Dragonball Season 1 Discussion

Freeza.exe · Post by **Freeza.exe** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:35 am

Just got this set. I was enjoying the dub until I had to listen to Puar. That voice is like nails on a chalk board to me. I couldn't take it anymore so I switched over. The Japanese mono actually sounds really great.

As soon as I get off of school I'm going to resume watching it. So worth a buy.

Innagadadavida · Post by **Innagadadavida** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:22 pm

Freeza.exe wrote:Just got this set. I was enjoying the dub until I had to listen to Puar. That voice is like nails on a chalk board to me. I couldn't take it anymore so I switched over. The Japanese mono actually sounds really great.

I agree. Puar was the only voice from the original '95 dub that I prefer over the current dub. Although Chi-Chi had a pretty adorable voice in the '95 one too. I've been switching over to the original Japanese a lot, I'm going to go back and watch it all in Japanese but I wanna finish watching the first 13 with my favorite cast.

Now I'm crossing my fingers for a release of DB Movie 1. That's the only shred of DB related footage that I haven't seen.

Metalwario64 · Post by **Metalwario64** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 3:42 pm

Freeza.exe wrote:Just got this set. I was enjoying the dub until I had to listen to Puar. That voice is like nails on a chalk board to me..

Yes, I agree. My ears felt like they were bleeding...

I bared with it though, and found out that (her?his?) voice pitch is greatly reduced in the following episodes for whatever reason...

SSVegetto · Post by **SSVegetto** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 4:20 pm

SSj Kaboom wrote:I don't mind selling off earlier purchases if something better comes along. It's what I did with my Z movie singles as the Double Features were coming out, it's what I'll be doing with my Z Season Sets for the FuniBoxes, it's what I'll be doing with my couple DB singles and movies for any remastered equivalents, and I'll gladly keep doing it.

I'd rather have to replace something than end up missing out because I just waited for some future mystery-release. If that never comes out, then what happens? A few years down the line, and the previous, perfectly-good releases may have become rarer and harder to find.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

You don't mind losing money? And going through the stress and aggravation of selling things online?

It seems to me if you sell your DBZ season sets 1-9. You are going to lose money because Walmart sells most of the sets at $20 each. And you bought yours at $30 each probably. Nobody online is going to buy something used that they can get cheaper else where. So your looking at a bit of a loss up to $50 - $100 on these sets.

Oh well, it's your money. And I guess when it comes to Dragonball stuff, people don't mind getting ripped off over and over.

Take for instance the DB Kai Blu-Ray thread

Freeza.exe · Post by **Freeza.exe** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 4:22 pm

Innagadadavida wrote: Now I'm crossing my fingers for a release of DB Movie 1. That's the only shred of DB related footage that I haven't seen.

Oh I'd bet my bottom dollar we'll be seeing this. I'm thinking they'll do double features for the 4 Dragonball movies.

Metalwario64 wrote:
I beared with it though, and found out that (her?his?) voice pitch is greatly reduced in the following episodes for whatever reason...

(His I believe) How soon does the pitch change? I don't know if I can watch 10 episodes with that voice for Puar.Maybe I'll check the dub out again when the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai episodes roll around.

B · Post by B » Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:16 pm

Puar is voiced by the same woman who did Chaozu.

Her Chaozu is better than her Puar, IMO.

Freeza.exe · Post by **Freeza.exe** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:36 pm

B wrote:Puar is voiced by the same woman who did Chaozu.

Her Chaozu is better than her Puar, IMO.

I agree, I really love Chaozu's dub voice.

ShinRogafuken · Post by **ShinRogafuken** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:48 pm

Didn't godofchaos' contest end?

Super Sonic · Post by **Super Sonic** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:19 pm

B wrote:Puar is voiced by the same woman who did Chaozu.

Her Chaozu is better than her Puar, IMO.

I think he meant Puar when he said "his". Puar is male after all.

SonGokuGT · Post by **SonGokuGT** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 7:02 pm

ShinRogafuken wrote:Didn't godofchaos' contest end?

It did... No word yet. When will the winners be announced?

Daimo-Rukiri · Post by **Daimo-Rukiri** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:36 pm

Raki wrote:
jjgp1112 wrote:Damn, you guys are making me jealous. My wallet, which contained $143, was stolen, and I was planning on buying this. (My mom graciously decided to buy the Dragon Box for me since I pre-ordered it, though). When I get showered with money on my 17th birthday, which is in two months, I'll try to get this and Season 2.
Wow that sucks dude. I never carry that much on me. Hopefully your wallet will be recovered.

Xd... My wallets always empty minus the fact I get $1000 every 2 weeks... I'm always buying anime oriented stuff or paying bills.

I actually like this release and it's really not that hard to get dragon box esque colors either. I've zoomed out the image and it's pretty darn close to dragon box.

From the above image, yea I see some missing image but nothing to get all pissed off about.

I messed with the image/colors to try and get the best possible colors for this set(actually these are my settings from my custom Blue-ray 1080p sets. I uh, transferred em to 1080p for my own pleasure)
^. this is before the HD settings btw.

It's a small image as it's zoomed by 1/2 as I usually have small windows open while I program in C++.

DB_Fan1991 · Post by **DB_Fan1991** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:40 pm

I just noticed that starting with episode 29 FUNi has gone back into the title cards and have taken out the American Dragon Ball logo from episodes 29+ to make it look similar to the Japanese version.

Daimo-Rukiri · Post by **Daimo-Rukiri** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:46 pm

DB_Fan1991 wrote:I just noticed that starting with episode 29 FUNi has gone back into the title cards and have taken out the American Dragon Ball logo from episodes 29+ to make it look similar to the Japanese version.

American logo? From the OP or from the title cards? I just watched it through marathon so never cared for TCs.

Metalwario64 · Post by **Metalwario64** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:02 pm

Freeza.exe wrote:His I believe) How soon does the pitch change? I don't know if I can watch 10 episodes with that voice for Puar.Maybe I'll check the dub out again when the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai episodes roll around.

The second episode he/she appears in and onwards... Some episodes still have a higher voice pitch, but only a couple.

Super Sonic wrote:Puar is male after all.

Not in the dub!

I wasn't sure how it was in the original hence the parenthesis.

Super Sonic · Post by **Super Sonic** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:43 pm

Metalwario64 wrote:
Freeza.exe wrote:His I believe) How soon does the pitch change? I don't know if I can watch 10 episodes with that voice for Puar.Maybe I'll check the dub out again when the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai episodes roll around.
The second episode he/she appears in and onwards... Some episodes still have a higher voice pitch, but only a couple.
Super Sonic wrote:Puar is male after all.
Not in the dub! I wasn't sure how it was in the original hence the parenthesis.

While I still haven't finished the first season boxset, the Funimation dub never really referred to Puar by anything gender-specific. But the profiles on the extras on the old DB dvds do refer to him by male pronouns. ocean dub called him a chick though. Likely due to them goofing on account of his voice. Remember hearing of Gash Bell fansubs screwing up and making making Zofis a woman, and dub got it right and kept him a man.

Metalwario64 · Post by **Metalwario64** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 11:10 pm

Super Sonic wrote:While I still haven't finished the first season boxset, the Funimation dub never really referred to Puar by anything gender-specific.

I know that FUNimation's dub referred to Puar as a female in the Saiyan arc redub (still). When Yamcha dies and Puar faints, Roshi says "Don't worry, she'll be alright."

I also think they referred to Puar as a "she" at least once in Dragon Ball Season One... I may have misremembered that though... I just finished watching it and I'm not going to go right back through the whole thing again just yet!

Velasa · Post by **Velasa** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 11:12 pm

I will pretty much just never be able to see Puar as a male o_o It's just too burned into me that Puar's an adoreable little girl kitty, 'boku' or no 'boku.

LeprikanGT · Post by **LeprikanGT** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 11:16 pm

I thought Puar WAS a guy, it's just weird to think of him as a girl.

MarcFBR · Post by **MarcFBR** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 1:14 am

SonGokuGT wrote:
ShinRogafuken wrote:Didn't godofchaos' contest end?
It did... No word yet. When will the winners be announced?

When I have time to read them all.

Likely this weekend.

Innagadadavida · Post by **Innagadadavida** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:41 pm

Masako Nazawa's little Goku is so CUTE! It's much different than Stephanie Nolandy's performance. The only thing I don't like, and I have the same gripe about DBZ in Japanese are the throaty sounds and gross-sounding screams. They really take me out of the show sometimes.