Fellow Dragon Ball Z fans, today I come to with some of the worst Dragon Ball Z news of all time. The only thing that could top it is what Funimation did to Dragon Ball GT. At first I was somewhat reluctant to say this but... as much as I hate to be the harbinger of bad news I think it's better that people know now as opposed to 6 months from now when it'll be far too late to do anything. So, I'll say this as plainly as possible- Bruce Faulconer is coming back. And he is replacing the music for ALL 67 episodes of the redub.

How I know this, I'm not at liberty to say. And I'm certainly not about to go and try to get anyone in trouble for doing all of DBZ fandom an immense favor by letting me know what's really up so the fans can still try to stop Funimation while there's still time left. What I am going to do, is explain why this planned action on Funimation's part is so incredibly and horrendously inappropriate and wrong.

Funimation- what the HELL is the matter with you people?! Ever since 1995, you have been butchering DBZ's music nonstop. Nonstop. And of course, we already all know why.


Gen Fukunaga- "The replacing of the music, was a FUNimation decision. With our own soundtrack, we could charge royalties for every second it's heard."


That is why it was done. The quality of the music or whatever you were replacing meant absolutely nothing, you didn't even bother to listen to what it was you were replacing before declaring Bruce Faulconer's work on Season 3 to be music of the gods. It was simply done to charge royalties to the networks for very poorly composed synthesized music that never, ever, ever stops. However, this later proved to be utterly useless and worthless on your part, as Gen later admitted in another interview.


Gen Fukunaga- "You can't make money just on the royalties paid by the networks."


Of course, you people were unskilled amateurs when it came to television and dubbing. Hell, to a very large extent you still are. It WAS your first time to be involved, and you had never had much of any prior experience or developed professionalism before personally deciding the fate of Dragon Ball Z. But once you "made your bed" just to charge royalties, which later would amount to essentially "chump change" for a guy like your CEO, you had to lie about it and come up with other excuses. Why? Of course, to protect your "image." Nobody who acts like a greedy, selfish asshole wants to openly admit it, or believe that they are one. Just watch the movie "Roger and Me" and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about when Roger finally gets interviewed. But in any case,


Cindy Fukunaga- "No, we composed a new theme. It was done in Los Angeles. It's a very distinctive sound, and I'm told it's of the sort that's very popular among American children right now.

Gen- "For the purposes of merchandising, Nielsen ratings, and advertisements, we're targeting mainly 6-to-11 year old boys. But we also found, during our broadcast of the first Dragon Ball, that it was doing quite well with men, too, all the way up into their mid-20s. The story itself is actually for a higher age group than the basic audience target; in actuality, the characters are fairly deep. It's comparacble to a number of comic books these days that are read by a higher age group than kids. We intend to leave in that depth of story and character that was present in the Japanese original."


Of course, those were reasons too, but secondary ones to the "royalties" issue. Now that you were hellbent on replacing the original music (music which NONE of you had bothered to watch ahead of time before making such a drastic decision for the show- remember when Gen talked about going to DBZ fan sites in 1999 to find out what happens later in the show because sometimes he needs a "refresher" in that area?) you decided to try and "hip up" your score to make it "more appealing" to children. But Shuke Levy's score was simply ridiculous! It had no emotion, it was repetitive, it- sigh. You guys are so stupid and thickheaded and hateful of a series you have no love for, I doubt you'll still be able to understand. (http://dbzoa.net/dbzuncensored/opinions/cpsaros.html) See? But you guys aren't even real fans and you admit to it! Of course, for a bunch of fake fans to understand and truly care is absolutely impossible! Again, even Gen said,


Steve: Was the replacement of the soundtrack in the first two seasons a Saban decision?
Gen: The replacing of the music, was a FUNimation desicsion. With our own soundtrack, we could charge royalties for every second it's heard.

Steve: But the music itself? Who's responsible?
Gen: Oh, that was Saban. After we opted to go with our own music, we left the decision of how it was done to them.

Steve: Is that the same reason the background music was replaced?
Gen: For the most part. In the US, audiences tend to like a more continuous BGM on animated series. It's kind of a rule of thumb to fill in gaps in the action with constant music to pace the action a little better. A big complaint a lot of people had with the Japanese music was that it took too many pauses. We used the judgement of our consultants, to make the show conform better to American music.

Steve: Speaking of the soundtrack, why did you replace the Japanese opening with "Rock the Dragon?"
Gen: Well, one thing is, it's way too long. There are specific standards out there, and the simple fact is is that it just runs too long. When we chopped it up, it was very hard to get it into a fast paced opening that would catch the target audience's attention. The people we're trying to reach, American children, have a very short attention span. They flip through the channels pretty quick, and if you're show isn't flashy enough, then he's not going to stop and watch it. We felt we had to do something there to catch people's attention, so they'd watch the whole thing (the show), and see how good it is.

Steve: Is that the same reason the background music was replaced?
Gen: For the most part. In the US, audiences tend to like a more continuous BGM on animated series. It's kind of a rule of thumb to fill in gaps in the action with constant music to pace the action a little better. A big complaint a lot of people had with the Japanese music was that it took too many pauses. We used the judgement of our consultants, to make the show conform better to American music.

Steve: Were you pleased with the way Saban handled the BGM?
Gen: Well, as I said, we were strategically pleased with the replacement, but we had to change the "composer." We were not very pleased with the music for the first two seasons.


Huh... so there you go. Your company's high leader, the man almost singehandedly responsible for raping over DBZ's music out of blind greed that turned out to be meaningless, and sheeplike obedience to hired "consultants" deciding DBZ's fate for him, ADMITTING that Shuki Levy's music sucked so hard that that's why he wanted to replace it! Of course, even that statement can't be taken for complete truth. Shuki Levy is pretty much in bed with Haim Saban to this day, just like you were in the mid-to-late 90's so once he chose to kick you out of his queen-size bed and abandon the syndication business, you had to find a new bed you could hop into- Cartoon Network's. And Levy would be remaining in that same bed with his greedy, stingy, censor-happy lover and butcher of animes, and you would no longer be able to retain his synthesized services as you were no longer welcome in Haim Saban's bed. So what did you do after that?

Hire the cheapest person you could easily find locally (Bruce Faulconer) and have him do the music! Why? Well, I doubt the royalities were bringing you enough (then again, you were still inexperienced and that "can't make any money from royalties paid by the networks" statement was made a few years later when Gen wasn't as complete a fool as he was before) but of course.... It had to be done for "continuity." Plus, DBZ had proven successful on CN getting high ratings, high enough for them to make a new season. That just proves that it was your "genius" that made DBZ so great, right?

Um... NO. That's the problem with you people- many of you are so incredibly drunk and intoxicated from the wine of arrogance received from Funiball Z's commercial and televised success that a lot of you actually credit your "genius" for making DBZ so popular. Yes, it was Christopher Neel Bligh's and Terry Klassen's script-writing "genius" that glued people to the television and gave Season 3 such smashing ratings. Yes, it was the soulless casio-thumpings of Shuki Levy and Faulconer that captivated their ears. Yes, it was people like almost all of the directors of DBZ who dubbed the DBZ episodes without never bothered to watch any of the original episodes beforehand (even though Sabat had watched and rewatched HUNDREDS of time for Blue Gender episodes total, and done a great job with that anime, while Justin Cook has done similar work with Fruits Basket and Yu Yu Hakusho, showing that DBZ was considered your least important show of Funimation's shows by the people who worked on it) because they hated it so much and were bored by it, pulling voices out of their asses like overexaggerated, super-squeaky fat Buu and "American badass" overacting moron Super Buu or "I sound kind of like a girl, tee hee hee" chibi Trunks voices who made DBZ so awesome. All that genius combined made DBZ a success, right?

NO. DBZ has ALWAYS been successful across the globe. Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Mexico, Phillipines and a dozen+ other Latin American countries lucky enough to retain the Meixcan dub and so forth, ALL dubbed much better than DBZ in America and ALL with the original music that you're so damned hellbent on denying to fans forever. Why were they successful? Is it simply because were they all "geniuses" just as many of you allege yourselves to be?

No. None of them created DBZ. None of them drew DBZ. None of them conceived of a single one of the dozens of spectacular fights for DBZ. None of them created the amazing special effects of DBZ. None of them made Goku, the Son family and so many others into such interesting and charming and fun characters. None of them created Freeza, Cell or the Majin Buu sagas, or any of the characters within. None of them created any of the scripts or storyline- all they did was dub them- just like what you've done. Some of them did okay, some did badly, and some did most excellently.

Look at Mexico, who did so most excellently- people stayed home during important episodes (end of Cell saga) or the beginning of new sagas (Majin Buu). Kind of like how people in America reacted when Seinfeld came to an end. Two movies there were shown theatrically on a national level in Mexico, garnering much acclaim and money. NO movies have been shown in America. And NOBODY bothered or cared enough to skip work and stay home on the a "Seinfeld-type" national level for certain sagas for Funiball Z. If they had happened down there, why couldn't it happen in America? I seriously doubt that Mexican kiddies are all "100% non-hyper ADD flip the remotes if there's no nonstop music" like you have ignorantly and insultingly thought about Americans for so long, doing your best to contribute to the dumbing down of our culture, and contributing absolutely nothing of value to it in the process.

In any case, ask yourselves this- when Gen Fukunaga's uncle arranged a meeting at Toei for his lucky nephew, and the nephew was offered THIRTY different animes on silver platters by them to accept- why did he go for DB? Because it was their number one property, that's why. Even Christopher Robin Sabat has stated about DBZ's international popularity that it's almost "magical" how it seems to automatically do well wherever it goes.

Besides- Germany's had DOZENS of music cd's just for DBZ's DRAMA music alone. And they have sold great there. And what have we had... less than a dozen, except for every movie that you're just hellbent on turning into a music cd. (do you really think anyone's actually going to want to buy the soundtrack to Movie 7?) And of all of them combined, their sales are far, far, LESS than Germany's. Germany- a country with less money and people than America. Germany- a country that used the original music of DBZ in their dub's presentation, whereas you insisted that it's music was simply too horrible to present anywhere near an American's ears. I'm proud to be an American but I'm ashamed to see people attack the intelligence of my country, and I'm more ashamed that I have to share my country with people like you.

Ask yourself why- sure, you can claim that, "well, huh huh, we just haven't advertised our cd's enough, that's why!" But on the other hand, that would also mean that there hasn't been enough demand by fans for Faulconer and Levy's "original soundtracks" to warrant them being available on such a wide national level like in Germany. Face it- your "genius" did not make DBZ a success. Nor did anybody, from Neel Bligh your worst writer or your best writers like Eric Vale, create a single storyline. It's simple, FUNimation- DBZ is an amazing story that translates well enough to do well into any country or culture- even if the dubbing company in question is so incredibly inept and stupid that a full 61.5% of the initial Japanese translations were too f**cked up to use in the first place. You have Toei and Toriyama to thank for DBZ's success here, and nobody else. Because without them, there'd be no Funimation and you'd still be hocking Cyboars merchandise and doing voice overs for Chuckie Cheese.

Now then, let's take a look at the differences between team Toei, whom you have dumped, and team Faulconer, whom you seem to think will actually be capable of doing better.


Team Toei-

1. Has an enormous budget. As one of the single most popular shows and animes in all of Japan breaking numerous records, they ensure that DBZ consistently has good and well-composed music. With 10+ years to work, a week in-between each episode (that's over 500 WEEKS total, mind you), and past experiences to build upon, not to mention cultivating relationships with some of Japan's hottest pop, rock and other genre artists, Toei has, essentially, all the time and money in the world needed to do a thoroughly excellent job. Ultimately they create dozens of popular and high-selling soundtracks, some completely original ones based off of the show, and the music of the show is a smashing success.


Team Faulconer-

1. Has a very, VERY low budget. Even complains about how low it is in an interview when he had already redone most of DBZ's music. Before announcing that they hired him, someone being interviewed admits that FUNimation is begging Toei to charge them less for the rights to DBZ Season 3, since FUNimation was so poor back then and needed to squeeze every penny they could possibly find. It's interesting to note that of all the other musicians in America they could have hired, FUNimation picked someone who was within driving distance of their headquarters and did so in very short period of time, as if his proximity to their headquarters, as well as his low price tag, were his single most important attributes in the decision to hire him. (sounds a lot like how Mark Menza got the job for GT and why all those garage and basement bands from the Dalla/Ft. Worth area were hired for Movie 8 doesn't it?)

Anyway, of those who religiously or even just tacitly followed Shuki Levy (like the Fukunaga family had publicly hoped they would back when they were interviewed) most of them were dissapointed with the changes in soundtracks. They felt Faulconer was inferior, and he was- Levy had had significant past experience, particularly with Power Rangers. So regardless of what one could say about him, at least he had real experience and lots of it. Faulconer... well, he got a degree from a college saying that he knows music. And he... uh, well, worked on a couple of commercials, yeah. Didn't he do some work with local Dallas bands too? Yeah, I think he did.

As for hiring other artists- he doesn't. He says he doesn't have the money for full orchestras, and he doesn't. Toei does and did, but he doesn't. And Faulconer does NOT collaborate with top musicians across America like Toei did for Japan. However- he does hire SOMEBODY- ghost writers to mix and create his own music for him! That's right, Bruce Faulconer doesn't actually make all of his own music even though he takes full credit for it and pretends that he does! Notice how the music quality improved slightly when the Garlic Jr. saga began? That's because Bruce brought in a bunch of kids fresh from college to help him out starting at around that time!

So let's get this straight- Toei does the equivalent of hiring Japanese pop and rock and orchestral quality music of what it'd be like if Faulconer had hired musicians like Britney Spears, Led Zeppelin or the New York Symphony Orchestra, or any orchestra for that matter. He can't even afford one of the smaller orchestras with the shoestring budget he has. Instead of collaborating with top elite artists from across the country, Faulconer hires a bunch of kids fresh from college (either the one he used to go to or just a local college) and claims their work as his own. Even worse, usually the good songs AREN'T the ones he personally records, they're just the ones made by others. And even your high leader Fukunaga agrees with me too!


http://web.archive.org/web/20010305093052/http://www.pojo.com/dragonball/suppa4gohan.shtml
Gen- "Gundam Wing is only 49 episodes long. DragonBall Z is 291 episodes long. It would cost too much to have decent music for the show."


Now c'mon FUNimation. Given the differences between Toei of Japan (the Japanese equivalent of Disney of America) and Bruce Faulconer of Dallas Texas (certainly not the musical equivalent of Disney of America, or coming even close- just check out "Kingdom Hearts" to see what they're really capable of at their hands down best) and some music kid graduates from Texas universities, (no offense fellow Texans but Funimation really does keep giving us a bad name, yet another reason not to like them- sigh, why couldn't Funimation be located in New Jersey or Rhode Island and spare our state from being unfairly associated with these guys?) does it really strike you as any surprise at all that Germany, using the original music, completely and totally owns your ass in terms of sales and ratings, whereas yours isn't as good nor does it sell nearly as well?

Yes, DBZ is still popular even with Faulconer and his team of anonymous college ghost writers behind him, but remember- this WAS the anime with the single most potential of any of the otehr 100's, 1000's of animes and cartoons on the planet. That's why it's the one out of 30 on the silver platters that Gen Fukunaga accepted when offered to him by his Toei Executive Producer Uncle. (the only reason a schmo like him managed to sneak into Toei in the first place.) DBZ's universal appeal is what makes the show successful in addition to it's exciting action, dramatic and interesting storylines, amazing animation and so forth. Regardless of what you do or don't do, how bad you make it sound, or how dumb you may make characters sound, script-wise or voice-wise, you can't stop Majin Buu from going on a murder rampage across earth now can you? Even your censorship can't completely stop it, nor did it, even if it lessened it up and got rid of all the more violent content. That, and countless other things about DBZ, (some much more abstract than this, probably too abstract for many of you to ever understand) are what enables it to still do well even under your dubbing "guidance".

Azrael-sama, founder of the dbzoa, once said something to me- "Dubbed DBZ is one of the best damned shows on television- however, it sucks compared to what it's supposed to be." And you know what? Despite all the bad I say- he really is absolutely right.

I was a hardcore dubbie fan of your company and dub of Dragon Ball Z for years. Had I met any of you in person, I'd have been like "man, I just met the Funi crew who does DBZ, those people are awesome and do such a great job, I'm really honored to get to meet these people" that's just how crazy I was about the dub and how much I liked it. Yet... remember what happened over the course of a few months and a handful of motley fansubs? I converted- completely. And renounced my loyalty to you, your dub and your company completely. Now, instead of being your best fan, the type you brag about as your vaunted majority as "proof" of the dub's excellence and even "superiority to the American viewing audience, particularly 2-11 year olds", I'm your single harshest critic. Had I not viewed those fansubs, I'd still be unknowing of what true DBZ, and what your company is truly like. And I'd still be a hardcore dubbie. Seriously, if every DBZ fan in America had that same experience as I had had with fansubs, do you really think you'd still be able to brag that the majority of all fans are dubbies?

No. And why did I convert? Because what you did and still do is wrong and completely inappropriate. I saw what real DBZ is like and it's nothing like what your insulting version of it purports it to be. Funiball Z may indeed be one of the best shows on television, but it is just a shadow of what it truly should be like when compared to it's original true counterpart. Compared to real DBZ- it flatout sucks. It angers me as a fan to see you betray me, millions of other fans and this show while putting on the front of being "hardcore fans" of it and "caring," when the majority of your company couldn't give so much as a rat's ass about it. Even ol Genney boy, quote, "could clearly give two shits less about production." THAT'S the kind of person who gets to decide the fate of Dragon Ball Z, and whether or not they're going to be butchered to high hell or treated with at least a morself of respect? People like you who are so stubborn to see how much potential the show truly has and how much a dub like yours lacks, who don't care about animes at all except as a means of producing money for your bank account, do NOT deserve to work on DBZ. Nor do you have any right to tell us what's best for us, or to rehire Bruce Faulconer yet again for an excuse as cheap, lame and false as "well, we gotta keep up the continuity going so we gotta with old Brucey and his team of college ghost writers again!"

I find it ironic that the only time DBZ has truly ever been dubbed completely appropriately, was when you were forced to turn over the movie dubs to Pioneer to generate cash back when you guys were still poor. My Guardian of the earth... all the Japanese scripts were translated PERFECTLY there. It would be years later before you'd hire Steven J. Simmons, and only the last 3 seasons of DBZ would be based off of appropriate translations by him instead of incredibly shitty (but of course, free) ones from Toei..

The music... ah, heaven to hear. It went perfectly, nobody complained, fans loved it and accepted it (even "dubbies," the people you claim are madly in love with your "improvements" you make and would supposedly go crazy if you ever dared to veer away from "continuity"- funny how that didn't happen AT ALL when Pioneer left DBZ's original music in there and treated it with respect). These films are still dubbing masterpieces and were done almost perfectly. Instead of continuing in this excellent fashion, you guys dumped the Ocean cast, hired people with almost no acting or serious professional experience, and did a poor job of directing them, not even bothering to watch the original episodes to know what the hell you were doing and simply pulling voices out of your asses right on the spot based on the judgement of a small handful of people completely and utterly unfamiliar with the terrain they were expected to be handling.

And the cursing? Completely uncut! In Japanese AND English! Years later, Gen Fukunaga would order and "make it abundantly clear" to translator Mr. Simmons that he didn't want ANY curse words in there at all. He only relented after fans screamed at your company and demanded they stop screwing over the original version. And yet, even to this day, your company STILL censors the cursing in the "Uncut" English version! Movie 7 was "just an accident" you don't want to see be "repeated" and Movie 8 proved that when Christopher Sabat was forced to "tone down" the curse words for the "uncut" dub script.

And the level of "uncut"? Pioneer left everything uncut. You guys, on the other hand, have insisted on "slicing" bits and pieces of material and extras from all of the movies, the only exceptions being Movie 5 (which was only an accident it got left in in the first place) and Movie 6 (proving that you can add in and leave extras if you want, but that you simply don't want to at all). And unlike you, Pioneer didn't pull this "levels of uncut" bs on the fans like you continue to do.

All of this together simply shows that Pioneer, had they succeeded in their struggle to wrestle the rights of DBZ away from you, would have done one HFIL of an infinitely better job dubbing than your company ever has in the past five or six years! Chris Psaros would have retired right then and there after his reaction to the Ginyu tape, (which would have been markedly different, had it been dubbed by the fine company of Pioneer) and fans would have stopped complaining altogether. And you know what? DBZ would be even bigger in America than it is. Think you got "more money than you know what to do with?" Ha, Pioneer would have had more money than you people could ever dream of!

You have betrayed DBZ, Akira Toriyama, and the millions of fans and potential fans (fans who aren't watching because DBZ's not at it's true and maximum potential). You are traitors to anime, and are much worse than Carl Macek himself. At least he got complained at AFTER the fact of the matter, and didn't butcher any other animes ever since then. (when Harmony Gold, his company, got the rights to DB initially, it's interesting to point out that he LEFT the original music in that time, whereas fans had to bitch at you for years to get you to eventually do the same) On the other hand, you guys don't care. Instead of viewing complaints as legitimate, you're so full of arrogance, greed, ignorance and hypocrisy that you view them as "necessary burdens" because, as the pathetic and redundant belief you cling to is, it's your "duty" to Americanize DBZ since you still think that doing that actually makes it appeal to more people or somehow makes little kids want to watch it more.

Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. This is one of the most disgusting things you've done yet. Look at GT- yes, it's ratings are primo. Even I will admit that skipping the first 16 episodes was good from a financial point of view, as well as acting like GT was an "action anime". But the music you have is ridiculous, and insultingly bad. It's been admitted that most within your company hate it and despise it and think it sucks. And Menza has even LESS experience than Faulconer who had even LESS experience that Shuki Levy who didn't get it right either. The musicians just keep getting worse and worse!

You should not betray DBZ and the fans yet again by making the mistake of rehiring Bruce Faulconer. If Pioneer could be successful with the first 3 movies dubbed so well (and before you boast of the initial "low sales", their sales were dependent on tv and national popularity. Once that and DBZ's fanbase increased, they sold like hotcakes) then do you REALLY have to butcher DBZ's music to make the redub sell well? If Mexico's excellent dub (good enough the first time through that it didn't necessitate them having to do a "redub" in the first place) had better national ratings there, then why can't you just mimic them? Kiddy Grade's going to have a "Fruits-basket quality" dub like Gen Fukunaga promised fans earlier, (because it's a so-called "show for anime fans" whereas DBZ fans, as some of you describe them, "aren't really anime fans") so why the f**cking HELL can't you give DBZ fans the same thing for our show, huh? Why on earth does DBZ always have to be treated like crap and be Funimationized and "hipped up" by you people while other animes by you keep getting the royal treatment?! Your ability to dub Fruits Basket so well shows that you're not just a bunch of complete incompetents, just that you choose to act so whenever you sink your claws into anything even remotely involving DBZ.

You've always gone too far FUNimation, finding newer and newer ways to prove your incompetence, love of butchery, hatred of the show and despisement of it's fans, but this time you've reached a new depth of lowliness even for a miserable company like yours. Bruce ruined DBZ's music the first time- why on earth do you expect him and his team of college-graduate ghost writers to do any different a second time? Do they even DESERVE a second round with DBZ?

And you know what? As a dubbie during episode 189/204 I didn't laugh once. Not ONCE. Years later, while rewatching it in Japanese, I laughed my ass off. Why? The script wasn't that different, nor the voice acting too different either. Actually, the dub had pretty good voice acting there and the script wasn't too bad. The thing that made the difference, was the music. While Faulconer's was serious and repetitive, the original went with the comedic nature of the scene perfectly. Does that show you anything that your utterly failed to make me laugh because of the bad music alone, but even rewatching it with just completely superior and more appropriate music the episode was able to ellicit the response of laughter from me that your version had completely failed to do so years ago while viewing your dub which aside from the music was pretty much the same?

For the love of the good great Guardian of the Earth Funi, DO NOT REHIRE BRUCE FAULCONER. If he can't even handle comedic scenes, how the hell do you expect to handle ANY kinds of scenes, huh? Just leave in the original music period, like real fans and a real anime dubbing company would.




As for us fans... what can we do to stop Funimation? Well, we're not just gonna give up yet. If we give up without a fight then that means that we've already lost and that the DBZ is already as dead a corpse as Funimation's GT dub now is. There is still a chance left for Funimation to stop using Faulconer- Funimation hasn't dubbed anywhere past the 30's episodes just yet, and it's unlikely they'll finish the first stage of the redub until a few more months, the second of which will involce a cat, a casio keyboards, and several anonymous recent college music graduates trying to pay their rent.

If you feel the same way about their desire to flush all of the redub's music down the toilet and have Faulconer then e-mail them, and let them know -exactly- what your thoughts are on their decision to replace the redub's music. You can contact them here at their feedback center.

Secondly, let's bring this fight right to their very doorsteps! Go to Funimation's official Dragon Ball Z message boards and demand that they put a stop to the raping of the DBZ redub right now! Let the people there know the truth as well, and each of you make at least one post there. DBGT came and was butchered beyond anything salvageable, so there's no way we're just going to stand around while Funimation does the exact same to the redub.

Finally, here are the e-mail addresses of Funimation's head executives. More so than any other people on the face of the planet, it's been their decision to try and ruin the redub in the same way that they've ruined GT and already ruined the first 63 episodes the first time around. These are the guys the one so anxious to ruin your favorite show by rehiring Bruce Faulconer.... I urge you to speak your minds to them, and tell them whatever it is that you'd like to tell them.

1. Gen@funimation.com
2. Cindy@funimation.com
3. Daniel.Cocanougher@funimation.com
4. Allen.Cocanougher@funimation.com
5. Robert.Cocanougher@funimation.com
6. Barry.Watson@funimation.com


In any case... FUNimation has been ruining DBZ for almost a decade now and it's obvious that they're never going to stop anytime soon unless we fans stand up to them and get it through their thick skulls that they do NOT have to destroy DBZ's music to still make it popular. Hell, as has been shown time and time again, t'd actually be far MORE popular with the superior-sounding and fitting orignial soundtrack still in there! Don't forget, German DBZ original music cd's have completely outsold Faulconer's domestic ones here in the wealthiest country on the planet.

Even if they butcher the redub more horribly then they've butchered anything before, there's no way we're going to just give up without giving them a fight, no way. Evil men win when good men do nothing, and we're not about to give Funimation that kind of a win. No matter what happens, we're not gonna back down and we're not gonna bend over for Funimation to pick up their soap and accept what it is they want to do to us. We're going to do everything we possibly can to oppose Funimation and put an end to their mindless and savage ruining of Dragon Ball Z. No matter happens, there's no way in hell that we're just giving up without giving them the fight of their lives. Even if they still let Faulconer ruin the redub, we're not going to look back on this time and say we just gave up and did nothing. United, we shall stand proudly and defiantly against Funimation that their insanity might finally be overcome and bringing about a better tommorow, and dub of DBZ, will finally become true. So DBZ fans of the world, I say to thee- UNITE!

- GreatSaiyaman777