{"id":339131,"date":"2025-06-25T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/?p=387878"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:18:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:18:25","slug":"the-voice-actress-of-goku-in-dragon-ball-confesses-something-surprising-she-has-never-read-dragon-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-voice-actress-of-goku-in-dragon-ball-confesses-something-surprising-she-has-never-read-dragon-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"The voice actress of Goku in Dragon Ball confesses something surprising: she has never read Dragon Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Masako Nozawa, the iconic voice actress who has brought Goku to life for nearly 40 years in the Dragon Ball franchise, has surprised her fans by revealing an interesting detail about her working method. <strong>In a recent interview, Nozawa confessed that she has never read the Dragon Ball manga. <\/strong>This decision aims to keep the surprise her character would feel when facing new enemies intact, which she considers essential for her performance.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Doesn&#8217;t want to know more than Goku<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am one with Goku, so I would feel the same as him and I would say it bluntly: &#8216;What kind of villain is going to come out&#8230;?!&#8217; <strong>If I know what is going to happen and Goku does not, it would create a sense of dissonance,\u201d Nozawa explained<\/strong>. This approach allows her to remain authentic in her role and prevents the knowledge of future events from affecting her interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DRAGON BALL SUPER: SUPER HERO. Tr\u00e1iler oficial espa\u00f1ol HD. 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She doesn&#8217;t want to know more than Goku &#8220;I am one with Goku, so I would feel the same as him and I would say it bluntly: &#8216;What kind of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9318,"featured_media":339132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1018,1015],"tags":[4459,1489,8312,4460,6223,1863,13041,6944],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6869],"class_list":["post-339131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-news","tag-akira-toriyama","tag-anime","tag-doblaje","tag-dragon-ball","tag-goku","tag-manga","tag-masako-nozawa","tag-spoiler","content-category-streaming-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339143,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339131\/revisions\/339143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339131"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=339131"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=339131"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=339131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}