The narrator is the storyteller of Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball Z Kai, and Dragon Ball Super. He is mostly present in the intros and outros of episodes. He is rarely present in the main bulk of an episode or movie.
In some of the dubbed Dragon Ball media, there are various narrators, changing as the series progresses.
Voice Actors
- Japanese: Jōji Yanami, Naoki Tatsuta (DBS episodes 13 onwards)
- English:
- Harmony Gold dub: Michael McConnohie
- BLT/Ocean Group dubs: Jim Conrad (DB), Doc Harris (DBZ)
- Funimation dub: Christopher Sabat (DB movies 2-3), Dale Kelly (DBZ seasons 3-6 [originally]), Brice Armstrong (Dragon Ball, movie 4), Kyle Hebert (DBZ Seasons 7-9, entire remastered release, most video games, movies), Andrew Chandler (DBGT), Doc Morgan (DBZ Kai, DBS), John Swasey (DB movie 1)
- Blue Water dub: Steve Olson
- AB Groupe dub: Ed Marcus
- Creative Products Corporation dub: Bob Karry
- Bang Zoom! dub: David Vincent
- Spanish:
- Latin American Spanish dub: Carlos Becerril (DB Episodes 1-60), José Lavat (†) (DB remainder, DBZ, DBGT Episodes 1-9, DBZ Kai, DBS Episodes 1-¿?), Joaquín Martal (DBGT remainder)
- Castilian Spanish dub: Vicente Gil (DB episodes 1, 4-5, 8, 10-26), Juan Velilla (DB episode 2), José Félix Pons (DB episode 3), Xavier de Llorens (DB episodes 6 and 7), Matías Molina (DB episode 9), Jorge Garcia Tomé (DB episodes 27-153, DBZ, DBGT, all movies)
- Portuguese:
- Brazilian Portuguese dub: Jonas Mello (original DB 1996 dub), Daoiz Cabezudo (†) (most media until 2006), Pedro (DBGT, DB 2002 redub episodes 61-153), Carlos Campanile (DB 2006 redub; some episodes), Gilberto Rocha Jr. (DBZ Kai), Marco Antônio Abreu (DBZ Kai The Final Chapters), Fernando Lizeda (Battle of Gods and Resurrection ‘F’), Ângelo Vizarro (DBS)
- European Portuguese dub: António Semedo (†) (most media), Paulo Espírito Santo (DBGT Special), Rui de Sá (Dragon Ball Super ownards)
- Italian dubs: Michele Kalamera (Dinyt Movies), Mario Scarabelli (DB, DBZ, DBGT, DB Super and Movies)
- Serbian dub: Dragan Vujić (DB, DBZ Episodes 1-52)
- Croatian dub: Kruno Belko (DB, DBZ; Note: DBGT did not air in Croatia)
- Catalan dub: Enric Isasi-Isasmendi
- Polish dub: Wojciech Paszkowski (Fusion Reborn), Tomasz Śliwiński (DBS)
- Greek dub: Manos Venieris (DB, DBZ until episode 65), Yiannis Papaioannou (DBZ episode 69 onwards), Stelios Kalathas (DBGT, Movies), Vasilis Milios (DBS)