It makes sense. Since FUNimation has had the home video distribution rights for the Dragon Ball animes--and likely will for quite some time--I never had any reason to suspect that the Ocean dub of Kai would be anything other than a TV-only dub. After all, the Westwood dub of DBZ and the Blue Water dubs of DB and GT were TV-only dubs as well, so it would be following a historical precedent.SX10 wrote:That's right, they did. I've got to wonder if it was part of some sort of deal.VejituhTheWarriorGuy wrote:Didn't Ocean do the edits for the Nicktoons broadcast of Kai?
My guess is, since Ocean knew from the beginning that their dub was were going to be a TV-only dub, and FUNimation needed an edited version of Kai to air on Nicktoons, perhaps they hired Ocean to make the edits. It would have been mutually beneficial for all involved. That way, FUNimation would have an edited version ready to present to Nicktoons, and Ocean would actually be receiving money for carrying out the edits that they needed to carry out anyway in order to get their dub on TV. In other words, Ocean already had to do the edits no matter what, but rather than losing money by hiring the editors, FUNimation offered to fund the editors themselves in exchange for being allowed to use the edited footage for the Nicktoons airing.
Also, now that I'm thinking about it...Sean Schemmel, in his reply to Subzero Ice's post, was the first one to reveal that the Ocean dub of Kai would have replaced music and SFX (specifically mentioning an instance that he felt was needlessly over-the-top where they added in a "whoosh" sound as Bulma turned her head). For a while, I was wondering how he would have even heard this. I mean, it's obvious how he would have learned about it, he probably learned about it in a casual conversation with Chris Sabat, Justin Cook, or a FUNimation exec higher up on the food chain. He did, after all, ask Subzero Ice how he know about the Ocean dub as it was still supposed to be, to use his words, "strictly internal FUNimation info" at that point...but how could he have heard it, and specifically known about the "whoosh"?
Well, I think we just found our answer to that. If FUNimation hired Ocean to do the edits in exchange for being allowed to use the footage, Ocean would then have to send back their edited footage to FUNimation. So that's probably how Schemmel heard it.