I was raised on the dub, straight on through from Raditz to Boo, and GYAAAGGGHHHHH is the dub bad.
Some people prefer old dub Freeza to Kai's new dub Freeza.
My mind struggles to comprehend how.
And then you have the people who like Falconer's music (the one where it sounds like some idiot's banging on a synth repeatedly)
The Vegeta is Pissed theme was pretty cool, but everything else kind of sucked. I can't believe that there's people that not only like Faulconer's music, but think it sounds wrong without it. (And people also think the dub is good, so... whatever.)
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And it was apparently named "Hell's Bells". Well, it just lost some of its cool.
And actually, its kind of terrible at 3:30 minutes. It's cool for 30 seconds. Never realized it was that long before... because it sounds the same all the way through.
The Spanish dub was actually pretty great. And uncensored.
And somehow pulled ahead of the English dub, and I ended up watching a Spanish channel locally for it. The characters actually like, emoted and stuff.
And did not have Sean Schemmel. Who even after 15 years and redubbing the series like 4 different times, is STILL a terrible Goku. And a far, far worse King Kai.
So yeah not impossible to make a good Dragon Ball dub.
On another note I love the idea of Kai. Just wish they'd done it right. Stick to the manga and only the manga, unless it was *really good* material that's generally beloved, like early character introduction moments or possibly some of the extended fight stuff that isn't nonsensical. ... or if you just need to pad an episode for 30-60 seconds to get to a cliffhanger moment.
An average 18 page chapter (counting title page) takes about 8 minutes to showcase in animation... a little longer if there's a lot of talking, (common in One Piece, less in Dragon Ball) a lot less if there's a lot of action.
Should have had 3 chapters an episode no problem for *most* of it... 2 if it was a talky one with a lot of exposition. (The Upwards max of 2 chapters per episode would be 160 episodes which is about what they're hitting... but that's still leaving a lot of padding per episode, including some terrible filler like Bulma and the frog Ginyu.
The original anime managed 291 episodes based on 325 manga chapters. That's just ridiculous. Kai is going to clock around 160 when its done, which is a lot better ... but still not great. Cutting 130 episodes SOUNDS amazing, but a huge chunk of that is largely gained from cutting the whole-cloth filler episodes like Gohan and the robot, children in space, Bulma and the crabs, and Garlic Jr.... rather than tweaking the pacing of the main material.
Modifié par Some Geth, 09 avril 2013 - 04:27 .
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