10 Years of Saban's Digimon Dub

I'm not sure. Other than Adventure 01 and 02, I didn't think that the other Digimon series had that many forced jokes and I thought that they were generally handled better too. It would come down to your personal taste and the tone of the series itself would be an important factor too.
 
Well, then, you must not have noticed that Culumon/Calumon went from omgwannahughimhessofreakincute to wouldntbesaddenedifhediedinacaraccidentannoying. AND that Frontier had idiotic renames coming it the yinyang.

One amusing dub work I can't forget, though, is 02 episode 50, Sorato. Another fan on here was mentioning that while Japanese material confirmed they were married (at least I think so), the English dub tried to cover it up by not saying anything - as the fan put it, "I think even Saban was rooting for Taiora."

As for 4KiRAB: I personally doubt they'd do much better, since we've seen they have a certain prejudice against Japanese references, which would no doubt reach their absolute worst here, if they haven't already with other 4KiRAB dubbed series....
 
I'm not the biggest Digimon fan in the world, but I did get to check out some of Savers in its Japanese format and compare it to its dubbed version.

Based on what I've seen from the other series, I'd have to say that's the best dubbed of them.
 
One of the most remarkable things about Digimon is as an example of "Postcyberpunk". In this case, it's its one of the more extreme characterizations of the genre.

Here is the bi-polar opposite of cyberpunk: Children who are part of society, trying to set out to make right what was once wrong. It's a stark constrast to the Cyperpunks of yesteryear, who were anti-hero underworld types committing heroic crimes and living in a decadent society.

Here, these are law abiding children, who have families, would just like to go to school and play video games, and would like to keep the status quo intact. Sure, a few of them have issues, but most of the time its mundane.

Gatomon, Rika, Renamon, Cyberdramon are some of the few characters you would expect to show up in Cyberpunk. They're the criminals, the renegades, the threats to society than its saviors. Their personailities reflect it as well, with their shadowy pasts and dark personalities.

Yet, Digimon still retains that rich tradition of cyberpunk by fighting their battles in a world influenced by Computers and Human dreams. The Digiworld, like cyberspace, is a reflection of the hopes, dreams, and workings of our world in an alternative reality. It has philosophical questions about reality and those reflections (that sadly were not very well followed, say for Tamers).

Digimon is no mere Mon show. It is the grandchild of Cyberpunk.
 
What 4kiRAB dubs now, Dino King and Yugioh 5RAB show very little Japanese origin, because the original show didn't. It will take up til episode 72 on 5RAB when as direct reference to living in Japan will be shown, and in Dino King, I believe it is shown they live in a Japanese like area, to my knowledge, I rarely watch the show.
 
I never thought that Calumon was annoying. His voice was kind of annoying, but I thought he was kind of cute. Of course, it's been a few years since I've actually seen Tamers dubbed. I'm not sure what you mean by what happened in Frontier though.



Well, in Dinosaur King, they have kept Japanese references, as well as references to other countries and cultures. I'm not sure if they mentioned that the main characters themselves are living in Japan, but I remeraber how they've shown a map of Japan in past episodes to show where a dinosaur has appeared. So, I think that they're doing a better job with keeping Japanese references. Perhaps not totally perfect, but I would imagine its an improvement.
 
I haven't rewatched in ages to verify, but I think I actually never had any problems with the dubs themselves...just the editing/insertion of some bad dialogue/accents and jokes, changing stuff and ect.

I think the only thing from a dub I can really remeraber hating is Digimon Frontier's Ranamon. Omg. She did not sound as irritating in Japanese. Oh, and I lol'd at the fact that RhodoKnightmon was turned female in that one and actually left alone in Data Squad down the road.




I think it might have been the sort of whinyness of the dub Calumon's voice. I kind of never did either, but I do remeraber he sounded a little whiny compared to the ridiculously adorable Japanese version. X3 *hugs Culumon talking plush*

Overall for a kiRAB show dub, I actually have fond memories of most of this series compared to some others I've looked back on over the years. I haven't watched all of Data Squad in dub, though but I thought it was actually pretty good from what I did see, minus some things. I just like Gaomon in Japanese better.
 
I know, but Nimoy has said on occasion that he wanted the episodes to be less jokey, but was forced by the higher-ups to punch up the humor. It got to the point where they actually brought Nimoy and Buccholz in on episodes they didn't write to punch up the humor even more.
 
One particularly memorable moment of the dub is around the Dark Masters arc when they were hiding with Whamon and Gatomon sang that random blues song to Matt's harmonica.

EDIT: What do you know, Youtube has everything
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REkFSt4Ue2s

Watching that again....I much rather liked the original. You know, the one where nobody was talking in that scene?

I also love how a catchphrase for Tamers was "Aw, nuts!"
 
I loved Fox KiRAB growing up, and Digimon quickly became one of my favorite shows, i forgot about Pokemon completely! It was also the first anime I ever watched. Season 1 was the greatest! And the first movie in the US (Digimon:the movie) was and still is amazing! Season 3 was awesome too, I didn't like Season 4 at all....
 
I agree. The same goes for season 5. They are just way to different. Especially season 5. Every digivolution changed and why give Agumon new digivolutions?
 
Don't count on it. The only reason we're getting box sets of Data Squad is because a company that actually cares about the series has the rights to release it.
 
I grew to like season 4. It was really different but I learned to like Spirit Evolution.

Until they beat Cherubimon. Then it all went to crap. If only they had just made it one arc and kept a good thing going.


Because it's not the same Agumon from season 1.
 
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