DBZ Kai Spanish dub semi-confirmed, FUNimation involved?

[AgitoZ]

Later on they exclusively released the Mexican dub and Japanese dub on basically white UU DVDs.

It actually didn't have the original Japanese audio on it. Just the video. It had the Japanese title cards and end credits with the Mexican dub over that video. Which, really made no sense.

Crap are you serious, man I give Funi too much credit.

Oh well I will still get the only non red UU DVD. Since the only reason I see people and myself for getting it is for the Mexican dub.

Also they did only have the Japanese angles and English ones on the red UU DVDs. I didn't expect Funi to get the Spanish title cards exclusively for the Spanish only DVDs.

[Rod]

About the censoring issue, I remember watching DB since I was a kid, and I think there wasn't any censoring, I remember plenty of blood and violence. But it would be very interesting to see what they can get on TV now, plus it also depends on what channel and time slot it gets.

As for the dubbing...No Mario Castañeda or René García as Goku and Vegeta... But at least we get Carlos Segundo as Pikoro, plus it's very interesting to see the dubbing director what names they prefer (Piccolo vs. Pikoro, etc)

[trunkschan90]

I remember watching the Spanish dub of DBZ in Telemundo and KWHY a long time ago, it was not censored. When I first saw Raditz's death I was like 'Dang!! That's a lot of blood!'

As for Spanish dub DBZ Kai, I really wanted Mario and Rene to return as Goku and Vegeta T_T
It's like replacing Masako Nozawa and Ryo Horikawa.

And what's worse, I think we just lost Carlos Segundo as Piccolo as well, according to this article:
http://www.anmtvla.com/2010/09/carlos-s ... je-de.html

I think I'm going to a corner now to cry.

[TheBlackPaladin]

I remember watching the Spanish dub of DBZ in Telemundo and KWHY a long time ago, it was not censored. When I first saw Raditz's death I was like 'Dang!! That's a lot of blood!'

As for Spanish dub DBZ Kai, I really wanted Mario and Rene to return as Goku and Vegeta T_T
It's like replacing Masako Nozawa and Ryo Horikawa.

And what's worse, I think we just lost Carlos Segundo as Piccolo as well, according to this article:
http://www.anmtvla.com/2010/09/carlos-s ... je-de.html

I think I'm going to a corner now to cry.

Wait a minute...did they confirm a Brazillian dub as well in that article? I don't speak good enough Spanish to know for sure.

[trunkschan90]

Yeah, the article mentions that Brazil is also dubbing DBZ Kai.

[TheBlackPaladin]

And did I read it correctly that apparently they will be keeping the original title of "Dragon Ball Kai" rather than "Dragon Ball Z Kai"?

[trunkschan90]

I've translated some of the article to English, this is what it says:

"Carlos Segundo and Others Quit Dubbing Dragon Ball Kai

Bad news keeps coming over the dubbing of Dragon Ball Kai, Carlos Segundo has just quit the dub due to a disagreement with the company. The actor has confirmed this on his facebook page. It appears the disagreement is over economic matters, the same that happened weeks ago with Mario Castañeda, René García y Luis Daniel Ramírez.


"Carlhillos Segundo: Today I quit dubbing Dragon Ball Kai, since we couldn't come to a good agreement with the company. I lament the displeasure this has caused for Dragonball fans and fans of Piccolo, Kami-sama, Mr. Popo, and Master Tsuru."

Sadly another blow to the dub list and one of the most important who stayed until these days. Eduardo Garza has commented in his Twitter over Carlos leaving the dub.
"Eduardo Garza: This is sad, I just found out that Carlos Segundo will not be in DBKai... We've lost another great talent in the series. Drats!!!"

Sadly the fans' dreams of the dub being done by the original voice actors is getting further and further away, although this won't mean that those in charge of dubbing will do a bad job, on the contrary, what awaits is an excellent job with great quality, as what's accostumed with the artists. In other news the dub for Brazil, is going smoothly without problems and Toei Animation has maintained the original title of the series, in other words it will be Dragon Ball Kai and not Dragon Ball "Z" KAI.

Update 1: Lalo Garza keeps informing us over anything new to the dub, minutes ago he gave a nother new message in relation to this "DBKai will not have the original voices of Goku, Gohan, Goten, Vegeta, Piccoro, and Krillin." It has been confirmed that Ricardo Silva will do the opening of the series.

Update 2: "The original voice of Master Roshi will not be in the new dub, the reason is that Jesús Colín lives in Acapulco." Eduardo keeps informing us of the situation, he also confirms that Laura Torres will not be in the new dub, she did the voice of Goku in Dragon Ball and the voice of Gohan in Dragonball Z. Just to be clear that Jesús Colín is alive and well and has not died as other sources have claimed."

[Rod]

Well, this is just gonna suck, none of the original cast members are returning. And obviously there's not a single fan that's satisfied with voice changes, as expected there are hundreds of petitions, boycotts and letter mailing campaigns. Add all the regular Kai criticism to the mix (poorly animated scenes, etc) and people are already declaring Kai a complete flop in Latin America

[Mewzard]

Wow, the Spanish Dub really is getting screwed out of what should have been a fan treat. Japan got many of their main guys back, the US (and whatever English speaking countries that get the dub later on) got a better dub than ever with most of the main cast, yet, nothing for the fine people from Mexico and whatever other South/Central American countries that got said dub? That's just wrong. And why do they call it Dragon Ball Kai? Did Toei just deem the Dragon Ball Z Kai thing for English, since Z managed to have more success?

[Piccolo Daimaoh]

Whoa, people are really throwing a fit about this. And we all thought dub fans were bad.

[VegettoEX]

Whoa, people are really throwing a fit about this. And we all thought dub fans were bad.

Well, the Spanish dub is a dub...

[Coola Yagami]

man... all the original VAs are gone.... damn, that does suck...

But on the other hand, Mexico doesn't need Kai as bad as the US did, and unlike the US, DBZ NEVER stopped airing there. It was always on at some time, some channel. at least the US got a year break or so before Kai was dubbed. I mean MexDBZ was almost perfect, 97% accurate to the show. It would literally call for Mario, Carlos and Rene to re-do their lines exactly the same word-for-word. The US version on the other hand seriously NEEDED Kai, cause DBZ deserved to be dubbed the right way at least ONCE.

Kai was mostly for the Japanese fans in mind anyway since they haven't seen anything DBZ-related since that special in 2008.

[TheBlackPaladin]

man... all the original VAs are gone.... damn, that does suck...

But on the other hand, Mexico doesn't need Kai as bad as the US did, and unlike the US, DBZ NEVER stopped airing there. It was always on at some time, some channel. at least the US got a year break or so before Kai was dubbed. I mean MexDBZ was almost perfect, 97% accurate to the show. It would literally call for Mario, Carlos and Rene to re-do their lines exactly the same word-for-word. The US version on the other hand seriously NEEDED Kai, cause DBZ deserved to be dubbed the right way at least ONCE. .

I agree. I had little to no interest in Kai at first and thought it was an excuse to make an old product new again. Then the thought crossed my mind, "Wait a minute though...what if FUNimation dubs this? And gives it a more accurate dub this time around?" My greatest source of interest in Kai is, and will continue to be, the better English dub.

[Piccolo Daimaoh]

Whoa, people are really throwing a fit about this. And we all thought dub fans were bad.

Well, the Spanish dub is a dub...

When I said "dub fans", I meant "FUNimation dub fans". I thought people would understand which group I was referring to, based on the context.

[Daimo-Rukiri]

I'm a huge fan of the Mexican dub mainly because it stayed true to the series and there were a ton of correct actor choices, while carlos isn't coming back WHICH SUCKS! It does not mean we won't get a good replacement, and from what I hear they call Piccolo(Pikoro) as that's how the Japanese said it. While not inaccurate(kind of a treat for the ears imo) why not just Piccolo?

I guess we'll have to wait till we have audio clips from the dub.

[TheBlackPaladin]

It sounds like they at least got the same guy who sang "Chala Head Chala" for them to sing "Dragon Soul" as well. He did a good job with "Chala Head Chala," so it'll be nice to hear him handling "Dragon Soul": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4gX3mnawWQ

[Coola Yagami]

I'm a huge fan of the Mexican dub mainly because it stayed true to the series and there were a ton of correct actor choices, while carlos isn't coming back WHICH SUCKS! It does not mean we won't get a good replacement, and from what I hear they call Piccolo(Pikoro) as that's how the Japanese said it. While not inaccurate(kind of a treat for the ears imo) why not just Piccolo?

I guess we'll have to wait till we have audio clips from the dub.

Mostly cause I don't think they know about the piccolo-musical-instrument pun. They hear Pikkoro in Japanese, so they call him Pikoro in spanish. That's why most of the names like Karin, Videl and Kuririn are pronounced the right way.

The thing with the Mexadub is, the original was so exact, they could have just cut and pasted the old lines and put them into the Kai dub with new music if they wanted. I doubt the VAs would have objected to free money just for re-using their lines.

[Rod]

I'm a huge fan of the Mexican dub mainly because it stayed true to the series and there were a ton of correct actor choices, while carlos isn't coming back WHICH SUCKS! It does not mean we won't get a good replacement, and from what I hear they call Piccolo(Pikoro) as that's how the Japanese said it. While not inaccurate(kind of a treat for the ears imo) why not just Piccolo?

I guess we'll have to wait till we have audio clips from the dub.

Mostly cause I don't think they know about the piccolo-musical-instrument pun. They hear Pikkoro in Japanese, so they call him Pikoro in spanish. That's why most of the names like Karin, Videl and Kuririn are pronounced the right way.

The thing with the Mexadub is, the original was so exact, they could have just cut and pasted the old lines and put them into the Kai dub with new music if they wanted. I doubt the VAs would have objected to free money just for re-using their lines.

True, but they wanted to re-record everything because of quality, the original recording are pretty old.

[TheBlackPaladin]

When was the original Mexican dub of DBZ recorded, on that note?

[Rod]

I have no idea maybe around the 90's