But first, a little background (for those that have no idea what I'm talking about)!
Way back on September 7th, 2007 (about three months before the game came out), Kanzenshuu (then Daizenshuu EX) posted this news. Basically, FUNimation was hosting a small poll on the offical DBZ website, in which fans could vote for their 10 favorite fights from the show. There were 15 choices, and the top ten would end up appearing on the bonus disc. The poll itself is long gone, so the only picture that I could find was the one in the news post, which unfortunately is rather small and obscures some of the choices- but no matter. Unfortunately, the site never followed up on this curiosity, and so this was simply forgotten. I do recall voting on this poll myself (although I truly can't remember what my ten favorites fights were).
I can't remember if this bonus disc was a pre-order bonus, or if it was included in all releases, or it if was something only early copies had. Nevertheless, I remember buying the game the day it came out, and the bonus disc was inside the box, with the game. The cover of the game was slightly modified to let the buyer know the game was included, with a little red bar on the bottom that read "Includes Bonus Disc."
The disc itself is titled "Best Fights: As Voted By The Fans," and it looks like this. It has great art- I wonder where the image is from? The disc is a standard DVD; I'm not sure if it was region-coded or not, but I was able to play it on my DVD Player just fine (although I live in the U.S., so I'm not sure if that counts for anything).
The disc is very straightforward; no ads, no special features. Just a menu, which contains what are (presumably) the top ten best-voted fights. Clicking the name of the fight would present you with a nice clip of the respective fights (which means that, basically, this disc contained short clips from ten fights. Yay.)
The top ten fights were, as given on the DVD (you can click the links to watch the clip):
10: Gohan Vs. Buu
9: Baby Gohan Vs. Vegeta
8: Trunks Vs. Frieza
7: Super Buu Vs. Super Vegeta (They spelled Vegito wrong.)
6: Goku Vs. Buu
5: Goku and Vegeta Vs. Meta Cooler
4: Gohan Vs. Cell
3: Gohan Vs. Broly
2: Vegito Vs. Buu (Here, they spelled it correctly.)
1: SS4 Gogeta Vs. Omega Shenron
They listed the Super Buu and Vegito fight twice (presumably because, when Vegito went Super Saiyan, it was a "different" fight). The demographics of the choices are interesting. 2 fights were from GT (how was Baby Gohan Vs. Vegeta even on this list?!) 2 were from the movies (Broly and Meta Cooler), 4 were from the Buu Saga, the Cell Saga has 2, and the Saiyan and Frieza Sagas have no representation at all. How about that?
I've uploaded the respective clips onto Youtube, for those who are curious which parts of the fight were shown. Most were really, really short. Others were rather long, at almost 3 minutes. They were dub only, with the Faulconer score, and no other audio options are available. Interestingly, the video is in full-screen- what masters did they use to get these clips from?
There's not much to say about this bonus DVD- it's a thing. Personally, I'm glad to own it, even if I disagree with some of the results.
What do you guys think?
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