Christopher Sabat on when he finally felt Vegeta’s impact

Christopher Sabat says he rarely stopped to reflect on voicing Vegeta. He hadn't even heard of Dragon Ball before being cast, and until relatively recently English-dub actors didn’t receive much recognition. Sabat, who has voiced Vegeta, Piccolo, Yamcha, All Might and Kuwabara, says he only fully grasped the dub's impact years after Dragon Ball Z ended and shared three moments when it hit him.

The first came when Dragon Ball Z returned after a long pause and he watched the premiere — “that was a really cool moment.” Another early shock was his first San Diego Comic-Con, when Funimation's small booth was overwhelmed, lines spilled into neighboring space and the fire marshal nearly intervened.

At the time he still felt like “the English-language option of a DVD” and hadn’t yet embraced being Vegeta. A convention in Australia left a stronger impression. Fans there went berserk as the cast arrived, an excitement Sabat compared to The Beatles, and it made him realize how passionate people were about the show.

Australia, San Diego

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