Why were some songs dubbed and some weren't?

matt0044 · Post by **matt0044** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 8:03 am

I would loved to hear "Only a Chilling Elegy" sung by Chris Ayres.

TheBlackPaladin · Post by **TheBlackPaladin** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:09 am

I'm curious to know this myself. The fact that they didn't dub all of them was the biggest let-down in the Kai dub for me. I'm sure they had a reason, but I'm curious to know what it is.

dbboxkaifan · Post by **dbboxkaifan** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:57 am

Some kind of explanation as to why they didn't use English DS on episodes 97 + 98 would be welcomed as other dubs used their own DS versions for those episodes.

I would loved to hear "Only a Chilling Elegy" sung by Chris Ayres.

A Justin Cook or Vic Mignogna cover of OaCE would've been cool, I wouldn't really want Ayres unless he differentiated it from his Friеza voice.

matt0044 · Post by **matt0044** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:32 am

dbboxkaifan wrote: A Justin Cook or Vic Mignogna cover of OaCE would've been cool, I wouldn't really want Ayres unless he differentiated it from his Friеza voice.

I'd like it if he played Freeza singing the song with his voice. You know, since the lyrics are from Freeza's POV and I've always figured they didn't need to get all KISS to sing the song properly. Just have Ayres be in-character and sing good enough. But that's just me.

TheBlackPaladin · Post by **TheBlackPaladin** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:09 pm

matt0044 wrote:
dbboxkaifan wrote: A Justin Cook or Vic Mignogna cover of OaCE would've been cool, I wouldn't really want Ayres unless he differentiated it from his Friеza voice.
I'd like it if he played Freeza singing the song with his voice. You know, since the lyrics are from Freeza's POV and I've always figured they didn't need to get all KISS to sing the song properly. Just have Ayres be in-character and sing good enough. But that's just me.

The sad thing is, he could've sang it very effectively, too. I can't find it now, but somebody posted a clip of him singing some Black Sabbath songs as part this fan rock band that he's in, and he actually sounded really good!

Pokewhiz7 · Post by **Pokewhiz7** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:11 pm

Maybe they didn't receive the proper materials, or they didn't have enough time to dub them.

TheBlackPaladin · Post by **TheBlackPaladin** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:18 pm

I also figured it could be legal issues, as well. I don't know how dubbing songs works on a legal level, but the thought occurred to me that perhaps they may have to pay royalties to the original artist.

Ringworm128 · Post by **Ringworm128** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:26 pm

If they had of dubbed OACE then they should of had an actual rock/metal singer do the vocals since the original was done by a metal band.

Hades · Post by **Hades** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 6:14 am

I think if Funi had to do that, then Lamb of God could do a decent cover of OACE.

wjbraden · Post by **wjbraden** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 11:19 pm

I think they didn't dub the rest of the insert songs because of the whole music scandal. Funimation was probably so busy mixing the audio with the replacement score that they didn't have time to dub them.

Son Satan · Post by **Son Satan** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 3:58 pm

wjbraden wrote:I think they didn't dub the rest of the insert songs because of the whole music scandal. Funimation was probably so busy mixing the audio with the replacement score that they didn't have time to dub them.

I don't think that's it, since the episodes with Saiyan Blood and Only a Chilling Elegy aired and were released on DVD/BD before the scandal.

[SP] · Post by **[SP]** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 3:35 am

Some songs I would like to see:
Chris Sabat singing Dragon Soul in episode 97/98
Only a chilling elergy sung by Chris, as the OP has said
And Just for laughs,
Eric Vale singing The Lone Warrior (Since the Japanese VA for Trunks sung it, although Yamamoto getting fired.)

songohan619 · Post by **songohan619** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 8:53 am

[SP] wrote:Eric Vale singing The Lone Warrior (Since the Japanese VA for Trunks sung it, although Yamamoto getting fired.)

Well, Yamamoto did not do The Lone Warrior, because it was kept in the replacement score of Kai.

[SP] wrote:Some songs I would like to see: Chris Sabat singing Dragon Soul in episode 97/98.)

Chris Sabat could never sing Dragon Soul, as he himself said that he cannot sing it, because it is to deep, i believe.

Gonstead · Post by **Gonstead** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:19 am

His voice may be deep but that hasn't stopped him before from doing a cover of an anime related song.

He's actually pretty decent if the School Rumble ending theme is anything to go by.

TheBlackPaladin · Post by **TheBlackPaladin** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:23 am

songohan619 wrote:
[SP] wrote:Some songs I would like to see: Chris Sabat singing Dragon Soul in episode 97/98.)
Chris Sabat could never sing Dragon Soul, as he himself said that he cannot sing it, because it is to deep, i believe.

Well, yes and no. Sabat said that he recorded a "blooper version" of Dragon Soul for fun. He said that three words in, he stopped trying to sing it seriously and just started singing the whole thing with a deep southern accent, ending it with a curse word. He said that it was not intended to be serious at all, it was just a joke he did for other people at FUNimation, although he said that he's not sure anybody outside of FUNimation would hear it.

I want to!

[SP] · Post by **[SP]** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:23 am

songohan619 wrote:
[SP] wrote:Eric Vale singing The Lone Warrior (Since the Japanese VA for Trunks sung it, although Yamamoto getting fired.)
Well, Yamamoto did not do The Lone Warrior, because it was kept in the replacement score of Kai.
[SP] wrote:Some songs I would like to see: Chris Sabat singing Dragon Soul in episode 97/98.)
Chris Sabat could never sing Dragon Soul, as he himself said that he cannot sing it, because it is to deep, i believe.

Damn, you're right, it must of slipped my mind...., but it might be hilarious to hear Eric and Chris respectively doing those songs...

songohan619 · Post by **songohan619** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 12:43 pm

Gonstead wrote:His voice may be deep but that hasn't stopped him before from doing a cover of an anime related song.

He's actually pretty decent if the School Rumble ending theme is anything to go by.

Yeah, I'm not saying he can't sing, I'm just saying the song is out of his range.

matt0044 · Post by **matt0044** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 1:02 pm

A sound alike could sing Saiyan Blood. I mean, a lot of characters have separate VAs for singing voices.

The Time Traveller · Post by **The Time Traveller** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 9:17 pm

I REALLY wanted to hear Sabat sing Saiyan Blood... or Seiyan Blood, that would have been the coolest thing ever.

Super Sonic · Post by **Super Sonic** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 3:25 pm

I started watching Negima?! (second series) recently and noticed Funimation did something similar with having the openings and endings dubbed, but in episode 14 when Happy Material Go (the first series' theme) plays, it's in Japanese. I wondered if the reason was they didn't want to distract from the action in the scene or they didn't dub it in the first series, so they didn't feel like it now, or something. (BTW, Mr. Sabat is hilarious as the narrator).

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