Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z are infamous for having had multiple English dubs throughout the ’90s, all ranging in quality. While the Funimation dub, featuring the talents of Sean Schemmel and Christopher Sabat, is the most famous, it wasn’t the first English dub of Dragon Ball in North America. Before Funimation, Harmony Gold, Ocean Group and Saban attempted dubbing the series, but none were successful in completing it.Internationally, regional rights required several countries to make their own English dubs of Dragon Ball. Among the most notable of these are the Speedy dub from Malaysia, the Creative Products Corporation dub from the Philippines and the AB Groupe dub from France. The AB Groupe’s dub is also known as the “Big Green” dub because of its renaming of Piccolo to Big Green. Among the many English dubs of Dragon Ball, the Big Green dub has one of the weirdest histories.AB Groupe also created two separate English Dragon Ball dubs. Having served as the distributor of the series in Canada throughout the run of Ocean Group’s dub, AB Groupe wanted the series to continue to be a partially Canadian production so that they could take advantage of the country’s network regulations. With Funimation based in Texas, not Vancouver, as Ocean Productions had been, AB Groupe collaborated with Westwood Media and brought the voice cast of the Ocean Group dub back together to create their own alternate dub of the series. This had the extra advantage for AB Groupe of not having to pay Funimation to be permitted to distribute their dub throughout Europe. Notably, Funimation and Ocean Group were still working together during this time, with Ocean providing Funimation editing assistance, resulting in both dubs having the same title cards and scripts.
Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z are infamous for having had multiple English dubs throughout the ’90s, all ranging in quality. While the Funimation dub, featuring the talents of Sean Schemmel and Christopher Sabat, is the most famous, it wasn’t the first English dub of Dragon Ball in North America. Before Funimation, Harmony Gold, Ocean Group and Saban attempted dubbing the series, but none were successful in completing it.
Internationally, regional rights required several countries to make their own English dubs of Dragon Ball. Among the most notable of these are the Speedy dub from Malaysia, the Creative Products Corporation dub from the Philippines and the AB Groupe dub from France. The AB Groupe’s dub is also known as the “Big Green” dub because of its renaming of Piccolo to Big Green. Among the many English dubs of Dragon Ball, the Big Green dub has one of the weirdest histories.
AB Groupe also created two separate English Dragon Ball dubs. Having served as the distributor of the series in Canada throughout the run of Ocean Group’s dub, AB Groupe wanted the series to continue to be a partially Canadian production so that they could take advantage of the country’s network regulations. With Funimation based in Texas, not Vancouver, as Ocean Productions had been, AB Groupe collaborated with Westwood Media and brought the voice cast of the Ocean Group dub back together to create their own alternate dub of the series. This had the extra advantage for AB Groupe of not having to pay Funimation to be permitted to distribute their dub throughout Europe. Notably, Funimation and Ocean Group were still working together during this time, with Ocean providing Funimation editing assistance, resulting in both dubs having the same title cards and scripts.
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