What is the worst DB dub?

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Re: What is the worst DB dub?

Post by sangofe » Sat May 30, 2015 1:22 am

Vegitofaxx wrote:The danish one is not that good either...
The danish dub is excellent, and one of my favorites... I've heard many danes hate on it, though. I wonder why... I've seen a lot of dubs, and honestly, it stands out as excellent to me. The worst dub I've heard? The old serbian dub, or the turkish dub, I think.

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Re: What is the worst DB dub?

Post by Lozjudai » Sat May 30, 2015 5:35 am

Has anyone seen the Swedish dub and is it worth the watch?

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Re: What is the worst DB dub?

Post by sangofe » Sat May 30, 2015 9:03 am

Lozjudai wrote:Has anyone seen the Swedish dub and is it worth the watch?
I've seen it. It just a bit better than the Norwegian dub, making it quite a bad dub. Not the worst ever, but on the lower part of the list.

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Re: What is the worst DB dub?

Post by 90sDBZ » Sat May 30, 2015 11:10 am

My vote goes to the Big Green dub. People these days can look at clips of it on Youtube and see the funny side, but back in 2005 when Toonami UK got everybody hyped for the DBZ movies finally being shown only to disappoint everyone when they heard the voices, it was pretty damn annoying. Those Big Green movies seemed to be the beginning of the end for Toonami UK, as DB/Z/GT all got taken off the air around that time and there wasn't much left to watch aside from 4Kids One Piece.

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Re: What is the worst DB dub?

Post by Adamant » Sun May 31, 2015 10:31 am

Lozjudai wrote:Has anyone seen the Swedish dub and is it worth the watch?
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Adamant ... 2.mp4.html

It's not as comically bad as the Norwegian dub, but it's anything but good.
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Re: What is the worst DB dub?

Post by Dbzejo » Thu Jul 09, 2015 5:32 am

Lmao, i grew up with the old serbian dub, it was not until recently that i saw how bad it was (i ruined my childhood memories :( ) But I'm grateful to it because that was my introduction to this awesome franchise. They dubbed all 153 episodes of Dragon Ball and 52 of Z. It wasnt until 2010 when another company dubbed 105 episodes of Dragon Ball Z that i remembered that awesomness from my childhood and decided to watch everything. And i did, in 2010/2011, i watched all episodes of Dragon Ball/z/gt, all movies and read the manga, it was known as the return of the fanboy. And here i am, no.1 Montenegrin Dragon Ball fan, watching all this new stuff and loving it !!!

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Re: What is the worst DB dub?

Post by SaintEvolution » Thu Jul 09, 2015 9:35 am

sangofe wrote:
Vegitofaxx wrote:The danish one is not that good either...
The danish dub is excellent, and one of my favorites... I've heard many danes hate on it, though. I wonder why... I've seen a lot of dubs, and honestly, it stands out as excellent to me. The worst dub I've heard? The old serbian dub, or the turkish dub, I think.
Actually, it's not "excellent".

It's much better than most of european dubs, but still has some errors and some voices are not the best.
90sDBZ wrote:My vote goes to the Big Green dub. People these days can look at clips of it on Youtube and see the funny side, but back in 2005 when Toonami UK got everybody hyped for the DBZ movies finally being shown only to disappoint everyone when they heard the voices, it was pretty damn annoying. Those Big Green movies seemed to be the beginning of the end for Toonami UK, as DB/Z/GT all got taken off the air around that time and there wasn't much left to watch aside from 4Kids One Piece.
Big Green dub has script errors that came from the french dub(they used the french dub) and the acting isn't the best, but there are worse dubs than that.


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Anyway, for the worse dubs, besides Malaysian english, old serbian dub and others, we can put a few more, like the french dub(with horrible scripts), european portuguese dub(terrible acting and voices with corny jokes all the time and to make it really worse, it was translated by the french dub), the greek, and a few others.

And I have to say that the ocean dub became really bad after Cell Saga, but not so bad as some others I said.


You guys can just see some multilanguage videos to comprove it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g62RWOdZBFo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVWP59nz_us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtXCmbIagps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om9zSLd1Iis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmsrbH5uvHI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyqknDvDvLI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKDDDSHIklc

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Re: What is the worst DB dub?

Post by successoroffate » Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:22 am

Funimation is the worst Dub by far. Not because of the dub itself but rather how the dialogue differs from the original. It's a free for all basically. I'm pretty sure the Danish and Malaysian dubs are accurate and fateful to the original.
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Re: What is the worst DB dub?

Post by KameRule » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:01 pm

successoroffate wrote:Funimation is the worst Dub by far. Not because of the dub itself but rather how the dialogue differs from the original. It's a free for all basically. I'm pretty sure the Danish and Malaysian dubs are accurate and fateful to the original.
I'm sure that the brilliant scientists at Ocean would ask you to rethink that one :mrgreen:
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Re: What is the worst DB dub?

Post by Kakacarrottop » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:09 pm

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successoroffate wrote:Funimation is the worst Dub by far. Not because of the dub itself but rather how the dialogue differs from the original. It's a free for all basically. I'm pretty sure the Danish and Malaysian dubs are accurate and fateful to the original.
I'm sure that the brilliant scientists at Ocean would ask you to rethink that one :mrgreen:
The 'Ocean' dub you're referring to was written (and owned) by FUNimation, so it counts as part of their dub. Even the later Ocean-voiced dub done with different companies was basically still using FUNi's scripts.
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Re: What is the worst DB dub?

Post by KameRule » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:23 pm

Kakacarrottop wrote: The 'Ocean' dub you're referring to was written (and owned) by FUNimation, so it counts as part of their dub. Even the later Ocean-voiced dub done with different companies was basically still using FUNi's scripts.
Yeah I know, I just said "At Ocean" to try and emphasise the joke a bit better. The thread is about dubs, not companies, and what we call the "FUNimation Dub" is more faithful than what is known as the "Ocean Dub". They are two different entities.

Although I'd argue that the Ocean dub has better acting than the first FUNi dub.
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Re: What is the worst DB dub?

Post by successoroffate » Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:05 pm

KameRule wrote:
Kakacarrottop wrote: The 'Ocean' dub you're referring to was written (and owned) by FUNimation, so it counts as part of their dub. Even the later Ocean-voiced dub done with different companies was basically still using FUNi's scripts.
Yeah I know, I just said "At Ocean" to try and emphasise the joke a bit better. The thread is about dubs, not companies, and what we call the "FUNimation Dub" is more faithful than what is known as the "Ocean Dub". They are two different entities.

Although I'd argue that the Ocean dub has better acting than the first FUNi dub.

I was actually talking about Funi's dub in general. Most of the voice actors are not really into character...Take Killa for example.

Blue water, Ocean dream, Ocean Walker. Whatever the name is, I don't like them. Funi and Water are still cringeworthy.
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Re: What is the worst DB dub?

Post by SaintEvolution » Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:39 pm

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Lozjudai wrote:Has anyone seen the Swedish dub and is it worth the watch?
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Adamant ... 2.mp4.html

It's not as comically bad as the Norwegian dub, but it's anything but good.
Both swedish and norwegian maybe were translated by the Big Green dub(the 2 dubs use the "Big Green" term to refer to Piccolo). The danish dub of the movies was based in the big green dub too(the danish dub of the series was based in the french, but with many corrections based in the manga, as german dub was).

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Re: What is the worst DB dub?

Post by Dbzejo » Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:45 pm

successoroffate wrote:Funimation is the worst Dub by far. Not because of the dub itself but rather how the dialogue differs from the original. It's a free for all basically. I'm pretty sure the Danish and Malaysian dubs are accurate and fateful to the original.
They improved a lot over the years. Funimation is the best ...

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Re: What is the worst DB dub?

Post by DragonDuck » Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:17 pm

Acting-wise, I'd say that Speedy's Malaysian English version holds first place, with AB Groupe's Big Green dub coming in at a not-so-close second.

Translation-wise … FUNimation. Both cut and uncut. They change almost every line. They keep their old names even in the uncut dub (Krillin, Fr-i-eza and so on …). And yes, I know why they do so … but even in the uncut dub?!? :shock:
French is a second for me, but not at all a close one. At least, they somewat stuck to the original dialogue.
Third comes Big Green. Besides the weird name-changes, it's very obvious that they translate from French.
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Re: What is the worst DB dub?

Post by Singh is King » Fri Jul 17, 2015 5:52 pm

Malaysian/Speedy Co. by far, no contest: I could care less about the translation if I can't even listen to the characters without cringing and bursting out laughing.

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Re: What is the worst DB dub?

Post by SaintEvolution » Mon Jul 20, 2015 12:23 pm

Some dub comparisons I find in the last days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_obrrUkxzEU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCi0SBh8Orw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmsrbH5uvHI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3fACZlqkm0

I've searched a bit more too of the arabic dub(the original and Kai) and it is not that great. The acting some times is good and in some other times is totally awful. Other dub I have searched a bit is the original basque dub. It sounds to be a not horrible dub, but it could be a lot better with some differences. For example, they lefted some screams and even some complete words in japanese(like Goku's "Urusane!" when he kills Broly in the 8th movie, for example):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNiSYpv9h8I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bzdMRfU4aA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5nci63l06I

But it's not the worse dub, even with that facts. Actually is a bit(but only a bit) far from be the worse or one of the worse dubs. But is rare dub, so I shared here with you guys.

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Re: What is the worst DB dub?

Post by Draconic » Mon Jul 20, 2015 12:29 pm

http://www.peteava.ro/id-570678-playlis ... -gojiitaaf

The Romanian dub. Bad voices and acting and there are like 3-4 actors doing everybody. Literraly, EVERYBODY!
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Re: What is the worst DB dub?

Post by Avery » Mon Jul 20, 2015 4:07 pm

The Arabic dub hands down. Acting-wise, translation-wise and especially the freaking censorship.

Funi's dub is awful too, and to make things worse, it's the prevailing dub in the USA. It's the main culprit as to why some people view DB as "a stupid kids cartoon".
Their Kai dub is overall good, though.
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Re: What is the worst DB dub?

Post by SaintEvolution » Mon Jul 20, 2015 4:57 pm

Avery wrote:The Arabic dub hands down. Acting-wise, translation-wise and especially the freaking censorship.

Funi's dub is awful too, and to make things worse, it's the prevailing dub in the USA. It's the main culprit as to why some people view DB as "a stupid kids cartoon".
Their Kai dub is overall good, though.
About the arabic dub, it has problems, but it's not worse than the malaysian english, for example.
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The Romanian dub. Bad voices and acting and there are like 3-4 actors doing everybody. Literraly, EVERYBODY!
Until I know, Romania used voice over, not dubbing. Are 2 different things.

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