Does anyone know anything about the "Christian dub" of Dragon Ball Z?
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Does anyone know anything about the "Christian dub" of Dragon Ball Z?
So we all knew this day was coming, Dragon Ball is just that one anime that can just never have enough English dubs, and now we know of at least one more.
Fellow Irish YouTuber Totally Not Mark recently brought to our attention there is indeed a Christian dub that was apparently recorded around 2004 by an Evangelical Church as a parody to promote an event they were holding at the time.
This is really bizarre, but interesting nonetheless. As a lapsed Catholic/agnostic myself I had never heard of such a concept, although granted Evangelicalism is a subsection of Protestantism. If anything I would have thought churches would avoid anything related to Dragon Ball or anime in general, but here we are.
God (no pun intended) only knows how many more English dubs could be out there.
Fellow Irish YouTuber Totally Not Mark recently brought to our attention there is indeed a Christian dub that was apparently recorded around 2004 by an Evangelical Church as a parody to promote an event they were holding at the time.
This is really bizarre, but interesting nonetheless. As a lapsed Catholic/agnostic myself I had never heard of such a concept, although granted Evangelicalism is a subsection of Protestantism. If anything I would have thought churches would avoid anything related to Dragon Ball or anime in general, but here we are.
God (no pun intended) only knows how many more English dubs could be out there.
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Re: Does anyone know anything about the "Christian dub" of Dragon Ball Z?
Churches do all sorts of "Hi do you do fellow kids? You like [insert popular secular thing with kids and teens here]? Well what if THEY told you about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ?"
I don't think there's anything noteworthy about this and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of Churches did something with DBZ in the early 2000s to get their message.
I don't think there's anything noteworthy about this and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of Churches did something with DBZ in the early 2000s to get their message.
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From the clips that were shown, I kinda like it, as far as parody dubs are concerned.
Propaganda? Sure. But they seemed to be having some legitimate fun with it, wouldn't mind seeing more.
Propaganda? Sure. But they seemed to be having some legitimate fun with it, wouldn't mind seeing more.
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That is admittedly funny, but if it’s not an officially licensed dub or even a bootleg like the Speedy dub, then as Masenko said, I don’t think it’s anything noteworthy.
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I was about to make the "Toshio Furukawa and Shino Kakinuma are Christians, the Japanese dub is the Christian dub" but then I remembered I loathe it when people say the Japanese version is a dub and I stopped myself lol.
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This reminds me of this another unofficial English dub made by this organization from the U.S. called Boys and Girls' club where one guy from these forums worked at
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Kaioshin Curt's videos would combine dragon ball and bible verses. Dragon ball is so popular that even well stablished religions would consider it.
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Did they dub the entire series? Some episodes? An edited compilation of several different ones?
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Did they dub the entire series? Some episodes? An edited compilation of several different ones?
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I thought of that too!!!!!! Wow time flies.Tian wrote: ↑Sun Jul 09, 2023 2:17 am This reminds me of this another unofficial English dub made by this organization from the U.S. called Boys and Girls' club where one guy from these forums worked at
This appears to be less of a dub and more of a parody/abridged sort of deal. Like a series of commercials for the church or something.
I bet the people who made it had a lot of fun!