What if there was a Big Green dub of Kai?

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What if there was a Big Green dub of Kai?

Post by floofychan333 » Mon Aug 01, 2016 7:48 pm

If AB Groupe did an English dub of Kai I would assume they would call everything what it is (example, Piccolo instead of Big Green) because I don't think anybody liked the dub much so nobody really has an attachment to "Big Green," "Clearin," or "Space Warriors." I've heard that in the French dub of Kai they called everything what it's actually called so I'm sure since they've used the French scripts to make other dubs in the past they'd do the same thing with Kai.
Still, if they kept everyone as "Big Green" and other nonsensical names, it would be really hilarious. So I'd kind of want them to make another terrible dub just for old times' sake. What do you guys think would happen? Would you want an accurate and non-terrible dub or a wretchedly bad inaccurate dub for laughs?
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Re: What if there was a Big Green dub of Kai?

Post by Cure Dragon 255 » Mon Aug 01, 2016 8:48 pm

I bet it could start being dubbed right now and still come out before the Ocean Kai dub.
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Re: What if there was a Big Green dub of Kai?

Post by Danfun64 » Mon Aug 01, 2016 9:45 pm

Worst case scenario, a hypothetical Big Green dub of Kai would use either the French or the Funi (!) script of Kai with the old French names (ALA Catalan Kai). The acting may still be bad, but the script won't be a mess. Who knows, the Big Green cast might act vastly superior in this hypothetical Kai dub compared to the dubs of the movies and specials, as they might have better direction and not be forced to talkveryquicklyallinonesentencelikethis.
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Re: What if there was a Big Green dub of Kai?

Post by Dragon Ball Ireland » Tue Aug 02, 2016 5:38 am

Meh, the Big Green dub had its time. If Ocean Kai is never released there's no need for alternate Kai dubs when we already have the amazing Funimation version.
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Re: What if there was a Big Green dub of Kai?

Post by SaintEvolution » Wed Aug 03, 2016 4:58 pm

Danfun64 wrote:Worst case scenario, a hypothetical Big Green dub of Kai would use either the French or the Funi (!) script of Kai with the old French names (ALA Catalan Kai). The acting may still be bad, but the script won't be a mess. Who knows, the Big Green cast might act vastly superior in this hypothetical Kai dub compared to the dubs of the movies and specials, as they might have better direction and not be forced to talkveryquicklyallinonesentencelikethis.
Galician Kai also still use the old terms, excepting for "Space Warriors", that are now called "Saiyans", but they still use "Onda Vital" instead of "Kamehameha" for example.

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Re: What if there was a Big Green dub of Kai?

Post by Danfun64 » Thu Aug 04, 2016 12:39 am

Is Piccolo still "Satan's Little Heart"? In other words, terms from the DB dub are kept but terms new to DBZ, or terms not named in the DB dub at all, are translated properly?
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