"Dragon Ball Super" FUNimation Dub Official Discussion Thread

[gohan_black]

Here's a taste https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6hHDOSEIXw.
This one's good for smugness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--8rR1zcRcE.

And Here he is as Silver. Mercer is just so awesome!

He's a great voice actor, but that doesn't really sound like Zamasu to me. He sounds too...chill. Zamasu to me is arrogant and I thought Shinichiro Miki captured that perfectly. So if Matthew Mercer does get cast as Zamasu, I don't know how he'd work. Guys, what is about Mercer that would make you think he'd be perfect as Zamasu? Because I kinda don't get it.

hes perfect for the role it just that when you hear a japanese voice actor then no english one can sound like him. but yeha its fairly very close

[Dragon Ball Gus]

And Here he is as Silver. Mercer is just so awesome!

He's a great voice actor, but that doesn't really sound like Zamasu to me. He sounds too...chill. Zamasu to me is arrogant and I thought Shinichiro Miki captured that perfectly. So if Matthew Mercer does get cast as Zamasu, I don't know how he'd work. Guys, what is about Mercer that would make you think he'd be perfect as Zamasu? Because I kinda don't get it.

hes perfect for the role it just that when you hear a japanese voice actor then no english one can sound like him. but yeha its fairly very close

My question is: How?

[Baggie_Saiyan]

Here's a taste https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6hHDOSEIXw.
This one's good for smugness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--8rR1zcRcE.

And Here he is as Silver. Mercer is just so awesome!

He's a great voice actor, but that doesn't really sound like Zamasu to me. He sounds too...chill. Zamasu to me is arrogant and I thought Shinichiro Miki captured that perfectly. So if Matthew Mercer does get cast as Zamasu, I don't know how he'd work. Guys, what is about Mercer that would make you think he'd be perfect as Zamasu? Because I kinda don't get it.

That was the only dub clip of Silver I could find, trust me once Silver got going in the show a lot of what Mercer did screamed Zamasu to me when thinking who should dub him, I will try and upload the scenes I am talking about.

[Noah]

Don't doubt the power of Sean Schemmel EVER!

Don't overestimate him, mate. Sean Schemmel is a great VA and a few times I think he nails Goku better than Nozawa, but unfortunately I don't think he will ever top her performance doing Goku Black's voice, but I hope he'll do a good work.

Yeah Sean said they had no context for XV2 and I think he said his Black in the show will be different.

Pardon, but that's a lame excuse. Is not like he was incapable of watching some scenes of Goku Black in YouTube to know a little better about the character.

[gohan_black]

He's a great voice actor, but that doesn't really sound like Zamasu to me. He sounds too...chill. Zamasu to me is arrogant and I thought Shinichiro Miki captured that perfectly. So if Matthew Mercer does get cast as Zamasu, I don't know how he'd work. Guys, what is about Mercer that would make you think he'd be perfect as Zamasu? Because I kinda don't get it.

hes perfect for the role it just that when you hear a japanese voice actor then no english one can sound like him. but yeha its fairly very close

My question is: How?

he just sound very close to him. the tone of his voice fits perfectly. also. you know only his voice. you dont know in way he gonna talk while dubbing zamasu. zamasu has a very lets say ''special'' way of talking makes him sound like no one else. but this is the best they could have got

[Baggie_Saiyan]

Quickly whipped this up since I was bored:

What if Matt Mercer voiced Zamasu?

What if Vic Mignogna voiced Zamasu?

These are my top two choices!

[mfwlegend3]

Quickly whipped this up since I was bored:

What if Matt Mercer voiced Zamasu?

What if Vic Mignogna voiced Zamasu?

These are my top two choices!

I'm digging Mignogna, definitely. Not feeling Mercer, but maybe it's just that specific voice.

[Baggie_Saiyan]

Quickly whipped this up since I was bored:

What if Matt Mercer voiced Zamasu?

What if Vic Mignogna voiced Zamasu?

These are my top two choices!

I'm digging Mignogna, definitely. Not feeling Mercer, but maybe it's just that specific voice.

Yeah I admit those weren't the best choices for Mercer but I still couldn't find the specific scene where Mercer left an impression on me as a good choice for Zamasu so thought I would use these in the time being, he is a bit too deep yeah I agree but that can tonned downn if he comes to dub Zamasu, I do think Mercer has potential to be a good Zamasu.

[mfwlegend3]

The tone of that Mignogna clip definitely fit how I would perceive a Zamasu moment to be like, but it's a bit too high pitched. If it were a bit lower, it would be perfect, imo. For Mercer, the problem I'd say is that it's too low. We need a nice inbetween.

[Theophrastus]

The thing about using Trafalgar Law clips as examples of what Matthew Mercer sounds like is that the One Piece dub is still far from up to date. Law's earliest appearances in the series largely consist of him being kind of detached and smug. They're like two or three "seasons" worth of dubbing away from really needing Mercer to show any actual emotion as Law.

[Scsigs]

He's a great voice actor, but that doesn't really sound like Zamasu to me. He sounds too...chill. Zamasu to me is arrogant and I thought Shinichiro Miki captured that perfectly. So if Matthew Mercer does get cast as Zamasu, I don't know how he'd work. Guys, what is about Mercer that would make you think he'd be perfect as Zamasu? Because I kinda don't get it.

Well, to be honest, those roles haven't exactly let him show his acting chops too much passed being calm, cool, & collected. It's a lot like Travis Willingham as Ace in One Piece prior to the latest arc they dubbed right before the timeskip. I've heard some talk about not knowing if he could really act the more serious scenes. Mercer is kinda the same way. Mainly what you need for Zamasu is a guy who can pull off arrogance & cockiness really well, then can yell that. Zamasu is mainly those things. If Mercer plays him, he can really sink his teeth into it. On top of that, he really seems like he could use a playing-against-type kind of situation here. That's my thoughts, at least. Don't doubt him until you hear him. That's the main thing here. What would you rather have, an actor who sounds exactly like the Japanese, but can't act for shit, or an actor doing his/her own thing that can act just as well as the original, if not better? That's how I think of these things.

[Scsigs]

Quickly whipped this up since I was bored:

What if Matt Mercer voiced Zamasu?

What if Vic Mignogna voiced Zamasu?

These are my top two choices!

I'd be down with Vic, but they've been making more of a conscious effort to not reuse actors if they can help it for new characters unless needed, hence why Schemmel's going to be voicing Black, because it makes sense. I'd love for Vic to be doing more voices for the franchise, but my money's still on Mercer, TBH.

[NintendoBlaze53]

Mercer I know most for being Kanji in Persona 4, or rather voice matching Troy Baker as Kanji. Mercer has range and is able to almost perfectly voice match Troy Baker, and well if anyone has seen some of Troy's more evil asshole roles from things like Code Geass, Far Cry 4 and Fullmetal Alchemist, if Mercer can get close to how Troy plays those characters. Then we have our perfect English Zamasu.

[Baggie_Saiyan]

Quickly whipped this up since I was bored:

What if Matt Mercer voiced Zamasu?

What if Vic Mignogna voiced Zamasu?

These are my top two choices!

I'd be down with Vic, but they've been making more of a conscious effort to not reuse actors if they can help it for new characters unless needed, hence why Schemmel's going to be voicing Black, because it makes sense. I'd love for Vic to be doing more voices for the franchise, but my money's still on Mercer, TBH.

Sure I can get that and yeah Sean had to be Black from an in-verse perspective. The way Geekdome described Sabat talking about Zamasu definitely leads me to believe it will be a voice actor who hasn't done DB before. With the right direction Mercer would be great. The Trunks arc is where Sabat will have most his directing work cut out, just hope they make Vale ditch the grasp he had in Kai, I don't find it super grating like others but would prefer it not there.

[Scsigs]

Quickly whipped this up since I was bored:

What if Matt Mercer voiced Zamasu?

What if Vic Mignogna voiced Zamasu?

These are my top two choices!

I'd be down with Vic, but they've been making more of a conscious effort to not reuse actors if they can help it for new characters unless needed, hence why Schemmel's going to be voicing Black, because it makes sense. I'd love for Vic to be doing more voices for the franchise, but my money's still on Mercer, TBH.

Sure I can get that and yeah Sean had to be Black from an in-verse perspective. The way Geekdom described Sabat talking about Zamasu definitely leads me to believe it will be a voice actor who hasn't done DB before. With the right direction Mercer would be great. The Trunks arc is where Sabat will have most his directing work cut out, just hope they make Vale ditch the grasp he had in Kai, I don't find it super grating like others but would prefer it not there.

"Grasp"?

[Bansho64]

"Grasp"?

He meant "rasp". As in, he thinks Vale needs to change his Trunks voice from sounding so raspy.

[nato25]

Yeah he sounded pretty off in xv1 but xv2 was a huge improvement I think, like he was remembering it again.

As for that zamas discussion i liked the mignogna clip better for sure. However I think it needs to sound a bit younger. I'm not talking about memes or anything but I think once the va learns to nail how to say "filthy mortals/humans" theyll be able to nail the role.

[Scsigs]

"Grasp"?

He meant "rasp". As in, he thinks Vale needs to change his Trunks voice from sounding so raspy.

It's probably coming off voicing Sanji from the One Piece dub is the thing. He does Sanji with a raspy version of his Trunks voice. Personally, I didn't notice much different from how he usually voices Trunks in Kai.

Yeah he sounded pretty off in xv1 but xv2 was a huge improvement I think, like he was remembering it again.

It's most likely the fact that they didn't have the cutscenes is what was hurting his performance. Even they hate that, since their dialogue, while accurate, doesn't always match the character's mouths. Having played through a bit of the story of Xenoverse, I agree.

[DB_Fan1991]

Weirdly enough Adult Swim went back to using the Japanese version of Hello, Hello, Hello this week.

[VejituhTheWarriorGuy]

Weirdly enough Adult Swim went back to using the Japanese version of Hello, Hello, Hello this week.

Was just about to mention this, something weird must be going on with licensing