Unpopular DB opinions

[SuperSaiyaManZ94]

The US DBZ Dragon Boxes are overrated. Way to expensive nowadays, the audio sync with some episodes is off and it just looks meh visually. I sometimes find the Orange Bricks look better to me. I don't have the US DBZ Dragon Box but i don't like it either.

I think the Marathon play feature found on the Blue/Orange/Green Bricks is a great idea. It's not perfect but it's a damn good feature.

I think the way the Super Manga ended should be the end. Piccolo waving at the audience just works for me. Gohan came full circle and it allows for other adventures or end of Z to happen. It's time to let this franchise rest.

I don't want anything more. I'm not against more but I don't think I need it.


Kai and DBZ Kakarot should of used more of the og DB material. The skipping of og DB Drives me crazy.

That's it.

Honestly, even though i have the FUNi Z Dragon Boxes myself and they are prized, cherished items in my Dragon Ball collection ever since i recently got Seed of Might’s CC release for all three of the original series (but DBZ in particular) i just can’t go back. The amazing color correction and inclusion of the Japanese broadcast audio makes it the definitive version and my go to means of viewing the entire original anime run going forward. That, and all of the English dub options for all three series is effectively the ultimate archive experience.

[Scsigs]

The US DBZ Dragon Boxes are overrated. Way to expensive nowadays, the audio sync with some episodes is off and it just looks meh visually. I sometimes find the Orange Bricks look better to me. I don't have the US DBZ Dragon Box but i don't like it either.

I think the Marathon play feature found on the Blue/Orange/Green Bricks is a great idea. It's not perfect but it's a damn good feature.

I think the way the Super Manga ended should be the end. Piccolo waving at the audience just works for me. Gohan came full circle and it allows for other adventures or end of Z to happen. It's time to let this franchise rest.

I don't want anything more. I'm not against more but I don't think I need it.


Kai and DBZ Kakarot should of used more of the og DB material. The skipping of og DB Drives me crazy.

That's it.

Honestly, even though i have the FUNi Z Dragon Boxes myself and they are prized, cherished items in my Dragon Ball collection ever since i recently got Seed of Might’s CC release for all three of the original series (but DBZ in particular) i just can’t go back. The amazing color correction and inclusion of the Japanese broadcast audio makes it the definitive version and my go to means of viewing the entire original anime run going forward. That, and all of the English dub options for all three series is effectively the ultimate archive experience.

If we're being honest, the Dragon Boxes were the best for the time. It helped that FUNi put out their first abysmal remaster with the Orange Bricks. Even almost 20 years after the Orange Bricks first came out, we still have yet to receive an actually GOOD remaster from FUNi, Crunchyroll, or even Toei because FUNi wanted to make money off stupid people & people who don't actually care about the integrity of the picture quality of what they're watching, Crunchyroll's just fine lazily regurgitating FUNi's old releases under their logo in rereleases, & Toei's too cheap to wanna properly remaster the first 3 DB shows into HD. To this day, the best remaster we have for Z is Kai &, even then, it has major caveats with half the footage cut out, redrawn frames, censorship, & the last arc being both cropped to 16:9 & having an annoying green tint because Toei can't set their white balances to save their lives when it comes to Dragon Ball content. All Toei would have to do is scan the episodes into their computers (presumably, they already did this back in 2002 when they began cleaning up the series for the JP Dragon Boxes) in 1080p or 4K, color correct & white balance the footage, & clean it up of any dirt, scratches, & whatever else that shouldn't be there while leaving an acceptable amount of grain to retain quality. They can do it. They remastered all of Showa Kamen Rider into HD, which is MORE episodes & less movies & specials than Dragon Ball has that at the time made far less money than Dragon Ball because it wasn't a global franchise at the time they did so. They can comfortably afford to properly remaster the first 3 Dragon Ball series into HD, even if they outsource it to another company that specializes in doing that. The fact that it took Seed of Might remastering them from the DBox footage is disgraceful.

[SuperSaiyaManZ94]

The US DBZ Dragon Boxes are overrated. Way to expensive nowadays, the audio sync with some episodes is off and it just looks meh visually. I sometimes find the Orange Bricks look better to me. I don't have the US DBZ Dragon Box but i don't like it either.

I think the Marathon play feature found on the Blue/Orange/Green Bricks is a great idea. It's not perfect but it's a damn good feature.

I think the way the Super Manga ended should be the end. Piccolo waving at the audience just works for me. Gohan came full circle and it allows for other adventures or end of Z to happen. It's time to let this franchise rest.

I don't want anything more. I'm not against more but I don't think I need it.


Kai and DBZ Kakarot should of used more of the og DB material. The skipping of og DB Drives me crazy.

That's it.

Honestly, even though i have the FUNi Z Dragon Boxes myself and they are prized, cherished items in my Dragon Ball collection ever since i recently got Seed of Might’s CC release for all three of the original series (but DBZ in particular) i just can’t go back. The amazing color correction and inclusion of the Japanese broadcast audio makes it the definitive version and my go to means of viewing the entire original anime run going forward. That, and all of the English dub options for all three series is effectively the ultimate archive experience.

If we're being honest, the Dragon Boxes were the best for the time. It helped that FUNi put out their first abysmal remaster with the Orange Bricks. Even almost 20 years after the Orange Bricks first came out, we still have yet to receive an actually GOOD remaster from FUNi, Crunchyroll, or even Toei because FUNi wanted to make money off stupid people & people who don't actually care about the integrity of the picture quality of what they're watching, Crunchyroll's just fine lazily regurgitating FUNi's old releases under their logo in rereleases, & Toei's too cheap to wanna properly remaster the first 3 DB shows into HD. To this day, the best remaster we have for Z is Kai &, even then, it has major caveats with half the footage cut out, redrawn frames, censorship, & the last arc being both cropped to 16:9 & having an annoying green tint because Toei can't set their white balances to save their lives when it comes to Dragon Ball content. All Toei would have to do is scan the episodes into their computers (presumably, they already did this back in 2002 when they began cleaning up the series for the JP Dragon Boxes) in 1080p or 4K, color correct & white balance the footage, & clean it up of any dirt, scratches, & whatever else that shouldn't be there while leaving an acceptable amount of grain to retain quality. They can do it. They remastered all of Showa Kamen Rider into HD, which is MORE episodes & less movies & specials than Dragon Ball has that at the time made far less money than Dragon Ball because it wasn't a global franchise at the time they did so. They can comfortably afford to properly remaster the first 3 Dragon Ball series into HD, even if they outsource it to another company that specializes in doing that. The fact that it took Seed of Might remastering them from the DBox footage is disgraceful.

Yeah, and even well before SOM’s color corrected release had started coming out i was surely fine with the Dragon Boxes for DBZ, the Blue Bricks for Dragon Ball and the original single discs for GT even with their flaws as the best available options at the time a few years ago. It really is shameful that such dedicated fans have done a banger job on something the people in the very company that made the show back then simply don’t care to do themselves when they clearly have the resources, and FUNimation (now CR) dropped the ball numerous times when they could’ve almost surely done a good remaster themselves i.e. the Level BD’s (for something that was sourced from multi gen film masters the video quality was legit good) which unfortunately fizzled out two sets in because FUNi overloaded the market with a bazillion releases back in 2011, and again with the 30th anniversary set a few years later in 2019 which was more or less the previous BD release uncropped but the same in basically every other respect.

[Scsigs]

Yeah, and even well before SOM’s color corrected release had started coming out i was surely fine with the Dragon Boxes for DBZ, the Blue Bricks for Dragon Ball and the original single discs for GT even with their flaws as the best available options at the time a few years ago. It really is shameful that such dedicated fans have done a banger job on something the people in the very company that made the show back then simply don’t care to do themselves when they clearly have the resources, and FUNimation (now CR) dropped the ball numerous times when they could’ve almost surely done a good remaster themselves i.e. the Level BD’s (for something that was sourced from multi gen film masters the video quality was legit good) which unfortunately fizzled out two sets in because FUNi overloaded the market with a bazillion releases back in 2011, and again with the 30th anniversary set a few years later in 2019 which was more or less the previous BD release uncropped but the same in basically every other respect.

They also turned down the brightness so it doesn't hurt your eyes as much when watching more than a few seconds of the footage, but that's about it. It's otherwise the same remaster before they cropped the episodes, yeah. Even then, though, they still cropped the episodes into the square frame. They have versions of the episodes they remastered themselves that were affected by this that have more picture showing. Even Kai wasn't cropped so badly in the 4:3 versions of the first 98 episodes.

Yeah, even the remaster done with the duplicated prints was infinitely better than what they pumped out afterwards. They gave Z such a shit remaster in search of profits rather than honoring the series that put them on the map as a dubbing company, it's fucking ridiculous.

[The Dark Knight]

It's time to let this franchise rest.

This franchise is 30 years past when it should've been allowed to rest.

[SuperSaiyaManZ94]

Yeah, and even well before SOM’s color corrected release had started coming out i was surely fine with the Dragon Boxes for DBZ, the Blue Bricks for Dragon Ball and the original single discs for GT even with their flaws as the best available options at the time a few years ago. It really is shameful that such dedicated fans have done a banger job on something the people in the very company that made the show back then simply don’t care to do themselves when they clearly have the resources, and FUNimation (now CR) dropped the ball numerous times when they could’ve almost surely done a good remaster themselves i.e. the Level BD’s (for something that was sourced from multi gen film masters the video quality was legit good) which unfortunately fizzled out two sets in because FUNi overloaded the market with a bazillion releases back in 2011, and again with the 30th anniversary set a few years later in 2019 which was more or less the previous BD release uncropped but the same in basically every other respect.

They also turned down the brightness so it doesn't hurt your eyes as much when watching more than a few seconds of the footage, but that's about it. It's otherwise the same remaster before they cropped the episodes, yeah. Even then, though, they still cropped the episodes into the square frame. They have versions of the episodes they remastered themselves that were affected by this that have more picture showing. Even Kai wasn't cropped so badly in the 4:3 versions of the first 98 episodes.

Yeah, even the remaster done with the duplicated prints was infinitely better than what they pumped out afterwards. They gave Z such a shit remaster in search of profits rather than honoring the series that put them on the map as a dubbing company, it's fucking ridiculous.

Yes, and the most baffling thing about how much they’ve dropped the ball on DBZ in particular is how they could’ve done less work and the releases would’ve been undoubtedly better than they turned out as IRL rather than unnecessarily over complicating things and making the end product objectively worse. The Orange Bricks could’ve just as easily been done using the existing digibeta tapes that were used for the previous single disc releases albeit with fix ups for better quality, and then later on with the 2013 BD’s could’ve simply released the masters that were already scanned for the Level sets instead of making them effectively the Orange Bricks 2.0 or done more or less the same with the 30A set after that. No, they needlessly made the aforementioned releases worse because the suits were operating with misguided, out of touch views regarding the market and the fans therein.

It’s funny how DBZ is the one part of the overall saga they’ve continuously screwed up on to varying degrees, and yet for the most part the other parts (OG DB, GT.etc) have had decent acceptable releases.

[Doctor Seaweed Roll]

SuperSaiyaManZ94,Yellow Flower King, & GTx10 i know that the broadcast audio was junked & sounds better

[BernardoCairo]

While fighting is the core of Dragon Ball, and I love games like Dragon Ball FighterZ, I’d really like to see the series branch out more.
I was looking at that Mario Kart parody Toyotaro did in the manga and couldn’t stop thinking about how fun a Dragon Ball kart racer would be. Imagine something in the style of Mario Kart, but with special moves as items, ki blasts instead of shells, maybe even transformations as temporary boosts. It just feels like such a natural fit.
I know there *have* been a few Dragon Ball games that step outside of fighting or RPGs, but they’re pretty rare. It’d be nice to see more experiments like that, something that leans into the world and characters in a different way. Anything beyond the usual formula would honestly be a really welcome surprise.

[Hellspawn28]

DBH characters like Cumber comes off as some OC that a kid would write and be like "He can one shot every Super Saiyan in his base form" on the playgrounds.

[The Dark Knight]

DBH characters like Cumber comes off as some OC that a kid would write and be like "He can one shot every Super Saiyan in his base form" on the playgrounds.

This applies to a lot of characters who came out of this modern era, whether in Heroes or Super.

[Scsigs]

DBH characters like Cumber comes off as some OC that a kid would write and be like "He can one shot every Super Saiyan in his base form" on the playgrounds.

I mean, yeah. Heroes is literally a game that takes everything from all over the Dragon Ball franchise as well as makes new characters & puts them in a toy box for the people who play it to play with. The logic for everything that happens in it doesn't go much beyond, "Put guy in so other guy can fight him." It's just that simple.