C21Media reports a couple little updates from Latin America this week. Colombia’s CityTV is on a roll, having acquired all 291 episodes of the Dragon Ball Z TV series as well as the 98 episodes of its 20th anniversary “refreshed” edition, Dragon Ball Kai. Additionally, Ecuador’s Ecuavisa has renewed its license for the franchise, as well as obtained what the site describes as “20 telemovies based on the franchise” — if we had to guess, the twenty items are likely the three Dragon Ball movies, thirteen Dragon Ball Z movies, two Dragon Ball Z TV specials, the 10th anniversary movie, and the Dragon Ball GT TV special.
Dragon Ball Kai seems to have recently debuted on Ecuavisa back on 14 April 2012. The Dragon Ball Z TV series somewhat came under fire in Ecuador back in July 2009 when The Simpsons and other shows caught the attention of the government which was concerned by the impact of “programs and messages that promote violence, racial and gender discrimination.”
Do you know which dub is airing in Ecuador? The Mexican?
Sangofe, as far as I know, the DBZ movies are only with the Mexican dub. Although I don’t know if Ecuavisa will air the original DBZ or Kai version of the series.
Also, En Pantalla just released a DVD boxset of every episode of GT, if anyone cares. Mexican dub. Official DVDs. Yay.
Soulnova: I know that the DBZ version that aired in Ecuador was the Mexican version as I confirmed this with people from Ecuador the 6 weeks I stayed in the country
Nanthan: Only Mexican dub and no Japanese version? Do you have a link?
http://www.peliculasenpantalla.com/web/index.php/
They have GT on their site, as well as Z DVDs covering 1-52. If you look on their Facebook, you could find the links to buy DB 1-28 from a site called Mixup. And in a couple stores in Mexico (and maybe other countries, not sure), there are cheap, 2-episode-per-disc DVDs of Z that cover 1-74. So there’s 34 of ‘em. You can find them on the Mexican Ebay, MercadoLibre and and I’ve seen a couple on Craigslist. No online retailer has them, as far as I can find and I’ve asked En pantalla on their Facebook.
…I should really get around to making a forum post about these.
Oh! Oh! And “Towers Entertainment” (I think you add Entertainment to that…) has had DVDs of Movies 11-13 and the GT Special for a couple years now.
And yes, all of that is Spanish only.
I just saw the GT set box at Mixup for around $500 pesos. They have the individual volumes at $150 pesos too.
I got the first DBZ volume and the quality is really, REALLY low. I don’t think I’ll buy another one.
What I would want to find out is if they plan on releasing the rest of DB series.
So what if the quality is bad? You can’t have a Dragon Box for every dub. The point is the audio.
I rather want releases with the original source aired on TV kept as-is for collection’s sake, so if those releases contain the original “low-quality ” source, I’ll get them.
I kinda like the boxart of the GT boxset. How much is that worth in Euro, by the way?
Can you also please post a link to the “mixup” site?
Not sure why I said 74 episodes divided by 2-episodes-per-disc = 34 volumes, but whatever. Math.
Oh look, a guide to Mexico DVDs, hurray! :p
http://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=20228
Towers Entertainment no longer carries DBZ movies 10-13 or the GT special. I checked up on that about a week ago.