Kanzenshuu

Dunno, wasn't that hard for me since, well, Nakao has this thing where he sounds convincingly androgynous most of the time (otherwise just not so obviously male), it's like he was born to play that role. Haven't heard any other male actors who sound like him (in sort of the same manner as, say, Nob...

This post is great and it shows you do have a lot of taste and knowledge. Sorry if I was cold or rude. Not at all, all good! I just like to call them how I see them. I don't buy into that notion some fans have that if I like a dub I am committed to defend any and all performances in that dub on the...

When he was the closest thing to Nakao on the ENG side (which is really the best one can accomplish for the character while also being a man), that pretty much merits all the praise there is. The Shakespearean delivery is also quite equivalent to Freeza's normally polite manner of speaking in the o...

Like King Cold and Frieza? Gero might be a little more anxious once Cell becomes disobedient. I see Cell keeping him alive because Gero feeds his ego. Yeah, actually that works too. I agree that Gero doesn't seem to take disobedience well and may react in such a way as to elicit a severe response f...

Selfishly I would prefer if they tested out a live-action Dragon Ball through an adaption of one of the non-canonical films and not the series proper. If they do Dead Zone and it's great then awesome, they know what they are doing and they can try to adapt Dragon Ball, DBZ or whatever else they want...

Blonde Launch needed to be a DBZ tertiary character the same way Oolong and Puar were. So many opportunities for some clash of personalities with other hot heads like Bulma, Chi-chi and Vegeta. Vegeta and Piccolo got some really good moments in Z and while I think on one hand that was perfect, we do...

I personally think the original Dragon Ball is largely unrivaled for the kind of anime it is. As an adventure story action comedy it's just brilliant and few other series capture that magic for as long and as consistently as Dragon Ball did. But it is impossible for it to not be overshadowed by Z in...

I mean, even the Big Green and Speedy dubs (of the movies in particular), for all their script problems and wonky deliveries to the point of parody vibes, were actually not all that far away from what the dialogue in the original JP version was, and especially with the latter of these, it was mostl...

I am sorry if I am beating a dead horse, but I would rather have you clear up what you truly meant then. Because I actually do have some faith in you. I dont think you want innacuracies for their own sake. Could you explain this to a person who is sympathetic and willing to hear you out? EDIT:Only ...

One question on the audio side is how does the Japanese audio hold up in the funimation Dragon boxes compared to what you hear in the funimation blu-rays (I assume the 30th anniversary releases use the exact same audio track?). Assuming they use the same source and all that but do the blu-ray releas...

This sounds like "it's bad that anime is being dubbed more faithfully". If I'm accurate, then we just have to agree to disagree here. Not sure I like this characterization or the direction the conversation is going in but if that's your takeaway from everything I've said so far, sure. It ...

The score is half the reason why the dub feels like a different beast, because the tone it establishes is very different from what Kikuchi's score establishes (making the show feel more "hardcore" and "edgy" than it actually is among other things); and it wasn't necessary for th...

I've found that dub fans like to conflate the two when dismissing the complaints of sub fans. Maybe this is true a lot of the time but I have found that a lot of the complaints about the dubs are not strictly around dialogue accuracy, plot points being delivered wrong, bad exposition and writing bu...

That's not a universal thing though. Yeah, a lot of people are like that, but not everyone is. I didn't need to grow up Japanese watching it in Japanese to like the Japanese version more than the English versions when I discovered it. No, of course it's not universal, I didn't intend to say it was ...

I think that's awesome, when you open your mind the person who stands to benefit the most is yourself. There are aspects of the original Japanese that I like and appreciate but in all honesty it is not my favorite version of the series. Would it have been different if I grew up Japanese and watched...

I think Dragon Ball and Z were obviously their best work and mostly faultless. Even the filler I think is pretty good by anime filler standards. The Garlic Jr. arc for example does not feel to me like something that far divorced from what Toriyama would write himself. Outside of the fact that it exi...

Reboots work best with franchises that were not very successful originally on their first go around but have the potential to be with some tweaks or simply through re-introduction to a new generation via a shiny new revamp. When you're as successful as Dragon Ball is and has been though the only dir...

I'm sure many others here can relate about the dubs they grew up on. They can be enjoyed with the right mindset and expectations. This isn't a universal experience though. Not everyone will stick with and/or remain found of the version they grew up on/discovered first. Hell, there's people here who...

Not just the main character, everyone. But yeah, that is the gist of it. I'm only around because I prefer characters to grow up, to get older. I tend to stay away from series that don't have this concept. Which is why you see me complaining the hell out of Dragon Ball Super for not aging the charac...

That's true. I still dont think Early Sabat is the sort of wacky of the original Dragon Ball but your overall point is indeed sound. Yeah, I mean fair enough. I know this is a super duper minority opinion and that most people think his early Vegeta is just jarring trash. I think I agreed with them ...