Opinions on the English voices of the Ginyu Force.

[Ringworm128]

What are your opinions for the different English voices used for the Ginyu Force? I'l start.

Reacoom. Chris Sabat does a good job of making Recoom sound sadistic while showing that he's not the brightest tool in the shed. As for his Ocean voice actor he seems to do all that but I just prefer Sabat.

Baata. Alec Willows, I haven't heard much of his voice but it seems okay.

Mark Brittan seems okay but because of inexperience as a voice actor he just doesn't shine.

Chris Sabat, he is great as Baata, he does a great job of showing Baata's cocky side as well as making him sound sinister and the raspy voice works great for Baata.

Vic Mignogna does pretty much everything Chris Sabat does. And the nasally voice he uses works just as well as Chris Sabat's voice.

Jheese. Scot McNeil seems like a good voice from what I've seen he does a fairly good job of showing Jheese's cocky side.

Chris Sabat does a great job of showing Jheese's cocky and vain side as well as his cowardly side as well as how much of a suck up to Ginyu he is.

Jason Liebrecht does pretty much everything Sabat does while sounding a bit more cunning and more like a professional soldier.

Ghurd. From what I've seen Terry Klassen seems like a good voice but it's a bit over the top (but that's probably from the over the top direction that the Saban dub had.

Dylan Thompson seems pretty generic.

Bill Townsley is awesome as Ghurd he shows Ghurd's cocky and sadistic side as well as showing how much of cowardly loser he is.

Greg Ayers is also a great fit for Ghurd, his child like rendition works great and shows how Ghurd is the tag along loser of the Ginyu Force.

Captain Ginyu. Richard Newman makes Captin Ginyu sound like a intelligent commander as well as very faithful to Freeza.

Dale Kelly does a good job at showing Ginyu's cocky side but at the same time makes him seem like a mindless punk (though that's probably from the fact everyone had just started out back then.)

Brice Armstrong was the best of the lot, he sounded commanding, confident, intelligent and did a great job of showing how faithful Ginyu is to Freeza. And even though the voice itself was a bit forced it was forced the voice he used was plain badass.

R.Bruce Eliot was pretty good did a good job as Ginyu and he wins points for sounding more natural then Armstrong.

[son veku]

I like Ginyu's voice I still like to yell CHANGE NOWWW!!!!

[Ringworm128]

I like Ginyu's voice I still like to yell CHANGE NOWWW!!!!

Which Ginyu voice?

[son veku]

Ob and Kai one

[DarkPrince_92]

Guldo's Funi Remastered voice was less annoying than the Kai voice.

Recoome's Ocean voice makes him way more badass than Funi's voice.

Burter...meh, I think his Kai is better because with the remastered voice he sounds like Vegeta, Ocean voice is like a giant insect.

Jeice/Jheese I think I like Sabat's voice more than Ocean or Kai.

Ginyu, I liked his voice in the 1999 Z dub, and I also like his Kai voice, his remastered voice was much too Grody. End of spiel.

[Metalwario64]

This is my favorite anything.

[Gonstead]

My picks

Guldo - Bill Townsley
Jeice - Chris Sabat
Ginyu - All of them
Recoome - David Kaye/Chris Sabat (Kai)
Burter - Alec Willows/Vic Mignogna

The rest are pretty meh either due to inexperience, annoyance or sounding too similar to another role the actor has done.

[penguintruth]

Sabat's Recoome is embarrassing. Recoome is eccentric, not retarded.

[Super Sonic]

I liked Bryce Armstrong's Ginyu as I thought he fit and enjoyed the character. I also liked Ocean Reacoome as while I like that Chris Sabat got to get away with more and directly talk about killing guys, I felt he made the character his own. And he was voiced by Megatron, which is automatically awesome.

[Mewzard]

Brice Armstrong was the best of the lot, he sounded commanding, confident, intelligent and did a great job of showing how faithful Ginyu is to Freeza. And even though the voice itself was a bit forced it was forced the voice he used was plain badass.

Just worth a note, Ginyu's voice is not that far from his natural voice. He's just really gruff voiced. Closer to his natural voice would be his time as the narrator for the original Dragon Ball.

[DarkPrince_92]

Just worth a note, Ginyu's voice is not that far from his natural voice. He's just really gruff voiced. Closer to his natural voice would be his time as the narrator for the original Dragon Ball.

Same thing with Sean Schemmel and Sabat (sounds like a slightly lighter toned, and calmer Piccolo). I talked with Schemmel for 30 seconds at Comic Con, and I kinda shook hearing him speak.

[Codarik]

Brice Armstrong is the best Ginyu. Hands down. I can write a whole book about this. Dale Kelly, Richard Newman, and R. Bruce Elliott were alright but not as good as Brice was.

Mark Britten was the best Burter. Everyone elses was a generic reptile sounding voice.

Bill Townsley was the best Guldo.

Scott McNeil was the best Jeice.

Chris Sabat (Kai) was the best Recoome.

[penguintruth]

I fancy Greg Ayres' Gurd over the others, because he sounds like such a rookie, like he's the lowest on the rung (which he is) in the squad. Townsley's Gurd is way too over the top and sounds like he's gargling.

[DBZAOTA482]

I like them all except Recoome's old voice (he sounded like a retarded Jamaican).

[Hades]

If TFS is included:

Ginyu - Brice Armstrong (His Ginyu is amazing and head and shoulders above the other English Ginyus)
Jeice - Chris Sabat (Yeah, it's a cheesy Australian accent, but has become somewhat fixed to the character)
Burter - Vic Mignogna (has a snarky attitude to go with his reptilian nature)
Recoome - Ganxingba (really brings out Recoome's eccentricity and avoids the more egregious aspects of Sabat's performance)
Guldo - Tie between Greg Ayres and Takahata101 (both bring out different aspects of the character brilliantly)

[Piccolo Daimao]

Richard Newman’s Ginyuu was all right, but wasn’t all that unique. Dale Kelly’s Ginyuu sounded too gravelly, but did sound somewhat appropriately arrogant. I like Brice Armstrong and R. Bruce Elliott’s Ginyuus (they sound alike), as they both get the commanding aspect of the Captain’s character down pat. Armstrong’s Ginyuu sounds more commanding, while Elliott sounds slightly more…carefree.

I hate Chris Sabat’s Recoom, which completely misses the point of Recoom’s character. Yeah, he looks a bit like a retard after Vegeta and co. blow off his hair and teeth, and he’s goofy and flamboyant, and drops his guard a surprising amount of times for such a supposedly great warrior, but that’s because he’s so confident in his strength that he can basically tank anything. He’s a sadistic bastard, yet will treat like a child and do silly poses in-between, because that’s just who he is. I thought David Kaye was good.

I can barely even remember Brittan’s Butta, but I think I saw it as pretty “meh”. I think, in the voice clips that I heard of him (might’ve been the remastered version or whatever), Sabat made his Butta sound too much like his Vegeta. I like Mignogna’s Butta. He doesn’t have much character to him, which is why I can see why FUNimation decided to make him sound somewhat reptilian, but his cackling is great. Maybe if they told him to tone down the reptilian effect/flat-out get rid of it/lower his pitch, then he’d be even better. Fuck Sabat’s exaggerated Australian accent for Jheese. Where the fuck did that come from? Uhhh…McNeil’s Jheese never really stood out for me, so I’ll again say that it was “meh”. I’m mostly apathetic towards Liebrecht’s Jheese. Not too bad, but not great either.

Gurd…fine with all voices. Favourite is Greg Ayres, because he shows Gurd’s vulnerable, tag-along side well, and it’s somewhat unexpected, but still works and is original. So overall, I’d pick Armstrong or Elliott for Ginyuu (maybe if the former was brought back for Ginyuu, he could edge out Elliott), Kaye for Recoom (just because he doesn’t sound like a retard), Mignogna for Butta, Liebrecht for Jheese and Greg Ayres for Gurd. Although TFS's voices for Recoom and Gurd are probably even better than their respective official performances.

As a side-note, does anyone else think Greg Ayres would make a great Kuririn, both child and adult?

[DemonRin]

Kai has the best cast for it to me hands down.

Except Jheese, nobody has ever done a good voice for Jheese. My problem specifically is that Jheese is from Space Australia.

[Piccolo Daimao]

Except Jheese, nobody has ever done a good voice for Jheese. My problem specifically is that Jheese is from Space Australia.

I didn't hear any kind of real substantial accent from Jheese in Kai.

[Son Satan]

Except Jheese, nobody has ever done a good voice for Jheese. My problem specifically is that Jheese is from Space Australia.

I didn't hear any kind of real substantial accent from Jheese in Kai.

He ended up sounding more Scottish than Australian in Kai, from what I can tell.

[Piccolo Daimao]

Except Jheese, nobody has ever done a good voice for Jheese. My problem specifically is that Jheese is from Space Australia.

I didn't hear any kind of real substantial accent from Jheese in Kai.

He ended up sounding more Scottish than Australian in Kai, from what I can tell.

I never heard that, although maybe I just have a bad ear. I'll listen to him again tomorrow.

Anyway, there are some other characters in the series that have certain subtle accents, even if those places don't even exist in the Dragon World. I think Elliott's Ginyuu has a slight Southern drawl, and even in the original, Tanaka's Yajirobe has a Nagoya dialect.