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The story
In a late-night chat thread on 5ch’s “Nandemo Jikkyo G” (Live Commentary G) board, ordinary chit-chat about weekend plans, watching pro wrestling, and road trips eventually drifted into the upcoming Dragon Ball Super remake — and that’s when posters started worrying about the age of Masako Nozawa (90), the voice actress who has played Goku since the series began. One reply noted that Nobuyo Oyama passed away from old age at 90 and wrote “that’s worrying…”, prompting other posters to chime in with similar concern. Rather than revolving around one specific topic, the thread shows the kind of scattershot, anything-goes chatter typical of 5ch deep into the night.
What people said
It's not an embarrassing thread, actually.
Guess that's what being unemployed gets you
Got tickets, so I'm off to watch some pro wrestling
Nice
I'm just driving out to that mind-numbingly boring Seven Park Ario mall
It didn't slow down at all.
Is that nearby?
Nice
Keep that up and go on a world tour
Re: #57
You inmu-obsessed freaks, get out of our home 😡 (inmu = the meme genre above; the house emoji is a stand-in for 'home')
Kids into the homo-memes these days probably don't even know about 'Nomurish translation' 🙄 (a meme term for absurdly flowery, overdramatic fan translations)
heed his words (a callback to a famously garbled 'Nomurish' mistranslation from an old Dragon Ball Z game)
If anything, some of them don't even know what TDN or DB even are 🤭
Honestly, knowing about that stuff is the embarrassing part
Is she nearing the end?
Wonder if she can make it through the Beerus arc of the Dragon Ball Super remake — it's supposed to run about 3 months starting this season
Nobuyo Oyama died of old age at 90, so yeah, it's worrying
WHAT'S THAT, YOU PUNK?! (a nonsensical aggressive yell, mimicking pro-wrestler trash talk)
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Masako Nozawa has voiced Goku continuously in the Dragon Ball franchise since the series began airing in 1986, and as of 2026 she is 90 years old. Nobuyo Oyama, mentioned in the thread, was known for voicing the original Nobita in Doraemon and died of old age in 2024 at the same age of 90. It’s that matching age of 90 that led posters to wonder whether Nozawa will make it through the upcoming Beerus arc in the Dragon Ball Super remake — not a mean-spirited jab, just the natural worry of longtime fans. It’s also worth noting that this thread wasn’t built around a single newsworthy event; it’s the kind of freewheeling late-night “chat thread” where talk of next-day plans and inside-joke internet memes mixed in with everything else. Readers who only see the headline might assume something is actually wrong with Nozawa’s health, but nothing in the thread points to any real health issue — it’s simply concern based on her age.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (“Nandemo Jikkyo G”) thread “Tofu-san’s Kashiwa Home.”
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