A difference in Goku's voice (FUNimation English dub)?

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A difference in Goku's voice (FUNimation English dub)?

Post by Joppuman » Fri Mar 06, 2015 8:04 pm

I was watching some old trailers for dragon ball stuff, and noticed in one for, i think sleeping princess in devils castle, that Goku's dub voice sounded different than in the show. Since finding this site, i have become more of a fan of the Japanese version of dragon ball, and have come to dislike Goku's voice in English, at least when he was a kid. So seeing that i own the movie i decided to check to see if it was actually different, and it was. I'll say i actually kind of liked it, it was listenable. So my question is does anyone know why it might be different, like what was the state of the dragon ball dub during the time they dubbed those movies. Also did this person play Goku in anything besides the movies, and can i find those anywhere.
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Re: a difference in Gokus voice?

Post by clutchins » Fri Mar 06, 2015 8:12 pm

Sleeping Princess and Mystical Adventure were dubbed ca. 1997 I believe before they had hired Stephanie Nadolny and before they had begun to dub Dragon Ball. Ceyli Delgadillo voiced Kid Goku in those two movies and later Dende in the original dub for DBZ.
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Re: a difference in Gokus voice?

Post by Valerius Dover » Fri Mar 06, 2015 8:58 pm

Yeah, pretty much just Movie 2 released in 1998 and Movie 3 in 2000. You can also hear Delgadillo's Goku voice in some Cell Arc flashbacks, including the infamous Red Ribbon flashback montage.

Also, Movie 1 doesn't have Nadolny either, instead it's Colleen Clinkenbeard.
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Re: a difference in Gokus voice?

Post by TheGmGoken » Fri Mar 06, 2015 9:05 pm

Valerius Dover wrote:Yeah, pretty much just Movie 2 released in 1998 and Movie 3 in 2000. You can also hear Delgadillo's Goku voice in some Cell Arc flashbacks, including the infamous Red Ribbon flashback montage.

Also, Movie 1 doesn't have Nadolny either, instead it's Colleen Clinkenbeard.
That's the movie 1 redub. The original movie 1 had a different VA
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Post by VegettoEX » Fri Mar 06, 2015 10:48 pm

TheGmGoken wrote:That's the movie 1 redub. The original movie 1 had a different VA
The original DB Movie 1 dub, done prior to DBZ, has Saffron Henderson as Goku (who played him in those TV episodes 1-13 and then went on to be Gohan when they moved to DBZ).

While I was able to find my archives of the Pilaf and Shuu voices, I unfortunately was never able to find my archives of the Goku voice samples they put up for a poll. Delgadillo and Nadolny were in there, but I can't for the life of me remember who the other two might have been.
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Re: a difference in Gokus voice?

Post by TheGmGoken » Fri Mar 06, 2015 10:54 pm

VegettoEX wrote:
TheGmGoken wrote:That's the movie 1 redub. The original movie 1 had a different VA
The original DB Movie 1 dub, done prior to DBZ, has Saffron Henderson as Goku (who played him in those TV episodes 1-13 and then went on to be Gohan when they moved to DBZ).

While I was able to find my archives of the Pilaf and Shuu voices, I unfortunately was never able to find my archives of the Goku voice samples they put up for a poll. Delgadillo and Nadolny were in there, but I can't for the life of me remember who the other two might have been.
Shouldn't it be on behind the voice website? I believe they have every voice sample and actor for a lot of anime dubs.
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Re: a difference in Gokus voice?

Post by Gaffer Tape » Sat Mar 07, 2015 12:21 am

While they might have voice samples of every actor who actually *played* Goku, it's highly unlikely they have audition samples from an opinion poll of people who never actually got the job.
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Re: a difference in Gokus voice?

Post by TheBalishChannel » Sat Mar 07, 2015 12:49 am

VegettoEX wrote: While I was able to find my archives of the Pilaf and Shuu voices, I unfortunately was never able to find my archives of the Goku voice samples they put up for a poll. Delgadillo and Nadolny were in there, but I can't for the life of me remember who the other two might have been.
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Re: a difference in Gokus voice?

Post by thaman91 » Sat Mar 07, 2015 1:14 am

Has anyone tried looking it up on the WayBack Machine? It does sometimes manage to preserve audio.
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Re: a difference in Gokus voice?

Post by VegettoEX » Sat Mar 07, 2015 9:12 am

thaman91 wrote:Has anyone tried looking it up on the WayBack Machine? It does sometimes manage to preserve audio.
I tried everything I could.

What's funny is that FUNimation's original upload of the GT opening rap song MP3 was still hanging out on their website for yeeeeeeeeeeeears (and might even still be there if you know the URL), but I don't think these files lasted that long.
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Re: A difference in Goku's voice (FUNimation English dub)?

Post by ABED » Sat Mar 07, 2015 10:14 am

It's like they already had the voices they wanted in mind picked and gave the fans 3 other terrible options to guarantee their picks. Voice 2 for Pilaf sounds like a voice that Shawn Spencer would use on an episode of Psych.
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Re: A difference in Goku's voice (FUNimation English dub)?

Post by TVfan721 » Sat Mar 07, 2015 12:09 pm

Couldn't we ask Chris Sabat?
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Re: A difference in Goku's voice (FUNimation English dub)?

Post by sangofe » Sat Mar 07, 2015 12:14 pm

I wonder why FUNimation's had so many different young Goku voices...
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Re: A difference in Goku's voice (FUNimation English dub)?

Post by TheGmGoken » Sat Mar 07, 2015 1:30 pm

sangofe wrote:I wonder why FUNimation's had so many different young Goku voices...
Saiyan puberty is a bitch.
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Re: A difference in Goku's voice (FUNimation English dub)?

Post by sangofe » Sat Mar 07, 2015 4:04 pm

TheGmGoken wrote:
sangofe wrote:I wonder why FUNimation's had so many different young Goku voices...
Saiyan puberty is a bitch.
Well, the french dub for example only ever had one voice...
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