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Kingdom Heartless
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by Kingdom Heartless » Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:26 pm
piccolo-san785 wrote:Piccolo Daimaoh wrote:True. FUNimation will find something else to (re)release after they're done with the DBoxes and Kai. Things may quieten down in Japan, but in the West I highly doubt it.
This is one of the reasons why I somewhat dislike Funimation. I mean geez, how many times can you re-release the same thing?
I'm not really willing to complain, since their latest re-release has been a fan's wet dream.
Take away the Dragon Boxes and they really haven't done
that much re-releasing.
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Dr. Casey
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by Dr. Casey » Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:25 am
Drabaz wrote:What worries me is that there's not much time left to get new things from Dragonball. These voice actors are getting old, folks. I fear the day when Masaka Nozawa passes on.
I don't want her being replaced. I can atleast put up with Sean for an American dub because he's what English Goku is to me. But as for Japanese Goku, nobody can replace Masaka Nozawa.
The voice actors actually aren't that old, I don't think... I actually
tallied up everyone's age a little more than a year ago. The post is kind of ugly and hard to read, but the age demographics are roughly something like...
30s: 1 character
40s: 16 characters
50s: 30 characters
60s: 15 characters
70s: 17 characters, about 9 actors (Some of these just voicing minor characters like Lucifer or the Mummy)
80s: 1 character
I know that some of the actors are getting up there, but on the whole the Dragon Ball cast can still potentially be around for quite some time. The majority of the cast is still younger than Masako was whenever Dragon Ball GT finished.
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by BlazingFiddlesticks » Sun Mar 06, 2011 4:37 pm
Kingdom Heartless wrote:piccolo-san785 wrote:Piccolo Daimaoh wrote:True. FUNimation will find something else to (re)release after they're done with the DBoxes and Kai. Things may quieten down in Japan, but in the West I highly doubt it.
This is one of the reasons why I somewhat dislike Funimation. I mean geez, how many times can you re-release the same thing?
I'm not really willing to complain, since their latest re-release has been a fan's wet dream.
Take away the Dragon Boxes and they really haven't done
that much re-releasing.
Particularly if you look at the Season Sets as Funimation's saying "Wait, stop, better idea!"
Question, though; were the singles uncut? I own none and thus don't know.
The Dragon Boxes really started things simply because Funimation admitted the Season Sets were not perfect by acknowledging a fanbase that wouldn't accept them after hyping the things to the moon.
JulieYBM wrote:Pannaliciour wrote:Reading all the comments and interviews, my conclusion is: nobody knows what the hell is going on.
Just like
Dragon Ball since Chapter #4.
son veku wrote:Metalwario64 wrote:BlazingFiddlesticks wrote:Kingdom Piccolo
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by Super Sonic » Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:55 pm
piccolo-san785 wrote:Piccolo Daimaoh wrote:True. FUNimation will find something else to (re)release after they're done with the DBoxes and Kai. Things may quieten down in Japan, but in the West I highly doubt it.
This is one of the reasons why I somewhat dislike Funimation. I mean geez, how many times can you re-release the same thing?
Ask former ADV staff.
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by TripleRach » Mon Mar 07, 2011 3:17 am
BlazingFiddlesticks wrote:Question, though; were the singles uncut? I own none and thus don't know.
Yes, they were all uncut, if you don't count the eyecatches and recaps (which some early discs were missing). IIRC, the first volume (Captain Ginyu - Assault) did have some nudity censored, but only in the dub video track. You could still see it uncensored in Japanese. And a lot of the movies had both an edited and uncut single.
The Pioneer singles of the early episodes were of course censored, which was why FUNimation branded their in-house re-release of those episodes "Ultimate Uncut Edition." But since the UUE line was canceled, episodes 28-67 never had an uncut, uncropped English release until the US Dragon Boxes.
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