Samwize78 wrote:SSJ4 Furanki wrote:Will FUNimation be allowed to dub the songs, or will they be kept solely in Japanese? I know they didn't dub every insert song, but it would seem odd if the opening/endings didn't get dubbed.
This is a tricky question. Toei (specifically Avex) has been pretty weird with the domestic releases of their shows OP/EDs recently. They more or less requested that FUNimation stop dubbing the
One Piece songs after Season 4, and the
Toriko dub contained the original Japanese songs as well. The reason behind this was I guess to promote the original artists work, which is understandable. I do hope they are allowed to continue dubbing the songs with
Kai though, but no one can really say at this point.
I mean, it's their property, so if they don't want the songs dubbed, then the dubbing companies should respect that. However, I would respectfully submit that I think they're being over-cautious. I also think it's unnecessary that, even when a song is dubbed, the dubbing company is not allowed to name the dubbing singer in the credits...even though they're free to acknowledge who it is everywhere else, including social media. So what's the point? I think it shouldn't be a big deal to dub songs and then have in the credits something like...
ORIGINAL JAPANESE SINGER: X Name
ENGLISH DUB SINGER: Y Name
Which is what I've seen them do in some other places. For the French dub of
Sonic X, they credited the singer who sung the French-dubbed version of the opening song, "Sonic Drive."
The situation with the
One Piece-dubbed songs is odd too, because the German dub continued to dub the songs into German until the show stopped airing. And some of them
sound very good!
It looks more natural just without it.
