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(GreatSaiyaman777) While going through the Ginga Giri Giri archives (http://www.lucastadium.com/index2.html) I came across a feature by Castor Troy detaling his meetings with FUNimation people at the Anime Expo 2000 Convention. Earlier it said, "To help out the DBZ community after our closing, we have decided that you can take whatever content you like to make sure you preserve our hard work. Head to the archives and grab whatever you can..." Sweet! I really liked this piece so I decided to put it up here at dbzoa.net. Thanks go to webmaster Castor Troy for writing it and offering it to crazy webarchive explorers like myself. Now, let's begin...
I came up to Chris Sabat and asked him if he got a call from VegettoEX and he said that EX should call him soon. Upon looking upon my name tag, which I put my real name and "Castor Troy" on, he recognized me from my site right away and said that it was one of his favorites, although I do bash FUNimation alot :) Sabat told me it was ok because I'm entitled to my own opinion. I also purchased the Android tapes while I was there and I told Sabat that I hope that he did a good job on Vegeta's Big Bang Attack and he assured me that he did and that I would enjoy the Android tapes, I'll get to those later.... I did ask him a few questions about the DVD's and they will be coming out later this month, so make sure you check out your stores for that. I also took a picture with Sabat and the Guy who plays Trunks's voice as Gen Fukunaga operated my camera and accidentely activated the zoom instead of the snap, lol. When the flash went off, Sabat told me he was gonna get a seizure from it :P I also talked to Gen Fukunaga about keeping in Spirit vs Spirit in the Cell game, but he told me that he was having trouble negotiating with TOEI for the rights and all he said was that it would be included on the DVDs but chances of Cartoon Network seeing Gohan going Super Saiya-jin 2 with the Spirit vs. Spirit music playing was very slim. So I told Gen that I only hope for the best. Then it took me another 3 hours to find Daizenshuu EX member Jon Allen and we went over to Sabat and co. right away. If all goes well, Jon may be able to get a job with FUNimation productions as a voice actor! You all know Jon has a great voice and it would be a big plus to hire him :) I can't really talk much about what went on but all I can say is that Sabat, Gen, and the Trunks VA turned out to be pretty nice guys, but I'll leave it up to VegettoEX and many others to provide you with the latest news. The Android tapes Well...... Sabat told me personally that I would enjoy these tapes and that the dialouge has improved...... and was he right? Again I say... Yes and no... Here is the BIGGEST PLUS of the android tapes.. THE DIALOGUE IS ACTUALLY GETTING CLOSER TO THE ORIGINAL Although there were very little dialouge misinterpretations, there was BARELY any non-sensical humor and the dialouge was extremely good. I was so happy that the dialouge has gotten this better! Good job FUNi! Now...the bad news.. #19's voice..... It sounds NOTHING like the japanese original and it doesn't even sound decent in the least!!!! To me, it sounds like a automated bank teller trying to talk to you which makes me take him less seriously. I was able to deal with King Cold's voice, but I can't deal with #19's voice, it's awful and I can't even make out what he's saying. The japanese #19 sounded at least like an evil chinese porcelain doll, but the US dubbed one sounds like Casper the friendly ghost (Comment by Daimao) or Slippy from Starfox 64 (Comment by Skitz) over the radio. Then the music..... they play that awful Garlic jr clown music at least 3 times on these episodes! Plus the music when Goku fights #19 sounds awful as well. I just had to pop in Disc 4 of the 5 CD set to relieve the stress. So the music went down big time.... Now...the 2 moments I have been dreading....Vegeta's first SSJ Transformation and the Big Bang attack.... Sabat told me that I would enjoy them but I'm sorry to say I wasn't impressed at all and was very disappointed :(
First of all, the music was too loud and monotonous during the SSJ transformation and Sabat just seemed to grunt it too hard. The entire presentation was completely ruined. The Big Bang attack was changed to "Here it comes! a little going away present for you! AHAHAHAHAHA!!!" I did not hear the words "Big Bang Attack" in there at all and there were too many unecessary lines added when Vegeta shouldn't have been talking at all.... Sabat... you told me that it would be good! So in terms of Dialouge, the Android tapes have gotten better. In terms of music, they have gotten worse. Good work for the dialouge FUNi, but PLEASE try to improve the music! Get rid of the clown music! Get rid of the casio keyboard! Try to at least compose some decent tunes if you can't use the japanese music for the dub!
The Android tapes are enjoyable, just as long as you pretend the music isn't there :)"
"I also talked to Gen Fukunaga about keeping in Spirit vs Spirit in the Cell game, but he told me that he was having trouble negotiating with TOEI for the rights and all he said was that it would be included on the DVDs but chances of Cartoon Network seeing Gohan going Super Saiya-jin 2 with the Spirit vs. Spirit music playing was very slim."
Oh, and on a sidenote FUNimation hasn't tried pulling that same shitty excuse for replacing GT's music. Between the Blue Water dub in England using GT's original score (not to mention the fact that Ken Morrision also acted very CHEAPLY by pulling a "Season 3" on Ocean fans by hiring a new, cheaper, inexperienced group of actors) and the "Genterview" becoming infamous in the anime community, that excuse is now long-dead in terms of usefullness for spreading propaganda. Nowadays it's just, "pumping up the dynamics, action, we think the original music is horrible and way too instrumental, etc." Well.... they are being more honest now, at least.
"So I told Gen that I only hope for the best. Then it took me another 3 hours to find Daizenshuu EX member Jon Allen and we went over to Sabat and co. right away. If all goes well, Jon may be able to get a job with FUNimation productions as a voice actor! You all know Jon has a great voice and it would be a big plus to hire him :)"
"Sabat told me that I would enjoy them but I'm sorry to say I wasn't impressed at all and was very disappointed :(
Speaking of the "Big Bang Attack," there's no way it could have been mistranslated by our friendly "Toei Engrish writer" as Vegeta ALWAYS says his attacks in English. (which is what Japanese punks like to do because, for whatever reason, they think it sounds cool. Toriyama commented that this is why he gave Vegeta this certain style of saying attacks) It was all the fault of whoever the English "scripter adaptors" for that episode were. As of this butchering of the attack, it is never mentioned anywhere in the dub ever again. (usually it's just replaced with lines of Vegeta talking or "ARGH's!") Luckily however, during the dubbing of DBZ Budokai four Toei Executives decided to come down and watch it, as a DBZ game had never been dubbed before and this was a special occasion. When Sabat came to say his line, perhaps this is what happened...
Chris Sabat- "(Okay, 19, get ready cause I'm going to have to give you ANOTHER little going away present!)"
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