After watching Dragonball Daima, it’s just occurred to me

CrimsonGenius

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It’s not the grandma voicing an adult Goku. It’s the grandma for some reason voicing the entire Son family. Bardock, Goku, Gohan, and Goten are all voiced by the same women. What was going on in Toei Animation’s mind for letter her voicing them? No wonder Gohan is not prominent. You let this women exhaust herself and maybe not pay her more for voice more than one character.

Idiots.
 

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Masako Nozawa, the Japanese voice actor for Goku has always voiced a majority of the Son family. This isn't something new to Daima.

Gohan not being prominent also has nothing to do with the fact she is voicing so many characters, the script and series was likely not written with how many characters she voices in mind.

Even in the English Dub of Dragon Ball though, many characters are voiced by the same people, and this is something that happens in nearly every series, not just anime, but any piece of voice acted animation.

This is hardly an issue of Toei Animation being out of their mind.
 

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It’s just why does she need to voice Son family and not just get one or two voice actors for them. If she passes away I will riot if they retire the franchise.
 

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It’s just why does she need to voice Son family and not just get one or two voice actors for them. If she passes away I will riot if they retire the franchise.
Not likely to happen - the guy who created it tried to kill it and it is still going strong...

At least the "legend" is that, when the manga were really taking off and the second DragonBall series was in production the guy who created it asked for a month off. The studio said: "Give us enough material to cover two months and we'll give you one off."
He then produced at least three, possibly more, issues that were nothing but characters powering up during a fight, and maybe a page or two with other characters either on side stories or reacting to the power-ups.
The studio accepted this and gave him his time off.
Then the shows caught up to those issues of the Manga and they said: "We need you to write us a few scripts." "I already did. If you need more than that, get someone else to do it."
And thus they filmed a few episodes that were also nothing but characters powering up because that's what he had written!

If the franchise can survive tomfoolery like that it will survive just about anything.
 
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