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NEWS: Funimation Has Not Recorded a Dub for Dragon Ball Z Kai's Buu Saga

NDAs are so silly.

I'll perpetually fail to grasp why it is Funimation releases this story over and over again.

I don't know if I entirely agree, Echo_City. I think Dragon Ball Z Kai's English dub has been pretty satisfactory. The script accuracy has been turned up dramatically, certain problematic performers were replaced (though mostly because they were unavailable), and there's none of that replacement music nonsense (er, except perhaps from the Japanese side, thanks to Yamamoto, but Kikuchi's stuff is still great, even if they don't use as many tracks as I'd like). Most (though not all) of the returning VAs improved.

I hardly want to pat them on the back for doing their jobs the right way after over a decade of not, but the English dub for Kai is one of the reasons I purchased some volumes of it on Blu-Ray, because it's worth rewarding the effort (though honestly it probably would have taken them LESS effort to be more accurate to start with, since they wouldn't have to invent large swaths of dialogue). It isn't perfect, it's probably not what I prefer, but it's fine.

If anybody has lost a step, it's a few of the Japanese cast members, given their old age. I feel like though many still outstrip their English counterparts, it's not a blowout anymore. Ryo Horikawa is sounding especially weathered (if I recall, he smokes) and even Mayumi Tanaka slips into her Luffy now and then when playing Kuririn. Norio Wakamoto's Cell is basically Norio Wakamoto being Norio Wakamoto. It still works for the character, but he has kind of become a parody of himself.

About Sabat, I think he became too attached to some of these roles to let go of them.

rootsofjustice wrote:

FUNimation's corporate side has lost a ton of credibility since Charlene Ingraham left the company and I have in the past called them on their lack of credibility several times.

2012 (when Charlene was still with Funimation) had all these extras dubbed:

Princess Jellyfish Shorts, Freezing Shorts, Panty & Stocking Shorts

And as soon as Charlene joins VIZ she continues her excellent work and said upfront at a panel that the Accel World Shorts would be dubbed.

RyanSaotome wrote:

Divineking wrote: Dear Funimation: Please stop contradicting yourselves you look like idiots. It's obvious their lying about not recording it so why not just stay quiet? The fact they're so hasty to respond instead of saying "No Comment" tells me this might not be so obviously lying as it seems.

The actors have already said otherwise concerning this situation. Between Funimation and the actors it's pretty obvious who's lying. If they were really honest about it they'd have denied it back with Sean Schemell and Kyle Hebert made those comments

Divineking wrote:

RyanSaotome wrote: Divineking wrote: Dear Funimation: Please stop contradicting yourselves you look like idiots. It's obvious their lying about not recording it so why not just stay quiet? The fact they're so hasty to respond instead of saying "No Comment" tells me this might not be so obviously lying as it seems. The actors have already said otherwise concerning this situation. Between Funimation and the actors it's pretty obvious who's lying. If they were really honest about it they'd have denied it back with Sean Schemell and Kyle Hebert made those comments

There's a chance something could have fallen out or plans could have changed. It wasn't initially gonna air in Japan you may recall.