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Motagij



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 03, 2025 8:52 am Reply with quote
Most likely also Shuuichi Ikeda's successor as Shanks.
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Matros



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 03, 2025 1:09 pm Reply with quote
Motagij wrote:
Most likely also Shuuichi Ikeda's successor as Shanks.


What a weird conclusion considering Ikeda can be heard alongside him in the same PV. And why would Ikeda need a successor to begin with?
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EmeraldSaucer



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 03, 2025 3:17 pm Reply with quote
Matros wrote:
Motagij wrote:
Most likely also Shuuichi Ikeda's successor as Shanks.


What a weird conclusion considering Ikeda can be heard alongside him in the same PV. And why would Ikeda need a successor to begin with?


The same reason why Dragon Ball Daima took the opportunity of the child characters to test run a mostly new voice cast: the actors are not getting any younger
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Matros



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 03, 2025 3:47 pm Reply with quote
EmeraldSaucer wrote:
Matros wrote:
Motagij wrote:
Most likely also Shuuichi Ikeda's successor as Shanks.


What a weird conclusion considering Ikeda can be heard alongside him in the same PV. And why would Ikeda need a successor to begin with?


The same reason why Dragon Ball Daima took the opportunity of the child characters to test run a mostly new voice cast: the actors are not getting any younger


Where's the correlation here though? Tsuda is voicing a different character, an evil twin brother, who doesn't sound like Ikeda at all.
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EmeraldSaucer



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 03, 2025 5:25 pm Reply with quote
Matros wrote:
EmeraldSaucer wrote:
Matros wrote:
Motagij wrote:
Most likely also Shuuichi Ikeda's successor as Shanks.


What a weird conclusion considering Ikeda can be heard alongside him in the same PV. And why would Ikeda need a successor to begin with?


The same reason why Dragon Ball Daima took the opportunity of the child characters to test run a mostly new voice cast: the actors are not getting any younger


Where's the correlation here though? Tsuda is voicing a different character, an evil twin brother, who doesn't sound like Ikeda at all.


You just said he was an evil twin brother, I feel like the point should be pretty obvious. It's like asking why Ikeda voiced Full Frontal when he's a different guy
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Matros



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 03, 2025 5:41 pm Reply with quote
EmeraldSaucer wrote:
Matros wrote:
EmeraldSaucer wrote:
Matros wrote:
Motagij wrote:
Most likely also Shuuichi Ikeda's successor as Shanks.


What a weird conclusion considering Ikeda can be heard alongside him in the same PV. And why would Ikeda need a successor to begin with?


The same reason why Dragon Ball Daima took the opportunity of the child characters to test run a mostly new voice cast: the actors are not getting any younger


Where's the correlation here though? Tsuda is voicing a different character, an evil twin brother, who doesn't sound like Ikeda at all.


You just said he was an evil twin brother, I feel like the point should be pretty obvious. It's like asking why Ikeda voiced Full Frontal when he's a different guy


Going by this logic Sanji's twins should sound exactly like him then too.

Shamrock and Shanks are supposed to sound drastic differently, they're different characters period. Tsuda isn't Ikeda's successor or whatever other theories people have in mind. On top of that it's direspectful towards Ikeda since he's still alive and kicking. If something were to happen, Tsuda wouldn't be the right choice for Shanks anyway considering his tone and delivery.
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EmeraldSaucer



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 03, 2025 6:07 pm Reply with quote
Matros wrote:
Going by this logic Sanji's twins should sound exactly like him then too.

Shamrock and Shanks are supposed to sound drastic differently, they're different characters period. Tsuda isn't Ikeda's successor or whatever other theories people have in mind. On top of that it's direspectful towards Ikeda since he's still alive and kicking. If something were to happen, Tsuda wouldn't be the right choice for Shanks anyway considering his tone and delivery.


I didn't know you had a direct line to Oda's house and he told you how his characters are "supposed" to sound like. It's very "direspectful" of me to not realize that

Though I would also say it's "direspectful" of you to be such good friends with Oda and not read his manga, where a pair of giant guards saw and heard Shamrock and explicitly thought he was Shanks
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MFrontier



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 03, 2025 11:32 pm Reply with quote
Not going to complain about TsudaKen though not sure if they're going to be replacing Shuichi Ikeda either....I know he'd been cutting back and hasn't done a lot of recent voiceover, but I feel like he would still stick with his current roles unless he's physically unable to (like Kazuki Yao).
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