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Did FUNi Ruin DBZ?

Author: Janemba

Did FUNimation ruin Dragonball Z? First, this is my first editorial, so bare with me. Now for the editorial. I believe, personally, that FUNi does what they have to do in order to keep afloat in the world of television, and what they think will keep the parents of the nation’s children off of their backs. In a world where many people (mistakenly or not) believe that violent video games and sex on T.V. causes school shootings, FUNi doesn't believe that it's good practice to anger the parents of ample T.V. watchers.

I don’t particularly blame them for this. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t like what FUNi does under any circumstances. I mean between the horribly overpriced dub tapes, card games, finger boards, file folders, and the occasional, ”HERE IT COMES!! A LITTLE GOING AWAY PRESENT FOR YOU!!HAHAHAHA!!!” it just seems like they’re just turning DBZ into another fad. They’re trying to milk DBZ until everything you can think of has the Dragonball logo on it.

But, on the other hand, FUNimation ( as demented as it sounds ) has introduced many dubbies, unknowingly, to the original subbed Dragonball Z. I look at it this way: If FUNimation hadn’t made a cheap, easy, dubbed, version of Dragonball Z that had a totally sweet voice for my long-time favorite character, Vegeta, then I wouldn’t have looked over the internet , and found all those FUNi-bashing, fun-loving, original sites like Planet Namek, Vegeta Insane, ToT, Daizenshuu EX, and all the other ones that contributed to getting me into subbed DBZ. I know webmasters all over that were introduced to DBZ through FUNi.

So in my own way, I’m sort of thanking FUNi. Like I said before, people love to criticize the “Going away presents” and the “Special Beam Cannons” but when people get to the original version of DBZ they forget very fast the people that got them into it. Did FUNi ruin DBZ? In a way yes. Placing the blame on one person is hard, though, when you have Saban, and the FCC in the picture. All of them had their part in the little “Next Dimension” incident but everyone places the blame directly on FUNimation. In conclusion, FUNimation has done everything they could to make us and the parents of children all around the USA happy, and in the process it turned into a little bit of a kids show. But, FUNimation got me into DBZ and as much as I bash FUNimation in my campaigns and jokes, they do deserve a little credit for helping me out. So, thanks FUNimation. You made it crappy so I could find out about the real thing.

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