Ocean Studios' "Dragon Ball Kai" Dub Turns 14; Still Unreleased

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Re: Ocean Studios' "Dragon Ball Kai" dub seems to be coming.

Post by FNF » Mon Apr 30, 2012 1:14 pm

To be honest I would rather it wan't released because when it turns out to be awful the Ocean fanboys will still insist it sounds amazing especially Drummond's 'street punk' Vegeta.
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Re: Ocean Studios' "Dragon Ball Kai" dub seems to be coming.

Post by SSJSteve » Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:11 pm

dbboxkaifan wrote:
SSJSteve wrote:I always get excited when I see this thread pop up every now and again! :lol:

Hope we get some news soon.
We've been expecting news since 2010-2011 and still nothing.
Yep, and that's why I keep getting excited when there's a new post...

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Re: Ocean Studios' "Dragon Ball Kai" dub seems to be coming.

Post by Pokewhiz7 » Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:43 pm

dbboxkaifan wrote:
SSJSteve wrote:I always get excited when I see this thread pop up every now and again! :lol:

Hope we get some news soon.
We've been expecting news since 2010-2011 and still nothing.
Other than a voice actor confirming that he's working on it.

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Re: Ocean Studios' "Dragon Ball Kai" dub seems to be coming.

Post by penguintruth » Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:55 pm

It's been what, two years, since the rumors began?

I don't think it's happening.
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Re: Ocean Studios' "Dragon Ball Kai" dub seems to be coming.

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FNF wrote:To be honest I would rather it wan't released because when it turns out to be awful the Ocean fanboys will still insist it sounds amazing especially Drummond's 'street punk' Vegeta.
Much like Duke Nukem Forever, huh?
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FNF wrote:To be honest I would rather it wan't released because when it turns out to be awful the Ocean fanboys will still insist it sounds amazing especially Drummond's 'street punk' Vegeta.
Much like Duke Nukem Forever, huh?
Well, there wasn't a good Ocean dub to begin with so not exactly :D
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Post by NitroEX » Mon Apr 30, 2012 4:08 pm

If you hate the ocean dub so much then why are you posting in a thread about it other than to start shit?

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Post by dbboxkaifan » Mon Apr 30, 2012 4:28 pm

FNF wrote:Well, there wasn't a good Ocean dub to begin with so not exactly :D
FUNimation's Ocean Cast did a brilliant job with episodes 001-053 and the later ones did decrease in terms of quality but still pretty good.

Voice acting, music were the two things that made the Ocean version so damn good, despite the script not being accurate, but don't expect a dub to be faithfully accurate to the original edition. Ever.
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Post by Super Sayian Prime » Mon Apr 30, 2012 4:32 pm

I have no reason to not believe the dub was actually recorded. You don't cast a Freeza and have him record all of his lines to drop it. I just haven't got a clue as to why it hasn't shown up somewhere yet. Then again, Ocean dubbed InuYasha: The Final Act years ago and it has yet to pop up...
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Post by Hades » Mon Apr 30, 2012 4:42 pm

dbboxkaifan wrote:
FNF wrote:Well, there wasn't a good Ocean dub to begin with so not exactly :D
FUNimation's Ocean Cast did a brilliant job with episodes 001-053 and the later ones did decrease in terms of quality but still pretty good.

Voice acting, music were the two things that made the Ocean version so damn good, despite the script not being accurate, but don't expect a dub to be faithfully accurate to the original edition. Ever.
What about Funi's Kai dub?
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Re: Ocean Studios' "Dragon Ball Kai" dub seems to be coming.

Post by FNF » Mon Apr 30, 2012 4:50 pm

dbboxkaifan wrote:
FNF wrote:Well, there wasn't a good Ocean dub to begin with so not exactly :D
FUNimation's Ocean Cast did a brilliant job with episodes 001-053 and the later ones did decrease in terms of quality but still pretty good.

Voice acting, music were the two things that made the Ocean version so damn good, despite the script not being accurate, but don't expect a dub to be faithfully accurate to the original edition. Ever.
Yes they did do a brilliant job...of sounding like shit.

@Nitro, just posting my opinion.
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Post by dbboxkaifan » Mon Apr 30, 2012 5:00 pm

Hades wrote:What about Funi's Kai dub?
Script: Kai (but Ocean's Dead Zone film is considerably more accurate than the FUNi Kai dub)
Music: Ocean
Acting: Ocean
Voices: Ocean

Series scenes
http://youtu.be/iacgMVUJxNU
http://youtu.be/Ixt5u9CBHA8
http://youtu.be/9MoJXVG8nVE
http://youtu.be/jcWmiPJybSU
http://youtu.be/5M-oBvUBqfU
http://youtu.be/TX20KuQWH7s

Film scenes
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http://youtu.be/lS5zTB-zAnA
http://youtu.be/QtsM5LKoJPQ (KAIOH-KEN 2:31 scene)

Ocean Goku said "Keioken" in the series but they've redeemed themselves as in the film he pronounced "KAIOH-KEN" correctly as if he was imitating Masako Nozawa. Not even Schemmel comes close. Or Sabat to Drummond.

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Post by FNF » Mon Apr 30, 2012 5:48 pm

I don't think people got the memo that the Ocean dub's delivery was awful...

Oh and Vegeta's not meant to sound like a drugged up, street thug.
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FNF wrote:I don't think people got the memo that the Ocean dub's delivery was awful...

Oh and Vegeta's not meant to sound like a drugged up, street thug.
A street raspy thug is how Sabat's Vejeta sounds like. You haven't really brought up any useful information or videos, so let's stop here.
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Post by TheBlackPaladin » Mon Apr 30, 2012 6:12 pm

penguintruth wrote:It's been what, two years, since the rumors began?

I don't think it's happening.
It definitely has been a long time. However, I think we need to keep in mind a few things.

-The very first time we heard directly from an Ocean voice actor about the Ocean dub of Kai, it was Kirby Morrow talking about how he wasn't cast. So he was just talking about casting. The actual dubbing had not even begun at the time he talked the Ocean dub of Kai.
-The only English-speaking countries to air an English dub of Kai on TV are the countries that aired FUNimation's DBZ dub, and they are airing FUNimation's dub of Kai.
-The only English-speaking countries to NOT air an English dub of Kai on TV yet are the countries that aired Ocean's DBZ dub. Coincidental? Perhaps, but I don't think so. I think they're waiting on Ocean's dub of Kai.
-We've heard from three Ocean actors (Kirby Morrow, Lee Tockar, and Scott McNeil) who say that it is happening.
-We've heard from one FUNimation actor (Sean Schemmel) who says that it is happening.

Those are all the facts, so here's speculation on my part. I think that the reason it's taking a while is firstly because of Yamamotogate (aka the "Music Scandal"), and also because they're waiting to release the dub until the whole show is dubbed from start to finish, so they can release five episodes a week. Like I said, that's speculation, and even I'm a little bewildered as to why we haven't seen so much as a preview clip yet...but I haven't given up just yet.
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Post by Hades » Mon Apr 30, 2012 6:18 pm

TheBlackPaladin wrote:Those are all the facts, so here's speculation on my part. I think that the reason it's taking a while is firstly because of Yamamotogate (aka the "Music Scandal"), and also because they're waiting to release the dub until the whole show is dubbed from start to finish, so they can release five episodes a week. Like I said, that's speculation, and even I'm a little bewildered as to why we haven't seen so much as a preview clip yet...but I haven't given up just yet.
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Hades wrote:You have no idea how much i hate that suffix being applied to any scandal.
Does it bother you even more when it's applied to non-scandals such as "climategate"? :P
It's just something about the mass media that i loathe intensely.
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Post by FNF » Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:09 pm

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FNF wrote:I don't think people got the memo that the Ocean dub's delivery was awful...

Oh and Vegeta's not meant to sound like a drugged up, street thug.
A street raspy thug is how Sabat's Vejeta sounds like. You haven't really brought up any useful information or videos, so let's stop here.
I swear you must be a little hard of hearing. Sabat's Vegeta in Kai sounds nothing like a thug. He sounds like an arrogant prince.

I don't need to provide videos. The proof is all there in DBZKai.
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Post by Attitudefan » Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:03 pm

Not really a prince, he sounds more like a... I don't even know man.

Schemmel is the one I can't really stand as much. His voice is just so gravely and low. Every time I listen to the original then the English, it just does not sound RIGHT!
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