Ocean Studios' "Dragon Ball Kai" Dub Turns 15; Still Unreleased

[DragonBoxZTheMovies]

Ugh, this reminds me of the time when I use to watch Dub Comparisons on Youtube. People would go nuts and threaten to kill each other and say stuff about each other's mums and sucking Chris Sabat's dick. Funny thing was people always said the same thing. I remember there was this one guy called OceandubZ who use to go to every Dub Comparison video and talk shit about the Funimation dub and say how the Ocean Dub was what made Dragon Ball Z popular (Which was funny because DBZ was at its peak in 2001 which was when Funimation was dubbing the Cell Games).
By the way, does anyone know if the Ocean Dub is keeping the original Japanese score and Funimation's script?

[penguintruth]

All we know is Kirby Morrow isn't Goku and Paul Dobson may be in it.

[Garlic]

Come off your high horse. Funimation fans absolutely tear apart the Ocean dub (and not without good reason, but their dub is shit also). Look at pretty much any Ocean dub clip on YouTube or go into any other DBZ forum other than this. Stop acting like fans of the Funimation cast aren't also a bunch of crazy imbeciles.

No, I agree with you. FUNimation dub fans can also be condescending to Ocean dub fans. But you can't say the other way around isn't true. I mean, just look at the video Garlic posted. In it, a commenter respectfully posted a message saying that he preferred FUNimation's redub. To which someone else replied saying that he is a "funi nutt-hugger" and that his mother is a whore. Yes, you read right. On top of that, he said that Chris Ayers is "infinitely worse" as Freeza than Linda Young. Which is just insane.

Yup Thats Cancun 187 for you! I'm pretty sure you commented on his Dub comparasion video and he fliped out! btw Oceandubz is Now Ramimusiclover who comments on dbz vids.

[Kaboom]

As bad as some of these so-called "fans" can be, let's try not to delve into territorial shenanigans or mud-slinging.

The horrid behavior of these "anti-FUNi" people goes without saying, though.

[Garlic]

Also They need to keep Paul Dobsons Nappa. He was so close in vocal range to the JPN VA but, uterly failed because of the dialouge he was given!

[dbzforeverUK]

Oceandubz is a very good friend of mine, like myself he was frustrated that Ocean never obtained the dvd rights nor the rights to dub the full seires.I know full well that back in 2007 when i uploaded about 90% of the Ocean dub version of Dragonball Z onto the Cartoon-world forum that what i was doing was illegal,I only did it because i felt sorry for the fans who did'nt record the seires back in 2001-2004,Oceandubz is'nt a bad person,sure he has made some comment's on youtube that are'nt approved by others but have'nt we all? Kai is the perfect oppertunity to see an Ocean dubbed Freeza saga,and like many people did with the Funimation dub it should be treated with the same respect.As it was said earlier we got "The bad end of the deal" Yes in terms of support by Saban.If any company is to blame it should be Saban with there conduct towards Funimation and Ocean,had Saban not split off from Funimation during the dubbing of season 2 Ocean would have completed a successful dub of the seires and no "dub wars" would have started.10 year's later and history seems to be repeating itself,Flaming a dub is not the way foward.

[Attitudefan]

Is that so, well that damned Saban; didn't they also conduct most of the censors?

[linkdude20002001]

Yes, Saban is the reason DBZ was so very censored. FUNi's dub of DB, which came before their dub of DBZ, was full of things removed in DBZ.

[Invisible Crane]

Any new info on the Ocean dub of DBZ Kai?

[linkdude20002001]

Well, a British TV station, Kix TV, was recently looking at a screener of Kai. That screener was likely the dub by Ocean Productions.

[Mewzard]

Well, a British TV station, Kix TV, was recently looking at a screener of Kai. That screener was likely the dub by Ocean Productions.

Well, we don't know that. We don't know if there's been any progress on that dub or not. It could be Funi's dub. It could be a third, as of yet unrevealed dub. Sadly, these companies never give enough detail.

[Son Geeko]

Well, a British TV station, Kix TV, was recently looking at a screener of Kai. That screener was likely the dub by Ocean Productions.

Well, we don't know that. We don't know if there's been any progress on that dub or not. It could be Funi's dub. It could be a third, as of yet unrevealed dub. Sadly, these companies never give enough detail.

Maybe a Big Green dub of DBKai?

[Ringworm128]

Well, a British TV station, Kix TV, was recently looking at a screener of Kai. That screener was likely the dub by Ocean Productions.

Well, we don't know that. We don't know if there's been any progress on that dub or not. It could be Funi's dub. It could be a third, as of yet unrevealed dub. Sadly, these companies never give enough detail.

Maybe a Big Green dub of DBKai?

That would be awesome! Let that child aloan redubed in HD!

[jordanator]

So if Kai does air in the UK, and Canada, and all of the other countries the old dub aired in, will Ocean bring their dub to DVD/Blu ray? Or will it only air on T.V.?

[Raki]

So if Kai does air in the UK, and Canada, and all of the other countries the old dub aired in, will Ocean bring their dub to DVD/Blu ray? Or will it only air on T.V.?

Funimation has the R1 DVD and Blu-Ray rights to DBKai so i don't know how Ocean would release their version.

[Puto]

They could release it on DVD in the UK, but it's unlikely, especially with AB Groupe owning the Dragon Ball rights in all of Western Europe (except for Italy).

[Daimo-Rukiri]

This could just be a TV Only release like previous ocean versions.

[Dark Vegeta-Sama]

An Ocean DVD release has always been technically possible in Europe, but was never even on the radar because of AB Groupe's tendency to ignore markets outside of its native France. That said, now that AB Groupe has lost the license to the franchise after all these years, that chance has slightly increased, although it still remains incredibly slim (in other words, it won't happen).

Count on Ocean's Kai being TV-only, just like its DBZ, and be pleasantly surprised if it ever is released in other venues.

[Puto]

That said, now that AB Groupe has lost the license to the franchise after all these years

Didn't happen. That info was wrong, iirc.

[sangofe]

That said, now that AB Groupe has lost the license to the franchise after all these years

Didn't happen. That info was wrong, iirc.

Still a slight possibility it is right. The guy at animeland said to wait a few weeks.