"Dragon Ball Super" FUNimation Dub Official Discussion Thread

[Dbzfan94]

You guys think by the end of this year we might get into Champa arc?

You just have to do the math, with one episode per week episode 28 will air on July 9th.

This doesnt count marathons for other series which may push that further back though. (Or a marathon of 'new' Super episodes to get it sooner)

[Baggie_Saiyan]

You guys think by the end of this year we might get into Champa arc?

You just have to do the math, with one episode per week episode 28 will air on July 9th.

This doesnt count marathons for other series which may push that further back though. (Or a marathon of 'new' Super episodes to get it sooner)

Presumably Super will still air at 8pm regardless though.

[Gafonso6]

You guys think by the end of this year we might get into Champa arc?

You just have to do the math, with one episode per week episode 28 will air on July 9th.

This doesnt count marathons for other series which may push that further back though. (Or a marathon of 'new' Super episodes to get it sooner)

That's why I just said 1 episode per week, if you count marathons you'll never know.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

FUNi solicits go up tomorrow here is hoping for Super and it's 23 eps like Kai.

I have a feeling the Super Blu-Rays will initially be more like the original Kai parts and the Japanese releases (without the collectors packaging) with 12-13 episodes per set. Although since Super, unlike Kai is "the thing" now and not a niche product I could see Funimation put out "Season" sets down the line with 25-26 episodes each if sales of the Parts hold up.

[Boo Machine]

i dont understand why this is weekly when everywhere else in the world its daily. obviously in japan its weekly because they need to animate it but there no excuse for it to be weekly in the US. it misses the entire purpose of a shonen you know . kids who come back after school everyday to watch their favorite shows. this was the global ritual that brought dragon ball z into the spotlight. with this weekly they miss the kids audience and are left with the old fans.

If super was daily then we would catch up way too fast. Then we'd be stuck with weekly anyway, because we would have to wait for it to air in Japan.

With Z on Toonami (I'm assuming you watched it on Toonami, correct me if I'm wrong) the show was already long over in japan. So we didn't have to wait very long at all.

I disagree with daily being the purpose of shonen , however I do agree that Super should have been more aimed at the younger audience in the west. Though it might be a good thing it's on an "adult" air time as I can't see other channels like cartoon network or Nick treating it very well these days.

[Scsigs]

FUNi solicits go up tomorrow here is hoping for Super and it's 23 eps like Kai.

I have a feeling the Super Blu-Rays will initially be more like the original Kai parts and the Japanese releases (without the collectors packaging) with 12-13 episodes per set. Although since Super, unlike Kai is "the thing" now and not a niche product I could see Funimation put out "Season" sets down the line with 25-26 episodes each if sales of the Parts hold up.

You realize that's FUNi's marketing scheme, right? For a lot of their Shonen anime they've been focusing on releasing parts/voyages, depending on the show, then releasing collections/"seasons." One Piece started this, I'm pretty sure. First the voyages, then the collections. They then did the same with DBZ Kai & started doing the same with Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhod, Fairy Tail, etc. However, the releases seem to be a collection a year after 2 parts. One Piece Collection 18's out today & those voyages were released over a year ago already. It's why I think they should speed it up to 6 months at the latest for those. I imagine Super's first se will be released a month or 2 after Kat TFC's just in time for summer, then the second several months after, then the "season" set next year. Question is, if they're going to give Kai TFC season sets, but since the parts are 3 discs with over 20 episodes, the parts ARE the season sets already for that series.

[Baggie_Saiyan]

i dont understand why this is weekly when everywhere else in the world its daily. obviously in japan its weekly because they need to animate it but there no excuse for it to be weekly in the US. it misses the entire purpose of a shonen you know . kids who come back after school everyday to watch their favorite shows. this was the global ritual that brought dragon ball z into the spotlight. with this weekly they miss the kids audience and are left with the old fans.

If super was daily then we would catch up way too fast. Then we'd be stuck with weekly anyway, because we would have to wait for it to air in Japan.

With Z on Toonami (I'm assuming you watched it on Toonami, correct me if I'm wrong) the show was already long over in japan. So we didn't have to wait very long at all.

I disagree with daily being the purpose of shonen , however I do agree that Super should have been more aimed at the younger audience in the west. Though it might be a good thing it's on an "adult" air time as I can't see other channels like cartoon network or Nick treating it very well these days.

Yes quite right, I have done some math and Japan is currently on #78, so if Super aired 5 days a week Mon-Fri that means they would get to #78 within 16 weeks. By then 16 episodes would have aired in Japan so that means the dub would then get to those episodes in a little over 3 weeks and by then 3 episodes would have aired in Japan meaning the dub would be all caught up the week after so ~ 20 weeks it would take the dub to catch up, and then a weekly dub aka a simuldub after that would be impossible given the main guys like Schemmel don't live in Texas and guys like Douglas are on a busy schedule so they would have to wait for a batch of episodes and that could be quite a bit of a hiatus, meanwhile the dub here can air every Saturday no interruptions and never worried about catching up to the JPN.

Also if AS were not to air Super at all and FUNi released it the typical home video way then that would be 12 episodes every three months which is more or less the equivalent of once a week anyway.

FUNi solicits go up tomorrow here is hoping for Super and it's 23 eps like Kai.

I have a feeling the Super Blu-Rays will initially be more like the original Kai parts and the Japanese releases (without the collectors packaging) with 12-13 episodes per set. Although since Super, unlike Kai is "the thing" now and not a niche product I could see Funimation put out "Season" sets down the line with 25-26 episodes each if sales of the Parts hold up.

You are quite right was just really wishful thinking on my part so we can power through these retellings. They almost will collect it they do that with every release. I just hope they are able to use the rental DVD covers as opposed to the boring BD ones, or at the very least they can be reversible covers.

[Scsigs]

Everyone realizes that the reason that Z was aired daily on TV was because the shows already ended years before, right? Japan's only a year & a half ahead of everyone else & there's not even 100 episodes yet. If it were being aired daily, not only would they run out of episodes to air without reruns, they'd run out of episodes to dub, even if Toei would let the companies license more than 26 episodes at a time. They'd have to go back to weekly & do a broadcast dub if that were the case, or they'd force them to wait until a certain number of episodes were done in Japan. What they're doing now is smart. Wish they'd air Kai TFC daily though, considering it's all dubbed & ready to go.

Disclaimer: I didn't read the guy above this response's response, as I wrote this as he posted that one, otherwise I would've discarded it.

[Baggie_Saiyan]

Everyone realizes that the reason that Z was aired daily on TV was because the shows already ended years before, right? Japan's only a year & a half ahead of everyone else & there's not even 100 episodes yet. If it were being aired daily, not only would they run out of episodes to air without reruns, they'd run out of episodes to dub, even if Toei would let the companies license more than 26 episodes at a time. They'd have to go back to weekly & do a broadcast dub if that were the case, or they'd force them to wait until a certain number of episodes were done in Japan. What they're doing now is smart. Wish they'd air Kai TFC daily though, considering it's all dubbed & ready to go.

Disclaimer: I didn't read the guy above this response's response, as I wrote this as he posted that one, otherwise I would've discarded it.

Yeah no doubt the once a week airing is actually the best thing especially with Super having no end in sight, plus this means we have no edited dub to worry about as-well, just looking over what is happening in France makes me shudder.

[Scsigs]

Yeah no doubt the once a week airing is actually the best thing especially with Super having no end in sight, plus this means we have no edited dub to worry about as-well, just looking over what is happening in France makes me shudder.

They getting a meckre, or something? If that's the case, that's kinda weird since I read that the Kai dubbing team rectified their mistakes from Z's original dub for the French dub & delivered a great dub, same as FUNimation did.

[Gafonso6]

Yeah no doubt the once a week airing is actually the best thing especially with Super having no end in sight, plus this means we have no edited dub to worry about as-well, just looking over what is happening in France makes me shudder.

They getting a meckre, or something? If that's the case, that's kinda weird since I read that the Kai dubbing team rectified their mistakes from Z's original dub for the French dub & delivered a great dub, same as FUNimation did.

They are censoring almost every punch and cuting out other scenes.

[Dbzfan94]

That's why I just said 1 episode per week, if you count marathons you'll never know.

Yeah I wasn't trying to be smart or anything, was just pointing it out

[Dbzfan94]

just looking over what is happening in France makes me shudder.

How bad is the censorship?? Super isn't nearly as graphic as DB or Z

[Baggie_Saiyan]

just looking over what is happening in France makes me shudder.

How bad is the censorship?? Super isn't nearly as graphic as DB or Z

Really bad they censored the snake fight #1....

[Gafonso6]

just looking over what is happening in France makes me shudder.

How bad is the censorship?? Super isn't nearly as graphic as DB or Z

This is just some of it. This channel has every censorship on the DBS French dub. (Not my channel BTW)

[Noah]

You just have to do the math, with one episode per week episode 28 will air on July 9th.

Oh I see... So we might even get into Future Trunks arc in November, right? Looking foward to it

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

FUNi solicits go up tomorrow here is hoping for Super and it's 23 eps like Kai.

I have a feeling the Super Blu-Rays will initially be more like the original Kai parts and the Japanese releases (without the collectors packaging) with 12-13 episodes per set. Although since Super, unlike Kai is "the thing" now and not a niche product I could see Funimation put out "Season" sets down the line with 25-26 episodes each if sales of the Parts hold up.

You are quite right was just really wishful thinking on my part so we can power through these retellings. They almost will collect it they do that with every release. I just hope they are able to use the rental DVD covers as opposed to the boring BD ones, or at the very least they can be reversible covers.

Yeah, I'd like to see the retellings sooner rather than later, I'm really curious about how the Future Trunks arc will be handled. I was listening to one of Geekdom's Q&As recently and in it he said Sabat told him "You won't believe how good Zamasu's actor will be" or something to that effect, so I'm cautiously optimistic there's an Ayres-level performer already cast in that role. If that's true all the arc will need is for Schemmel to really learn the character of Black to nail that role.

[Baggie_Saiyan]

I have a feeling the Super Blu-Rays will initially be more like the original Kai parts and the Japanese releases (without the collectors packaging) with 12-13 episodes per set. Although since Super, unlike Kai is "the thing" now and not a niche product I could see Funimation put out "Season" sets down the line with 25-26 episodes each if sales of the Parts hold up.

You are quite right was just really wishful thinking on my part so we can power through these retellings. They almost will collect it they do that with every release. I just hope they are able to use the rental DVD covers as opposed to the boring BD ones, or at the very least they can be reversible covers.

Yeah, I'd like to see the retellings sooner rather than later, I'm really curious about how the Future Trunks arc will be handled. I was listening to one of Geekdom's Q&As recently and in it he said Sabat told him "You won't believe how good Zamasu's actor will be" or something to that effect, so I'm cautiously optimistic there's an Ayres-level performer already cast in that role. If that's true all the arc will need is for Schemmel to really learn the character of Black to nail that role.

Whoa did not know that pretty interesting they are looking that far ahead. Sean is a capable actor sure he will use XV2 as a learning curve especially since there was no context.

[Scsigs]

Yeah, I'd like to see the retellings sooner rather than later, I'm really curious about how the Future Trunks arc will be handled. I was listening to one of Geekdom's Q&As recently and in it he said Sabat told him "You won't believe how good Zamasu's actor will be" or something to that effect, so I'm cautiously optimistic there's an Ayres-level performer already cast in that role. If that's true all the arc will need is for Schemmel to really learn the character of Black to nail that role.

I'm just wondering if he's looking towards the future, there's Zamasu DLC coming to Xenoverse 2, or they're in the process of dubbing the arc, just waiting to announce it formally.

[VejituhTheWarriorGuy]

Just thought I'd let you guys know that Sabat said on Twitter that he has corrected the line where Vegeta says he "defeated Majin Buu" for the home video release and likely streaming and any reruns. A translation error from what looks like Steve Simmons' side is what caused the line error but it's been fixed to be about Goku defeating him for home video, streaming and reruns