Maddie Blaustein, 4Kids VA for Meowth, dies at 48

Sam Riegel was Rex Raptor in Yu-Gi-Oh!, Donatello in TMNT 2003, Faust in Shaman King, Prince Clovis on Code Geass and Zaku on Naruto. Mike Sinterniklaas was Mahad in Yu-Gi-Oh!, Leonardo in TMNT 2003, Trey in Shaman King, Mike on Kappa Mikey, and Mr.9 on One Piece.
 
Ohh, now I know who you are talking about.

I never try to figure out the voice actors, their names or their identities, just care about the characters.
 
Oh man...

I go from having the night of my life seeing The Aquabats live a couple night ago, to seeing this depressing news.

Geez... so young
 
Even though I haven't watched Pokemon for years, it was one of my very first anime, and Meowth was one of my favorite characters as a kid. So, I am very sad to hear of this unfortunate news.
 
That's true. While I think Maddie did a great job with Rex's voice and I totally love it, the new voice actor, or actress, could work with a different voice that could fit with the character. They could get someone like Mike Sinterniklaas to get as close to her voice as possible or someone else to do the voice a bit differently. It's totally up to the voice actor/actress and the voice director.
 
After looking around other places, I can see that Maddie is more celebrated for what she has done and less mourn upon by the fans. Sure there are some people that aren't affected by it as they said that "Maddie death doesn't affect me at all" which is somewhat realistic, but I still like seeing all these comments that are more about how awesome of a person s/he was.
 
Despite my hatred for 4KiRAB Entertainment, this is very sad, and I send my prayers to those who were hurt by this news!!

P.S. I have nothing against the New York VA's, I just hate 4KiRAB that is all!!
 
This news is really depressing. Its bad enough that she passed away at a relatively young age. But to die so suddenly from a common, preventable thing like food poisoning during the holidays! Her family must be going through hell right now.


I always thought it was a shame that Blaustein was so underused by 4KiRAB and CPM. She had an UNBELIEVABLE vocal range. She could convincingly play men or women. And both silly and serious characters. I have no idea why she didn't get more starring roles in non-4KiRAB productions. Heck, I didn't realize how good she was until I heard her in the first Shadow Hearts game a few years ago!


Like a lot of anime fans around my age, the Pokemon dub was my "gateway drug". And Team Rocket (the original ones) were my favorite characters. Its hard to believe that one of those actors is gone now.


R.I.P. Maddie
 
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