Did FUNimation overstep their bounds?

[Pokewhiz7]

Even Ocean Dub was more accurate than FUNimation, just a little bit more for using "Hey, over here" than "Hey, behind you".

Purely coincidental; Ocean reused Funimation scripts with a few minor changes.

[DBZGTKOSDH]

Purely coincidental; Ocean reused Funimation scripts with a few minor changes.

Shouldn't the opposite happen, since the first dub was Ocean and the second FUNimation?

[jjgp1112]

Rocketman (not the classic awesome game for the NES ) has clearly been brainwashed by the FUNimation DBZ Dub.

Okay then, let's just all say Gohan in the original was saying "Hi, nice day" to Super Boo and for no apparent reason all of them were staring at Gohan. Doesn't work like that, Rocketman.

Majin Boo's arc should definitely be re-dubbed by FUNimation (With Kai dub vocals).

Even Ocean Dub was more accurate than FUNimation, just a little bit more for using "Hey, over here" than "Hey, behind you".

You'd best actually find more out about users before lumping them into categories because their opinion doesn't match yours. Rocketman detests the anime. He's a manga fan, through and through. However, he much prefers to watch FUNimation's dub if he ever brings himself to watch any second of the anime beyond Base Vegetto making Mystic Buu his bitch, because he finds the voices more tolerable than the Japanese version.

[Pokewhiz7]

Purely coincidental; Ocean reused Funimation scripts with a few minor changes.

Shouldn't the opposite happen, since the first dub was Ocean and the second FUNimation?

Seasons 1+2 were Funimation dubs, just using Ocean voices. The later Cell and Boo arc dubs, I believe, were dubbed after Funimation's version, and the story goes that they had someone at Westwood watch the Funi dub on TV and write down the scripts. DB and DBGT, the Blue Water dubs, were translated from the French version. (Or Japanese. I don't know. Either way, the DB and DBGT Blue Water dubs are incredibly accurate.)

[DBZGTKOSDH]

Well, I haven't made any research about the 2 dubs, as I don't care about them, so I'll trust what you are saying.

[dbboxkaifan]

You'd best actually find more out about users before lumping them into categories because their opinion doesn't match yours. Rocketman detests the anime. He's a manga fan, through and through. However, he much prefers to watch FUNimation's dub if he ever brings himself to watch any second of the anime beyond Base Vegetto making Mystic Buu his bitch, because he finds the voices more tolerable than the Japanese version.

Based on his comments I read (on this topic), he actually likes the English dub (and according to his it's how it should've been) more than the Japanese Audio and there's no need to research about a user who's unpleasant.

[penguintruth]

ALL of the characters make the "kkkch" noise, not just Goku.

It's the sound of sucking air while clenching your teeth. Usually because a character is angry or in pain.

[Rocketman]

Based on his comments I read (on this topic), he actually likes the English dub (and according to his it's how it should've been) more than the Japanese Audio

Nope. The single core of it is that I despise Nozawa's performance. The other Japanese voices are fine, from the bit I've heard, and I don't pay much attention to either version's music. As jjp said, I'm a manga fan and both versions of the anime are so terrible that for the most part sub or dub just means I get bored of people staring at each other either way. The only reason I like the dub at all is from the video games (which is also why I use Funi's naming conventions on occasion). Budokai 1 was my intro to the series.


But Nozawa's Goku is so horrid, so piss-dribblingly bad I take the field in support of the dub just to stand against it.

It doesn't help either when the subbies bather about subtlety in a scene that has nothing subtle about it.

ALL of the characters make the "kkkch" noise, not just Goku.

It's the sound of sucking air while clenching your teeth. Usually because a character is angry or in pain.

I just sucked air while clenching my teeth and it made a "ssssssssh" sound. Maybe a little "ffffff". Certainly no k's.

[penguintruth]

Nozawa is charming in the role. She makes Goku warm and delightfully off-beat. Just listen to her quirky delivery. Schemmel's Goku is a bit bland in comparison.

[Pokewhiz7]

Nozawa is charming in the role. She makes Goku warm and delightfully off-beat. Just listen to her quirky delivery. Schemmel's Goku is a bit bland in comparison.

Schemmel is just like Nozawa, only, not high-pitched and not as much a hick. Schemmel sounds like a normal person to me. When he's angry, he sounds like an angry person.

[AgitoZ]

When he's angry, he sounds like an angry person.

No he doesn't. He sounds like someone passing out in a booth.

[Majin Buu]

It doesn't help either when the subbies bather about subtlety in a scene that has nothing subtle about it.

And taking sides in a debate about differing versions of an anime that you don't even like in either version just to spite a single vocal performance is so much better right?

At this point we just have to agree to disagree because explaining my views any further is pointless. I think the Japanese version of that scene plays more subtly compared to the dub, you do not.

Just like you think Nozawa's Goku is "godawful" while I just don't see anything "godawful" about it.

[Rocketman]

It's not so much that I don't think it's more subtle, as I don't see the point of it being subtle and think it's better without any subtlety.

[DBZGTKOSDH]

Guys, some will love Nozawa, others will hate her. Eteryone can have different opinions, you should just accept them. I used to make fun of Goku's JP voice, but when Kai came out, I watched Dragon Ball in Japanese for the first time, and eventualy, not only I got used to it, but now I love how she acts as Goku, Gohan, etc.

[dbzkfan543]

Guys, some will love Nozawa, others will hate her. Eteryone can have different opinions, you should just accept them. I used to make fun of Goku's JP voice, but when Kai came out, I watched Dragon Ball in Japanese for the first time, and eventualy, not only I got used to it, but now I love how she acts as Goku, Gohan, etc.

I agree. I used to watch Kai muted with fansubs starting at episode 14 because Nozawa's voice was so jarring to me (I was first introduced [edit: to the Dragon Ball universe] through Kai's uncut dub on dubhappy.com). But around the fight with Freeza, I stopped muting it, and I grew to know and love Nozawa as a seyiuu.

[kemuri07]

Based on his comments I read (on this topic), he actually likes the English dub (and according to his it's how it should've been) more than the Japanese Audio and there's no need to research about a user who's unpleasant.

I hope this was written in jest, because if not....jeez. That's just sad.

[Fionordequester]

No, he was misrepresented there. He hates the Anime no matter what version it's in, he just happens to like the dub slightly more because it doesn't have any Nozawa in it.

[penguintruth]

So he prefers a version that has plenty of rewriting just because of a single VA?

I guess he figures that if the anime is so bad, some additional shittiness doesn't make a difference.

[jjgp1112]

I think Kemuri was referring to what dboxkaifan said in general, judging from his previous posts ITT.

[Super Sonic]

So he prefers a version that has plenty of rewriting just because of a single VA?

Some people are like that though. There are quite a bit of Vic Mignogna haters who bash on some really good dubs just because he's in them. Then again, on an opposite side of the spectrum, one of the three reasons I defended using the English dialogue in Soul Calibur IV to some guys was because Wendee Lee was Xianghua.