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Re: Dragon Ball English VAs

Post by penguintruth » Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:57 pm

My signature makes my Goku preferences clear, I think. :lol:
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Post by Piccolo Daimaoh » Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:41 pm

Steve Blum voicing Goku in English Final Bout!? Awesome, too bad I only have a burned Japanese one.


Don't kill me, I got it in 1999 when I was young. I remember thinking how cool Vegetto's voice was.

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Re: Dragon Ball English VAs

Post by PatPat » Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:10 pm

penguintruth wrote:My signature makes my Goku preferences clear, I think. :lol:
You know, as much as everyone talks about this MasakoX and teamfourstar i've never actually seen it.
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Post by Piccolo Daimaoh » Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:15 pm

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penguintruth wrote:My signature makes my Goku preferences clear, I think. :lol:
You know, as much as everyone talks about this MasakoX and teamfourstar i've never actually seen it.
GO SEE IT NOW!!!!!

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Post by JulieYBM » Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:24 pm

Piccolo Daimaoh wrote:Steve Blum voicing Goku in English Final Bout!? Awesome, too bad I only have a burned Japanese one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rip9gnjRjFg

It's not the best...in fact it's pretty clear he should never voice Gokû. :shock:
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JulieYBM wrote:
Piccolo Daimaoh wrote:Steve Blum voicing Goku in English Final Bout!? Awesome, too bad I only have a burned Japanese one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rip9gnjRjFg

It's not the best...in fact it's pretty clear he should never voice Gokû. :shock:
Yeah, he sounds like Chris Sabat's Yamcha in that video.

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Post by linkdude20002001 » Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:41 pm

penguintruth wrote:I actually wrote down a number of the names in the Creative Products Corp English dub, but like I said before, I don't know who plays who, so the list is pretty worthless:

Nesty Ramirez, Apollo Abraham, Ethel Lizano, Mitch Frankenberger, E.J. Galang, R.J. Celdran, Mano Abello, David Soon, Bob Karry, Hazel Lizano
I don't care! I'll find a way to figure this out! :lol:

Thanks penguintruth. :D
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Piccolo Daimaoh wrote:
JulieYBM wrote:
Piccolo Daimaoh wrote:Steve Blum voicing Goku in English Final Bout!? Awesome, too bad I only have a burned Japanese one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rip9gnjRjFg

It's not the best...in fact it's pretty clear he should never voice Gokû. :shock:
Yeah, he sounds like Chris Sabat's Yamcha in that video.
Wow. I agree with whoever left that comment on YouTube that Piccolo sounds a bit like Christian Slater.
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Post by SilverPlaqueVII » Sat Mar 20, 2010 12:12 pm

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Wow. I never knew that. I had a burned copy of the dubbed game long before the legit one hit stores in the UK, and hadn't yet come to appreciate Cowboy Bebop, so I never made the connection. Interesting. :shock:
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Re: Dragon Ball English VAs

Post by linkdude20002001 » Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:01 pm

Nesty Calvo Ramirez is the voice of adult Gokuh in the Creative Products dub. :mrgreen:

He actually voiced a bunch of other characters too. I'll post again when I find out more. I'm currently talking to him on Facebook.
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Post by penguintruth » Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:31 pm

Apollo Abraham, who was listed in the credits at the end of the fifth movie, might've been Kuririn, because he's listed as him in the Tagalog dub on ANN's page for DBZ. Maybe they had him do the English voice, too.

I got all those names, by the way, the last time I sat down and watched through the Creative Products Corp movie 5 dub and copied down the cast from the credits.

I watch it once a year for laughs.

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Post by linkdude20002001 » Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:53 pm

That's makes sense. Why change voice actors when they already speak English?

No fair, though! I have a 36 minute clip of that movie, but the beginning and ending is cut off (and I don't just mean the songs). Lol.
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Post by penguintruth » Sat Mar 20, 2010 11:17 pm

linkdude20002001 wrote:That's makes sense. Why change voice actors when they already speak English?

No fair, though! I have a 36 minute clip of that movie, but the beginning and ending is cut off (and I don't just mean the songs). Lol.
Well, I bought a VHS copy off of the internet back when that was all the rage. It's one of the reasons I'll never ditch the VCR in my room.

I regret not getting movie 6 as well, because I never got to hear Vegeta's voice from the Creative Product Corp dub. I would love to get at least a clip.
Kentai wrote:Son Gokuu is a fascinating character anyway, because he is - at face value, anyway - an idiot savant. The victim of violent head trauma as an infant [...] he's a simple bumpkin with a fair share of brain damage who's natural talents to work out what's wrong compensate for his broad lack of common sense. But he's also a fighter, through and through [...] he fight until he has, in no uncertain terms, beaten his enemy on terms they can both acknowledge. He doesn't want to kill anyone, or even prove that he can win... he just wants to know he can. He's an ineffably charming bastard who's manly leanings were really incendental, and yes, the fact that he was voiced by a squeaky woman made the combination perhaps all the more charming.


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Post by linkdude20002001 » Sat Mar 20, 2010 11:37 pm

Who knows, it might pop up on Ebay eventually. Till then, I guess we just have to wait. *sigh*

Just wondering... Is the opening and ending in English (song-wise)?
If you can rip them, that would be great. Though, I certainly don't have the capability to do that, so I'm not expecting you to.
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Post by penguintruth » Sun Mar 21, 2010 12:07 am

linkdude20002001 wrote:Who knows, it might pop up on Ebay eventually. Till then, I guess we just have to wait. *sigh*

Just wondering... Is the opening and ending in English (song-wise)?
If you can rip them, that would be great. Though, I certainly don't have the capability to do that, so I'm not expecting you to.
Well, here's the opening. It's quite a good English version of "Cha-La Head Cha-La".

The ending theme is an English version of movie 6's end song.
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Post by linkdude20002001 » Sun Mar 21, 2010 12:18 am

Hmm... I thought the opening animation was altered for the movie. Maybe I'm remembering a clip of the TV series's opening or something. I think one of them was at a different tempo than the Japanese song, but I can remember which one.
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JulieYBM wrote:
Piccolo Daimaoh wrote:Steve Blum voicing Goku in English Final Bout!? Awesome, too bad I only have a burned Japanese one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rip9gnjRjFg

It's not the best...in fact it's pretty clear he should never voice Gokû. :shock:
MasakoX isn't the best, far from it.. But as a parody I think he does just fine^^

I always wanted to see the Fillipino English dub, I heard it was good and accurate! Don't crush my dreams of a good English dub!

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Post by penguintruth » Sun Mar 21, 2010 5:31 am

Daimo-Rukiri wrote:I always wanted to see the Fillipino English dub, I heard it was good and accurate! Don't crush my dreams of a good English dub!
I'm more than happy to crush them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwMnBgxoZgY

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Kentai wrote:Son Gokuu is a fascinating character anyway, because he is - at face value, anyway - an idiot savant. The victim of violent head trauma as an infant [...] he's a simple bumpkin with a fair share of brain damage who's natural talents to work out what's wrong compensate for his broad lack of common sense. But he's also a fighter, through and through [...] he fight until he has, in no uncertain terms, beaten his enemy on terms they can both acknowledge. He doesn't want to kill anyone, or even prove that he can win... he just wants to know he can. He's an ineffably charming bastard who's manly leanings were really incendental, and yes, the fact that he was voiced by a squeaky woman made the combination perhaps all the more charming.


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penguintruth wrote:
Daimo-Rukiri wrote:I always wanted to see the Fillipino English dub, I heard it was good and accurate! Don't crush my dreams of a good English dub!
I'm more than happy to crush them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwMnBgxoZgY

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I love it how they mispronounce Gohan. Have they even watched a single episode of the original series?

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Post by linkdude20002001 » Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:21 pm

Same could be said about FUNimation... :|

FUNi got a lot more wrong: Saiyan, Son, Kaio-Ken, Kamehame-Ha, Nappa, Goku, Videl. And a million stupid romanizations such as Turles and Cooler.
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