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Dragon Ball Z: Saiyan Showdown
Release Date	12 April 2005
Catalog Number	FN-02212
Contents
Primary Content	Dragon Ball Z Episode 1 Dragon Ball Z Episode 2 Dragon Ball Z Episode 3
Primary Aspect Ratio	4:3
Country	United States
Company	Funimation

"Dragon Ball Z: Saiyan Showdown" is the first volume of the Funimation DVD series called Dragon Ball Z: The Ultimate Uncut Special Edition. "Saiyan Showdown" contains the first three episodes. It was marketed as the first volume in "Vegeta Saga I" and released on 12 April 2005 in North America.

General Overview

Each release features episodes of Dragon Ball Z with branching video tracks depending on the language selected:

• With English voices selected: an altered English-only episode title card is displayed; openings are creditless; each episode's ending has English reversion credits unique to each episode's production.
• With Japanese voices selected: the original Japanese episode title card is displayed; openings are creditless; each episode's ending has credits that are all actually those ripped from the first episode).
• With Spanish voices selected: the original Japanese episode title card is displayed; openings and endings are creditless.

The opening theme uses its second animation version (of four total), while the ending theme uses its first animation version (of two total). In addition to the English video track featuring Nathan Johnson's replacement score, uniqueFunimation-specific opening and ending sequences replace the original animations. The opening track "Opening Music" is composed by Dave Moran and and the ending track "Closing Music" is composed by Mark Menza.

All eyecatches are presented in their correct location mid-episode. No "next episode previews" are provided. The English audio (with Nathan Johnson's replacement score) is selected by default.

• Opening: "CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA" (v.2)
• Ending: "Come Out, Incredible ZENKAI Power!"
• Eyecatch: (Goku and Gohan) (v.1)

Though the series is historically divided into "story arcs" in Japan, this release marks Funimation's first branding of arbitrary "seasons" for a home video release, the delineations of which do not correspond to their own actual broadcast seasons from either syndication or cable broadcasts.

Previous to this release, episodes 1 through 3 of Dragon Ball Z were not available subtitled in North America (Region 1), having only been available heavily edited on VHS and DVD featuring the Canadian ("Ocean Studios") voice cast. The "Ultimate Uncut Edition" DVD line was planned to cover the first 67 episodes with Funimation's new in-house redub, but was cancelled after Volume 9, in favor of future "season" releases; the content of the "Ultimate Uncut" episodes did, however, air in their entirety on Cartoon Network and Toonami's "Adult Swim" block.

Summary

This plot summary is given on the DVD cover:

Saiyan Showdown

Earth's peace is forever shattered by the hostile arrival of an alien mercenary whose evil knows no bounds. This new menace's campaign of terror begins by ruthlessly beating Earth's greatest hero within an inch of his life. Complicating matters is the shocking revelation that there is more to this sinister invader than meets the eye.

This is the story in its full uncut glory. This is the ultimate Dragon Ball Z!

Contents

Episodes 1-3

Episode	Title Card	Title
001		The New Threat
002		Reunions
003		Unlikely Alliance

Goku vs. Vegeta Featurette

(WIP)

• Featurette Screenshots
• 
  "Goku vs. Vegeta" title card.
• 
  Interview screenshot featuring Sean Schemmel
• 
  Interview screenshot featuring Christopher R. Sabat

Follow the Nimbus Cloud

(WIP)

• 
  "Follow the Nimbus Cloud" launch menu.
• 
  Screenshot example from Episode 2.
• 
  Screenshot example from Episode 2 (nimbus cloud missing).

DBZ Trivia

(WIP)

• DBZ Trivia DVD Menus
• 
  Trivia question Number 1.
  (no music).
• 
  Trivia question Number 2.
  (no music).
• 
  Trivia question Number 3.
  (no music).
• 
  Trivia question Number 4.
  (no music).
• 
  Trivia question Number 5.
  (no music).
• 
  Trivia question Number 6.
  (no music).
• 
  Trivia question Number 7.
  (no music).

Trailers

• Spiral ("Sharpening Wit")
• Dragon Ball Z ("Dragon Ball Z: Piccolo's Plan & Dragon Ball Z: Into the Wild")
• Lupin the 3rd ("Dead or Alive")
• Gunslinger Girl ("Ragazzine Piccole, Armi Grandi - Little Girls, Big Guns")
• Shonen Jump

• Saiyan Showdown DVD Menus
• 
  DVD main menu.
  BGM: [[]].
• 
  DVD episode menu.
  BGM: [[]].
• 
  DVD audio menu.
  BGM: [[]].
• 
  DVD extras menu.
  BGM: [[]].
• 
  DVD trailers menu.
  (no music).

Menu

All DVD menus all feature screenshots from featured episodes, accompanied by an unreleased background music (BGM) track composed by Nathan Johnson.

Audio and Subtitles

Two English dub tracks are provided; the default English dub audio is mixed in 5.1 surround sound while the other is in stereo. Japanese and Spanish audio tracks are mono (redundant stereo).

• Audio
  1. English 5.1, with replaced soundtrack (default)
  2. English Stereo, with replace soundtrack
  3. Japanese Mono
  4. Spanish Mono
• Subtitles
  1. On
  2. Off (default)

Three subtitle tracks are included for the film on DVD:

• An English-language closed captions / "dubtitle" track (transcription of the English dub)
• An English-language subtitle track translating the original Japanese dialog (translation by Steven J. Simmons)
• A "subtitle track" with no subtitles. A small image of Kinto'un is displayed in the upper-right corner during some scenes that were cut from FUNimation's original English adaptation from 1996. The image does not appear in every single scene that was cut, however.

Credits

DVD credits.

• DVD Producer: Jayme Westman, Clarine Harp
• Japanese Translations: Steve Simmons
• Menu Design: Michelle Alexander
• Menu Audio: Duane Deering
• DVD Editor: Jeremy Jimenez
• Production Assistants: DJ Fonner, Anthony Benavides, Rob Schindlbeck, Alese Johnson
• DVD Authoring: Visionwise, Inc.

Goku vs. Vegeta Featurette Credits

• Written And Directed By: Jared Hedges
• Assistant Director Camera: Shane Ray
• Editors: Jared Hedges, Shane Ray
• Motion Graphics: Chas Naylor
• Audio Mix: Shane Ray
• Music: Matt Cheney
• Closing Music: Mark Menza
• Sound Design: Matt Cheney, Matt Piersall
• Supervising Producer: Barry Watson
• Co-Producers: Jason McCarthy, Jared Hedges
• Executive Producers: Gen Fukunaga, Cindy Fukunaga

External Links

• Kanzenshuu Home Video Guide - Dragon Ball Z TV Series - Ultimate Uncut Special Edition