What's your Idea of a "Perfect" DB/Z/GT Home Media Release?

[Son Geeko]

Mine would be....


-A clean, sharp, extensive full-pictured remaster with a good, more correct balance of colors. (No crushed blacks/whites, green skys, pinkish skin tones, etc.)

-Original TV Broadcast Quality of the Japanese audio.

-Next episode previews and Japanese title cards, along with faithful English-translated title cards.

-A ton of special features, such as commercials, specials, clean openings and endings, etc, and best of all... a long, detailed, and interesting documentary about the making of Dragon Ball.

-A nice, multiple-page booklet that includes a ton of things such as history, episode summaries, detailed character profiles, sketches/concept art, production cast and actor interviews, etc.

-A new, Kai-quality English redub, with both the original Japanese score and the Faulconer Productions score.

-A couple of physical goodies, such as a cel animation copies, figure(s), etc.


I guess that's how much I can think at the moment, how about you guys?

[dbboxkaifan]

• On DVD (or Blu-ray but it'd probably be upscaled)
• Dragon Box Quality (with the colours of the original Japanese broadcast)
• Japanese Cards
• Next Episode Previews
• Broadcast quality Japanese Audio
• English Dub W/Original Music (Shunsuke Kikuchi)
• English Dub/US Replacement (Faulconer Productions)
• Licenced on Regions 1 and 2 (US + Europe)
• All 12 Collections (each with 26 eps) for $15-20

All fans would be pleased with a release like this. Well, except the Ocean fans, maybe FUNimation could include it too.

Note: Text in red added by DBZGTKOSDH.

[Gonstead]

Honestly I could really care less about physical goods and cast interviews, we have a ton of those scattered all over the Internet.

All I would really want would be.

- Corrected colors (Blu-Ray DBZ or perhaps even better if possible)
- Next Episode Previews (Subbed AND Dubbed)
- Higher quality audio for the Japanese audio
- Original English title cards + Japanese title cards (Please both fans of Dub and Sub)
- Release it something akin to the Orange Boxes/Dragon Boxes in terms of episode quantity per box.

That's all I really would want.

[TheBlackPaladin]

Broadcast quality Japanese Audio

Something just occured to me. If you think about it, the only way they could release the original broadcast audio is if they kept the original master audio tapes (which of course, as is well-documented, they didn't). However, if they had the original master audio tapes...then in theory they could remaster the audio in HD. The original Japanese audio in HD...now THAT would be something!

[PhoenixEX]

The Dragon Ball Z Level Sets were perfect for me...until they cancelled them >.>
If they never cancelled them Level sets for DB and GT would have been amazing too.

[Gaffer Tape]

At the moment, I'm thinking it would be nice if they restored the next episode previews back to before the end credits rather than after.

[Godo]

Mind you that I am not speaking realistically here. It's just what I want =)

- Picture in it's original form. No remastering. I want to see it as it was intended to look.
- Good audio (the best they can get today)
- Episodes composed in the same way as when they were broadcasted, minus the commercials of course.
- As mentioned before, commercials and extra material. They could as well make as many discs as it would take to fill the most important ones. And also as mentioned before: the making of Dragon Ball, as well as interviews.
- Character profiles including information from the Daizenshuu.
- Well translated subs (it's not like that we haven't got them already, but it's a must)
- Funi should stay as far from the release as possible. Their dub shouldn't be included nor any of their other additions/renaming of the characters.

It should also include:

- All movies and specials, including the Jump special (Yo! Son Goku and his friends return!) and Episode of Bardock.
- DBGT is not at all necessary to be included.

Everything should be packaged together. There can be separate boxes (Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragonball : Movies, Dragonball Z: Movies, Dragon Ball: Specials, Dragonball: Extras) but in no way will they be sold separately. If someone wants to buy it, it's all or nothing. An exclusive and all inclusive box.
They will be packaged in a steel box. They will run out of print first after 5 years to allow people to have time to buy them.

[DBZGTKOSDH]

- DBGT is not at all necessary to be included.

If GT isn't included, it would be an incomplete release, and I would like to add, that not everyone hates GT.

[dbboxkaifan]

If GT isn't included, it would be an incomplete release, and I would like to add, that not everyone hates GT.

That's true.

Without GT it would be incomplete and GT's seriously isn't bad, the music's great and it does have some cool moments like Gogeta SSJ4, Goku SSJ4, Bebi and the ending of GT's better than Z's, IMO.

[JulieYBM]

Each episode, special, and movie with every last frame unedited and in the original order (OP, Part A, Part B, NEP, ED for the first three shows). All episodes, specials, and movies scanned from their original masters at 1080p would be nice. For Dragon Ball Kai I'd only buy it if it had the original masters, so none of this replacement music business.

[dbboxkaifan]

original order (OP, Part A, Part B, NEP, ED for the first three shows).

Don't forget the eye catchers.

[Kuwabara]

The Level Sets would have been the perfect release for me, so sad to see them go...

[JulieYBM]

original order (OP, Part A, Part B, NEP, ED for the first three shows).

Don't forget the eye catchers.

I didn't. They're apart of Part A and Part B as far as I'm concerned.

[Raykugen]

-On Blu Ray discs, done by Toei, obviously. There will be the day when the dvd gonna die, just like the VHS, the Blu Rays are better
-With the colours of the "color correcting" by Ashura: http://daizex.fanboyreview.net/viewtopi ... =7&t=19448
- No grain
- Eyes catches
- Episode titles in the original texts in japanese
- Next Episode Previews
- Openings and endings with their own japanese credits and karaokes
- Japanese and Spanish from Spain audio (I am from Spain, haha)
- That the discs would be in cases just like the japanese individual volumes of DB/DBZ/DBGT and the movies with a boxart of the same style, illustrations showing an important scene of these block of episodes (http://www.kanzentai.com/dvd.php?id=db)
- Every arc must have his own cardboard box with all the volumes with all his boxarts, (F. ex: Freeza saga in dbz, first box, Cell saga, 2nd box... etc)
-Every disc must be showing a character important of these episodes, (Like the DBKAI japanese volumes) let's imagine that Freeza saga has 3 blu rays, in that case, these 3 discs must have the most important characters of these arc.
- Subtitles in Japanese, english and spanish
- Every arc must have his own book, with illustrations of characters, episode guide, sketches, details about the process of the anime.

[dbboxkaifan]

-On Blu Ray discs, done by Toei, obviously. There will be the day when the dvd gonna die, just like the VHS, the Blu Rays are better

Blu-ray only has 25GB/50GB per disc, not very much compared to what HDDs' sizes have nowadays.

Digital format is probably the future.

-With the colours of the "color correcting" by Ashura: http://daizex.fanboyreview.net/viewtopi ... =7&t=19448

That's the colours of the original Japanese broadcast for the Dragon Boxes Z.

- Japanese and Spanish from Spain audio (I am from Spain, haha)

The Spanish (Castellano) dub is mediocre (imo), they even call Son Gohan as "Songohanda" and Cell's "Célula" (not too bad), Freeza's "Freezér". The Portuguese (Portugal) dub isn't anything to be amazed with, it's also shit.

Coola's FUNimation name pronounced in Spanish is alright "Coolér".

[Raykugen]

The Spanish (Castellano) dub is mediocre (imo), they even call Son Gohan as "Songohanda" and Cell's "Célula" (not too bad), Freeza's "Freezér". The Portuguese (Portugal) dub isn't anything to be amazed with, it's also shit.

Coola's FUNimation name pronounced in Spanish is alright "Coolér".

Do you think I care? xD, I know perfectly, I hate that, but, it's my childhood, it's which what I have growed up and even knowing all his errors, I'll love it forever.

[Godo]

- DBGT is not at all necessary to be included.

If GT isn't included, it would be an incomplete release, and I would like to add, that not everyone hates GT.

As I said: "Mind you that I am not speaking realistically here. It's just what I want =)".
I for one do not consider DBGT as an important part of the Dragonball franchise anymore than DBAF. So simply it would most certainly not hurt me at all if they excluded it.
Better, even, they could fill that space with some quality material instead.

[Naughty Kinto Un]

Episode commentaries by Toriyama, the cast, the director, animators, Jump editors, etc. Hell will freeze over before that happens but a boy can dream, can't he?

[sangofe]

A maximum of worldwide dubs included!

[sangofe]

Broadcast quality Japanese Audio

Something just occured to me. If you think about it, the only way they could release the original broadcast audio is if they kept the original master audio tapes (which of course, as is well-documented, they didn't). However, if they had the original master audio tapes...then in theory they could remaster the audio in HD. The original Japanese audio in HD...now THAT would be something!

Just use Trunks' time machine to go back in time to fix that