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Dragon Ball Manga/Anime |OT| This isn't even our final thread

Season One (the first two sets) is still available on the US Amazon, and they're all going to be reissued. They were pulled because of the music plagiarism thing.
 

Desmond

Member
Can anyone help me please? I'm trying to get the Kai bluray sets but I can only find the 4th set onwards. I cannot for the life of me find anywhere that imports to the UK and has the first 3 sets.

Just import the season sets , that's what I'm gonna do. I normally use PlanetAxel.
 

jaxword

Member
Kickass alternate takes on the crew:


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The artist is here, for further insight:

http://kzbulat.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=dragon+ball
 
So I know I'm late but I just saw the news about the Blu-rays. How in the hell am I ever going to get to watch this show in a nice quality with the music I like?! At this point I'm tempted to just rip my Dragon Box sets, rip the audio from the old three episode a disk DVD's, and make my own Frankenstein monster.
 

Anth0ny

Member
Sad news =(

Kanzenshuu said:
It is with the greatest sadness that we must report the passing of voice actor Takeshi Aono, as initially reported by Anime News Network. The news was first made public by fellow voice actress Eiko Yamada via her Twitter account.

"Takeshi Aono of Theater Troupe Geikyou passed away this morning. (Voice of Chibi Maruko-chan‘s grandfather, etc…) I liked his plays where he was way too serious. He was wonderful as a voice actor too, but he was something special on the stage. He had a presence that was overwhelming and full of life!! How can he be gone…?! I offer my sincerest prayers."

Dragon Ball fans will best remember Takeshi Aono as the voice of Ninja Murasaki, Piccolo Daimaō, and of course, God. However, in June 2010 Aono suffered a stroke after undergoing surgery for an aortic aneurysm. Since that time he had remained in the hospital, and the majority of his roles were given to veteran voice actor Bin Shimada, including the role of “God” in Dragon Ball Kai. He was 75 years old, and will be greatly missed by all.

Aono had one of the most distinct and memorable voices I could think of. His Mihawk (One Piece) was incredible.

R.I.P
 
Finally finished watching the second Dragon Box last night (only 207 episodes to go!), haven't seen most of this stuff in 11 odd years, and never before in Japanese. Outside of a few bits of fluff like the Chichi and Bulma cutaways (especially Bulma; holy shit woman, Gohan's just had his neck snapped and you're whinging about having to sit around for a while) and some unnecessary flashbacks, I've actually kinda liked the pacing of the show up to this point. The Japanese music and sfx make the show feel more about building tension in the staredowns and then releasing in the moments of fighting and for the most part it works.

Then I had a quick look at the episode guide in the booklet for the third box and saw that the fight with Freeza's final form was going to take twenty more episodes. Yeah.
 

Kagari

Crystal Bearer
Never should have waited on buying that last DB box...

I needed the third one and it's IMPOSSIBLE to find at a normal price. Luckily Walmart online has it for some reason so I just ordered it to be safe.

In a way I wish Funimation didn't discontinue these so soon.
 

Anth0ny

Member
Never should have waited on buying that last DB box...

I needed the third one and it's IMPOSSIBLE to find at a normal price. Luckily Walmart online has it for some reason so I just ordered it to be safe.

In a way I wish Funimation didn't discontinue these so soon.

It's too bad. As soon as I realized they were going out of print, I picked them all up.

The video quality of the blu rays is fantastic. I sincerely hope they discontinued them because the higher ups at Toei are planning a Japanese remaster and don't want a FUNimation remaster in the wild.
 
I wonder if Toriyama always had Goku being an alien in mind (maybe not exactly a Saiyan, really), or was that purely something he came up with during the gap between the original and Z? Has anything ever been clarified about this?

Would be interesting to know when he decided Dragonball would move into alien territory.

I don't think Toriyama planned anything
 

GaimeGuy

Volunteer Deputy Campaign Director, Obama for America '16

Toriyama has confirmed in interviews before that he really doesn't plan much, if anything, out. You'll notice that the idea of a super saiyan wasn't even mentioned until.. I think it was the ginyu arc?

Toriyama probably conceived of super saiyan as a plot device to use during the upcoming frieza battle, to make frieza's power so great that only a basically mythological being of legend could defeat him.

Then there's hte fact that characters completely disappear at ranodm points for seemingly no reason at all. Launch is practically non-existent after the Piccolo fight. Tien doesn't even show up in the Buu saga except for brief cameo appearance despite certainly being able to sense everything around him.

There are inconsistencies and contradictions all over the place.

Toriyama may have a brief inking of who should take the spotlight, but that's the extent of his "planning." The most extensive long-term planning he probably did was starting the trunks/android arc and thinking of doing a torch-passing story from Goku to Gohan.
 

Risette

A Good Citizen
Never should have waited on buying that last DB box...

I needed the third one and it's IMPOSSIBLE to find at a normal price. Luckily Walmart online has it for some reason so I just ordered it to be safe.

In a way I wish Funimation didn't discontinue these so soon.
Box 3 is in stock at Walmart all the time. I linked you like 2 weeks ago!

4 has also been popping up a bit in the Funi channel store + Amazon sellers. 1 doesn't go for much on eBay. The hardest one to find is 2. It wasn't even on eBay last I checked a few hours ago... It's the only one I need. :(
 

Kagari

Crystal Bearer
Box 3 is in stock at Walmart all the time. I linked you like 2 weeks ago!

4 has also been popping up a bit in the Funi channel store + Amazon sellers. 1 doesn't go for much on eBay. The hardest one to find is 2. It wasn't even on eBay last I checked a few hours ago... It's the only one I need. :(

Yeah I know, which is why I ordered it :p
Should be here on Tuesday hopefully.
 

Ostinatto

Member
dragon ball is amazing

DBZ mmmm,was pretty good, but after freezer fight was pretty boring for me
i mean robots? really?
and then that pink monster turning people into chocolate bars..wtf??

roshi's training krilin and goku omg so good
 

Takao

Banned
In other news the Ocean dub of Kai is coming along at a glacial pace. Latest word is that it'll feature a Vancouver - Calgary vocal cast.

Hefully. Looks interesting and would be a nice change from the constant stream of Spike.

The newest update adds a Story Mode. The port's coming.
 

Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I still can't fathom why the chibi DB series exists.
 

Takao

Banned
Jeeze, the saturation on that picture of the box art is offensive. My eyes.

Also, I know DBZ for Kinect exists. It's 2012's game. 2013 will likely be the ZBR port.
 
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