I thought I should share the good news since there was the fundraiser that helped Christopher Ayres afford the surgery.
Source: Amanda Winn Lee (Twitter)
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Christopher Ayres (Frieza's English voice actor) got his new lungs after being diagnosed with end-stage COPD
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I thought I should share the good news since there was the fundraiser that helped Christopher Ayres afford the surgery.
Source: Amanda Winn Lee (Twitter)
I'm so happy for him. He's so talented, and easily the best Freeza VA. Hope he has new material to work with after he recovers.
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Yeah, there was a whole fundraiser that allowed Chris to afford the transplant. Christopher Ayres' understudy, Daman Mills, filled in for him as Frieza in DBFZ as well as a decent chunk of Dragon Ball Super. Ayres later came back part of the way through the Tournament of Power during the Toonami broadcast & re-recorded the ToP lines that Mills did for the Blu-Ray release.
Damn, I can't even imagine what this must be like to go through. I'd heard about all this a while back so I'm glad he was able to get this transplant.
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Yeah, the original owner of those lungs is the real hero. Either way, this news single-handedly made my day.
We're just biological machines, we got the technology to swap out a couple of our components.
Edit: holy shit I just realized this guy voices freiza. Makes my reference even better.
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It's good to see that Chris is as resilient as his character.
It's amazing he managed to do the TOP and the Broly movie in that condition before the lung transplant. Talk about perfect timing since the dub just finished Super and he should get a good break to adjust before Super comes back.
Yeah, there aren't many performances I find even tolerable in the dub but there's no denying his is fantastic.
Glad to see things worked out for him.
Uh what...
What would be worrying even if we did have the tech right now to lab grow organs? It will save 100,000s of lives a year
This is awesome news. I'm a big fan of Chris and am glad everything has appeared to have gone smoothly.
Wish him well on a speedy recovery!
Wish him well on a speedy recovery!
Was about to post this on here and I see there was indeed a thread. Guess it got mixed with the shuffle of stuff that happened yesterday.
Either way, super happy and wish him a speed recovery. Though, I suppose it's probably gonna be a better part of the year while he recovers (usually 3-6 months typically), but I wish him, his wife, and rest of his friends and family the best and hope to see him back and up in full again!
Either way, super happy and wish him a speed recovery. Though, I suppose it's probably gonna be a better part of the year while he recovers (usually 3-6 months typically), but I wish him, his wife, and rest of his friends and family the best and hope to see him back and up in full again!
I didn't really know of Chris by name, but weirdly enough now that I know he voices Frieza I can totally hear that being Greg's brother. I'm glad everything went well for him!
Happy to see it. Hoping for little to no complications.
I was gonna say it was weird to me for him to be highlighted for Frieza a much more recent role for him but reading Wikipedia I switched him up with his brother Greg who did a lot of voices in in the anime I watched. I really haven't been able to keep up with anime this decade. Though Chris did voice the main guy in Gantz.
I was gonna say it was weird to me for him to be highlighted for Frieza a much more recent role for him but reading Wikipedia I switched him up with his brother Greg who did a lot of voices in in the anime I watched. I really haven't been able to keep up with anime this decade. Though Chris did voice the main guy in Gantz.
I wonder if he'll be able to keep doing voice acting. My sister had a double lung transplant and her voice changed - kind of husky-er and croakier - and even 6 years later I'm pretty sure she wouldn't be able to record lines for hours and hours and do repeated takes of screaming. Everything doesn't just go back to normal after they stuff new lungs into you.
Yes, and I know people on their 2nd and third double lung transplant. I myself will probably need one eventually due to my cystic fibrosis (terminal lung disease that is basically causing my lungs to slowly die due to continued infections, I have about 50% lung function at 35 years old).
I wouldn't recommended it unless you want to recognize the possibility that your body rejects the foreign lungs and opens you up for infection. He's going to be taking medication for a long time, so that doesn't happen.
I'm a very open guy and I don't reject anything.
… Damn it.
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For what it's worth, his girlfriend mentioned that he's gonna be okay
Hopefully this means good news for his long-term health. Though if nothing else, Chris is a S-tier trooper. He doesn't go down easy, as shown by him being able to stick it out until the transplant.