Gametraders Live September Magazine

As a Dragon Ball fan I had to ask Spike
about the Bang Zoom! Dub of Dragon Ball
Super, in which he plays Majin Buu. It’s
hard to get ahold of any footage from that
show, as we receive the Funimation dub in
Australia. I asked Spike whether he based
the voice on his Funimation counterpart,
Justin Cook.
“I don’t think so… This may sound bad for
me, I don’t research because the director’s
gonna tell me what to do and a lot of times
I don’t want to colour what I’m doing. I’m
like, ‘OK, you’re the director. You’re the
boss. What are we doing? We’re taking it
in a different direction? Great, now I’ve got
to unlearn everything I’ve already learned
and go in.’ And I’ve had episodes where
I’ve done that and they’re like, this other
voice just keeps creeping in because I’ve
already got it on my brain. So I don’t want
to do that, so I go in and am like ‘what are
we doing? Oh, Majin Buu. He sounds like
what? You want this? Let’s try this voice.
Ahhh! Whatever!’ And they go ‘yeah, that’s
it. Great!’ OK, so I have no idea what (Justin
Cook’s) Majin Buu sounds like”.
resume and like ‘yeah I was, look at that’”.
I thought I would use my last question to
ask about roles he is uncredited in.
“You know, I don’t know how that works,
honestly… It could be a paperwork snafu.
It’s not something that I did, like ‘oh, I don’t
want to be credited’. I don’t care. I did the
work, I’m proud of it. If I don’t want to be
credited then why do the work?... If it’s
hentai then I’ll give you a different name,
but it’s fun. It’s a fun name… If I do another
one you’ll see as ‘Heiney Pickelhammer’”.
And on that note we were given the signal
to suggest it was time to end the interview.
Spike said that due to business interests he
has in Australia he may be making more
stops on our shores. Personally, I look
forward to seeing him again.
Interview conducted by Paul Monopoli
I asked whether fans tend to know more
about the roles that Spike plays that he
does himself.
“YES! YES! And they’re like, ‘sign this’ and
I’m like, ‘was I in that?’ and they go ‘yeah,
you were this guy’… and I look at my