Dragonball Z - Season 3 Set

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 12:39 am

The mixed quality on those eyecatchers are kind of depressing.
Yet somehow not as depressing as the semi-demi-kinda-sorta redub.

Tsukento · Post by **Tsukento** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 12:39 am

Reminds me all too much of the Dragon Ball GT episodes I noticed last year.

Vegard Aune · Post by **Vegard Aune** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:19 am

Tsukento wrote:Reminds me all too much of the Dragon Ball GT episodes I noticed last year.

*Images*

Well, at least those looked somewhat similar... (Except the episode 27-shot. That was WAY too bright.) Those eyecatcher-shots were just too different from each other.

Tsukento · Post by **Tsukento** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:44 am

Not quite.

Episode 45 looked like it was left out in the sun and got a faded yellowish color. Episode 26 has a purplish hue. Episde 64 has an AWFUL magenta color to it, making Super Saiyan 4 Goku's fur eye gougingly bright.

theoriginalbilis · Post by **theoriginalbilis** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:49 am

Ok, I've had the Season 3 set for a few days now, and I just finished the last episode.

Here's a quick summary of all of the redubbed voices, so people won't have to read through 20+ pages of posts.

Completely redubbed:
- Butta (Burter)
- Dende
- Ghurd (Guldo)
- Ginyu/Frog
- Gyumao (Ox King)
- Mr. Popo
- Nappa
- Narrator
- Oolong
- Raditz
- Tenshinhan (T i e n)
- Vegeta

Partially redubbed:
- Freeza (up until ep. 79. Freeza's Form 3 no longer has the dual voice.)
- Kami (Ep. 76 only)
- Kame-Sennin/Master Roshi (Ep. 88 only)
- Kuririn (up until ep. 93)
- Most of the Namekians & Freeza's underlings.

jjgp1112 · Post by **jjgp1112** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:26 pm

I looked at the pics from the eyecatchers. I think the eyecatchers only have varying colors, because the colors and brightness levels for all of the actual episodes are the same. The brightness will only change from episode-to-episode is because certain episodes are brighter/darker than others.

jjgp1112 · Post by **jjgp1112** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:27 pm

I looked at the pics from the eyecatchers. I think the eyecatchers only have varying colors, because the colors and brightness levels for all of the actual episodes are the same. The brightness will only change from episode-to-episode because certain episodes are brighter/darker than others, I guess.

Edit: How did I post this twice?

Conan the SSJ · Post by **Conan the SSJ** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:28 pm

jjgp1112 wrote:I looked at the pics from the eyecatchers. I think the eyecatchers only have varying colors, because the colors and brightness levels for all of the actual episodes are the same. The brightness will only change from episode-to-episode is because certain episodes are brighter/darker than others.

Heya MajinVegetaXV/Corey, you got the Dragonboxes, this the case?

Vegard Aune · Post by **Vegard Aune** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:11 pm

jjgp1112 wrote:I looked at the pics from the eyecatchers. I think the eyecatchers only have varying colors, because the colors and brightness levels for all of the actual episodes are the same. The brightness will only change from episode-to-episode because certain episodes are brighter/darker than others, I guess.

Edit: How did I post this twice?

Nah, they're just inconsistent. I see no reason why the background-color would actually be drawn in a different color between episodes. Notice also how the red parts of the logo sometimes are orange. Oh, and you could always just delete that second post...

Hero 004 · Post by **Hero 004** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:12 pm

A quick question about the season sets in general. Do they contain the same start up and endings as the Ultimate Uncut Special Editions (the super long one that is shaded red)?

jjgp1112 · Post by **jjgp1112** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:32 pm

Vegard Aune wrote:
jjgp1112 wrote:I looked at the pics from the eyecatchers. I think the eyecatchers only have varying colors, because the colors and brightness levels for all of the actual episodes are the same. The brightness will only change from episode-to-episode because certain episodes are brighter/darker than others, I guess.

Edit: How did I post this twice?
Nah, they're just inconsistent. I see no reason why the background-color would actually be drawn in a different color between episodes. Notice also how the red parts of the logo sometimes are orange. Oh, and you could always just delete that second post...

I tried deleting it, but they said I couldn't, for some reason.

Conan the SSJ · Post by **Conan the SSJ** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:06 pm

Hero 004 wrote:A quick question about the season sets in general. Do they contain the same start up and endings as the Ultimate Uncut Special Editions (the super long one that is shaded red)?

Nope. The opening for both the Dub w/t Japanese music and the Dub w/t TV Broadcast music is the textless Cha-La segment with the Mark Menza instrumental used in DBZ movies 6-7 and 9-12. The ending is the textless version of the Zenkai Power segment with the Japanese song staying in the dub w/t Japanese music track, though the Mark Menza UUE java-lava instrumental is in the TV Broadcast track.

MagicBox · Post by **MagicBox** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:09 pm

Hero 004 wrote:A quick question about the season sets in general. Do they contain the same start up and endings as the Ultimate Uncut Special Editions (the super long one that is shaded red)?

Nope. That seizure-inducing red opening is gone, thank goodness. The only opening video on the sets is the video for "Cha-La Head-Cha-La" and the only ending video is the video for "Zenkai Power."

The ending music that Mark Menza composed for the ultimate uncut episodes' ending credits can still be heard on the broadcast track, though.

EDIT: Darn, beaten to it.

theoriginalbilis · Post by **theoriginalbilis** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:59 pm

Anyone else notice how the audio seems to be mixed differently in this season set? The BGM & SE seem to be at a much louder volume than before; especially during action scenes, in which they almost overshadow the voices.

Of course, I was watching this on my HDTV which has no surround sound. It just sounds like a different audio mix to me.

Oh yeah, and the video looks significantly worse in many scenes. Whenever the screen shakes during the show, animation lines go all over the place. Goku & Freeza look pretty bad during the end of the Namek fight. But some the video looks great too, to be fair. It's just that damn shaking...

- Bilis

jjgp1112 · Post by **jjgp1112** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:06 pm

theoriginalbilis wrote:Anyone else notice how the audio seems to be mixed differently in this season set? The BGM & SE seem to be at a much louder volume than before; especially during action scenes, in which they almost overshadow the voices.

Of course, I was watching this on my HDTV which has no surround sound. It just sounds like a different audio mix to me.

Oh yeah, and the video looks significantly worse in many scenes. Whenever the screen shakes during the show, animation lines go all over the place. Goku & Freeza look pretty bad during the end of the Namek fight. But some the video looks great too, to be fair. It's just that damn shaking...

- Bilis

Remember the close-up of Goku shown while Frieza was powering up to his 100% power? His entire nose disappeared. Can you pull the image of it? I believe it's from episode 98 or 99. My computer can't play DVD's.

Tanooki Kuribo · Post by **Tanooki Kuribo** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:16 pm

Whenever the screen shakes during the show, animation lines go all over the place.

Yup. When you actually see this in motion, it is really REALLY bad. Those who have seen it know exactly what I mean.

But some the video looks great too, to be fair

Yea, I agree. There are times when the video looks pretty good. If only the whole set looked like that shot below, all we would be bitching about is the widescreen issue.

(Thats the last time I stretch out this thread page, sorry, sorry!

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jjgp1112 · Post by **jjgp1112** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:21 pm

Tanooki Kuribo wrote:
Whenever the screen shakes during the show, animation lines go all over the place.
Yup. When you actually see this in motion, it is really REALLY bad. Those who have seen it know exactly what I mean.

{snip}

But some the video looks great too, to be fair
Yea, I agree. There are times when the video looks pretty good. If only the whole set looked like that shot below, all we would be bitching about is the widescreen issue.

{snip}

(Thats the last time I stretch out this thread page, sorry, sorry! )

Find that pic from episode 98 where Goku's entire nose disappears. It's when Frieza's going to his 100% power, and Goku's communicating with King Kai. The screen shakes, and Goku's outline disappears. When you look at it in freeze frame, you can see th his whole nose vanishes!

Conan the SSJ · Post by **Conan the SSJ** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:23 pm

Tanooki Kuribo wrote:*Gohan & Kuririn shot*

Jiminy fucking crickets. o_o

omegacwa · Post by **omegacwa** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:28 pm

Yeah, Goku's face during the 100% power up scene was pretty bad. The worst blurring I have seen so far. Yet, this still appears to be the best set overall, even though, for the most part, I think the freeza fight is one of the most boring and drawn out sagas of the whole show. Not to mention the artwork in 3 out of 4 episodes is atrocious.

jjgp1112 · Post by **jjgp1112** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:37 pm

omegacwa wrote:Yeah, Goku's face during the 100% power up scene was pretty bad. The worst blurring I have seen so far. Yet, this still appears to be the best set overall, even though, for the most part, I think the freeza fight is one of the most boring and drawn out sagas of the whole show. Not to mention the artwork in 3 out of 4 episodes is atrocious.

You know what's also bad? During the final fight between Goku and Frieza after everyone gets sent to earth, the episdoes with good artwork had some of the laziest and worst-looking animation I've seen in DBZ. It was so damn choppy. The animation was even worse than the Saiyan saga.