Favorite International Dub?

[SaiyàBitō]

This is my first topic that I thought of.

I'm not sure if someone else did a similar topic but here goes.

I'm curious of what is everyone's favorite international dub? How did you see it (grew up with it, internet, etc.) and such. Anyone can add more to it if you want.

[kei17]

1. Mexican Spanish dub
2. Valencian dub
3. Catalan dub
4. Cantonese dub (TVB J2)

I like watching the Mexican Spanish dub because of its good cast, accurate script and sound quality. I learned some Spanish before, so I occasionally listen to the dub for the sake of retaining my Spanish skill.

As for the Valencian dub, I like it for sociolinguistic reasons. I majored in sociolinguistics in university and the Valencian dub was one of the main topics in my graduation thesis. It is a rare case of producing an anime dub in a language that is considered both an independent language and a dialect depending on political contexts. Also, it's interesting that it's got some character names kept intact like the Ginyu Force members even though it's based on the French dub. The dubbed songs are nice, too.

The Catalan dub is full of flaws that originate in the French dub, but I feel some kind of passion of the staff in this. Maybe it's because they bothered to dub most of the insert songs. Also, I like seeing how the Catalan people love the series very deeply. It's nicely promoted on TV and the fans are very active on the Internet.

The J2 Cantonese dub (the original DB only) has some really nice voice actors who amazingly sound similar to the original Japanese actors. It's also nice that all the insert songs are left as-is.

[Bansho64]

3.Mexican Spanish 2.Cantonese 1.Korean (Both Champ and Tooniverse)

[Kakacarrottop]

The Hindi dub, only because of the Ocean impression voices and Saban BGM they had in the early DBZ episodes. Most of the Euro and Latin American dubs feel pretty samey to me, and the East Asian dubs are basically just inferior versions of what you get when you watch the show in Japanese.

[gaberparadiso]

I'm sticking with Italian dub: it might have some big flaws, but its voice cast was almost perfect.
Mexican dub is great: its dialogues are faithful to the original version, and overall, I like most of their voices (Goku and Krillin's are really nice, but I don't like Cell's), Brazilian dub is also good, too.
As for Funimation dub, I can't believe how much it has improved. I can't wait to hear Sabat and Schemmel's performances.
However, my favorite dub is the Portuguese one: it's so hilarious, I just love Dodoria's baritone voice and Ginyu's falsetto.

[SaiyàBitō]

For me, it's like:

Valencià dub: Even though yes it's based on the French version, I absolutely like the voices in it (even though they used the Japanese audio like other European countries except EU Spanish dubbing.) And I most certainly adore of them singing into CHALA, Mind Power... KI and such. Sadly, the ending themes for the movies were either instrumental or Original Japanese.
And I never thought of them having the sudden name change for Kakarotto to "Cachalotte" in Movie 5 but I roll with it anyway.

Mandarin Dub (STAR TV China version): Sure, sometimes it can be off synchronization with the video and audio tracking.. I still like it's voices contained in the dub. But, at least the voice acting did improve over the years (with Kai, BoG, RoF, etc.). Kai though was amazing with it's dub I tell you. Well, up to Saiyā-jin to Freeza arc that is and of course Final Chapters. Yet, I still wanna know of that other Mandarin Dub.

Korean (Tooniverse and ANIBOX): The voices over there, just spontaneous! Especially of Son Gokōu's voice. And I love that in the Tooniverse version you have these different openimg and ending sequences from CHALA, We gotta power, ZENKAI Power and We used to be angels with a rather different track for the openings and endings.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

Well English Kai is my default way of watching the show so I guess I'd say modern day Funimation.

I also have a soft spot for the Saban and Westwood Ocean dubs because they are what I grew up with.

[Kuririn Fan]

The terrible Serbian dub, because i grew up with it and it introduced me to Dragon Ball.

[DragonDuck]

I think I've made it pretty obvious in the past, but I'm a pretty big fan of the Danish dub. The voices are great, especially Caspar Philipson's Son Goku, the dialogue is well-adapted, even though it used the French version as a base, and while it has its flaws, such as the fact that it's not even complete, it's one of my favorites - and it's pretty much my childhood.

The German dubs are also pretty good, but I must admit I like the Kai dub quite a bit more than the Z dub. I don't know why, it just feels like they were taking it a bit more seriously with Kai.

Although I'd say the best dub from an objective standpoint would probably bee the J2 Cantonese dub of Dragon Ball. Those voices are just spot-on!

[gregoryluis09]

1. Brazilian
2. Latin American Spanish
3. Korean
4. Valencian

[SaiyàBitō]

1. Mexican Spanish dub
2. Valencian dub
3. Catalan dub
4. Cantonese dub (TVB J2)

I like watching the Mexican Spanish dub because of its good cast, accurate script and sound quality. I learned some Spanish before, so I occasionally listen to the dub for the sake of retaining my Spanish skill.

As for the Valencian dub, I like it for sociolinguistic reasons. I majored in sociolinguistics in university and the Valencian dub was one of the main topics in my graduation thesis. It is a rare case of producing an anime dub in a language that is considered both an independent language and a dialect depending on political contexts. Also, it's interesting that it's got some character names kept intact like the Ginyu Force members even though it's based on the French dub. The dubbed songs are nice, too.

The Catalan dub is full of flaws that originate in the French dub, but I feel some kind of passion of the staff in this. Maybe it's because they bothered to dub most of the insert songs. Also, I like seeing how the Catalan people love the series very deeply. It's nicely promoted on TV and the fans are very active on the Internet.

The J2 Cantonese dub (the original DB only) has some really nice voice actors who amazingly sound similar to the original Japanese actors. It's also nice that all the insert songs are left as-is.

Speaking of Valenciana, I meant to ask something

[ShinGaijin]

1 - TVB J2 HK Cantonese dubs (DB/DBZ/DBGT/DBKai)
2 - Dragon Ball Z Latino spanish dub
3 - Dragon Ball Kai FUNi dub
4 - Dragon Ball Z German dub
5 - Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z Korean dubs
6 - DBZ Movies 1/2/3 Ocean dub
7 - DBZ Ocean/Westwood dub (1-53/108-276) yeah, yeah, I know...so bad, but so good.
8 - Dragon Ball FUNi dub
9 - Dragon Ball Z FUNi dub/Bruce Faulconer score
10 - Dragon Ball "Movie" Harmony Gold dub

But hey, nothing can beat the original, as everyone here at kanzenshuu knows.

[SaiyàBitō]

1 - TVB J2 HK Cantonese dubs (DB/DBZ/DBGT/DBKai)
2 - Dragon Ball Z Latino spanish dub
3 - Dragon Ball Kai FUNi dub
4 - Dragon Ball Z German dub
5 - Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z Korean dubs
6 - DBZ Movies 1/2/3 Ocean dub
7 - DBZ Ocean/Westwood dub (1-53/108-276) yeah, yeah, I know...so bad, but so good.
8 - Dragon Ball FUNi dub
9 - Dragon Ball Z FUNi dub/Bruce Faulconer score
10 - Dragon Ball "Movie" Harmony Gold dub

But hey, nothing can beat the original, as everyone here at kanzenshuu knows.

You're absolutely right on that one.

[sangofe]

Does this topic include DBZ Kai dubs, too?

[Kuririn Fan]

Does this topic include DBZ Kai dubs, too?

Why not?

[sangofe]

In that case i have to say the French dbz kai dub as my favourite.

[SaiyàBitō]

In that case i have to say the French dbz kai dub as my favourite.

Why of course, yes. I certainly adore of the French dubbing of DB Kai as well.

The improvements in the voices, very excellent than before.

[Danfun64]

You know, I have a feeling the German dub of original DB would be more enjoyable if the audio was cut to fit the filler-free fanedit that someone created (forgot his/her name), editing in the Japanese audio and putting forced subs where necessarily of course. Since most of the Frenchisms of the original DB dub come from filler, and combined with the German dub of DB Kai, that is probably the best way to see DB and DBZ in German.

[Bansho64]

I figured that since it hasn't yet been a year since this thread was created, that I could revive it. Has anyone's changed their opinions on their favorite international dubs? Not to mention that we have newer members here to offer their own thoughts. In any case, I'd like to hear what others might think about this.

Personally, I might change my list to this;
5.Italian
4.Cantonese
3.Korean
2.Latin American dub
1.French Kai
This list doesn't correlate to how much I like each one.

[HanamichiSakuragi]

1. Latin american dub
2. Japanese
3. French