Chris Sabat finally sheds light on DB specials not dubbed

[Hellspawn28]

A few weeks ago I was talking to some buddies and I said "You remember that Dragon Ball Z special where they met Vegeta's brother and he's married to a grape woman and her head is literally a big grape? And her name is Gure short for Grape?" and they were like "NO. No I haven't. Wtf" and I got the opportunity to tell them about the Yo! Son Goku special. It's quite obscure now. Not sure why they never got around to it.

The 2008 OVA and the original 90s Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans are the closest we have to truly "lost" media.

They are not lost media because they still exist. You can find them in physical form in Japan, and have been on the Internet for over 15 years. It's only lost media if it no longer exist. London after Midnight is an example of actual lost media because it no longer exist, and no copies are known to exist.

[Xeogran]

A few weeks ago I was talking to some buddies and I said "You remember that Dragon Ball Z special where they met Vegeta's brother and he's married to a grape woman and her head is literally a big grape? And her name is Gure short for Grape?" and they were like "NO. No I haven't. Wtf" and I got the opportunity to tell them about the Yo! Son Goku special. It's quite obscure now. Not sure why they never got around to it.

The 2008 OVA and the original 90s Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans are the closest we have to truly "lost" media.

They are not lost media because they still exist. You can find them in physical form in Japan, and have been on the Internet for over 15 years. It's only lost media if it no longer exist. London after Midnight is an example of actual lost media because it no longer exist, and no copies are known to exist.

And for DB's case we have the God Broly movie (these 4D things almost never release to public), Two DB x One Piece specials (one of them had Goku vs Enel which was pretty cool.) and probably a few other more obscure things.

[SaiyamanMS]

The 90s version of Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans was never released outside the Japanese Dragon Box back in 2003, and the 2008 Special got a very limited release in Japan back in 2009 (I think it came with a V-Jump magazine). You can technically download them if you want, but as far as owning them legally, they're as close to lost as lost can get.

The 2008 special was also more widely available as a bonus feature on the Limited Special Edition of Battle of Gods in 2013.

[Peach]

The 90s version of Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans was never released outside the Japanese Dragon Box back in 2003, and the 2008 Special got a very limited release in Japan back in 2009 (I think it came with a V-Jump magazine). You can technically download them if you want, but as far as owning them legally, they're as close to lost as lost can get.

The 2008 special was also more widely available as a bonus feature on the Limited Special Edition of Battle of Gods in 2013.

It’s lost media when it comes to acquiring in the US

[JulieYBM]

The 90s version of Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans was never released outside the Japanese Dragon Box back in 2003, and the 2008 Special got a very limited release in Japan back in 2009 (I think it came with a V-Jump magazine). You can technically download them if you want, but as far as owning them legally, they're as close to lost as lost can get.

The 2008 special was also more widely available as a bonus feature on the Limited Special Edition of Battle of Gods in 2013.

It’s lost media when it comes to acquiring in the US

That is not how lost media works.

[Hellspawn28]

It’s lost media when it comes to acquiring in the US

Look up the definition of lost

denoting something that has been taken away or cannot be recovered.

It may not be licensed in the US, but it still exists in physical and digital form everywhere else. Something is lost media if the original negative or copies are not known to exist in piracy, studio archive, private collection, or public archive.

[The Tori-bot]

Me wondering why everything in this thread seems strangely familiar until it finally clicks

[JulieYBM]

Me wondering why everything in this thread seems strangely familiar until it finally clicks

Referencing Love Never Dies—a maligned sequel to the massive hit The Phantom of the Opera that was released decades after the original—is honestly brilliant. Bravo.

[Yellow Flower King]

Me wondering why everything in this thread seems strangely familiar until it finally clicks

Referencing Love Never Dies—a maligned sequel to the massive hit The Phantom of the Opera that was released decades after the original—is honestly brilliant. Bravo.

To be honest, the poster knew it and explicitly mentioned that this is a thread he indeed made 10 yeaaaaaaaaaaaars agooooooooooooooooooooooo.

[Scsigs]

While I'd love for Toei & Crunchyroll to finally dub the OVAs, I guess it's just not feasible.

Yo! Son Goku & Friends Return would probably have to be remade at this point to get passed whatever licensing bullshit's keeping it from being released officially over here.

The best time to dub Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans would've been when they were recording lines for Raging Blast 2. Why that wasn't done, I have no idea.

Episode of Bardock might also have some weird licensing bullshit, but similar to the last one, but I also don't know why they didn't dub it for when it was released with DBZ for Kinect.

If time & money were really the biggest issues years ago, I really don't see why they couldn't have been licensed in the last 5 years or so. Or since Broly was dubbed & Super ended. They bothered to license & dub all the stupid One Piece TV specials no one cares about in 2019, so I really don't get it.

[Xeogran]

They bothered to license & dub all the stupid One Piece TV specials no one cares about in 2019

Speak for yourself, some of them have the best Toei staff working on them, and general on-point characterization as well as assistance from Oda himself.

I certainly think of the OP specials more than of the freaking RB2 demake of an actually good OVA.

[Scsigs]

They bothered to license & dub all the stupid One Piece TV specials no one cares about in 2019

Speak for yourself, some of them have the best Toei staff working on them, and general on-point characterization as well as assistance from Oda himself.

I certainly think of the OP specials more than of the freaking RB2 demake of an actually good OVA.

I mean, they licensed them at a time when they weren't caught up on dubbing the show & only a few of them were worth it at the time; 3D2Y, Episode of Sabo, & Episode of Nebulandia. I would think that they would've focused on the movies they haven't dubbed yet. That would've made the 20th anniversary of the anime more special.

[B]

Those One Piece TV specials are just that; TV specials produced by Toei/Fuji TV, so FUNi wouldn't have to jump through hoops to get them like all the DB stuff produced through Shueisha or Bandai Namco.

Viz Media put out one of the Naruto Jump Festa OVAs(when Naruto was hot) so it doesn't seem impossible to get this stuff, but it must be on a case-by-case basis.

[WittyUsername]

I can’t imagine why there’d be any legal hurdles in dubbing Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans or Episode of Bardock. Those were both released alongside video games that already had English language tracks available. I assume they weren’t dubbed because the people at Bandai or whoever simply didn’t think it was worth it.

[The Dark Knight]

I can’t imagine why there’d be any legal hurdles in dubbing Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans or Episode of Bardock.

Weren't these two released on Blur-Ray in France or Germany ? I know they got a Blu-Ray release at least somewhere, so I don't know why Funimation never got them, as they clearly weren't off limits to the international market like the Tarble special is.

[Scsigs]

I can’t imagine why there’d be any legal hurdles in dubbing Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans or Episode of Bardock.

Weren't these two released on Blur-Ray in France or Germany ? I know they got a Blu-Ray release at least somewhere, so I don't know why Funimation never got them, as they clearly weren't off limits to the international market like the Tarble special is.

I assume because they were released with 2 games, so they didn't even consider them for dubbing.