Dragon Ball Z "Seasons" On Blu-ray: News & Discussion

[Baggie_Saiyan]

For the Eng Dub + JPN Soundtrack has the mixing improved at all? A common problem with it in the Dbox and Orange Brick is that the music was often too quiet.

I only have the season seven Blu-ray at this point, but I finished episode 201 a few minutes ago (I actually watched it to answer this question), and the BGM was still quieted compared to the dialogue. Shame.

On a side note, is it just me, or does FUNi Kai (at least with Kikuchi) have the same problem?

Yeah this is a problem I find with FUNi in general, their English track music is much quite compared the the Japanese tracks.

[Puto]

More to the point, this seems to be an issue with all FUNimation 5.1 mixes in general.

[Baggie_Saiyan]

So Buu is looking at Dabura then?

[DragonBalllKaiHD]

Geez, this so called Japanese artist has a terrible sense of perspective. How heck did Toei manage to change the artist after 2004? FUNimation should request for Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru to draw for them next time they release Dragon Ball related DVD. Thankfully, the man did it for the Dragon Boxes.

[Tanooki Kuribo]

I just realized fat Boo isn't on any of these covers. That's a pretty big character (no pun intended) to just gloss over!

[JEFFMAN219]

So Buu is looking at Dabura then?

The cover art all together look great. Can't wait until I complete my collection.

[dbboxkaifan]

Yeah, if you remove Mr. Satan and the earthlings from the cover, it would look much better. If anyone is willing to photoshop the cover to remove them, that'd be great.

And if you also remove those citizens in weird poses, then the cover would certainly look better.

[Kamiccolo9]

Yeah, if you remove Mr. Satan and the earthlings from the cover, it would look much better. If anyone is willing to photoshop the cover to remove them, that'd be great.

And if you also remove those citizens in weird poses, then the cover would certainly look better.

Um....

[Tanooki Kuribo]

Speaking of those citizens on the cover... Why not use established characters? Chi-Chi? Krillin and his family? Piccolo? Yamcha? I don't know... seems like a missed opportunity to me.

[dbboxkaifan]

^ Yeah, they could've made the last cover a farewell to Dragon Ball Z by featuring most of the known characters but they ruined it.

FUNimation's better to stick with one character per cover because more than that they tend to screw up.

[Kojiro Sasaki]

2013-2014: Dragon Ball Z - Season Blu-rays
2015: Dragon Ball Z Kai - The Final Chapters on Blu-ray & DVD
2016: Dragon Ball Z beautifully remastered in HD on Blu-ray like you have never seen before!

I will that's a great aspect of these sets: They went through the trouble of cleaning up the Japanese audio, even if it is just a filtering. Most US distributors never even touch those masters, so I will give props to FUNi for that.

If you would exactly understand what they did, you wouldn't praise them at all.

Dbz is not only Funi's biggest franchise but anime's biggest so yes there will be more releases (...)

...looking like this:

Especially since the original masters were lost according to an article Kei linked to on Twiiter.

It's not that certain as you think...

Geez, this so called Japanese artist has a terrible sense of perspective. How heck did Toei manage to change the artist after 2004? FUNimation should request for Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru to draw for them next time they release Dragon Ball related DVD. Thankfully, the man did it for the Dragon Boxes.

I didn't expect anything better since the first cover art. Their intentions were clear to me since they uploaded a first trailer. This release was meant to be crappy and cheap and everything about it meets this standard.
In this situation, I would say that the cover art is good, because it perfectly defines the content of the box

It's really sad to watch people being f'd and still happy and grateful... I'm glad that I didn't spend more time on this idiotic campaign. 99% of Dragon Ball fans are hopeless, ignorant, arrogant, uneducated, passive, selfish and lazy people with a slave mentality and lack of taste. Trying to convince them is a pure time wasting. I decided to work on my own and I never expected that I will achieve THAT much. At this point, I don't need anything from FUNimation.

Final conclusion: If you can count - count on yourself!

(If you don't feel like hopeless, ignorant, arrogant, uneducated, passive, selfish and lazy person with a slave mentality and lack of taste, you probably belong to this 1% of people)

[dbboxkaifan]

It's really sad to watch people being f'd and still happy and grateful... I'm glad that I didn't spend more time on this idiotic campaign. 99% of Dragon Ball fans are hopeless, ignorant, arrogant, uneducated, passive, selfish and lazy people with a slave mentality and lack of taste. Trying to convince them is a pure time wasting. I decided to work on my own and I never expected that I will achieve THAT much. At this point, I don't need anything from FUNimation.

Final conclusion: If you can count - count on yourself!

(If you don't feel like hopeless, ignorant, arrogant, uneducated, passive, selfish and lazy person with a slave mentality and lack of taste, you probably belong to this 1% of people)

There's nothing wrong with people liking this release it's their choice after all, and being that we are in the widescreen era some of them prefer the image to fill up the entire screen instead of black bars on the sides, yeah sure you could say that they're being lazy but in the end what they want is Dragon Ball Z in 16x9 AR ready to pop in the disc and watch.

Fanboys that have elitist attitudes such as yours are among the worst because they think they're better than everyone else and that's just sad.

I personally don't care if we don't get a 4x3 AR of Dragon Ball Z on Blu-ray, I've got the Dragon Boxes Z and that's more than enough because to be honest, I don't really watch Dragon Ball that much nowadays but I still like collecting stuff of the DB franchise.

[thomas1up]

Dbz is not only Funi's biggest franchise but anime's biggest so yes there will be more releases (...)

...looking like this:

Wait.. is that a legit screenshot? No way could FUNi fuck up that bad... right?

[bkev]

Don't worry. It's not. Kojiro Sasaki is prone to hyperbole. He probably grabbed that off youtube, looking at the jaggles.

[Metalwario64]

Definitely fake. I don't have the screenshot on hand, but the Movie 2 remaster is one of the better looking ones FUNi did back in the day.

[Kojiro Sasaki]

There's nothing wrong with people liking this release (...)

I never said that there is something wrong with people liking this release.

(..) it's their choice after all, and being that we are in the widescreen era some of them prefer the image to fill up the entire screen instead of black bars on the sides (...)

I never commented people's choices.

Fanboys that have elitist attitudes such as yours are among the worst because they think they're better than everyone else and that's just sad.

- How the ignorance of people affects me?
- I have no access to a solid product.

- How me being better than anyone else affects people?
- It does not affect people at all.

So no - you're wrong. Elitist fanboys like me are not the worst. Their existence causes no damage at all. Seriously speaking, situation looks totally different than you think. When I joined Dragon Ball fanbase, I was always trying to be as polite as my lame English allowed me. I was always extremely calm (and stubborn, I know that ) in explaining my views and opinions and I never called people with names, even when I had serious reasons to do so. And what happened? Just by bringing up some technical details to discussion and my argumentation, I was automatically labeled as an arrogant, nitpicky and elitist asshole. The so-called ignorant can call the so-called elitist fanboy an elitist fanboy, but the so-called elitist fanboy cannot call the so-called ignorant an ignorant. Somehow, it's fully acceptable when it works that way.

Opinion I expressed in my previous post is not a simple hate or an effect of frustration. It's an honest opinion based on 2 years of conversations with various people. Their attitude made this kind of impression on me.
I never intended to insult people. When I joined this forum, I didn't know many technical details about series production. I wanted to discuss those things and I wanted to convince people to help me with my project. Even if I would be a selfish asshole, being rude would go against my interest here.

I personally don't care if we don't get a 4x3 AR of Dragon Ball Z on Blu-ray, I've got the Dragon Boxes Z and that's more than enough because to be honest, I don't really watch Dragon Ball that much nowadays but I still like collecting stuff of the DB franchise.

I would still like to see something similar to the Level sets, but generally I'm also happy with what I got and I'm even more happy with what I will receive in the future.

Wait.. is that a legit screenshot? No way could FUNi fuck up that bad... right?

Definitely fake. I don't have the screenshot on hand, but the Movie 2 remaster is one of the better looking ones FUNi did back in the day.

The guy said:

so yes there will be more releases (...)

and I added:

...looking like this:

This screenshot is my prediction how the new releases will look. It was prepared by me... Is it that hard to understand?... -_-

Don't worry. It's not. Kojiro Sasaki is prone to hyperbole. He probably grabbed that off youtube, looking at the jaggles.

Somehow, you don't seem to be troubled with hyperboles in the opposite side...

By the way, what happened with all this tolerance, which is so popular these days? Some of you people are extremely defensive about other people's opinions and tastes. Why do you not allow me to have my own opinion? If there is nothing wrong with liking this release, why there is something wrong with hating it?

[thomas1up]

Wait.. is that a legit screenshot? No way could FUNi fuck up that bad... right?

Definitely fake. I don't have the screenshot on hand, but the Movie 2 remaster is one of the better looking ones FUNi did back in the day.

The guy said:

so yes there will be more releases (...)

and I added:

...looking like this:

This screenshot is my prediction how the new releases will look. It was prepared by me... Is it that hard to understand?... -_-

Using a fake image won't help your argument then, you're just showing an extreme, you could've posted a picture from thr orange bricks, plus the way you worded it didn't give me any reason to believe it was fake.

[Kamiccolo9]

I never intended to insult people.

99% of Dragon Ball fans are hopeless, ignorant, arrogant, uneducated, passive, selfish and lazy people with a slave mentality and lack of taste. Trying to convince them is a pure time wasting.

This is the problem people have with you. It has nothing to due with their supposed lack of tolerance. It's you saying that you are better than everyone else, and then getting offended and playing the victim when someone has the audacity to say otherwise.

[Kojiro Sasaki]

I never intended to insult people.

Back in the days.

This is the problem people have with you. It has nothing to due with their supposed lack of tolerance. It's you saying that you are better than everyone else, and then getting offended and playing the victim when someone has the audacity to say otherwise.

1. I didn't say anything like this when I was first called by names.
2. I never got offended. You can call me like you want. It does not matter to me. I only want a satisfying explanation why you do so (which is not necessary).
3. I never played anything (beside football, volleyball, cards, computer games etc.). My only purpose is trying to understand the reasons behind people's actions.

99% of Dragon Ball fans are hopeless, ignorant, arrogant, uneducated, passive, selfish and lazy people with a slave mentality and lack of taste. Trying to convince them is a pure time wasting.

That's my opinion after ~1 year of trying to be nice and helpful. I didn't say 100%, because I met three GREAT people who helped me a lot (and I helped them) and It's more than enough to say that time here wasn't wasted.

Calm down people. I'm not as serious as it seems. It would be nice if somebody would like to explain why there is a strong tendency to accept ignorance, while ambition (or being really passionate about something) is hated and bashed, but it isn't necessary.
Everything works fine for me. It's like fishing. I'm throwing my extremist, nitpicky, fanatic, elitist or call-it-as-you-want views bait into Kanzenshuu pool by writing those posts and I even managed to catch some really nice fish by using this method There are people who understand my thinking. Veeeeeery few of them, but they exist.

After all this time I'm a kind of happy that my project didn't meet with as much interst as I expected. I wouldn't learn as much as I have learned if somebody would do this job instead of me. The only thing that's really sad is that all those lazy ignorants who bashed me will benefit from my hard work as I am now suffering from their ignorance...

I almost forgot: Please quote me saying that I'm better than anyone else (in a serious sentence, not sarcastic as the one in my previous post).

[Kaboom]

Enough half-joking half-serious trolling shenanigans, please. Let's get back on-topic in whatever meaningful way is possible.