Dragon Ball Z "Seasons" On Blu-ray: News & Discussion

[Metalwario64]

The only difference in audio is they did some slight noise reduction and did minor EQ work. It sounds a bit less muffled, but it's still just as lossy unfortunately, and it's about all that can be done with the current audio source.

[Black_Anime_Fan]

I know it's an assumption, but I really think they're just stubbornly trying not to alienate the nostalgic Toonami fans by making sure the American rock opening is the first thing you hear when you play an episode.

I could be wrong but this song was never used in an opening during the Toonami era. Here are the opening lists as followed:

Rock the Dragon (Ocean Saiyan-FUNi Freeza arcs): http://youtu.be/KaH23Gh8TBs

FUNimation's 1st unnamed Opening (Garlic Jr-Cell Arcs): http://youtu.be/nJr_z_CnDm8 (gotta love Orange Brick "remasters" of old openings

FUNimation's 2nd unnamed Opening (Boo Arc): http://youtu.be/4teO60UOlmk (brace yourself for piss poor quality)

FUNimation's Uncut Broadcast Opening (Saiyan/Namek Arcs): http://youtu.be/WVIkMe4ludM

[DarkPrince_92]

Yeah that list is all we've seen on Cartoon Network. As I recall, Toonami created their own mash-up intros for all their shows. The intro we get on Orange Bricks/Blurays is from the later movie releases. I love the Uncut intro btw.

[MagicBox]

You guys are absolutely right. I need to clarify. I didn't mean that the full Orange Bricks intro was the same one used on Toonami. I know that the Toonami airings had shorter intros.

I just suspect that FUNi might have replaced "HEAD-CHA-LA" with the dub opening so that those fans who watched the episodes when they were airing on Cartoon Network (the "mainstream" fans) would get some kind of rock music, which they were probably expecting to hear when the show starts.

[Soul]

FUNimation has a very short trailer for the Season Two blu-ray on their site...
http://www.funimation.com/shows/dragon- ... -ray/anime

[Baggie_Saiyan]

FUNimation has a very short trailer for the Season Two blu-ray on their site...
http://www.funimation.com/shows/dragon- ... -ray/anime

Unavailable in my "territory".
What's the trailer like?

[Aerosol]

FUNimation has a very short trailer for the Season Two blu-ray on their site...
http://www.funimation.com/shows/dragon- ... -ray/anime

Unavailable in my "territory".
What's the trailer like?

Same problem..
Darn you America, lol.

[Tanooki Kuribo]

FUNimation has a very short trailer for the Season Two blu-ray on their site...
http://www.funimation.com/shows/dragon- ... -ray/anime

Unavailable in my "territory".
What's the trailer like?

Same problem..
Darn you America, lol.

The footage looks very Orange Bricky...

[Kaboom]

MY EYES! I think the screencap blinded me!

I don't know how I'm typing so well!

[Ajay]

Question before going crazy:

Did Piccolo appear as luminescent green in the actual release as he did in that prerelease trailer? Do we know for certain these trailers aren't colour corrected for the sake of the edit?

[LordCrumb]

FUNimation has a very short trailer for the Season Two blu-ray on their site...
http://www.funimation.com/shows/dragon- ... -ray/anime

Unavailable in my "territory".
What's the trailer like?

Same problem..
Darn you America, lol.

Its only 15 seconds and just shows Goku powering up and then a static shot of Capt Ginyu.

[Im insaneFromEarth]

I'm thinking about getting this set, but I would like some information from anyone who has this set. What is the picture quality like? How does it sound on surround sound? But the main thing that I want to know is picture cropping compared with the OB?

Edit. Ok I would like peoples reviews on this set, I would love to know what other fans think of this before I buy it.

[final_flash]

Does anyone know if the English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 is English with Japanese music or English with funimation music?

[Ajay]

I'm thinking about getting this set, but I would like some information from anyone who has this set. One, what is the picture quality like? How does it sound on surround sound? But the main thing that I want to know is picture cropping compared with the OB?

Have a read back through the thread, dude. There's been a load of posts with plenty of examples posted recently here.

Here's a sample clip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POsdoEr ... ata_player
Screenshots - http://www.minus.com/m1LFsZYunDoQG

And above you'll find an audio comparison for the Japanese track. Someone also mentioned the English 5.1 track sounds fantastic through their system.

My personal opinion is that these sets are far superior to the Orange Bricks in near enough every way. They are, however, still denoised horrendously and have some very questionable brightness and colour decisions.

[Im insaneFromEarth]

I'm thinking about getting this set, but I would like some information from anyone who has this set. One, what is the picture quality like? How does it sound on surround sound? But the main thing that I want to know is picture cropping compared with the OB?

Have a read back through the thread, dude. There's been a load of posts with plenty of examples posted recently here.

Here's a sample clip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POsdoEr ... ata_player
Screenshots - http://www.minus.com/m1LFsZYunDoQG

And above you'll find an audio comparison for the Japanese track. Someone also mentioned the English 5.1 track sounds fantastic through their system.

My personal opinion is that these sets are far superior to the Orange Bricks is near enough every way. They are, however, still denoised horrendously and have some very questionable brightness and colour decisions.

Thank you! I should have looked in the older post first.

[final_flash]

Thx but that didn't answer my question. I noticed there's a English 5.1(surround sound) track and a English 2.0 (stereo) track. I think the 5.1 is only with the Japanese music and English dialog. Not sure though.

[Ajay]

Thx but that didn't answer my question. I noticed there's a English 5.1(surround sound) track and a English 2.0 (stereo) track. I think the 5.1 is only with the Japanese music. Not sure though.

I didn't actually see your question til after I posted that so I wasn't ignoring it on purpose.

But yes, I believe there are two English tracks. One (Stereo) is the broadcast version aka Faulconer Productions' soundtrack and the other (5.1) contains Kikuchi's score.

[KingofWisdom]

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More screenshots.

[qjz123]

I'm thinking about getting this set, but I would like some information from anyone who has this set. What is the picture quality like? How does it sound on surround sound? But the main thing that I want to know is picture cropping compared with the OB?

Edit. Ok I would like peoples reviews on this set, I would love to know what other fans think of this before I buy it.

Here are some examples of selective cropping in episode 1.
Orange bricks
http://imageshack.us/a/img15/4021/f9cl.png
Season 1 blu rays
http://imageshack.us/a/img69/3079/jmo6.png
Orange bricks
http://imageshack.us/a/img22/3766/9kzi.png
Season 1 blu rays
http://imageshack.us/a/img89/1170/1cck.png
Orange bricks
http://imageshack.us/a/img801/1084/7e2f.png
Season 1 blu rays
http://imageshack.us/a/img20/8377/hqty.png
Orange bricks
http://imageshack.us/a/img198/6498/bv4b.png
Season 1 blu rays
http://imageshack.us/a/img833/1729/qvmo.png
Orange bricks
http://imageshack.us/a/img839/5871/ar90.png
Season 1 blu rays
http://imageshack.us/a/img542/8417/gey5.png

As for the sound quality I went over that in a previous post http://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtop ... =2900#wrap it's the last post on the page.
If you already own the dragon boxes then there really isn't any reason to buy this set unless your a fan of the american broadcast music. However if you own the orange bricks then this sets is definitely worth the upgrade imo. You get selective cropping and the disappearing line issues have been fixed. Orange bricks http://images.wikia.com/dragonball/imag ... Nappa8.png Season 1 blu ray http://i.imgur.com/lneFsuD.png.

[KingofWisdom]

The new sets are better for being consistently terrible. Oh, what a world we live in.