Official On-Going DBZ 2013 Movie Thread: "Battle of Gods"

[Ryuman]

Bills? Why? Why choose the worst of the names?
I hope that isn't giving us an idea as to what to expect from Funi when they eventually get to this.

[dodonpa]

Diamond Films has just added some neat goodies on their facebook for those who want to download and use for whatever they want, although you have to like the page to get them https://www.facebook.com/DBZLatam/app_396393053713168

http://i7.minus.com/ibixwRBeB4eELq.jpg

lol they use a fanart from Young Jiji for advertising?

[DBZGTKOSDH]

lol they use a fanart from Young Jiji for advertising?

... Where did you see it?

[JeffJarrett]

Bills? Why? Why choose the worst of the names?
I hope that isn't giving us an idea as to what to expect from Funi when they eventually get to this.

They wouldn't have named the characters Beers and Whisky. And "Bills" is one of the two spellings used on Japanese merchandise, the other being "Beers".

[Cold Skin]

Bills? Why? Why choose the worst of the names?
I hope that isn't giving us an idea as to what to expect from Funi when they eventually get to this.

It's really not hard to see how "Birusu" relates to "Virus", so it's always surprising when official stuff comes with names that are not "Birus" or "Beerus" (which sounds Egyptian for a God that has an Egyptian feel).

But it's possible they want to keep the duo's names close in pronunciation, like "Birusu + Uisu", so they go "Bills + Wiss" to keep the two names similar.
But really, for a god, I think it sounds too much like a regular "Bill" name.

[Ryuman]

They wouldn't have named the characters Beers and Whisky. And "Bills" is one of the two spellings used on Japanese merchandise, the other being "Beers".

Birus or something along those lines would've been perfectly fine. It's not like they've never been weird about how they've spelt names in Japan. Also, I didn't really bring up Whis' (Or in this case, Wiss') name. I think I can maayyybe let that one go.

[Chuquita]

Does this mean those will be the official spellings used across all international dubs? Or will this work like the various dubs of the series and each will have little differences?

Only asking because I'm not a fan of the Bills and Wiss spellings and would rather have something that preserves the puns better, like Beerus and Whis.

[DBZfan29]

Does this mean those will be the official spellings used across all international dubs? Or will this work like the various dubs of the series and each will have little differences?

Only asking because I'm not a fan of the Bills and Wiss spellings and would rather have something that preserves the puns better, like Beerus and Whis.

Personally I like Beers and Whis. I think "Beerus" requires too much explanation (beer and virus). I do say Birus when speaking his name, but I wouldn't mind it if Beers was used.

[Gyt Kaliba]

Not a fan of 'Bills', myself. I'm on the 'Beers' team, it just works better IMO.

Also, they can do one of those cool images for Piccolo, but not one for Kuririn? I call foul!

[Mjb1985]

Beers and Whis suits me as well. They are cool enough to pass and they have the DB name thing going on.

[dodonpa]

lol they use a fanart from Young Jiji for advertising?

... Where did you see it?

The image they are using to get likes in the Facebook page...



is a recolored version of a Young Jiji fanart.

[DragonBoxZTheMovies]

Bills and Wiss? Pretty sure those are the spellings used on DB Wikia.

This whole Diamond Films thing seems awfully suspicious...almost unprofessional in some aspects, like it's all done by fans. I know they do films other than DBZ, but the supposed official pages for the film that they're linking really seem like they're set up by fans.

[Jackal puFF]

Bills isn't a very intimating name.. I'd be disappointed if they used that for sure. And Wiss sounds too much like Wuss.

[CashmanX]

Bills isn't a very intimating name.. I'd be disappointed if they used that for sure.

It is if you don't have any money. *badumtish*

[theoriginalbilis]

Meh, it's not my favorite version of the name (I prefer "Birus"), but it works.

Remember, one of the things about DragonBall villains that make them unique is that you can't judge them by their appearance or name. I mean, does "Piccolo" or "Buu" sound terrifying? And yet they were some of the biggest and most powerful villains at the time.

[Cold Skin]

Well, Bills can be used in puns and jokes - as shown by CashmanX.
Which means there's a risk Funimation and other rightholders around the world could actually think it's logical and that the humour of his name is based on our real lives, something like "much like in our own lives, the enemy is bills...".
So it is possible they won't even think twice and think "Bills? Yeah, that's surely the name and pun intended, let's use that!"

[B]

Bills? Why? Why choose the worst of the names?

I guess this is true in terms of pun preservation, but aesthetically, I hate the way "BILS" looks typed out and I don't like pronouncing it. So, if he absolutely can't be "BEERS" or "BEERUS" or "BIRUS", I will take "BILLS".

[DragonBoxZTheMovies]

From Peking Duck's blog:

[Chuquita]

From Peking Duck's blog:

The face on the wall-figure looks kind of off (is it the eyebrows?), but the hair looks good. :3

Soft spot totally remains for that attempting-to-look-intimidating-and-failing-miserably-ssjg-Goku art on the box itself. X3

[OmegaRockman]

Diamond Films Mexico confirms on their Facebook page that Mario Castañeda and Rene García are returning as Goku and Vegeta respectively for the Mexican Battle of Gods Dub:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater