Toei already trying to find a replacement for Daisuke Gouri?

[sangofe]

Source:
http://dbz220.skyrock.com/

La course contre la montre commence. Depuis moins de 1 semaine, nous avons appris avec une grosse émotion le décès de doubleur, en autre, de Satan dans la version originale. Daisuke Gôri avait doublé, selon les informations de Jump, que 2 épisodes dans Dragon Ball Kai avant son décès dimanche dernier dans une rue de l'arrondissement de Nakano. La Toei Animation doit donc chercher un remplacent de grande qualité pour pouvoir essayer de trouver la voix idéal de Mr Satan. La saga Cell étant fini sur l'enrengistrement, les doubleurs de Dragon Ball Kai vont donc se préparer à doubler les épisisodes de la saga Boo. Mais le décès Daisuke Gôri pourrait poser problème et avoir du retard sur la diffusion des épisodes sur la chaîne japonaise FujiTV. Selon Jump, la Toei Animation a dores et déjà preparer une short list de 12 doubleurs pour interpreter la voix de Satan. Une réponse sera donnée très bientôt.

Translation: The battle against time starts. In about a little less than one week we learned with great grief about the death of the voice actor of Mr. Satan. According Jump, Daisku Gouri had dubbed two episodes of Dragonball Kai before dying last sunday in a street near Nakano. Toei Animation now has to search for a replacement of great quality in order to find an ideal voice for Mr. Satan.

The Cell saga has finished recording voices, so now the voice actors of Dragonball Kai will prepare to dub the episodes of the Buu Saga. But the death of Daisuke Gouri could create problems and make delays in the airing episodes on Fuji TV. According to Jump, Toei Animation has already prepared a list of twelve actors that could interpret Satan's voice. More news very soon.

My personal opinion:
I think that recording having ended for Cell Saga sounds reallllllly early, and would Mr.Satan had been in only two episodes? Not very likely, I'd say...

[Chuquita]

So they were planning to originally do Kai for all of Z.

I'm not sure how they could find a suitable replacement for Mr. Gouri. I mean, I'm sure they'll find someone, but it won't be the same.

That two episodes/all of Cell does sound conflicting. Maybe they mean all of Cell and a few Saiyaman arc eps? (Assuming they're going to at least do the manga!canon pieces of the Saiyaman arc; but was Mark in any of those canon moments?).

[Adamant]

The Saiyaman arc was heavily rewritten, so they can't just cut all the stuff that wasn't in the manga. Satan played a role in the revised version of Saiyaman's first "public" appearance, at least.

[Hujio]

Source:
http://dbz220.skyrock.com/

I've been keeping an eye on this site for a little bit, mostly because whoever is running it seems to posting a lot of interesting unconfirmed news. A lot of the news he's posting would be pretty cool to report, if any of it were actually true. He keeps referencing Jump as his source, but he seems to be the only person on the net reading these things in Jump, since not even Japanese sites are reporting these things. I'd like to get a hold of the guy, but so far it's a no go. So yeah, I'm not sure I'd believe anything this guy is writing.

[JulieYBM]

This is very interesting news but I agree with the Cutl'a, I shall need a bit more proof before I pass this off as anything but rumor. Kai didn't begin recording until...what, February? To get a group together every single week to get so far in recording would mean doing several episodes a day for at least 4-6 hours a session. Still, curious...

[Piccolo Daimaoh]

So they're actually planing to do Kai for all of Z, so the Afterlife Tournament and Great Saiyaman sagas will be cut.


On the subject of Daisuke's replacement, I dont really know a lot of japanese voice actors, so I don't know who would be good for a replacement.


If we go by the other replacements made in Dragon Ball GT and the video games, the replacement will be no where near as good as Daisuke was.

[Hujio]

So they're actually planing to do Kai for all of Z, so the Afterlife Tournament and Great Saiyaman sagas will be cut.

I guess I'll reiterate.

Source:
http://dbz220.skyrock.com/

I've been keeping an eye on this site for a little bit, mostly because whoever is running it seems to posting a lot of interesting unconfirmed news. A lot of the news he's posting would be pretty cool to report, if any of it were actually true. He keeps referencing Jump as his source, but he seems to be the only person on the net reading these things in Jump, since not even Japanese sites are reporting these things. I'd like to get a hold of the guy, but so far it's a no go. So yeah, I'm not sure I'd believe anything this guy is writing.

[Amigo Ten]

I thought Kai going through all of Z was just assumed? People are talking like they thought it was going to end with Freeza. Or have I missed something?

[Chuquita]

I thought it would end at Freeza is because I haven't seen any ads indicating otherwise.
But in the merchandise thread I've seen images of Buu and 18 merchandise with the Kai label on them, so that led me to believe they may be going to the end of the series.

[TripleRach]

There was a thread not too long ago about Kai possibly ending this spring, but from what I can tell two months later, the "Digimon Around" info really was fake. But this is still true:

However, someone in the chat pointed out that Toei's shop is listing Kai as being planned for only 17 DVDs and 50 episodes. So, new Digimon or not, Kai really could end with Freeza, even though it's doing great in the ratings and costs jack to produce.

The listing even points out that the 17th disc will only have 2 episodes on it (and a reduced price to match), when all the others will have 3 each. (16 * 3 = 48, +2 = 50, for anyone who's bad at math.) I've also noticed the same thing for the Blu-ray boxes. In this listing for the third box, it mentions that there will be four boxes total, and the fourth will only have 11 episodes. And the third box ends with 39, so the Blu-rays would also end with 50.

In a quick search, I can't really find any other hints of Kai ending other than Toei's shop, though. It could just mean they're going to change the name of the series after 50 ("Dragon Ball Kai Z", "Dragon Ball Kai 2", "Super Dragon Ball Kai", etc), or maybe they're just not going to release 51+ on home video, or at least not in the same manner.

[Piccolo Daimaoh]

Ok thanks, I really hope they do the Cell and Buu sagas.

[penguintruth]

If they have to, they could use the voice recordings he did for Z, can't they? Or is that in such a poorer quality compared to the recording for Kai? I hate to think of them replacing Gouri in any way.

I also hope they'll get Norio Wakamoto back for Cell later on.

[sangofe]

I tried posting a comment at the author's blog asking if he has a scan of this news, so let's see what he comes up with, or if he simply chooses to ignore me.

[MajinVejitaXV]

If they have to, they could use the voice recordings he did for Z, can't they? Or is that in such a poorer quality compared to the recording for Kai? I hate to think of them replacing Gouri in any way.

I also hope they'll get Norio Wakamoto back for Cell later on.

As far as we know, the masters for DragonBall Z exist only as mixed mono masters, and not discrete voice/SFX/BGM stems where the voices could be used independent of the rest of the original mix. It's too bad, but it seems to me (unless the highly questionable news post up above proves true) that Daisuke Gouri's role as Mr. Satan won't be part of Kai at all.

[Kai_fan]

Un-mixed audio masters exist.

Hence, ya know, all of the international dubs of the show??

[MajinVejitaXV]

Un-mixed audio masters exist.

Hence, ya know, all of the international dubs of the show??

That's not correct (though I may have worded my reply poorly before). They have BGM and SFX stems, but not the voices on an isolated stem. Not for the series at least (the movies, apparently, they did hence the remastered audio on the DragonBox: The Movies set). If I'm wrong and they do, they've done nothing to show they have such a thing.

[jda95]

If this is true, it throws Digimon AROUnD out the window.　

But I wonder what will happen with Gori if it continues.

[Tsukento]

If this is true, it throws Digimon AROUnD out the window.

Isn't that just as much of a rumor as Kai not passing the Freeza saga?

[TheLiberator]

If they have to, they could use the voice recordings he did for Z, can't they? Or is that in such a poorer quality compared to the recording for Kai? I hate to think of them replacing Gouri in any way.

I also hope they'll get Norio Wakamoto back for Cell later on.

Kei17 posted a video on his old Youtube account, luigi24, which got suspended, showing an accidental broadcast of a Kai clip from the Android arc with Cell in it. And Cell sounded like he was being voiced by Norio Wakamoto.

[ShadowDude112]

If they have to, they could use the voice recordings he did for Z, can't they? Or is that in such a poorer quality compared to the recording for Kai? I hate to think of them replacing Gouri in any way.

I also hope they'll get Norio Wakamoto back for Cell later on.

Kei17 posted a video on his old Youtube account, luigi24, which got suspended, showing an accidental broadcast of a Kai clip from the Android arc with Cell in it. And Cell sounded like he was being voiced by Norio Wakamoto.

You know that was fake, right?