Chris Sabat announces Buu saga licensed by Funimation

[B]

... I don't see how any one could dislike Justin Cook as Super Buu he was pretty much perfect, and he got even better as Buutenks and Buuhan.

Eh, I would say the opposite. Cook's Evil Buu pre-absorption has this low, guttural-sounding quality to it. It's pretty menacing and cool, but then he becomes Buuhanks and starts speaking properly, and that sounds very over-the-top villainish.

[ABED]

I don't really have a problem with Josh Martin as Buu, the voice works for Buu's character and design and TBH Buu's Japanese voice doesn't sound THAT menacing when he's angry so Martin is on par with Shioya even in that department. Also I don't see how any one could dislike Justin Cook as Super Buu he was pretty much perfect, and he got even better as Buutenks and Buuhan.

Even if you don't think he sounds that menacing, Martin is still nowhere near on par with Shioya. As for Justin, I don't think he's a talented actor. He tries too hard to sound evil as Buu, cocky as Raditz, or badass and cool as Yusuke. I like him as a producer, but not as an actor.

[dbzfan7]

Also I don't see how any one could dislike Justin Cook as Super Buu he was pretty much perfect, and he got even better as Buutenks and Buuhan

I with ya on that one. Super Boo was one of the only good voices funimation had with pretty good acting. I loved how his personality would change from being dumb and rage filled, to a smart alleck once he absorbs Piccolo and Gohan.

[dbboxkaifan]

66 episodes has been proved to be false, so I hope it's at least somewhere between 30 to 40 max.

About the picture quality, er... Can't really expect anything good or even a proper HD remaster.

[TheBlackPaladin]

66 episodes has been proved to be false, so I hope it's at least somewhere between 30 to 40 max.

About the picture quality, er... Can't really expect anything good or even a proper HD remaster.

Well, Tanaka said she thought it looked better. Of course, it could be that she's just trying to be a good sport and promote the project, but the fact that she mentioned it despite the fact that the Kai-Buu arc won't air in Japan has me hesitating to reach that particular conclusion.

[90sDBZ]

Justin Cook as Super Buu was always great. When I first watched the Fusion saga on CNX he creeped the hell of of me. And his screams were brilliant. It's not often I find a DBZ villain to be genuinely unsettling but he was.

[ABED]

I'm not hearing at all what you guys hear at all! All I hear is a guy trying too hard to sound evil.

[VegettoEX]

Straying pretty far off the intended path here, folks.

[90sDBZ]

Super Buu was actually re-dubbed in Season 9 of the Orange Bricks which I thought was unnecessary. Anyway I hope Funi get around to dubbing Kai sooner rather than later. Maybe Kai will get less hate once it includes the whole series. And I hope they use a good score for it.

[ABED]

But I'm sure some pocket of the fandom will complain about kai because it used to end with the way Toriyama "intended", after the death of Cell.

[Daisetsu]

Super Buu was actually re-dubbed in Season 9 of the Orange Bricks which I thought was unnecessary.

A lot of people seem to think so, but nope, the only difference between original broadcast-Super Buu and Orange Brick-Super Buu is a voice filter.

[90sDBZ]

Super Buu was actually re-dubbed in Season 9 of the Orange Bricks which I thought was unnecessary.

A lot of people seem to think so, but nope, the only difference between original broadcast-Super Buu and Orange Brick-Super Buu is a voice filter.

I think that was the case for a lot of the scenes but I swear there were some instances in the Bricks were his voice sounded completely different. Like less deep and more raspy. He definitely recorded some new lines because there was that scene were Gotenks kicks him and the smoke appears. In the original Funi dub Buu says nothing but on the Orange Bricks he says "so you made smoke". And the way he sounds when he says it is how he sounds a lot of the time in the remastered set.

It reminds me of how Frieza's voice always used to echo when shouted in the old dub but in the re-dub they removed the echo despite it being the same recording.

Hopefully they keep Cook as Super Buu in Kai. To be honest I actually can't think of any major character that need recasting. Although Uub sounds a bit old for a 10 year old so I guess they could consider him.

[Metalwario64]

In the original Funi dub Buu says nothing but on the Orange Bricks he says "so you made smoke". And the way he sounds when he says it is how he sounds a lot of the time in the remastered set.

That's because the "revised" dub contains a lot of previously unused lines, such as Goku's speech before he kills Boo about how "killing is wrong, so now I'm going to show you what it's like to be killed".

His voice sounds different because it was pitched down quite a bit originally.

Which reminds me that, interestingly, I was comparing the movie 5 dub audio between the Double Feature and the Single DVD, and noticed that normal Coola's voice seemed a tad pitched up originally for some reason. It's a bit deeper on the Double Feature, which had less filters.

[90sDBZ]

In the original Funi dub Buu says nothing but on the Orange Bricks he says "so you made smoke". And the way he sounds when he says it is how he sounds a lot of the time in the remastered set.

That's because the "revised" dub contains a lot of previously unused lines, such as Goku's speech before he kills Boo about how "killing is wrong, so now I'm going to show you what it's like to be killed".

His voice sounds different because it was pitched down quite a bit originally.

Which reminds me that, interestingly, I was comparing the movie 5 dub audio between the Double Feature and the Single DVD, and noticed that normal Coola's voice seemed a tad pitched up originally for some reason. It's a bit deeper on the Double Feature, which had less filters.

That is interesting. What is funny about Goku's "killing is wrong" speech is that it was kept intact in the Ocean dub. I'm guessing the part were Vegeta watches Goku vs Kid Buu and says "freaky" as the sky changes was an unused line too?

Were the changes to the pitch actually intentional or unavoidable?

[Metalwario64]

That is interesting. What is funny about Goku's "killing is wrong" speech is that it was kept intact in the Ocean dub. I'm guessing the part were Vegeta watches Goku vs Kid Buu and says "freaky" as the sky changes was an unused line too?

Were the changes to the pitch actually intentional or unavoidable?

The "freaky" line is. It's not on the old single DVD and broadcast, but it's on the orange brick.

Others and I assume the pitch changes were due to using a slightly older set of recordings before most filters were placed on the voices, and they carelessly forgot to reapply the filters when they recompiled the dub.

Still don't understand why they didn't reuse the audio from the singles for the "broadcast" option on the orange bricks.

[Dizrythmia]

Is there even video proof Sabat confirmed this?

As I mentioned in an earlier post, video proof will be coming, but the convention won't release the DVDs for a few months.

In the meantime no one believes me so whatever. Next time I hear a snippet of information I know where not to go with it...

I could understand no one believing me if I was new to the forum or a proven liar. Instead I've linked my website www.retrospekt.com.au to you all before, I've interviewed Funimation voice actors (under the "Interviews" section of the site) & I've never done anything out of turn on here before, for the small amount that I post. if after all of that no one chooses to believe me, well I can't make you all.

I'll go back to lurking. Cheers guys

[theoriginalbilis]

It's not that no one believes you, it's just that FUNimation officially denied it (even if one of their VAs said something about it off the cuff), so there's nothing to really talk about until some kind of official announcement.

[ChibiGoku]

I also want to comment that it wouldn't be the first time a voice actor has said something and FUNimation themselves have denied it. So, don't worry.

[dbboxkaifan]

It's not that no one believes you, it's just that FUNimation officially denied it (even if one of their VAs said something about it off the cuff), so there's nothing to really talk about until some kind of official announcement.

Yeah, he could have said but I for myself am just hoping he said the wrong quantity of episodes.

Kai's supposed to cut off some/most of the filler, having 66 episodes won't do much good.

[ABED]

That's keeping in more than 2/3rds of the material. I would like that number to be around half.