Is Fríeza the official name for Freeza in JPN products?

[desirecampbell]

I'm more intrigued by those Kai images dboxkaifan posted that refer to a "2nd season DVD." Since when is actual Dragon Ball divided into seasons?

Those are from Kai. The Japanese home release was split into two sections, Saiyan/Freeza arc and Artificial Human/Cell arc, with the numbering restarting. The images are for "season 2 DVD 11", -"12", and -"14", which are the 29th, 30th, and 32nd DVDs released.

[Bussani]

Kinda amused by all the "Gokou sounds weird" talk, when it's being pronounced the same way over there despite how they romanize it.

No one said it sounds weird or that they pronounce it differently over there. It's the same as them using Frieza instead of Freeza, in a way, only potentially worse because someone who didn't know any better (i.e. had never heard of Dragon Ball or Goku) could misread it even more easily. No one who saw "Ryouga" would say, "Ah, so this is pronounced Ryuga," and no one who saw "Gokou" would assume it should be pronounced "Goku". It just doesn't matter as much in Japan because they're not depending on how it's written in romaji to pronounce it. They have hiragana for that. It could be written "Goukoe" in romaji for all they care--they'd still pronounce it right so long as ごくう was written somewhere.

[Metalwario64]

Kinda amused by all the "Gokou sounds weird" talk, when it's being pronounced the same way over there despite how they romanize it.

No one said it sounds weird...

Someone said exactly that:

"Gokou" does sound and look weird, imo.

[Bussani]

Fair enough, I could have worded that better. I don't think dbboxkaifan was implying that they pronounce it differently in Japan, which is the real point. "Gokou" will sound weird, however, if you read it as anyone familiar with romaji would. You'd mistake it for one of these words if you didn't know any better.

[Attitudefan]

knowing a bit of Japanese and pronunciation, Gokou is completely wrong in terms of how you would say it. It would be 'Go' - 'ko' with a long o sound. Gokuu would be correct, but I'm not sure if it is... As I am not a native Japanese speaker, I have a hard time picking up the way they say a word with a long or short sound. They sound the same to me.

If his name is spelled with the double 'Kuu' in Japanese than it is long, but from what I hear it really sounds like a short 'ku' at the end.

[Bussani]

His name is ごくう (Go-Ku-U), so it is a double vowel at the end, yes.

[Attitudefan]

His name is ごくう (Go-Ku-U), so it is a double vowel at the end, yes.

I see thank you!

Maybe the translators got confused...? I don't know how though. Ko and Ku have quite a different sound!

[Bussani]

Weird romanizations crop up in Japan here and there.



Like I said, it doesn't matter so much from their perspective, since the pronunciations are made completely clear using kana. It's also possible that, like someone suggested, they were trying to transliterate it and make it like the "ou" in the English word "you". But that doesn't stop me from thinking it's weird and confusing to anyone who knows how "ou" in a Japanese name would normally be read.

[Haji]

Yeah i agree with you Bussani. I have also thought, what if they are trying to spell Gokuu in english as "Go-kou" so people that speak english would say it right like "gokuu".

[LiamKav]

I've only just twigged in this thread that the "ou" at the end of "Go-kou" could be interpreted to mean "rhymes with 'you'". Which... works, annoyingly. Although I think an unaware English speaker would be more likely to pronounce it "Go-kow" if it was spelt like that.

[Rukura]

By the way, regarding the video games, I was watching a Super Dragon Ball Z (japanese version) video that shows his name as Freeza.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRdDsr_q ... age#t=435s

[B]

Although I think an unaware English speaker would be more likely to pronounce it "Go-kow" if it was spelt like that.

This is exactly what I did in 2002 when I saw toy collections for DBGT in one of those Beckett magazines. The spelling was so jarring to me I assumed "Gokow" was a new character.

EDIT: Wow, uhm... someone had to bump this thread before I did. Was I drunk...?

[JulieYBM]

I'm more intrigued by those Kai images dboxkaifan posted that refer to a "2nd season DVD." Since when is actual Dragon Ball divided into seasons?

One Piece also does this for its DVD singles. The first two 'piece' releases of the 16THシーズン パンクハザード編 are set for release on January 8, 2014. シーズン of course being shiizon, 'season'.

EDIT: Wait, this is a bumped thread. Whoops. >_<

[Logan]

It's funny because I didn't really take much issue with the "ie" spelling, originally. Once I started exploring the fan base and got what seems to be the majority opinion I'm finding myself unable to read "ie" without my brain temporarily halting. It's jarring to me now.

Wouldn't it be grand if there was one official, end-all, be-all, translation list that would be the standard to follow? Gundam '79 had different camps that preferred different pronunciations, etc. before finally having the names and terms set in stone.

Granted, I'm inclined to say I'd want it be based off of Steve Simmons's work on the series. Mostly because that's what I used to reprogram myself from the old Funimation days.

[Roland_ELoG]

knowing a bit of Japanese and pronunciation, Gokou is completely wrong in terms of how you would say it. It would be 'Go' - 'ko' with a long o sound. Gokuu would be correct, but I'm not sure if it is... As I am not a native Japanese speaker, I have a hard time picking up the way they say a word with a long or short sound. They sound the same to me.

If his name is spelled with the double 'Kuu' in Japanese than it is long, but from what I hear it really sounds like a short 'ku' at the end.

Yup. If you spell it Gokou, the u is taken not as a u sound but as a continuation of o. Gokooooo. That would just roll off the American tongue.

[Herms]

EDIT: Wow, uhm... someone had to bump this thread before I did. Was I drunk...?

I was lazy and just deleted the necro-posting...post, hoping that would take care of things. I was wrong.

Please don't necro-post, people!

You don't need to respond to threads from over a year ago! You can just make a brand-new thread on the exact same topic, and make yourself look original.