"Dragon Ball Super" FUNimation Dub Official Discussion Thread

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

Do we know if Funimation will release boxsets/DVDs before toonami shows them? I remember buying the VHSs and watching the episodes well before toonami showed them

Things are different compare to 15-20 years ago. It seems like Toonami wants to air the show first before we get the home video releases. I remember Akame Ga Kill didn't get a Blu-Ray and DVD release like a week before it end on Toonami. So maybe during the summer, we will see Season 1 of Super on DVD and Blu-Ray.

I'd say its more a case of TOEI wanting Super on TV first as they are very stringent on TV deals, which is a shame because if they weren't we would have got the Buu saga of Kai on home video ages ago as Kai was doing well on Toonami despite already being widely available.

Seen as how the Kai Buu saga appears to be coming out in April, May and June I strongly suspect we will see Super Part 1 in July or August at latest.

[Baggie_Saiyan]

Do we know if Funimation will release boxsets/DVDs before toonami shows them? I remember buying the VHSs and watching the episodes well before toonami showed them

Things are different compare to 15-20 years ago. It seems like Toonami wants to air the show first before we get the home video releases. I remember Akame Ga Kill didn't get a Blu-Ray and DVD release like a week before it end on Toonami. So maybe during the summer, we will see Season 1 of Super on DVD and Blu-Ray.

I'd say its more a case of TOEI wanting Super on TV first as they are very stringent on TV deals, which is a shame because if they weren't we would have got the Buu saga of Kai on home video ages ago as Kai was doing well on Toonami despite already being widely available.

Seen as how the Kai Buu saga appears to be coming out in April, May and June I strongly suspect we will see Super Part 1 in July or August at latest.

Yup MangaUK said that when Super started, Toei were hard pressing for a TV Deal before even considering a home video release. The fact that Kai is coming out so soon on BD after the just being aired pretty much confirms this that was the case for Kai, and we know Buu Kai wasn't done when Toonami got Kai, so it has been a long wait!

[Scsigs]

Yup MangaUK said that when Super started, Toei were hard pressing for a TV Deal before even considering a home video release. The fact that Kai is coming out so soon on BD after the just being aired pretty much confirms this that was the case for Kai, and we know Buu Kai wasn't done when Toonami got Kai, so it has been a long wait!

Well, let's look at the timeline of events that most likely went down with the rest of Kai & a bit of Super.

2013: Battle of Gods came out in Japan.
It was announced that they were putting the rest of Kai together specifically for overseas releases. The editing most likely took a few weeks to maybe a month, as the editors contracted most likely had to read the manga volume by volume to see what was needed to be cut out, like the ones before them. They left a few filler bits in here & there to equal out the episode's runtimes, since most Kai episodes are 2-3 manga chapters a piece, but still have to find a logical place to start & end each episode, even with the recaps.
The first 3 arcs also started airing on Toonami uncut.

2014: At some point between the announcement of Kai & this year, Sean Schemmel & Kyle Hebert, I think, announced that they'd started recording their parts, but FUNi didn't announce anything. This was most likely because of the fact that due to it taking 98 weeks to run them all, it was going to be nearly 2 years to rerun all of the stuff, & with Toei's policies in place with Dragon Ball, they needed air time for the episodes before they announced it. Hence why other countries got it before we did, they had air times for it, but they were still working on the dub at FUNi for when they could finally air & release the episodes.
Battle of Gods finally got dubbed & released here in the states.
Kai TFC started airing in Japan in Toriko's timeslot due to it getting cancelled unexpectedly & Toei needing something to replace it quick, or they'd lose the timeslot. Because THAT'S how Japanese TV stations work, folks!

2015: Resurrection F gets its release, disappoints Vegeta fans everywhere.
Kai TFC ends in August & Super starts airing in its place. Over these last few years, Kai TFC was getting dubbed while the first part aired on Toonami uncut.

2016: Sean Schemmel says at a con panel thing, that got recorded & uploaded to YouTube, that he just got done dubbing his parts as Goku & King Kai for TFC.
Jason Douglas uploads a screenshot from a recording booth the first appearance of Beerus in Super, signifying that they were starting to record the dub for an eventual announcement.
Nothing until November when FUNi FINALLY announced both dubs for Super & KAI TFC, thus the 2 dub forums started.

2017: They started airing on Toonami & here we are.

This timeline of events is pretty much the best way to understand something, even better than Toei's Super timeline stuff to explain the Future Trunks arc for those who don't understand time travel & how it works in DB. It's no wonder the actors were confused. The deal with Toei pretty much screwed a lot of people up on announcements.

[simtek34]

They said "God of Destruction" during the Oolong versus Beerus Ro-Sham-Bo and not "Destroyer" for the first time in the Super dub (Not counting the beta titles in the TV Guides).

[Scsigs]

I don't care what anyone says about Sean Schemmel being Goku. The way he did the higher pitch for telling Beerus to give them a bit of time to do his plan was just great. He is an absolute delight as a voice actor.

[Dbzfan94]

I don't care what anyone says about Sean Schemmel being Goku. The way he did the higher pitch for telling Beerus to give them a bit of time to do his plan was just great. He is an absolute delight as a voice actor.

Absolutely. I always liked his Goku and he's gotten infinitely better over time

[Scsigs]

I don't care what anyone says about Sean Schemmel being Goku. The way he did the higher pitch for telling Beerus to give them a bit of time to do his plan was just great. He is an absolute delight as a voice actor.

Absolutely. I always liked his Goku and he's gotten infinitely better over time

He's been nearly at his best since the Buu saga of Z, though not always getting the best scripts, or direction. The better scripts & directions are definitely helping his performance immensely. He's very much a powerhouse voice actor nowadays.

[mint0h]

Oolong's VA had his moment here, it was equally as good as the BoG movie and the subtitled versions.

[rs_chaosmaster]

I expect a quick release schedule for the first 3 parts of Super then expect long wait time like Normal my prediction :

1. Super Part 1 1-14 August
2. Super Part 2 15-27 September
3. Super Part 3 28-41 November
4. Super Part 4 42-56 February 2018

[Baggie_Saiyan]

I don't care what anyone says about Sean Schemmel being Goku. The way he did the higher pitch for telling Beerus to give them a bit of time to do his plan was just great. He is an absolute delight as a voice actor.

Yeah that whole delivery had me on the floor! Is one of reasons I cherish the dub and the liberties they take.

[Lord Beerus]

"Super Saiyan Please".

That made me laugh.

But this exchange made me laugh even harder:

"In the meantime, could you please not blow up the Earth?"
"But I must. I beat the pig man in rock-paper-scissors, fair and square."

God, I fucking love the FUNi dub.

[The gr]

I Love this line in episode 7 "super Saiyan please or wait so you put a fate of the world with a Rock, paper and Scizor game with oolong , Sean schemmel is so hilarious and talented,he's gotten infinitely better over time,and the exchange with Beerus and oolong is also hilarious

the episode is still mediocre, despite the hilarious dialogue,that's my Bulma was terrible and the fight was underwhelming and there's too much Padding here and next week episode is also going to be bad with the boring ritual, but I'm looking forward to seeing the awesome fight between Beerus vs goku

[thaman91]

Loving Super so far and its dub.

But as I've noticed in Kai: The Final Chapters, Sumitomo's score is really hit or miss sometimes. Beerus' theme is really ominous and fits well. But then you get that stupid disco track from Kai for Goku's entrance and it is just awful. Is Sumitomo trying to make that into Goku's "theme" or something? It plays in Kai when he teleports to the tournament and then plays here when he arrives to stop Beerus.

[Footlong Shoe]

Chris Sabat says he's "leaning towards" using Zamasu as opposed to Zamas in the dub. This is something worth noting.

[Alee9977]

I just saw a few scenes with this dub and I have to say, no offense to anybody, I don't like it. Not the voices, I don't have a real opinion about English voices but in the dub they say things that were never told in the Japanese version, and I don't really get the point of that, It makes me think they just make things up to make everything fit with the mouth movements.
If they stick with the original script instead of making things up it would make this way better.
Maybe it is because I'm not used to it and you are but hey, it's just an opinion.

Chris Sabat says he's "leaning towards" using Zamasu as opposed to Zamas in the dub. This is something worth noting.

Days ago I saw Chris Sabat asked something to the director of Latam Super and I'm pretty sure they discussed about this and how they would pronounce Zamasu's name.

[Baggie_Saiyan]

I just saw a few scenes with this dub and I have to say, no offense to anybody, I don't like it. Not the voices, I don't have a real opinion about English voices but in the dub they say things that were never told in the Japanese version, and I don't really get the point of that, It makes me think they just make things up to make everything fit with the mouth movements.
If they stick with the original script instead of making things up it would make this way better.
Maybe it is because I'm not used to it and you are but hey, it's just an opinion.

They are sticking with the Japanese script for the most part they're only taking liberties where liberties can be taken. The Japanese is a year and half ahead, I don't think there is anything wrong with them having fun at moments like Goku saying please to Beerus.

Chris Sabat says he's "leaning towards" using Zamasu as opposed to Zamas in the dub. This is something worth noting.

So they're really already starting work on the arc huh? Cool. And yeah prefer if they sound the U.

[SaiyamanMS]

So they're really already starting work on the arc huh? Cool. And yeah prefer if they sound the U.

Not necessarily. I imagine Chris would be following the simulcast to make sure he knows exactly what he's doing to the best of his ability and would naturally be thinking ahead about how to handle certain things in the future. (Besides, if they really were up to that point, he wouldn't be "leaning towards" anything, he'd have "settled on" it by now.)

[Baggie_Saiyan]

So they're really already starting work on the arc huh? Cool. And yeah prefer if they sound the U.

Not necessarily. I imagine Chris would be following the simulcast to make sure he knows exactly what he's doing to the best of his ability and would naturally be thinking ahead about how to handle certain things in the future. (Besides, if they really were up to that point, he wouldn't be "leaning towards" anything, he'd have "settled on" it by now.)

Oh for sure, I just meant it's good to know they're starting to look into it, they have him cast, now they're deciding what terms to use, Sean also mentioned the Black arc a few days ago too.
I think it's safe to say the U6 is done in regards to casting, terms, script etc and is a matter of physically dubbing it, if they haven't started already.

[TheMikado]

I just saw a few scenes with this dub and I have to say, no offense to anybody, I don't like it. Not the voices, I don't have a real opinion about English voices but in the dub they say things that were never told in the Japanese version, and I don't really get the point of that, It makes me think they just make things up to make everything fit with the mouth movements.
If they stick with the original script instead of making things up it would make this way better.
Maybe it is because I'm not used to it and you are but hey, it's just an opinion.

I'm with you on this one. You're not the only one who feels this way... I very much prefer the Japanese script.

[Scsigs]

Not necessarily. I imagine Chris would be following the simulcast to make sure he knows exactly what he's doing to the best of his ability and would naturally be thinking ahead about how to handle certain things in the future. (Besides, if they really were up to that point, he wouldn't be "leaning towards" anything, he'd have "settled on" it by now.)

Sabat told Geekdom in his interview that he prefers to binge long TV shows, so he's most likely watching clips to get feels for the characters & getting into early auditions for some of the characters. I don't think he's passed the Future Trunks arc in terms of auditions yet. Though he probably has the Omniuniveral Tournament in the back of his mind for the new main & secondary characters.