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Pros and cons of each Dragon Ball dub (that you’ve seen)

Post by MasenkoHA » Thu Feb 21, 2019 7:30 pm

Harmony Gold Dragon Ball

Pros:
Hey I know most of those voices!
Keeping the music in an 80s kids cartoon english dub

Cons:
Bongo? Zero?

Dragon Ball 1995 dub

Pros:
Mostly good voice acting
Catchy 90s kids cartoon theme

Cons:
I realize they had to censor the series for Saturday Morning syndication but some of the censorship rendered certain scenes incoherent.

Dragon Ball 2001 dub
Pros:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BT1Dp69D7q0

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-i9mUSxq7Kg

Cons:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qym9fKhhY8c


Dragon Ball Z Funi/Ocean collab dub
Pros:
Good voice acting.
Pioneer movies are how the entire series (DB,Z, GT) should have been dubbed

Cons:
Too bad it’s sunday, I can see their parachutes in the next dimension. It will give them something to think about.


DBZ in-house Funi dub original audio
Pros:
Don’t piss off the God of love!

Holy cosmos that’s a whopper of a lizard!

It must be my diet. I eat a lot of wholesome foods

That’s right boys. Mondo cool!

Some of the Faulconer pieces were dope.


Cons:
I mean...does it need to be said?

Dragon Ball Z Westwood dub

Pros:
Ocean actors are back.


Cons:
The portion of the English dub that most needed the Ocean cast as an alternate to the Funi cast doesn’t exist


Going from Peter Kelamis to Kirby Marrow and Saffron Henderson to Jillian Michaels were downgrades. (And yet nowhere near as bad as Henderson to Nadolny)

Some of the voice direction was WTF? Android 16 comes to mind.

Funimation redub/remastered dub/definitive version

Pros:
Having the Kikuchi music not only be an option but the default was needed. And it was nice fans attached to the Johnson/Faulconer stuff could still have it

Cons:
The phrase “go all the way or go home” comes to mind with regards to this set’s approach at redubbing

That God awful cheap sounding opening that plays even when you’re watching with the Japanese music. They couldn’t do a cover of Head Cha la because....?

Kai
Pros:
All around better dub. Acting, casting, dialog, etc

Cons:
Funimation’s legacy casting approach still brought it down

Funimation still can’t acknowledge Piccolo being a demon or the existence of Ki.


Funi GT
Pros:


Cons:
Menza makes Faulconer music look good

You were making baby steps with Dragon Ball dub. The hell happened Funi?

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Re: Pros and cons of each Dragon Ball dub (that you’ve seen)

Post by SuperSaiyaManZ94 » Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:31 pm

Harmony Gold dub (1989-???)

Pros: Decent voice acting, original score

Cons: Absolutely bizarre name changes (Zero, Bongo, Whisker the Wonder Cat.etc)


BLT/FUNi DB dub (1995)

Pros: Good acting, ok replacement score

Cons: Laughably bad paint edits, certain scenes butchered and edited to the point of plots being lost in translation.


FUNi in house dub (2001-2003)

Pros: Original score retained, semi better acting than Z.

Cons: Still rough in places in terms of acting, not the truly uncut dub it's claimed to be.


FUNi/Saban/Pioneer dub (1996-1998)

Pros: Decent acting, especially Z movies 1-3.

Cons: Some of the censorship is the stuff of legends (next dimension, Home for Infinite Losers.etc)


FUNi Z in house original dub (1999-2003)

Pros: Some of the cheesy lines are quotable and pretty funny.

Cons: Everything else about the dub, 'nuff said.


Westwood alternate dub (2000-2002)

Pros: Ocean cast's acting good albeit inconsistently.

Cons: Ginyu through Trunk's arrival not dubbed, crappy voice direction of times.


FUNi Orange Brick re dub (2007-2009)

Pros: Redubbed voices somewhat better than original dub, Kikuchi score finally placed as priority over dub score and Johnson/Faulconer score for those fans.

Cons: Inconsistent re dubbing, terrible rock instrumental on dub with Japanese music.


Z Kai (2010-2017)

Pros: Best of FUNi's cast's dub work by far, much more faithful to source than old dub in just about every way.

Cons: Inconsistent applications of original attack names and pronunciations, some less than great dub cast holdovers remaining.


FUNi GT (2003-2005)

Pros: Drawing a blank here

Cons: Just about everything (Music, direction.etc)
DB collection related goals as of now:

1.) Find decent priced copy of Dragon Box Z Vol. 4 (Done)

2.) Collect rest of manga

3.) Get rest of Daizenshuu (2-7)

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Re: Pros and cons of each Dragon Ball dub (that you’ve seen)

Post by Tian » Fri Feb 22, 2019 1:23 am

It can be any language dub or just English?

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Re: Pros and cons of each Dragon Ball dub (that you’ve seen)

Post by MasenkoHA » Fri Feb 22, 2019 1:35 am

Tian wrote:It can be any language dub or just English?
Any language dub. :)

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