New Ginyu?

Deus ex Machina · Post by **Deus ex Machina** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 11:56 pm

I'm going to throw this question out there, even though I'm not sure if anyone can answer it yet. I'm trying to collect the entire dragonball series on DVD, and I'm wondering if Funimation plans on re-releasing the two Ginyu discs. From what I understand they had several problems (censorship, unsynched video, and the use of dub names etc)

So is it worth waiting to see whether these two discs will see a new release?

Muten Turtel · Post by **Muten Turtel** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 1:13 am

In my less than expert opinion I don't think so. Funi already has a list of Dub's (seasons one and two, movies etc.) I doubt they would do it soon if at all. Also funimations sales a supposedly down. So since there are just two disc I would definately buy them now.

Post by **TripleRach** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 2:08 am

Well, they still haven't been released in a box yet, though I don't know if they'll be redone when that happens. I have the original discs, and they're not quite as horrid as they're made out to be. The only "censorship" is the fact the Assault volume had naked Gokuu censored on the dub video track; the Japanese video is completely uncut, but the dub has at least that one edit.

I don't know what you mean by "unsynched video", unless you're referring to the fact that Assault had separate video tracks for each audio. (And that was kind of necessary, because the dub hadn't yet synched up the episodes at that point.)

But ehh, if they never get redone, the current ones are better than nothing. The actual episode content is still fully intact, and the translations are still great, in spite of a few name changes. They're only about $10 each, anyway.

Although, I just realized... Since the beginning of Season Three still hadn't synched up to the Japanese episodes, maybe these will get redubbed too, and it could warrant a rerelease of these volumes.

Dayspring · Post by **Dayspring** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 12:36 pm

If they did it would be one of the last Dragonball related DVDs ever made by Funi in order to continue milking the cash cow.

laserkid · Post by **laserkid** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 4:58 pm

Its not impossible - they DID redo the Trunks discs (and never even announced it) so I'd keep my eyes open for it.

Ben Plante · Post by **Ben Plante** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 7:11 pm

Even if they did do it... and as awful as those two discs are... would you really spend another 30-50 bucks on them? (Unless you didn't buy the originals in the first place).

Sun_Wukong · Post by **Sun_Wukong** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 7:40 pm

I was under the impression that they had fired Dale Kelly (season 3 Ginyu) because of how much he sucked as a voice actor. Brice Armstrong(DB narrator) is used as Ginyu in the videogames, and you really cant tell much of a difference between the two. Still nothing will beat Richard Newman 's season 2 Ginyu.

Woah, I just got way off topic there.

Muten Turtel · Post by **Muten Turtel** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 9:10 pm

Yeah well back to the subject as far as I know there is no news of the sort. But funimations website is very unreliable. I would still guess no because this wouldn't be a trunks like situation since these DVD's came out a while ago.

Deus ex Machina · Post by **Deus ex Machina** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 10:23 pm

Thanks everyone for your input, I'm still undecided.

I was just hoping that Funimation would re-do those two discs, since they really don't fit in with all the DVD's past that point. If they never are going to be re-released, I guess I would buy them as they are. But I'd feel pretty stupid if I bought them now, and then after a few months they really did re-master them.

Besides, I seem to remember awhile ago somebody said that the Trunks saga and the Ginyu saga were going to be "Re-authored". Is that the same thing?

Post by **TripleRach** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 2:03 am

From what I understand, reauthoring is essentially rewriting the content, instead of just reproducing the old verison of the discs. I don't think it necessarily implies anything about adding new content, but it may be a possibility in this case.

Someone feel free to correct me, as my technical knowledge isn't that great. ^^;;

laserkid · Post by **laserkid** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 5:14 pm

as for the age of the discs, the Trunks discs came out right after them and they got reauthored so its entirely possible they'll do so for the Ginyu set but theres no word on it either way really.

Kodoshin · Post by **Kodoshin** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 9:25 pm

As far as the problems went, they are also missing the previews, the only censored video is in the dub version though (A genital of Baby Goku is covered by extra water in the dub), that censor is not present on the original track.