Back in April, a hilarious quasi-parody commercial for the upcoming Portuguese-subtitled broadcast of Dragon Ball Kai on SIC Radical popped up, bringing indescribable joy and promises of a brighter tomorrow to the lives of Portuguese-speaking fans everywhere.
Turns out everyone got most of what they were expecting. The show is indeed being broadcast in its original Japanese version with Portuguese subtitles, but said subtitles are actually a translation of FUNimation’s uncut English dub, rather than a translation of the original Japanese script into Portuguese:
While the uncut English script for Kai is certainly leagues better than the franchise received a decade ago (at least up through the end of the Freeza arc), these translations bring inconsistencies and changes to the Portuguese script that never existed in their version before. Whoops!
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As funky as this script is going to turn out, I still can’t help but be happy it’s the uncut version. It’ll have Americanisms and bad lines, but I pity every translator who had to localize a 4kids dub; so many puns…
Does the Kai dub get less accurate once we get to the Artifical Humans? That makes me a sad panda.
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The Kai dub is consistently accurate up to the end and is enjoyable throughout. The Freeza arc was probably the worst part of the original Z dub so that’s why he mentioned it.