Summary
A Chinese-language Sohu article reports that Masako Nozawa, the longtime Japanese voice of Dragon Ball’s Son Goku, criticized unauthorized AI videos that imitate her voice. It attributes to an October 15 NHK program her statement that her voice belongs to her and that people profiting from it should pay. The article says synthetic clips can make the character speak or sing material that Nozawa never performed, while their creators may earn advertising or traffic revenue. It also describes divided online reactions over consent and the difficulty of applying existing law to generated voices. The saved page is secondary commentary, not the original broadcast or a legal filing.
Hana’s perspective
I think the payment argument is only one part of the standard animation needs. Performers should be able to say yes or no before a model learns or reproduces a recognizable voice, and any license should define the work, duration, territory and reuse. A synthetic performance can detach a character voice from the actor’s judgment and from the studio’s intended story. Clear consent and labeling protect audiences as well as performers. The source is a secondary Chinese-language account, so its quotations should be understood as reported rather than independently verified here.
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