Dragonball Manga or Dragonball DVD Sets?

Adamant · Post by **Adamant** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:12 pm

The FUNimation DVDs include all episodes, with both original japanese and english dubbed language tracks, yes.
I'm not familiar at all with Cartoon Network's airing of the series, but I thought they aired the more complete redub rather than the hacked-up original dub, though. Maybe that was a one-time occurrence.

Eclipse · Post by **Eclipse** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:33 pm

Do you know where can I get the original released prints of the Dragonball novels? I just purchased 2 volumes a few days ago but don't really know what version it is. I have Volume 3 of the Dragonball manga and volume 3 of the Dragonball Z manga.

Also, do the FuniDVD sets come with the "missing" episodes they never bothered to show on Cartoon Network? I remeber one dealing with Gohan and a robot but they never showed it on Cartoon Network. Also, they edited out a lot of stuff even in the episodes they did show. The very first episode of Dragonball Z in fact. I have that episode on tape in Japanese and they cut out quite a bit of stuff. Man, if these DVD sets have this stuff, I am going to get them. The wide-screen stuff an dcropping probably won't effect the viewing pleasure for me at all

The FUNI dvds are uncut. They have everything that's supposed to be there.
And regarding the manga, what do you mean version? Like Daemon said, if the spine has this logo (see here) it shouldn't have much edits.

And in case you don't know, Viz split the Dragon Ball manga in half basically. While Dragon Ball has 42 volumes, they split it in half (Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z) to stop confusion. So you probably have Dragon Ball volumes 2 and 19 (The title page usually says what volume it is if you include the 42)

Drabaz · Post by **Drabaz** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:06 am

I have the same question. Where can we get the earlier volumes with less edits. I'm pretty sure that bookstores like Borders or Waldenbooks only carry the new more edited versions.

DaemonCorps · Post by **DaemonCorps** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:45 am

Drabaz wrote:I have the same question. Where can we get the earlier volumes with less edits. I'm pretty sure that bookstores like Borders or Waldenbooks only carry the new more edited versions.

Well, whenever I go by my Borders, they always seem to have a fair amount of the original volumes with the cat spine image. There's only a handful of random volumes available, though, since Viz has finished putting out every volume.

I recommend going to your bookstore to see which volumes they've got before resorting to getting them online.

Vegard Aune · Post by **Vegard Aune** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 3:36 am

SatoSky wrote:I'd go with the manga if I were you. With the exception of the original Dragon Ball, FUNimation's DVD's are crap. Just my opinion though.

I'd rather say that, apart from Z, FUNImation's DVDs are pretty good. Dragonball with the high episode-count per disc, and GT because it's just as uncut as the Dragonboxes. (It's got everything the japanese TV broadcast had, minus the credit scroll during the flashback-scene in the last episode.)

Jamstar · Post by **Jamstar** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:53 am

DaemonCorps wrote:
Drabaz wrote:I have the same question. Where can we get the earlier volumes with less edits. I'm pretty sure that bookstores like Borders or Waldenbooks only carry the new more edited versions.
Well, whenever I go by my Borders, they always seem to have a fair amount of the original volumes with the cat spine image. There's only a handful of random volumes available, though, since Viz has finished putting out every volume.

I recommend going to your bookstore to see which volumes they've got before resorting to getting them online.

Can you get your local bookstore to order the volumes you need as well? How long does that usually take?

DaemonCorps · Post by **DaemonCorps** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 2:16 pm

Jamstar wrote:Can you get your local bookstore to order the volumes you need as well? How long does that usually take?

Yeah, you can do that. But I've never done so, so I wouldn't know how long it takes.

Sebastian (SB) · Post by **Sebastian (SB)** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 3:31 pm

Jamstar wrote:Can you get your local bookstore to order the volumes you need as well? How long does that usually take?

It takes about a week, most book (& comic book) stores usually get new shipment about every Wednesday. Though when getting the Dragon Ball manga, try your best to make sure the "Black Cat" Viz logo, not the new Viz Media logo as I've heard they made some changes to those Volumes.

Jamstar · Post by **Jamstar** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:47 pm

Sebastian (SB) wrote:
Jamstar wrote:Can you get your local bookstore to order the volumes you need as well? How long does that usually take?
It takes about a week, most book (& comic book) stores usually get new shipment about every Wednesday. Though when getting the Dragon Ball manga, try your best to make sure the "Black Cat" Viz logo, not the new Viz Media logo as I've heard they made some changes to those Volumes.

Is the Black Cat Viz logo on all 42 volumes?

DaemonCorps · Post by **DaemonCorps** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:01 pm

Jamstar wrote:Is the Black Cat Viz logo on all 42 volumes?

I previously wrote:DB volumes 1-16 (so that entire series) as well as DBZ volumes 1-16 are available without any major edits (with the exception of really minor stuff... and Popo's lips being removed). [...] Sadly, DBZ volumes 17-26 [or 33-42] are only available with the heavier edits on them. They don't really bother me, though.

In other words, the first 32 volumes are the only volumes available with the viz cat logo.

EX, maybe you should update the manga guide on the site. This is probably the third or so thread about DB Manga 101 within the past couple months.

zoiozazu · Post by **zoiozazu** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:47 am

Manga. The anime its great till End of Frieza Saga ( cool BackGround Musica!!!)...After that, too much fillers.
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Smooth Criminal · Post by **Smooth Criminal** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:25 pm

I've always been an anime guy over the original manga, but recently (in the last year or so) I've realized that the manga really is soo, soooo much better in pretty much every aspect, especially when you're talking about an older show like Dragonball.

See, back in those days the animation process was a lot more crude than it is today, so as a result the drawings really suffer in the process for the most part. The animation itself, as well, is actually pretty nasty now that I go back and re-watch some of the older episdoes. As the series progresses TOEI occasionally produced higher-budget episodes with much smoother animation and drawings, but as far as I'm concerned the bad far outweighs the good.

The voice talents and BGM for the original shows were excellent, but there is simply no comparison when you put them side by side. The manga is far, far better.

There are certain jokes that personally fell flat for me in the animation, but reading it in the manga had me in stitches. I have no idea why, really.

In other words, the intense fights of Dragonball Z really benefit from being animated (When they were done correctly, that is....) but the more humored-nature of the original Dragonball simply works much better in manga form.

And nothing irks me more than when I watch an awfully-animated/drawn episode of Dragonball, then go to that chapter in the manga only to see it beautifully drawn.

In short, Toriyama Akira > TOEI animation

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