JulieYBM wrote:I noticed the voice change in 1999. I was nine. I didn't care. I've always been a geek, I notice things. If we're to believe Dragon Ball is massively popular in America than that only increases the odds that a different cast would go unnoticed and uncared about and ultimately have no real effect on a US box office gross.
This all being said on the massive assumption that Fox gets the license and the film sees a wide US release.
Ironically coming from a Funi fan, I noticed the changes, and I was upset at first (with Gohan's change especially). But, the series hadn't been running that long with the cast in comparison to what is now...over 13 years right? Was it 1999 when the cast-switch happened? Despite how long the reruns felt as a child, the Ocean Dub was only on Toonami for about a year when the switch happened.
The longer a cast is retained, the more upset people get when changes are made. Replace the Simpsons VAs after Season One? Some rage, but there's a chance to get people into it. 10 years later? 20 years later? Blood will be had. Look at the whole thing with David Hayter not being asked back as Big Boss for MGSV. Had it happened after MGS1, yeah, people would get mad (it was the best video game acting we'd seen at the time after all)...but now? People are seething blood from their tightly clenched asses over it (myself included, I won't buy it if this is a replacement job without a VERY valid excuse *aka, he voices a young Snake, they want to distinct Big Boss and Snake now come a remake of Metal Gear/Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake*).
Vice wrote:The problem here is that you're comparing some of the greatest voice actors and their most iconic roles with a bunch of decent voice actors at Funimation at best, and it even took them years to get to that level in itself.
I simply chose examples people would recognize. Popular ones minimize the risk of it going over your head, and avoid series people just don't care about.
And yeah, it took them years to get there, but they were mostly inexperienced voice actors with no prior training and bad direction/scripting. All of that changed since then. And I wouldn't say "decent" applies to them now, I would say good. They've had a decade of experience, working their way from old style dubs to what we expect as the standard, and can really flex their acting chops now, especially with a better script/direction and an intent to do the series justice (it was Schemmel's idea to do the "Son Goku" part and fix the "Kaioken" pronunciation).
Even if they weren't that good, kids soaked them up for over 3 years there (just Z, not counting original and GT), then they brought it back for the Uncut run, then they came back for Kai's run, so yeah, I'm pretty sure fans who watched it have those voices stuck in their heads by now if they stuck with it for any decent amount of time. Eventually, many of them probably became attached to those voices to some degree, that might upset them if it were changed.
You don't have to be the most famous or best voice actor for kids to grow attached to your voice for a long period of time (especially if it was on a popular show).
