Question Regarding Doctor Gero in the Mexican Dub

[GotenDaisuki]

In the Mexican dub, Dr. Gero had some weird name inconsistency. First off his name was changed to Doctor Maki. Then they combined that with the correct name and called him "Maki-Gero". And it would go back and forth calling him those two names. One episode would use Maki, another Maki-Gero, then back to just Maki, and sometimes even the correct Gero. But why did they change his name to this in the first place? It could not have been the same mistake they made with Piccolo Daimaou, renaming him Pikoro Daimaku (since I think this was a misread kanji or something), because Gero's name is completely written in Katakana. So how'd they make this mistake?

[Majin Boo]

Well "Piccolo" is katakana too, and seems like an odd word to not recognize at all, but I suppose that's possible. Daimaou as "Daimaku" though? That's just being a really bad translator. 王 (ou) is extremely common and not a character you can exactly confuse for another, and 魔王 (maou) is used constantly in media. Plus, you know, you can hear them pronouncing it.

Maybe it was a case of some moron acting like they know Japanese but just making it up. Gero and Maki don't look or sound anything alike.

EDIT: Or maybe someone initially changed the name, and then another person didn't like it, so they tried to reconcile it by using both names?

[TheBlackPaladin]

EDIT: Or maybe someone initially changed the name, and then another person didn't like it, so they tried to reconcile it by using both names?

That's possible. One of the problems that plagued the Cloverleaf English dub of "Sailor Moon" was that there were three writers working on it who did not coordinate with each other at all, leading to a ton of inconsistencies.

[Jurik]

In the Mexican dub, Dr. Gero had some weird name inconsistency. First off his name was changed to Doctor Maki. Then they combined that with the correct name and called him "Maki-Gero". And it would go back and forth calling him those two names. One episode would use Maki, another Maki-Gero, then back to just Maki, and sometimes even the correct Gero. But why did they change his name to this in the first place? It could not have been the same mistake they made with Piccolo Daimaou, renaming him Pikoro Daimaku (since I think this was a misread kanji or something), because Gero's name is completely written in Katakana. So how'd they make this mistake?

Well, Carlos Segundo (Piccolo's voice actor) said that Gloria Rocha (mexican dub director), decide to call Dr. Gero as "Maki Gero"... she decide to call him like that just because she like to calle hum like that so it is not really a mistake.

I don't know why call Piccolo Daimao as "Daimaku" but I'm sure they change the pronunciation for X reason, and not mistakenly, just as call Gero as Maki

[kei17]

Doctor Maki sounds very weird because Maki is a female name in Japan. Daimaku also is a stupid change which makes no sense. It's like changing "demon king" to "demon kinpo" or something like that.

[Super Sonic]

Haven't seen the Mexican dub other than movie 5 and some scenes of the early eps, but I know Mexico changes names in dubs there too. For example, they call Daffy Duck "Pato Lucas". Don't know why they didn't just call him "Daffy Pato" (Pato=duck in Spanish), but they changed it. Could be that they liked the sound of the name more. In case anyone doesn't know who I mean:

Doctor Maki sounds very weird because Maki is a female name in Japan. Daimaku also is a stupid change which makes no sense. It's like changing "demon king" to "demon kinpo" or something like that.

Could be a cultural thing, as I remember there was a child actor named Miko Hughes who was a boy, while I mainly know Miko as a girl's name. But read i came from his Native American grandfather or something.

[Attitudefan]

So then the Mexican dub is not as accurate as many claim it is.

[VegettoEX]

So then the Mexican dub is not as accurate as many claim it is.

We're talking about one little example of a name here. Put it in context versus the French or English dub.

[TheBlackPaladin]

Right. No dub will ever be 100% accurate (a point that subbies often make use of). The Mexican dub also renamed Chichi to "Milk," because in Spanish, "Chichi" is a vulgar term for a woman's breast. Still, they had the most consistently accurate script...combined that with some great acting, and you've got what is probably the best dub DBZ ever received. Other dubs approached their level at times (including FUNimation's dub, in my opinion), but none of the dubs were as consistently accurate and good as the Mexican dub.

[dbboxkaifan]

Right. No dub will ever be 100% accurate (a point that subbies often make use of). The Mexican dub also renamed Chichi to "Milk," because in Spanish, "Chichi" is a vulgar term for a woman's breast. Still, they had the most consistently accurate script...combined that with some great acting, and you've got what is probably the best dub DBZ ever received. Other dubs approached their level at times (including FUNimation's dub, in my opinion), but none of the dubs were as consistently accurate and good as the Mexican dub.

In the BR DBZ/KAI dub they kept Chichi's original name, but in the Portuguese dub they changed it to Kika (still better than Milk).

I'd say Brazil's DBZ is the most accurate dub of all's, Kuririn's Kuririn not Krillin for God's sake. But.. They never mentioned Goku's family name, not even in the "I Am Speech" scene.

Btw, BR DBZ > BR Kai. The BR Kai dub stinks because, it has so many damn audio mistakes it's just awful. Here I was thinking the home release in Brazil would've contained the uncut BR Kai dub with all the audio mistakes fixed, but nope.

[TheBlackPaladin]

Well, the absence of an uncut Brazilian dub of Kai doesn't surprise me at all, because the materials they used to produce their dub were from the Nicktoons-censored English dub. I believe I also heard at one point that they based their DBZ dub on the Mexican dub, but I can't confirm this. However, I have heard a few fans say here and there that they actually prefer the Brazilian Kai dub in spite of its audio errors because the acting is better.