Dragon Ball (Ocean dub)

Uncut refers to certain English dubbed episodes of Dragon Ball Z which were not heavily edited for content. This can refer to episodes in either one of two dubs: The first dub this can refer to are the episodes of the Ocean Group dubs including and after episode 108 (equivalent to episode 123 of the original Japanese dub; see below for clarification). The second dub this can refer to is the entire Funimation dub if including its broadcast of the 67 uncut episodes in 2005.

Why This Remastered Uncut Dub Sucks

 * 1) It is an expurgation of one of the greatest anime franchises of all time, as anything offensive or extremely violent that the anime is known for is censored out in order to make it family-unfriendly.
 * 2) Most of the great music the anime had is replaced with generic, western oriented music and musics from Mega Man (Ruby-Spears) in the Late Ocean Dub.
 * 3) The censorship is very over the top, as violent scenes like Vegeta punching Goku in the face are censored and death is barely even mentioned. In one episode where Goku was temporarily dead, the dub changes it to "Goku was sent to another dimension."
 * 4) Very cheesy voice acting with hammy deliveries. One example would be Jeice having a stupid voice of him
 * 5) *Ironically, Jeice is voiced by Chris Sabat. Get it? Scott? That must be an abbreviation for Scottish.
 * 6) Some of the censorship is very questionable, like when Gohan's tears were censored out when he was kidnapped by Raditz or when Master Roshi drinks mugs of what is supposedly water.
 * 7) Some animation errors thanks to the censorship.
 * 8) There were some very unnecessary and unfitting dialogue changes, like when Raditz flicks a bullet at a farmer which executes him, Raditz says, "That smarts!"
 * 9) There were unnecessary and annoying cartoon sound effects put into scenes.
 * 10) The Funimation dub (the late Remastered FUNimation dub) was really awful and it shared the same flaws as the early Ocean dub (unoriginal soundtrack and bad sound effects). In addition, it only covered the Android and Majin Buu Sagas. The rest of the series was skipped (even the remainder of the Ginyu Saga, which the early Ocean dub stopped in the middle of).
 * 11) The theme song (while catchy) for the late Remastered Dub has the words "Summon up the Dragon" being repeated over and over again as its lyrics.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) It launched the careers of the voice actors who were working on the show.
 * 2) It spawned quite a few hilarious memes like the legendary "IT'S OVER 9,000!" meme.
 * 3) Brian Drummond, Saffron Henderson, and Scott McNeil did phenomenal jobs at voicing Vegeta, Kid Gohan, and Piccolo.
 * 4) It spawned the Ocean dub, which was way better received than the Remastered FUNimation dub.
 * 5) The 1995 Funimation/"BLT Productions Ocean Group" dubs of the original "Dragon Ball" anime and the uncut Pioneer dub of the first three "DBZ" movies had lesser flaws, better voice acting, and better reception than the Remastered and Uncut FUNimation dubs of DBZ.
 * 6) Despite it's problems, the Westwood dub has slightly improved by the time they dubbed the Majin Buu saga compared to their take on the Android-Cell sagas. The production wasn't rushed, the voice acting improved, and the music had original compositions alongside with the stock music.
 * 7) At least the Canadian and the Ocean Group dubs have a decent amount of fans, and it can be enjoyed in a "so it's good" way.

Trivia

 * Pioneer's DVD releases of Dragon Ball Z (the Ocean dub) are long out-of-print and hard to find.
 * Brian Drummond, the Vancouver voice of Vegeta, would later voice Copy Vegeta in the Funimation dub of "Dragon Ball Super" as a guest star.