Kanzenshuu

And I wouldn't be using FUNi's opinion on who was and wasn't a good choice for any role. They heard Linda Young and thought, "Sure, that's a great choice." I've also heard Gen wasn't that high on Drummond as Vegeta. While I think his Vegeta is cartoonishly evil, he does a great job within...

Since everyone wants to discuss the Dameon thing. No, I don't think it fits at all and I find it hypocritical to call out Don Brown's performance as unfitting whilst giving a pass to something as horrible sounding as Dameon's semi perfect Cell. Calling that version of Cell "silly" is a ve...

I really like them, and they definitely showed especially back in the late '90s that dubbed Dragon Ball COULD be done without replacement scores or butchered scripts full of horrid, corny one liners and bad jokes. It's a shame that FUNi didn't get the hint and proceeded on to in house and put out a ...

Funimation also redubbed Gohan until he attacks second form Frieza, first form Freeza and a few lines in his second and third forms (third has a filter), Tenshinhan, Burter, Guido. Of course Ginyu's lines were redubbed by Brice Armstrong, and Dale Kelly's grunts were left in, which is the only remn...

The redubbing of the S3 episodes for the remastered release was very inconsistent and all over the map, because while you had Sabat redoing his Vegeta (yet at the same time not redoing Piccolo, so that terrible ogre like voice stayed) up to the point in the series where Future Trunks first appears, ...

Yeeeeeeahhhh...that barely (and i mean barely) sounded anything even remotely close to how Horikawa or Nozawa actually sound like in reality. It's like someone trying and failing to do impressions of their voices if they were to learn and be able to speak English fluently as a second language in add...

What I love about this movie is that the enmity between Goku and Piccolo is actually there. It's not "acted out" like later on in the show, or just verbalized, they are actual enemies by the time this movie landed, so them teaming up is a big deal. I would even say I enjoy this more than ...

Pioneer's dub in conjunction with the Ocean cast, along with Z movies 2 and 3 is by far some of THE best dubbing/scripting that Dragon Ball anything has ever recieved in English with Kai 1.0 just behind it. This really shows what the direction for an uncut dub of Z at the time separate from the edit...

Not surprising, but pretty pathetic that Sony/Crunchyroll wants to charge $52 for it. Last time I was at Wal-Mart you could own the complete series for like $25. Glad we don't have to worry about competence just because Funimation got folded into the Crunchyroll brand! To no one's surprise, it's th...

I appreciate that Toriyama realized he can only get so much mileage out of these tournament arcs. If Goku kept losing that would get frustrating (see Pokemon) and if he kept winning that would get predictable and boring (see Yu-gi-oh) winning his third tournament after almost winning his first, and...

Kami and Piccolo speaking an alien language was a great seed that has a great payoff. One of the most interesting things about this moment is when Piccolo starts to hear Kami's thoughts, and Kami has this moment where he blurs the line between the two of them. It's obvious with this foreshadowing t...

Unless i'm mistaken, i seem to recall the edited Toonami broadcast of FUNi's dub of this episode using different lines in the above scene. Apparently the edited dub changed "Giran was a job, your father I killed for fun" to "Giran was a job, your father I did for fun" https://we...

Yes, the first time I heard Sabat's King Piccolo years after the epiode first aired I was just like "Oh, that's just his Vegeta voice" It really did sound more or less the same as Sabat's then current Vegeta performance. (Once he had evolved it out of the awful Brian Drummond impression o...

Tambourine also implies the father bear was dead in episode 106, contradicting the sounds and movements he was making (even in Funimation's dub) that made it clear he was alive and was merely hurt by Tambourine. Unless i'm mistaken, i seem to recall the edited Toonami broadcast of FUNi's dub of thi...

The Daimao arc for alleviating the deus ex machina issue by having Goku go on a quest for the Super God Water and The Saiyan arc for doing a better job developing Gohan's transition from shelterer crybaby to young warrior and giving the Z warriors more screentime to give their deaths a bigger gut p...

Oh god, the first mention of "Power levels" in DB was so awful. Karin asks Goku how he knows where Piccolo is and he says, "I guess you could say I sense his Power Level." I know that a lot of people place a ton of importance on power levels, but is it really the kind of thing t...

Schemmel's Kaio is a throwback performance in every respect, it's one of the few remnants of bygone circa 1999 FUNimation dubbing practices where the cast was directed to more or less imitate the Ocean VA's (because they had taken dubbing in house to cut down costs from when they'd been outsourcing ...

I always liked Junpei Takiguchi's performance as Baba. It reminds me of Ed Asner's Granny Goodness. Agreed, i like Takiguchi's much more than Mayumi Tanaka's. Her Baba literally was and always has been just her Yajirobe voice and even though the character has only made sporadic appearances with Tan...

I always liked Junpei Takiguchi's performance as Baba. It reminds me of Ed Asner's Granny Goodness. Agreed, i like Takiguchi's much more than Mayumi Tanaka's. Her Baba literally was and always has been just her Yajirobe voice and even though the character has only made sporadic appearances with Tan...

Agreed about Linda Young, she definitely fit Baba and old Genkai much better voice wise as compared to how miscast and unfitting she was as Freeza.