Kanzenshuu

Well, this at least confirms the FUNi branded versions with the circa 2007 "brick" digipack casing will seemingly no longer be available as in print. Of course CR could repackage at some point like what happened with GT not too long ago, or even re author the discs with updated masters. Gu...

The UK editions are also showing low stock on Amazon . That could be another sign, or it could not mean what we think. Kai went out of print a while ago when the Z Blu-Rays were being released, but then it started being listed again. The same could happen again with the Z DVDs. If I had to guess, C...

I have to imagine this is just a continuation of the clearing of stock and re-issuing under new Crunchyroll SKUs . As you alluded to, we had a similar thing happen with the Dragon Ball GT "Complete Series" DVD box set this last year. Nothing to be excited about (or frightened by). Also, w...

I have to imagine this is just a continuation of the clearing of stock and re-issuing under new Crunchyroll SKUs . As you alluded to, we had a similar thing happen with the Dragon Ball GT "Complete Series" DVD box set this last year. Nothing to be excited about (or frightened by). I mean,...

Yes, you read that correctly. It seems that after just over 16 years (Wow, seriously it came out that long ago) since the controversial lightning rod of a DBZ release known as the "Orange Bricks" first hit store shelves, and apparently all nine of the FUNImation branded versions of the rel...

Honestly, this feels like Toriyama was trying to move on from Goku and he'd felt like he'd taken him as far as he could go and then tried to continue on with Gohan now as the MC after Goku decided to stay dead in the Next World at the end of the Cell arc. Only to realize that oops, he turned out to ...

Recasting the voices. I'd rather have a flawed, but sincere new take on a character than a perfect, soulless recreation of the voice as-is. Alden Ehrenreich didn't sound and feel EXACTLY like Harrison Ford's Han Solo but he did his best to do the character justice while also making it his own. My g...

True, and even if the Bob Hoskins/John Leguizamo/Dennis Hopper Mario film still isn't a great movie (and also doesn't really work as an adaptation of SMB) in of itself at least it has that cult following to it's name despite being a box office flop back in 1993. DB Evolution doesn't even have such a...

Episode #40 was amazing, I loved everything about it (Piccolo's death is just... *cries*). It works as an ending too. But I'm glad we've had got 24 more episodes, even if the Super #17's Arc (except his design, it's sick, I love it) was mediocre. I do wonder if they had the Goku Jr. special as a po...

Originally GT had the greenlight for 40 episodes, but it was pretty much a given more episodes would be ordered. The second order was for 24 episodes, but I don't recall the reason why it was no more than that, and why that point was to be the original end of the Dragon Ball series. I'd guess it wa...

Probably because it was Kai's introduction to the US and the striking while the iron's hot factor. Naturally because the CW and Toonami were rerunning Kai it was less of a big deal and didn't have as big a pull as Nicktoons did when they could boast having the newest Dragon Ball show. Yes, and cert...

It's also notable for having carried the Kenji Yamamoto score for longer than the DVD/BD releases here did, as the latter went up to episode 52 on the Part sets before changing over to the Kikuchi replacement score (Part 5, which originally was scheduled to have Yamamoto's music as well up to the la...

Put yourself in the mind of a Toei employee in 1997. After the studio had spent 11 years working on an anime series that produced hundreds of episodes, a dozen and a half films, partial work on additional media, and some noncanon promotions, you kinda might be in total despair upon believing that y...

I mean, this "recolor a character with problematic design" thing isn't even new relative to Mr. Popo on Toonzai/CW's edit of Kai. One of the best examples is OLM going back and recoloring Jynx/Rougela in older Pokemon (Pocket Monsters) episodes from black to purple after the controversies ...

It'd be funny if Omni Productions had something to do with this, considering how infamous they are for their laughably awful dubs of the Takara Transformers trilogy (Headmasters, Super-God Masterforce, Victory) especially given Rik Thomas is listed here and along with being Galvatron and others' VA ...

The decision to make Gohan the main character seemed pretty out of left field. He was no more important than Krillin and Piccolo in the Freeza saga and spent a good deal of the Android storyline even further in the background. Did Toriyama feel like he exhausted all potential with Goku as a lead (h...

So, for anyone who actually owns both the Funimation Green Bricks and the Crunchyroll 2023 DVDs, can you upload pictures and compare the two releases? There's no difference outside of the new cover art. The discs are the same you'd get in the Green Bricks, all the way down to Funimation's logo stil...

Well, it certainly feels more conclusive of an ending (at least for the anime version of the story. And test that's with Z more or less adapting the final chapters as is) than Toriyama did with the manga, which was basically "Goku meets and fights random kid who also happens to be the evil Buu...

Well, it certainly feels more conclusive of an ending (at least for the anime version of the story. And that's with Z more or less adapting the final chapters as is) than Toriyama did with the manga, which was basically "Goku meets and fights random kid who also happens to be the evil Buu's rei...

The Return of Cooler has some good fights. this film is just boring. It's boring in conception and execution. One thing I noticed last time I watched it was that it had really good sound design. Idk why it stuck out to me so much but it had that going for it. And the awesome music that got repurpos...