Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball (US only: Dragon Ball Z) manga and the anime Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT. He is voiced by Ryūsei Nakao in the original Japanese and in English by Pauline Newstone (of the Ocean Group) and FUNimation's Linda Chambers-Young in all succeeding movies, video games, and episodes (including a redub of the character's initial appearance). His design is an of what creator Akira Toriyama thought monsters looked like, in his childhood .