"Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters" FUNimation English Dub Official Announcement and Discussion Thread

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Post by rs_chaosmaster » Thu May 25, 2017 10:37 am

Ok guys so here is he comparison video of Z vs Kai. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYtBSpNFcYY I really still think Tipton provides the voice at certain points.

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Post by DB_Fan1991 » Thu May 25, 2017 11:16 am

Tipton is credited as both Trunks & Gotenks on Part 2. I think that this is an error (at least for Trunks).
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Post by Scsigs » Thu May 25, 2017 11:31 am

DB_Fan1991 wrote:Tipton is credited as both Trunks & Gotenks on Part 2. I think that this is an error (at least for Trunks).
Considering they've had that problem with Super's credits, I agree.
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Post by rs_chaosmaster » Thu May 25, 2017 11:54 am

well it is clearly an error for Trunks but Gotenks i am not so sure about.

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Post by simtek34 » Thu May 25, 2017 3:42 pm

It might be. Didn't the Xenoverse credits say that Alexis Tipton voiced Gotenks?

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Post by VejituhTheWarriorGuy » Thu May 25, 2017 3:52 pm

rs_chaosmaster wrote:Ok guys so here is he comparison video of Z vs Kai. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYtBSpNFcYY I really still think Tipton provides the voice at certain points.
That's definitely Alexis Tipton as the Trunks half of Gotenks, comparing that to how Gotenks sounded in Battle of Gods clearly shows that
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Post by Dbzfan94 » Thu May 25, 2017 4:44 pm

VejituhTheWarriorGuy wrote:
rs_chaosmaster wrote:Ok guys so here is he comparison video of Z vs Kai. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYtBSpNFcYY I really still think Tipton provides the voice at certain points.
That's definitely Alexis Tipton as the Trunks half of Gotenks, comparing that to how Gotenks sounded in Battle of Gods clearly shows that
Yeah it's a shame. Tipton as Trunks is great but somethings missing for me as Gotenks that nobody but Laura Bailey could bring

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Post by ShaneisMC » Thu May 25, 2017 7:23 pm

I'm completely loving pretty much everything about the Kai dub and it's living up to what I expected. However if I were to make a complaint I dont know how many of you feel about it but every time I hear Goten I can't help but hear Videl. I still think it's great don't get me wrong but I can definitely tell it's the same person.

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Post by Nejishiki » Fri May 26, 2017 12:26 am

simtek34 wrote:It might be. Didn't the Xenoverse credits say that Alexis Tipton voiced Gotenks?
That's right.

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Post by Metalwario64 » Fri May 26, 2017 1:04 am

I guess Bailey just did Trunks' lines, and after she left they had Tipton do the part for Gotenks.
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Post by TheQuazz » Fri May 26, 2017 3:26 am

And I thought that English-dubbed Dragon Ball couldn't get any more inconsistent. Why did Laura Bailey stop voicing Trunks again? I can't seem to find anything that mentions it.

EDIT: Found this tweet from Chris Sabat regarding the Trunks and Gotenks discrepancy, linked in the Dragon Ball Wikia of all places.
I still find it really weird that the people in charge of the dub would allow something like this though. It would have made way more sense to just get Tipton to voice Trunks from the get-go of Kai, but I guess Bailey was too attached to the role.
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Post by VejituhTheWarriorGuy » Fri May 26, 2017 8:35 am

TheQuazz wrote:And I thought that English-dubbed Dragon Ball couldn't get any more inconsistent. Why did Laura Bailey stop voicing Trunks again? I can't seem to find anything that mentions it.

EDIT: Found this tweet from Chris Sabat regarding the Trunks and Gotenks discrepancy, linked in the Dragon Ball Wikia of all places.
I still find it really weird that the people in charge of the dub would allow something like this though. It would have made way more sense to just get Tipton to voice Trunks from the get-go of Kai, but I guess Bailey was too attached to the role.
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Its pretty strange that Tipton is the Trunks half of Gotenks in Kai because Bailey did it for Battle of Gods which was dubbed after Kai TFC had already started being dubbed but I guess that was because Gotenks only showed up for a short time in the movie compared to how much screen time he has in the show and how many lines he has in the games
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Post by PickleMonster8859 » Sat May 27, 2017 3:59 pm

If anyone wonders how Kai handeled the "Gohan and Vegeta are dead" scene... Here's your first look. Monical Rial's emotional acting was so flawless!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZq4oCh ... e=youtu.be

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Post by Scsigs » Sat May 27, 2017 4:40 pm

PickleMonster8859 wrote:If anyone wonders how Kai handled the "Gohan and Vegeta are dead" scene... Here's your first look. Monica Rial's emotional acting was so flawless!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZq4oCh ... e=youtu.be
That's why I've warmed up to her voice over time. While I like Volmer's voice more, since it's less shrill, Rial's Bulma's gotten better over time, similar to how Bulma herself has gotten better as a person over time.
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Post by 8000 Saiyan » Sat May 27, 2017 5:11 pm

PickleMonster8859 wrote:If anyone wonders how Kai handeled the "Gohan and Vegeta are dead" scene... Here's your first look. Monical Rial's emotional acting was so flawless!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZq4oCh ... e=youtu.be
Wow, Rial was amazing in that scene.
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Post by Kaio_Krazy » Sat May 27, 2017 8:56 pm

Scsigs wrote:
PickleMonster8859 wrote:If anyone wonders how Kai handled the "Gohan and Vegeta are dead" scene... Here's your first look. Monica Rial's emotional acting was so flawless!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZq4oCh ... e=youtu.be
That's why I've warmed up to her voice over time. While I like Volmer's voice more, since it's less shrill, Rial's Bulma's gotten better over time, similar to how Bulma herself has gotten better as a person over time.
Wow, really? I vastly prefer Rial over Volmer, never much cared for the latter's performance and the former made me like the character a lot more. If we're talking shrill though, that's a large part of why I didn't like Volmer. She's nothing but shrill in World's Strongest and it makes it unbearable for me to watch, odd to pick on that one specifically, but that was the best example of her being shrill that I could think of. Not saying you're wrong for your preference, I just find it interesting what makes a good performance for one person could be the very reason another dislikes it.

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Post by Bansho64 » Sun May 28, 2017 12:46 am

PickleMonster8859 wrote:If anyone wonders how Kai handeled the "Gohan and Vegeta are dead" scene... Here's your first look. Monical Rial's emotional acting was so flawless!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZq4oCh ... e=youtu.be
Wow, that's awesome. Monica Rial's Bulma just as amazing as I remember from when I was younger. Especially in this scene. And this might tick some people off, but the original dub scene from Z really made me cringe. It's so.....bad. Tiffany Vollmer really ruined it.

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Post by Dbzfan94 » Sun May 28, 2017 1:16 am

Bansho64 wrote:
PickleMonster8859 wrote:If anyone wonders how Kai handeled the "Gohan and Vegeta are dead" scene... Here's your first look. Monical Rial's emotional acting was so flawless!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZq4oCh ... e=youtu.be
Wow, that's awesome. Monica Rial's Bulma just as amazing as I remember from when I was younger. Especially in this scene. And this might tick some people off, but the original dub scene from Z really made me cringe. It's so.....bad. Tiffany Vollmer really ruined it.
I don't think the Z dub was bad, but the Kai dub knocked it out of the park.

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Post by NintendoBlaze53 » Sun May 28, 2017 3:11 am

The worst part of Vollmer's Bulma is she had the exact same scream/crying for every single thing, there was no variation in her acting for Bulma. Hearing her make the same surprised scream for 400+ episodes got REALLY annoying. And Rial plays Bulma quite good considering a mid 30's woman is well out of her usual typecast.
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Post by veggiechan » Sun May 28, 2017 10:30 pm

Bansho64 wrote:
PickleMonster8859 wrote:If anyone wonders how Kai handeled the "Gohan and Vegeta are dead" scene... Here's your first look. Monical Rial's emotional acting was so flawless!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZq4oCh ... e=youtu.be
Wow, that's awesome. Monica Rial's Bulma just as amazing as I remember from when I was younger. Especially in this scene. And this might tick some people off, but the original dub scene from Z really made me cringe. It's so.....bad. Tiffany Vollmer really ruined it.
Nah, personally I thought the horrible delivery of Videl's lines were what solidified the Z dub of the scene as inferior. Literally sounded like the lines were being read off a piece of paper and not acted.

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