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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#18001: Feb 8th 2016 at 3:32:05 PM

Who knows. They've used Cell's theme more than once.

EchoingSilence Since: Jun, 2013
#18002: Feb 8th 2016 at 3:37:07 PM

Perfect Cell theme is awesome.

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#18003: Feb 8th 2016 at 4:09:59 PM

I take it Kaiser made some "anti-Falconer" impression in one of the Breakdown videos?

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#18004: Feb 8th 2016 at 4:23:56 PM

He mentioned that he was more familiar with the Japanese music, and that's what he preferred in the Episode 51 Breakdown I believe. Or something along those lines.

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#18005: Feb 8th 2016 at 4:24:17 PM

Cell and Buu's Falconer themes are amazing.

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#18006: Feb 8th 2016 at 4:29:22 PM

Yeah. He explained that he grew up with the Japanese version of the series, which is why he favors Japanese pronunciations and scores: because that's the Dragon Ball he knows.

He also showed us a script that hilariously had Krillin's name spelled in two different ways:

KURIRIN

Okay, Krillin, pull yourself together.

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#18007: Feb 8th 2016 at 4:40:48 PM

I like how he said Kuririn. The way he rolled his rs a little. Rolling rs is the only way for that name to work. And I'm not good at that.

edited 8th Feb '16 4:47:18 PM by unnoun

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#18008: Feb 8th 2016 at 5:18:28 PM

[up] He did that because that's more or less how you pronounce Rs in Japanese.

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#18010: Feb 8th 2016 at 7:26:20 PM

Do the Japanese not have last names?

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#18011: Feb 8th 2016 at 7:29:03 PM

I assume you mean the characters because the Japanese most certainly have last names. To answer your question, they just don't. Toriyama felt no need to give anyone last names. The only reason the Son family have last names is because Son Gokuu is the Japanese name for Sun Wukong.

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#18012: Feb 8th 2016 at 7:30:55 PM

Everyone else has only one name because their names are all puns. Krillin is a pun on chestnut, all the Saiyans are named after vegetables, Bulma's family is named after clothing, the Androids are named after the rock lapis lazuli, etc.

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#18013: Feb 8th 2016 at 7:32:45 PM

Surprised one of the briefs family isn't named G-String. tongue

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#18014: Feb 8th 2016 at 7:33:05 PM

And also because Toriyama didn't want to have to go through the hassle of giving every character a last name.

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#18015: Feb 8th 2016 at 7:36:18 PM

Toriyama was busy making their names related by a theme. Beerus, Whis, Champa, and Vados are alcohol puns, King Piccolo and his sons are musical instruments, the Saiyans and the Tuffles are puns on vegetables and fruits, Marron is another pun on chestnuts, Pan and Gohan are bread puns (and Pan is also a devil pun, which fits into Videl being an anagram of devil, since her dad is Mr. Satan), etc.

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#18016: Feb 8th 2016 at 7:51:20 PM

Why are they all puns in English?

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#18017: Feb 8th 2016 at 7:52:12 PM

Not all of them are, they're just translated that way.

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#18018: Feb 8th 2016 at 7:56:51 PM

A lot of the characters introduced earlier in the dubbing loose their puns, or only really keep their puns by accident either by them not changing the names or by changing them to something that kinda/sorta keeps the sound of the pun.

Later on they wised up a bit more, so characters introduced later (however few there are) tended to keep them (with the exception of Hercule at first).

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#18019: Feb 9th 2016 at 3:48:54 AM

Anyway, some people definitely have last names

Yes, like Son Gohan, Son Goku, Son Gohan, and Son Goten.

I don't see any argument for "Briefs" possibly being the family's surname when guidebooks classify them as simply "Brief" (no plural, to begin with) and "Bulma". They keep the "Son" for everyone in the Son family.

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#18020: Feb 9th 2016 at 5:28:31 AM

I prefer it being the family name. I just think it sounds better, regardless of guidebooks.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#18022: Feb 9th 2016 at 9:06:33 AM

I always assumed Briefs was their last name due to the whole Dr. Briefs thing. Never knew he was just called Briefs. Usually when you have a doctor, you address them by their title and their last name. Go figure.

Then again, it was apparently too much trouble to actually name Bulma's mother, so I shouldn't be surprised at all. He won't even give a name to Frieza's species (of which Frieza and Cold are mutants).

Strange the things he puts effort into and the things he just seems to not care for.

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Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#18023: Feb 9th 2016 at 9:18:38 AM

[up][up]Not being actively correct is not the same thing as being wrong.

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#18024: Feb 9th 2016 at 10:01:21 AM

Saying that Briefs is their last name is wrong. Saying that you prefer it because it sounds better is an opinion.

Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#18025: Feb 9th 2016 at 10:03:24 AM

It's possible it is correct and just never mentioned in the official materials. You may think it is unlikely because it would probably have been mentioned if it was true but not being mentioned does not necessarily rule it out.


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