One Piece: Mayumi Tanaka Wants Fans to Accept if Someone Else is Appointed to Replace Luffy's Seiyuu

Mayumi Tanaka is the voice actress (seiyuu) behind Monkey D. Luffy from the One Piece anime.

In 2019, she once bragged about raising the issue of who would replace her as Luffy's seiyuu.

This is not without reason.

Mayumi Tanaka is no longer young, where she has been 67 years old as of January 15, 2022.

Meanwhile, the One Piece series is still continuing without any clarity on when it will end.

That's why she thought that maybe One Piece would continue, even when she was no longer around.

Now Mayumi Tanaka says that she wants Luffy to be her last role during her career as a voice actress.

She said that throughout her career she had played many young male characters, and she wanted to end her career with Luffy.

And when asked if she could still voice a young male character after this, she said that she had achieved everything she wanted with the role.

Even so, with the One Piece series still unclear when it will end, she hopes that one day she will no longer be able to play Luffy, while One Piece still has a long way to go, she hopes that fans will accept whoever is appointed to replace her as Luffy's voice.

Mayumi Tanaka, also known as Hamayoshi, is a voice actress from Japan who has been working in the world of voice acting in Japan since 1978.

This woman born January 15, 1955 made her debut as an anime seiyuu in the anime series Gekiso! Ruben Kaiser, playing a character named Ryoko Takagi.

Since then, the seiyuu under Aoni Production, an agency that has overseen many of the seiyuu since 1969, have provided voices in a number of projects such as anime, voice dramas, commercials, to dubbing foreign films into Japanese.

Mayumi Tanaka herself is a voice actress who lives in Tokyo. 

During her career as a voice actress, she has voiced various characters in famous anime such as Dragon Ball where she played Krilin, Yajirobe, and Baba the Soothsayer.

Several characters are also voiced by her, including Koenma in Yu Yu Hakusho, Pazu in Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Kanna Kirishima in the Sakura Wars, Kiriaru in Ninja Boy, Jean in Three Musketeers, Much in Robin Hood Adventure, Mao in Cooking Master Boy, Daiya in Gaiking: Legend of Daiku-Maryu, and of course as Luffy in One Piece anime.

In addition, she also dubbed the film Babe into Japanese, where she dubbed the voice of Babe, played by Christine Cavanaugh, including contributing her voice in a number of theme songs in several anime that she also played, such as Sakura Wars to Dragon Ball.

This seiyu who also has a hobby of theater has also received a number of awards such as the 1986 9th Anime Grand Prix as the best female voice actress, Kazue Takahashi Memorial Award at the 2011 5th Seiyu Awards, to the Kids Family Award at the 7th Seiyu Awards 2013.