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I don't think you're correct. I've been told the source of the files I sent were not from Kei. Plus, there's no way for you to know what I sent to Sabat since you haven't heard them. Lastly, how would somebody have stolen Kei's files, or how would Kei have accidentally leaked his own files? The man ...

Sabat has told me that he would like to use it some day in an official release. So if you're looking for 'evidence,' then you can take his personal wish into account. But if you do, then you must also take into account that he does not own FUNimation. Even though he's the voice director of the serie...

No news about the Harmony Gold tape. The guy who works there never got back to me after I left a message. I need to follow up again. But there is good news about the broadcast audio. Another Dragon Ball fan besides Kei sent me some high quality audio captures of the episodes that are much better tha...

Hey, Kanzenshuu folk! I'm happy to announce that Dragon Soul: 30 Years of Dragon Ball Fandom is now available in print ! Several of you have stories featured in the book, and you've been waiting a long time for it to come out. I promised I'd let you know when it was published, and it's finally here....

I might have some free time over the next few weeks to work on this again. I've been busy publishing Dragon Soul, which comes out tomorrow. After the marketing push is over I will be going through my projects list and figuring out what to do next, so I might have some time to dig up the Harmony Gold...

I don't have the time to dig up the Mexican info right now because I'm busy publishing Dragon Soul in print. But maybe in a week or so. I suspect that if it's not listed here by someone else, then it was probably something I gathered through research, such as on the Spanish Wikipedia. To address the...

I appreciate the replies and new information. So please keep it coming if you have something to add. My intent was to use this info in the Dragon Soul paperback edition, so that each time you reach a new country while reading you get a simple breakdown of when and where the series premiered. But it ...

It is true within the relevant context of the monkey character we're referring to, and it's why I said, "Here's the short version." But fair enough. I made a jump in logic and skipped a detail regarding the radical because this subject can get complicated, and I was trying to keep it easy ...

I translate Son Goku as "Monkey Grandchild Aware of Emptiness." Given that Son Goku's name is the Japanese pronunciation of a Chinese name that is bestowed upon the stone monkey by a Buddho-Daoist sage, and it is written in kanji and hanzi, there are many ways to translate his name. To cor...

I called Tommy at Harmony Gold to follow up on the lost tape. He said they checked their vault again and could not find the tape. So... it's gone. However, there is a slight chance that it was actually sent to FUNimation along with some Carl Macek-related tapes for a project that FUNi was putting to...

Dragon Ball is what started me down the path of martial arts to become who I am today, writing about the series for a living. My personal story is several pages long, and I explore it in the intro of the Dragon Soul book, so I don't feel up to writing about it again. But I think it'd be fun to share...

I agree that Kei's lack of communication is strange, and I hope he's alright. To address sangofe's kind gesture of suggesting that fans donate to pay for my flight to Japan, while I do appreciate it, it's an extreme last option, and I want to give Kei more time to come through. I suspect he might ac...

I don't believe there's a legal issue, since the tapes aren't being sold, just donated. And if there were, then Kei should have said something. Whether or not FUNimation can use the audio from the tapes is up to their legal team and Toei. It is possible that he's been too busy to record the audio fr...

Kei did have his own collection of tapes prior to this project, and those are what he used as a showcase for the difference in audio quality. However, his collection was incomplete, and many of the tapes were not as high quality as what he has now. The other fans in Japan refused to donate their per...

Another source is not likely to exist within Japan. The reason Kei has the original broadcast audio tapes for the entire series is because fans across Japan sent the tapes to him. And the reason they sent the tapes to him is because he promised them that he would deliver the audio files and perhaps ...

Nothing new. I'm still waiting for Kei to come out of whatever cave he has entered into. :wtf: He has all of the tapes and the audio, but he's no longer communicating and won't deliver it. I've tried writing to him several times through email and twitter, with no response. Another partner on this pr...

I just happened to come across this now. Is the project still active? I've spent hours, days, sometimes weeks tracking down the planes, boats, cars, guns, and weapons in the series, from modern to ancient. As far as the original Dragon Ball manga is concerned, I've already published them in Dragon B...

I enjoyed listening to this episode and appreciate the breakdown of the differences between the publications. Julian mentioned that there were notes from Toriyama on the sides of the pages that referred to the sources of inspiration for different characters and environments. He said some of these no...

Yes, some of the voice actors do remember working on the dub, but it was so long ago that they can't recall specific details. I think it was back in 2012 that Tommy Yune told me he was headed to a dinner party reunion with a lot of the old cast of Robotech, and in turn, the Harmony Gold dub cast of ...

I called Tommy at Harmony Gold, and he said, "That ship may have sailed." They cleaned out their vaults a few years ago and probably got rid of the tape, as they no longer had any incentive to keep it. That means they most likely sent it back to Toei, where it would be destroyed. But he wa...