Bang Zoom! dub

The Bang Zoom! dub was an English language dub for Dragon Ball Super produced by Bang Zoom! Entertainment for Toonami Asia, exclusive to Southeast Asia and India. It began airing on January 21, 2017. While Funimation records an English dub for the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, Bang Zoom! produced the dub for English speaking Asian countries.
==Cast==
Character Name	Voice Actor
Goku 	Lex Lang
Goten 	Dana Hayes
Beerus 	Archie Fletcher
King Kai 	Michael McConnohie
Vegeta 	Kaiji Tang
Trunks 	Erica Mendez (credited as Haley Lewis)
Piccolo 	Ray Chase
Gohan 	Chris Hackney
Whis 	Doug Erholtz
Bulma 	Wendee Lee
Chi-Chi 	Michelle Ruff
Krillin 	Brian Beacock
Videl 	Erika Harlacher
Majin Buu 	Spike Spencer
Hercule 	Jamieson Price
Android 18 	Tamara Ryan
Tien Shinhan 	Ray Chase
Master Roshi 	Kirk Thornton
Yamcha 	Grant George
Oolong 	Ray Chase
Emperor Pilaf 	Tom Fahn
Mai 	Julie Maddalena
Shu 	Tom Bauer
Supreme Kai 	David Vincent
Old Kai 	Steve Kramer
Frieza 	Derek Stephen Prince
Sorbet 	Paul St. Peter
Tagoma 	Tom Bauer
Captain Ginyu 	Richard Epcar
Future Trunks 	Sean Chiplock
Jaco 	Greg Chun
Champa 	Kirk Thornton
Vados 	Tamara Ryan
Narrator 	David Vincent
==Production==
A few L.A. voice actors who had worked on the Harmony Gold dub (Wendee Lee, Michael McConnohie and Steve Kramer), as well as the Final Bout game (Lex Lang), appear in this dub in mostly different roles. Other recurring roles were cast to actors who worked regularly at the studio.
After Season 1 had aired, the dub was going through multiple repeats and rumors, suggesting that Toonami Asia were now planning to air the FUNimation dub. The network, however, confirmed that they will air Season 2 in late summer of 2017 and the reason for this was to give the studio more time to work on episodes.
Toonami Asia has hired the studio to dub 52 episodes however Ray Chase confirmed that they have only dubbed the first 27 episodes and is not sure if Toonami Asia will keep hiring them for more episodes.
The dub was later confirmed to be cancelled by Tamara Ryan.https://twitter.com/TamaraRyanVO/status/936375218200702976
==Changes from the original Japanese version==
*As with the censored FUNimation English dub, Mr. Satan is called "Hercule." Despite this, Satan City is still referred to as such both visually and audibly, and Hercule still uses attack names such as "Satan Punch".
*Roshi's perversion was toned down for the series, such as in episode 1 where he asks Chi-Chi for the money to pay off his gambling debts.
==Trivia==
*This dub marks the first time Wendee Lee has voiced Bulma since the 1980s Harmony Gold dub.
*Despite sharing some naming consistencies with FUNimation's dub (such as "Master Roshi" and "Special Beam Cannon"), other established characters and terms are referred to by their original Japanese names and pronunciation (Tenshinhan, Shenlong, Ki, etc.).
**New terminologies are also introduced to the English lexicon, including "Ki Cannon" (for Tri-Beam) and "Kamesen" (for Turtle School).
*A few of the voice actors working on the dub had previously worked with Christopher Sabat as he was their voice director on separate projects.
**Kaiji Tang and Haley Lewis voiced Ao Kuang and Primal Huntress Artemis in SMITE.
**Derek Stephen Prince voiced Selim in D.Gray-man.
**Michelle Ruff voiced the title character of The Woman Called Fujiko Mine.
**Richard Epcar voiced Zenigata in The Woman Called Fujiko Mine and Poseidon in SMITE.
*Kaiji Tang once campaigned to get Martin Billany (LittleKuriboh) to reprise Frieza from Dragon Ball Z Abridged.https://twitter.com/KaijiTang/status/819383377950191616
*This dub was the basis for the Hindi dub of the first two sagas of Dragon Ball Super.
==Reception==
*Chris Rager expressed his disappointment for the dub on Twitter from the initial preview clips as he felt that FUNimation provided the only true English voices for the series and thought the Toonami Asia dub was deliberately copying him as well as the other cast members.https://twitter.com/ragercoaster/status/818178922881974274?s=09
*Conversely, Sean Schemmel and Kara Edwards are on friendly terms with their Bang Zoom! counterparts and have given their support for the dub. According to Lang, he and Schemmel talked about the Toonami Asia dub before it began productionhttp://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1221413#p1221413. Kara, meanwhile, liked tweets regarding Harlacher's casting of Videlhttps://twitter.com/JonTantonVO/status/821119054870147073 and reception of her performance.https://twitter.com/ShaunInce123/status/845456529579032578
*Monica Rial has also given her support for the dub. She praised the idea of Wendee Lee returning as Bulma given that Lee was the first English voice actress for the character.
*Fan reception of the dub for Season 1 was mixed. Some performances were praised along with the adaptation of a more faithful script. Conversely, it was criticized for its writing, censorship, rushed pacing, and some of the performances were felt to be heavily influenced by FUNimation's and lacked originality.
*Fan reception of the dub for Season 2 got a slightly more positive reception but was still mixed overall. Pacing and performances improved but was still criticized for its censorship and writing.
==References==
Category:Dubs
Category:English dubs
Category:Dragon Ball media
Category:Dragon Ball Super