Rebirth of The Cyber Dragon Ball: A New Journey Begins

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Hello and welcome Dragon Ball fans to the Cyber

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Dragon Ball. I’m your host Steve Kamehameha and

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I am beyond thrilled to relaunch this show. and

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dive back into this electrifying world of Dragon

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Ball Z, Kai, and Dragon Ball Super. Whether you’re

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a seasoned Saiyan, or a newbie just discovering

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the power of the Dragon Balls, this podcast is

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your one -stop shop for everything Dragon Ball.

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From iconic battles and character arcs to the

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latest news and fan theories, I’ve got you covered.

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Even our fused might isn’t enough to win! So

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in this inaugural episode, I’ll be reintroducing

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myself and sharing the story behind this podcast’s

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birth. or I should say rebirth. We’ll be exploring

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my lifelong passion for Dragon Ball and the moments

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that kind of define my fandom within it and why

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I decided to bring the Cyber Dragon Ball back

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with a fresh twist. So as we endeavor into this

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podcast and as we kind of learn more, the reason

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that I brought this puppy back is because one,

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I used to run a Dragon Ball Z website called

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The Cyber Dragon Ball. And it’s funny enough

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that. It’s kind of the idea behind this podcast

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and the fact that I was going to do it years

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ago, right around the time that Dragon Ball Z

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Kai came out. The main reason I’m coming back

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to it now is because. I’ve gotten into recently

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Dragon Ball Super and what’s special to me about

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Dragon Ball Super is the fact that. I used to

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go home and watch Dragon Ball Z on Toonami years

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and years ago on Cartoon Network. And honestly,

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I I used to get home and record it. I used to

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rush home to see it. It was like one of those

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staples for the evening for me every single night

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that it was on. And when I had to start working

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is when I kind of fell out of Dragon Ball Z,

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sadly, around the time that the booze saga kind

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of started and. I’d also kind of lost interest

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along the way somewhat, but I still kind of cared

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about it. I watched it from the start of Dragon

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Ball Z on through, and I know that Dragon Ball

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Z Kai is slightly altered, slightly different,

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new voice cast. Like I saw it before Sean Schemmel

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was was Goku and it was Ian James Corlett who

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played Cheetor on Beast Wars. And then there

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was another actor that also played Goku through

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the majority of the series. And I remember watching

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it with that actor and his name was Peter Kolemas.

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He was supposed to go to a Greeley Colorado anime

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kind of convention this last September. And sadly,

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it got canceled for for whatever reason. I was

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kind of looking forward to going there and kind

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of picking his brain and getting involved with

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that. However, it’s it’s funny because there

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have been a number of voice actors that have

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played Goku in Dragon Ball Z. In the English

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dub of the Dragon Ball Z anime by Saban and Funimation,

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Goku was originally voiced by Ocean Group voice

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actor Ian James Corlett, again, Cheetor. But

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he stayed for the first season and then left.

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So Goku’s replacement was Ocean Group voice actor

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Peter Kolemas for season two. Clemens also voiced

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Goku for the original English dub versions of

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the first three Dragon Ball Z films, which is

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why there was a lot of synergy there. However,

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when Saban parted ways with Funimation, the role

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was recast and Sean Schemmel then voiced Goku

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from season three to the end of the Dragon Ball

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Z saga. Sean Schemmel also voiced Goku for the

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redubbed episodes originally voiced by Ian James

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Corlett and Peter Clemens. the anime films, the

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redubbed films originally voiced by Peter Columbus

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and the Funimation version of Dragon Ball GT.

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Sean also voiced Teen Goku in the final saga

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of Dragon Ball. So they gave him, I do love this

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aspect that they gave Sean Schemmel the role.

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And then on top of it, they had him redub everything.

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So it was all a unified voice instead of all

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these different voice actors. So he also got

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to play in Dragon Ball Z Kai, where he reprises

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his role as Goku, which is basically a remaster

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of Dragon Ball Z. And it’s funny because there

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have been other dubs of of the show. And so Peter

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Clement still voiced Goku in the Ocean Group

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version of the DBZ anime for European and Canadian

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broadcasts. However, he stopped voicing Goku

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during the Cell Games saga in order to focus

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on his career as a comedian. And Kirby Morrow

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then voiced Goku until the end of the series

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for the Ocean Group version. I find it funny

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that there’s so many different versions. There’s

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the Funimation. There’s the Ocean Group. There’s

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the Blue Water dub. There’s the current one,

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which is Crunchyroll. And so in the Blue Water

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dub of Dragon Ball, Teen Goku was voiced by Jeffrey

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Watson. And the dub version of Dragon Ball GT

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for European and Canadian was voiced by Jeremiah

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Yurk. And Steve Bloom played in Goku and Dragon

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Ball GT Final Battle, the video game. And it’s

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it’s just kind of goes on and on and on. So I

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also want to preface this with the fact that

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Goku also was played by Sean Schemmel in Dragon

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Ball Super. And honestly, I’ve I’ve loved Super

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Dragon Ball GT was peak Dragon Ball, though.

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It definitely was. And I loved it for what it

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was. I learned all the things about it. I had

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a website. I ran it for years until it just didn’t

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kind of make sense to do anymore. And so I just

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kind of ended up in this point where Dragon Ball.

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It kind of fell off the face of the earth for

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me. And my favorite characters were always like

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I liked Krillin. I liked Piccolo. I liked Vegeta.

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I liked Master Roshi. I liked all these different

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characters in the show. And they’re all likable

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in different ways, different voices, different

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personalities. It’s it’s very fun to go back

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and reminisce over the show. And it kind of boils

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down to the fact that my favorite two are Goku

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and Vegeta always will be. I liked the fusions

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they turned into of Gogeta and Vegito. I liked

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that they kind of mainstreamed them back into

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Dragon Ball Super. They explained the Potaris

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earrings better. They explained the fusion dance.

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They they they kind of unified all of this stuff.

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And it’s interesting because the timeline goes

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Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z or Dragon Ball Z Kai

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up to just after the Boo saga before. Goku comes

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back in his blue costume is like kind of the

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trainer for the tournament that he kind of ends

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the show on fighting Oob. And so there’s a span

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of time of 10 years. However, it’s really strange

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because they don’t act like there’s like any

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kind of magical power up for these guys at the

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end of Z Kai or Z and Dragon Ball Super. Takes

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place like about seven years into that time span

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of. them waiting for everything to kind of happen.

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And they still haven’t evolved or aged far enough

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to hit that that quote unquote 10 year gap between

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Boo and Oob. And so it’s kind of funny that they

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jump into that time period because Goku and everybody

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else ends up with power ups. You end up with

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Gohan with Beast, Gohan, Piccolo with Orange

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Piccolo, Goku and Vegeta going to the Super Saiyan

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God, Super Saiyan Blue. And you’ve got all these

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other deities and things in there. And then we

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get Dragon Ball Dyma, which is starting to air

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now. Or I should say the English dub will start

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airing in November. The original or the subbed

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version will be on Netflix, actually, in the

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near future. So we’re ending up with this point

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where it takes place directly after Dragon Ball

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Super. But yet before the end of Dragon Ball

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Z. So it’s it’s it’s kind of muddied the waters

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quite a bit in here. And then Dragon Ball GT

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is considered just not canon and kind of a throwaway,

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even though there’s some cool stuff to it. It

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really doesn’t fit the continuity or the storyline

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because Dyma is kind of doing what GT did, but

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better. So I’m I’m interested to jump on board

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with this podcast. I’m interested to see kind

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of what direction we end up going in. And. Honestly,

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I can’t wait to see where Dragon Ball Super continues

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when they pick back up the dub. I can’t wait

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to see Daima and the last bit that Akira Toriyama

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did before he passed. And so I think Dragon Ball

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is going to be in a little bit of a transitionary

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period once it comes back on Super. However,

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I’m… I’m geeked. I’m excited. And I’m looking

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forward to covering this podcast. I’m going to

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start out with covering either. Either I’m going

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to do episodic kind of breakdowns and multiple

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clumps like we’ve done, like with the Beast Unleashed

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or some of the other podcasts, like one to five

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episodes or one, one to three or something just

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depending. Or I’ll chunk together bigger aspects

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of the different sagas and kind of break them

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up. Break the parts up of the sagas because sometimes

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there’s filler episodes. Sometimes there’s kind

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of throwaways. Sometimes they drag things on.

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I have never seen Dragon Ball Z Kai all the way

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through. So this is kind of me experiencing it

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for the first time, but also revisiting Dragon

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Ball Z. As I was familiar with Dragon Ball Z

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and I grew up with Dragon Ball Z and I remember

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all the super long story plots. I’m looking forward

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to seeing this faster paced remaster. of the

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saga here on out. So let me know what you guys

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think of this podcast, because honestly, I’m

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I’m super geeked for this. I’m looking forward

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to having you guys join me on this adventure

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as we jump into some of my favorite Dragon Ball

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Z and Dragon Ball Super moments, you know, discussing

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what makes this series so legendary and, you

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know, some exciting topics and hopefully guests

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in the lineup. you know, for the future. So grab

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your senzu beans, guys. Power up your scouters

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and join me on this thrilling journey through

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the Dragon Ball universe as we hit our power

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levels well over 9000. Let’s go super saiyan

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together right here on the Cyber Dragon Ball.

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Next time on the Cyber Dragon Ball, Steve Kamehameha

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will discuss the Raditz Saga. Only on the Geekcast

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Radio Network.