Jefferson Utanes, a veteran in the Philippines dubbing industry, has started a crowdfunding campaign on GoFundMe to raise money for his lifesaving surgery.
Utanes worked as dubbing director, voice actor in ABS-CBN, credited for numerous Tagalog dub roles
On July 12th, Elizabeth Feliciano-Teodoro, who is married to Jefferson Utanes' brother, started a GoFundMe campaign with the goal of raising CA$15,000 to cover the cost of a coronary artery bypass surgery for her brother-in-law, who is experiencing heart blockage. Donations can also be made via GCash or BDO by providing their respective phone numbers and account numbers, which can be found in the third Facebook link in the source line at the bottom of this article.
The GoFundMe campaign has raised CA$1,319 as of press time.
In his initial Facebook post from July 12th, Utanes stated that he had been dealing with stage 5 chronic kidney disease for quite some time now, undergoing dialysis for it for over a year. However, it was only recently that a doctor discovered a heart blockage which required a bypass surgery. After obtaining a second medical opinion, it was confirmed that this surgery was necessary.
Untanes was a Tagalog dubbing director at ABS-CBN, which was once the largest free terrestrial television network in the Philippines. At ABS-CBN, he directed and voiced many dubs of foreign content, including anime. Untanes is particularly well known in the anime community for his work on Dragon Ball Z, where he voiced Goku. He also provided the voices of Kogoro Mori in Detective Conan, Hisoka in Hunter × Hunter, Sukuna in Jujutsu Kaisen, Kyon in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Usopp in One Piece, Professor Oak in Pokémon, Artemis in Sailor Moon, and Kōsei Arima in Your Lie in April.
Sources: GoFundMe ( link ) , Jefferson Utanes ' Facebook page ( link ) ( link 2 ( link ) , link 3 ( link ) )
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