito - She voiced the menacing and hot Android 18.

Takeshi Kusao – his voice as young and old Trunks is wonderful.

Toshio Furukawa (Piccolo)
Mami Koyama (Lunch, Arale Norimaki)
Ryusei Nakao (Frieza)
Norio Wakamoto (Cell)
Eiko Yamada (Mai)

[Smilodon]

Vados's voice is SO MUCH SEXY! The first time I saw....She is amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM3wqXq4j2I
It's Yuriko Yamaguchi
Champa's voice was really cool, but they changed after this...

[qjz123]

I really loved this scene in Kai

Great work from Christopher Sabat and particularly Laura Bailey who does the portion of kid Vegeta.

[TheGreatness25]

Gotta go with Ian James Corlette's Goku with this one. More particularly, I like any time he had to deliver a line that had to be punched home. Whenever he was emphasizing something, it was always great. "Look, this is my home and these are my friends, so it doesn't matter what you say I am! My name is Goku and I live here. Now leave us alone!" was great. Things like that. Otherwise, anything kid Goku, kid Gohan, or kid Goten in the Japanese version. Nozawa was excellent as the Son kids. I liked her early work for Goku too, just not really liking the latest stuff. Japanese Piccolo is also great.

[ConfusedPhantom]

Besides the obvious (Nozawa, Horikawa, and Nakao), Koichi Yamadera as Beerus is probably one of the best performers in Dragon Ball today. Hope they give Beerus more stuff to do later on for him to do more stuff. I also really fond of Hirotaka Suzuoki's Tenshinhan and Kōhei Miyauchi's Muten-roshi. And, back to Nozawa again, while I think she's great as Goku....her evil characters are just her best voices. She's so twisted, sophisticated and smug as Black. It's amazing. Also Wakamoto's performance in Z as Cell and anything from Daisuke Gouri.

On the English side, Scott McNeil is still my favorite Piccolo. And Chris Rager's Mr. Satan is still the best dub voice.

[huzaifa_ahmed]

Besides the obvious (Nozawa, Horikawa, and Nakao), Koichi Yamadera as Beerus is probably one of the best performers in Dragon Ball today. Hope they give Beerus more stuff to do later on for him to do more stuff. I also really fond of Hirotaka Suzuoki's Tenshinhan and Kōhei Miyauchi's Muten-roshi. And, back to Nozawa again, while I think she's great as Goku....her evil characters are just her best voices. She's so twisted, sophisticated and smug as Black. It's amazing. Also Wakamoto's performance in Z as Cell and anything from Daisuke Gouri.

On the English side, Scott McNeil is still my favorite Piccolo. And Chris Rager's Mr. Satan is still the best dub voice.

You mean in terms of accuracy, or just a great voice?