Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiyan?!
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| Release Date |
27 November 1998 (VHS) 7 December 1999 (DVD) |
| Catalog Number |
PIVA-0120D (VHS) PIDA-0120V (DVD) |
| Contents | |
| Primary Content |
FUNimation English Dub Episodes 50-53 |
| Bonus Material | None |
| Disc Information | |
| Layers | Single-Layered |
| Disk Space | 4.27 GB / 4.63 GB |
| Region Coding | Region 1 |
| Country | USA |
| Company | FUNimation |
| Authoring | Pioneer Entertainment (USA) L.P. |
Dragon Ball Z: Super Saiyan?! is a VHS and DVD release compiling episodes 50-53 from FUNimation's original edited English dub of the Dragon Ball Z television series, first aired in 1998 via broadcast syndication. The home video was released on VHS in 1998, with a DVD version following in 1999.
Following the individual release, Super Saiyan?! was included as the ninth volume in a box set release called Dragon Ball Z: The Namek Saga, containing the last nine volumes of the Pioneer VHS and DVD releases.
Versions of these episodes from Super Saiyan?! were later collected in the "Dragon Ball Z: Rock the Dragon DVD Box Set Collector's Edition" set from FUNimation, released in August 2013 spanning nine DVDs,[1] collected the entire 53-episode run of the syndication broadcast, plus broadcast versions of the first three films. The commerical bumpers introduced in Episode 27 were also restored along with a cut line of dialogue from the Narrator.
Primary Content
Short synopses for every episode are included on the back of the home releases boxes; these are presented in the table exactly as they were written.
| # | FUNimation Title/US Air Date | Summary | Original Episodes | |
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| 50 |  |
Time Tricks and Body Binds [sic] 14 February 1998 |
Guldo is the first to challenge Gohan and Krillin. Guldo uses his powers to avoid attacks, but the two earthling fighters move much faster than Guldo expects. Next, Guldo uses his "body binds" technique to make them immobile - can Gohan and Krillin escape from Guldo's trick? | Dragon Ball Z Episode - Dragon Ball Z Episode - |
| 51 |  |
No Refuge from Recoome[a] 16 March 1998 |
Vegeta and Recoome square off next, but Recomme demonstrates power that Vegeta cannot match! Gohan and Krillin save Vegeta, and enrages Recoome, who then crushes Krillin. Gohan must now challenge Recoome by himself! | Dragon Ball Z Episode - Dragon Ball Z Episode - |
| 52 |  |
Enter Goku 23 March 1998 |
During the great battle, Frieza manages to obtain all seven of the Dragon Balls! But he doesn't know the magic words to make his wish! Meanwhile, Gohan continues his hopeless fight against the much more powerful Recoome. Suddenly Goku arrives! | Dragon Ball Z Episode - Dragon Ball Z Episode - |
| 53 |  |
Goku... Super Saiyan? 23 March 1998 |
Goku instantly defeats Recoome with his new power! The other two fighters, Burter and Jeice, start attacking Goku, but he doesn't even seem concerned. Vegeta sense something has changed in Goku -- "Did he become a legendary super [sic] Saiyan!?" | Dragon Ball Z Episode - Dragon Ball Z Episode - |
The product was released edited in an English-dub-only format on VHS and DVD, and is presented with a single audio track on both formats:
- 2.0 stereo sound English dub (FUNimation/Vancouver-based cast) with a replacement musical score (music by Shuki Levy)
Super Saiyan?! includes one set of opening and ending themes surrounding the content of the three episodes, of which run as a sort of "feature-length" presentation with episode recaps and previews removed between episodes.
The syndicated broadcast version of Episode 53 ends with the Narrator's standard catchphrase:
Stay tuned for scenes from the next episode of Dragon Ball Z.
— Narrator
That line of dialogue is removed from this home release version, along with the preview for the next episode. Both have been restored on FUNimation's "Dragon Ball Z: Rock the Dragon DVD Box Set Collector's Edition" set.
On DVD, the video stream is encoded as interlaced (480i), with black side borders of a varying number of pixels on the left and right, and sometimes on the top as well. Two static images advertising Pioneer home releases follow the ending. No bonus material or trailers are included.
The main DVD menu features artwork from the box cover, accompanied by the Main Title "Rock the Dragon" track produced by Shuki Levy.
Vol. 1-17
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Flyers, ads
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Notes
References
- ↑ "FUNimation To Release Original Broadcast DBZ English Dub" (01 June 2013). Kanzenshuu. Retrieved: 06 February 2020.
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