History VocalDissonance / AnimeAndManga

* Each episode of ''Manga/PopTeamEpic'' replays itself after the initial credits, each time with the main characters Pipimi and Popuko redubbed with male or female [=VAs=], leading to episodes where the school girls with perpetual {{Cat Smile}}s have deep masculine voices.

* The ''Anime/BakutenShootBeyblade'' dub has chirpy, blond, often CatSmile Max, due to his VA undergoing VocalEvolution. From ''V-Force'' onwards he's got one of the deepest voices of the main cast.

* ''Manga/FrierenBeyondJourneysEnd'': Frieren the elf physically resembles a young teenage girl, but is much, ''much'' older, and its reflected in her voice, which much deeper (particularly in the english dub) than a girl that age would have, reflecting her much greater age.

** Also Frieza, who [[SissyVillain has an effeminate build and color scheme]], but a deep voice and a polite, masculine way of speaking. Again, this varies by localization, with most dubs of English-speaking Frieza having the voice of a raspy woman while Eddie Frierson in UsefulNotes/PlayStation game ''Anime/DragonBallGT: Final Bout'' and Creator/ChrisAyres in ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' have scratchy but distinctly masculine voices.[[note]]Frierson's voice is deeper than Ayres, which sounds similar to Creator/LittleKuriboh and Richard Steven Horvitz.[[/note]]

*** However, while Yaji is voiced by a man in the German dub, he's voiced by the same guy who used to do [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Squidward]] until his death. In the English dub, he's voiced by a man who sounds like a [[GutturalGrowler scratchy-voiced]] Muppet.

** A disguised fourteen-year-old Obito Uchiha was a GutturalGrowler. Granted he was simply mimicking Madara's natural baritone, but still, it is identical to the original's.

** A human example is Butch, a Team Rocket grunt who is one of Jessie and James' rivals (along with his partner Cassidy). He's young and fairly attractive, but in the English dub, he has an [[GutturalGrowler extremely croaky voice]] that almost sounds like [[WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife Bev Bighead]].

* ''Anime/CuteHighEarthDefenseClubLove'' has [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Zundar/Thunder]], a cute hedgehog with the very deep voice of Creator/HirokiYasumoto. A similar thing happens with Dadacha, the flying squirrel who looks suspiciously like Zundar and is also voiced by Yasumoto.

* ''Manga/DeathNote'' gives L a remarkably deep voice in the English dub (courtesy of Creator/AlessandroJuliani) for such a lithe and [[UglyCute unusually]] [[{{Bishonen}} pretty]] man.

* Anthy from ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' is voiced in the Japanese version by Creator/YurikoFuchizaki, who's more or less speaking with her natural voice, and thus sounds noticeably older than many members of the mostly high school cast, especially opposite Creator/TomokoKawakami's performance as the titular Utena, who sounds convincingly 14. This being [[DeconstructorFleet Utena]], this was most likely done [[spoiler:to highlight the fact that Anthy is in fact ''way'' older than her appearance suggests and has [[HiddenDepths a lot more to her]] than meets the eye]]. A similar effect is done in the Latin-American dub, where "Angie" is voiced by Rocío Prado aka [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Kodachi Kuno]].

** Chopper keeps his [[Creator/IkueOtani high]] [[Creator/BrinaPalencia voice]] regardless of whether he's in his adorable man-beast form or his badass battle forms. Averted in the 4Kids dub, where Chopper in his huge humanoid form sounds rather manly indeed. Also averted with [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Monster Point]], where he sounds just as deep and intimidating as he looks.

** Even outside ''Tamers'', there's Silphymon. When it's FusionDance time, the resulting form sounds like the unchanged voices of the component 'mons talking at once. This rule was followed even with Gatomon, a Rookie-sized Champion with the expected childlike voice in the dub. It sounded all kinds of wrong alongside the deep, gruff voice of Aquilamon.

*** The Japanese version also did this with the heroic Digimon. When the Legendary Warriors reveal themselves as separate entities from their human counterparts, Agnimon still has a childish voice despite being twice the height of the human characters. This carries over to their combined form, Susanoomon, which was one of the most powerful entities shown in the anime by that time. The dub avoids this by having the characters' voice actors use deeper versions of the human characters' voices instead.

** In ''Anime/DigimonFusion'', Shoutmon's fused forms retain the base form's childlike voice in both Japanese and English. On the other hand, Shoutmon's evolved forms continue the series tradition of the dub using a deeper voice while the original leaves it as is.

** {{Downplayed}} with Fat Gum in the dub. His voice isn't outright high pitched but still a bit high for such a big man, some teenage boys (including Kirishima) having noticeably deeper voices than him.

* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' has [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Inner Moka]], whose deep voice contrasts Outer Moka's high-pitched voice (in Japanese, both modes are played by Creator/NanaMizuki). Even for EvilSoundsDeep, Moka's voice is incredibly so for a teenage girl. A flashback reveals that Moka had already a deep voice when she was ''nine years old''. There was a childish undertone in her voice, but it was still too deep. Averted in the dub, where Moka has [[Creator/AlexisTipton separate]] [[Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard actresses]] for each mode.

* ''Anime/YuGiOh'': The dub gives Yami Yugi a [[Creator/DanGreen very deep voice]] in contrast to him being relatively short and thin.

** Played straight in the case of Nate, who is 11 if the games are anything to go by. In the dub, [[DawsonCasting he is voiced by]] (and therefore sounds just like) [[Creator/JohnnyYongBosch a grown man]].

* In the ''Anime/AceAttorney'' anime, in the flashbacks to when the main characters were kids, Edgeworth and Larry sound like they're 17 years old when they're supposed to be only 9. Averted in the English dub, where female actors were cast for all three boys to give more age-appropriate voices.

** Pica of the Donquixote Pirates is a [[TopHeavyGuy top heavy mountain of a man]] (with [[ShouldersOfDoom spiked shoulders]], to boot), but he has a very high voice given by Creator/YujiMitsuya ("squeaky" is NotHyperbole, he literally sounds like a dog toy) and Ry [=McKeand=] (who opts for something similar to [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Toad]]). He's an interesting example because unlike the others mentioned above, characters actually [[LampshadeHanging comment on how ridiculous he sounds]]. However, he's ''extremely'' sensitive about it and [[BerserkButton was willing to bury a grunt alive for laughing at his voice]]. Needless to say, Luffy and Zoro proceed to mock him for it repeatably.

** Pica of the Donquixote Pirates is a [[TopHeavyGuy top heavy]] [[RatedMForManly mountain of a man]] (with [[ShouldersOfDoom spiked shoulders]], to boot), but he has a very high voice given by Creator/YujiMitsuya ("squeaky" is NotHyperbole, he literally sounds like a dog toy) and Ry [=McKeand=] (who opts for something similar to [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Toad]]). He's an interesting example because unlike the others mentioned above, characters actually [[LampshadeHanging comment on how ridiculous he sounds]]. However, he's ''extremely'' sensitive about it and [[BerserkButton was willing to bury a grunt alive for laughing at his voice]]. Needless to say, Luffy and Zoro proceed to mock him for it repeatably.

* ''Franchise/DragonBall'': This trope applies to half the cast in its original Japanese version, due to many of them being muscular men voiced by adult women [[ChildLikeVoice attempting to sound like young boys]] (with many of them [[TalkingToHimself sharing a voice actress]]). While most foreign dubs avert this, a few examples pop up from time to time.

* Vasilisa, a minor character in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' sounds like a little girl when she casts her spells, which are based on a folktale involving a girl with an Evil Stepmother.

* An InUniverse example is mentioned as part of the backstory for ''LightNovel/Overlord2012''. Outside of the in-universe MMO, Bukubukuchagama was a professional {{Eroge}} voice actress, well-known for playing [[NoYay little girls]], and used the same voice online... where her character was a level 100 gelatinous cube that typically had the fully-detailed half-digested remains of previous victims floating around in it. Ainz remembers the only time her voice and mannerisms remotely matched her online appearance was when she got pissed off at her brother Peroronchino, causing her voice to tumble a few octaves.

* In ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'' Filorial Queens have the voices of their prepubescent human forms even when transformed into their gigantic bird forms.

** Byakuya Kuchiki, the Captain of Squad Six and Rukia's older brother, is an elegant {{Bishounen}} man who is regarded as one of the most beautiful men in Soul Society. When he speaks, his voice is a BadassBaritone, courtesy of Creator/RyotaroOkiayu.

** Averted in any English dub of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', where the grown-up Goku sounds manly all right but he still acts like a child. The other members of his family also received different voice actors, always females as children and males as adults; Bardock was given a BadassBaritone.
** Also averted in the Latin-American dub, where child!Goku is voiced by a female voice actress and teen/adult!Goku by a male one. Said male VA (Creator/MarioCastaneda) sounds like a playful young man most of the time until it's time to get serious and he goes borderline BadassBaritone. Also averted in the Brazilian dub, where basically the same happens.

** Several male characters are [[CrossDressingVoices portrayed by women]] when the need arises to portray them as children, whereas voice actresses in female roles simply give younger-sounding performances. But there are some guys like Elfman, Jellal, and Erza's childhood friends who retain a BadassBaritone completely unfitting for kids.

* In ''Manga/{{Hellsing}} Ultimate'', when Alucard assumes the form of a woman (they same form he had assumed in World War II), his pitch never goes any higher than his usual BadassBaritone.

** Rukia herself fits. She has the appearance of a cute teenage girl, is short and wears skirts and usually wears feminine clothing, when not wearing her shinigami uniform. By contrast, her voice is in the ContraltoOfDanger territory.

*** The Sun Village arc completely forgoes the use of "child" voices when the characters are [[FountainOfYouth turned into kids]]; even [[ContraltoOfDanger deep-voiced women]] like Erza and Minerva sound no different than when they're fully grown. What makes this especially egregious is that the usual childlike performances are used in flashbacks during the exact same arc.

*** Partially averted in the Japanese version, where Lucemon's more adult form is voiced by [[Manga/DragonBall none other]] then Creator/RyuseiNakao. Nakao also provided the growls for his ultimate monstrous form, but child!Lucemon's seiyuu Creator/KumikoNishihara returned to do his larvae form inside it.

* In the ADV dub of the ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' movie ''The End of Evangelion'', BridgeBunny {{Nerd}} Makoto Hyuga's TV series voice actor, Matt Greenfield, is replaced by Keith Burgess. In the series, Greenfield does a pretty standard timid nerd voice for Hyuga. It comes as a shock, then, when you hear Burgess's first lines in ''[=EoE=]''; Burgess is black, and sounds nothing like Greenfield. "Black Hyuga" has become somewhat of a meme in the community.

** Luffy in the 4Kids dub sounds more like a girl with a TomboyishVoice. Technically, [[CrossdressingVoice that's the case here with regards to the voice acting]], but it's not very convincing as Luffy doesn't sound boyish enough, unlike the original Japanese or the Funimation dub.

* ''Manga/ASilentVoice'': PlayedForDrama. Shoko Nishimiya keeps her child-like voice well into her teens. It's justified, as her deafness has resulted in her SpeechImpediment.

* ‘’Manga/DeathNote’’ gives L a remarkably deep voice in the English dub (courtesy of Creator/AlessandroJuliani) for such a lithe and [[UglyCute unusually]] [[{{Bishonen}} pretty]] man.