Dragon Ball - Harmony Gold Dub Opening RESTORED! (Kinda...)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- So Here's A Fun Little Project I've Been Working On For A While But Never Got To Finishing Until Now.
For All Of You That Don't Know, Harmony Gold Was The First Company To Localize The Dragon Ball Franchise To Us Fat Americans. The Dub Didn't Last That Long And Is Mostly Forgotten About Aside From The Weird Name Changes, Being The First Ever American Version Of Dragon Ball, Keeping The Original Soundtrack, AND Of Course, The Intro. Since Dubbing Anime Was New In 1989, Companies Didn't Usually Make A New Intro And Just Dubbed The Original As Intended. So Toei Gave Them An Opening To Add Text English To. That Being The Second Opening For The Series Airing For The World Tournament Saga. But There Has NEVER Been A Textless Version Of The Opening That Has Resurfaced Online. You'd Think For Such A Huge Anime That Wouldn't Be The Case, Even Something As Obscure As The Parappa Anime Has Textless Openings Online. Well Harmony Gold Is The Only Known Company To Have Had This Textless Version. And The Only Viewable Versions Are Vhs Rips. There Are Some Rumors That The Original Textless Version Was Burned In A Fire Or Something, Idk.
So Why Did I Make This? Well With No Textless Intro It Would Be Either Too Hard Or Too Lazy To Make This Right? Well I Saw Someone Restored The Audio For The Harmony Gold Dub. So Then I Thought I'd Make This. I Worked On It A Couple Of Months Back And Just Forgot About It, How Ironic. But Then Decided To Work On It Again. Adding English Text And SFX. And Yes, I Know It Isn't Perfect. Like The Text Isn't Where Its Supposed To Be Sometimes Or The Audio Doesn't Match. Well For The Text Part Yes There Is SOME Footage Of A Textless Version Of This Opening Out There. Either From A REALLY Impressive AI Or A Full Textless Opening. So I Just Added Text For Those Scenes Alone Cuz It Would Just Look Weird Clashing Teeth The Japanese Text. And For The SFX I Just Couldn't Find The Original Sound Effects And Tried To Match Them As Hard As I Could. For Anyone Wanting The Font For Future Projects, Its Called "HORIZONS" www.fontspace..... Which Is Kind Of Based On Another Font Called "Stop". And If We Somehow Live In The Timeline Where This Textless Opening DOES Resurface. You Can Expect Me To Remake The Video.
So Why Is The Description So Long? I Don't Know, Why DId You Read Up To This Point.
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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY *stock children sounds*
BAD GUYS LURKING EVERY WHERE
*little boy spitting while playing with power rangers*
Okay, but this is damn near perfect. You’ve even got the replication of the in-house SFX they used in the intro almost to a tee. The Japanese lyrical text and Japanese credits were absent from the actual dub’s intro, but other than that, this is crazy good.
Yeah unfortunately I’m pretty sure the textless versions of the op and eds aside from the ones that made it to the blue bricks are gone
Funny enough, if Harmony Gold never sent those copied reels back and they never got destroyed they might still be in some closet in whatever building they were operating out of
This is pretty cute, reminds me of the remastered Robotech intro
and thats a terrible thing to be reminded of considering how terrible that "remaster" was
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Reguarding the sfx, finding them is impossible. unless they've been ripped from Dragon ball's music & effects track, the others where most likley created by Harmony gold's resident sound designer, Joel Valentine.
Also "dubbing anime was new in 1989"?? no it wasen't. it has been going on since the 1960s, also 89? this was done in 1986.
Reguarding the textless intro, chances are harmony gold was the last place it was seen, most likley never returned to toei, usually toei made kinnescopes for international distribution. And it seems that they just sent over the intro, and HG never reutrned it, later to be Junked along with the rest of their dubbing material sans Robotech material & a few 16mm prints.
Yea I posted this video at like 2 AM so I guess I put little thought into the description. I'll be sure to fix that though.
it reminds me to the robotech remastered intros too, but why does the audio sound like coming from a PAL source?
Man, I never really thought about the PAL version while making this. But the pitch change was just because I like the way Makafushigi Adventure sounds with the octave slightly up, It makes it sound more "Adventurous".
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Very strange lyrics
Indeed
=w= We're talkin about a dub that called Korin "Whiskers the Wonder Cat", this whole thing is like a fever dream you need to experience
HOLY FUCKING SHIT 10K
Anyways yea I know this video is pretty outdated due to creditless versions of this opening actually resurfacing not to long after I posted this. Regarding the sfx and credits I did the best I could to replicate them. Although for whatever reason I didn't even get the credits right. I'm still quite proud of the audio work tho considering it aged the best. But yea. Can't believe this has 10k. Thank u guys so much ^-^
What is the font used in the credits?
It's usually called "Stop" Or "Horizons"