Decades of video games dragon ball and the people of Bandai Namco He doesn't give us even one with the Latin dubbing. Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO, which will be released sometime in the last quarter of 2024, will not be the exception. Those who acquire the title will not listen to Mario Castañeda as Goku or René García playing the voice of Vegeta.
It's a dream, but it won't happen. Mario Castañeda himself takes advantage of the launch of this title to talk about the situation of Latin dubbing, with the Dragon Ball video games.
TO end of 2023, Eduardo “Lalo” Garza He spoke and explained the reasons why a Latin dubbing has never been made for the Dragon Ball video games. Lalo, who is the voice of Krillin and the dubbing director, said at that time that Bandai Namco's budgets did not have the budget to pay actors and actresses from Latin America.
A user played that video of Lalo Garza and Mario Castañeda, voice of Goku, responded that he has never been offered that business.
“But what budgets are you talking about Lalo? Maybe they have asked you for one or you have negotiated a Dragon Ball quote, but they have never offered me to locate a Dragon Ball video game, how could they know how much I would charge if they have never asked me,” said Don Mario.
There was no controversy between the actors, who have been friends for years. Lalo Garza reminded him that in 2018 there was contact with him, who is the dubbing director, and those in charge did not want to pay what was required.
What did Lalo Garza say at the end of 2023?
The Krillin actor said that studios like Toei Animation are willing to pay what they charge. But Toei is not in charge of covering video games, this section is in charge of the studios that develop the titles, which when they draw their budgets, do not allocate as much money for dubbing in different languages.
So, they prefer to stay with the original Japanese or at most bring it only to English.
But what budgets are you talking about Lalo…??? Maybe they have asked you for one or you have negotiated a quote for Dragon Ball… but they have never offered to locate a Dragon Ball video game for me, how could they know how much I would charge if they have never asked me…
— Mario C Castañeda P. (@ccp_mario) March 24, 2024