Dragon Ball (Latin American Spanish)

Dubbing History
In 1994, the Bandai company, which installed a subsidiary in Mexico, did not want to repeat another failure after what happened with Zero y el Dragón Mágico, the first anime adaptation of the manga, but with several changes compared to the Japanese version; this series did not attract the attention of the public, so it was planned to redub the series from scratch. Realizing the work done in the dubbing of Los Caballeros del Zodiaco (which was carried out in Producciones Salgado), Bandai transferred the license of the anime to Cloverway so that the latter would be in charge of the redubbling and thus being carried out in the same studio, with the first 60 episodes of the series under the direction of Gloria Rocha.

Initially, the first 60 episodes were dubbed based on the masters and dialogues from the dubbing of Zero y el Dragón Magíco, but at the request of Televisa, dialogues were modified, scenes and dialogues of dirty jokes, perversions and flatulence were cut for broadcast. . This is how Dragon Ball was re-released in 1995 on Canal 5 of Televisa, this time with the opening and ending faithfully dubbed from Japanese.

Later, due to a salary crisis in the studio of Ing. Carlos Salgado, the remaining 93 episodes were in charge of the dubbing studio Intertrack S.A. of C.V. Mexico. The entire cast was maintained except for some characters such as Yamcha (Jesús Barrero is replaced by Ricardo Mendoza) -the latter being the one who dubbed the character in episode 44 of the original dubbing-, Puar (the same actor this time replaced by Cristina Camargo), Tao Pai Pai (Gerardo Reyero, replaced by Pedro D'Aguillón Jr.) and other characters such as Bora and Upa, also no longer counting on the participation of Carlos Becerril as the narrator, instead José Lavat does so during the rest of the series, the entire Z series and start of GT. The translation ran at the hands of Brenda Nava, who was in charge of the scripts for the rest of the series, most of Z, GT, and all the movies and specials that make up the franchise. Some dialogue blackouts continued, but the footage was no longer cut.

The first series of Dragon Ball was broadcast from 1995 to 1999 approximately, at 6:30 p.m., in 2002 it was broadcast for the last time and since then it has not been broadcast on open TV in Mexico.

Cast

 * }


 * }