New Dragon Ball Z Blu-Rays From Crunchyroll Coming August 1st

[sangofe]

I understand that they're the only ones doing a decent job. And with the bad reputation that the first French dubs had, it looks like they've learned from whatever mistakes they may have made back then at least regarding how the series should be handled.
Now that it's mentioned though, is it only in the US and other primarily English-speaking countries that Funiroll (or Funimation in the past) has the licensing rights for?

No, Germany as well as probably other countries too.

And AB didn't use to care at all. They started releasing dbz on VHS and dvd censored dub only.

I think its not that they CARE but they know their target audience wont accept a subpar product anymore. Which is more than can be said of Funimation/Crunchyroll.

If you're referring to AB I think the people working on their releases do care. They hired fans.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

If you're referring to AB I think the people working on their releases do care. They hired fans.

It's great to hear AB hires fans now. Seems like the company has changed a lot compared to 20 years ago when they acquired and distributed the Big Green dubs (which I ironically love).

[Lance Freeman]

It's still astounding to me that one of the most popular anime series in North America, probably even the world, is getting such shabby treatment by a company with the backing of the Sony corporation, while a distributor that appears to be five people in a storage unit are knocking it out of the park on a fairly regular basis. Like, Discotek has been putting out quality remasters of older anime series, are knocking it out of the park with their Digimon sets and don't appear to be stopping any time soon. Meanwhile, Funimation is turning down quality remasters of DBZ straight from the source and can't seem to decide while of their terrible remasters are "the way it was meant to be seen". It's just so frustrating. Even Viz acknowledged their mistake with Sailor Moon and are working to fix it, what's your excuse, Texas?

[MasenkoHA]

It's still astounding to me that one of the most popular anime series in North America, probably even the world, is getting such shabby treatment by a company with the backing of the Sony corporation, while a distributor that appears to be five people in a storage unit are knocking it out of the park on a fairly regular basis. Like, Discotek has been putting out quality remasters of older anime series, are knocking it out of the park with their Digimon sets and don't appear to be stopping any time soon. Meanwhile, Funimation is turning down quality remasters of DBZ straight from the source and can't seem to decide while of their terrible remasters are "the way it was meant to be seen". It's just so frustrating. Even Viz acknowledged their mistake with Sailor Moon and are working to fix it, what's your excuse, Texas?

The worst part is they could have done absolutely nothing but rerelease their old low bitrate dvd singles in box sets and that would still be an upgrade from their Orange Bricks and Season Blu-rays

[SuperSaiyaManZ94]

It's still astounding to me that one of the most popular anime series in North America, probably even the world, is getting such shabby treatment by a company with the backing of the Sony corporation, while a distributor that appears to be five people in a storage unit are knocking it out of the park on a fairly regular basis. Like, Discotek has been putting out quality remasters of older anime series, are knocking it out of the park with their Digimon sets and don't appear to be stopping any time soon. Meanwhile, Funimation is turning down quality remasters of DBZ straight from the source and can't seem to decide while of their terrible remasters are "the way it was meant to be seen". It's just so frustrating. Even Viz acknowledged their mistake with Sailor Moon and are working to fix it, what's your excuse, Texas?

The worst part is they could have done absolutely nothing but rerelease their old low bitrate dvd singles in box sets and that would still be an upgrade from their Orange Bricks and Season Blu-rays

So much yes, because FUNi could've had a perfectly serviceable DVD release by doing this. Or even if the Orange Bricks themselves had been just the same masters as the single discs (albeit touched up for better encoding/compression) on the discs and not what they ended up doing back in 2007. Hell, the last two or three season sets containing the Saiyaman/Buu portion of the story were actually better image wise than the earlier ones, aside from the cropped image likely due to amping down on the excessive DNR filtering. There was no need for the fake widescreen or the aggressive automated noise reduction process, they chose to do those things because in the minds of the misguided, even possibly ignorant suits in the home video division making those decisions the thought was that this kind of stuff would appeal to the people who wanted DBZ to fill up their fancy schmancy widescreen televisions and having a modern looking image. Of course, they ended up making the end product objectively WORSE quality wise.

[Vegard Aune]

Alternately they could have kept the Dragon Boxes in print.
Alternately they could have just released their untouched HD scans because seriously, while those scans might have their issues, they are infinitely preferrable to literally anything they've done since. Like, really CR, at this point I don't think fans even necessarily want perfection. We just want the bare minimum. (Perfection would obviously be nice but baby steps here, just not fucking with the footage would be nice.)

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

New box set coming on November 5th, exclusively from Crunchyroll's online store.



I have to say, while I wouldn't be interested in buying this it the box is nicer than the previous Amazon exclusive:



Still sucks the only thing that will likely change about these Blu-Rays is the disc art .

[Catsenti]

New box set coming on November 5th, exclusively from Crunchyroll's online store.



I have to say, while I wouldn't be interested in buying this it the box is nicer than the previous Amazon exclusive:



Still sucks the only thing that will likely change about these Blu-Rays is the disc art .

And now...it's been scrubbed from the website. Too soon?

[TechExpert2021]

*Stares at OG DB and DBGT not having Blu-ray releases while DBZ is on its 7th re-release*

[MasenkoHA]

New box set coming on November 5th, exclusively from Crunchyroll's online store.



I have to say, while I wouldn't be interested in buying this it the box is nicer than the previous Amazon exclusive:



Still sucks the only thing that will likely change about these Blu-Rays is the disc art .

I'm surprised/annoyed they're still whoring out the widescreen blu-ray season sets. They cant just re-release the 30A Blurays?

And yeah what Tech Expert said about no OG or GT Blu-ray release. At this point I'd be happy if they even just imported Selecta Vision's blu-rays of the 86 series

[Piccolothesuper]

So this new 2024 crunchyroll exclusive dragonball z complete series box set was available on their site for a brief time? Or has it yet to appear for pre order?
The new box and disc art is VERY interesting.
Even if its the same as the amazon set, it looks like a beautiful upgrade in packaging. Watch these be 4:3 steelbook/ 30th anniversary re prints.
Regardless i bet they charge 279.99 to 179.99.
179.99 isn't bad, but i do hope they appear on the crunchy roll store again. If they did appear briefly, did anyone see a release date? Thanks everyone
- DB DVD / blu ray collector

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

Watch these be 4:3 steelbook/ 30th anniversary re prints.

Those were the only releases of the 30th anniversary remaster in the US. When the Walmart exclusive 3 season boxsets were coming it was expected they would be another repackage of the 30th discs, which seemed likely to end the new standard but they turned out to be the 2013/2014 cropped Blu-Rays.

For some reason Funimation, and likely Crunchyroll by extension think that 4:3 should be a premium option, as they heavily pushed it as being this sought after prize for hardcores. Only Manga UK (and maybe Madman too) had the sense to realize 4:3 should be the standard, as they never released the 16:9 Blu-Rays (which Madman released but Manga UK didn't).

[SuperSaiyaManZ94]

Watch these be 4:3 steelbook/ 30th anniversary re prints.

Those were the only releases of the 30th anniversary remaster in the US. When the Walmart exclusive 3 season boxsets were coming it was expected they would be another repackage of the 30th discs, which seemed likely to end the new standard but they turned out to be the 2013/2014 cropped Blu-Rays.

For some reason Funimation, and likely Crunchyroll by extension think that 4:3 should be a premium option, as they heavily pushed it as being this sought after prize for hardcores. Only Manga UK (and maybe Madman too) had the sense to realize 4:3 should be the standard, as they never released the 16:9 Blu-Rays (which Madman released but Manga UK didn't).

It seems FUNimation/Crunchyroll have this thing about lazily recycling/repackaging the same exact releases repeatedly and other than changing out the logo on the cover art not doing much else otherwise. I legit wonder if these still have the circa 2013/2014 previews and logos on them. The discs likely haven't been updated much if at all, because IIRC the GT reissue from a year or so ago was more or less the same discs FUNi released back in 2008 for the Green Bricks and put together in 2010 for the complete series set which it was a rebranding of.

I wonder if CR were to do an OG DB re release at some point if it would just be a lazy minimal effort repackage of the Blue Bricks, where again the logo on the box would be changed but everything else left more or less the same. Leaving the discs themselves as is thus having the circa 2009/2010 trailers and logos remain unchanged. Well, this is why i'm glad to have the fan restored Dragon Box version for the OG anime run (along with having the Dragon Box set itself) with broadcast audio. Sure, it's not in HD but it beats how lackluster the official releases are.

[TechExpert2021]

So this new 2024 crunchyroll exclusive dragonball z complete series box set was available on their site for a brief time? Or has it yet to appear for pre order?
The new box and disc art is VERY interesting.
Even if its the same as the amazon set, it looks like a beautiful upgrade in packaging. Watch these be 4:3 steelbook/ 30th anniversary re prints.
Regardless i bet they charge 279.99 to 179.99.
179.99 isn't bad, but i do hope they appear on the crunchy roll store again. If they did appear briefly, did anyone see a release date? Thanks everyone
- DB DVD / blu ray collector

The only problem with these new 2024 Crunchyroll DBZ BDs is that they are the same as the awful Funimation "Season" BDs from about a decade ago (I don't understand why the majority of the DB fanbase still wants DBZ to fill 16:9 TVs), with the only difference being that the Funimation logos are replaced with Crunchyroll logos on the packaging and the copyright information is updated (therefore, the phrase "License coordinated by Funimation® Productions, Ltd." in copyright notices is no longer used; I don't think the phrase "Licensed coordinated by Crunchyroll®, LLC." would be ideal to be included in copyright notices). The box packaging and the discs look nice, though.

The fact that these new 2024 BD releases were only available for a brief time proves that Crunchyroll doesn't care enough about the home video market.

I wonder if CR were to do an OG DB re release at some point if it would just be a lazy minimal effort repackage of the Blue Bricks, where again the logo on the box would be changed but everything else left more or less the same. Leaving the discs themselves as is thus having the circa 2009/2010 trailers and logos remain unchanged.

Crunchyroll doesn't care enough about OG DB, so I don't think they'll re-release it on DVD like what they did with DBGT (which is, as you said, probably going to be a lazy repackage of the Blue Bricks, with only Funimation logos being replaced with Crunchyroll logos on the packaging and copyright information being updated).

Also, OG DB and DBGT still need Blu-ray releases from them.

[SuperSaiyaManZ94]

So this new 2024 crunchyroll exclusive dragonball z complete series box set was available on their site for a brief time? Or has it yet to appear for pre order?
The new box and disc art is VERY interesting.
Even if its the same as the amazon set, it looks like a beautiful upgrade in packaging. Watch these be 4:3 steelbook/ 30th anniversary re prints.
Regardless i bet they charge 279.99 to 179.99.
179.99 isn't bad, but i do hope they appear on the crunchy roll store again. If they did appear briefly, did anyone see a release date? Thanks everyone
- DB DVD / blu ray collector

The only problem with these new 2024 Crunchyroll DBZ BDs is that they are the same as the awful Funimation "Season" BDs from about a decade ago (I don't understand why the majority of the DB fanbase still wants DBZ to fill 16:9 TVs), with the only difference being that the Funimation logos are replaced with Crunchyroll logos on the packaging and the copyright information is updated (therefore, the phrase "License coordinated by Funimation® Productions, Ltd." in copyright notices is no longer used; I don't think the phrase "Licensed coordinated by Crunchyroll®, LLC." would be ideal to be included in copyright notices). The box packaging and the discs look nice, though.

The fact that these new 2024 BD releases were only available for a brief time proves that Crunchyroll doesn't care enough about the home video market.

I wonder if CR were to do an OG DB re release at some point if it would just be a lazy minimal effort repackage of the Blue Bricks, where again the logo on the box would be changed but everything else left more or less the same. Leaving the discs themselves as is thus having the circa 2009/2010 trailers and logos remain unchanged.

Crunchyroll doesn't care enough about OG DB, so I don't think they'll re-release it on DVD like what they did with DBGT (which is, as you said, probably going to be a lazy repackage of the Blue Bricks, with only Funimation logos being replaced with Crunchyroll logos on the packaging and copyright information being updated).

Also, OG DB and DBGT still need Blu-ray releases from them.

Yes, i wasn't really betting on them doing a DVD re release of DB but if they they were to do one at some point a la GT it'd more than likely just be that. A repackage of the same discs from the Blue Bricks just with the logos on the packaging replaced but otherwise not having the actual contents of the discs themselves in any way.

Agreed, because they've already done a bazillion DBZ releases and milked that to death so the other two series could seriously use the upgrade.

[Piccolothesuper]

Well, regardless if it is the 2015 blu rays again, I'm a collector. Please if anyone sees the dragon ball z CR exclusive 2024 box set appear live for pre order, please post here so we all know the pre orders are live.
I have every FM and CR dvd / blu ray ever released, but with this new box art and disc art, this will he a pretty OK edition for my collection.
Hey you said you have OG dragon ball dragon box complete dvds with eng subs?
I'm very interested in obtaining a copy of those.
If anyone knows a site or a person selling or trading the og dragon ball dragon box complete region free with eng subs or dbgt dragon box with eng subs, dvds, please let me know. I only have blue bricks CE dvd set and ugly green GT sets, but alas the only person on eBay wants 340.00 USD from Germany for og db dragon box complete dvd with eng subs, that's way to high. With tax that's well over 400.00 usd for dvds. If it was blu ray, i would pay that. But yes if you see the new CR exclusive dbz box set blu ray live for pre order, please post. I deeply appreciate the community here and everyone's time. Have a very good day everyone. Rock the

[GhostEmperorX]

Personally couldn't imagine throwing money away so casually when there's far more important series-related material that could be acquired with it, but each to their own I guess.

Anyways, this is definitely not surprising. Yet another exercise in turd polishing is all the new packaging is, it seems, and the insanity in the re-release department has clearly reached the point of no return (with the sole exception of AB Groupe, which as we learned a while ago is being held up by Toei on their ongoing original DB release project).
(The only similar situation on the JP side that I know of is when they release Z song compilation after Z song compilation almost every few years repackaging most of the same stuff that's already been out and accessible for a long time.)

[vintagespaceray]

With the store page for the recently announced sets being a dead link and the announcement page being updated to not include them, do we think there’s any chance that Crunchyroll might be backpedaling on using the 2013 Blu-rays?

I tend to not be optimistic with home releases of this series anymore, especially since it’s more than likely they just announced them too early given the fact that the Super box set has been wiped from the internet as well. But it’s fun to speculate.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

Both box sets are coming to the UK, as confirmed via an email UK Anime News writers received from Crunchyroll UK about their Q4 release slate, so I doubt it.

For this reason I urge anyone who wants to support Dragon Ball Z in 4:3 and doesn't want prices to skyrocket grab the 2020/2021 Manga UK Blu-Rays (remember they work on US players too) while you can because once the 16:9 cropped discs make it over here I expect the 4:3 discs will be phased out again.

They can be purchased here.

[Metalwario64]

Do the movie bluray set discs work on US players too? I have little money and am more interested in buying those at the moment.