History VocalDissonance / AnimeAndManga

** In ''Anime/DigimonFrontier,'' we get it with Lucemon, to work against the character in one form and for him in another. Lucemon is voiced by Creator/MonaMarshall (aka Izzy, Terriermon) in her Izzy voice but with more evil. It works when he looks like a child. But then he gets a more adult form... and still sounds like a ten-year-old. Somehow even blowing up moons doesn't make it possible to take him seriously with that voice. Then he gets a monstrous form... and his voice becomes that of a CreepyChild. It was actually quite effective.

* PlayedForLaughs (and UpToEleven) in ''Anime/ExcelSaga'', in a scene where a character is seen for most of the episode in a mask and with a deep male voice, then when the mask is taken off, it is revealed to be a hot blonde woman (an old-timey love interest of Nabeshin). But the thing is, even after the reveal, she continues to talk in that male voice to the end!

* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'': Biscuit Krueger's real appearance is very muscular, almost man-like, yet her voice remains feminine. Taken UpToEleven in the Greed Island Final OVA where she's straight up voiced by a man in her real form.

** Wadatsumi takes this trope UpToEleven, being just as big as ''Oars'', meaning he's big enough the good guys have to climb on him to fight him, and having a '''very''' high-pitched voice provided by Creator/KoukiMiyata, known for voicing young men. The English dub instead went with Creator/TrinaNishimura, rather than casting a man with a high-pitched voice.

* ''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. It takes UpToEleven when 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/{{NegimaSecondSeason}}'': Unlike the previous anime, Nagi Springfield is voiced by [[Creator/MiyukiSawashiro Miyuki Sawashiro]]. As a result, he sounds more like a young boy instead of an adult.

* In ''Manga/KomiCantCommunicate'':

* In ''Manga/KomiCantCommunicate'' Manbagi's friend Gonzales is a short young girl, but her voice is so deep and husky that she sounds more like a musclebound man. She doesn't seem to mind, given that she plays it up for laughs and doesn't mind the nickname "Gonzales".

* ''Anime/InazumaEleven'''s second series, set ten years in the future, kept the voice actors for the adult versions of the original series' characters. This results in a lot of grown men sounding like 14-year-old boys, most of whom are voiced by adult women.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood'': Despite being [[HeroicBuild very tall and muscular]], Jonathan Joestar sounds as young and boyish as [[Characters/JoJosBizarreAdventureTeamBucciarati his son Giorno]], in stark contrast to Joseph, Jotaro, and Josuke, who all have rougher and much deeper voices. However, this fits his [[GentleGiant gentlemanly and soft]] [[AllLovingHero personality]].

** [[Creator/RikiyaKoyama Lord]] [[Creator/JohnSwasey Death's]] funny high voice fits his funny appearance ''most'' of the time. When it doesn't, running away would be a good idea. Presumably if ever his deep, old-school voice matches his appearance during the 'grim times', he will become even more [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass badass]].

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

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*** However, while Yaji is voiced by a man in the German dub, he's voiced by a middle-aged man with an elderly voice. In the English dub, he's voiced by a man who sounds like a [[GutturalGrowler scratchy-voiced]] Muppet.

** 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.

* In ''Manga/AiKora'', the short and petite Kirino Ootori has a husky, womanly voice that [[LovableSexManiac Maeda]] finds to be [[ArousedByTheirVoice his "ideal voice"]].

* In the ADV dub of the ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' movie End of Evangelion, {{Bridge Bunny}} {{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.

''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':

* In ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', Mary alias Mysterious Child has the looks of a girl no older than 15 [[Creator/AtsukoTanaka and the voice of an adult woman]]. [[spoiler:She's been practically confirmed to be another victim of the FountainOfYouth - and one who unlike the teenaged Conan/Shinichi and Ai/Shiho, was actually a grown-up when shrunk.]]

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

* In ''Franchise/{{Anpanman}}'', one of the shortest characters in the series, Mushibakinman, has a deep and demonic voice.

* It was never adapted in the anime, but one chapter of ''Manga/LovelyComplex'' has the cute {{transgender}} GirlyGirl Seiko's voice completely break (pictured above). She said it began deepening in middle school but she could still pass as feminine. The other characters describe it as a masculine, man's voice which causes her to detransition for several chapters. Eventually, her voice goes back to normal.

** 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, the Straw Hats (Luffy and Zoro) proceed to mock him for it repeatably.

* ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' 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. It takes UpToEleven when 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.

* In ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'''s Latin-American Spanish dub, Gian, the BigGuy who often bullies Nobita, is voiced by Creator/LuisDanielRamirez, giving him a high-pitched voice, sounding more like [[Series/SesameStreet Elmo]] than he sounds like a menacing bully.[[note]]It's pretty funny, because Ramirez also voices [[Anime/DragonBall Krillin]], who was usually voiced by Creator/EduardoGarza, who is also the Latin American voice for Elmo.[[/note]]
* ''Manga/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.
** Goku. A massive muscleman who can destroy planets with his bare hands and routinely fights for the safety of the universe retains the same innocent SimpletonVoice full of wonderment he had as a child. {{Justified|Trope}} in that the Japanese audiences loved Creator/MasakoNozawa's performance so much, they [[GrandfatherClause refused to accept the idea of having her replaced as Goku grew up]]. By proxy, Nozawa ended up voicing ''Goku's entire male immediate family'' and various derivative characters, right down to his even manlier, battle-hardened father Bardock -- a character for which she used a voice nearly identical to Goku's.

** In the earlier flashback scenes of the Westwood dub of Dragon Ball Z, Kid Goku sounded like a higher pitched version of his adult self.

* ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'' pairs childish, ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}''-style character designs and colours with deep, naturalistic voices. An example of this occurrence would be Jyushimatsu, who is the resident {{Cloudcuckoolander}} {{Keet}} and is voiced by Creator/DaisukeOno (aka [[Manga/BlackButler Sebastian Michaelis]]).

** 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). 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, the Straw Hats (Luffy and Zoro) proceed to mock him for it repeatably.

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