Language Survey 2014 [COMPLETE]

[Ajay]

Interesting results so far! If you're friendly with anyone who hasn't posted, please encourage them to submit. I want the sample size to be as large as possible.

[El Diabeetus]

Kai/Post-Kai era in English, Japanese for the other series (DB/Z/GT). Also occasionally check out other dubs.

[Ajay]

Kai/Post-Kai era in English, Japanese for the other series (DB/Z/GT). Also occasionally check out other dubs.

Primarily though? I'm only taking one answer. It should be the one your mind jumps to if you suddenly decide to sit down and watch the show.

[El Diabeetus]

Mainly juggle between English and Japanese. But, I tend to watch Kai more than the other series. So, I suppose you can put me down for English.

[SupremeSSJ]

Original Japanese version but I will say Mr. Satan is funnier in the English dub.

[DBZ_Lee]

English (FUNi Kai)

[shinmaru]

Japanese for me. But before that, it was a mix of Jap, Cantonese and Catalan.

[Darkblade1995]

I usually watch the original series and movies in Japanese, but I watch Kai in English more than any of them so for me it's the Kai Funi dub.

[Zillamon51]

English for me. I've tried watching the Japanese, but could never get into it.

[omegalucas]

Portuguese parody dub here.

Same.

[Vegard Aune]

Japanese. I almost always go for the original version of a series if at all possible. Especially when the dub is so drastically different from the original. (I did like FUNi's Battle of Gods dub for the most part though.)

[Daisetsu]

Currently, it's Japanese Z, with Funi Kai in a close second. That might change, however, when Buu Kai comes out over here.

[VegettoEX]

You obviously have four ticks for Japanese that you can put down.

[Lord Beerus]

Subtitled Japanese version wins by a hair over the Funimation Kai version.

[Javaki]

It was the German dub for me until 5 (?) years ago. Now Japanese is definitely the main language I watch Dragon Ball in.

[Super SaiyaJon]

Kai Funimation dub (English)

[sour_eraser]

FuNi Eng Z primarily
Jap + Sub otherwise

99% of anime I watch is in Jap + Sub so I automatically did the same for Z. But oh man, when I heard Goku for first time it turned me away so bad I paused to check if the audio was in sync. I heard plenty of kids at ~12 who had deeper voice than Goku.... so I turned to dub where his voice was somewhat more fitting. They even managed to match screams better than the original Jap when powering up. I mean come on, when Goku opens his mouth wide you would assume he'll be yelling but nope, only rubber ducky squeaks.

When I finished the series and rewatched some episodes as well as OVA in Jap + Sub, I realized that it wasn't so bad. In fact, it was Goku's little childish voice that attracted me contrary to my first reaction. My lack of understanding of characters made me judge too quickly. Now I watch both series in both languages depending what is available. I couldn't really decide which one was the primary language I watch as they are around 50/50 but since I first finished the series in FuNi Eng that gave a little edge so I chose that over the other

[Valerius Dover]

I didn't realize we were taking Kai into account. I haven't seen Kai yet, though, since I'm still watching the 508 episode run for the first time in English. I would most likely consider Kai to be seperate, and by no means a "definitive version" due to the lack of pre-Raditz material.

[thomas1up]

Japanese audio all the way!

I'm still watching the 508 episode run for the first time in English.

I'm guessing 508 episodes are Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z and GT all together? I never noticed how lengthy the series actually is since the 3 series are split up.

[TheDevilsCorpse]

Original Japanese version.