Yeah, I don't know what to make of it. It sounds like whatever they hate isn't related to the show's story, since that's a casual discussion topic that nobody needs to be "given the OK" to talk about. I doubt Bang-Zoom did any re-recording, either, because it would be odd to put more money into a dub that, realistically, relatively few people are going to see.Robo4900 wrote:That would suck.TheBlackPaladin wrote:For whatever it's worth, I'm friends/friendly acquaintances in real life with a few of the actors involved in the Bang-Zoom dub, as I'm an LA-based voice actor myself (albeit not a famous one, as my work is mostly commercials, promos, and non-broadcast narration). A few days ago, one of them posted on Facebook that they "hate" Dragon Ball Super now, and would explain why in more detail once they were given the OK to do so.
In the interest of not getting this voice actor in trouble, I won't say who it is or what role they played (although I will reveal at least that it's none of the voice actors who actually signed up for Kanzenshuu and commented on this thread). However, this actor was very, very, very excited to be a part of Dragon Ball, as this voice actor is a huge fan of the franchise. So, the timing of this announcement from Cartoon Network India, combined this voice actor's sudden change in attitude and their phrasing about talking about it in more detail once they were "given the OK," suggests that something happened behind the scenes with the Bang-Zoom dub.
It could mean several different things. Maybe this voice actor was recast. However, my interpretation--and I stress the word interpretation, here--is that the Bang-Zoom dub really has been cancelled, and the announcement video that TheRed259 brought up may very well be referring to the return of the show in the form of the FUNimation dub.
I'm not sure what to think about this actor "Hating" super... Surely they would already know it was over if it was over, and after the long hiatus since episode 27 was recorded, it wouldn't come as much of a surprise?
Perhaps it is just a recast, perhaps there's some big overhaul about how Bang Zoom are handling Super... I dunno...
One possibility is that Bang Zoom are staying on, but they've decided the quality of the first 27 episodes wasn't up to snuff, so they'll be re-recording the first 27, along with recording the remainder of the 52-episode order, and along with this, some actors have been recast; so the actors that are staying on have to redo all their previous work, and a bunch of the previous guys have been kicked off. That may be bad enough for an actor to come out and say they hate the show now...
...Then again, I can't rule that out either. It'd be unprofessional of me to reveal what Bang-Zoom or FUNimation pay for their non-union dubs (I can talk about the union rates since the union dubbing contract is publicly available for anyone to read), but what I can reveal is that Bang-Zoom's standard non-union dubbing rate is higher than FUNimation's. It seems to be an oddly recurring thing that the TV-only dubs of Dragon Ball that fewer people see compared to the FUNimation dub end up costing more than the FUNimation dub.
As for knowing whether it's over or not, they wouldn't necessarily know that. The only production information that actors know about is info that the producers have elected to reveal to them, and they're not under any obligation to reveal anything to the actors. Let's remember, Tamara Ryan only said that she assumed the dub was cancelled, she didn't outright confirm that it was.
We can only speculate until Super comes back on Toonami India, I guess!
