It sounds very forceful and fatalistic, but considering the years that the ‘One Piece’ anime has been airing and what is still ahead, mayumi tanaka he has recently said that he hopes he can live long enough to see the series finale. Of course, she has also confessed that after so much time being Luffy It will be sad that there are no more ‘One Piece’.
twenty years is a lot of years
The legendary voice actress has lent her voice to krillin in ‘Dragon Ball’ and Ryūnosuke Fujinami in the classic ‘Urusei Yatsura’, although it has already gone down in history for being lLuffy’s voice in ‘One Piece‘ during all these years. She herself is a big fan of the manga, so she also really wants to see the ending that she is preparing. Eiichiro Oda.
“I have mixed feelings about ‘One Piece’. On the one hand, it has become something that we take for granted that it is there, so I would be very sad if it disappeared,” the actress said in a recent interview. “But on the other hand…I hope I live to see the end! When the TV series started, I was already in my 40s. I wouldn’t want them to have to change my voice in the middle of the series.”
The anime began airing in 1999, and according to Tanaka, she never thought it would ever last this long. Right now the voice actress is 67 years old and in principle she is in good health, so unless she decides to retire she would not have to say goodbye to Luffy.
Even so, she has also confessed that she already has a candidate in mind if she had to be replaced if necessary and his favorite option is Masako Nowazathe voice of Goku in ‘Dragon Ball’, who ironically is much older than her and does not seem to intend to retire either.
Oda has already revealed that there are about five years left before the publication of ‘OnePiece’so considering that the anime is already about a year behind the manga, we may still have about seven years of anime in sight.