Meowth's Voice Actor Passes Away

Sad news in the Pokemon community: Madeleine Blaustein, the voice of Meowth, passed away from an illness last week. She was 48.

Blaustein loaned her voice to Team Rocket's scheming feline from episode 32 of America's Pokemon dub up through episode 421. She was Meowth for the first eight movies as well.

Blaustein's family declined an autopsy, so there's no official statement on what caused her death. She passed away in her sleep after a short battle with a stomach virus.

Blaustein contributed significantly to the voice acting community and has featured in dozens of anime dubs, including Yu-Gi-Oh, Sonic X and One Piece.

Relevant trivia: Most Pokemon in the anime simply communicate by saying their name in different octaves ("Pikachu! Pika pi!"). Blaustein's role was significantly more involved. Unlike the vast majority of his species, Team Rocket's Meowth has a full vocabulary. He taught himself human speech in order to impress a female Meowth. She wasn't impressed.

[TrevorPhillips]

R.I.P may god be with you

[LoVeRSaMa]

"That's Right!"

Sorry, could not resist..

R.I.P ^_^

[Pain]

Dammit!!!!.....

later guy~ was fun~

[buckethead_911]

R.I.P

[PLASTICA-MAN]

May GOD forgive her !

[quen_gta2]

What do you mean by saying that?

[silvacrest]

but seriously, why is this on N4G?

R.I.P

[A HiFi]

I always thought it was a guy who did the voice. She was obviously talented. =( R.I.P

[meepmoopmeep]

yeah, i always thought it was a male VA.
R.I.P though

[Tsalagi]

It is a guy. Well, sort of.

"Madeleine Joan Blaustein (commonly credited as Maddie Blaustein, formerly credited as Addie Blaustein and Adam Blaustein) (October 9, 1960 - December 11, 2008) was a transgender voice actress born in Long Island, New York, United States."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

[Qbanboi]

Yeah me too, but well not shocked at all here, the one that makes the Naruto voice is a girl too, on English and Japaneses, so i'm kinda use to it.

Btw RIP

[Austin_SJ]

That's Right

R.I.P

[ultimolu]

R.I.P.

[billofry]

about time that cat died :)

[LokMessier]

That's cold and not even right...

[hanzthebox]

you are very screwed my friend...

[LokMessier]

Aww man R.I.P.

Meowth always brought about some type of shine to each episode he appeared in..

[panasonic23]

damn they killed her with this lame a$$ show

[LokMessier]

I hope you lose bubbles and get tons of disagrees.
No matter how they died or what they died of shouldn't disrespect the dead that's like one of those unwritten [probably written somewhere] rules.

[ThatCanadianGuy]

He's scum.What do you expect?

[Brian5247]

Even if I am a one-bubble, I would never say something that awful about someone who passed away. This woman devoted her life to making children happy, shame on you.

[Sitdown]

what a lost for the community. Of the top of your head, does anybody know about how many episodes there are currently?

[jay2]

48 no age. RIP.

[LinuxGuru]

=(

[Horny]

that sucks, even though Im not a fan of pokemon anymore I did use to be 11 yrs ago and I appreciate her work.
RIP

[mt]

OMG i am big fan of meowth actually the only reason i watch pokemon is meowth ...

R.I.P

[Blink_44]

Only 48? Thats sad :(
RIP

[Arsenal4Ever]

RIP. :(

[gumgum99]

R.I.P

Hope they find a descent replacement.

This is such a sad loss indeed.

[TheRocker9122]

I'm sorry she passed away but.. this isn't game news at all.

[ShadowX Project]

.

[big shadow]

I feel depressed now. may she R.I.P

[JonahFalcon]

Oh NO! Maddie was a good friend of mine. She'd been looking for work lately.

[JonahFalcon]

No mention that Maddie was born Adam Blaustein, who did a lot of writing for comics like Milestone Media?

http://www.gamestooge.com/2...

[terrandragon]

She was my favorite character...or he, I don't know. He always made the episodes lively and humorous.

[PS3Freak]

421 episodes? wow, i must have missed a couple since i was a kid. RIP

[paul-p1988]

R.I.P, i love pokemon (kinda said being 20 haha) and i gotta say meowth was one of my favourite characters on it