Been a pretty wild ride. Never thought we'd actually catch up with Japan but we're finally almost there. Here's to seeing everything dubbed one day!

15 years now y'all, and still chugging along!

@Sano I think any future Dragon Ball series will be the same deal as One Piece, in that Toei handles all distributional affairs for the show (superseding whatever relationship CR has with Toonami and others). Toei loves the prospect of shows being on TV (which is why OP's back there now), so stands to reason future Dragon Ball will go there too, even if CR were to protest.

@Sano I've theorized that Toei's pushed to rejuvenate/catch international releases up these past few years in anticipation for the live action series, piggybacking off the publicity and whatnot. Them having more of a handle over international distribution has also helped them in that regard as well.

@LostTimeLord Yeah as Sano said, they actually reinserted the English credits back into the OP that were on those silent credits (note how it refers to Funi doing "English Localization" vs. "English Version" as they used to be credited in 574 and prior, as well as Masayuki Endo from Toei being Executive Producer instead of Gen Fukunaga). They still appear to only be crediting the primary cast, but at least it looks better presentation-wise.

Sorry to double post, but something else I found interesting... this recent TV airing is also using a localized To Be Continued card as well.
Sure hope someone out there recording these episodes, because I find this stuff fascinating....

While we all seem to be playing catch up here, thought I'd chime in with a few updates:

-OP's back on free-TV in Mexico, starting with episode 207 (probably for HD purposes like Toonami in the States did). Interestingly, these airings have localized credits and title cards, as well as the show logo having no Katakana in it (first I've even seen that done before). Opening's still not dubbed though, of course.

-On Netflix, the dub is up to episode 325, with more on the way soon.

-Episode of Alabasta, Strong World, Film Z, Gold, and Stampede are also streaming across Netflix and HBO Max as well. Film Red is said to be coming to theaters soon, dubbed.

Things are definitely on a roll there, good to see it!

@LostTimeLord Not to get even more off-topic here (to be honest it'd be better suited for Kanzenshuu, but I'd have to bump an equally ancient thread there as well lol), but there's actually an update on that, too. ABC ME in Australia recently started airing episodes 53+ of Super, and it appears that Funi did in fact do edited lines for those episodes. So why Pop didn't receive these materials and had to do their own butcher job themselves, who knows?

Getting back on topic though, I'd say OP's chances of getting on kids TV abroad are probably rather slim, but I'd say definitely possible on channels aimed at teen/adult demographics (see OP's return on Adult Swim and Toei's insistence on them airing it.

@LostTimeLord:

Pop switched to the Toonami dub in late 2019, so it wouldn't have been COVID. The switch also didn't line up with their 'season' breaks, so I assume that they simply got what they were given.

Yeah, I actually had a discussion about that today and realized the timing was off there.

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One thing I'm kind of curious about - the exact timeframe season 3 dubbing ended and Season 1 started. According to the post I linked on the previous page, up to episode 179 was apparently "completed well before it left CN", which would've been March of 2008. So, I guess it's possible all, or most of Skypeia (and presumably G8 up to episode 205) was mostly finished by that point, but then the very first Voyage also came in April 2008 (a month earlier before the street date courtesy of ritestuff), so that needed to have been started some months before that. I know dubbing out of order isn't uncommon per say, but was there a point where they were they actually recording both seasons simultaneously? It's no wonder Funi got their wires crossed so much with this stuff if that's the case.

@LostTimeLord:

Kinda, but it's worth bearing in mind that:

1. In the UK, Dragon Ball Super switched to the 'uncut dub' in the same way that One Piece did in Australia ("Hercule" reverted to "Mr Satan" part way through the run, for example). I don't know if an 'edited dub' was used for those later episodes in other countries.
2. The edited version of DBS doesn't use re-drawn animation like the edited DBZ and OP did. Problematic shots are simply cut out or substituted with footage from elsewhere in the episode.

I don't believe episodes 53+ of Super have run on any other children's outlet that would require an edited version, so it doesn't appear so (which is odd they would only create a separate version for half the show - maybe covid had something to do with that?).

@LostTimeLord:

I suspect that edited dialogue exists for all of Skypiea as audio tracks, but they never applied the necessary visual/animation edits. The dialogue itself is the only element of an edited dub that can't be applied later by any editor at Funi/Toei, and it would be a pain to record retroactively.

Yes, that would make sense, especially since in episode 179 I found that "Light the Fire of Loftra" slipped in by accident, so the only thing left unfinished probably would have been the visual censorship.

By the way, I did comparisons for the first couple of episodes if anyone wants to check them out. There are indeed several lines out the get-go that were revised later on for the Voyages. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1T4viNDD0QXesMioRE7Wg5hOs576p0BQ7