| Project: A-Kon - Friday
- Funimation Actors |
 The fresh
voice acting faces at Project: A-Kon were the local heroes. Funimation,
the company with the U.S. rights to the Dragon Ball series, spent the weekend
selling merchandise and bringing the series' voice actors to the convention.
Funimation is headquartered in Fort Worth, a short distance (by Texas standards)
from the convention. The Friday Funimation actors at A-Kon were Dameon
Clarke, the voice of Cell, and Linda Chambers-Young, the voice of Frieza. |
 We should
make a couple of notes: these actors and the others are the newer voices
for the Dragon Ball cast in English, since Funimation moved dubbing production
of the series from Canada to Texas and replaced all of the actors. Also,
we're spelling the name of the tough-guy character "Frieza" instead of
"Freeza" or "Freezer" because that's the selling we found on the product
boxes at the Funimation booth. Apparently no one can agree on the way the
character's name should be transliterated into English. |
 Just as with
male characters like Bart Simpson and Charlie Brown, Frieza's actor is
a woman. Chambers-Young has a gravelly voice, just like the Canadian actor
who handled the first Dragon Ball episodes in English - but we understand
that the first Frieza was a man. When asked whether characterization, timing
or making those odd fighting noises was the hardest part of dubbing the
role, Chambers-Young said "It's a combination of doing it all at once.
the fight noises were hard for me to learn, but I'm good at that now." |
 Fans visiting
the Funimation booth for autographs on Friday were intrigued to learn that
Frieza's newest voice was actually a woman, and some questioned whether
the character was male or female. "No one knows what Frieza is," Chambers-Young
answered. Others wanted to learn if Frieza was going to stay dead. "I'm
going to come back again," she replied. "Frieza's stubborn." |
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