Dragon Ball English Dubs: The Harmony Gold Dub Explained
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- Dragon Ball Z English Dubs have existed for a long time right? But how long has Dragon Ball REALLY been dubbed? On this edition of Dragon Ball In Depth, we tell the ENTIRE HISTORY of the Harmony Gold Dub! Whiskers the Wondercat demands you watch!
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If THIS was the definitive version of dragon ball in the states, your mission to educate the community would never end.
+Dragonball's Best Who is that Son Goku guy? Why does he look like Zero?
+Cavi587 DUDE IMAGINE IF GOKU LOOKED LIKE LELOUCH
Zero SSJ 1-4 Zero SSJGSS
Yes totally agreed
Tein will remain as Shito hopefully
Imagine if the Harmony Gold dub became successful and dubbed the entire franchise, would we really be calling Goku "Zero" today
Well, we still call Gally "Alita" so, probably.
"Dragon Ball 'Z'"
@@shinodaV3 Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball Super
no we'd be calling him Rick Hunter jr
I would love it if they actually dubbed it
I thought that "whiskers the wonder cat" was just something that TFS made up
It Actually Might Be Korin
As obscure references go, if there were a Top 10 then that would HAVE to be on there, else you don't know what you're talking about!
They know their stuff alright
You didn't know? I don't blame you honestly
Also, FUNimation's original test pilot for Dragon Ball had some of the Harmony Gold name changes. There's a very small clip of it in an interview with Gen Fukunaga where Goku says, "Look out fishies, here comes Zero!"
+FumeiCom reallY!?
I actually remember this dub when I was a little kid. I must have been like 6 or 7. But I recall waking up at 5 am JUST to watch Dragon Ball. This was even before the Ocean dub and way before Funi. I'm 29. DB 4ever
Yeah you’re thinking of the 95 BLT dub they did with Funimation.
I felt pretty old watching the power ranger clips and getting flashes of my childhood lol
+amaterasu usaretama hahaha me too!
Same here lol
Blues Same XD
I love seeing how here's so many connections between these two awesome shows! And, how it gave so many voice actors a launch in their careers!
Wow u became famous
GOKU..I mean Zero was RITA
HOLY SHIT
in Universe 6 they got the rights... no wonder earth is a wasteland over there
W
Love that comment bro
Universe 6 DBZ: Adventures of Zero & Bongo
I see what you did there
+JC Saiyan R is for Rekt. E is for rEkt. K is for reKt. T is for rekT.
This is stupid, where is the rice! If Goku doesn't eat rice the power won't come!
Malaysian Dub
Satwik G AKA speedy dub
I remember the Harmony Gold dub somewhat.
couple of other things apparently got in the way of early US success. One of these things is the craptastic timeslots anyone who picked this up would air them in. Where I lived, it would air EARLY in the morning. Like around 5am. I wasn't getting up for school until 6, so didn't know it existed until waking up to use the bathroom whilst my TV was still on and happening to be parked on the correct channel.
Also, to people way back around the early to mid 90's, both Dragon Ball (Harmony Gold) and the first 13 episodes of Dragonball Z (Ocean dub) obviously appeared to be interchangeable... so not only would the few episodes be aired out of order, but would be jumbled in a mix of both series. And not in a Voltron/Robotech re-edited way, but in a "eh, just show any of these tapes" kind of way. For the longest time, I thought "Zero" and young Gohan WERE THE SAME CHARACTER and it created more questions than answers. Adding to that confusion was the NES game "Dragon Power". My preteen brain was so close to connecting those dots, but it was just out of reach. But being fair, it was way more confusing than it needed to be.
Thank goodness a few years later, Toonami happened. I was one who was geeked for Voltron, but actually seeing DBZ at a reasonable hour led me to be set straight on some things about the whole of the canon.
Unreal to think how things would've been if this had caught on and I'd actually grown up in the early 90s watching DB and segueing naturally into DBZ later in the decade, rather than the messy situation we got. Still though, those name changes wouldn't have sat well at ALL... Zero is so generic and BONGO? Poor Krillin has it bad enough as it is! Whiskers the Wondercat is amazing, though.
Well, apparently a civil war destroyed the Earth in Universe 6. Harmony Gold having the rights to DB would have probably been the causing effect for the desolation, so we can safely presume how our world would look today...
no....imagine if the AB Dub became the definitive dub
See what you did there too
+Toonami13 IF THEY SET THAT ANDROID FREE IT WILL BE THE END OF US
NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
*destroys the lab
+RubinNischara hahahah!!!!!
+Justin Aung Don't get Speed and Big Green if they were the definitive dub than it'll really be the end of all of us.
It was 13 episodes that they dubbed from the TV show; the Emperor Pilaf arc. I know because I actually saw those episodes back when they originally aired! That was my first exposure to the series, not DBZ as it was for most.
So im from canada and for a few weeks they played some of the episodes that were dubbed the only one i remember was the one where goku is in the snow outfit fighting some of the RRA
"I AM THE SUPER SAIYAN SON ZERRRO
Says 1,000 years
Thinks of Rita right away!
Damn did I call it!
I think I’m crazy but I remember seeing the episode where Namek exploded back in the mid-90’s. Did this happen or am I insane. When it aired on Toonami, I was grounded during that episode, but i described it to my little brother and he said that’s exactly what happened, and when I saw it, it was exactly as I remembered.
Must be the 1995 dub
I grew up watching this dub, it aired on Saturday at 5:30 am, I can vaguely remember the show airing up until Goku first transformed into the giant ape, then going back to episode 1
You are correct harmony gold dub are out because they found online
This popped up in my recommended feed. This is awesome. I was a huge fan of power rangers growing up.i honestly think this anime would have done amazing with those voice actors back in the 90s if they promoted better since they did use a bunch of well known voices from popular shows of the 90s
will never beat the speedy dub tho
Or the shitty polish dub..but Chi-Chi's and Kurilin's voices were cool
Jaden Curtis let that child alone.
Or the funimation dub
*B I G G R E E N*
*IF I DON'T EAT RICE THE POWER WON'T COME*
tfs joke with krillen calling him whiskers the wonder cat now makes sense xD
I guess zero wasn't a hero in universe 6
+Tito Cardona word
Between the name changes and the fact that they used the movies instead of the original episodes, I’ve heard this described as feeling like Dragon Ball from an alternate Universe, and honestly, I feel that.
Apparently Bulma was voiced by Haruhi Suzumiya.
FUNimation dubbed Sailor Moon in Universe six.
+Dragon Phantom of DEATH! thatd be dope
Geekdom101 I imagine Chris Sabat as Mamoru.
@@AyseeMD *kuwabara voice saying Mamoru's lines*
this dub was on a local station when i was a kid back in the 90's. At the time I was unaware that the very same show I paid little attention to would become my favorite show in existence one day lol
Great video man. I do remember seeing a TV commercial for the Harmony Gold version a long time ago, but I forget what station it was for and I'm pretty sure it was one of "action-block" commercials where they ran through the schedule of when each show would be on. I think it came on either Saturdays or Sundays at 7:00 am. Do you plan on doing a in-depth video on the Trimark version on the Dragon Ball dub as well?
Looking at how Harmony Gold has been treating Macross, I'm happy it didn't pan out.
I might not be a Dragon Ball fan, but I am interested in lost media.
Harmony Gold also tried to dub 52 episodes of Magical Princess Minky Momo which was a magical girl anime from the 1980s.
Harmony Gold could had not find anyone to pick up the series, but however it did air in Australia on ATV-10 Melbourne around late 1986 and it was reran on that and its Adelaide station ADS-10 in early 1988. It also aired on RTM2 in Malaysia around the same time.
For more information please look up "The Magical World of Gigi."
Harmony Gold might have attained the rights... IN THE NEXT DIMENSION!
Barbara Goodson - Laharl from Disgaea. Blows my mind.
I remember watching dragon ball when I was very young in the early 90s before toonami featured Dbz in the late 90s... so I’m pretty sure I watched this dub!
The Harmony Gold dub is pure comedy lol
man, i remember when the original Dragon Ball aired in the US. unfortunately they only aired 3 or 4 episodes :/ but immediately after the show was done.......... the Dragon Warrior (Dragon Quest) anime, which i only seen 1 episode of :p
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I had a friend growing up that claimed he had DVDs of the Buu arc, which he bought from a video store in Jacksonville Fl. This was before Funimation released there Dub. He came over once, and I asked him to bring them. He claimed he sold them after watching them or something like that, so I figured he lied about it. There is a chance he might have had a copy of an older dub, but I doubt it. I bet those DVDs would be worth a lot today. I personally think we could use another dubbing company in the US. Funimation is the only decent one I know of, but they still aren't that good. Dragon Ball Super should already have been released by now.
Last time I hung out with him I couldn't remember his name, so I just called him whiskers the wonder cat the entire time. It was really awkward.
I remember randomly watching an episode on a Saturday morning at 6a. then seeing it show up in Spanish on a satellite dish on Mexican channel 7.
im surprised that angelica's voice actress was dubbing dragonball back in the day.
The gold harmony dub here in New York aired on fox 5 on Sundays 7:39am back in 1989, I remember when I was a kid watching it before I went to church.
Can you please talk about the Filipino dub, it is so rare, and its soundtrack was AWESOME
Hey geekdom
I just want to add extra data to your video, this harmony gold version of Dragon ball got a spanish dub here in Mex and it even have the op and end in english and all the names changes, except for Lina who for whatever reason maintained her japanesse name, they even dub the movie. The series got renamed as "Zero y el Dragon magico" (Zero and the magic Dragon?) You can search for it here on TH-cam.
The think is that I'm not going to say it was a success here because i was to young for remeber it, but the series kept on air for a total of 60 episodes, so we can say that harmony gold at least had the licence for 60 episodes?
After episode 60 harmony gold or whoever was producing the spanish dub went in a discussion with the studio in charge of.the dub, because they change their minds and want to have the original japanesse names for all the characters and even want retakes of the first 60 episodes and of course the studio neglected because they aren't going to be payed for all the retakes of the first 60 ep
So again, whoever has the licence moved the series to another dub studio and THANK GOD we got a redub with the original Japanese names and a faithful translation starting from episode 1 of Dragon ball and ending in episode 54 of Dragon ball GT :)
Loved the Zero is our hero reference Hahaha!
+World King Kanji very sarcastic.
+Geekdom101 it hurts to find it funny tbf mate
xDDD I remember Kuririn being named Bongo, due to watching a pardoy Dragonball pardoy around a few years ago, and Whiskers the wonder cat as well in that parody.
Dude, you have to cover The Big Green dub and/or Malaysian dubs next... the terrible voice acting in both has left me on the floor laughing in a multitude of different times...
Informative video though nonetheless.
He actually has covered both of them.
Saul Zaragoza Has he? Oh shit, nvm, I think I've actually seen them before.
That's the link lool
They Were Terrible ROFL
Cell Jr. It'd be cool If the big green dub was another universe in Super
I don't see why mercenary tao is such a bad name is it simply just because it's not tao pai pai that you seem to have a problem with it
+mrhopadopalus nah its not a bad name i agree
+Geekdom101 sorry for the misunderstanding then
There was a Filipino English dub of Dragon Ball back in the 1990s by a company called Creative Products, it was sadly incomplete.
I am Zero! KING OF THE DEEP!
Dude, My childhood was Dragon ball and I have only heard about half the information you have.
Good stuff! Two thumbs up!! 👍👍
+SaiyanBaller thank you man as always
they showed this dub on Showtime for a little bit
To my knowledge no one has come forward with an actual retail Harmony Gold tape. Of the three versions floating around the web that I've seen: two were taped off the same Philly 57 TV broadcast, and one uses visuals from a more recent DVD with audio again from the TV broadcast.
"whiskers the wonder cat" Lmao
fun fact barbra goodson also voiced pazu in the streamline dub of castle in the sky
Well, she voiced Laharl in the English dub of the Disgea anime.
Dragon Ball Super they would have called Goku black - Zero the villain
In New York, the show ran on Saturday at 5 am. I was the only one of my friends who had seen it, and I struggled to wake up that early.
Dude!!!!!!! I watched this a few times as a kid and i could NEVER figure out where I had seen DB longgggg before it came out on CN
Yeah it's been found all 5 heart gold episode dub by them are online
Hey my icon is in your thumbnail
+Dragonball's Best YES!
I am surprised you did not mention how Krillin in dragon ball z abridged by teamfourstar made the joke "i forget his name and started calling him whiskers the wonder cat the whole time. It was super awkward" (not an exact quote but close enough)
Its from the 1st cooler movie abridged
+TheRadioactiveCounter yes i made a reference to it
WHISKERS THE WONDERCAT!!
I wish this dub would be re-released in its entirety. I mean ... sure, it would be horrible, but it would be one of those "so bad it' good" kind of things.
Dragon Ball was aired on double feature philly 57
Damn I remember when you first made this video….smh this need more recognition 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
In DBZ Abridged Cooler's Revenge when Krillin says he kept calling Korin Whiskers the Wonder Cat lmao
I thought the blue water dub was the first
"Get that Dragon Ball!"
"Gotta' get them all!"
"In order to make a wish you must possess them all!"
That Pokemon Joke LOL If It Had Read Gotta Catch Them All!!! I'd Laugh My Butt Off
There's a strong chance that the Streamline Pictures tape was never actually released. I've never seen any images, listings, or heard about anyone owning the tape. The 2 copies of the movie that have surfaced online are both recorded off of its original TV broadcast (one of which having all the commercials still intact). As far as how many episodes they actually dubbed, I believe that they dubbed AT LEAST the first 4 episodes because there was a Spanish dub that was based off the Harmony Gold dub and they dubbed around 60 episodes and the movie 1 and 3 combination. (meaning Harmony Gold had scripted at least that many episodes) and for the the first few episodes and the movie they actually used the edited Harmony Gold masters, sometimes you could hear the English acting and most of the time they had to use their own cheap music to dub over scenes. Later episodes of this dub however are practically uncut and keep the original music intact.
loooool im dead on those renames and the voice actors
Hey @Geekdom101, the haromony gold dub is found.
I will never understand why Geekdom doesn't have over 100k subs by now. Guy works his ass off doing full on research for these videos! :(
I guess there are too many of those "Y DO U PRONOUNCE SAIYEEEEN LIK A WEIRDOO!? ITS MAKIN MAH EARS BLEED! TEH ORIGINUL DEEBEE ZEE ENGLISH DUB IS MUCH BETTA AND HAZ NO PROBLEMZ!! BECUZ GIRL GOKU SUX! LOL!"
type of fans.
+Own A Hole People aren't receptive to most things true these days.
+Cell Jr. Truee
mhm
+Own A Hole totally agreed, children like people to lie to them like those click baiters, Geekdom is by far the most knowledgeable DBZ Tuber there is
+Own A Hole thanks for the kind words and i love your comment - it takes time to hit 100K tho... it really does
Mega man zero 6
Coming 1982
That’s fake
Well, at least we know that one station that aired DragonBall was Philadelphia's WGBS-TV 57 (now WPSG, The CW Philly)
The thing about the names like Zero and whiskers. I think they were names TOEI came up with. Ken Fukunaga mentions in a interview on i think the 2nd or 3rd season DVD release that the original pilot for their DragonBall dub had those names in it. Why would you keep the old dubs names? And TOEI has a history of giving things English names that dont match what the translation really means. like Zyuranger, the Super Sentai season that became Power Rangers' first season. Was given the English title by TOEI of "Galaxy Rangers". Which is not a translation of Zyuranger at all which would be "Beast Rangers". which makes more since about a show with with a super hero team based on prehistoric animals and nothing to do about space.
Hell ya whiskers the wonder cat... If they released their dub on DVD I wonder how many would buy it...
then who's megaman???
btw I have a pro mo for this and it said it aired 100 episodes in Detroit
in protoculture addicts magazine
Harmony gold dub should have done the Fist of the North Star TV series in English dub back in the '80s
Yes geekdom blameitonjorge made a video on lost stuff and harmony gold dub db was mentioned it has been found and it has A very deep information with even an interview with one of the distributor
I watch Cartoon Network and not so much Nickelodeon and I can say that the odds of Dragon Ball Super premiering on both networks are very small. Cartoon Network has no action-oriented shows and no, Teen titans go is more about comedy than action. Steven Universe has more action, but the show has a balance of both humor and action, along with emotionally driven episodes. Nickelodeon's only action show is TMNT and is a decent show to watch from what I've heard. Anyway, there are two options for DBS: either broadcast the show on Saturday nights at 8:00 on adultswim to take the spot of DBZ Kai reruns or Toei needs to realize that streaming online is more convenient for their target audience because kids, teens and adults are sometimes not always inside the house at those times.Toei will make money regardless if they stream it on crunchyroll or Hulu since they show DB and DBZ. That's what I think should happen with the English dub when it comes the North America.
true i agree but crunchy roll does not have dbz or db and also dbzkai aired on nicktoons
+senzu kai Oh I know DBZ Kai was on Nicktoons. The reason I didn't mention it was because I don't want dragon ball super to air on Nickelodeon or Nicktoons. Their either edited it to make it kid-friendly since all there animated shows are TV-7, unlike Cartoon Network, who have upgraded some of their show's ratings to TV-PG, or cancel the show after complaints from parents who say the show is too violent. That's what happened to Naruto Shippudden when it got cancelled after 97 episodes on Disney XD due to complaints of the violence on a Disney channel, since they're known for being kid and family friendly.
Adult swim needs Super
+senzu kai Kai has an uncut version on adult swim
SK 3 I know, I watch it
I have two Robotech figures from the 80's mint on card with the Harmony Gold logo down in the corner. Macross was a good series.
I've heard some audio clips from this dub before, but I've never seen any full videos of it before (though admittedly, I never really looked that hard). I wouldn't mind checking out a full episode, or even better, that mash-up of the two movies.
I know Robotech was three different series but wow was it well done! Loved it!
Wait, wait, wait. Rita Repulsa was Goku? And Goldar was Yamcha????
those are hilarious name changes hahahaha
So this is why DBZA called Mr. Korrin this at one episode
Lol TFS referenced Corin's name when Krillin said he called him Whiskers the Wonder Cat in the first Cooler Movie Abridged
Oh that's explains what happened to Robotech, I did saw the anime from my library.
wow a lot of harmony gold actors when on to saban.
hmm very interesting back before we could get the dvd release of Robotech and Macross. It seemed impossible to ever get to finish that series because of harmony gold disappeared. My local library had I think the 1st volume of robotech but it was so badly worn out it wasn't worth watching. Very cool, to know they tried to do Dragon Ball.
Man.... I used to have a Dog named Squeaker....
This is nice info. The name changes are interesting.
+burnoutfan11 word
The 40-minute “Mystical Adventure” episodes are floating on TH-cam atm, I saw it and it really confused me as I’m urgently on a Dragon Ball watching marathon as I only watched Z as a kid hehe, tot’s different from the original DragonBall
your vids r great for quarantine! cheers
1:22 guy at top right looks like Jonouchi kun
You could be born in 2008 and recognize Rita. Unfortunately today's kids will only recognize the movie version.
In Latin America Dragon Ball was a series that people knew about, had following, but nobody actually saw it. There were rumors about it, countless rumors, and it had a cult following before a single episode ever aired. In the early 90s the video game industry was growing stronger every day, but no company actually released anything in Latin America officially, except SEGA through a brazilian Subsidiary called Tec Toys. Which is why a Master System or a Genesis (Mega Drive) in Latin America would have a Tec Toy logo next to a SEGA one. But the NES was never released, neither was the SNES. Instead, latin american countries got countless Bootleg NES consoles like the Dendy or the Pegasus, as well as some locally made ones. The SNES was exported unoficially: You could buy ones that were exported by distributors that would buy them in bulk in the USA, ship them to Latin America and resell them at toy stores for profit. These were USA releaed SNES, they needed a power adaptor to be plugged in and also needed TVs that could use NTSC instead of PAL-N. Games for the SNES were a different story: Bootleg copies of games were commonplace, almost nobody would have an original cartridge, and most of them were made in china, which meant that they were bootlegs of the Japanese release of the game, not American. The games were usually in Japanese, but nobody really cared: The original American release was in English which was also a foreign language to people that spoke Spanish. One of such games was the Dragon Ball Z fighting games for the SNES. Released in a time when Street Fighter II was popular and everyone was into fighting games. The DBZ fighting games became popular and kids wanted more, so bootleg action figures were exported. The TV show was the next step, so they turned to Harmony Gold and dubbed THEIR dub in Spanish. It was a hit, it had a huge following, but the problem is that Harmony Gold did a bad job at distributing the episodes. What happened then? A Mexican company decided to just buy the rights themselves from Toei, dub the series from Japanese to Spanish using voice actors and doing it in Neutral Spanish so it could be distributed everywhere, and so Dragon Ball was re-released again, this time with the correct names.
I never thought I would learn something from a TH-cam comment
Also don't forget HG were the guys that fucked Battletech into the ground for an entire decade. That's a fun little rabbithole in itself.
We found all the episodes back in May of this year!
Even in Latin America, we had that version of dragon ball
De la que nos salvamos bro!
Theres a rumor that theres another dub before harmony gold but thats a rumor and theres no evidence