Are There Any Updates On The Harmony Gold Dub Of Dragon Ball?

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Re: Are There Any Updates On The Harmony Gold Dub Of Dragon Ball?

Post by MasenkoHA » Tue Nov 08, 2022 1:05 am

JulieYBM wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 12:51 am That was a wild experience. I'm surprised that they didn't try to blend the two films together more, though. It would have been interesting to see them try and combine all three films, too. Oh, well.
I wonder if they had issues with the content. They clearly had access to Sleeping Princess since they inserted bits of its footage into the opening and used a frame of Devil's Hand for their eyecatch. Was something about Sleeping Princess objectionable to Harmony Gold? Or maybe they thought movie 3 was more interesting and just decided to combine that with movie 1 nevermind "Bongo" and "Marilyn "come out of nowhere.

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Re: Are There Any Updates On The Harmony Gold Dub Of Dragon Ball?

Post by JulieYBM » Tue Nov 08, 2022 2:26 am

MasenkoHA wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 1:05 am
JulieYBM wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 12:51 am That was a wild experience. I'm surprised that they didn't try to blend the two films together more, though. It would have been interesting to see them try and combine all three films, too. Oh, well.
I wonder if they had issues with the content. They clearly had access to Sleeping Princess since they inserted bits of its footage into the opening and used a frame of Devil's Hand for their eyecatch. Was something about Sleeping Princess objectionable to Harmony Gold? Or maybe they thought movie 3 was more interesting and just decided to combine that with movie 1 nevermind "Bongo" and "Marilyn "come out of nowhere.
I wonder if they thought that the 'devil' was too suggestive? Or they couldn't make the pilot longer than 85 minutes?
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Re: Are There Any Updates On The Harmony Gold Dub Of Dragon Ball?

Post by Dragon Ball Ireland » Tue Nov 08, 2022 6:29 am

Nice to know we can finally have a definitive presentation for the Harmony Gold dub. Considering how brief it's run was and how long the episodes were lost its a small miracle that it was found.

Much appreciate the hard work of KBABZ as well as Tom_Servo in this lost media saga.
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Re: Are There Any Updates On The Harmony Gold Dub Of Dragon Ball?

Post by Mosaic » Mon Nov 14, 2022 5:37 pm

MasenkoHA wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 1:05 am I wonder if they had issues with the content. They clearly had access to Sleeping Princess since they inserted bits of its footage into the opening and used a frame of Devil's Hand for their eyecatch. Was something about Sleeping Princess objectionable to Harmony Gold? Or maybe they thought movie 3 was more interesting and just decided to combine that with movie 1 nevermind "Bongo" and "Marilyn "come out of nowhere.
I thought it was because of content, namely Goku appearing naked towards the end... but they could've easily cut that out.

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Re: Are There Any Updates On The Harmony Gold Dub Of Dragon Ball?

Post by inninnin » Sun Dec 04, 2022 12:51 am

Dragon Ball Ireland wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 6:29 am Nice to know we can finally have a definitive presentation for the Harmony Gold dub. Considering how brief it's run was and how long the episodes were lost its a small miracle that it was found.

Much appreciate the hard work of KBABZ as well as Tom_Servo in this lost media saga.
Yeah, it's great that the dub was found.

I knew there was a chance (though very unlikely) that the episodes of the dub would come to light, considering that there were a few people who claimed to have recordings of the episodes.

The dub itself is surprisingly faithful to the original source material (besides the name changes of course). It's pretty decent compared to other 80s english dubs of anime (Robotech, Voltron, etc).

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Re: Are There Any Updates On The Harmony Gold Dub Of Dragon Ball?

Post by MasenkoHA » Sun Dec 04, 2022 9:44 am

inninnin wrote: Sun Dec 04, 2022 12:51 am

The dub itself is surprisingly faithful to the original source material (besides the name changes of course). It's pretty decent compared to other 80s english dubs of anime (Robotech, Voltron, etc).
For the movie(s)? Yes. For the tv show? Barely a line of dialog is the same and most of the time the characters are just prattling on about nonsense.

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Re: Are There Any Updates On The Harmony Gold Dub Of Dragon Ball?

Post by inninnin » Sun Dec 04, 2022 9:50 pm

MasenkoHA wrote: Sun Dec 04, 2022 9:44 am
inninnin wrote: Sun Dec 04, 2022 12:51 am

The dub itself is surprisingly faithful to the original source material (besides the name changes of course). It's pretty decent compared to other 80s english dubs of anime (Robotech, Voltron, etc).
For the movie(s)? Yes. For the tv show? Barely a line of dialog is the same and most of the time the characters are just prattling on about nonsense.
That is true. Though I do remember that they butchered Master Roshi's "Kamehameha" line pretty bad in the movie. He did it like "Ka-Me-Hameha.. Hyah!" Like, what the heck?

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Re: Are There Any Updates On The Harmony Gold Dub Of Dragon Ball?

Post by dragonmagico » Mon Dec 05, 2022 10:01 am

inninnin wrote: Sun Dec 04, 2022 9:50 pm
MasenkoHA wrote: Sun Dec 04, 2022 9:44 am
inninnin wrote: Sun Dec 04, 2022 12:51 am

The dub itself is surprisingly faithful to the original source material (besides the name changes of course). It's pretty decent compared to other 80s english dubs of anime (Robotech, Voltron, etc).
For the movie(s)? Yes. For the tv show? Barely a line of dialog is the same and most of the time the characters are just prattling on about nonsense.
That is true. Though I do remember that they butchered Master Roshi's "Kamehameha" line pretty bad in the movie. He did it like "Ka-Me-Hameha.. Hyah!" Like, what the heck?
It's weird and kinds cringey but other than that I pretty much enjoyed the movie combo. But I may be biased since it uses my tape audio.


I do wish we could've seen roshi do it ok the fire mountain with HG dub that's my favorite ka me ha me ha I'm the series

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