Mario's New Voice Actor is Kevin Afghani

After what feels like an eternity, the world finally learned who Mario’s new voice actor is. Yesterday, Kevin Zachary Afghani made the announcement on his X (formerly Twitter) account. He’s voicing Mario and Luigi in Super Mario Bros. Wonder!

Possible Mario Wonder cast leak datamined from the demo! Thanks to @/Mondo_Mega for compiling this information and posting it on Famiboards. pic.twitter.com/30oW0NYEcW

— Skipper93653 (@Skipp93653) October 12, 2023

As one would expect, this isn’t Kevin Afghani’s first voicing role either. Here’s a list of characters he’s voiced:

• Arnold in Genshin Impact.
  
• Raditz in fan-series Dragon Ball R&R.
• Friday Night Funkin’ Boyfriend, Spike, Cuphead, Detective, and Grunt on Mashed.

Author’s Note: He’s certainly got some massive shoes to fill as Charles’ successor. But hey, going off the voice acting we heard in Wonder? I'd say Nintendo chose wisely, because he nails Mario! I'm also pretty glad they were willing to give someone who doesn't have the world's biggest IMDB page a shot for the role, that's pretty cool. Enough about my thoughts though, what do you think? Please let us know in the comments below!

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I haven’t heard him in anything but I’m looking forward to hearing him soon. And I hope the fans will be kind regardless of what they think of his performance

 

And I hope the fans will be kind regardless of what they think of his performance

Yeah same, I can't imagine how stressful it's gotta be with everyone across the world about to judge whether you're Mario enough or not lol. Going by what we've hard so far though I honestly think he's gonna do great. Couldn't even tell it wasn't Martinet until the "Wonderful!" line, very impressive.

 

Apparently, he was actually born shortly after the release of Super Mario 64, wtf... So young! But I'm okay with that, because I for one, am currently 23 years old, and have been able to do a very good Mario-voice-impression myself ever since I was like 21 (believe it or not), so for the year of 2023, I can definitely see the credibility of a 26-year old being capable to make his Mario-voice-impression sound incredibly similar to Charles Martinet's!

I kinda wish that Nintendo/illumination made Chris Pratt sound like Mario's actual French Voice in that recent Mario Movie, TBH... but that's okay! I eventually got used to his generic man voice, even if it sounds nothing like the video-game Mario (yes, I know that it would be weird to have Mario's video-game voice heard for a whole/entire hour on the big screen, but they could've at least casted Charles Martinet as Mario & Luigi while doing a voice that goes in-between his Italian & Brooklyn accents, I'm pretty sure about that).

I'm gonna stop complaining now, don't worry!

 

Apparently, he was actually born shortly after the release of Super Mario 64, wtf... So young! But I'm okay with that, because I for one, am currently 23 years old, and have been able to do a very good Mario-voice-impression myself ever since I was like 21 (believe it or not), so for the year of 2023, I can definitely see the credibility of a 26-year old being capable to make his Mario-voice-impression sound incredibly similar to Charles Martinet's!

I kinda wish that Nintendo/illumination made Chris Pratt sound like Mario's actual French Voice in that recent Mario Movie, TBH... but that's okay! I eventually got used to his generic man voice, even if it sounds nothing like the video-game Mario (yes, I know that it would be weird to have Mario's video-game voice heard for a whole/entire hour on the big screen, but they could've cast Charles Martinet while doing a voice that goes in-between his Italian & Brooklyn accents, I'm pretty sure about that).

I'm gonna stop complaining now, don't worry!

oh no I’m older than mario