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- Fri Oct 02, 2020 5:46 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Hardcore wuxia fans, what are the biggest similarities and differences between the genre and Dragon Ball?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1829
Re: Hardcore wuxia fans, what are the biggest similarities and differences between the genre and Dragon Ball?
As a DB fan from Japan, I'm against the idea of Wuxia directly influencing Toriyama. 99% of the users here seem to be from the Western world and have very limited knowledge about the cultures in East Asia, so they tend to connect whatever from China or Hong Kong they find similar with Dragon Ball so...
- Sat Sep 26, 2020 4:17 pm
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Can someone explain to me this score removal in the "Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle" dubs?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2966
- Sat Sep 26, 2020 1:07 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: What's the concensus on dubs replacing sound effects?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3978
Re: What's the concensus on dubs replacing sound effects?
Personally I think it removes the exact tone and "spice" of the show, similar to when the music is switched out, particularly when generic stock sound effects are used. That's literally what Toei themselves did with Super and that's exactly why I hate it with passion. Edit: Oh I didn't no...
- Thu Sep 24, 2020 5:07 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: I feel like the slow pacing for DBZ in the anime and filler works to its advantage
- Replies: 112
- Views: 6159
Re: I feel like the slow pacing for DBZ in the anime and filler works to its advantage
The stupid, pointless, or cheesy filler aside, the slow pacing of the series at least brought one positive effect: They heavily relied on the music to keep the tension in slow-paced scenes, which made the Kikuchi score very memorable and iconic as a result.
- Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:40 pm
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Why Kai 1.0's Kikuchi Score was so limited.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13592
Re: Why Kai 1.0's Kikuchi Score was so limited.
I believe that Toei actually had budget to digitalize the missing Kikuchi tracks, but not time for it, so they hadn't any other choice but get stuck to the stereo tracks. No, they had already run out of the budget at the time. I directly asked one of the staff members of Kai on Facebook and he conf...
- Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:14 pm
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Can someone explain to me this score removal in the "Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle" dubs?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2966
Re: Can someone explain to me this score removal in the "Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle" dubs?
They removed these tracks because they contain singing in Japanese. A lot of dubs around the world avoided these particular tracks, too. You're from Brazil, right? Check out the PT-BR dub of DBZ episode 28. M424EXT is muted when Piccolo dies. It's the same as the insert songs: They don't want to let...
- Tue Sep 22, 2020 11:57 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: For spanish speaking people, do male characters names ending with "a" seem weird?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 987
Re: For spanish speaking people, do male characters names ending with "a" seem weird?
I've never heard of any Spanish anime dubs whose character names are changed for the sake of gender suffixes. Such kind of name changes are relatively rare even when it comes to the languages with noun case inflection, but the Lithuanian version is one of the few exceptions: Its almost all character...
- Mon Sep 21, 2020 5:40 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: THE biggest waste of potential (IRL or Out of Universe)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 513
Re: THE biggest waste of potential (IRL or Out of Universe)
Everything post-DBZ except for BoG was nothing but a big waste of potential.
- Wed Sep 16, 2020 3:16 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Did FUNimation continue UUC production?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1279
Re: Did FUNimation continue UUC production?
No, it's authored in 2007.eledoremassis02 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 3:01 pm Thank you! Do you know if yours is authored around the same time? (2009)
- Wed Sep 16, 2020 2:41 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Did FUNimation continue UUC production?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1279
Re: Did FUNimation continue UUC production?
These might be like those Latin American DVD singles that looked like Ultimate Uncut, but the video was Orange Bricks. I've got two volumes of that release and no, these are not. By the way, until now, I never noticed that the texts on the covers used Funi's character names instead of the Latin Ame...
- Sat Sep 12, 2020 12:53 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Favorite cover art
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2917
Re: Favorite cover art
The Thai DVD release from Kudson has got the best cover designs. http://www.kudson.com/images/dvd/88567110368050.jpg http://www.kudson.com/images/dvd/88567110386010.jpg http://www.kudson.com/images/dvd/88567110409700.jpg http://www.kudson.com/images/dvd/88567110410070.jpg Wow these are amazing, def...
- Fri Sep 11, 2020 5:03 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Favorite cover art
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2917
Re: Favorite cover art
The Thai DVD release from Kudson has got the best cover designs.
- Wed Sep 02, 2020 2:53 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: GT Special question
- Replies: 5
- Views: 779
Re: GT Special question
Around the mid-'80s, Toei introduced their new film transfer system named "Fine Nega Video System" (hereinafter called FNVS) which transfers negative film masters directly to videotapes. A lot of anime series and films including DBZ movies were transferred with this system for home video r...
- Tue Sep 01, 2020 4:57 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Was GT a failure ?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 5594
Re: Was GT a failure ?
Well, according to Kei, GT DVDs sold better than OG DB and Z in Japan , so evidently it was a series that was looked upon more favorably over time than it was during it's initial run on Fuji TV. I think the Dragon Box GT sold well because GT is the only series you can't read in the manga format. Th...
- Tue Sep 01, 2020 3:35 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Possible details on Selecta Vision's Dragon Ball (1986-1989) bluray release
- Replies: 204
- Views: 32577
Re: Possible details on Selecta Vision's Dragon Ball (1986-1989) bluray release
about db broadcast audios, thinking that Toei allways own dbgt cinetape audios, what make people thinking that they don't have cinetape audios from others show or other db series but lies somewhere and they just don't bother to used them? i mean there is no official document that say about them bei...
- Sat Aug 29, 2020 2:29 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Myth - "Funimation didn't acquire film masters of DBZ until 2008"
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5095
Re: Myth - "Funimation didn't acquire film masters of DBZ until 2008"
Speaking of the change in video quality in the original DB, my guess is that the early episodes were transferred when the BLT dub was produced, and the rest was done later, maybe in a cheaper way. Frankly this is blowing my mind. I assumed the guy at the station just popped in a videotape with the p...
- Fri Aug 28, 2020 7:36 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Myth - "Funimation didn't acquire film masters of DBZ until 2008"
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5095
Re: Myth - "Funimation didn't acquire film masters of DBZ until 2008"
Excuse my ignorance: kei you’ve shown that film reels were used for airings until 2000 or so. ... What exactly would a TV station do with that film reel? I assumed they were sending video tapes around, since TV is video. The status of the film is written in next to each airdate, so I think they wer...
- Fri Aug 28, 2020 5:16 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Myth - "Funimation didn't acquire film masters of DBZ until 2008"
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5095
Re: Myth - "Funimation didn't acquire film masters of DBZ until 2008"
So you have some of the actual film that the rebroadcast tapes were transferred from? Does your film happen to have the same kind of tinting that the rebroadcast footage has? I was thinking that the rebroadcast footage looked very tinted because of the film fading, so I'm curious to see if your fil...
- Fri Aug 28, 2020 4:38 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Dragon Ball Z 4:3 Steelbooks
- Replies: 448
- Views: 66798
Re: Dragon Ball Z 4:3 Steelbooks
When I see a screenshot comparison between this version and the Level Set or the Season Blu-rays, there always seems to be a shift in color towards red. I don't even want to think of this possibility, but I can't help but imagine that they did it with an intention to make it look "authentic&quo...
- Fri Aug 28, 2020 3:50 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Myth - "Funimation didn't acquire film masters of DBZ until 2008"
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5095
Re: Myth - "Funimation didn't acquire film masters of DBZ until 2008"
I've never heard of this myth and I always thought that they've got their own film masters from the beginning. The reason is simple: From what I know, Toei had never provided any videotape masters to foreign countries when it comes to the TV series of DB and DBZ until they produced the DigiBeta mast...