How Did You Start Watching the Japanese Audio?

Aikachi · Post by **Aikachi** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:06 pm

I got started watching DBZ with Japanese audio back in or around 2000 I think it was... FUNimation was just starting to release VHS from when Trunks showed up, and it was then that I discovered the International channel. The episodes were broadcast raw, no subtitles, so it was interesting at first. I taped quite a few episodes up into the Buu saga, it's interesting watching them now with a better understanding of the Japanese language.

.:PoetikaL:. · Post by **.:PoetikaL:.** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:03 pm

I first started noticing the Japanese audio when I bought my first DBZ DVD, which was Fusion: Losing Battle (Buu Saga). I enjoyed the music, so much and it felt more... lively and engrossing. After that I bought Movies 9 and 13 (Original Singles) and once again I fell in love. When I first bought the Season Sets, I only watched the Dub with Japanese music first, and switched the audio to Japanese every once and awhile. Now I watch the Japanese audio (with subtitles of course) more often than the dub.

Shiyonasan · Post by **Shiyonasan** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:09 pm

I first started watching the Japanese version when I got A Hero's Legacy in 2005 for my birthday. I thought Goku's voice was strange at first, but I slowly grew to love the Japanese version over the dub. This site has certainly helped me to like it too, though I still don't mind the dub, since that was the version I grew up with and have a nostalgic factor with. It certainly sounds worse since I joined this site though....

Scarz · Post by **Scarz** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 11:15 pm

Actually I watched the original Japanese dub first before I watched the Funi English dub. So the real question for me would be: "How Did You Start Watching the English Audio?" Well, there was nothing else better on at the time. Tenchi was over and I was like What the hell, It will be nice to watch the series again in english this time.

John · Post by **John** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:10 am

My first Japanese audio experience was a Movie 8 fansub VHS tape. Back in '01, I came rushing to the lunch table bragging about how I just bought the "uncut" English VHS edition of Freeza's defeat.

My nerdy comerades quickly schooled me. The next day, the fansub tape was delivered to me. I was told all these things like "THE MUSIC IS BETTER!" "THERE'S CURSING!" and "GOKU IS VOICED BY A GIRL BUT IT'S AWESOME!"

Getting used to "Girl Goku" took a little bit of time for me, but it quickly became the norm. From that point on I was a sub fan that insisted on watching the dub as well, "for comparison's sake." Turns out I was only denying the fact that I was also a dub fan.

Now I got two versions of the same show that I like.

WorldChampion · Post by **WorldChampion** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 4:12 am

I was a fan of the Ocean Group dub, and when the Funimation in-house dubbed episodes started airing in 1999 on Cartoon Network I stopped watching it on Toonami.

I found the fansubs online in Real Media format on Dal.net and watched the rest of the series that way. It's the only way I will watch it now.

piccolo-san785 · Post by **piccolo-san785** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:29 pm

I was introduced to the Japanese audio by buying the old VHS fansubs of GT.

Brad Redfield · Post by **Brad Redfield** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 6:44 pm

My initial exposure was through a poor quality Real Media clip of Goku and Vegeta's last stand against the Metal Cooler army in movie six. This was around early 1999 and I think I got the clip off of Planet Namek.

I then bought Anime Lab's fansubbed tape of movies five and six at Graham Cracker Comics and pretty much stuck with the japanese audio since.