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by Dragon Ball Ireland
Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:24 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.
Replies: 343
Views: 18349

Re: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.

If the OST is phenomenal, as in the case with DB and LOTR, I consider the composer on the same level as the creator/writer/director/etc. Most definitely, Shunsuke Kikuchi brought Akira Toriyama's manga to life, its just the perfect score whether it's the adventure, comedy, action or tranquill momen...
by Dragon Ball Ireland
Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:27 am
Forum: Dragon Ball Kai
Topic: Funi's Kai dub and accuracy
Replies: 94
Views: 31874

Re: Funi's Kai dub and accuracy

Spirit Bomb is the correct translation. What do you want? A Yatsu Kisama Tachi translation? Spirit Bomb is Funimation's rendition of Genki-Dama. "Genki" can mean "health", "energy" or "vitality", all of which are spiritual attributes, and "Dama" has...
by Dragon Ball Ireland
Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:28 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.
Replies: 343
Views: 18349

Re: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.

He was in New York City once though (2002), wasn't he? And Germany of all places in 2004, so he did make very seldom public appearances. Only 200 were allowed in and reportedly the event would have been cancelled if anyone took out a camera. I also recall Toriyama saying in one of the manga volumes...
by Dragon Ball Ireland
Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:32 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.
Replies: 343
Views: 18349

Re: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.

More love from Latin America , specifically Peru: Rohan Jagganaut wrote: Dragon Ball creator, Akira Toriyama had a profound impact on millions of people who grew up watching and reading the animanga series. This title defined an entire era of anime and also played an important role in redefining th...
by Dragon Ball Ireland
Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:33 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Non-thread-worthy discussions
Replies: 4624
Views: 582586

Re: Non-thread-worthy discussions

Random Westwood dub thought of the day : in episode 112 (or 127 uncut) A Handy Trick during the first encounter with Dr Gero (pronounced Jar-Oh here) when Tenshinhan says "How did you know his name was Goku?" emphasis is placed on the "Ooh" at the end, and again later in the epi...
by Dragon Ball Ireland
Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:15 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: The most unrealistic idea I've ever had - a DBZ animated movie quadrilogy
Replies: 2
Views: 153

Re: The most unrealistic idea I've ever had - a DBZ animated movie quadrilogy

Why just do Raditz-Boo? That's only the second half of the story. I like Kai but felt everything that came before Raditz deserved more than the brief recap it got. Anyways I've been a proponent of a Dragon Ball remake for a while, but I think a series would be better than movies. People have also be...
by Dragon Ball Ireland
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:19 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Petition to mark March 8th as "International Dragon Ball Day"
Replies: 10
Views: 303

Petition to mark March 8th as "International Dragon Ball Day"

Not usually a petition guy, but it's easy to see how much Dragon Ball has positively impacted the lives of millions, as we've seen with the honours even world governments like the French, Chinese and Brazillians have shown, and of course, as always the love from Latin America has been outstanding. S...
by Dragon Ball Ireland
Sun Mar 24, 2024 7:45 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Unpopular DB opinions
Replies: 14590
Views: 1512037

Re: Unpopular DB opinions

Yeah, there's plenty of variety with Kikuchi, original Dragon Ball has a lot more adventurous music and Z has more battle-focused pieces. When people say the Faulconer score was perfect for the increased scale and intensity of the fights in Z I respectfully disagree, as I think Shunsuke Kikuchi is t...
by Dragon Ball Ireland
Sun Mar 24, 2024 6:50 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.
Replies: 343
Views: 18349

Re: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.

the fact that Saudi Arabia is into this project just shows how huge and influential the franchise has been and still is globally. I'd be interested to know how well Dragon Ball did in the Arab world overall. There were several attempts between the original series, Z and Kai to dub it but none of th...
by Dragon Ball Ireland
Sun Mar 24, 2024 6:20 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Dragon Ball Theme Park
Replies: 34
Views: 880

Re: Dragon Ball Theme Park

Ironically, I think the Kai and Super dubs MIGHT have lightened up with some of these restrictions. I am not sure, but I think they might have. That's interesting, I wonder why Venus Centre toned it down for Kai and Super? Maybe there was complaints about Darwin's theory being undermined too much, ...
by Dragon Ball Ireland
Sun Mar 24, 2024 6:15 am
Forum: Dragon Ball Kai
Topic: Dragon Ball Z Kai is getting a Castilian dub
Replies: 14
Views: 346

Re: Dragon Ball Z Kai is getting a Castilian dub

Will we get a new remasterization of DBKAI on these phisical release? I hope they tone down the green color of TFC I think if Funimation didn't fix the green tint on Kai The Final Chapters, Selecta Vision aren't going to do it. Ironic, that is the one time them messing with the colours would have b...
by Dragon Ball Ireland
Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:14 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Dragon Ball Theme Park
Replies: 34
Views: 880

Re: Dragon Ball Theme Park

Yeah, but it's not very safe for people who are LGBTQ+, women, and other religions as SA can hostile towards them. Exactly, while I'd love to go to a Dragon Ball theme park and I welcome any efforts to embrace nerd culture Saudi Arabia has far bigger problems than a lack of either that should proba...
by Dragon Ball Ireland
Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:16 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Why did we never got a Dragon box reprint?
Replies: 15
Views: 459

Re: Why did we never got a Dragon box reprint?

Lance Heiskell's original plan was to have barebones volumes for Walmart with the original 276 episode version of Dragon Ball Z, as fans remembered from Toonami, but it was to be on DVD.

SD-BD is more of an enthusiast's product, hence you only see companies like Discotek avail of it.
by Dragon Ball Ireland
Fri Mar 22, 2024 12:40 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Why did we never got a Dragon box reprint?
Replies: 15
Views: 459

Re: Why did we never got a Dragon box reprint?

FunimationNow did stream the Dragon Box masters, but only for the Japanese version and without NEPs. Much like the 4:3 aspect ratio itself its like they treat the Dragon Box video as something of a premium product for the purists rather than a baseline or bare minimum. Either way clearly there has b...
by Dragon Ball Ireland
Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:24 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.
Replies: 343
Views: 18349

Re: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.

Super Hero did debut at number 1 in the US box office beating Beast, a movie with freaking Idris Elba. If that doesn't say Dragon Ball is mainstream I don't know what will. Glad to know Akira Toriyama lived to see that.
by Dragon Ball Ireland
Fri Mar 22, 2024 7:35 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Why did we never got a Dragon box reprint?
Replies: 15
Views: 459

Re: Why did we never got a Dragon box reprint?

https://youtu.be/YyqjJ-oeFO0?si=j0LBplBg-V89H_7z Ah yes, I do remember that interview. It's quite perplexing the Dragon Boxes weren't advertised as short supply, doing so probably would have made sense considering how little confidence Funimation clearly had in them (we know this since the dub, whi...
by Dragon Ball Ireland
Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:35 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Why did we never got a Dragon box reprint?
Replies: 15
Views: 459

Re: Why did we never got a Dragon box reprint?

But also apparently the Dragon Boxes didn't sell very well. This pops up now and again, but has there ever been a source for this? The Dragon Boxes were a Collector's Edition so by definition there was a limit to how many copies could be produced. As I've said, the fact there is not one brand new c...
by Dragon Ball Ireland
Fri Mar 22, 2024 3:34 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Dragon Ball Theme Park
Replies: 34
Views: 880

Re: Dragon Ball Theme Park

This is great news, but I wonder why Saudi Arabia of all places. Orlando, Florida would have seemed to be a given as they already have a Dragon Ball themed restaurant and as the box office success of Super Hero showed the US is one of the biggest markets for Dragon Ball.
by Dragon Ball Ireland
Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:11 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Why did we never got a Dragon box reprint?
Replies: 15
Views: 459

Re: Why did we never got a Dragon box reprint?

TOEI apparently wanted to keep the Dragon Boxes as a Japan-only release, so we can only speculate Funimation had to try for many years to get them. While Adam Sheehan did say during the Dragon Boxes official announcement during Funimation's industry panel at Otakon 2009 the Dragon Boxes were for not...
by Dragon Ball Ireland
Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:49 pm
Forum: Dragon Ball Kai
Topic: Dragon Ball Z Kai is getting a Castilian dub
Replies: 14
Views: 346

Re: Dragon Ball Z Kai is getting a Castilian dub

As this is the seventh Kai dub announced over the last 13 months (in addition to the Hindi redub, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Polish dubs) I'm really hoping this means the series will be dubbed in even more languages.