Dragon Ball Z Are there multiple Funimation DBZ dubs?
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I can think of three (kinda two but splitting it up makes it easier to digest) possibilities for this, given the information.
I. If you're watching Dragon Ball Kai, they did indeed re-dub that, keeping mostly the same voice cast. There were a handful of changes to the cast but most of them remained the same.
II. Perhaps you seen the Ocean dub or something. Like, Funimation originally hired Ocean Studios to voice act the dub of Dragon Ball, eventually I believe the dub was cancelled but due to Dragon Ball Z's successful run on Toonami it was decided to continue dubbing the series although Funimation no longer had the funds to pay Ocean Studios to continue voicing the series. Funimation initially was working with Saban Entertainment on the dub, they were providing financial support and demanding censorship, which is why I'm guessing Funimation didn't work with them when they continued dubbing. Anyway, Funimation did their best to imitate the Ocean voice cast when they continued dubbing the series, and they did eventually re-did the old episodes with the new cast.
III. Which due to the censorship in the original dub, those early episodes would feature script changes. So it's possible you remember the original Ocean dub of the first episode. Since Funimation voices were modeled after the Ocean Dub it should sound around the same as you'd remember, and the different lines can be explained because of the censorship of the original dub.
As far as I'm aware, outside of these two instances they haven't redubbed Dragon Ball Z. There's probably more uncut versions of the episodes that didn't air on Toonami, but I'm not 100% on that.
I. If you're watching Dragon Ball Kai, they did indeed re-dub that, keeping mostly the same voice cast. There were a handful of changes to the cast but most of them remained the same.
II. Perhaps you seen the Ocean dub or something. Like, Funimation originally hired Ocean Studios to voice act the dub of Dragon Ball, eventually I believe the dub was cancelled but due to Dragon Ball Z's successful run on Toonami it was decided to continue dubbing the series although Funimation no longer had the funds to pay Ocean Studios to continue voicing the series. Funimation initially was working with Saban Entertainment on the dub, they were providing financial support and demanding censorship, which is why I'm guessing Funimation didn't work with them when they continued dubbing. Anyway, Funimation did their best to imitate the Ocean voice cast when they continued dubbing the series, and they did eventually re-did the old episodes with the new cast.
III. Which due to the censorship in the original dub, those early episodes would feature script changes. So it's possible you remember the original Ocean dub of the first episode. Since Funimation voices were modeled after the Ocean Dub it should sound around the same as you'd remember, and the different lines can be explained because of the censorship of the original dub.
As far as I'm aware, outside of these two instances they haven't redubbed Dragon Ball Z. There's probably more uncut versions of the episodes that didn't air on Toonami, but I'm not 100% on that.
