Scsigs wrote: Sat Dec 02, 2023 4:08 am
I've gotten the rest of the Z Dragon Boxes I needed because I'm frustrated at not having at least a decent way to watch the original cut of Z. It's so endlessly frustrating that the Dragon Ball franchise is constantly shown so much disrespect by the people that own it.
Well, I may not be the best person to pontificate about this, but despite the release of these very American Dragon Boxes, perhaps FUNimation (and maybe even some other companies, US-based or not) STILL, almost approaching 2024, think of us as some kind of "fringe" or "minority" fans? I mean, perhaps we are lucky we even
got these domestic DBoxes in the first place, and never forget that they never released the other DBoxes in the USA (we never got OG DB, GT or the Movies in DBox format/footage) to this day.
Heck, I remember that back then, we did not even get the few extras that the Japaneses Z DBoxes had, such as the Bardock/Trunks Specials. That was fucking criminal. We got only the NEP for GT episode 1 (which doesn't even count anyway, since it was part of the DBox Z footage itself).
Bottom line is, FUNi gave us only the barest they could, which was actually good considering that we had been "disrespected" for the past
15 years or so, but at least the Z TV Specials should have been included, IMO.
To sum up all of that, then: my guess is that, despite this community alone having 14.000+ members, these numbers do not represent the average DB "fandom", and FUNi and probably even other companies around the world still don't "cater" to us properly.
Sadly...
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