Trivia / Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure

• Dueling Dubs:
  • Harmony Gold dubbed the film in 1989 in Los Angeles, pairing it as a double feature with Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies to form one 80-minute feature. It was aired on a few independent TV stations in the US along with their dub of the first five TV episodes before the project was quickly abandoned.
  • An extremely obscure dub was produced in the Philippines around 1996 by Creative Productions Corp as a double feature with Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle and released to VHS by Regal Home Video.
  • An English dub was produced in Malaysia by Speedy Video for their VCD release around 1999.
  • Funimation dubbed the film in 2000 at their Dallas studio, and released it to VHS the same year. Unlike their dub of Curse of the Blood Rubies, their dub of this film didn't recycle its script from the earlier Harmony Gold dub. Since it was produced only a year before Funi's dub of the TV series, the cast is more consistent than the previous film, with the exception of Goku and the Pilaf gang (see below).
  • AB Groupe released another dub of the film in 2005 as "The Great Mystical Adventure" with English-speaking actors living in France, based on the film's French dub. Notably, Korin was changed into a female.
• The Original Darrin: Due to being dubbed a year before Funimation started work on the show proper, several characters are different in this movie. Goku is voiced by Ceyli Delgadillo instead of Stephanie Nadolny. Pilaf, plus Shu and Mai, are voiced by Mike McFarland, Brian Thomas, and Cynthia Cranz instead of Chuck Huber,^note Chuck was already Shen here and Mike was given a chance to reprise the part later but wasn’t chosen Chris Cason, and Julie Franklin. Upa is voiced by Kara Edwards instead of Susan Huber and Korin by Mark Britten instead of Christopher Sabat. Speaking of Sabat, he still voiced the narrator like with the previous movie before Brice Armstrong took over narrating the show.
  • This would also be Kent Williams' first outing as Mercenary Tao after the character had been previously voiced by Chris Sabat during a flashback in a filler sequence during Z's Androids Saga.
  • The Dr. Slump characters also had some differences. Both Gatchans were also done by McFarland here but John Burgmeier did in the series proper whereas Senbei Norimaki's brief cameo was voiced by Sonny Strait before Brice Armstrong took over.