🕊️ REST IN PEACE, WAKANA YAMAZAKI — 1965–2026
The voice behind Ran Mouri has fallen silent. ❤️
Wakana Yamazaki, the legendary Japanese voice actress best known as Ran Mouri in Detective Conan, has passed away at the age of 61. For nearly three decades, her voice brought Ran’s courage, kindness, emotions, and unforgettable moments to life for generations of anime fans.
Fans will also remember her as Nojiko in One Piece, Nami during Akemi Okamura’s maternity leave, Arukenimon in Digimon Adventure 02, Koan in Sailor Moon, Ayane in Dead or Alive, and many more beloved characters.
Her voice became part of countless childhoods and unforgettable memories. Thank you for giving life to characters we will never forget. Your voice will continue to live on through them.
Rest in peace, Wakana Yamazaki.
little go beep has done irreversible damage to why people think wile e doesn’t speak in most road runner shorts
he speaks when he’s with bugs and he’s also spoken in road runner cartoons before HE’S A PRETENTIOUS INTELLECTUAL AND HIS VOICE IS ASMR WE ARE LOSING THE SACRED TEXTS
I think one of the saddest things about modern childhood is the loss of cartoons as inheritance. I grew up watching Scooby-Doo reruns decades after it first aired. Kids today have more content than ever, but perhaps less shared cultural inheritance across generations.
Rest in peace Mike McFarland🙏🏽🥀
Countless fans grew up seeing the english dub on toonami. In a way we grew up with him.
I put together parts of his last speech as Buggy
Thank you so much for your hardwork with Buggy (and all the other characters you brought to life)
In less than a month, four voices connected to completely different generations of animation, anime and gaming have gone quiet. But the characters they gave life to never will. 🕊️
• Mike McFarland was far more than the voice of Master Roshi, Jean Kirstein and Buggy the Clown. As an ADR director, writer and producer, he helped shape the English-language sound of anime including Fullmetal Alchemist, Dragon Ball and Attack on Titan. His influence was often heard even when his own voice wasn’t.
• Peter Cullen became something incredibly rare: a performer whose voice became inseparable from a hero. For more than four decades, Optimus Prime carried Cullen’s strength, dignity and warmth, inspired by his brother’s advice to be “strong enough to be gentle.” He also gave generations the wonderfully gloomy Eeyore.
• Tim Curry could make almost any character unforgettable. Beyond Rocky Horror, IT and Clue, his voice work gave us Nigel Thornberry, an Emmy-winning Captain Hook, and Chancellor Palpatine. Few performers could make a character sound hilarious, sinister and completely larger-than-life quite like him.
• And Hayden Panettiere reached audiences from childhood onward, voicing Dot in A Bug’s Life and Kairi in Kingdom Hearts before becoming the face and voice of Sam in Until Dawn. Her career crossed television, film, animation and gaming, giving different generations completely different reasons to remember her.
Four very different performers. Four voices attached to characters millions grew up with. The microphones may be silent now, but press play, start a game or revisit an old episode, and they’re right there again. ❤️
Been seeing a lot of Roshi clips in honor of Mike McFarland today, and as much as I love his voice and performance as Roshi, I also really really like his Baby
in GT, he did a great job and I think his role there goes under appreciated