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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 ...

But i didn't mention Toei, I mentioned Shueisha and Bird Studio, which own not only the rights to Dragon Ball, but Sand Land as well, so maybe they were the ones behind an agreement with Disney


Toei actually owns/controls the Dragon Ball anime, though. Shueisha licenses out the rights to adapt ...

I think that Fox/Disney no longer holds the rights to the films they distributed, Toei is now handling that.


Based on what? The Broly steelbook from 2025 still had the 20th Century Fox logo on the packaging.


I have no idea why it's on Disney then, might be part of a new agreement with ...

In the UK, there was already an enormously popular version of Journey to the West in the 80s, Monkey (a dubbed/localised version of Nippon Television's live-action adaption), which the BBC had repeated in an after-school slot just before the Dragon Ball anime began in Japan. If things had played out ...

Yellow Flower King wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2026 12:12 am I forgot does this version have Kuu Zen Zetsu Go?

It's The Final Chapters, so the opening, eyecatcher, and recap music use Fight It Out. Is there somewhere else where Kuu Zen Zetsu Go would show up.

Sorry to double-post, but something else I've noticed: the Japanese audio doesn't use Cha-la Head Cha-la or Let it Burn (the Funimation Blu-rays use them, and they're sung in English on both language tracks). I'm guessing that this is also the case on the French DVD?

And, as I mentioned in the ...

It's the same deal as Kai : the uncut version with the Japanese video track and the dubbed opening/ending music replaced with the Japanese versions... except for the version of Genkaitoppa X Survivor which plays over the epilogue. I guess they missed that (Kai's Over the Star remains in English as ...

I suppose this is more of an update than a 'Goof/Error', but on the Wiki's List of Dragon Ball Kai Episodes :

Japanese title cards for episodes 101-103, 106, 108, 111, 113, and 165 have never been released; the Japanese titles have been transcribed from each episode's Japanese audio track.

The ...

Can you check out the title card for episode 99?


As I suspected, it's simply The Final Chapters with several episodes missing (those being 101, 102, 103, 106, 108, 111, 113, & 165). So it skips from Videl wondering who Great Saiyaman is to Gohan teaching her how to fly. And the previews are ...