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

[theoriginalbilis]

Also Funimation fixed the excessively cropped ending.
Dragon Ball Z season 3 ending

Well, that's a pleasant surprise. At least they've somewhat addressed fan complaints.

[JEFFMAN219]

Lool to be honest guys these new blu ray sets don't look that bad. I only wished that they kept it in 4:3 because if they did I would've bought these. It sucks that I can't own the original DBZ in its entirety on DVD/Blu-Ray sigh.

Yeah even though the cropping is annoying and I wished it was 4x3 it's not like it absolutely destroys the viewing experience. at-least not for me it's not like me not getting to see that little bit of sky or someone's leg is going to kill me haha I'd just get them bud. they're cheap and they look better than the orange bricks. good luck on the Dragon-boxes though if you're trying to get them.

Well I gave up on trying to buy all of the dragon boxes and instead I've bought all of DBZ Kai. Now I'm patiently waiting for funimation to start dubbing the buu saga of Kai

[B]

No, Sonny Strait and Kyle Hebert have been pretty open about their disagreements with DBZ's dub.

Interesting, everything I've ever heard come out of Hebert regarding the old dub is praise.

I didn't really see a point in commenting on this at first, but since someone else brought it up, Gen Fukunaga semi-patting himself on the back for changing "Zero" back to "Goku" is of course supsect, given literally every other change FUNi's dub made, and sticks to, to this day. Maybe fifty years from now a new licensor will non-chalantly giggle that they purged "Hercule" completely.

Also, I sadly now know how to pronounce "Cocanougher". My way was better.

[ABED]

No, Sonny Strait and Kyle Hebert have been pretty open about their disagreements with DBZ's dub.

Interesting, everything I've ever heard come out of Hebert regarding the old dub is praise.

He's admitted some of the lines were goofy, and he's implied that he wasn't fond of sounding like a monster truck announcer, but it was the job he was hired to do. However, Hebert started working for FUNi when the scripts started to get better.

[eledoremassis02]

The end of Namek always stood out to me. The color pallet seems really unique

[samuraix123]

The freeza saga was always my favorite and I loved the colors of the sky when the planet was getting close to exploding.

[Metalwario64]

I loved the colors of the sky when the planet was getting close to exploding.

Same here. There were some really good aesthetics during that time. I thought it was very atmospheric when the sky was red with hints of dark green in places.

[dodge2461]

I was open to the idea of a behind-the-scenes look at the dub scripting... and then of course, one of the talking heads just gushes over the "ally to good" speech.

He actually bragged about how that wasn't in the Japanese version and he gave the english writers huge props for adding that in I face palmed so hard.

I would love to see this community put together a parody of this video, in the same format, breaking character when told to praise the dub work.

[JEFFMAN219]

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[TheKingOfKamehamehas]

So far from screenshots, It looks like Season Three is very pinkish. I would be surprised if Orange Bricks win here.

[dbboxkaifan]

The end of Namek always stood out to me. The color pallet seems really unique

What's that blurry ghosting on Freeza's right arm?

So far from screenshots, It looks like Season Three is very pinkish. I would be surprised if Orange Bricks win here.

Yeah totally. /sarcasm

[Corpsecreate]

Ewww I like my version way better:

[Fizzer]

So far from screenshots, It looks like Season Three is very pinkish. I would be surprised if Orange Bricks win here.

I'm not really seeing pinkness here :/

[samuraix123]

Funimation decided to release a trailer for season 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIygQGi8elY

[Freeza Soldier #156]

Funimation decided to release a trailer for season 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIygQGi8elY

That trailer gives me a serious old-school Toonami vibe. I like it.

[RocktheDragon]

Funimation decided to release a trailer for season 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIygQGi8elY

That trailer gives me a serious old-school Toonami vibe. I like it.

Same here. I have to say, whoever is in charge of marketing over there is doing a pretty great job. I really have enjoyed these short little ads for their BD's.

[Metalwario64]

So far from screenshots, It looks like Season Three is very pinkish. I would be surprised if Orange Bricks win here.

I'm not really seeing pinkness here :/

Really?

Spoiler:

Oh ok, another thing I noticed is that it looks like some of the colours are bleeding. Am I the only one seeing this?

No, this was visible on the Orange Bricks too. It might be an artifact from the film copying process.

Anyways, some of these episodes are so dark, oversaturated and purple tinted. I'd take Season Two's lighter, yellowish tint over this. In this case I think the Orange Bricks colors look better. Whoever was in charge really needs to learn how to color balance.

Blu-ray:


DVD:


I took the Blu-ray shot into Photoshop and did some very quick and simple RGB adjustments to it, and that's all it took to get the colors looking good:



This is something FUNi/Post & Transfer or whoever could have easily done with their equipment.

[samuraix123]

Funimation decided to release a trailer for season 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIygQGi8elY

That trailer gives me a serious old-school Toonami vibe. I like it.

Yeah the menu's and the level sets do the exact same thing. Just a little nudge nudge to the fans haha

[Fizzer]

So far from screenshots, It looks like Season Three is very pinkish. I would be surprised if Orange Bricks win here.

I'm not really seeing pinkness here :/

Really?

Spoiler:

Oh ok, another thing I noticed is that it looks like some of the colours are bleeding. Am I the only one seeing this?

No, this was visible on the Orange Bricks too. It might be an artifact from the film copying process.

Anyways, some of these episodes are so dark, oversaturated and purple tinted. I'd take Season Two's lighter, yellowish tint over this. In this case I think the Orange Bricks colors look better. Whoever was in charge really needs to learn how to color balance.

Blu-ray:


DVD:


I took the Blu-ray shot into Photoshop and did some very quick and simple RGB adjustments to it, and that's all it took to get the colors looking good:



This is something FUNi/Post & Transfer or whoever could have easily done with their equipment.

Holy crap, that's as bad as the Dragon Boxes

[Metalwario64]

I think it's way worse. Here it's actually a strong purple tint, and it's due to crappy RGB balance. The Dragon Boxes had a pink tint, but it was due to the film itself, and wasn't as strong of a tint anyhow.