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You wanna know the best way to support a franchise and help us get the acquisitions you want? Buy existing titles in the market so we have the funds to do it.So as fans, what should we do?Purchase the latest DBZ titles! From where? FUNimation recommends Amazon. They currently have a sale going on, discounting all Dragon Ball Z Kai DVDs to $21.49 (originally $49.98) each and all Dragon Ball Z Kai Blu-ray to $23.49 (originally $54.98) each. All the DVDs/Blu-rays have English and Japanese voices with the option for English subtitles. The sale lasts until March 30, 2013 so purchase quick!
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The Dragonboxes are like a middle aged woman who still looks good through simply taking good care of her skin and body with maybe a tiny bit of makeup while the Orange Bricks are like a middle aged woman who get's 50 tons of botox, makeup and plastic surgery in order to look younger and as a result looks even worse. ~ ringworm128 Still recording Toonami broadcasts on VHS after all these years! #1 Paikuhan fan!
They only stated if we want future titles then we need to buy what is currently released to help fund future endeavors. I don't believe they mentioned Battle of Gods specifically.
Yeah, I bought the Dragon Boxes, what else do they want from me?
Kentai wrote:Son Gokuu is a fascinating character anyway, because he is - at face value, anyway - an idiot savant. The victim of violent head trauma as an infant [...] he's a simple bumpkin with a fair share of brain damage who's natural talents to work out what's wrong compensate for his broad lack of common sense. But he's also a fighter, through and through [...] he fight until he has, in no uncertain terms, beaten his enemy on terms they can both acknowledge. He doesn't want to kill anyone, or even prove that he can win... he just wants to know he can. He's an ineffably charming bastard who's manly leanings were really incendental, and yes, the fact that he was voiced by a squeaky woman made the combination perhaps all the more charming.
I'll probably buy all the kai sets while they're on sale. Funi, you'd better get the movie rights and dub it very very well and accurately and release it on blu-ray AND give it a limited theatrical release then.
I bought Dragon Ball. I bought the DBZ Dragon Boxes. I've bought most of Kai and I'm planning on getting the current release. I was planning on getting the DBZ Levels, but those got canned. I think I've done my part already.
Toei seem to be planning on screenings in other countries, so I guess they're setting their sights on the North American market, which is their biggest market in overseas. Without FUNimation, they can still produce a good dub themselves by directly hiring the FUNi cast.
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Mayuri Kurotsuchi wrote:"In this world, nothing perfect exists. It may be a cliche after all but it's the way things are. That's precisely why ordinary men pursue the concept of perfection, it's infatuation. But ultimately I have to ask myself "What is the true meaning of being perfect?" and the answer I came up with was nothing. Not one thing. The truth of the matter is I despise perfection! If something is truly perfect, that's IT! The bottom line becomes there is no room for imagination! No space for intelligence or ability or improvement! Do you understand? To men of science like us, perfection is a dead end, a condition of hopelessness. Always strive to be better than anything that came before you but not perfect! Scientist's agonize over the attempt to achieve perfection! That's the kind of creatures we are! We take joy in trying to exceed our grasp, in trying to reach for something that in the end, we have to admit may in fact be unreachable!"
Well I've bought everything they've released, Toei have already said that they've planned an international release, so I'm hoping that you are referring to the other things like the jump special because if Funi dubs them then it's a great year for me
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I bought all of the Dragon Boxes Z, Kai Parts 1-8 (got rid of 5-8) so if there was anything that I'd be interested it would be the DBZ Level Blu-rays but I don't want them as of now.
Nothing really screams "must own!" (Telltale's The Walking Dead is a must!).
FUNimation 2015 Releases I want:
- Kai 2.0 on Blu-ray
kei17 wrote:Toei seem to be planning on screenings in other countries, so I guess they're setting their sights on the North American market, which is their biggest market in overseas. Without FUNimation, they can still produce a good dub themselves by directly hiring the FUNi cast.
While that would actually be (VERY) cool, I think that's more effort that Toei's willing to put in. But hey, I'd love to be proven wrong...I'd have to imagine that if Toei was directly in charge of the dub, then we probably wouldn't have to worry about the dub script's faithfulness to the original script.
I'm sorry, but what? We have to show support for the first major new release in 17 years by buying more DVDs/Blus of the best selling anime of all time? So buying VHS singles, DVD singles, UUEs, Orange Boxes, Dragon Boxes, Levels, Kai just wasn't enough to build the capital to license one f'n movie?
Toei, please put English subtitles on the Battle of Gods Blu-ray so I don't have to deal with this company ever again.
It would be funny if Toei just hired an outside company to dub it, and released it themselves, considering they have an American branch that's put out some Digimon stuff.
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B wrote:It would be funny if Toei just hired an outside company to dub it, and released it themselves, considering they have an American branch that's put out some Digimon stuff.
If they were to, I'd hope they would make it Region B compatible too for the Blu-ray release.
FUNimation 2015 Releases I want:
- Kai 2.0 on Blu-ray
snaku wrote:I'm sorry, but what? We have to show support for the first major new release in 17 years by buying more DVDs/Blus of the best selling anime of all time? So buying VHS singles, DVD singles, UUEs, Orange Boxes, Dragon Boxes, Levels, Kai just wasn't enough to build the capital to license one f'n movie?
Toei, please put English subtitles on the Battle of Gods Blu-ray so I don't have to deal with this company ever again.
I think that was a general response to how the anime works in general--people buy stuff, company makes more off that stuff. It's really not absurd at all, especially considering how many people aren't buying stuff now, and how the anime industry in general has declined as a result.
I guess I'll play devil's advocate and say Toei is still a business; they don't just hand things over to overseas companies. Contracts are drawn up and fees are demanded. And with this movie being such a milestone for DB, maybe it's more expensive than the typical 24-episode TV series.
Keen Observation of Dragon Ball Z Movie 4's Climax wrote:Slug shits to see the genki
I think people are overreacting a bit. FUNimation is a company, this isn't the first time they've - you know, ADVERTISED - for people to buy more stuff. And nowhere in the tweet do they actually say 'You must buy this other stuff or we're never getting Battle of Gods, muahaha!' I wish I knew why some people are so eager to jump on FUNi's case for every single thing they do.
B wrote:It would be funny if Toei just hired an outside company to dub it, and released it themselves, considering they have an American branch that's put out some Digimon stuff.
Are you talking about this set? If so, I had no idea New Video was a branch of Toei. Huh.
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I meant the (incomplete) Digimon Savers (or Data Squad) DVDs; they were put out by Toei U.S. Of course, everything I just put in parentheses tells us we don't want them bringing it over.
Keen Observation of Dragon Ball Z Movie 4's Climax wrote:Slug shits to see the genki
I would love to buy the rest of the Kai dvds, but they screwed up the sound mixing which effectively killed any chance of me buying them, I'll buy the next game if it doesn't suck.
Why Dragon Ball Consistency in something such as power levels matter!
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Doctor. wrote:I've explained before, I'll just paraphrase myself.
Power levels establish tension and drama. People who care about them (well, people who care about them in a narrative) don't care about the big numbers or the fancy explosions. If you have character A who's so much above character B, who's the main character, you're gonna be left wondering how in the hell character B, the character we're supposed to care and root for, is going to escape the situation or overcome the odds. It makes us emotionally invested.
If character B doesn't escape the situation in a believable way that's consistent with previous events, then that emotional investment is gone. It was pointless tension, pointless drama made just to suck in the viewer. It has no critical value whatsoever. The audience is left believing that the author can just create whatever scenarios he wants and what happens to the characters is decided by whatever the author wants to happen, regardless of the events that happened in the story. Which, in fairness, is what happens, but the audience wants to be fooled. The audience wants to know that the world they're following has rules. That the world they're invested in isn't going to bend to external factors that are irrelevant to them.
An author can do whatever he wants with the characters, that's not false. But the author should also have the responsibility to make sure it fits in cohesively with the other events in the narrative he has created.
B wrote:I meant the (incomplete) Digimon Savers (or Data Squad) DVDs; they were put out by Toei U.S. Of course, everything I just put in parentheses tells us we don't want them bringing it over.
OHHH. The 'Well Go USA' DVDs...yeah...if Toei was behind that whole debacle, I'm not sure I want them directly behind the release of anything stateside again. Though, knowing that was Toei makes me laugh then, considering how much of a rip-off the design and motif of the DBZ Season Sets the first set of 'Data Squad' was.
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