Cynthia Cranz

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Cynthia Cranz
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Cranz at the 2019 Dallas Comic Show.
OccupationVoice actress
Years active1999–present

Cynthia Cranz is an American voice actress. She is best known as the teenage and adult voice of Chi-Chi in the Dragon Ball series, [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] Botan in Yu Yu Hakusho , [8] Pipimi in Pop Team Epic from Ep. 11A, Mitzi Nohara in Shin-chan , and Mitch Tennison in Case Closed .

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