Very excited to report, too, that they did in fact keep Pam Dougherty as Big Mom. Still can't believe they dropped this randomly and I found out just by checking this forum today, lol. Very excited to ration these episodes.
@Blake:
Uh looks like you were right about voyages zephray but i dont really care at this point what???,
I have learned that companies will always value maximum profit, especially in cases where reaping those profits won't negatively impact the brand (which would affect their maximum profits, lol). (Meaning people expect 12-13 episodes, so they aren't angry about not getting 14). If it's any consolation, I certainly wish you'd won this debate.
Jimbei sounds just a little more garbled than usual; will probably take a few episodes for him to settle back into the role. Big Mom sounds good, but I'll need to sit with her performances and hear more of them to see how she measures up to David's Kaido.
I think they nailed all the siblings. Yonji sounds a little different from what I expected, but it fits well! Brulee sounds good, too, and Bakugo voicing one of the siblings is hilarious. Only voice I'm not sold on yet is Judge, who gives me (at least on first listen) that anime-VA issue of sounding like a smaller guy trying to sound big. I think that's a problem of pretending to have a deep voice using the front of your throat instead of the back, but I'm no expert.