If Harmony Gold was more, names still around?

[Super Sonic]

Was thinking lately if the Harmony Gold version had been around longer than it was, even if it was short-lived, would the characters' changed names still been referenced by the North American fandom? For example, know there are several people who refer to the Gatchaman characters by "Battle of the Planets" names and know several Sailor Moon fans who are more used to using the names from the first two seasons' English dub. Know some folks will say the former is an exception due to being "pre-intermenet", but was wondering if the HG version had been around for a year or so, would there still be folks saying "Zero, Whiskers, and co."

[nickzambuto]

Absolutely, evident by the fact that many folks still say Master Roshi.

[Hellspawn28]

Hard to say. We don't know how HG would dub the rest of the series and how popular it would be in the US.

[Adrian Malacoda]

Definitely. People, even here, still use Funimation's names for characters such as Satan, Bra, the GT dragons, Bardock's team, Coola, etc, as well as for techniques such as Goku's teleportation or the Genki-Dama.

Granted, at least in the case of characters, the Funimation name is pretty close to the original. Still, even when it's not, for some people "the official English name" carries more weight than the original name.

[Puto]

The fact that people still use *Hercule*, despite that name almost never being mentioned in the uncut dub, says a lot.

[Im insaneFromEarth]

The fact that people still use *Hercule*, despite that name almost never being mentioned in the uncut dub, says a lot.

So true man, I don't understand it lol.

[Im insaneFromEarth]

Definitely. People, even here, still use Funimation's names for characters such as Satan, Bra, the GT dragons, Bardock's team, Coola, etc, as well as for techniques such as Goku's teleportation or the Genki-Dama.

Granted, at least in the case of characters, the Funimation name is pretty close to the original. Still, even when it's not, for some people "the official English name" carries more weight than the original name.

Also most people spell BUU as Boo. Aslo most people don't pronounce Sūpā Saiya-jin right. (But that's ok)

[superrayman3]

Absolutely, evident by the fact that many folks still say Master Roshi.

Can we really attribute that one to Harmony Gold though considering FUNi also used that name and is how most people were exposed to that name since most people watched the FUNi dubs (1995 and 2003) and most likely didn't even know the Harmony Gold dub existed until many years later?

[nickzambuto]

Absolutely, evident by the fact that many folks still say Master Roshi.

Can we really attribute that one to Harmony Gold though considering FUNi also used that name and is how most people were exposed to that name since most people watched the FUNi dubs (1995 and 2003) and most likely didn't even know the Harmony Gold dub existed until many years later?

Actually my point was that people still use Master Roshi, and that is an incorrect, nonsensical dub term. It doesn't matter which dub people got it from, it proves that the American audience will mostly stick with their version.

Definitely. People, even here, still use Funimation's names for characters such as Satan, Bra, the GT dragons, Bardock's team, Coola, etc, as well as for techniques such as Goku's teleportation or the Genki-Dama.

Granted, at least in the case of characters, the Funimation name is pretty close to the original. Still, even when it's not, for some people "the official English name" carries more weight than the original name.

Also most people spell BUU as Boo. Aslo most people don't pronounce Sūpā Saiya-jin right. (But that's ok)

What is your point with Boo? Isn't it spelled with O's in the sub and FUNi are the ones who translated it with U's? Regardless I spell it with O's because it preserves the pun. Proper romanization and kanji translation and whatever aren't as important as the point and meaning of the name.

[TheGreatness25]

I find the Harmony Gold dub fascinating. I wish that Funimation would just spend the extra $20 that it would take to get the rights to the Harmony Gold dub (come on, how much does it cost to license the thing?) and release it. Put it on their own Funimation app or Hulu, it would cost them nothing. Same goes for the Westwood dub -- just pay whoever you have to to puthe thing up on Hulu or something. It's a complete fascination that I have. Instead of sitting there and saying, "Hmm well this line of dialog is wrong or that name is incorrect," I'd thoroughly enjoy seeing a side of DB that I've never seen before (or seen such a limited amount of). I've seen the "real" Dragon Ball series so many times, that I welcome all these different "crazy" versions of it. I want to see a version where all of their names are different. It's pure fascination.

[VegettoEX]

it would cost them nothing

You must not be familiar with Harmony Gold at all.

We do not and never will have Do You Remember Love? in America because of egotistical bullshit from the dude at Harmony Gold wanting to push his own Robotech rewrites. The protection there is at the level of "you can't have this JUST BECAUSE HAHA!"

[TheGreatness25]

it would cost them nothing

You must not be familiar with Harmony Gold at all.

We do not and never will have Do You Remember Love? in America because of egotistical bullshit from the dude at Harmony Gold wanting to push his own Robotech rewrites. The protection there is at the level of "you can't have this JUST BECAUSE HAHA!"

That's so sad. If I went to their office to give them $10 for the whole thing, that's still more money than they're making on the series. Not much in the way of exposing your work to the general public when it sits in a vault collecting dust. At least if they let Funimation have it, it would promote their work and a new fan base might actually check out their work. As long as Funimation -- followed up by whoever else -- has the rights to the series, Harmony Gold can't do anything with the series anyway. It will never see the light of day again. So why hold onto it?

[Cure Dragon 255]

it would cost them nothing

You must not be familiar with Harmony Gold at all.

We do not and never will have Do You Remember Love? in America because of egotistical bullshit from the dude at Harmony Gold wanting to push his own Robotech rewrites. The protection there is at the level of "you can't have this JUST BECAUSE HAHA!"

I hope you dont mean Carl Macek. The guy isnt evil and is already dead to boot.

[VegettoEX]

No, of course not. Referring to Tommy Yune.

[Cure Dragon 255]

Oh that guy. He's a jerk.

I wonder who owns the rights to the Harmony Gold dub, LOL.

[TheGreatness25]

It could work in reverse and Harmony Gold could try to pay Funimation to be able to release their product. It would really make no difference to Funimation, but Harmony Gold would probably have to shell out a fortune. It's just sad for the fans, you know? I would understand if this was a matter of someone not letting someone else use their property because they'd lose money, but in this case, nobody loses anything. But still, we have to play the corporate politic game. And who loses out? The fans, of course. I'm not one of these anti-corporate America people, but come on. Sometimes you just gotta realize that nobody is going to spend a fortune on your worthless property (I'm looking at you Harmony Gold) on one hand, and if someone uses your property to do their own thing you won't lose a nickel for it (I'm looking at you Funimation) on the other hand.

[floofychan333]

Absolutely, evident by the fact that many folks still say Master Roshi.

That's different because FUNimation used Master Roshi and Chiaotzu.

[nickzambuto]

Absolutely, evident by the fact that many folks still say Master Roshi.

That's different because FUNimation used Master Roshi and Chiaotzu.

That's the point. It proves people do stick with the terms they know.

[Super Sonic]

With Bardock's team, it's kinda justified due to outside of Toma/Tora, they're not referred to by name outside of the credits. That's why I at least use their dub names. Similar thing was with Go-Lion when I did a panel regarding Voltron. We made a joke as we would only use their Voltron names as they were mainly referred to by nicknames in Go-Lion. But yeah, there's that whole legal mumbo-jumbo that keeps Macross Frontier and other things from American shores that the old team wouldn't have had problems with.

[Soppa Saia People]

Definitely. People, even here, still use Funimation's names for characters such as Satan, Bra, the GT dragons, Bardock's team, Coola, etc, as well as for techniques such as Goku's teleportation or the Genki-Dama.

Granted, at least in the case of characters, the Funimation name is pretty close to the original. Still, even when it's not, for some people "the official English name" carries more weight than the original name.

Also most people spell BUU as Boo. Aslo most people don't pronounce Sūpā Saiya-jin right. (But that's ok)

Buu is just as valid as Boo.