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Random lnsanity / Re: Pft. Funimation dub. Ocean dub. How about that Blue Water dub?
« on: November 23, 2016, 02:12:18 am »
Part 4 - The Ocean Dub
Personally, when I think of this era, I immediately think of that Vegeta. I'm sure a lot of people do.
That's the voice of Brian Drummond.
To this day, he still does the voice of Vegeta for anything Ocean Dub. You might be wondering why he stopped being America's Vegeta.
Well, it starts way back at UPN. FUNimation ditched those BLT losers and decided to team up Saban Entertainment. Saban, at the time, was rocking the fucking continent with Power Rangers and was definitely in a position to invest in more franchises. Saban hired the Ocean Group for the voice acting. Dragon Ball Z's first American appearance was on WB and UPN with the first episode airing on September 13, 1996.
FUNimation decided to replace the original music because they felt the audio had too many silent moments and felt it would be off-putting to American audiences. Ocean dubbed two seasons worth of episodes.
The show managed to do...okay. Good enough that they decided to air two episodes a week in an hour long block and ordered more seasons to be dubbed.
Unfortunately, there were some side effects to working with Saban. The censorship.
Death was not allowed. In Dragon Ball Z. Grasp how much that would affect the show. Yeah. So everyone was sent to next dimensions.
...or they were mentioned to be just fine off camera. I remember Nappa killing a whole bunch of people in fighter jets and different planes and the other characters being all like "oh good everyone got out in time at least".
Remember that the next time some fuckhead tells you that the FUNimation dub is inferior to the Ocean dub. Yeah, Vegeta may scream real good but he also has no comprehension of life and death. Though...Dragon Ball Z really treats death of little consequence anyway, so...IDK
However, the FUNimation and Saban partnership ended. Power Rangers become a monster and no longer was Saban just redubbing and adding scenes to Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, but actually filming and creating from scratch new episodes several other new shows at once including Big Bad Beatleborgs.
Dragon Ball Z ended abruptly on UPN and WB at episode 53, the episode in which Goku defeats Recoome with one bunch to the surprise of everyone. Audiences were left without explanation for why the show was cancelled. It just disappeared.
The future seemed really bleak for Dragon Ball in America. FUNimation needed a solution and fast. FUNimation was back to the same problem of being too small to do anything by itself. But it had two seasons of a show already done.
FUNimation just needed to find Dragon Ball Z a place to call home.
You know where this story is going.
Part 5 - The Toonami Era
Personally, when I think of this era, I immediately think of that Vegeta. I'm sure a lot of people do.
That's the voice of Brian Drummond.
To this day, he still does the voice of Vegeta for anything Ocean Dub. You might be wondering why he stopped being America's Vegeta.
Well, it starts way back at UPN. FUNimation ditched those BLT losers and decided to team up Saban Entertainment. Saban, at the time, was rocking the fucking continent with Power Rangers and was definitely in a position to invest in more franchises. Saban hired the Ocean Group for the voice acting. Dragon Ball Z's first American appearance was on WB and UPN with the first episode airing on September 13, 1996.
FUNimation decided to replace the original music because they felt the audio had too many silent moments and felt it would be off-putting to American audiences. Ocean dubbed two seasons worth of episodes.
The show managed to do...okay. Good enough that they decided to air two episodes a week in an hour long block and ordered more seasons to be dubbed.
Unfortunately, there were some side effects to working with Saban. The censorship.
Death was not allowed. In Dragon Ball Z. Grasp how much that would affect the show. Yeah. So everyone was sent to next dimensions.
...or they were mentioned to be just fine off camera. I remember Nappa killing a whole bunch of people in fighter jets and different planes and the other characters being all like "oh good everyone got out in time at least".
Remember that the next time some fuckhead tells you that the FUNimation dub is inferior to the Ocean dub. Yeah, Vegeta may scream real good but he also has no comprehension of life and death. Though...Dragon Ball Z really treats death of little consequence anyway, so...IDK
However, the FUNimation and Saban partnership ended. Power Rangers become a monster and no longer was Saban just redubbing and adding scenes to Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, but actually filming and creating from scratch new episodes several other new shows at once including Big Bad Beatleborgs.
Dragon Ball Z ended abruptly on UPN and WB at episode 53, the episode in which Goku defeats Recoome with one bunch to the surprise of everyone. Audiences were left without explanation for why the show was cancelled. It just disappeared.
The future seemed really bleak for Dragon Ball in America. FUNimation needed a solution and fast. FUNimation was back to the same problem of being too small to do anything by itself. But it had two seasons of a show already done.
FUNimation just needed to find Dragon Ball Z a place to call home.
You know where this story is going.
Part 5 - The Toonami Era
