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Don't think so, the anime has been around nearly 40 years and TOEI only tried releasing the original three anime during that 6 year span from 2003 to 2009 when it was at its peak in most international territories and the DVD format was booming. I think if TOEI had faith in the Japanese market for t...

I HIGHLY doubt any company other than Crunchyroll would EVER release it. Consider the fact, most of their release on home videos are 16:9, I don't expect 4:3 version to get a release anytime soon, if not ever. Just because Discotek does it, doesn't necessarily meant that's the rule. Different compan...

It's really baffling that Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT, hasn't got a Blu-ray release in Japan. Movies has been available on Blu-ray, despite some editing on certain movies, but not the TV series. Pretty much almost every major anime has gotten Blu-ray (HD remastered or SD-upscale),...

If Goku had a PL of 2 when he was born, and a 10 when the show starts, then he might've been at 3 o 4 when he transformed for the first time, putting him around 30 or 40PL. We know Roshi is way above that, and Grampa Gohan was able to trade blows with Goku post-RRA arc, a 40PL Ohzaru should be a pi...

I always assumed Goku's first transformation happened when he was still just a baby , and so even as a Great Ape he was still relatively weak enough for Gohan the experienced martial artist to subdue at the time. For the old setting yes, that could have worked. Had Goku was picked up by normal huma...

When Goku and his friends were imprison by Pilaf, Goku mentioned that Grandpa Gohan warned not see the full moon, since monster (Great Ape) appear. This suggests that Gohan has witnessed Goku's transformation before, probably by showing him full moon for first time. This begs a question of how Gohan...

Because it's Funimation.
What do you expect? lol

In 2006, Funimation abruptly canceled the Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Uncut Edition DVD (which covers first 67 episodes of Z in uncut/original version), in favor of infamous "Orange Brick" Season Set DVD that came out following year of 2007. I'm curious how home video market in North America wo...

Happy 15th Anniversary to Dragonball Evolution (I guess). It's been 15 years (April 10, 2009), since the movie came out in USA; it came out March in rest of the world. Many (if not EVERY) Dragon Ball (in America) considered that to be the most painful and saddest day ever to happen in the franchise,...

Iñaki Godoy is Mexican, and playing a character that was long established by Oda as being anagalous to a Brazillian person. Chatwin was a white guy playing a character that is heavily coded as east Asian, and has a name that is east Asian. White people aren't getting a pass on this, especially when...

Casting a white guy to play Son Gokuu is dumb as hell, and we shouldn't be treating Caucasian as some sort of default—especially for a film with an international audience. Why is casting Caucasian to play character with Asian name is considered dumb? Goku is an alien, even that setting wasn't estab...

If there's ever going to be another attempt of live action adaptation (which will most likely won't happen for a VERY long time if not ever), casting of Goku's ethnicity shouldn't matter, especially for movie made outside of Japan, particularly America. I NEVER understood why people were so upset w...

If there's ever going to be another attempt of live action adaptation (which will most likely won't happen for a VERY long time if not ever), casting of Goku's ethnicity shouldn't matter, especially for movie made outside of Japan, particularly America. I NEVER understood why people were so upset wi...

It was reported 20th Century Fox had Akira Toriyama as a "Creative Consultant" during the initial development of Dragonball Evolution. Why they didn't accept his ideas we may never know, sadly it was probably a case that executives thought his ideas were too eastern or goofy and they thou...

In 2016, Ben Ramsey, the screenwriter of Dragonball Evolution, apologized to fans. https://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33935 Few days after Toriyama passed away, Justin Chatwin, who played Goku, paid tribute and apologized. https://movieweb.com/dragonball-evolution-apology-terrible-movi...

I don't think Toriyama would have had anything against a live action Dragon Ball movie, considering how much of a film buff he was I'd guess he would have embraced it provided a more faithful approach was taken. Sadly Fox never wanted his advice and that's why we ended up with the movie we got. Bat...

This sounds very controversial, but is this mean there won't be any more live action adaptation (movies or TV series/streaming), domestically or internationally? We know how Evolution made Toriyama upset, to the point he came back from retirement with Battle of Gods to revive the franchise, but I'm ...

What a shocking news.

R.I.P.

Dragon Ball Ireland wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 7:43 am It sounds like your friend showed you recordings of the show from Nippon Golden Network. They aired the Japanese version with subtitles in Hawaii before Funimation's dub premiered in 1995.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Go ... ite_note-5
Thanks!

Has anyone here seen Dragon Ball (original and Z) BEFORE Ocean and Funimation dub (Japanese only)? I'm not referring to something like watching Japanese with sub on DVD first then watching with English dub; I mean like literally before their original broadcast in 1995/1996. This may sound bizarre, b...