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INTEREST: Multiple Voice Actors Cancel Kameha Con Appearances Amid Vic Mignogna Controversy

Then you agree not having the missing VAs that have canceled makes no difference to the convention. Thanks. Funny you said different just prior comment about their cancellation about how not having such "beloved characters" and "popular characters" is so bad.

To the TA of DBZSuper, they don't care which Bulma or Vegeta they meet. But not being able to meet Broly, whooo boy.

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Now Broly, it’s like he doesn’t have a VA at all. Like it’s almost nothing. Vic doesn’t offer anything much to the character that will be missed unless you just like screaming & even the it’s only on occasion. .

They revoked the invite because of all this initial drama but when the TRUTH piles up and all these "claims" come out with no evidence backing them and its just transparent words it means nothing.

As I have said, the target audience of Dragon Ball Z Super doesn't care. These 10 year olds want to meet Broly's VA because they like Broly. Same as when little kids go to Disney and meet the costume's characters.

They don't care because for a little kid, the target audience of this kid's show, the actor is the character.

Like with the OG Power Rangers. Fans never cared about them as "a person" but as the character they played. People LOVED the Green Ranger when he first debuted but the fans that met the actor (Jason David Frank) knew him only as "Tommy".. And for an entire generation he WAS Tommy, the Green Ranger.

Vic IS Broly and is the only one that will be there at that convention to meet with fans of said character and his existing fan base from other media..

I'm gonna go ahead and disagree with this. Vic is one of the only VAs where people go to meet Vic Mignogna and not his characters. Well, ok, his characters too but I mean like, as you said, a lot of voice actors's fans only like actors for their character. But then you hear stories of fans writing letters to him or going up to him at his panel and talk to him about how they're being bullied or they're contemplating suicide and he takes the time to write back or talk to them and help them with their issues and be there for them. I think he is definitely one of the few VAs where people actually like him as a person and not just who he voices. The fact he still has tens of thousands of supporters during all this as well as being one of the only VAs to have an actual fanclub at least attests to the good will he built up with his fanbase over the years.

I think KamehaCon will be fine though. I haven't been to a convention in a few years but Vic's panels and tables always had a huge turnout compared to other VAs. I'm sure his fanbase can make up for any cancellations.

So the question becomes how do you do right by those people?

If you financially support a convention that even invites him to start with, much less engaging in these shenanigans, you’re saying with your money that what Vic did still makes him a fine guy to have around young fans, and around his former peers. Or you’re saying that his anime work outweighs what he did—the Michael Jackson defense, if you will.

This is no different than people who to this day still buy Rurouni Kenshin merchandise. Just because the creator of that is easily worse than Vic par social taboo's, most people understand that he is not the end all be all and those pieces of merch do more than just provide for him but also the hundreds of others invovlved in the various means of production.

It’s blatantly obvious that ANN is (and has been) only offering a one sided view through out this whole controversy

Why are you deleting only pro-Mignogna posts?

Show me the evidence

That isn't evidence

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