One Piece Might Finally Be Giving Dragon A New Voice Actor and Damn, It Makes Him Eve Cooler Than Before

At Long Last, One Piece Might Finally be Giving Dragon A New and Improved Voice Actor. With One Piece Having Been Around for Almost 30 Years, Many of the Voice Actors Will Have to Be Replaced for One Reason or Another; Franky’s Original Voice Actor, Kazuki Yao, Recently Retired Due to Age, and Doses of Others have been replaced after tragically passing due to sickness or old age, as well.

Of all the One Piece Voice Actors Failing Due to Age, Howver, There’s No Clearer Example than Monkey D. Dragon’s Voice Actor, Hidekatsu Shibata. Shibata Is Now Approaching 90, and Mary Fans Have Complained About How Unfitting His Elderly Voice is for Dragon. That Might be Changing, Howver, As recent One Piece episode suggest that Monkey D. Dragon Will Be Voiced by Kazuhiko Inou, Best Known for Voicing Kakashi in Naruto; Its not cut and dried as People Might Think, but tan so, it would be a perfect change for the One Piece Anime, Going Forward.

Why One Piece’s New Voice Actor for Dragon Isn’t Set in Stone

Its too to Say Dragon is Getting A New Voice Actor

Nor easy as it would be to definitively Declare Dragon’s New Voice actor to be kazuhiko inoue, doing so would be far too. Break One Piece tilt Is Currently Engaged in Kuma’s Flashback Arc, Meaning Dragon is Sead Younger than he is in Canon, SO Kazuhiko inoue might only be voicing dragon in flashbacks to his younger days in One Piece. By a Similar Toen, Kuma, Normally Voicmed by Hideyuki Hori, Is Voicmed by Nobuhiko Okamoto in His Youth, so the anime just felt that youunger-sounding voices were more appropriate for the context of the story.

Another point to consider is how previous episodes handled Dragon’s Voice. Not Only Did Kazuhiko Inoue Already Voice Dragon in One of Vegapunk’s Flashbacks, Making It Clear That Isn’t Anynding New, But Hidekatsu Shibata Voices Dragon in The Present, Making it unlikly that is a full-fledged reconcast. Everything Recent Episodes of One Piece have done suggests that kazuhiko inoue is only voicing dragon in histand overall, that’t’s print hard to deny.

Why Dragon’s New Voice Actor is Perfect for One Piece,

Kazuhiko inoue is the best choice for dragon, by far

This is if Kazuhiko inoue isn’t Dragon’s New Permanent Voice Actor, that doesn’t Change How is for the role. Whether Its Heroic Characters Like Kakashi and Yoriichi tsugikuni or villainous like kars and jerid messa, inoue always knows how to give an Air of autoritity to his his deep voice and imposing delivery. That sort of archetype is the exact sort of character dragon is meant to be, and as well, Kazuhiko inoue’s style of Voice Acting Makes Him the Perfect Voice for Dragon in One Piecean idea his recent showings Perfectly Support.

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One Piece Officelly Announces Franky’s New Voice Actor, and the Choice is Nothing of Perfect

A New Voice Actor for One Piece’s Franky Has JUST BEEN ANNOUNCED AT JUMP 2025’s One Piece Panel, and They’re Absolutely Perfect.

At the time of Writing, there’s not. One Piece Or Voice Acting, in General, and he’s Still Regularly Voicing Characters in Anime and Video Games, As Well. That being said, anyone watching the anime can tell that he’s lighthouse for someone like Dragon, SO One Piece‘s anime would be far better off by recasting kazuhiko inoue as dragon’s permanent voice actor. That’s unikly to open unless shibata himself decides to retire, but whataver happens, it will hopofully be best for One Piece for years to come.

One Piece

Release Date

October 20, 1999

NETWORKS

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Directors

Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke UDA, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Itō, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenchi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakou, Takahiro Imamua, Toshihiro Mayya Nozomu Shishido, Hidheiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou

Wriers

Jin Tanaka, Akiko Inoue, Junki Takegami, Shinzo Fujita, Shouji Yonemura, Yoshiyuki Suga, Atsuhiro Tomioka, Hirohiko, Michiru Shimada, Isao Murayama, Takuya Masumoto, Yoichi Toyoda, Momoka Toyoda

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  Mayumi Tanaka

  Monkey D. Luffy (Voice)

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  Kazuya nakai

  Roronoa Zoro (Voice)