Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Father of Goku (ドラゴンボールZ たったひとりの最終決戦～フリーザに挑んだZ戦士 孫悟空の父～, Doragon Bōru Zetto: Tatta Hitori no Saishū Kessen ～Furīza ni Idonda Zetto Senshi Son Gokū no Chichi～; lit. "Dragon Ball Z: A Lonesome, Final Battle 'The Father of the Z Warrior Son Goku, who Challenged Freeza'") is the first Dragon Ball Z TV special, which is based on the Dragon Ball manga. It was broadcast on Fuji Television on October 17, 1990, between Dragon Ball Z episodes 63 and 64.
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Dubbing History[]
The special was first dubbed by Funimation in 2000, and released on VHS and DVD in 2001. The DVD featured a new English dub with a soundtrack by American rock bands and a score done by Dale Kelly, Andy Baylor and Mark Akin. It premiered on Toonami on September 5, 2003, kicking off a month-long event called "DBZ Movies," during which a Dragon Ball Z feature aired every Friday.
In 2003, AB Groupe produced their own dub for European distribution, airing on Toonami in the United Kingdom under the title of Dragon Ball Z: The Father of Goku.
As with what was done with the series itself, Funimation went back to their dubs of the specials and remastered their dub for them as well. They cleaned up certain performances, and replaced certain voices, such as Christopher Sabat as Nappa, replacing him with Phil Parsons, who voiced Nappa for the redub of the Saiyan Saga. It was released together with The History of Trunks on DVD and Blu-Ray in 2008, with the option to watch to the dub with the original score by Shunsuke Kikuchi.
Cast[]
Additional Voices[]
- Mark Britten
- John Burgmeier
- Dameon Clarke
- Ceyli Delgadillo
- Kyle Hebert
- Chuck Huber
- Bart Myer
- Chris Rager
- Kent Williams
Notes[]
- The English dub renamed many of the characters
- Tora was originally named Toma
- Fasha was originally named Selypa
- Shugesh was originally named Panbukin
- Borgos was originally named Toteppo
- Unlike both the Japanese and Funimation versions, Vegeta's child form was voiced by a woman, Sharon Mann, in the AB Groupe dub. However, in an interesting inversion, during the brief visions of adult Vegeta, she still voices him.
Video Releases[]
| Distributor | Year | Format | Dub | Region | Country | |
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| Speedy Video | 1998 | 
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TBD | PAL | Malaysia | 
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| FUNimation Entertainment | 2001 | 
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FUNimation | NTSC | United States | 
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1 NTSC | |||||
| 2008* | ||||||
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A DVB-T | |||||
- released in double pack with The History of Trunks
External Links[]
- Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - the Father of Goku at the Internet Movie Database.
- Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - the Father of Goku on the Anime News Network's encyclopedia.
- Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - the Father of Goku on Behind The Voice Actors.
