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Interview: Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods with Justin Cook, Chris Sabat, and Sean Schemmel

They can be proud of the result, the show got on TV (though it already had been on TV), but proud of what they had to do to accomplish it? Come on, even other dubbed anime on TV at the time were better off than DBZ. Yeah, extremely popular, but at what cost? They butchered it.

Mind you, Sabat started in 1999. DBZ had already been on TV in America for three years, and anime with more faithful and better acted dubs were already on at that point. We're not talking 1996 here.

Kadmos1 wrote:

I've love to know which DBZ Japanese VA that penguintruth (at times, he seems like a sub elitist) feels aren't good as the DBZ Funi cast.

Well, none. I'm just saying the gap is getting shorter between them, mostly because the Japanese cast is getting older.

I'm not a "sub elitist" if I prefer the Japanese cast, even by a lot. I'm a "sub elitist" if I don't give English dubs a chance at all, which I do.

You've made it abundantly clear how you feel about DBZ's dub, so I don't know why you keep coming back.

They added photoshop glow to the battle of the gods poster. Yuck.

You heard this before but....Sabat, you will never be the voice of Vegeta. It will always be Horikawa, but in the english dub you are still a place holder for Brian Drummond. I've bought every VHS tape Funimation released and still didn't feel you even came close to the Ocean dub of Vegeta. Sure Goku's father may have been a "brilliant scientist" "sent to the next dimension" and Goku's power level was "over 9000" but man, no one could scream like Drummond. Sabat sounds like a raspy brodog in comparison.

This history they reminisce are for dub fans only, ya know those of us who bought the DBZ soundtracks with Deftones and what not. Funimation has money in mind, being respectful is not what they are about. They delve out a byproduct. Let the brain dead legion enjoy it. The 90's are long over. Its 2014 are we are still talking about DBZ, and if thats the case, its going to be around another 100 years if it can help it. And ill bet the next ten generations will be just as vocal as we are about the dub that was changed when they last heard it. What then?

Funimation doesn't own DBZ so they can only do so much damage.

If it was an interview with with the Japanese with both the Funimation & Ocean voices Vegeta and Goku, that would a huge honor.

It would be interesting to hear what the DBZ dub would've sounded like had FUNi stayed in Silicon Valley (they probably would've done it in LA).

I... I don't know what to say..

I'm just going to let this post speak for itself.

i believe i might have brain damage from reading this post

PurpleWarrior13 wrote:

It would be interesting to hear what the DBZ dub would've sounded like had FUNi stayed in Silicon Valley (they probably would've done it in LA).

It probably would have been similar to the original dub of Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout on the PS1, which used Animaze voice talent.