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- Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:48 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.
- Replies: 349
- Views: 25888
Re: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.
May his soul rest in peace.
- Tue Sep 05, 2023 3:06 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Would you feel confident in the series if it were left in Toyotarou's hands?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3574
Re: Would you feel confident in the series if it were left in Toyotarou's hands?
Absolutely not. Through the manga serialization for several years his art has somewhat improved, but he still hasn't met most of the basic criteria of a professional manga artist. His paneling especially is still quite bad. Also, he seems to fail to understand what truly makes Toriyama's creations s...
- Sat Nov 26, 2022 5:30 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: AB Video to release original Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
- Replies: 517
- Views: 76594
Re: AB Video to release OG Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
lol It's kind of crazy when I think what I captured myself ended up being officially released and brought to French people whom I don't even know. They could have reached me for something more for their release.
- Tue Sep 13, 2022 3:54 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Fan group scanning/remastering of multi-generational film prints previously owned by FUNimation
- Replies: 70
- Views: 8316
Re: Fan group scanning/remastering of multi-generational film prints previously owned by FUNimation
As already pointed out by some people, Toei's remaster has more dark detail. The reason is simple; Toei scanned the negatives. When you scan a negative, of course the darks are inverted so they're the whites here. More light passes through bright areas on film, so the scanner's sensor can pick up mo...
- Sat Mar 19, 2022 4:32 am
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: Official On-Going Dragon Ball Super Movie #2 Thread: "Super Hero"
- Replies: 5562
- Views: 583342
Re: Official On-Going Dragon Ball Super Movie #2 Thread: "Super Hero"
Agreed I mean they have supposedly been working on this since what 2018/2019? If it takes you 3-4 years to produce CGI that to be quite honest is nowhere near up to par with industry standards for animated CGI movies. Then your CG dept is not competent or talented enough & you shouldn’t be tryi...
- Fri Mar 18, 2022 4:23 pm
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: Official On-Going Dragon Ball Super Movie #2 Thread: "Super Hero"
- Replies: 5562
- Views: 583342
Re: Official On-Going Dragon Ball Super Movie #2 Thread: "Super Hero"
The production of this film has been taking too long even at this point. I think the sudden switch to full 3D CGI was not a good idea after all. They could have already released this before this mess if they hadn't taken the risk. In my opinion, they should have at least tested full CGI by producing...
- Wed Mar 09, 2022 8:06 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Yamamoto is Back
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8376
Yamamoto is Back
Since Yamamoto's scandal in 2011, I kept searching his name on the database of JASRAC , the biggest music copyright collecting agency in Japan, once a year or so to check if he's come back. Recently, multiple pieces of music have been added to the database under the name of Kenji Yamamoto. https://i...
- Fri Mar 04, 2022 5:20 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Selecta Visión Dragon Ball Z Blu-ray
- Replies: 108
- Views: 22222
Re: Selecta Visión Dragon Ball Z Blu-ray
Well, someone pointed out that SV's upscale doesn't have Topaz-like artefacts so I proved it does, and also showed how you can almost replicate it single-handedly, which although may differ from the actual release to a certain extent, it's very likely to be caused by the difference in quality of the...
- Wed Mar 02, 2022 1:08 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: The History of Dragon Ball in Every Country
- Replies: 179
- Views: 63755
Re: The History of Dragon Ball in Every Country
When I found a video on YouTube named "DBZ Urdu dub" over a decade ago it was nothing but the Hindi dub made in India. I pointed that out in the comment and the uploader furiously said to me that it's Urdu and from Pakistan. So I started to assume that it's always nationalistic nonsense wh...
- Wed Mar 02, 2022 3:30 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Selecta Visión Dragon Ball Z Blu-ray
- Replies: 108
- Views: 22222
Re: Selecta Visión Dragon Ball Z Blu-ray
it's obviously Topaz Video Enhance AI that they used for this release. More specifically, it's the AI model named "Proteus - Fine Tune" on that program. I upscaled the DBox footage with this AI model and I got a result that is almost 100% identical to one of the screencaps from this relea...
- Tue Mar 01, 2022 8:29 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Selecta Visión Dragon Ball Z Blu-ray
- Replies: 108
- Views: 22222
Re: Selecta Visión Dragon Ball Z Blu-ray
- Look about as DNR-ed as Kai, but somehow looks to have a similar level of detail with an added, yet tasteful, amount of sharpening About as much DNR'ed as Kai? No way. Though Kai 1.0 looked blurry, at least they didn't crush any details with extensive DNR filters and everything looked natural. Ka...
- Fri Feb 25, 2022 4:09 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Has the "less cuts" in the YTV airings of the Westwood dub claim ever been verified?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2521
Re: Has the "less cuts" in the YTV airings of the Westwood dub claim ever been verified?
The only differences I'm aware of between YTV and Toonami UK for the Westwood dubs are motion blur filters (to reduce epilepsy risks) applied to the UK airings. Allegedly GT episode 64 also had its full montage present on YTV whereas in the UK it was cut to remove the Japanese text scroll, but I've...
- Thu Jan 20, 2022 9:30 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Will we ever get a 4K Dragon Ball Z release from Funimation?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9257
Re: Will we ever get a 4K Dragon Ball Z release from Funimation?
GT has never been distributed on film, so only Toei are able to re-scan the film masters. Of course Funi can upscale the 486i Digibeta footage they've got, but that would be pointless.
- Wed Jan 12, 2022 1:43 pm
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Movie 10 and its inconsistent BGM mixing
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2369
Re: Movie 10 and its inconsistent BGM mixing
My guess is that it was just a mistake of the producer of the soundtrack release, but there is a possibility that they could not find the stereo mix masters of the DBZ Movie 10 score because of some confusions possibly caused by the bankruptcy of Forte Music Entertainment, which was a company split ...
- Tue Jan 11, 2022 4:58 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: What does the Japanese fandom think of the West’s version of Dragon Ball?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 6519
Re: What does the Japanese fandom think of the West’s version of Dragon Ball?
Most of the DB fans in Japan do not even care about foreign versions of the franchise simply because there's no need to do so, but from what I've been seen and heard, their reactions are mainly about how Goku sounds weird with male voice actors. Also I've seen a few people saying the Faulconer score...
- Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:43 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Selecta Visión Dragon Ball Z Blu-ray
- Replies: 108
- Views: 22222
Re: Selecta Visión Dragon Ball Z Blu-ray
It's 100% obvious that this is nothing but an AI upscale. Even if this looks superficially "better" than the DBox, there is still absolutely zero point in digitally upscaling something available on film. It's such a waste of resources and an opportunity.
- Mon Dec 20, 2021 5:03 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Outright Impossible things you would love to see happen.
- Replies: 62
- Views: 8020
- Sun Dec 19, 2021 2:02 pm
- Forum: Music
- Topic: "ShenLong is Summoned"
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4832
Re: "ShenLong is Summoned"
That track features the second ShenLong leitmotif, which was used in DB Movie 3 , DBZ Movie 4 , and DBZ Movie 12 Used in DBZ Movie 11 and DBZ Movie 13 too. This is probably a variation of the first leitmotif of the Dragon Balls, so I guess this is not for Shen Long, but it became a little ambiguous...
- Sun Dec 19, 2021 1:40 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Outright Impossible things you would love to see happen.
- Replies: 62
- Views: 8020
Re: Outright Impossible things you would love to see happen.
The incompetent official Toriyama successor being replaced by someone who actually knows how to draw manga and doesn't trace Captain America.
- Wed Dec 15, 2021 7:18 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: The many lost dubs of Dragon Ball
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2898
Re: The many lost dubs of Dragon Ball
there is also currently no known way of accessing the alleged Frontier Enterprises dub, but I've also speculated there may be privately sold cassettes somewhere as airlines apparently did this. As I pointed out in another thread , their possible Dragon Ball dub is not in the complete list of their ...