I doubt it was supposed to be internal Funimation info. Sean may have expressed surprise due to the Ocean dub not being made public at that point.TheBlackPaladin wrote:Ya know what, now that you mention it, I do remember reading something like that. I remember do remember Sean asking something along the lines of (not a word-for-word quote), "I'm curious as to how you know that, though. That's something that's strictly supposed to be internal FUNimation info at this point."
Which is interesting...it suggests that FUNimation is cooperating with Ocean to a certain extent.
Funi and Ocean are collaborating on the video footage, as they were with the DBZ dub. That may be where the collaboration ends (unless they are also collaborating on the script like last time.) Because Funi are using Ocean Productions to edit their TV footage, they are liaising with Ocean, that may be how Funi knew Ocean are doing their own dub, and somehow that info got passed over to Sean.
The TV version of the Ocean dub freely used death, die etc in the Buu saga. The Nicktoons version is stricter on that aspect. Also Nicktoons' version censor/edits things which were present in the Saban/Ocean version.bkev wrote:Considering Ocean is handling the TV edits themselves, perhaps FUNimation is working on this dub as well somehow. It also makes me think that the Nicktoons cut is made for Canadian TV and not necessarily Nicktoons, as the TV cut for the Ocean dub was a little stricter than the Cartoon Network FUNi one. At least, dialog wise ("die, Cell!" compared to "fry, Cell!").
Hopefully the Ocean dub will be broadcast on Cartoon Network in the United Kingdom. If Blue Water's Dragon Ball Piccolo Jr saga is a factor to consider, they could get away with airing the Kai dub uncut. Even if they don't, it should be less edited than the Nicktoons version.
There is no reason why Funi would be the company behind this dub. During discussions with fans concerning the dubs of DBZ, it appeared to me that some Funi fans were so desperate for Funi to have been involved with the later Ocean dub of DBZ, they were clutching at straws and willing to set aside logic just so in their minds they could (incorrectly) associate Funi with the Ocean dub.
Personally, I would want Ocean to be complete separate from Funi, the Blue Water dubs were and they turned out really well. In terms of accuracy, Blue Water's dubs blew Funimation's dubs out of the water.
But for Kai, I wouldn't mind if Ocean's dub had a similar script to Funi's Kai dub, as long as they improve it. (Remove the small amount of "Americanisms" in the script, such as "hear me out" etc.) Having said that, I'd prefer it if Ocean wrote an accurate script from scratch for DB Kai.
