#kazuki yao

[gay-pirate-anime]

Kazuki Yao retiring is the end of a fucking era... who can possibly roll their Rs as superrrrrrrrrr as this funky guy 😞

thank you for bringing franky (AND BON CLAY BTW) to life!! 😭😭😭

[saiyef]

One Piece Chapter 1134 Color Spread

featuring Franky as a flying giant robot with the Straw Pirates riding on top of him and having the words “WE ARE ETERNAL” on his left shoulder

to commemorate Kazuki Yao, Franky’s voice actor as well as other One Piece characters such as Bon Clay and Jango, stepping down from his role as Franky and other roles after close to 25 years of voice acting in the One Piece anime (debuting as Jango back in 1999) due to his worsening health issues

[demifiendrsa]

The official X/Twitter account for the One Piece franchise has announced that voice actor Kazuki Yao will step down and "graduate" from the role of Franky in the franchise, and will be replaced. The announcement stated this decision was the result of a long discussion process.

The stage presentation for One Piece that will be held at the Jump Festa '25 event on December 22, 2024 will announce the successor to the role, and will also serve as a "graduation ceremony" for Yao.

Message from Kazuki Yao

A sad farewell has come, a separation with a person I have spent nearly a quarter of a century with. It's like an out-of-body experience, but I feel a gap has formed between me and my ideal Franky, so I've decided to depart from the Thousand Sunny for now. It's frustrating! It's sad!! I am so sorry, but I've prepared a suuuuppeeerr successor Looking forward to 12/22 JF!~♬

[listening-to-thunder]

Jump Festa, December 17, 2023

Jacob Romero Gibson and Iñaki Godoy with the original One Piece voice actors. From top right left: Hōki Katsuhisa (Jimbei), Yao Kazuki (Franky), Yamaguchi Yuriko (Robin), Nakai Kazuya (Zoro), Hirata Hiroaki (Sanji), Okamura Akemi (Nami), Tanaka Mayumi (Luffy), Yamaguchi Kappei (Usopp) and Ōtani Ikue (Chopper).

[opshizt]

Y'ALL I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M BAWLING OVER SOMEONE LEAVING AN UNDERWEAR ON STAGE TO PASS THE UNDERWEAR TO ANOTHER PERSON

[thealvinatordraws]

FRANKY [ONE PIECE TRIBUTE]

Tribute to his voice actor, Kazuki Yao! SUPPPEERRRRRR 🦾⭐️

[mugiwaraluv]

I can guess why for the new cover spread 🥲😢

[nina-a-pines]

As sad as this news is, because of the history he has with OP and of how perfect and iconic his voice is, if the man can't go on anymore, he just can't go on.

Thank you, Kazuki Yao, for all these years and characters

[sonicspeeddemon]

Why is he holding it like he received the matrix of leadership!?

[frobin]

Did you hear Kazuki Yao is gonna retire from one piece! ?

I did! It’s sad but not surprising.

Also bc I there was discussions about the voice actors with the new Netflix anime… it might just be the fact that none of them is exactly young.

Anyway, the good man is 65 which is a good time to go into retirement. It’s sad though because he did not sound like he wants to stop working.

I hope whatever his reason is he finds happiness how he gave us happiness.

[onepiece-song-tournament]

One Piece Character Song Tournament

Round 2, Part 2

Sogeking Theme (Japanese) | Family

Strawhat VAs:

Luffy - Mayumi Tanaka

Zoro - Kazuya Nakai

Nami - Akemi Okamura

Usopp - Kappei Yamaguchi

Sanji - Hiroaki Hirata

Chopper - Ikue Ohtani

Robin - Yuriko Yamaguchi

Franky - Kazuki Yao

Brook - Cho

Jinbe - Katsuhisa Hōki

[animedegens]

We got a lot of One Piece News overnight!

One Piece coming back to a Sunday 1115 pm Japan release time! We got a letter from Oda as well!

Also, Frankys new VA will be Subaru Kimura!

Here’s some videos & pics I found on Twitter of Franky’s new & old VA as well as Oda’s letter! It sucks that i wasn’t able to watch this live bc it’s not available for us on yt 😭😭

[krongulous]

I’ve not seen much talk about it, but Kazuki Yao, the Japanese VA for Franky, Bon Clay and Jango will be retiring from these roles and his new va should be revealed soon

It really is the end of an era man, even though I watch dub, the first voices that come to mind when seeing Franky and Bon will always be his voice saying “SUUUPER” or “OKAMA WAY” I hope he has a wonderful retirement, thank you for 25 years of your amazing work Kazuki❤️

[demifiendrsa]

Subaru Kimura will take over for Kazuki Yao in the role of Franky in the One Piece TV anime. Kimura voiced young Buggy in previous episodes of the anime.

[pigeon-paperweight]

KAZUKI YAO IS STEPPING DOWN FROM THE ROLE OF FRANKY o7 o7

I'M NOT CRYING, YOU'RE CRYING!!

[ladyorlandodream]

😔

Thank you for your suuuuuuuuper job