New FUNimation DVD Coverart Already!

SuperSaiyan3Goku · Post by **SuperSaiyan3Goku** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:03 pm

1. I have the Imperfect, Perfect Cell and Cell Games sagas on the original DVDs from Funi.

2. I have the "Triple Strike" set from Funi. (First 3 DBZ movies)

More cash I can save up to buy something I actually need!

MagicBox · Post by **MagicBox** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:38 pm

Captain Awesome wrote:Menza's version of Gohan's song about Piccolo, was a fucking joke, it wasn't even music, it was just weird random noises, he fools you into thinking it would be an instrumental tune of some sort, then shits all over your face with what he ended up producing.

They were both equally bad, I think. Menza's music for that scene in Dead Zone was terrible, and coupled with Stephanie Nadolny's annoying "Ha"-ing and "Hoo"-ing throughtout the whole frikkin' sequence (even when her character wasn't on screen) was just too much to bear. It sucked because Dead Zone was the first DragonBall movie I had ever seen, and was my first exposure to the original music. To see that sequence butchered was just painful. It's a situation where the phrase "murdered my childhood" actually applies.

Nathan Johnson's music for that scene in World's Strongest was just embarrassing. Just random instruments blended together in the hopes of making a decent piece of music. The animation makes it absolutely clear that a song is supposed to be playing. It's almost like taking a song out of a Disney movie; there's just nothing to replace it with. The only good thing about it was that FUNi actually kept the voice actors quiet during that scene.

XxArmageddonX7 · Post by **XxArmageddonX7** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:13 am

SuperSaiyan3Goku wrote:
2. I have the "Triple Strike" set from Funi. (First 3 DBZ movies)

I believe it is called the "First Strike" box set.

Captain Awesome · Post by **Captain Awesome** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:51 am

You probably confused it with the "Broly:Triple Threat" box set.

Was that set put out because of Broly's popularity?, or because Funimation doesn't do many NTSC movie boxsets?

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:52 am

Captain Awesome wrote:Was that set put out because of Broly's popularity?, or because Funimation doesn't do many NTSC movie boxsets?

Probably partly because of the first reason, and partly because three movies seems to be their typical boxset number, which he just happens to have the same number of movies.

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:43 am

The cover art is nice, but then again, I think that the cover art and art in general (booklets, etc.) were good from day one. Mainly because they look like something that was ripped off the Dragon Box lol

jjgp1112 · Post by **jjgp1112** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:25 pm

I wonder if they'll do the two for $45 deal with these...

omegacwa · Post by **omegacwa** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:36 pm

I will definitely be getting season five. As I am trying to get the whole series in a consistent release. If funimation for some reason cancels these, I will send them a bomb, because that's bullshit.

Also, if they do port the series to Blu-Ray, then it better be all the episodes in one box set for a couple hundred bucks, otherwise forget it, I am not collecting season sets again, especially when all they have to do is port the non down converted episodes onto Blu-Ray discs.

Captain Awesome · Post by **Captain Awesome** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:14 pm

TheGreatness25 wrote:The cover art is nice, but then again, I think that the cover art and art in general (booklets, etc.) were good from day one. Mainly because they look like something that was ripped off the Dragon Box lol

I couldn't disagree more (if you're talking about the season sets), they are a layout nightmare, the artwork is cropped, the spines (in the PAL release) don't even match, Funi's original UUE artwork had much more effort put into it, it's like this time they just got the kid that fetches them coffee to do the covers.

(However the new movie double features look okay)

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:30 pm

I was just talking about the pictures lol

Raki · Post by **Raki** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:56 pm

jjgp1112 wrote:I wonder if they'll do the two for $45 deal with these...

I doubt it.

Snail · Post by **Snail** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:21 pm

TheGreatness25 wrote:I was just talking about the pictures lol

Erm...I thought it would be obvious that the artwork from the Dragonbox and the 'season' sets are really different. Much more detail is put into the Dragonbox artwork. The artwork we see for the booklets and covers for the season sets are ripped from promotional artwork for video games etc. from Japan I believe. I think they look decent though.

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:24 pm

I think it's the best part of the presentation of the Season sets.

Vekurotto · Post by **Vekurotto** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:48 pm

Too bad they're still trying to follow this stupid sagas thing instead of releasing the episodes. If you didn't know, season 5'll end on the episode when Cell tells trunks about how he's reviving the Budokai. *shakes fists* Funimation!!

Snail · Post by **Snail** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:48 pm

That's not too bad is it? The Cell arc is pretty long anyways. But wait a minute, assuming that season 6 will have the entire Cell Games contained in one set; that leaves season 6 with how many episodes?

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:03 pm

Snail wrote:That's not too bad is it? The Cell arc is pretty long anyways. But wait a minute, assuming that season 6 will have the entire Cell Games contained in one set; that leaves season 6 with how many episodes?

The Cell Games saga alone has 29 episodes, I believe. Enough for it's own set.

Sn4tcH · Post by **Sn4tcH** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:34 pm

It could do the Otherworld, or whatever Funi calls it, tournament making the set 34 episodes, which IMO is more acceptable.

Then if say we go from Gohan goes to high school up till they release Buu, that's 32 episodes...

From Buu being hatched until Gohan shows back up to fight Buu, 32 episodes...

Final episodes 28...

Eh? Maybe? They seem like logical plot breaks...

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:04 am

I don't know about the Other World Tournament. They did release it a season after the Cell Games. When coming out in the US, they showed the Cell Games, had their long break, and then started running the Other World Tournament after a break, so I don't know if it'll be in the same set as the Cell Games. Man I"ll never forget it, they showed like the 2nd or 3rd episode of the Other World Tournament on September 11, 2001.

Thanos6 · Post by **Thanos6** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:15 am

Yeah, that was weird...they ended up cutting out one of the Saiyaman episodes involving a burning building and a crashing plane...

(Also: if it wasn't for a Cartoon Network holiday special, then the episode where Cell is killed would have aired on Christmas 2000.)

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:48 am

That's right, they didn't show the Gohan dating episode the first time around, but when they re-aired the Saga (killing time until "new" episodes), they did show it.