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INTEREST: Toriyama Expresses Dissatisfaction With Dragon Ball Adaptations

They shovel money into Precure every year. The sakuga and top crop of voice actors and sprinkled frequently inside. Though much of the main show could be considered 'on a budget' quality it never stoops down to the level of Sailor Moon Crystal of DB Super. The reason is quite simple, i'd say. Precure is an active, and profiting franchise that they can botch whole seasons with bad characters, have the lamest final boss, or whatever, and the goods still sell for the kids.

Toei just doesn't seem to care about putting any budget into their shows no matter how valuable the ip is.

I really don't think Toei is that bad a studio, honestly, but when they're working on so many projects at once I guess it's inevitable.

thekingsdinner wrote:

I really don't think Toei is that bad a studio, honestly, but when they're working on so many projects at once I guess it's inevitable.

Well, that's not really an excuse

I mean, if you don't have the resources, then you don't go on working on so many projects. That's why so many people are pissed off (and glad to see that Toriyama is included) and complain. But i don't think Toei will change his business plan : focusing on quantity over quality, earning much more money. Guess that's the path it chose to face the japanese animation crisis.

Kanzenshuu probably has a better translation of Toriyama's quote, for those who are interested

Na another company did the dub before them, called Harmony Gold.

but neither one finished, so the first completed dub would be by funimation.

Desa wrote:

The BGM for the original English dub of DBZ by Bruce Faulconer was legendary. This is an extremely rare case where the localized BGM is better than the original. Seriously, if you type "bruce f" into youtube the first name that comes up is Faulconer.

That music is a complete insult to the franchise, both for being replacement music and for not getting the wuxia elements. Maybe there was a couple of good tunes, but they had no place in DBZ. It is deeply disrespectful for an American licensor/dub studio to take out the original music and put in other music, anyway. I'm glad they don't normally do that sort of thing anymore.

Faulconer's score was too busy trying to emphasize a feeling of a "badass" attitude rather than the natural emotions and power of the characters and scenarios the way an orchestral score like Shunsuke Kikuchi's did. It often was placed in scenes in a way that completely rewrote the context of a scene. Or in scenes that weren't even supposed to have music in them, in some occasions.

That music is a complete insult to the franchise, both for being replacement music

It wasn't very catchy, the themes weren't particularly memorable.

This is just an example of how music sometimes can't translate over to another country.

Faulconer's score was too busy trying to emphasize a feeling of a "badass" attitude rather than the natural emotions and power of the characters and scenarios the way an orchestral score like Shunsuke Kikuchi's did. It often was placed in scenes in a way that completely rewrote the context of a scene. Or in scenes that weren't even supposed to have music in them, in some occasions.

toriyama is old news. you don't see someone like oda complain anime now a day

If Toriyama is dissatisfied with the adaptations, then why does DB Super even exist?I think that if a creator isn't satisfied with how something is adapted, the anime production studio should stop making said adaptation entirely or adjust to how a creator would prefer.

SaitoHajime101 wrote:

This is just an example of how music sometimes can't translate over to another country.

Ummmmm no it's not it's example of people disagreeing over something that's not really up for debate. Plus it's funny how of all the countries that got DBZ in their native tongue only we Americans seem to be split on the music whereas everyone else is either indifferent or accepting towards the original soundtrack.