Spanish "Dragon Box Z 7" quick review

[Puto]

So I bought the seventh and final volume of Spain's so-called "Dragon Boxes", and decided to do a quick review of its contents.

First of all, this final set includes 44 episodes (245-291) in 12 discs (with a small case for every two discs. They're probably getting a bit carried away with the disc count there, but I don't really mind). Each disc contains the episodes in their original Japanese language, as well as (not-so-great) dubs in the four languages used in Spain. The sets also contain spanish subtitles for the japanese audio (accurate ones, mind you, they're not dubtitles or anything like that. You can also choose if you'd prefer the subtitles to be white or yellow). The video quality is very good, and the episodes contain their original openings and endings, with the japanese credits retained. The openings, endings, and title cards are all japanese-only, and there are no next-episode previews. The set also includes a small booklet with synopses of the episodes included in the set (including their original japanese episode titles, both rômaji and the spanish translation). All audio tracks are encoded as 192kbps stereo (even the Japanese track, which was mono to begin with. Kinda wasteful, but whatever). Extra features also included in each disc are the japanese openings to Death Note, Dragon Ball GT, and Saint Seiya: Hades Sanctuary.

Here are some screenshots of episodes 285 and 286.

Anybody interested in any particular information about these?

[nathantheguitarist]

So let me see if I got this right...
-3 episodes per disc
-4 language tracks (Spainish, Japanese, ??, and ??)
-Spanish subs for the Japanese track in either white or yellow (are there any other subs?) Which I've never heard of before lol. That's pretty cool.

If each track is in stereo, are these on dual-layered dvd's, or does the bitrate suffer any?

And how much are these sets? And they're Pal region, I'm assuming?

Edit: zomg! Farmer with shotgun is alive! But now he's farmer with loaf of bread!
http://www.pu7o.org/pix/dbox_es/vlcsnap-205689.png

[ThunderPX]

The selection of Japanese openings as bonus features is... kinda random. Or is there some connection I'm not seeing here? I mean, DBGT, sure, but what the other two have to do with DBZ?

[Adamant]

-4 language tracks (Spainish, Japanese, ??, and ??)

5 language tracks. Japanese, Castilian Spanish, Catalan, Galician, and Basque.

[Puto]

So let me see if I got this right...
-3 episodes per disc
-4 language tracks (Spainish, Japanese, ??, and ??)
-Spanish subs for the Japanese track in either white or yellow (are there any other subs?) Which I've never heard of before lol. That's pretty cool.

If each track is in stereo, are these on dual-layered dvd's, or does the bitrate suffer any?

And how much are these sets? And they're Pal region, I'm assuming?

Edit: zomg! Farmer with shotgun is alive! But now he's farmer with loaf of bread!
http://www.pu7o.org/pix/dbox_es/vlcsnap-205689.png

They're dual layer DVDs, with 3 to 4 episodes per disc. There are no other subs, no. And yes, PAL R2. 45€ + Shipping on dvdgo.

The selection of Japanese openings as bonus features is... kinda random. Or is there some connection I'm not seeing here? I mean, DBGT, sure, but what the other two have to do with DBZ?

They're distributed by the same company, Selecta Visión. Free advertising, I guess.

[nathantheguitarist]

5 language tracks. Japanese, Castilian Spanish, Catalan, Galician, and Basque.

Wow, I don't even know what those last two even are.

Puto, got any pics of the packaging?

[Puto]

Some pictures of the packaging, as requested...






The discs look like this:

[Rory]

Looks like a neat little box. Loving Gotenks' badass smirk.

[nathantheguitarist]

The box looks pretty cool. The coverart of the cases looks semi-generic, but better than just screenshots. And it gets points for using some DBZ Legends art (at least that's where I think half of that art comes from...)
http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/3135/dsc00006pfm.jpg

And it gets points for taking the obvious step and using the dragon balls on the discs themselves!

I like it. I think I'll get a box or three once I get some money to through around one day.

[Piccolo Daimaoh]

Looks like a neat little box. Loving Gotenks' badass smirk.

Agreed. The art on those covers is awesome. I wish FUNi could've used it for their orange box sets.

[sangofe]

I wonder why the "Dragon Ball Z" writing seems like it's been mirrored?

[SonGokuGT]

I wonder why the "Dragon Ball Z" writing seems like it's been mirrored?

Webcam, my friend.

[Puto]

Because my webcam automatically mirrors any photos taken :x

Sorry about that.

[Metalwario64]

Because my webcam automatically mirrors any photos taken

Sorry about that.

I don't want to sound... uh, "ungrateful", but couldn't you fix that by mirroring them in any image editor?

[Puto]

Yeah, but I forgot.

[SonGokuGT]

Here's some pics!

[nathantheguitarist]

Those are very cool. What sites sell these things?

[SonGokuGT]

Those are very cool. What sites sell these things?

fnac.es
dvdgo.com
elcorteingles.es

[Puto]

I bought it off dvdgo myself. Fnac has it too, but it's more expensive there. Never looked into buying it off El Corte Inglés, though.

[nathantheguitarist]

Me just being the cheapass that I am, is there anywhere to buy them used? I checked quickly amazon.co.uk and that's about it. I didn't find much.