Did FUNimation ever use a piece of Nathan Johnson's DBZ music to play over silent Japanese NEPs?

[johnboy1]

As we know, the original Next-Episode Previews were never dubbed in English because they weren't part of the masters FUNi got at the time. Listening to the English dub track with the Johnson/Faulconer score on the recent Seed of Might DBZ encodes, I expected the NEPs to either be silent or splice in the Japanese audio like their DB encodes did. Instead, there's a Nathan Johnson track that plays over the preview, with no voices at all.

I had never seen this before. Is this something Funimation did for multi-audio streaming copies of the show? Because the only American home release to include NEPs was the Dragon Box, and that only included the dub with the Kikuchi score. Or was this something done independently by Seed of Might as a placeholder so as to not leave the NEPs completely silent?

I know it's a small thing, but the more I thought about it, the more curious I got.

[MasenkoHA]

I assumed they grabbed a random Johnson track and used that?

Far as I know the UUE dub never got NEP even for the Toonami broadcast. It was only Funimation’s original dub that had NEP for tv and the last episode on the single sets

[TechExpert2021]

I assumed they grabbed a random Johnson track and used that?

Far as I know the UUE dub never got NEP even for the Toonami broadcast. It was only Funimation’s original dub that had NEP for tv and the last episode on the single sets

In addition to the original FUNimation in-house dub of DBZ having dubbed NEPs for almost all of episodes 68-291, the Westwood/Ocean dub of DBZ also had dubbed NEPs for all of episodes 123-291.

The Saban/FUNimation/Ocean dub of DBZ also had NEPs, but that's because FUNimation used actual footage of the episodes and DBZ movie 3 to create the NEPs for all of the dub's episodes and the dub's three-part version of DBZ movie 3, respectively, and due to the dub having shortened the first 67 episodes of DBZ to 53.

And similarly to the FUNimation in-house dub of DB not having dubbed NEPs, the Blue Water dubs of DB and DBGT never had dubbed NEPs (as a result of the French dubs of DB and DBGT and in turn every dub of DB and DBGT that were based on their French dubs not having them, as well as the episode title cards (in the case of the Blue Water dubs of DB and DBGT, the episode title is shown after the opening in the first episode and after the episode recap in every episode after the first episode)).

[GTx10]

I have not encountered this. I have a few episodes of Seed of Might's Og DB and Z episodes. I watch the Uncut Funi dubs too. When the episode ends the NEP are always the original Japanese dubbed ones.

I have not encountered a NEP that had the Remastered Dub's music on it and everything else is silent. Maybe they didn't have the audio for that particular NEP? The episodes I've watched so far are the first 5 of og DB and Gohan's SS2 transformation for context.

[Metalwario64]

As we know, the original Next-Episode Previews were never dubbed in English because they weren't part of the masters FUNi got at the time. Listening to the English dub track with the Johnson/Faulkner score on the recent Seed of Might DBZ encodes, I expected the NEPs to either be silent or splice in the Japanese audio like their DB encodes did. Instead, there's a Nathan Johnson track that plays over the preview, with no voices at all.

I had never seen this before. Is this something Funimation did for multi-audio streaming copies of the show? Because the only American home release to include NEPs was the Dragon Box, and that only included the dub with the Kikuchi score. Or was this something done independently by Seed of Might as a placeholder so as to not leave the NEPs completely silent?

I know it's a small thing, but the more I thought about it, the more curious I got.

No, the Ultimate Uncut dub never had the NEPs dubbed or even included in any release or airing. The Seed of Might release just did that to fit in musically with the rest of the score on that audio track.

[johnboy1]

I have not encountered this. I have a few episodes of Seed of Might's Og DB and Z episodes. I watch the Uncut Funi dubs too. When the episode ends the NEP are always the original Japanese dubbed ones.

I have not encountered a NEP that had the Remastered Dub's music on it and everything else is silent. Maybe they didn't have the audio for that particular NEP? The episodes I've watched so far are the first 5 of og DB and Gohan's SS2 transformation for context.

It's only DBZ that is doing this, and it's not a glitch: It's clearly purposeful, whether it's from whatever audio track they used or something they did themselves. You said you watched Gohan's SSj2 transformation episode? I just checked the very end of both episodes 184 and 185 looking at the NEPs with the Faulconer score on, and the NEPs are simply overlaid with one of Faulconer's tracks and no voices, similar to the earlier episodes I was watching did with Johnson. I get the feeling the SoM team did this themselves, but I don't really know why when they could have just spliced the Japanese audio like they did with the English Kikuchi track.

[Metalwario64]

I WILL say it might be an interesting project to take the NEPs we have from the dub, isolate the voices and put them with the Kikuchi tracks for 5.1 track, same with GT so it doesn't have to switch to Japanese but.... that would be way down the line if I ever tackled it lol.

[MasenkoHA]

I WILL say it might be an interesting project to take the NEPs we have from the dub, isolate the voices and put them with the Kikuchi tracks for 5.1 track, same with GT so it doesn't have to switch to Japanese but.... that would be way down the line if I ever tackled it lol.

God I’m trying to imagine Kikuchi’s music playing over Dale Kelly’s cringefest NEP narration.

Krillin in Da House

I think it would work out okay for the random episodes where they had Sean Schemmel as Goku doing the narration ala the Japanese version but Funimation seemed to be random as hell on deciding if Goku or the Narrator did the NEP and even then it might have only been a portion of the Namek episodes with Goku as narrator? I’m trying to remember

[TechExpert2021]

I have not encountered this. I have a few episodes of Seed of Might's Og DB and Z episodes. I watch the Uncut Funi dubs too. When the episode ends the NEP are always the original Japanese dubbed ones.

I have not encountered a NEP that had the Remastered Dub's music on it and everything else is silent. Maybe they didn't have the audio for that particular NEP? The episodes I've watched so far are the first 5 of og DB and Gohan's SS2 transformation for context.

It's only DBZ that is doing this, and it's not a glitch: It's clearly purposeful, whether it's from whatever audio track they used or something they did themselves. You said you watched Gohan's SSj2 transformation episode? I just checked the very end of both episodes 184 and 185 looking at the NEPs with the Faulconer score on, and the NEPs are simply overlaid with one of Faulconer's tracks and no voices, similar to the earlier episodes I was watching did with Johnson. I get the feeling the SoM team did this themselves, but I don't really know why when they could have just spliced the Japanese audio like they did with the English Kikuchi track.

Was it only for the FUNimation DBZ "Remastered" in-house dub audio for episodes 67-290? The SoM CC release of DBZ has the dubbed NEP audio for the original FUNimation in-house dub audio track for almost all of episodes 67-290.

[GTx10]

I have not encountered this. I have a few episodes of Seed of Might's Og DB and Z episodes. I watch the Uncut Funi dubs too. When the episode ends the NEP are always the original Japanese dubbed ones.

I have not encountered a NEP that had the Remastered Dub's music on it and everything else is silent. Maybe they didn't have the audio for that particular NEP? The episodes I've watched so far are the first 5 of og DB and Gohan's SS2 transformation for context.

It's only DBZ that is doing this, and it's not a glitch: It's clearly purposeful, whether it's from whatever audio track they used or something they did themselves. You said you watched Gohan's SSj2 transformation episode? I just checked the very end of both episodes 184 and 185 looking at the NEPs with the Faulconer score on, and the NEPs are simply overlaid with one of Faulconer's tracks and no voices, similar to the earlier episodes I was watching did with Johnson. I get the feeling the SoM team did this themselves, but I don't really know why when they could have just spliced the Japanese audio like they did with the English Kikuchi track.

To be 100% fair I watched the Remastered Funi Dub with the Kikuchi score. So I got the Original JPN NEP. I didn't check the NEP with the US broadcast music selected. So that might explain it!