What happened to the Dragon Ball/DBZ/DBGT masters?

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Re: What happened to the Dragon Ball/DBZ/DBGT masters?

Post by MasenkoHA » Mon May 12, 2025 8:05 am

Dragon Ball Ireland wrote: Mon May 12, 2025 7:12 am
TechExpert2021 wrote: Sun May 11, 2025 6:24 pm Slightly unrelated, but does FUNimation still have the edited-for-broadcast-TV masters of their pre-Kai in-house English dubs, even after they’re rebranded as Crunchyroll in 2022? Or did they threw them away?
We don't know for sure, but there is a chance they still have them. When Nicktoons aired GT in 2012 they used the same edited cut that aired on Toonami, so it's possible Funimation/Crunchyroll kept the edited Z masters just in case they were needed for a broadcast.
They also still had the masters for their edited dub with Ocean for the Rock the Dragon release in 2013.

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Re: What happened to the Dragon Ball/DBZ/DBGT masters?

Post by GhostEmperorX » Tue May 13, 2025 10:20 pm

Dragon Ball Ireland wrote: Mon May 12, 2025 7:12 am We don't know for sure, but there is a chance they still have them. When Nicktoons aired GT in 2012 they used the same edited cut that aired on Toonami, so it's possible Funimation/Crunchyroll kept the edited Z masters just in case they were needed for a broadcast.
Come to think of it, now that they've been absorbed into a 100% streaming company, it wouldn't be a surprise if later down the line they completely abandoned the TV medium (if they hadn't already, though I'm not aware of whether they did or not).
Wondering how the Kai marathon Toonami held after Toriyama's passing was done though, if that was the case even then.

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