Dragon Ball GT (French)

Dragon Ball GT is the French dub of ドラゴンボールGT. It was first released on VHS in 1998 and later aired on Mangas, TMC, RTL9, MCM, Club RTL, Game One, NT1 and AB1.

History of the French dub
Dragon Ball GT's French dub dates back to around 1997 with the censored French dub and 1999 with the uncut redub. It was planned to be on TF1 (just like its predecessor anime series). The 1997 French dub was heavily edited for TV, featured returning actors and new actors. Unlike the 1999 French redub, keeping the Japanese opening and ending themes undubbed, the 1997 French dub had a French theme sung by Bernard Minet. TF1 cancelled the 1997 French dub due to the Club Dorothée block ending and had Mangas aired the dub around either 1997 or 1998 while NT1 broadcasted the 1997 version in early 2006. In 1999, Dragon Ball GT aired on Mangas (1999-2001), TMC Monte Carlo (1999), MCM (2009), AB1 (2001), NT1 (2006), RTL9, Club RTL (2002) and Game One (2011), this time with a new script, same actors and left the Japanese intro and outros uncut. The 1999 version was released on VHS in 1998 by Mangas Power. This dub was also seen in Poland on RTL7, but with a Polish voiceover and also shown in French-speaking Europe using either the 1997 French dub and/or the 1999 French redub.

Trivia
Some episodes of the 1999 French dub had official TV-size instrumental versions of "DAN DAN Kokoro Hikareteku" and "Hitori Janai", while other episodes used the intro and outros that has the Japanese credits.

The captions used in the 1997/1999 French intro was later used in the Blue Water dub (at least, the ending outro).

According to a interview in Japan Expo back in 2008, Patrick Borg (Adult Goku's French VA) confirmed he was not called in reprise the role of Adult Goku in GT.

Goku is still voiced by Brigitte Lecordier (his child form's VA) until the end of Dragon Ball. Rumors said, it's because of the script editors and/or dub directors did not know Goku had grown up, while some rumors said that they wanted Goku to sound like his Japanese self. In Episode 32, the flashback from Episode 1 was also affected with this problem.

There's actually a French intro from 1997 on Mangas (with a TV-Size version of the French theme song and the intro was later used in the 1999 French redub). It was founded and uploaded on TagTele years ago, but it was nowhere to be found due to TagTele taken down due to copyright reasons. There is actual proof that it does exist (via the DBGT Multilanguage video on YouTube).

Julie Turin (Pan's VA) reprised her role in GT.

It is unknown why in the French dubs of DBGT and DBZ Kai, Trunks (both "End of Z" and "GT" counterparts) is voiced by Antoine Nouel instead of Mark Lesser (DBGT Episodes 2-3), even though they're from different futures and look identical to each other.

Some episodes of the French dub of GT used the OP intro and ED outros with Japanese text.

It is known that a 30-second version of Ending 1 (shown on NT1's broadcast of GT) is actually from either the 1997 French version because the 1999 French version is mostly known to have the Ending theme uncut (along with the official instrumental).

This dub was later shown in Poland on RTL7 (TVN Siedem), with the exception of one of the later episodes, using the Original Japanese version with Polish voiceover.

It is unknown that some parts of French-speaking Europe showed the 1997 and/or 1999 French versions on TV.

The Spanish (Spain) dub's intro and outro credits are translated from the French dub.

The 1999 French dub is the common find of the French dub of the Dragon Ball series, while the edited 1997 dub is one of the most rare finds of the series ever existed in France.