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Daimo-Rukiri
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by Daimo-Rukiri » Tue Jan 28, 2014 1:06 am
AjayLikesGaming wrote:A girl I'm currently seeing just bought this for me. It's actually really nice. I was expecting one of those crappy plastic/silicone ones but this is solid and has some real weight to it. So happy!

Now you just need the other 6, I've seen those around and have only seen them as a complete set not individually.
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by LettuceJUMP » Tue Jan 28, 2014 1:10 pm
Congratulations on the Kai Blu-ray Season 4! ...but HOPEFULLY your collection is not complete and they will announce more!
Can someone who recently purchased the Viz English Translated Volume 1 show off some pictures?

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by Freeza Soldier #156 » Tue Jan 28, 2014 1:16 pm
Received the Hong Kong Blu-ray release of Battle of Gods in the mail today. The subtitles aren't perfect by any means (quite a few spelling errors), but it's nice to be able to watch an official subtitled release.
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by RocktheDragon » Wed Jan 29, 2014 8:18 pm
Very excited to get this in the mail today! I am starting to collect the Kanzenban volumes and they are beautiful! The paper quality is fantastic and the text feels sturdy and well made in my hands. I also enjoy the colored sections and the cover art! All in all one of my favorite Dragon Ball items that I'm happy to own.
Just to give you an idea of my love for this release I was working out in my school's gym when our mail lady let me know something had come in for me. I instantly knew it was this Kanzenban volume and ran to the mail room, picked it up, and started reading in-between my sets. I got some stares from my fellow students to say the least.

Kyle Broflovski wrote:It's all real. Think about it. Haven't Luke Skywalker and Santa Claus affected your lives more than most real people in this room? I mean, whether Jesus is real or not, he - he's had a bigger impact on the world than any of us have. And the same can be said for Bugs Bunny and - and Superman and Harry Potter. They've changed my life - changed the way I act on the earth. Doesn't that make them kind of real? They might be imaginary but, but they're more important than most of us here. And they're all gonna be around here long after we're dead. So, in a way, those things are more realer than any of us.
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by MagicBox » Wed Jan 29, 2014 8:32 pm
Very cool purchase! I need to get back to collecting the rest of the Kanzenban, myself.
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by chaosyoshimage » Wed Jan 29, 2014 8:42 pm
I've recently started to collect DBZ laserdiscs and some of the ones I ordered have finally arrived, the English release of the first three DBZ films. I won't be able to test them out for a bit as my laserdisc player still hasn't arrived. I have a few more on the way and will probably post them when I receive them.
I also downloaded this to my Vita since it was only about $30 compared to $60 for the console version. First DBZ game I've bought upon release. I typically avoid them altogether, but I figured I'd give this one a go.
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by DragonBoxZTheMovies » Wed Jan 29, 2014 10:26 pm
RocktheDragon wrote:
Very excited to get this in the mail today! I am starting to collect the Kanzenban volumes and they are beautiful! The paper quality is fantastic and the text feels sturdy and well made in my hands. I also enjoy the colored sections and the cover art! All in all one of my favorite Dragon Ball items that I'm happy to own.
Just to give you an idea of my love for this release I was working out in my school's gym when our mail lady let me know something had come in for me. I instantly knew it was this Kanzenban volume and ran to the mail room, picked it up, and started reading in-between my sets. I got some stares from my fellow students to say the least.

I've always thought about collecting the Kanzenban. I own the last volume for the new ending and the Trunks special, and the presentation of the whole thing is seriously impressive and nice to hold in your hands. Thing is, I can't read Japanese, so it's difficult to justify shelling out for 33 other books that I can only look at.
chaosyoshimage wrote:I've recently started to collect DBZ laserdiscs and some of the ones I ordered have finally arrived, the English release of the first three DBZ films. I won't be able to test them out for a bit as my laserdisc player still hasn't arrived. I have a few more on the way and will probably post them when I receive them.
Those are nice!

I've never seen any of the English Laser Discs, outside of DBZ Movie One. I've always wanted to own one, just to frame the cover art, but I've never been lucky enough to find one.
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by ShadowDude112 » Wed Jan 29, 2014 10:28 pm
Along with my comics that I got this week, the owner of the shop also had the first volume of the Full Color version of the manga that I had placed an order for. It's really cool! I love looking at the manga in full color. It's some gorgeous stuff.
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I mean, you're pretty open about looking at cartoon porn. Why would you do that? It's fiction. The proportions of these women are not possible to reach in reality.
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by samuraix123 » Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:04 am
I haven't gotten it in yet but I ordered the first season of the new Blu-ray

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
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by Daimo-Rukiri » Fri Jan 31, 2014 4:59 am
RocktheDragon wrote:
Very excited to get this in the mail today! I am starting to collect the Kanzenban volumes and they are beautiful! The paper quality is fantastic and the text feels sturdy and well made in my hands. I also enjoy the colored sections and the cover art! All in all one of my favorite Dragon Ball items that I'm happy to own.
Just to give you an idea of my love for this release I was working out in my school's gym when our mail lady let me know something had come in for me. I instantly knew it was this Kanzenban volume and ran to the mail room, picked it up, and started reading in-between my sets. I got some stares from my fellow students to say the least.

Every time I tried reading the manga at school, be it the kanzenban or even the original jump comics, I've always gotten stares and comments like "you actually like that?..." keep in mind they never saw the Japanese version raw, subbed, and only knew of it as it aired on Cartoon Network.
I've actually been trying to collect the original weekly shoen jump of dragon balls run, so far no luck...
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by samuraix123 » Fri Jan 31, 2014 9:15 am
You should look back at them while their looking at those trashy magazines the media releases and be like ''You read that?''

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!
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by TTC817 » Fri Jan 31, 2014 11:29 am
Haven't bought anything DB related in a while. Probably was just over a year ago, I bought one of the Dragon Boxes for a friend of mine for x-mas.
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by eledoremassis02 » Sat Feb 01, 2014 1:16 am
Got these today

#12 is gonna be birthday present from my sister

One my Birthday is here I'll own DBZ in 4x3 and mostly Dragon Box lol

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by dbboxkaifan » Sun Feb 02, 2014 12:03 pm
Dragon Ball Z - TV Special 2: The History of Trunks
Now I have both of the TV Specials in their original aspect ratio and Japanese credits. Sure am glad I didn't go Digitally Remastered ones because those are cropped.
FUNimation 2015 Releases I want:
- Kai 2.0 on Blu-ray
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by RocktheDragon » Sun Feb 02, 2014 12:38 pm
Every time I tried reading the manga at school, be it the kanzenban or even the original jump comics, I've always gotten stares and comments like "you actually like that?..." keep in mind they never saw the Japanese version raw, subbed, and only knew of it as it aired on Cartoon Network.
I've actually been trying to collect the original weekly shoen jump of dragon balls run, so far no luck...
Yeah, you know it is interesting with regards to the types of responses I get but it almost always is in good fun (almost). Wow, so much luck to your quest/endeavor of realizing the collection of the original weekly shonen jump run of DB. I remember there was this Japanese restaurant I used to frequent a couple years back (family run and small, none of that franchise business going on). One of the servers would talk to me about Dragon Ball all the time and how he was present in Japan when it was originally airing on TV and being distributed in Jump. I thought it was amazing that I had the chance to meet someone who was alive during the original run of DB. He was even going to show me some of his Jump issues that he had brought from Japan but he ended up going back because of Visa issues.

Kyle Broflovski wrote:It's all real. Think about it. Haven't Luke Skywalker and Santa Claus affected your lives more than most real people in this room? I mean, whether Jesus is real or not, he - he's had a bigger impact on the world than any of us have. And the same can be said for Bugs Bunny and - and Superman and Harry Potter. They've changed my life - changed the way I act on the earth. Doesn't that make them kind of real? They might be imaginary but, but they're more important than most of us here. And they're all gonna be around here long after we're dead. So, in a way, those things are more realer than any of us.
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by Sshadow5001 » Sun Feb 02, 2014 1:26 pm
Just this second bought Batle of Z for PS3 with all the DLC off eBay for £58.50 (I really wanted that DLC)
I now own it for Both PS3 and 360.
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by samuraix123 » Sun Feb 02, 2014 1:31 pm
eledoremassis02 I love the cases and covers for those so much! I wished we got stuff like that here.

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
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by dbboxkaifan » Sun Feb 02, 2014 6:02 pm
Sshadow5001 wrote:Just this second bought Batle of Z for PS3 with all the DLC off eBay for £58.50 (I really wanted that DLC)
I now own it for Both PS3 and 360.
Damn! For that price you could've bought J-Stars Victory Vs. for PlayStation 3 rather than BoZ which is going to eventually drop down to £10 or less.
Just bought:
I'll just get the rest of FUNimation DBZ Movie Singles as I'd rather watch them in 4x3 AR than 16x9 AR regardless of what the intended AR was. Only 12 DVDs left, lol.

FUNimation 2015 Releases I want:
- Kai 2.0 on Blu-ray