Actually, I think if FUNimation were to digitally remastered the sound effects and the entire background sound, the DBZ would've sounded better. There're numerous instances when there's no sound, when there's action going on. For example, at the end of the movie # 3,during the scene when the Tree of Night explodes, in the original Japanese version you hear nothing. There's only a mute audio and that's it. You only see the light being emitted in four directions. But in the Pioneer dub,while watching the same sequence with the remastered SFX, you hear this really cool *VVZZZZZZZZZZZZZZHHHT* sound, as the light emits.Can you imagine what dubbed DBZ would be like if it didn't incorporate the original sound effects? The Kamehameha would probably rip through the air with a phaser beam noise, and Super Saiyan auras would probably sound like wind chimes.
Also, in the 1997 Pioneer dub of Dead Zone, when Goku uses a Kamehameha against Ginger and Nicky (Garlic Jr's henchmen), and again, with the remastered sound, it flows through your ears real nice. Whereas with the un-touched SFX, it goes *Wshooooooo*, with the remastered sound it can only be best described as this. You can hear an electrical humming sound, as Goku charges it up and goes "Ka-me-ha-me..." and when he unleashes it, and shouts "Ha!", you hear *WVZZHOOOOOO*.
Dammit, it's just too difficult to be described with words alone. You'll have to hear it for yourself.
Of course, unlike Pioneer, FUNimation seems to prefer to waste their money re-scoring the entire music for the dub, rather than spend it on remastering the SFX and the picture.
*Sigh* Sometimes I wish Viz would dub DBZ.(But then again, we don't want Goku saying "Believe it!" every 2 seconds Confused )
And I have to love FUNi because they give us the original version.
*Sigh* And I sometimes wish that Pioneer had licensed DBZ.
If Pionner had the rights for the entire DBZ series and movies, based on my experience with their release of the first three DBZ movies, here's what we'd be getting:
A)An excellent English dub, done by Ocean Studios.
B)Retainting of the riginal Japanese music and songs.
C)Accurate and well-written scripts.
D)All the sound effects and the whole background sound, digitally remastered for your listening pleasure.
E)Gorgeous cover art for the home video and DVD releases, instead of those ugly-assed screenshots that Funimation loves to use so much.
With Pioneer, we'd all be getting all of THAT (English dub-wise) and the original Japanese version with English subtitles. Sounds good, doesn't it? But unfortunately, this was never to be. *Sigh* [/quote]
