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I got an email reply from Viz...yup; the box sets are the same as they’ve always been, nothing new, nothing re-translated, partially edited, etc.

While I'd normally say a new translation is unlikely, this will be the first VIZ release since the writer of the translation for the "Z" portion was arrested for child porn, so ya never know, they may not want themselves associated with him anymore.

Oh god, I didn’t even consider that. It would ...

Found via Amazon, it looks like Viz is reprinting the two manga box sets that came out forever ago and have basically been unavailable since. It’d be awesome if these had a touched up translation, art, etc... but this is Viz we’re talking about, so it’s highly doubtful. Links below. June 4, 2019 ...

Selling my sealed copy of Dragon Box, Vol. 3. Its sealed although the shrink wrap has torn a bit. Asking $150. These are selling new on Amazon for $200-$300. Please message me if interested and we can go from there.

One month until the first Freeza arc comes out. Still, I'm not looking forward to the Artificial Humans arc. Gonna be censored a lot.

Why would it be censored a lot? Outside of Popo (which will always be changed at this point), I doubt they'd bother with anything else. Editing full color art's ...

I like to imagine that the power levels aren't necessary valued exactly like they appear. I mean, the battle powers started with the Saiyans and Freeza, who are aliens, so perhaps they operate on a different numerical value. I'm not sure if I'm getting the point across exactly, but for example ...

Oh. That might be where the confusion is coming from. Personally, I've always just considered them extensions of SSJ and not "new forms" necessarily, aside from SSJ1, being a "new form" over base state. But that being said, I still call them SSJ2 and SSJ3, because it's easy, and is basically what ...

That's basically how it was until the Buu saga, which is regarded as the weakest by a majority.

And before someone claims SSJ2 was introduced in the Cell saga, no it wasn't.

I'm not following your logic that SSJ2 was not introduced in the Cell saga. Can you clarify what you mean for me?

The ...

They then aired all 3 movies as stand alone episodes, in order, with Deadzone being split into 2 episodes, World's Strongest being split into 3 episodes, and Tree of Might being split into 3 episodes. After that, the series would start over again and the process was repeated until Funimation was ...

That's basically how it was until the Buu saga, which is regarded as the weakest by a majority.

And before someone claims SSJ2 was introduced in the Cell saga, no it wasn't.

I'm not following your logic that SSJ2 was not introduced in the Cell saga. Can you clarify what you mean for me?

SSJ2 ...

I think a long time ago Tree if Might was split into 3 episodes but they didn't really try to fit it in the actual story
That was just during the American syndication broadcast in its original 1996-1998 run. It just aired that way out of nowhere, yeah.

Wasn't necessarily out of nowhere, if I'm ...

fadeddreams5 wrote:That's basically how it was until the Buu saga, which is regarded as the weakest by a majority.

And before someone claims SSJ2 was introduced in the Cell saga, no it wasn't.

I'm not following your logic that SSJ2 was not introduced in the Cell saga. Can you clarify what you mean for me?

In response to the original question, I'll say "yes."

I personally feel like BoG, RoF, as well as Super are just cash grabs. Now of course, the whole series (and all TV series for that point) are technically there to make money as the end result. No money, no product, for any form of media. That ...

If anything marked the downfall, it would be the Boo saga, in my opinion. Granted, there were parts of the Boo saga I loved, but if I had to pick one it would be that one.

Most of the fights in the later Boo saga, mostly because they all got cut short or weren't really resolved to a satisfying extent. They all just kind of seemed to stop without a sense of "finality" to them. Specifically:

Goku VS. Majin Vegeta - Cut short due to Boo's awakening
Super Saiyan 3 Goku ...

I still hate the rewind of time. Why not just have Goku kill Freeza after he blew up the Earth and use the Dragon Balls on Namek to wish back everyone ? It just came off cheap to me. It would have made the death of the Earth feel more serious if they didn't do that.


Honestly, and I HATE to say ...

Just saw the film last night (after reading the plot months ago haha). I really wanted to like it (and BOG for that matter too) but I just couldn't. If you enjoyed the film, I'm glad. I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade, but honestly I thought the movie was terrible. Again, I wanted to like it ...

I do wish they kept the dialogie uncensored too but this has been a rather lazy release. Funny how you mention the dragon ball singles cause the later printings on amazon are uncensored

Oh yeah, I forgot that even later re-prints of the singles were uncensored again. So basically we have ...

It's the kindle version of the singles. I just realized it may be a few panels latter when Vegeta confronts them...let me check... but you are correct that the cursing has been removed since the VIZBIGS

Also, it was definitely at that part where Vegeta is flying away at top speed and he's super ...

I just realized that also, I believe even later re-prints of the standard graphic novels became more edited over time too. If anyone still has the first editions of the SJ graphic novels, they could help verify. I just looked at a Dragon Ball Vol. 1 copy at the store (the solid red original ...