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by kei17
Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:48 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.
Replies: 321
Views: 16392

Re: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.

May his soul rest in peace.
by kei17
Tue Sep 05, 2023 3:06 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Would you feel confident in the series if it were left in Toyotarou's hands?
Replies: 25
Views: 3326

Re: Would you feel confident in the series if it were left in Toyotarou's hands?

Absolutely not. Through the manga serialization for several years his art has somewhat improved, but he still hasn't met most of the basic criteria of a professional manga artist. His paneling especially is still quite bad. Also, he seems to fail to understand what truly makes Toriyama's creations s...
by kei17
Sat Nov 26, 2022 5:30 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: AB Video to release original Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray
Replies: 514
Views: 68980

Re: AB Video to release OG Dragon Ball on Blu-Ray

lol It's kind of crazy when I think what I captured myself ended up being officially released and brought to French people whom I don't even know. They could have reached me for something more for their release.
by kei17
Tue Sep 13, 2022 3:54 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Fan group scanning/remastering of multi-generational film prints previously owned by FUNimation
Replies: 70
Views: 7776

Re: Fan group scanning/remastering of multi-generational film prints previously owned by FUNimation

As already pointed out by some people, Toei's remaster has more dark detail. The reason is simple; Toei scanned the negatives. When you scan a negative, of course the darks are inverted so they're the whites here. More light passes through bright areas on film, so the scanner's sensor can pick up mo...
by kei17
Sat Mar 19, 2022 4:32 am
Forum: Dragon Ball Super
Topic: Official On-Going Dragon Ball Super Movie #2 Thread: "Super Hero"
Replies: 5562
Views: 549045

Re: Official On-Going Dragon Ball Super Movie #2 Thread: "Super Hero"

Agreed I mean they have supposedly been working on this since what 2018/2019? If it takes you 3-4 years to produce CGI that to be quite honest is nowhere near up to par with industry standards for animated CGI movies. Then your CG dept is not competent or talented enough & you shouldn’t be tryi...
by kei17
Fri Mar 18, 2022 4:23 pm
Forum: Dragon Ball Super
Topic: Official On-Going Dragon Ball Super Movie #2 Thread: "Super Hero"
Replies: 5562
Views: 549045

Re: Official On-Going Dragon Ball Super Movie #2 Thread: "Super Hero"

The production of this film has been taking too long even at this point. I think the sudden switch to full 3D CGI was not a good idea after all. They could have already released this before this mess if they hadn't taken the risk. In my opinion, they should have at least tested full CGI by producing...
by kei17
Wed Mar 09, 2022 8:06 am
Forum: Music
Topic: Yamamoto is Back
Replies: 10
Views: 5536

Yamamoto is Back

Since Yamamoto's scandal in 2011, I kept searching his name on the database of JASRAC , the biggest music copyright collecting agency in Japan, once a year or so to check if he's come back. Recently, multiple pieces of music have been added to the database under the name of Kenji Yamamoto. https://i...
by kei17
Fri Mar 04, 2022 5:20 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Selecta Visión Dragon Ball Z Blu-ray
Replies: 91
Views: 20108

Re: Selecta Visión Dragon Ball Z Blu-ray

Well, someone pointed out that SV's upscale doesn't have Topaz-like artefacts so I proved it does, and also showed how you can almost replicate it single-handedly, which although may differ from the actual release to a certain extent, it's very likely to be caused by the difference in quality of the...
by kei17
Wed Mar 02, 2022 1:08 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: The History of Dragon Ball in Every Country
Replies: 179
Views: 60264

Re: The History of Dragon Ball in Every Country

When I found a video on YouTube named "DBZ Urdu dub" over a decade ago it was nothing but the Hindi dub made in India. I pointed that out in the comment and the uploader furiously said to me that it's Urdu and from Pakistan. So I started to assume that it's always nationalistic nonsense wh...
by kei17
Wed Mar 02, 2022 3:30 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Selecta Visión Dragon Ball Z Blu-ray
Replies: 91
Views: 20108

Re: Selecta Visión Dragon Ball Z Blu-ray

it's obviously Topaz Video Enhance AI that they used for this release. More specifically, it's the AI model named "Proteus - Fine Tune" on that program. I upscaled the DBox footage with this AI model and I got a result that is almost 100% identical to one of the screencaps from this relea...
by kei17
Tue Mar 01, 2022 8:29 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Selecta Visión Dragon Ball Z Blu-ray
Replies: 91
Views: 20108

Re: Selecta Visión Dragon Ball Z Blu-ray

- Look about as DNR-ed as Kai, but somehow looks to have a similar level of detail with an added, yet tasteful, amount of sharpening About as much DNR'ed as Kai? No way. Though Kai 1.0 looked blurry, at least they didn't crush any details with extensive DNR filters and everything looked natural. Ka...
by kei17
Fri Feb 25, 2022 4:09 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Has the "less cuts" in the YTV airings of the Westwood dub claim ever been verified?
Replies: 15
Views: 2428

Re: Has the "less cuts" in the YTV airings of the Westwood dub claim ever been verified?

The only differences I'm aware of between YTV and Toonami UK for the Westwood dubs are motion blur filters (to reduce epilepsy risks) applied to the UK airings. Allegedly GT episode 64 also had its full montage present on YTV whereas in the UK it was cut to remove the Japanese text scroll, but I've...
by kei17
Thu Jan 20, 2022 9:30 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Will we ever get a 4K Dragon Ball Z release from Funimation?
Replies: 30
Views: 8279

Re: Will we ever get a 4K Dragon Ball Z release from Funimation?

MasenkoHA wrote: Thu Jan 20, 2022 7:18 am [Stares in Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball GT don’t even have a blue ray release]
GT has never been distributed on film, so only Toei are able to re-scan the film masters. Of course Funi can upscale the 486i Digibeta footage they've got, but that would be pointless.
by kei17
Wed Jan 12, 2022 1:43 pm
Forum: Music
Topic: Movie 10 and its inconsistent BGM mixing
Replies: 1
Views: 2074

Re: Movie 10 and its inconsistent BGM mixing

My guess is that it was just a mistake of the producer of the soundtrack release, but there is a possibility that they could not find the stereo mix masters of the DBZ Movie 10 score because of some confusions possibly caused by the bankruptcy of Forte Music Entertainment, which was a company split ...
by kei17
Tue Jan 11, 2022 4:58 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: What does the Japanese fandom think of the West’s version of Dragon Ball?
Replies: 48
Views: 5570

Re: What does the Japanese fandom think of the West’s version of Dragon Ball?

Most of the DB fans in Japan do not even care about foreign versions of the franchise simply because there's no need to do so, but from what I've been seen and heard, their reactions are mainly about how Goku sounds weird with male voice actors. Also I've seen a few people saying the Faulconer score...
by kei17
Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:43 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Selecta Visión Dragon Ball Z Blu-ray
Replies: 91
Views: 20108

Re: Selecta Visión Dragon Ball Z Blu-ray

It's 100% obvious that this is nothing but an AI upscale. Even if this looks superficially "better" than the DBox, there is still absolutely zero point in digitally upscaling something available on film. It's such a waste of resources and an opportunity.
by kei17
Mon Dec 20, 2021 5:03 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Outright Impossible things you would love to see happen.
Replies: 62
Views: 7578

Re: Outright Impossible things you would love to see happen.

Aim wrote: Sun Dec 19, 2021 7:50 pm
kei17 wrote: Sun Dec 19, 2021 1:40 pm The incompetent official Toriyama successor being replaced by someone who actually knows how to draw manga and doesn't trace Captain America.
Knewsky.
I know him personally. He's already been doing a lot of official stuff.
by kei17
Sun Dec 19, 2021 2:02 pm
Forum: Music
Topic: "ShenLong is Summoned"
Replies: 10
Views: 4426

Re: "ShenLong is Summoned"

That track features the second ShenLong leitmotif, which was used in DB Movie 3 , DBZ Movie 4 , and DBZ Movie 12 Used in DBZ Movie 11 and DBZ Movie 13 too. This is probably a variation of the first leitmotif of the Dragon Balls, so I guess this is not for Shen Long, but it became a little ambiguous...
by kei17
Sun Dec 19, 2021 1:40 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Outright Impossible things you would love to see happen.
Replies: 62
Views: 7578

Re: Outright Impossible things you would love to see happen.

The incompetent official Toriyama successor being replaced by someone who actually knows how to draw manga and doesn't trace Captain America.
by kei17
Wed Dec 15, 2021 7:18 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: The many lost dubs of Dragon Ball
Replies: 10
Views: 2636

Re: The many lost dubs of Dragon Ball

there is also currently no known way of accessing the alleged Frontier Enterprises dub, but I've also speculated there may be privately sold cassettes somewhere as airlines apparently did this. As I pointed out in another thread , their possible Dragon Ball dub is not in the complete list of their ...