DragonBall Z Kai - Arabic dub

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DragonBall Z Kai - Arabic dub

Post by TheRed259 » Fri Feb 13, 2015 5:18 pm

The TV channel Spacetoon, available in the Middle East, celebrates its 15th anniversary in 2015 by launching big TV series like Dragon Ball Z Kai episodes (1 to 54) that they recently acquired. http://www.toei-animation.com/en/node/1506
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Re: DBZ Kai - Arabic dub

Post by UltimateHammerBro » Fri Feb 13, 2015 5:42 pm

Oh my. I hope it isn't as butchered as the original DBZ.
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Post by sintzu » Fri Feb 13, 2015 5:49 pm

Kai is a lot bigger then I thought.
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Re: DBZ Kai - Arabic dub

Post by TheBlackPaladin » Fri Feb 13, 2015 10:14 pm

sintzu wrote:Kai is a lot bigger then I thought.
It's interesting to see what countries are picking up Kai and which ones aren't...quite frankly, it's a lot smaller than I thought it would be. So many countries that dubbed DBZ haven't dubbed Kai yet (or, in the case of Portugal, aired a subtitled version, but no dub).

Personally, I'm eagerly awaiting a German dub, if only because they did the best job with dubbing the songs in DBZ, and I'd love to hear a German dub of Dragon Soul.
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Re: DBZ Kai - Arabic dub

Post by kei17 » Sat Feb 14, 2015 12:50 am

Venus, the company that dubbed DBZ, is/was located in Damascus, Syria. Considering the situations there these several years, I doubt that the company is still present. They must have given up dubbing DBZ and Spacetoon decided to start Kai with a different company.

I feel sorry for Mideastern kids whose first exposure to the series is a badly scored version.

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Re: DBZ Kai - Arabic dub

Post by Black_Liger » Sat Feb 14, 2015 1:18 am

kei17 wrote:Venus, the company that dubbed DBZ, is/was located in Damascus, Syria. Considering the situations there these several years, I doubt that the company is still present. They must have given up dubbing DBZ and Spacetoon decided to start Kai with a different company.

I feel sorry for Mideastern kids whose first exposure to the series is a badly scored version.
So it had it's own score? even if it's bad, i'd like to hear it. anyone got a link for it? :P
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Re: DBZ Kai - Arabic dub

Post by sintzu » Sat Feb 14, 2015 1:35 am

kei17 wrote:I feel sorry for Mideastern kids whose first exposure to the series is a badly scored version.
I would have taken that over a 50% filler version any day.
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Post by kei17 » Sat Feb 14, 2015 1:35 am

Black_Liger wrote:So it had it's own score? even if it's bad, i'd like to hear it. anyone got a link for it? :P
Ahh, by a "badly scored version," I mean Kai with the Kikuchi score. Sorry for the confusion.
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kei17 wrote:I feel sorry for Mideastern kids whose first exposure to the series is a badly scored version.
I would have taken that over a 50% filler version any day.
I'd choose Kai if it's at least okay-ishly scored, but it's even below the lowest level, which makes me take Z's pacing over it.

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Re: DBZ Kai - Arabic dub

Post by Black_Liger » Sat Feb 14, 2015 1:51 am

kei17 wrote:
Black_Liger wrote:So it had it's own score? even if it's bad, i'd like to hear it. anyone got a link for it? :P
Ahh, by a "badly scored version," I mean Kai with the Kikuchi score. Sorry for the confusion.
Oh I see, lol sorry. Indeed, I find myself not standing kai's music placement anymore.
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Post by wjbraden » Sat Feb 14, 2015 1:39 pm

kei17 wrote:Venus, the company that dubbed DBZ, is/was located in Damascus, Syria. Considering the situations there these several years, I doubt that the company is still present. They must have given up dubbing DBZ and Spacetoon decided to start Kai with a different company.
Actually, Venus is still around. They dubbed an anime version of Les Miserable just last year and there's been talks that they'll be dubbing more episodes of Hunter X Hunter soon. In fact, pretty much every show on Spacetoon is still dubbed by Venus, so there's a good chance DBZ Kai will be dubbed by them too.
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Post by kei17 » Sat Feb 14, 2015 1:44 pm

wjbraden wrote:
kei17 wrote:Venus, the company that dubbed DBZ, is/was located in Damascus, Syria. Considering the situations there these several years, I doubt that the company is still present. They must have given up dubbing DBZ and Spacetoon decided to start Kai with a different company.
Actually, Venus is still around. They dubbed an anime version of Les Miserable just last year and there's been talks that they'll be dubbing more episodes of Hunter X Hunter soon.
Wow, how are they still operating? Have they moved their office and studio to a different country? Now I have to wonder why they've decided to redo everything from the beginning considering their Z dub was still halfway.

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Post by wjbraden » Sat Feb 14, 2015 3:24 pm

^ I'm not sure whether they've moved or not (I wouldn't be surprised if they did because of all the turmoil over there), but they are still operating it seems. Very few animes are dubbed over there anymore, so instead of dubbing the other 200+ episodes of DBZ, they probably thought it would be cheaper to dub 100+ episodes of Kai. I do have to wonder what the censorship will be like this time around though...
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Re: DBZ Kai - Arabic dub

Post by UltimateHammerBro » Sat Feb 14, 2015 7:12 pm

wjbraden wrote:^ I'm not sure whether they've moved or not (I wouldn't be surprised if they did because of all the turmoil over there), but they are still operating it seems. Very few animes are dubbed over there anymore, so instead of dubbing the other 200+ episodes of DBZ, they probably thought it would be cheaper to dub 100+ episodes of Kai. I do have to wonder what the censorship will be like this time around though...
I'm really curious about it too. Censorship-wise, the DB and DBZ Arabic dub was really interesting. Even though there was quite a bit of information about it in Kanzenshuu, some of it (mostly videos) was offline, and I'd have liked to know more about it.
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Re: DBZ Kai - Arabic dub

Post by TheRed259 » Sun Feb 15, 2015 7:33 pm

It would be really interesting to see if they are going to change the opening again & if they are gonna continue calling Goku ''Gogo''.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJeS-RT0Ji8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eukgNVR9drQ

What is also interesting is the fact that they didn't censor the scene with Krillin's torture like many other countries did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHQekj7lBhU

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Post by UltimateHammerBro » Mon Feb 16, 2015 10:33 am

Well, IIRC, the dub of episodes 50ish onwards is more recent and a lot less censored.
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Re: DBZ Kai - Arabic dub

Post by Theophrastus » Mon Feb 16, 2015 12:52 pm

TheRed259 wrote:It would be really interesting to see if they are going to change the opening again & if they are gonna continue calling Goku ''Gogo''.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJeS-RT0Ji8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eukgNVR9drQ
Wow. That's the first time I've seen a dubbed opening that was actually significantly longer than the original Japanese one. I wonder what the reasoning was here. Did they not have an end credits sequence or something?

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Post by Cure Dragon 255 » Mon Feb 16, 2015 5:27 pm

I think it was because they cut out so much footage they had to make up for lenght.
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Re: DBZ Kai - Arabic dub

Post by Theophrastus » Fri Apr 03, 2015 2:16 am

I can't pinpoint what it is but something about Goku in that image looks...off.

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Re: DBZ Kai - Arabic dub

Post by ChibiGoku » Fri Apr 03, 2015 5:53 am

Huh, they're... using the preview music from Scan2Go at the very end... Which was produced by AniTunes, so...

Hm...

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