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Yeah, they've held the recording session for the movie. I'd assume it really happened some time ago rather than just today or yesterday, since the blog post is purposefully vague ("on a certain day in 2015"), and some of the messages we've got from the voice actors seem like they were made after recording for the film. Or maybe this was just the latest of several sessions. I'm not sure exactly how they do it.
Hello, it’s the staff.
Just 49 days left until the movie debuts!
On a certain day in 2015, at a certain place in a certain city…
The post-recording for the film “Dragon Ball Z: The Revival of F” was conducted.
The entire super cast, representing the voice acting field, people who need no introduction! I’m beginning to think that I’m not even worthy to breathe the same air as them…
Amidst this overwhelming atmosphere that seemed to say “this land is the nexus of anime!”, the cast entered the booths one after the other. And then from out of those booths floated voices, voices, voices…of Goku, Freeza, and all the rest!
What’s more, the script this time was split up into a whopping 5 volumes!
Quite hefty! But despite the massive volume, the cast still handled it all with as much aplomb as you’d expect.
Even though we weren’t in a movie theater, so much intensity and fun came across. It’ll definitely become something special when seen on the big screen!
Only 49 days to go until the movie’s premiere, so hang in there just a bit longer!
Chris Ayres has stepped up even further as Freeza in Xenoverse, and I'm really excited at what he will bring on the table for Freeza in the upcoming movie. Seriously, his Freeza is way off the chart. I seriously have no doubt that when FUNimation officially announces the movie, they are going to heavily advertise Ayres to show off his Freeza voice. Both Nakao and Ayres are going to be very pleasant.
I could see the fans of Japanese version actually having no problem switching to the English dub for the movie, because they are this good. They are nearly on the same level as the Japanese cast. Chris Ayres as Freeza is going to be in the spotlight as are Schemmel's Gokû and Sabat's Vegeta. The scripting is going to be amazing for both versions. I'm really looking forward to hearing their performances.
That is a wonderful translation and reminds me why I love vocab.
Nexis! Aplomb!
Hefty. :3
Thank you again for the translations; these are really enjoyable to follow each day.
Also, dense script sounds exciting. X3
Re: Chris Ayers
Heard him in Xenoverse when I first started it up; his Freeza is awesome and I can so see why he's rated so highly in the dub. I will definitely be playing some of the Freeza arc in English in XV for that.
DragonBalllKaiHD wrote:Chris Ayres has stepped up even further as Freeza in Xenoverse, and I'm really excited at what he will bring on the table for Freeza in the upcoming movie. Seriously, his Freeza is way off the chart. I seriously have no doubt that when FUNimation officially announces the movie, they are going to heavily advertise Ayres to show off his Freeza voice. Both Nakao and Ayres are going to be very pleasant.
I could see the fans of Japanese version actually having no problem switching to the English dub for the movie, because they are this good. They are nearly on the same level as the Japanese cast. Chris Ayres as Freeza is going to be in the spotlight as are Schemmel's Gokû and Sabat's Vegeta. The scripting is going to be amazing for both versions. I'm really looking forward to hearing their performances.
Glad I'm not the anyone that felt this way, Ayres seriously stepped up the game man.
EDIT: On the new blog entry; do I dare hope that we're in for a slightly lengthier outing than last time?
What’s more, the script this time was split up into a whopping 5 volumes! Quite hefty!
This seems to suggest so! Unless it's just a particularly dialogue-heavy film? I wonder how much of it will be sentenced to the extended edition.
On a side note, is it just me, or is there a lot more animation in the first trailer for this movie than there was for the BOG one? I don't know if you can take that as an indication of anything...
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You know, I'm so excited for this movie I went back and watched a few of the old DBZ movies for the first time in awhile... and I was thinking about everyone complaining about Toriyama forgetting things in the new movie and creating plot holes today. How people keep saying everyone gives the film a hard time just because it's new. Then it occured to me while watching Movie 12... that the events of that movie are a huge plot hole. There's no real way that could have happened during the middle of the boo saga. At what point during all of that would Goku have time to have a tournament with Pikon? At what point would Gohan be back on earth just hanging with Videl as Saiyaman? Etc., etc. No matter what excuses you make for it, it doesn't work. There was too much at stake for the leisurely vibe everyone has, not even worried about boo. Then I wonder if anyone complained about how it didn't really make any sense when it came out.
The same can be said about pretty much all the movies. They contradict the series and don't make any real sense. Sure, now we just say they're "side stories." But they were not advertised that way when they were first released, correct? And I've never heard the complaints pile up quite like they have for this new movie.
So why is everyone giving ROF such a hard time? If you can somehow watch Movie 13's ending and live with the enormous plot hole of young Trunks receiving Future Trunks' (of another completely different timeline) sword then you should be able to enjoy ROF. I have heard the excuses people have made for that too, but the movie HEAVILY implies it's the same sword in that montage at the end. And if the movie doesn't explain it, then it's still a huge contradiction (using the logic a lot of people have used here for ROF).
I really do think it's because it's a new thing that so many people are being so negative. They're letting their own fantasies of what "new dbz" should be get them down. Their expectations of what the next film would be were completely different. But I say, give it a chance. Because the original 13 movies can still be enjoyed even though they make no sense in their timeline placement.
Monkey King Vegeta wrote:I wonder why that editor praised Toriyama, whats so good about bringing back Freeza of all villians!?
Well, editor Kazuhiko Torishima was supposedly the inspiration for Piccolo, and according to Furukawa, Piccolo does have a fairly big role in the film.
...Nah, that couldn't really be all there is to it...right?...
bleed0range wrote:You know, I'm so excited for this movie I went back and watched a few of the old DBZ movies for the first time in awhile... and I was thinking about everyone complaining about Toriyama forgetting things in the new movie and creating plot holes today. How people keep saying everyone gives the film a hard time just because it's new. Then it occured to me while watching Movie 12... that the events of that movie are a huge plot hole. There's no real way that could have happened during the middle of the boo saga. At what point during all of that would Goku have time to have a tournament with Pikon? At what point would Gohan be back on earth just hanging with Videl as Saiyaman? Etc., etc. No matter what excuses you make for it, it doesn't work. There was too much at stake for the leisurely vibe everyone has, not even worried about boo. Then I wonder if anyone complained about how it didn't really make any sense when it came out.
The same can be said about pretty much all the movies. They contradict the series and don't make any real sense. Sure, now we just say they're "side stories." But they were not advertised that way when they were first released, correct? And I've never heard the complaints pile up quite like they have for this new movie.
So why is everyone giving ROF such a hard time? If you can somehow watch Movie 13's ending and live with the enormous plot hole of young Trunks receiving Future Trunks' (of another completely different timeline) sword then you should be able to enjoy ROF. I have heard the excuses people have made for that too, but the movie HEAVILY implies it's the same sword in that montage at the end. And if the movie doesn't explain it, then it's still a huge contradiction (using the logic a lot of people have used here for ROF).
I really do think it's because it's a new thing that so many people are being so negative. They're letting their own fantasies of what "new dbz" should be get them down. Their expectations of what the next film would be were completely different. But I say, give it a chance. Because the original 13 movies can still be enjoyed even though they make no sense in their timeline placement.
Because none of those movied are canon. Dragon Ball Z movies 1-13 are non-canon. Battle Of Gods, however, is canon. And so is the upcoming Fukkatsu No F.
Monkey King Vegeta wrote:I wonder why that editor praised Toriyama, whats so good about bringing back Freeza of all villians!?
Well, editor Kazuhiko Torishima was supposedly the inspiration for Piccolo, and according to Furukawa, Piccolo does have a fairly big role in the film.
...Nah, that couldn't really be all there is to it...right?...
I've recently caught word of this film, so I'm a bit late to the party...
Piccolo and Frieza doesn't sound too intreating, I was personally hoping it would be along the lines of Frieza revealing some Saiyan history aswell as teasing Vegeta about his father/heritage triggering some hidden power (Bulma style) that can make him surpass and hopefully, defeat Frieza to avenge his people and give him the limelight he deserved from the moment he joined the Z Warriors.
...oh well, the movie already has that fan-ficcy feel to it, not sure if it can get better.
Monkey King Vegeta wrote:Freeza returning was a surprise, I hope this isn't another plot hole in the story, I need canon material.
I wonder why that editor praised Toryama, whats so good about bringing back Freeza of all villians!?
Going by his Android arc suggestions, his taste in villains is rather shallow/arbitrary.
Nice to see that Herms continues to live up to his namesake.
The Monkey King wrote:
RandomGuy96 wrote:
dbgtFO wrote:
Please elaborate as I do not know what you mean by "pushing Vegeta's destruction"
He's probably referring to the Bardock special. Zarbon was the one who first recommended destroying Planet Vegeta because the saiyans were rapidly growing in strength.
It was actually Beerus disguised as Zarbon #StayWoke
Herms wrote:The fact that the ridiculous power inflation is presented so earnestly makes me just roll my eyes and snicker. Like with Freeza, where he starts off over 10 times stronger than all his henchmen except Ginyu (because...well, just because), then we find out he can transform and get even more powerful, and then he reveals he can transform two more times, before finally coming out with the fact that he hasn't even been using anywhere near 50% of his power. Oh, and he can survive in the vacuum of space. All this stuff is just presented as the way Freeza is, without even an attempt at rationalizing it, yet the tone dictates we're supposed to take all this silly grasping at straws as thrilling danger. So I guess I don't really take the power inflation in the Boo arc seriously, but I don't take the power inflation in earlier arcs seriously either, so there's no net loss of seriousness. I think a silly story presented as serious is harder to accept than a silly story presented as silly.
bleed0range wrote:You know, I'm so excited for this movie I went back and watched a few of the old DBZ movies for the first time in awhile... and I was thinking about everyone complaining about Toriyama forgetting things in the new movie and creating plot holes today. How people keep saying everyone gives the film a hard time just because it's new. Then it occured to me while watching Movie 12... that the events of that movie are a huge plot hole. There's no real way that could have happened during the middle of the boo saga. At what point during all of that would Goku have time to have a tournament with Pikon? At what point would Gohan be back on earth just hanging with Videl as Saiyaman? Etc., etc. No matter what excuses you make for it, it doesn't work. There was too much at stake for the leisurely vibe everyone has, not even worried about boo. Then I wonder if anyone complained about how it didn't really make any sense when it came out.
The same can be said about pretty much all the movies. They contradict the series and don't make any real sense. Sure, now we just say they're "side stories." But they were not advertised that way when they were first released, correct? And I've never heard the complaints pile up quite like they have for this new movie.
So why is everyone giving ROF such a hard time? If you can somehow watch Movie 13's ending and live with the enormous plot hole of young Trunks receiving Future Trunks' (of another completely different timeline) sword then you should be able to enjoy ROF. I have heard the excuses people have made for that too, but the movie HEAVILY implies it's the same sword in that montage at the end. And if the movie doesn't explain it, then it's still a huge contradiction (using the logic a lot of people have used here for ROF).
I really do think it's because it's a new thing that so many people are being so negative. They're letting their own fantasies of what "new dbz" should be get them down. Their expectations of what the next film would be were completely different. But I say, give it a chance. Because the original 13 movies can still be enjoyed even though they make no sense in their timeline placement.
I don't think any of the movies were ever labelled as true continuations to Dragon Ball. Battle of Gods and Fukkatsu no F are both continuations, while the other movies are just do their own thing. Hell if this movie was just advertised as it's own thing, I'd still have problems, but I'd be less negative as then it wouldn't affect the manga. So when these movies are called continuations, I will be much harder on them since they are supposed to take the manga into account. Most anime movies I know of usually do their own thing. They don't follow continuity as they tell their own stories. That's not the new movies at all.
Why Dragon Ball Consistency in something such as power levels matter!
Spoiler:
Doctor. wrote:I've explained before, I'll just paraphrase myself.
Power levels establish tension and drama. People who care about them (well, people who care about them in a narrative) don't care about the big numbers or the fancy explosions. If you have character A who's so much above character B, who's the main character, you're gonna be left wondering how in the hell character B, the character we're supposed to care and root for, is going to escape the situation or overcome the odds. It makes us emotionally invested.
If character B doesn't escape the situation in a believable way that's consistent with previous events, then that emotional investment is gone. It was pointless tension, pointless drama made just to suck in the viewer. It has no critical value whatsoever. The audience is left believing that the author can just create whatever scenarios he wants and what happens to the characters is decided by whatever the author wants to happen, regardless of the events that happened in the story. Which, in fairness, is what happens, but the audience wants to be fooled. The audience wants to know that the world they're following has rules. That the world they're invested in isn't going to bend to external factors that are irrelevant to them.
An author can do whatever he wants with the characters, that's not false. But the author should also have the responsibility to make sure it fits in cohesively with the other events in the narrative he has created.
Serious DBH tie-in promotional thing coming up by the looks of things. From what I can tell, a live stream will be taking place with both Nozawa and Nakao involved. http://www.excite.co.jp/News/anime_hobb ... 38564.html
So this is the purification process in hell huh? lmao
Kamiccolo9 wrote:I swear, the Gohan fanboys won't be happy unless he just bends over and farts all of Freeza's men into the sun.
fadeddreams5 wrote:
Honestly, this would only make me slightly satisfied. To make me happy, he'd also have to grab Freeza by the tail, drag him to the nearest toilet, and give him swirlies until he submits and calls him "daddy."
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