A little trip down memory lane....DBZ Uncensored

Majin Buu · Post by **Majin Buu** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 12:07 am

So I was browsing the web when all of a sudden I got nostalgic and typed in Planet Namek and MrE into Google to see what came up. As I was looking through the results I ended up finding what else but the archived DBZ Uncensored. I was ecstatic since the site that was hosting it (the defunct DBZOA) had gone under, I figured that it was lost forever. So I go through and start reading through it, and it's like I'm back in 2000 when I was an innocent dubbie watching Funi's season 3, being rocked by all of the alterations that had been made to the show and how so much better the Japanese version seemed. Needless to say, Chris Psaros effectively killed my love of the dub and turned me into a hardcore subbie.

So for anyone else that would like to take a trip down memory lane....

http://www.animecauldron.com/dbzuncensored

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 12:10 am

I love how Daizex is featured on the links page. X3
Ancient out-of-date url and all.
It's also on the "Past Picks" page as well, with an even older url.

Also surprised AniPike's still around.

And WHOA Super5 had their own website?!

Uncensored was built with wordpad makes me smile.
Also, they're still correct; AOL is very, very slow. @_@

Tsukento · Post by **Tsukento** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 12:16 am

Chuquita wrote:Also surprised AniPike's still around.

Holy crap! I remember that site from waaaaaay back in the days.

And I'm glad someone re-hosted this. I hated having to go through the Way Back Machine to look at archived pages.

Tanooki Kuribo · Post by **Tanooki Kuribo** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:46 am

I would visit it every Sunday to see what was cut from the episode that played that day. If you didn't know, DragonBall Z aired on Sunday mornings for an hour... at least where I was. (New York).

Tsukento · Post by **Tsukento** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:59 am

It was Saturday mornings for me. Played at 6am before Kids WB started up.

Edit: Oh wow. Times have REALLY changed.

Hey! I've got an idea! WHY NOT PUT THE ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE BACK IN?? Heh. But seriously, they would sell a LOT more tapes that way. Despite what FUNimation insists on telling themselves, and all my personal feelings aside, the fact is that the Japanese score is UNIVERSALLY preferred over the US one. Look in the opinion section. Look at the countless emails I get. Wake up FUNimation. We like the original music a thousand times more than your crap, and we want it back.

From a side-note from the second Season 3 episode comparison.

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:43 pm

Tsukento wrote:It was Saturday mornings for me. Played at 6am before Kids WB started up.

Edit: Oh wow. Times have REALLY changed.

Hey! I've got an idea! WHY NOT PUT THE ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE BACK IN?? Heh. But seriously, they would sell a LOT more tapes that way. Despite what FUNimation insists on telling themselves, and all my personal feelings aside, the fact is that the Japanese score is UNIVERSALLY preferred over the US one. Look in the opinion section. Look at the countless emails I get. Wake up FUNimation. We like the original music a thousand times more than your crap, and we want it back.
From a side-note from the second Season 3 episode comparison.

Now look at how many Ameican kids have grown up on the American BGM who think that Japanese Dragonball is about the dumbest thing ever. I bet that a lot of those kids like the American BGM mostly because it's the BGM they're familiar with. The liking of the Japanese BGM would still be nearly universal (in the USA) if they had kept the Japanese BGM in the televised episodes.

At least, when you look at it from a worldwide view, that statement still stands.

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 3:03 pm

And now we get Japanese BGM with the American dub

We'll not venture into the picture quality.

I used to love this site. I wished that there could be more stuff to it. I'd browse through it once and that was it, no updates really. I just kept looking at them lol I liked the one where they had pictures of the uncensored version and then the FUNimation edited version. Like Roshi's beer being colored blue (water I guess...), etc.

I used to go to so many DBZ websites. I still have a lot of them bookmarked. I saved them all into a file and every time I got a new computer, I would save them and bookmark them. Now nearly none of the links work and the ones that do feel kind of...useless because there's this site, there's Kanzentai, and then there's me having the entire show, so I'm not out browsing for pictures of later episodes and whatnot.

I actually visited Dragon Ball Uncensored a couple of months ago myself.

Suupaa Gohan 2 · Post by **Suupaa Gohan 2** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:10 pm

I've known about the new link; I experienced the same nostalgia-fueled reminiscing back a year or so ago when I stumbled upon it. It certainly does bring back memories; Psaros is the reason is first abandoned hope in the dub and began frantically searching for fansubs back in the 8th grade.

I so miss planetnamek.com. Back in the day, that, DBZOA, and Temple O' Trunks were my daily hangouts during my online time (which was pretty much only after school before I went home). I wish there were archives of PN around; it would definitely make me smile.

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:15 pm

The things that I was nostalgic for were finding pictures of what happens later on in the series. That and fanfics. Which some people I knew were trying to pass off as what really happens later on lol There was a fanfic with the return of Nappa and someone tried justifying it with a picture from GT of Nappa being back. Good times, good times. And then Pokemon started getting up there. Damn Pokemon! lol That time period from around 97/98-2001 was like the peek of the DBZ craze (at least in NY where I'm from). Now the only place to talk about the series seems to be online.

Tsukento · Post by **Tsukento** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:19 pm

Oh man. I remember this bit from Animerica's interview with the folks of FUNi.

Q: Will the Japanese theme song be included at all in the U.S. broadcast of Dragon Ball Z? If not, how did you decide what type of music would be used?

A: No, we composed a new theme. It was done in Los Angeles. It's a very distinctive sound, and I'm told it's of the sort that's very popular among American children right now.

Several years later and STILL no original opening for the dub. Wait...this sounds very familiar.

Interview with Al Kahn wrote:ANN: A lot of aspects in your adaptations are changed from the original Japanese version. Some things like dialog, credits and names are changed for obvious reasons, but things such as music are re-done. Why do you feel this is necessary?

Al Kahn: Only to make it more Western. We westernize it so that children in English-speaking countries will understand it, and to us that is very critical. It's a mixture of the westernization, the trying to make the music appeal to kids who are in the United States.

ANN: At a licensing convention last year, where 4Kids revealed a first look at One Piece, a version of the Japanese opening with English vocals was played. However, 4Kids used an original rap opening in the broadcast version. What made you consider this opening over the other one?

Al Kahn: Yeah, well.. we liked it, we thought it was good. And we thought it was going to be something that'd have a lot of popularity. There wasn't anything more to it than that.

It's really funny seeing how similar 4Kids is today to how FUNi was 12 years ago.

cRookie_Monster · Post by **cRookie_Monster** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:53 pm

I remember looking ahead on PlanetNamek.com and printing up pictures of Garlic Jr and crew for reference. (Funi was slacking off after finishing up the Frieza Saga and we didn't have any dubs to work with yet)

The track Faulconer "DemonMist" was named as such because I hadn't heard the term "Black Water Mist" yet.

xzero · Post by **xzero** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 5:54 pm

Really?! Always wondered about the title to that one.

Vekurotto · Post by **Vekurotto** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:48 am

I really did like that site. I always say it when it gets brought up just cause they did tell you a lot of things that you'd otherwise not know if you went without it.

Interview with Al Kahn wrote:On a similar note, do you have any intentions of releasing any other Japanese series in their original format?

We expect every series we license to be released in its original form.

That answer makes you laugh and cry tears of misery at the same time.

Big Momma · Post by **Big Momma** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:51 am

Tsukento wrote: It's really funny seeing how similar 4Kids is today to how FUNi was 12 years ago.

So, in about 12 years, 4Kids will be giving us Season sets of Pokemon/Yu-Gi-Oh/Sonic X/and Ultimate Muscle with original BGM and English versions of the theme songs.

JulieYBM · Post by **JulieYBM** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 1:05 am

Big Momma wrote:
Tsukento wrote: It's really funny seeing how similar 4Kids is today to how FUNi was 12 years ago.
So, in about 12 years, 4Kids will be giving us Season sets of Pokemon/Yu-Gi-Oh/Sonic X/and Ultimate Muscle with original BGM and English versions of the theme songs.

However...they don't own Pokémon anymore...

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 1:19 am

Vekurotto wrote:I really did like that site. I always say it when it gets brought up just cause they did tell you a lot of things that you'd otherwise not know if you went without it.

Interview with Al Kahn wrote:On a similar note, do you have any intentions of releasing any other Japanese series in their original format?

We expect every series we license to be released in its original form.
That answer makes you laugh and cry tears of misery at the same time.

I'm still disappointed with what they did to One Piece.

Yi Xing Long · Post by **Yi Xing Long** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 1:30 am

JulieYBM wrote:
Big Momma wrote:
Tsukento wrote: It's really funny seeing how similar 4Kids is today to how FUNi was 12 years ago.
So, in about 12 years, 4Kids will be giving us Season sets of Pokemon/Yu-Gi-Oh/Sonic X/and Ultimate Muscle with original BGM and English versions of the theme songs.
However...they don't own Pokémon anymore...

They are losing the rights to tons of their main money makers. Their Saturday morning block is going to be canceled soon too. They will probably not even exist in 12 years.

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 1:58 am

They'll exist in some fashion. I haven't watched 4Kids TV in like 5 years and thought it was out of business already. But I was wrong. They'll find something to latch onto. They might just let go of anime and do their own thing.

Tekkaman-James · Post by **Tekkaman-James** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 5:37 am

Wow! What a great find, Majin Buu!

I used to go to this site ALL the time back in the late nineties when DBZ was still on network television. I still use the term "Stupid Dialogue Alert" to this day. Man, that is internet nostalgia right there.

Thanks for the link!

DominatorLost · Post by **DominatorLost** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 6:52 am

Majin Buu wrote:So I was browsing the web when all of a sudden I got nostalgic and typed in Planet Namek and MrE into Google to see what came up. As I was looking through the results I ended up finding what else but the archived DBZ Uncensored. I was ecstatic since the site that was hosting it (the defunct DBZOA) had gone under, I figured that it was lost forever. So I go through and start reading through it, and it's like I'm back in 2000 when I was an innocent dubbie watching Funi's season 3, being rocked by all of the alterations that had been made to the show and how so much better the Japanese version seemed. Needless to say, Chris Psaros effectively killed my love of the dub and turned me into a hardcore subbie.

So for anyone else that would like to take a trip down memory lane....

http://www.animecauldron.com/dbzuncensored

Goddamn, I remember that site's layout looking revolutionary, or at least overly spiffy.

Kanzenshuu

A little trip down memory lane....DBZ Uncensored

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