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

[Freeza Soldier #156]

So, Let it Burn just made an appearance in episode 158 while SSJ2 Goku was fighting Kid Buu.

[G1Ravage]

There's one particular Sumitomo tracks that reminds me a LOT of a particular Faulconer riff. Made me scratch my head a little and question what dub I was watching.

[Freeza Soldier #156]

Interesting tidbit. Even though Funi's original announcement for TFC credited Dameon Clarke as Cell, in the Hell scenes he's actually voiced by a VA named Jim Foronda. Foronda's biggest DB role has been as Janempa in Fusion Reborn. He also sounds nothing like Clarke's Perfect Cell.

[Scsigs]

Interesting tidbit. Even though Funi's original announcement for TFC credited Dameon Clarke as Cell, in the Hell scenes he's actually voiced by a VA named Jim Foronda. Foronda's biggest DB role has been as Janempa in Fusion Reborn. He also sounds nothing like Clarke's Perfect Cell.

So...they didn't get Clarke, or Travis Willingham? Weird.

[OmegaRockman]

So, Let it Burn just made an appearance in episode 158 while SSJ2 Goku was fighting Kid Buu.

Wow! I assume if you received your set early, then! If so, do you mind sharing a clip, even if it's recorded from your phone camera? I know I'm being a bit impatient when I can just wait until Tuesday - I'm just really eager for this dub, so every sneak peek is appreciated! Plus, it's quite intriguing to hear that Let it Burn was used in the series after all!

[Bansho64]

At this point, since the new one's out, I mainly just wanna see any scenes with Gohan in them. He's my favorite character for one and, to be honest, Kyle Hebert has been the absolute highlight for this dub by far IMO. I know he probably made Gohan sound awesome in his ultimate form.

And, IIRC, didn't Sean Schemmel say something about making Goku choke up a bit when he's saying goodbye to his son? Yeah, I know that's gonna be great.

[VejituhTheWarriorGuy]

Interesting tidbit. Even though Funi's original announcement for TFC credited Dameon Clarke as Cell, in the Hell scenes he's actually voiced by a VA named Jim Foronda. Foronda's biggest DB role has been as Janempa in Fusion Reborn. He also sounds nothing like Clarke's Perfect Cell.

Clip?

[VejituhTheWarriorGuy]

Interesting tidbit. Even though Funi's original announcement for TFC credited Dameon Clarke as Cell, in the Hell scenes he's actually voiced by a VA named Jim Foronda. Foronda's biggest DB role has been as Janempa in Fusion Reborn. He also sounds nothing like Clarke's Perfect Cell.

So...they didn't get Clarke, or Travis Willingham? Weird.

Well, Willingham has a busy schedule and can likely only continue the anime roles that he originated before going union and Clarke had to use a pseudonym for the first half of Kai in order to not get in trouble with the union and can probably only do the video games now because they probably accept union and non-union actors

[VejituhTheWarriorGuy]

Interesting tidbit. Even though Funi's original announcement for TFC credited Dameon Clarke as Cell, in the Hell scenes he's actually voiced by a VA named Jim Foronda. Foronda's biggest DB role has been as Janempa in Fusion Reborn. He also sounds nothing like Clarke's Perfect Cell.

That cast list was only for the first few episodes so because of the recap in the first episode, that's why Clarke was listed as Perfect Cell

[Scsigs]

Interesting tidbit. Even though Funi's original announcement for TFC credited Dameon Clarke as Cell, in the Hell scenes he's actually voiced by a VA named Jim Foronda. Foronda's biggest DB role has been as Janempa in Fusion Reborn. He also sounds nothing like Clarke's Perfect Cell.

So...they didn't get Clarke, or Travis Willingham? Weird.

Well, Willingham has a busy schedule and can likely only continue the anime roles that he originated before going union and Clarke had to use a pseudonym for the first half of Kai in order to not get in trouble with the union and can probably only do the video games now because they probably accept union and non-union actors

Well, Willingham has been Cell's video game voice for years now, so I'd expect HIM to be tapped if Clarke couldn't be. Plus, he was at FUNimation over the last few years recording the One Piece dub as Ace, so you'd think they'd schedule an hour of time for him to do some Cell voice acting for Kai since Clarke couldn't.
It feels like it should've been him at the very least...or Takahata101, maybe, but then again, he DOES live in Canada, so... (Obviously joking right there, I know Toei hates TFS).

[VejituhTheWarriorGuy]

So...they didn't get Clarke, or Travis Willingham? Weird.

Well, Willingham has a busy schedule and can likely only continue the anime roles that he originated before going union and Clarke had to use a pseudonym for the first half of Kai in order to not get in trouble with the union and can probably only do the video games now because they probably accept union and non-union actors

Well, Willingham has been Cell's video game voice for years now, so I'd expect HIM to be tapped if Clarke couldn't be. Plus, he was at FUNimation over the last few years recording the One Piece dub as Ace, so you'd think they'd schedule an hour of time for him to do some Cell voice acting for Kai since Clarke couldn't.
It feels like it should've been him at the very least...or Takahata101, maybe, but then again, he DOES live in Canada, so... (Obviously joking right there, I know Toei hates TFS).

Clarke has been back to voicing Cell in the games for years now and Willingham recorded for Season 8 of One Piece at Todd Haberkorn's studio in LA due to time constraints so Foronda was probably their only choice

[Scsigs]

Well, Willingham has a busy schedule and can likely only continue the anime roles that he originated before going union and Clarke had to use a pseudonym for the first half of Kai in order to not get in trouble with the union and can probably only do the video games now because they probably accept union and non-union actors

Well, Willingham has been Cell's video game voice for years now, so I'd expect HIM to be tapped if Clarke couldn't be. Plus, he was at FUNimation over the last few years recording the One Piece dub as Ace, so you'd think they'd schedule an hour of time for him to do some Cell voice acting for Kai since Clarke couldn't.
It feels like it should've been him at the very least...or Takahata101, maybe, but then again, he DOES live in Canada, so... (Obviously joking right there, I know Toei hates TFS).

Clarke has been back to voicing Cell in the games for years now and Willingham recorded for Season 8 of One Piece at Todd Haberkorn's studio in LA due to time constraints so Foronda was probably their only choice

Huh. You'd think that they'd quickly record there for Kai too over the phone to get it done if he really wasn't able to fly out to Texas.

[VejituhTheWarriorGuy]

Well, Willingham has been Cell's video game voice for years now, so I'd expect HIM to be tapped if Clarke couldn't be. Plus, he was at FUNimation over the last few years recording the One Piece dub as Ace, so you'd think they'd schedule an hour of time for him to do some Cell voice acting for Kai since Clarke couldn't.
It feels like it should've been him at the very least...or Takahata101, maybe, but then again, he DOES live in Canada, so... (Obviously joking right there, I know Toei hates TFS).

Clarke has been back to voicing Cell in the games for years now and Willingham recorded for Season 8 of One Piece at Todd Haberkorn's studio in LA due to time constraints so Foronda was probably their only choice

Huh. You'd think that they'd quickly record there for Kai too over the phone to get it done if he really wasn't able to fly out to Texas.

As I said, he's probably only allowed by the union to reprise the anime characters that he originated the voices for and Cell isn't one of them

[Dbzfan94]

Well, Willingham has been Cell's video game voice for years now.

Actually, he was only Cell for Raging Blast 1, 2 and Ultimate Tenkaichi.

[Naruto6583]

Well, Willingham has been Cell's video game voice for years now.

Actually, he was only Cell for Raging Blast 1, 2 and Ultimate Tenkaichi.

Didn't he also voice him in tenkaichi tag team?

[Dbzfan94]

Well, Willingham has been Cell's video game voice for years now.

Actually, he was only Cell for Raging Blast 1, 2 and Ultimate Tenkaichi.

Didn't he also voice him in tenkaichi tag team?

He might have, i never played that game to know. I forgot it existed

[Naruto6583]

Actually, he was only Cell for Raging Blast 1, 2 and Ultimate Tenkaichi.

Didn't he also voice him in tenkaichi tag team?

He might have, i never played that game to know. I forgot it existed

It was pretty decent, basically it was tenkaichi 3 downscaled for the psp. And had a few interesting what if's. But that's about it

[Metalwario64]

I watched the episode of TFC on Toonami the other night, and noticed the sound effects weren't messed up.

[Baggie_Saiyan]

Didn't he also voice him in tenkaichi tag team?

He might have, i never played that game to know. I forgot it existed

It was pretty decent, basically it was tenkaichi 3 downscaled for the psp. And had a few interesting what if's. But that's about it

It was definitely the best PSP game for sure, I didn't really like the Shin Budokai games.

[DHM211]

I watched the episode of TFC on Toonami the other night, and noticed the sound effects weren't messed up.

Chris Sabat tweeted back at someone awhile ago that Funi was aware of the issue. Chances are they fixed it and sent the fixed batch to Toonami and plan on releasing a Kai TFC "season set" sometime in the future that will have the corrected audio.