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Pseudo Blair
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I Didn't Know...

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I had no idea Goku was voice acted by a woman in the Japanese version. I really didn't know even after all this time. If I had known sooner, I would have become a bigger fan. I guess I blame the dub for being so frickin' lame. It was what turned me away from the series (other than the uniteresting plots).
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Lol, I think the complete opposite; I think the Japanese voice of Goku is horrid and the English voice of Goku is great. To each his/her own, eh?
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Seriously? I thought people would obsess over his Japanese voice more than his English one since the dub is so bad. But you're right, to each his own.
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the Japanese voice of Goku sounds like a child no matter what age the character is.
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Yeah I noticed that when I watched one of the movies. I'm all like, isn't Goku like 20-some years old, why does he sound like he's still a kid?
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Personally, I think the original Japanese voice acting was terrible for Goku. Maybe, I'm just used to the English dub, but I can't see that shrill girly voice being paired with Goku.
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Neither can I actually. Isn't that a violation of the anime rule for males. After 16, they have to have a guy voice acting them?
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I didn't know either. well, I haven’t seen the Japanese version of DBZ only the British one.
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English dub goku is way better than japenese vers. the jap version makes me want to punch babies.
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Lol, punch babies. That bad, huh?
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I've heard the Japanese voices. They are all terrible and don't go with the characters' personalities at all.
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BAMF wrote:English dub goku is way better than japenese vers. the jap version makes me want to punch babies.
I can understand that, the Japanese dub is so high pitch voices.
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Yeah an anime where they actually don't follow the rules of male and female actors
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I too must say I prefer the English dub voices for the characters. The Japanese voice dont fit the characters as well, not in my opinion
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Surprisingly, I think all the Japanese audio - voices and music - for DBZ is puketastic. And I watch all my anime in Japanese. (No, not saying that in a "I'm so cool" way, just making a point.)

I really loved the first dub cast for DBZ, the one done by Ocean Studios. Brian Drummond as Vegeta = rocked my world. I think FUNi's recasting of the voices was just as bad as the Japanese version, and also makes me cringe.
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PEOPLE HOW???
Japanese is great, but english sucks (my opinion) and all my friends think so :shock:
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