#DBKAI

[neogohann]

[luimuu]

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[mashounen1945]

Bizarrely enough, the Latin-American Spanish dub of DBZ Kai was also rejected by a good chunk of the fandom here, although for different reasons.

Cloverway Inc. was the studio that originally made the LatAm Spanish dub of all things Dragon Ball (and many other anime series, including Saint Seiya, which was why Cloverway was chosen to begin with). But around 2004 or 2005, Tōei decided to license and distribute their stuff in the entire American continent directly, thus Cloverway lost Tōei's catalogue and had to close its doors a couple of years later.

In 2010, when this Tōei subsidiary had to make a Spanish dub of DBZ Kai, they hired a studio called Candiani. But Tōei decided to be cheapskates this time and gave Candiani a smaller budget; they also ordered the people at Candiani to not translate directly from Japanese to Spanish, and instead base their Spanish dub on the English dub that had already been made by Funimation (and had been censored by Nicktoons a little bit, admittedly).

The result was that the dub was still quite accurate, just like "Ye Olde" LatAm Spanish dubs, but for many fans, it still felt... off. There were two main factors for this:

Due to the budget decrease enforced by Tōei, Candiani was unable to re-hire the voice cast of the old LatAm Spanish dub, even the main characters' iconic VAs (such as Mario Castañeda, René García, Carlos Segundo and Laura Torres, who previously played Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo and kid Gohan respectively).

Because of losing the original VAs, Candiani hired brand-new ones for the dub of DBZ Kai, and even though the Spanish script per se was an accurate translation due to being based upon a Funimation dub that already was a good Japanese-to-English translation... this was still "a dub of another dub", it was to be expected that this would subtly affect the Spanish dub in some other way, and that's exactly what happened here: it soon became pretty obvious that the new VAs were chosen specifically to make the characters sound similar to how they sounded in English when played by the Funimation voice cast (with Edson Matus, Andrés Gutiérrez Coto, Idzi Dutkiewicz and Karina Altamirano sounding quite a lot like Schemmel's Goku, Sabat's Vegeta & Piccolo and Clinkenbeard's kid Gohan, but in LatAm Spanish).

So yeah, the LatAm fans hated it. YMMV on whether their hatred was less or more irrational than what the English-speaking fans felt towards their own dub of DBZ Kai.

Luckily, the English-speaking fandom's fixation on memes isn't nearly as prevalent within the LatAm fandom, so when it was time to dub the new movies, DBZ Kai: The Final Chapters and Dragon Ball Super, Tōei's American subsidiary simply went back to the way Clowerway was doing things back in the 90s: they re-hired Castañeda, García, Segundo, Torres and everyone else, and made Spanish dubs directly out of the original Japanese versions again, without shoehorning memes into the translated scripts.

I know this is kind of preaching to the choir in this case, but it is so damn weird to me to think that Funimation's best dub (Kai) was a decade ago, and it's not like fandom memes didn't exist then

That's because they believed that a faithful dub would sell and take off, especially as complaining about dub changes and inaccuracies online was popular at the time. Plus they wanted a chance to prove they could do this proper. Then it didn't sell. Like, people boycotted it, refused to buy it, spread all kinds of BS about it and how they removed "all the blood and swearing", with some even claiming to recall how the original dub would say things as heavy as "godd*mn", "a**hole", or even "sh*t" even on the Toonami broadcasts... it was weird and dumb and ugly. That, and people will insist to this day that the performances and writing in the old dub were just better somehow. So they're back to catering to the memes (and even trying to spark new ones) to try to appease the fanbase, sadly.

[oreozfox]

Woke up with random Dragon Ball feels

And please tell me in the tags how you came to discover it!

[insightfuldoggy]

My friend, currently blindly going through DBKai asked me:

“Does he ever become gentler towards Goku or this is his default state when interacting with him lmao”

In reference to Android 16.

…Never has it hurt more to lie, lol.

[namitomoon]

Warning: rant

Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters Remastered is funny because it was a 20th Anniversary lazy remastering of the classic DM anime which consisted of a 720p filter and stretching the image so it fits into modern 16:9 TVs. At least Toei with DBKai actually made the effort of removing all the filler and (especially) the padding (which in the case of DM would be an enormous improvement because Jesus, sometimes it feels like a slog to watch)

To top it off, it has never been officially released into some form of home media like Blu-Rays or streaming. The only existing way of watching DM Remastered is to get ahold of the 720p HDTVRips in Nyaa (which btw stop at 144 because apparently the only guy in all of Japan who recorded and posted them suddenly stopped for...God knows why). Heck I think it could qualify for a LMW article.

No English speaking fansub has subbed the DMRemastered and you can't even use the original DM .srt sub files because NAS decided it was a cool idea to add a brief "Yu-Gi-Oh! 20th Anniversary" image at the beginning of the episodes. So the subs won't sync thank to those extra 5 secs.

There was one single fansub in Spanish that translated the Remastered episodes but...their webpage was taken down and apparently they didn't even make backup copies. Thank God some streaming websites got hold of them and posted them.

Idk it kinda pisses me off that Yu-Gi-Oh DM being such a classic and influential anime doesn't get the Kai treatment. Some episodes (especially the ones directed by Kagami and Hara) are such an eye candy to see, even locked in the SD 480p resolution. It's the same case as the original HxH and Rurouni Kenshin anime adaptations. It pisses me off that, being Konami and NAS production companies with such a huge quantity of resources, they can't even bother to make a proper "Kai" to DM.

I have opinions about DM and I will always consider it inferior to the manga (and thus would prefer, if given the choice, a full manga re-adaptation from zero), but I still believe DM deserves more care and respect. After all, while the manga is excellent, it's the anime that really catapulted Yu-Gi-Oh! worldwide and turned it into the famous multi-billion dollar franchise it is today.

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