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Who the F*ck is FUNimation?!
It's hard to say. The original series would probably be more faithful to the japanese episodes to say the least.
Those openings would've taken years to get released over here, especially considering how long Funi has dragged their feet with an uncut DragonBallZ dub.
I would think the more bizarre edits wouldn't be as prominent, but honestly it wouldn't seem to different than what 4kids gave us, especially as Funimation in the 90s was just as prone to westernizing shows as 4kids was.
It would be worse than 4Kids.
90's FUNi was horrible. They'd replace all the music, more ridiculous script changes... Did you know that back then FUNimation did not have a decent translator? That's why they made up B.S.'d lines and such so much back then; to compensate for what lines they didn't get.
4Kids made Pokemon VERY marketable with their dub. I hate 4Kids, but when Pokemon first came out they had the right idea. As a little kid I didn't give a damn about voices, music, or script, but the entertainment the show provided. Rather than FUNimation, I'd have ADV dub the series if 4Kids couldn't do it seeing how ADV usually dubbed children's anime in the 90s and dubbed them good too, like Flint the Time Detective, Shinzo(IIRC), and the Sonic the Hedgehog movie/OVA.
They do have more actors than just the DBZ cast though.
That was mostly due to Saban being their boss at the time.
Dragon Ball (2000) Never had any music replaced and it was a much better dub than what they had with Dragon Ball Z at the time. Not to mention that they had to take over from Ocean in the middle of the Freeza Arc. They sorta had to keep with the tone set up in the beginning of the show to keep it going.
I think that we should use the Dragon Ball (2000) Dub as the model for this Pokemon discussion
Yeah, you got it pretty good with 4Kids. Back when the Dragonball dub was starting, people were fantasizing about how much better that dub would've been if 4Kids had done it.
And it goes to show you how much FUNI improved at their dub, both them and their actors, when watching the Kai dub.
And still, why the hell would they replace the Pokemon music with Techno? There's no reason for that.
Yeah, you got it pretty good with 4Kids. Back when the Dragonball dub was starting, people were fantasizing about how much better that dub would've been if 4Kids had done it.
I happen to like Funimation, especially now. I think they'd do a great dub.
Keeping the Japanese music in tact alone would make the quality of the dub skyrocket.