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But yeah, it's likely going to continue to be 1=1. With maybe a few exceptions here and there. I would not be overly shocked if, when the show comes back after the next break, we get some episodes that are faster than that because Toei will surely want to avoid having twenty episodes straight of a ...

The Doctor Who VR game The Edge of Time has a power-up that makes your weapon "rise to power levels over 9000" - although it's debatable whether that's really a reference to Dragon Ball or simply an ancient meme that happens to originate from Dragon Ball. The game's kind of awful, by the way.

A few ...

Yeah but that doesn't mean you need to redo the translation from scratch. You can use other subs as base.


But, unless the subtitle writers are provided with an EDL (edit decision list) or something similar, they would have to go through the original episodes and manually identify every line of ...

@Schmullus1 has posted a comparison of the two printings on Twitter. The only difference spotted so far is the credits, with the most significant change being the addition of the English singers. There are also minor wording/typesetting differences for whatever reason, and the romanisation of ...

At the risk of repeating stuff that you already know, the Pinoeer DVDs don't have closed captions either, but the corresponding VHS releases claim to have them on the packaging ( Closed Captions and Subtitles are distinct features on DVDs. Closed captions generally aren't supported by modern ...

Actually, Funimation used to re-record the instrumentals for everything they dubbed back in the day.


The remastered GT sets came out in 2008, and by that point Funimation were already dubbing the One Piece intros with the original instrumentation. Is there any evidence that Funimation actually ...

Toei wouldn't have given them the stereo audio, as for some reason, even though they HAVE the stereo mix because GT airs in Japan in reruns with it, every home release of GT since the Dragon Boxes has the shitty mono audio.


I'm not talking about the mixed programme audio, I'm talking about the ...

Speaking of GT, I have a theory regarding the infamous "think you know GT" teaser . One of the curious things about it is that they used the actual instrumental for Dan Dan Kokoro Hikareteku in that teaser even though their eventual English cover (recorded for the 'remastered' DVDs) would use new ...

I also wonder if they wanted to avoid mentioning the Lost Episodes marketing for the same reasons that the Rock the Dragon DVD was coy about who was actually behind that edited version. Whatever the reason, it was never going to be more than a curiosity and the 'Bricks' were all quite barebones.

If the actors had been given a pronunciation guide, then what was going on in the Japanese audio would be irrelevant as far as they were concerned. The actors had one job to do, and the translators, ADR writers, etc. had their own jobs to do.

Besides, I don't think they always had the Japanese ...

You forget that names & nomenclatures were already set in stone years before Kai's dub was recorded.


I didn't "forget" anything. The names were well established before the orange bricks came out, and even if they weren't it would still be an issue if half the names changed between the blue ...

I'm just talking Z. The OG DB dub is mostly fine & GT, who cares?


But if you re-dubbed Z 'from the ground up' you would then have inconsistencies with the Dragon Ball and GT dubs. Either that or you'd still have to compromise in some places in the way that Kai 's dub had to. They weren't going ...

The Namekian language gag is pretty funny ngl. Same with the "caressing balls" clip. The Saban dub had more than a few problems but it had panache dammit


Presumably Pioneer would have been behind that gag, as the DVD publisher, right? It's a nice throwback to when studios were, perhaps, having ...

When I think Americanization I think stuff like that, dubs that have an agenda of actively implanting American cultural stuff often in the place of the Japanese cultural stuff.


Yeah, I don't know if Funimation were consciously aiming to Americanize the series, but when you have a group of ...

They've added the missing episodes (alongside Broly and Super Hero). The 'misplaced' episodes from early in the series seem to have been given the 'misplaced' thumbnails intended for the final eight episodes, so that's fun.

The two Super movies, Broly and Super Hero, are coming on 19th June.

It SHOULD be noted that most of the reasons fall on 4Kids actively not caring about it, as Toei essentially forced them to license & dub the series to license & dub a few other shows that they ACTUALLY wanted to get.


This detail is actually a fandom myth. 4Kids and Funimation had a bidding war ...

all of DB's home video releases always include the text:
©Bird Studio/Shueishia


Okay, my original post was a wall of text and I must have made a mistake in the wording when I cut it down.

Yes, the manga and overall IP is owned by Shueishia; the Blu-ray of Super Hero has the copyright for ...

Did the 4Kids dub of One Piece air on Cartoon Network in the US?


In the US, it premiered on the 4Kids TV syndication block and was repeated on Cartoon Network. Apparently the ratings on 4Kids TV were solid but below Toei's expectations. After about a year it left 4Kids TV and Cartoon Network ...

Daima wasn't a manga adaptation and still had the Shueisha mark on it.


Dragon Ball Daima is an adaptation of the Dragon Ball manga. It being a 'sequel' doesn't change the fact that it's an adaptation of said manga.

The anime is distributed by Toei. Kind of like how the The Super Mario Bros ...