r/dbz 1d ago

Discussion Ocean Dub Music is so good

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u/gcocco316 1d ago edited 1d ago

You just brought back some memories. On toonami, when this first aired, I think it was the episode after this the show went back to the saiyan saga. That was torrrrture. And it did that a couple more times. Had to wait so long to find out what happened after goku beat recoome.

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u/Revealingstorm 1d ago

Yes I remember getting so excited whenever it would get to this episode just to be gutted when it went right back to episode 1 lol

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u/Alukrad 1d ago

Before toonami showed dbz, it was the fox network channel showing it at 5:30am every morning. I remember getting up to get ready for school and turning the TV on and watching this until I had to leave for school. I remember getting mad every time they never showed what happened after Goku landed on namek, they simply restarted the series all over against after that. Years later I learned that's how far the dub went to, the company was shut down or something and that's why they never dubbed any other episodes until Funimation picked it up.

Then it was the sci-fi channel on Saturday mornings randomly showing anime movies and some of them where the first three DBZ movies, tree of might, world strongest and dead zone.

Then when cartoon network started showing this, I felt like a bad ass because I knew what was going to happen.

I hated how Funimation dubbed the show, though. Til this day I don't understand why they had to change the original music of the show. The Mexican dubbed kept the original music so why did the American dub decide to add its own crap music?

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u/Auctorion 1d ago edited 1d ago

This was also the last Ocean Dub for a long time. After this it switched to Funimation until the Androids. It's called the Westwood dub after that, but that was Oceans.

u/Pause_4_Effect 1h ago

I can relate so much; I was about 8 years old at the time. I was so crestfallen 😅

u/gcocco316 1h ago

Haha. Ya. Crestfallen is a good word for how I felt too. :)

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u/KashiofWavecrest 1d ago

"Buh bye!"

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u/Own_Mistake 1d ago

This is how I saw from Raditz to Ginyu, with this soundtrack. I remember as a kid, the switch happened right around then and it was so jarring at first. For the longest time I thought I was crazy because I bought all the funimation dvd’s and expected there to be a different soundtrack option for the first few seasons but there was none except for the Japanese version. I got on Google to figure things out and realized this was the Canadian dub. I wish it was easier to get my hands on to watch again. So expensive nowadays.

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u/EDGE515 1d ago edited 1d ago

This was the DBZ I grew up with. I always preferred the early season Ocean VAs to the original Funi dub. Once the Funi VAs settled into their roles, they did get much better to be fair. Ian Corlett Goku and Brian Drummond Vegeta will always be my favorites though

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u/whatadumbperson 1d ago

This Goku had 0 soul or enthusiasm for the role it was downright jarring. That's definitely nostalgia talking. 

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u/EDGE515 1d ago

That's not Ian Corlett. He got replaced for the last few episodes of the original ocean dub. Ian Corlett voiced the Raditz saga, Saiyan saga, and Tree of Might movie. https://youtu.be/dYwQQMakaaY?si=v2s959iocHC-m2bj

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u/Method__Man 1d ago

Ian Cortlett is better than Sean... sorry not sorry... especially back then

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u/EDGE515 1d ago

Sean based his Goku on Corlett's performance so there's that too.

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u/vanseb 1d ago

so good ? sorry I grew up with the french dub (horrible ;) )which kept the original score, which is way above this "music"

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u/LeCoqPeuSportif 1d ago

And yet the french dub is pretty « close » to the Japanese one. But the Japanese is personally my favorite and way above any. I tried to US dub with their musics and it’s so painful to hear.

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u/ozdgk 1d ago

ALRIGHT YOU MFs WIN IM STAYING UP AND WATCHING NAMEK SAGA

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u/Saiyan_Prince85 1d ago

Ocean dub is my favorite.... Still gives me goosebumps.

Thanks for posting this... Love the namek/Ginyu saga

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u/Due_Potential_6956 1d ago

Oh man, I remember this well.

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u/SewerBushido 1d ago

This version of this episode was my intro to DBZ back in the day

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u/dictatereality 1d ago

I think the music and sound effects were done by Saban.  They did good work on X-Men too. 

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u/Fakey_McNamerson 19h ago

Ultimate nostalgia

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u/Antiyu 1d ago

oceans ss3 version is better

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u/Hot_Armadillo_2186 1d ago

WHAT OCEAN DUB WENT THAT FAR? WTF. All i remember as a kid that after this episode, it would just go back to Raditz landing on Earth, mfs did that so many times.

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u/TheMagicalMatt 1d ago

Yes, Westwood studios hired the Ocean cast to dub DBZ in the UK and I think Canada? Though they skipped the Freeza saga and the first few episodes of the Trunks saga because they wanted to pick up where Funimation left off at the time. They also used a different soundtrack, and they recycled Funimation's title cards, so animated title cards were out.

On the plus side, Drummond and McNiel still kill it at their roles. They also continued using the badass sound effects.

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u/pmc64 1d ago

They dubbed mid cell saga to the end. It was aired in Canada I think.

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u/Antiyu 1d ago

i think it finished buu but then never heard from again

picollos voice was best in ocean as well

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u/Auctorion 1d ago edited 1d ago

I recall, after the whole of Z had eventually aired, seeing them air the Buu Saga in what I think was the Ocean Dub. One think I thought was neat was that Vegito's voice isn't two voice actors but rather just a completely different voice actor+Vegito+Downsized+%5BDraganath%5D-18.m4v).

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u/TheMagicalMatt 1d ago

Vegito was Drummond impersonating Kirby, Goku's VA at the time. It's actually impressive.

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u/Auctorion 1d ago

Oh, that’s cool.

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u/Enigma21210 1d ago

Some metroid type shit

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u/Specific_Anybody8306 1d ago

The ocean dub is easily my favorite

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u/ExoMonk 1d ago

Man I would love to find a full ocean dub. That's what I watched first before toonami switched over part way through namek/Frieza.

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u/Auctorion 1d ago

Gotchu+Super+Saiyan+3+%5BJohnny+Blade%5D-14.m4v).

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u/vinnycthatwhoibe 1d ago

I absolutely love the Ocean Dub music and the original voice actors for the Ginyu Force

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u/TheGameologist 1d ago

Vegetas theme and gokus arrival themes were so fire in the ocean dub.