Would you like future international dubs of DBS Beerus to reuse audio material from the original DBS series?

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Would you like future international dubs of DBS Beerus to reuse audio material from the original DBS series?

Post by TheRed259 » Mon Oct 12, 2026 10:41 am

Since the original Japanese version already does this, would you like future international dubs of DBS Beerus to do the same?

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Re: Would you like future international dubs of DBS Beerus to reuse audio material from the original DBS series?

Post by Kenji » Mon Oct 12, 2026 3:24 pm

No. True, I will miss some of the voice actors who passed away, but I will lose it if I hear "Mr. Bills" instead of Beers/Beerus.
Or any of the annoying shoehorned memes from the Brazilian dub. Believe it or not, Vegeta at one point says "Zamasu's power level is over 8,000" despite 1) Power Levels not being a thing since Freeza. 2) Every single character present being m/billions of times above that already. Then again, nothing guarantees it can't get worse.

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Re: Would you like future international dubs of DBS Beerus to reuse audio material from the original DBS series?

Post by The Dark Knight » Mon Oct 12, 2026 3:51 pm

I don't watch Dragon Ball in English due to all the Americanisms in the dub, but I think Super would benefit from a re-dub if the 2015 version of any language wasn't handled well the first time around.

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Re: Would you like future international dubs of DBS Beerus to reuse audio material from the original DBS series?

Post by OmegaRockman » Mon Oct 12, 2026 7:55 pm

Speaking about the English dub since that's the dub I'd be watching, I wouldn't mind a full redub if it meant fixing errors and ironing out those memey lines and reads. At the same time, the Super dub was already solid work even with those criticisms, so if they wanted to largely reuse the audio I wouldn't mind that either. I would just want them to get some pickups to address the biggest of those aforementioned issues. I also want to keep a much of Ayres and McFarland as possible to honor their work now that they're gone. At the same time, I'd also want a certain disgraced actor's performance as the dine-and-dash frog man replaced (and yes, please do the same for Yamcha on the Japanese side).
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Re: Would you like future international dubs of DBS Beerus to reuse audio material from the original DBS series?

Post by SSGpotota » Tue Oct 13, 2026 12:19 pm

About the italian dub, I hope they reuse the original audio.
After that whole scandal with Daima's contracts, I fear they'll try something like that again. Or they won't even bother to contact the OG voice actors and take this remake as an opportunity to firmly establish the new voice actors as the definitive voices, which good for them... but I'm not ready. :(

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Re: Would you like future international dubs of DBS Beerus to reuse audio material from the original DBS series?

Post by Cold Skin » Tue Oct 13, 2026 12:57 pm

It's probably what's going to happen, it's economical, they'll say "we didn't have to invest in new Japanese recordings and just used the existing lines, just do the same in your country and there's no need for investments in local recordings".
It also avoids problems with actors being unavailable for various reasons (such as the French actor for Vegeta having passed away) or actors having to sign new contracts or refusing to record because they don't agree with the new contracts in question.

Now the problem is the potential accuracy if they play around with some lines for new scenes: some lines that might have been translated in a certain way due to the context in the original might not work if you put that same translation in another context, even if for the Japanese language it still makes sense. We don't know yet if they could do that, there's apparently no new recordings, but they can reuse as many lines as they want from deleted scenes or others: if needed, they can use a line that means "is that all?" originally related to being given explanations about a few things to do and relocated in a fight scene where the character asks" is that all?" after successfully blocking an attack. But will the translation and tone originally chosen for the dub based on the original scene match the new scene as well?

So it could be an easy and economical solution for Toei but it might also prove tricky for some lines potentially used in new scenes.

Still, we don't have proof yet that they'll play the "relocate lines" game with the new scenes, so we'll see, maybe there will be no problem at all with this.

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