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 3-4 [originally]), Brice Armstrong † (Dragon Ball, movie 4), Kyle Hebert (DBZ Seasons 5-6, entire remastered release, most video games, movies), Andrew Chandler (DBGT), Doc Morgan (DBZ Kai, DBS, DBZ Kakarot), 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
- Arabic dub: Mamoun Al-Rifai
- Spanish:
- Latin American Spanish dub: Carlos Becerril (DB Episodes 1-60), José Lavat † (DB remainder, DBZ, DBGT Episodes 1-9, DBZ Kai, DBS Episodes 1-106), Joaquín Martal (DBGT remainder), Rubén Moya (DBS Episodes 107-actual)
- 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 † (DB, DBZ, DBGT), Paulo Espírito Santo (DBGT Special), Rui de Sá (DBS), Guilherme Barroso (Super Hero)
- Italian:
- Original Italian dub: Renato Montanari
- Italian dub: Michele Kalamera (Dinyt Movies), Mario Scarabelli (DB, DBZ, DBGT, DBS, and Movies)
- Serbian dub: Dragan Vujić (DB, DBZ Episodes 1-52)
- Croatian dub: Kruno Belko (DB, DBZ)
- Catalan dub: Enric Isasi-Isasmendi
- Polish dub: Wojciech Paszkowski (Fusion Reborn), Tomasz Śliwiński (DBS)
- Greek dub: Manos Venieris (DB 1-153, DBZ 1-65), Zeta Pasparaki (first dub of DB Movie 1), Yiannis Stefopoulos (DBZ 66-67), Yiorgos Konstantis (DBZ 68-69), Yiannis Papaioannou (DBZ 69-291), Stelios Kalathas (DBGT & TV Special, DBZ Movies 1-13 & TV Specials 1-2, DB Movies 1, 3-4 & DB ep. 77 redub), Christos Thanos (DBZ ep. 197 redub), Nikos Gesoulis (DB Movie 2), Konstantinos Kakkanas (first airing of DBS eps. 1-2), Vasilis Milios (DBS eps. 1-2 redub & 3-27)
- Vietnamese dub: Tiến Đạt (DBZ Kai: Raditz Saga to Cell Saga), Trần Vũ (DB, DBZ Kai: Buu Saga, DBS)
- French dub: Georges Atlas (DB 1-63, 65-153, DBZ 1-6, 9-34), Georges Lycan (DB 64, DBZ 7-8, 35-291), Jean-François Laley (DBGT 1-36), Serge Bourrier (DBGT 37-64), Michel Ruhl (entirety of DBK and DBS)
Trivia[]
- In the Funimation dubs of Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT, the narrator was purposely recast to give each series its own distinct feel.