The narrator is the storyteller of Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball Z Kai, Dragon Ball Super, and Dragon Ball Daima. 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 eps 12-131, DBD)
- 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, Kakarot), John Swasey (DB movie 1)
- Blue Water dub: Steve Olson
- AB Groupe dub: Ed Marcus
- Creative Products Corporation dub: Ethel Lizano (DBZ), Bob Karry (DBZ movies 5-6), Nesty Calvo Ramirez (DB movies)
- Bang Zoom! dub: David Vincent
- Arabic dub: Mamoun Al-Rifai
- Spanish:
- Latin American Spanish dub: Guillermo Romo † (DB first dub Episodes 1-28 and movie), Ricardo Brust (DB first dub Episodes 29-60), Carlos Becerril (DB redub Episodes 1-60), José Lavat † (DB redub remainder, DBZ, DBGT Episodes 1-9, DBZ Kai, DBS Episodes 1-106, movies), Joaquín Martal (DBGT and DBGT special), Rubén Moya † (DBS Episodes 107-131), Jorge Lapuente (DBD)
- Castilian Spanish dub: Vicente Gil (DB episodes 1, 4-5, 8, 10-26), Joan Velilla † (DB episode 2), José Félix Pons (DB episode 3), Xavier de Llorens (DB episodes 6 and 7), Matías Molina † (DB episode 9), Jorge Tomé (DB episodes 27-153, DBZ, DBGT, DBZ Kai, DBS, all movies)
- French dub: Georges Atlas † (DB 1-63, 65-153, DBZ 1-6, 9-34), Georges Lycan † (DB ep 64, DBZ eps 7-8, 35-291), Jean-François Laley† (DBGT 1-36), Serge Bourrier † (DBGT 37-64), Michel Ruhl (DB Z Kai and DBS)
- German dub: Josef Tratnik (DB), Roland Hemmo (DBZ, DBGT, DBZ Kai)
- Portuguese:
- Brazilian Portuguese dub: Jonas Mello (original DB 1996 dub), Daoiz Cabezudo (†) (most media until 2006), Pedro Luiz (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 (Dynit dub 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 eps 1-98), Trần Vũ (DB, DBZ Kai: TFC, 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.
- At the start of recaps of previous episodes in each series, the English narrators say a variation of "Last time on (name of series) (e.g. "Last Dragon Ball Z Kai")" and at the end of the recaps, they usually say "Stay tuned!/(something happens) now!, etc." In the final scene of most episodes, they say a variation of "Find out next time on (series)" (e.g. "Stay tuned for scenes from the next (name of Dragon Ball series)" "Next Dragon Ball Z Kai!", "Next time on Dragon Ball Super!", etc.).