"Dragon Ball Super" FUNimation Dub Official Discussion Thread

[DB_Fan1991]

If someone has to replace Chris it should be Greg. Sabat does not need to pander to fans of the old dub.

[DBZ_Lee]

I believe Chris is coming back. He can beat this, I know he can.
If they need a fill in, how about LittleKuriboh? he's pretty close.

[Dpc292]

I believe Chris is coming back. He can beat this, I know he can.
If they need a fill in, how about LittleKuriboh? he's pretty close.

Well he did come up with the voice first technically.

[Scsigs]

I believe Chris is coming back. He can beat this, I know he can.
If they need a fill in, how about LittleKuriboh? he's pretty close.

That'd be great, but could they get passed Toei on it? It'd be interesting to find out since, while he IS a member of TFS, he's only a voice actor in DBZA as the narrator & Freeza, plus Yugioh Abridged is partly hosted on their website, so that'd be interesting to find out. All hed have to do is alter his Frieza voice pitch slightly & it'd be a perfect match for Chris'.

[Dbzfan94]

I'm kinda hoping it's Little Kuriboh, or at least someone who can do a similar voice-match to Chris' Frieza voice. It's not particularly hard to imitate his Frieza voice tone, or accent, if you listen to it enough, but I hope he can continue with doing the voice for several more years.

I like LK but for him to actually play Freeza instead of a parody / joke version he'd have to alter the voice pretty heavily. Plus if one TFS voice bcomes the voice of the character for the dub, we'll NEVER hear the end of it from other TFS fanboys about having the whole cast be dubbed by TFS

[ConfusedPhantom]

If they do have to switch out Chris Ayres, it'll probably go to someone else in FUNimation instead. But, hopefully, it won't come to that. I wish Chris Ayres the best

[Baggie_Saiyan]

Thoughts on this weeks episode? I think this was the god awful Piccolo sacrafice one?

Also AoT marathon next week....yay!!!

[supersaiyandoctor]

Thoughts on this weeks episode? I think this was the god awful Piccolo sacrafice one?

Also AoT marathon next week....yay!!!

I loved it. Schemmel's Goku was heaps intense this week. I preferred his delivery here than in the movie (the lines they reused I mean).

I watched the episode in Japanese last week, so all the changes were noticeable. Vegeta killing Ginyu came across way more ruthless here, and Goku was more annoyed at him killing him.

The Jaco line about Vegeta looking like a villain was changed to "Your husband sure looks scary, I can't imagine the pillow talk". I thought that was quite funny.

[Baggie_Saiyan]

Saw the episode, yeah the episode itself was not great at all. Cracking dub as per usual but maaaaan almost there to the U6 stuff not long left!

[shadowmaria]

Tagging for those who are dub-only;

[spoiler]On a more positive note, I think I've figured out why Goku Black speaks in a British accent.

With James Marsters (a British actor) playng Zamasu, it makes sense that Zamasu's consciousness would speak through Goku's vocal chords with a British accent.

Listening to XV2, it does sound as though Marsters is opting to use (even just a slight) British accent for Zamasu, and Schemmel stated that his reasoning for the British accent was a creative choice that he made.

I've tweeted him about it, but nothing so far (if he interacts with the tweet at all); but I figured this is a great explanation that also adheres to science[/spoiler]

Basically, this makes sense, and it works and I love it, and haters should stop hating if this is the creative choice that the actor has made.

[SaiyamanMS]

Tagging for those who are dub-only;

[spoiler]On a more positive note, I think I've figured out why Goku Black speaks in a British accent.

With James Marsters (a British actor) playng Zamasu, it makes sense that Zamasu's consciousness would speak through Goku's vocal chords with a British accent.

Listening to XV2, it does sound as though Marsters is opting to use (even just a slight) British accent for Zamasu, and Schemmel stated that his reasoning for the British accent was a creative choice that he made.

I've tweeted him about it, but nothing so far (if he interacts with the tweet at all); but I figured this is a great explanation that also adheres to science[/spoiler]

Basically, this makes sense, and it works and I love it, and haters should stop hating if this is the creative choice that the actor has made.

[spoiler]James Marsters is American, he just played a British character in Buffy.[/spoiler]

[shadowmaria]

Tagging for those who are dub-only;

[spoiler]On a more positive note, I think I've figured out why Goku Black speaks in a British accent.

With James Marsters (a British actor) playng Zamasu, it makes sense that Zamasu's consciousness would speak through Goku's vocal chords with a British accent.

Listening to XV2, it does sound as though Marsters is opting to use (even just a slight) British accent for Zamasu, and Schemmel stated that his reasoning for the British accent was a creative choice that he made.

I've tweeted him about it, but nothing so far (if he interacts with the tweet at all); but I figured this is a great explanation that also adheres to science[/spoiler]

Basically, this makes sense, and it works and I love it, and haters should stop hating if this is the creative choice that the actor has made.

[spoiler]James Marsters is American, he just played a British character in Buffy.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]You're right, I've only ever seen him speak with a British accent, so please forgive my oversight.

Never the less, could be an explanation?[/spoiler]

[Scsigs]

You're right, I've only ever seen him speak with a British accent, so please forgive my oversight.
Never the less, could be an explanation?

That's only an explanation in that it's a reference to the role that made him famous. The thing about it is that it STILL doesn't make any sense in-universe even WITH that explanation, though. We're going with in-universe explanations, not just behind-the-scenes, here.

[shadowmaria]

You're right, I've only ever seen him speak with a British accent, so please forgive my oversight.
Never the less, could be an explanation?

That's only an explanation in that it's a reference to the role that made him famous. The thing about it is that it STILL doesn't make any sense in-universe even WITH that explanation, though. We're going with in-universe explanations, not just behind-the-scenes, here.

I'm actually referring to the behind the scenes creative decision made

[Scsigs]

You're right, I've only ever seen him speak with a British accent, so please forgive my oversight.
Never the less, could be an explanation?

That's only an explanation in that it's a reference to the role that made him famous. The thing about it is that it STILL doesn't make any sense in-universe even WITH that explanation, though. We're going with in-universe explanations, not just behind-the-scenes, here.

I'm actually referring to the behind the scenes creative decision made

My point still stands.

[Baggie_Saiyan]

Can't wait for the Black arc to hear more of Marsters! Sabat said not to worry about Goku Black & we'll like it, I trust him and I ain't.

[Fizzer]

[spoiler]I actually love the idea of Black speaking with a different accent to Goku, due to being Zamasu's mind with Goku's vocal chords. British accents for villains may be an overdone trope, but that's because it somehow works really well so I'm not complaining about that choice either.[/spoiler]

Also, terrible news about Chris Ayres. Hope he'll be okay.

If a replacement is needed, I really do think Little Kuriboh, with some adjustment of his Freeza voice (lowering the pitch, mostly), could pull off a good serious Freeza. I love both of their takes on the character.

[8000 Saiyan]

I haven't seen much of the dub yet, but are they dubbing the Goku Black arc now?

[Footlong Shoe]

I haven't seen much of the dub yet, but are they dubbing the Goku Black arc now?

Not yet, they're still on the Freeza arc. They have dubbed the recent Xenoverse 2 DLC, however, which has a lot of Goku Black arc content.

[Baggie_Saiyan]

I haven't seen much of the dub yet, but are they dubbing the Goku Black arc now?

If you mean if they're dubbing and not airing then it's highly plausible they started dubbing the Black arc yes. Schemmel said he was on hiatus and resumed dubbing last month so presumably that hiatus was at the end of dubbing the Champa arc.