Why doesn't Yoshi sound like he used to?
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- Yoshi's voice is really iconic, right? But go back to the 1990s, and Yoshi had a totally different, and also very iconic voice! So, why did Nintendo change Yoshi's voice - and where did his original voice from Super Mario World even come from? Let's answer the question of why Yoshi doesn't sound like he used to!
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Super Mario World
- Interview about Yoshi’s creation (www.nintendo.com/super-nes-cl...)
- Yoshi SFX source uncovered by Plastiware ( • The Yoshi sound is pit... )
DiC Cartoon
- • Super Mario World | Ha...
- • Super Mario World (Epi...
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- • [VHS修復更新] マリオとヨッシーの冒険ラ...
Yoshie’s Cookie
- • Yoshi's Cookie JPN Com...
Mario is Missing CDRom Deluxe
- Unused voices ripped by LuigiBlood ( • Mario is Missing Delux... )
- Walkthrough by Mr. Eight-Three-One ( • Mario is Missing! CD-R... )
Super Mario Galaxy 2
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wow you can speak English???!!
Yeah im surprised too! I didnt know british people spoke english.
No way
Mind blowing. Always thought he speaked Portuguese up to this point
impossible
He can't, he can only speak British.
Yoshi's voice now: cute hight pitched tone
Yoshi's voice before: *BLAW*
Don’t forget HHNNngnNGNggNnGNnnGnG
The BLAW returned in Wario Land: Shake It, as the puffed up chef.
It sounds like he is saying blue in german (blau) XD
@@masterimbecile that was perfect
ahahaha what the fuck that caught me so off guard. BLAW.
I think when we think of Yoshi, we all immediately think of his iconic voice from Mario is Missing where he racks up tons of globulator miles looking for him
In some alternate universe where that game flew off store shelves, that might well be the case.
Not me. I played Mario kart on the old system and I played as Yoshi quite a bit.
Dude, like, it's so bodacious!
@@Firguy ikr what an icon
Yeah bro, that voice is radical
As someone that grew up with Yoshi, both the 90s sound and the modern one are instantly recognizable “yoshi” sounds to me
Exactly the same for me lmao
Both are equally fine. One is more of a hatching grunt one is the talking voice
I agree. Both of those sounds are Yoshi sounds! Lol
Same !
agreed lol
I never thought of the original yoshi sound as a voice until you played the clips at 3:22, I thought it was just a sound to indicate mario now riding on yoshi
samee
I always thought it was his voice. xD
Yeah, I thought it was the saddle sound
Yall clearly missed out on the og Mario golf and the og Mario party games on the 64 then, which is a tragedy. Yoshi was always my favorite character and spamming the taunts on Mario party especially is mandatory
I did NOT expect the blauw sound to literally sound like how you described it
It sounds like he's saying 'blau', which is German for 'blue'.
@@whohan779 or ‘blauw’ in Dutch! Which also means blue
7:00
kind of sounds like jerma
I wasn’t ready 💀
I always assumed the sound in Super Mario World Isn't Yoshi's voice but it's just the sound effect of you jumping on him. I always just thought his saddle was squeaky or something
Same
Exactly turns out he's a piano
Isnt it the same sound when you jump on him in NSMB. I swear he makes that sound everytime you hop on to him. Its either that or when he pops out of his egg.
exactly
why would he do that when you don't jump on then
Pre-2000 Nintendo was like “Aiight let’s just get someone in, make some noises, and we’re done” and for that, I commend them. Pure chaotic neutral energy.
Chaotic good
LMFAO
Yea
That's how it should have stayed.
10:12 that "WoOah" is iconic even without the pitch shift
The "blouw" sound from Mario is Missing had me in stitches
BLOUW
...BLOUW
....BLOUW
@TMCS I think when we think of TMCS, we all immediately think of his shameless copying and pasting of others' comments.
I just replayed that clip 5 times while wheezing. I'm gonna have to clip that later.
If you spoke German it sounds like he is saying "Blue". LOL
Blau = Blue (Color and is used as slang for being Drunk lol)
What made them think that was a good sound effect? 😭🤣
Totaka's voice lines are so perfect that Nintendo's still using his clips after 25+ years, that's peak character sound design!
Oh, what would we do without Kazumi Totaka and his Yoshi voice clips...!
@@StevenVillman what would we do without him in general
I new I recognized the sounds from yoshis crafted world from yoshis story
He needs to hear Brian Hull's Yoshi impression. His jaw would hit the FLOOR.
As a music producer finding out yoshi's sound is made from an orchestra hit + pitch bend is just pure gold. I'm going to make that
*SUCH a cute topic.*
I love how much care people give to little subjects like this.
I did not realize that classic sound effect was supposed to be an actual sound Yoshi was making with his mouth.
I did think he made that sound with his mouth.
@TMCS spam
@TMCS I read that when it happened in the video
Same here. I just thought of it as a sound effect or "theme" of sorts for Yoshi.
Yoshi probably tired of Mario abandoning him💀💀💀💀
6:59 it is really funny to hear as a german because he is saying "blau" perfectly pronounced which means "blue"
Yoshi is an alcoholic
@TMCS Not funny
same thought-
Blau is also blue in catalonian
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There was one game that used both Kondo's soundss and Totaka's voice: Yoshi's Island on the GBA. In that game, Totaka's voice replaced most of Yoshi's sounds from the SNES game, EXCEPT the sound Yoshi makes when you retrieve Baby Mario, onto Yoshi's back.
I wonder if that's why I never took the original two-note sound as a voice. All the obvious vocalizations were Totaka's voice, the Kondo sound just seemed like the sound that happens when you sit on Yoshi.
I love that the eating noise went from an orchestra hit to “ba-dum”. Easily my fav Yoshi noise aside from their Pokémon like tendency to say their own name.
Interestingly, in Super Mario Galaxy 2, even though Yoshi uses his updated voice, he makes the classic voice when Mario takes a seat on his saddle!
I'm almost entirely certain thats just a mounting yoshi sound, not a voice clip
@@lybon6972 yeah I always thought it was supposed to be the sound of his saddle
New Super Mario Bros Wii does too
If it’s the sound of his saddle then how do you explain Mario Kart 64? Is he just rubbing his back against the kart seat?
@@Lizuma yep for some reason he never mentioned the wii games in this video
I already respected Totaka a lot but I had no idea he was behind this many voices for so many beloved characters. My respect for him has gone up even more!
I'm going to Japan and ask Kazumi Totaka to make dozens of voice clips for *_*12*_* different Yoshis - with each Yoshi in being a different colour: Red Yoshi, Orange Yoshi, Yellow Yoshi, Green Yoshi [not to be confused with the greenish Yoshi that we all know and love here and the one that Mario/Luigi first meet (as well as ride on the most frequently) in the _Super Mario World_ video game; "Green Yoshi" is going to have *_red_* shoes instead of orange shoes on his feet to distinguish himself more easily from the original greenish Yoshi], Blue Yoshi, Purple/Violet Yoshi, Pink Yoshi, Cyan Yoshi, Brown Yoshi, White Yoshi, Gray Yoshi and Black Yoshi - as well as for Boshi and ask the video game developers at Nintendo to make unique animations for each of these 12 Yoshis as well as Boshi for the _Super Mario Party_ and _Mario Party Superstars_ video games! 🙃😈😈😈🙃
*_Seriously,_* I desperately, *_desperately, DESPERATELY_* want Nintendo to release 12-to-13 unique character skins for Yoshi - each one with a unique colour: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple/violet, pink, cyan, brown, white, gray and black - as well as a character slot for Boshi (as a playable character) and have each of them have their own unique voice clips that are/were done by Kazumi Totaka as well as unique winning, losing, etc. animations for the _Super Mario Party_ and/or _Mario Party Superstars_ video games as a free update/paid DLC!!!
we all agree that yoshi is singlehandedly the cutest character in the mario movie
Game Theory theorized that Yoshi may be based on a monolophosaurus!
ruclips.net/video/yhucShIRTcw/видео.html
quit spoiling shit
Oh thanks
@@Vig1232 :)
I can’t wait for the Mario Bros . Movie 2 it’s all about yoshi he is so cute
7:14 so this is where weegee came from
absolutely blows my mind that the classic Yoshi voice is just 2 notes of an electronic synth voice
Does it really sound that much more complex than that though?
@TMCS man you sound like a weeb who just learned like 3 words in Japanese. Saying the same things over and over without stopping
And it worked!
I never knew that Yoshi's voice was pitched up. I always thought it was recorded as is
You thought that somehow......a human made the "blem" noise.........how
Edit: guys shut up i forgot people with high pitched voices and woman exist even though i am one
@@pebble1481 Yeah I thought Yoshi was voiced by a female
@@WigWoo1 *_I KNOW..._* right...?! I'm kind of glad here that Yoshi's modern voice is done by a male instead of a female, because - you know - Yoshi is a male and so should be voice acted by a male (while also sounding *_*ULTRA CUTE*_* at the same time!).
@@StevenVillman I mean the gender of the character has nothing to do with the gender of the person who voices at. Most young boy characters are all voiced by women
I can actually do Yoshi's voice.
10:01 hearing these phrases were initially nostalgic but then hearing it as a man’s voice and over 20 years later is downright creepy lol
Brong gong tibong kapapapu wehavo mmm awawawa imm haaya yeey woah wow hapu yoshi yoshi yoshi
I like how in Super Circuit Yoshi uses his Story voice, while the Yoshi Desert soundtrack uses the orchestra hit 'voice' in its composition.
Hearing Yoshi's voice clips unedited was *so* surreal! 😂
I know right? It almost feels illegal to know.
@x5j94 Yoshi sounds like Alpha 6 from Power Rangers Turbo. Gross!
Sounds like Luigi
@x5j94 That 'yo yo yo' did it...
Puberty hit him like a truck.
With the exception of Mario is Missing, all the interpretations of Yoshi all have one thing in common, the voice actors all just decided he high pitched, cute, friendly voice, so it just evolved from there.
blaw
@@CheezTetris *blaw**
Ironically I feel like Yoshi in Mario Galaxy 2 actually sounds younger than in Yoshi's Story. Maybe Totaka was overcompensating for his age a bit in his delivery or in the effects they put on it. Either way it still sounds great
There's something very endearing to how Japanese producers go out of their way to bring back the same voice actors to reprise their roles for characters they've voiced several years ago.
i like that it was a musician who was coming up with those sounds. It adds a quality to them I think. I'm also glad despite the cartoons, that Nintendo never went the real vocal route with him. He's Yoshi, Part of his whole thing is being a dinosaur and being part of a originally isolated race. it makes more sense for him to have these more basic sounds.
Yoshi's Story also has some songs where the Yoshis are singing, so that may have played a part in it.
That's a good point, I'd forgotten that.
It’s also “cuter” that way. I assume there’s similar reason for Pokemon not speaking human languages (with the exception of Meowth… and a couple of others).
@@vincent67239 I would say that's probably a fair bet.
@@vincent67239 which ones besided mewtwo and entei :o? I've been quite outdated
*Fun Fact:* Andrew Sabiston, the voice actor of Yoshi, is also the writer of kids shows such as _Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That,_ _Franklin and Friends,_ _Strawberry Shortcake,_ and _Max and Ruby._
He also voices Diddy Kong in the Donkey Kong Country TV series.
Dude ur everywhere
@@OreganoParsley and keebe the Kirby plush and the one guy with a digimon thumbnail.
WAS HE REALLY IN MAX & RUBY!?
Franklin as of Franklin the turtle?
4:37 yoshi voice is just so good and funny they should add it back to the new versions 😂
The German Version is really good. But there are 2 Version of Yoshi. The first Version: Yoshi speak like a old person.
On the second Version: Yoshi speak like young person .
(Sorry for my English)
It's fucking awful
5:53 This actually isn’t true, since there was a promotional VHS that advertised Yoshi’s Cookie on the Famicom, and Yoshi had a lot more lines in it.
Yaaayyy, one of the cutest characters are finally getting covered! I do miss most of the old voice clips of Yoshi, but honestly, I think the current one is the best one; I'm grateful for his voice's evolution 🥰
@don't be surprised yessssss
@TMCS nice job blatantly copying the top comment
I honestly feel like the original sound used for Yoshi does sound like his modern voice we know just obviously more compressed. It's not the same sound but I associate them both with Yoshi a lot and they both sound pretty similar.
And Yoshi's voice in the old TV show sounds in line with what I would expect from Yoshi too.
@TMCS Every thread tho?
5:31 thats Chopper too (One Piece)
true
"Now, Yoshi played a very important part in Mario"
Yeah...dropping him down holes to get across gaps 😂
10:37 Is definitely the most satisfying Yoshi sound
MMMMMMMMMMMMMM
kapapabOOOO
Reminds me of Mario kart DS
NO it's :
WOOOOAAAAAAHHH
@@MrLachapell no! Its "blaauh"?
Yoshi's best voice will always be "BLAUW?"
@TMCS can you stop replying the same thing?
@@gustavowatanabe8389 he might be drunk
@@borritoguy2286 a lil too much jack danials?
It's very interesting how creative they got to make the iconic sounds today. 💖
When someone asks me to do an impression of yoshis voice I always do the sound from when he jumps by going "humph!" Followed by "Hoooooooowwwwwwwwnnnnnnhhhhh" while tapping my adams apple. As a 90s kid I always thought the noise you played was like a "dinosaur" noise or something, separate from the voice that came out later. Need to go play some super Mario now....
At 7:42, did Yoshi and Mario really just shake hands using opposite hands? That had to have been the most awkward handshake ever…
DAMN
That “beep-boop” sfx from Mario Kart 64 is what I’ll forever associate with Yoshi
I was actually pretty upset, when Yoshi's Island was re-released on Game Boy Advanced and they actually changed the old voice from Yoshi's Island to the new one from Yoshi's Story. I'm okay with some progress over the years, some things may change. But re-releasing a classic and change some remarkable parts just because it fits newer games is not cool. Let the classics be classic!
I had the opposite reaction. I played through yoshi’s island on gba as a kid, and as an adult I got an snes and was disappointed that yoshi didn’t sound the same as I remembered as a kid.
@@nightzelmods same, I grew up with the Advanced games and it’s just not the same playing SMW when mario doesn’t talk
6:59 this sound will be something I now hear in my nightmares…
I love Egad's voice. Sounds like an indistinct old Japanese man, somehow very soothing.
Yoshi's voice in Mario is Missing is the most 90's voice i've ever heard
YO YO YO BURN YOUR SCHOOL DOWN AND SEND YOUR PARENTS TO PRISON 'CAUSE YOU'RE TOO COOL FOR THAT!
11:22 they also produced him a new voice in mario party 1-3. apparently a whistle. dang it yoshi did you swallow the whistle store again?
I think it would have been cool if all yoshi's had different single sound they made indifferent tones and the different tone patterns were the language. And that original orchastral hit was the main yoshi's noise.
The "blau" sound needs to be Yoshi's neutral special sound in Smash plsssss
😂😂
When you said Totaka wrote the Mii Maker theme I was instantly sold on the dude. That song is legendary. Pretty cool that he's the voice of yoshi too.
6:53 WEEGEE MOMENT
Even if he doesn’t verbally say it and it’s only text dialogue but I like how Yoshi himself is one of the few if only member of his species able to speak English because of how long he’s been around Mario as we see in Mario rpg.
Personally I think they should bring back rad hipster Yoshi from Mario is Missing
Hey, yoshi, say your iconic catchphrase!
“Blaooww”
6:59 blaow
He's also had his voice updated with new sound clips ever since Mario Strikers charged. I think it's more prominent in games like Super Mario Party, Mario Party Superstars, Mario Tennis Aces, Mario Golf Super Rush, and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
And Super Mario Odyssey
There are probably more than enough Yoshi voice clips in all of Nintendo video games with the Kazumi Totaka Yoshi voice for Nintendo to assign them to at least *_*12*_* different Yoshi characters - each with their own skin and shoe colour! (This is one of the reasons why I made the other different-coloured-Yoshis comment in the Comments section of this RUclips video.)
I love this video so much!!! I'm a Yoshi fanatic and fell in love with Yoshi's Island DS, which got me to start looking backwards at all the old games and everything new going forwards. Hearing Yoshi appear in literally anything makes me smile so much. I loved this history lesson!
The last sound man
That scared me, i would've literally thought "wth yoshi are you ok did you just die?"
10:00 this is peak yoshi voice
12:25 Definitely sounds a tad bit older, but it's not bad at all.
Fun fact: Birdo's voice clips are, at least for the most part, modified versions of Yoshi's voice. Considering their implied relationship, that is a pretty cute detail in my opinion. Aside from saving development time by reusing voice clip... It's like Birdo mimics Yoshi's way of speaking!
Wasn't Birdo technically created before Yoshi though?
isnt birdo a dude
EDIT: i was wrong
@@Kiralmao Nope, she isn't
@@TheVillainousSoul oh ok
@@Kiralmao Nintendo always implies it
It’s weird to think that yoshi’s voice is an edited voice instead of a voice impression
Of course it is that particular pitch and speed is literally impossible without editing
what a legend. that man has created so many fantastic sounds
PLEASE do Daisy next! shes my favourite and I feel like she would be pretty intresting to cover as her voice has varied:)
I was gonna say the same thing! Especially because her voice actress voices Baby Daisy too, and that could be touched on. Also, Baby Daisy is my favorite Mario character lol
HI IM DAISY
@@claysonantoons3142 ive actually allready watched your video aha!
@don't be surprised im gonna hurt you one day, bot
Yes I support this!
I always thought the Yoshi sound from SMW was the sound it made when Mario took seat on the saddle. Never would have thought, it was supposed to be Yoshis voice.
Interestingly, in Super Mario Galaxy 2, even though Yoshi uses his updated voice, he makes the classic voice when Mario takes a seat on his saddle!
@@ChrisJohnson-rx7el Interesting, I didn't know that. Well maybe it then was never supposed to be a voice in the first place 🤔
You know that's not actually unreasonable before the spinoffs came out.
Like it could very well have just been the "jungle" for boarding Yoshi, like when you get other powerups
Add New Super Mario Bros. Wii to the sound when Mario, Luigi, Yellow Toad, and Blue Toad take a seat on Yoshi's saddle.
Thanks for these videos! Keep it up!
Love these videos
It’s odd to hear Yoshi’s voice as simple whistling in the first three Mario Party games…
Much cuter than jar jar babble.
I had the same profile picture as you for a while lol
@@odde_617 Nice
It's surprising how deep this video goes. I'm totally floored learning the SNES just straight up had no default soundfont and instead used exclusively samples. Makes sense, I've never heard two SNES games that sound the same.
Soundfonts as a format aren't really used in consoles, I'm pretty sure most consoles (GBA, N64, NDS etc.) just use custom imported samples. The SNES and N64 (and others as well) did have an SDK (Sound Development Kit) that had some prebuilt sounds which were used in multiple games.
Damn, is this the reason why the SNES has so many classic soundtracks? I swear, some of the best video game music, and just music in general, came from the SNES
Does any console have a default soundfont?
@@DuelingPeaks Mega Drive, Nintendo 64, and PlayStation all had one, or at least the devkits included software that held a soundfont already on it
@@aortaplatinum The SNES has one too, but it was only used in very early games.
Thank you so much, it was really so interesting❤
The two note sound is pretty iconic to me. Maybe because I played so much Mario Kart 64
same and mario party 2.
Same
He does that sound in new mario bros wiiu deluxe
Imagine if yoshi's voices wasnt sped up
just a guy on his 30's in the record studio having the time of his life.
12:34 Rip Yoshi
Thomas: Frank Welker is best known for voicing Fred, and Scooby Doo
Me: *MEGATRON!*
My favorite Nintendo Character is Yoshi and I like how Kazumi Totaka’s idea was to speed up his voice to make it sound like Yoshi. I honestly agree that they need to keep those voice for the new games of Yoshi.💚
Ya same yoshi is my favorite
The sound when you jump on Yoshi in SMW I always assumed was more just a huff of air or grunt considering a man was literally *jumping* onto Yoshi’s back lol
I actually recognized the orchestra hit back in the 90's because it was a sample sound on my favorite keyboard
Mario Is Missing really brings back memories for me. Fun fact: I was lucky enough to be the voice of Morton Koopa Jr. in that game! Unfortunately, my lines got cut, but clips of them are still are out there.
Wow! That’s pretty cool
🧢
Ohh I want to hear a clip now
@@vincent67239 ruclips.net/video/RMiPeSV12bk/видео.html
Here you go
That's actually really cool that you voice acted them
HIS FIRST VOICE BROUGHT BACK SO MANY MEMORIES
😢😢😢😢😢
1:09 he must of had it for Millions of years lol 😂😂
Orchestral hits have had a great run, especially Peter Vogel's rip of a Stravinsky stab.
I always liked the Galaxy versions of Yoshis voice. They sound a lot more “Yoshi” like lol.
I hope he records many more clips ❤️ and whoever will inevitably take over his voice should do it with great respect
Yoshi is so precious,those little noises and voices get me every time, he’s always full of joy and glee, how can anyone hate him🥺
Brilliant, well done. Great video. Yoshi is my favourite Mario character and I love his voice. So good. Yoshi!
I always imagined Yoshi with a calm, gentle dude voice in the SMW game. Is facial expression gave me that impression.
0:52: Part 1: Two Notes
4:05: Part 2: The Cartoons
8:20: Part 3: Back at Nintendo
13:32: Credits
6:59: Blough
@@oscarlai9633 lol I came to this comment specifically to put the same timestamp xD ya beat me to it
*B L A O U W*
The fact that Yoshi's sounds completely changed in the games never bothered me because he went from not saying words to not saying words. But when Bowser and DK started speaking out loud I absolutely hated it.
Yoshi DID say words though, just not with any voice clips. He spoke in full sentences from Super Mario World and onward until the modern games for some weird reason.
Yoshi spoke words before Mario ever did in video games.
Very interesting video! I have noticed though that in one recent game where Yoshi is playable (Mario Rabbids Kingdom Battle) Yoshi does not sound at all like the voice we used to and love, but more like a cat. I suppose Ubisoft did not use nor have access to his sound collections.
That second yoshi noise is the one I always think of
Yoshi at 0:26 sounds like someone doing an impression of some sort of a vague, undefined and generic Homestar Runner character from memory!
10:01 that first “prrrong” BROKE me on the spot. Everything after just made it harder to breath.
Great series, I was actually searching for an explanation as to why Donkey Kong sounded so different in many games. Maybe that might be an idea for a new video :)
YEESSSS!! finally what I have been waiting for. I'm glad to see yoshi's original voice :)
This brings me overwhelming amounts of joy. Thank you for covering this. I’m in my mid 30’s and I loved Yoshi’s story, Super Mario world and many of the other N64 Party games up until modern games on the Switch. To see the voice actors of these characters is incredible
Love this guy!This RUclipsr puts in the hard work like 5-8 hours for a 15 minute video. Keep up the good work!
Its definitley more than 5-8 hours per video keep in mind hes gotta research, translate, fact check, edit theres a lot to do
Why did you join 2 days ago
I thought you were Nathanial Bandy for a second.
@@qwertyuiop.lkjhgfdsa are people not allowed to make youtube accounts anymore??
I thought you were real at first
Yoshi’s Story is one of my absolute favorite games. That’s the first Mario game of any sort that I owned. I never knew it was the genesis of what modern Yoshi is.
@1:20 When he said the system wasn't powerful enough but In Super Mario 2, Mario could ride on the Ostrich.
I don't really get the whole "The NES wasn't powerful enough to let Mario ride a dinosaur" thing because the Adventure Island games let you ride multiple different kinds of dinosaurs on the NES.
Adventure island came out only a year before SMB3 so it's pretty probable that the Mario team just hadn't been able to do it how they wanted
And there is a Mario World NES hack with Yoshi
Another interesting fact about Totaka: almost every game he composed for has a little melody hidden in it, simply known as "Totaka's song".
The original sound of Yoshi is still used to this very day
On the whole "nes was too weak for yoshi" thing, it should be noted that the hackrom Super Mario Bros 3 Mix, which can be played in a retail NES/famicon in a cartridge, has a fully functional yoshi in it.
Then again, the mad lad that made that thing made a hackrom in assembly.
Also, holy shit green yoshi is agumon in that anime.
5:10 holy shit not only does one of the Yoshis from that anime have the same VA as Pikachu, the main Yoshi has the same VA as Agumon. Wild.
Fun fact: In the episode The Pi-Kahuna of The Pokémon anime, Chika Sakamoto makes a guest appearance voicing a Pikachu(or in this case, a- Surfing Pikachu).
And the puzzle game "Yoshi" was developed by Game Freak. And Yoshi's story is the first western-released game to include a Pokémon reference.