Kanzenshuu

Was 2006 still the prime of the séries, though? Especially considering we are talking about Japan and not the US/West? My mistake, that one part was long after that, although the bulk of these bad releases was during its prime. And the 2006 collection did little to fix the situation more than a dec...

What DBI intended to say with his post is that due to the several replacement openings abroad, Cha La Head Cha La is not as loved when comparedt to other openings. This I believe is what you're referring to with that: My point was that there isn't really a competing iconic song everyone associates ...

Since this line of discussion has come up numerous times in a rather short time span, I would advise you to look into cases of either retired or deceased voice actors/actresses that not only this franchise but any other IP over there has had to deal with. It will more than likely play out in a simil...

My point was that there isn't really a competing iconic song everyone associates with the show because of the diversity of OPs fans introduced to Dragon Ball Z through a dub, English or otherwise, were likely to be exposed to. Just a moment there, this refers to other iconic anime songs (that didn'...

Now that you mention it, Movie 13 comes to mind as being the worst instance of this, even baked into its title. Tapion should have gotten his tragic ending. Unpopular gripes aside, it generally does seem that Koyama was of a really different mind compared to Toriyama. Even in other areas besides thi...

Fair, but my point is that there isn't really an iconic English OP that a large portion of the international fandom perceives as a competitor to Cha-La Head Cha-La. Although I think it was likely referring to how OP's like the French, Italian, and even Arabic versions were different from the song i...

Makafushgi Adventure being relatively low somewhat surprised me In general there are numerous good anime songs from the Showa era alone (and also from Heisei really), take it from someone who actively collects JP anime CD's from most of these eras (and works on a place that has an extensive catalog...

Either four Dragon Ball movies and fifteen Dragon Ball Z movies, or you count them all up in sequence. Though I'd particularly have a hard time figuring out what you're talking about if you say, like, "Movie 18". My mindset separate them, so I have no idea what that is supposed to mean. I...

If you want to watch something that's 1:1 with the Japanese version, then watch the Japanese version. Or maybe, say, a Bang Zoom/LA actor dub of a given series (lots of them to mention) where it's on the mark more often than not. Not commenting on anything else, just saying. EDIT: This thread was a...

Auction sites are there for you to buy used copies of the soundtracks with, best to get on that before they all become rare and expensive (and they probably have by this point). Then again, the only good and proper CD releases for the series BGM are the first Dragon Ball music collection from 1986 r...

Vegetto95 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 27, 2023 7:53 pmAnd this is why context is always super, duper important lmao

You would think so, but considering the kind of sphere this is... it seems like too much trouble for some to take that into account.
(Doesn't help that people have to be logged in to see thread chains now.)

ZLADMAN wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:41 pm Not an authentic sound for the time, but it still has a certain vintage sound to it. It's the same sort of feeling as watching an old VHS recording with poor sound quality.

Ironically, even some of the VHS recordings have better quality audio than what's on the Dragon Boxes.

Like a series that existed in the 90s and doesn't need to be retouched or revisted aside from video games Best answer, honestly. Why does it feel like everyone somehow wants to divorce these series from the times they were aired in? Aside which no one is ever going to go back to that series anyway,...

ZLADMAN wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2023 3:01 pm It sounds very vintage.

Just saying, insofar as it's Toei (like Saint Seiya or FotNS), not so with contemporary anime series by most other studios.

In fact, this is nothing new—Dragon Ball, for whatever reason, has always been extremely vulnerable to unverified rumors. Personally, I think it's cut from the same cloth as all the official mishandling of the series in many areas across different times. Probably just another manifestation of the c...

IntangibleFancy wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 3:48 pmbut not actual leakers from Japan?

This should be the only litmus test for anyone to use.
If it was any shred of legit, the actual company would have moved to shut it down somehow.

It feels like, at this point, it would be out of the ordinary if it wasn't being talked about.
Which is an indication of just how dire the situation is.

The meme/joke that DB fans don't read or watch Dragon Ball and only know DBZ from the video games have some truth to it. We're hardcore fans so it's weird to hear. But this theme was on a lot of fan made DBZ games in the 2000s and early 2010s. So that could've been how people assumed it was the act...

Didn't even know it existed prior to this year. The only version I even remembered from DuBZ proper was the re-arrangement that Scott Morgan made, the regular version on the CD's and the unreleased one are both really mediocre. The fact that so many people thought that this was actually the original...

Not really the end of the world if its fake or not. Just somthing to talk about while really nothing else doing on with Animated Dragon Ball lol. If anything it prooves there is want for it. Time that would be better spent learning how to identify and verify what kind of sources are official for an...