You still didn't specify if you're asking about the anime, or the manga. Manga Entertainment (UK) is releasing the cropped, and frankly really ugly looking season sets for Dragon Ball Z. It's done very well for them so it's likely they'll pick up the other series, and maybe re-release Z with Dragon Box footage or something. Viz has released the manga in Europe before.
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You still didn't specify if you're asking about the anime, or the manga. Manga Entertainment (UK) is releasing the cropped, and frankly really ugly looking season sets for Dragon Ball Z. It's done very well for them so it's likely they'll pick up the other series, and maybe re-release Z with Dragon Box footage or something. Viz has released the manga in Europe before.
Also, if I remember correctly, the Androids barely used massive ki attacks. The only thing I really remember is Seventeen's Energy Barrier.
Sorry, I meant the anime.
biosnake20
Member
Omg omg omg omg
Julian from Kanzenshuu received his copy in the mail, and posted an unboxing video of the limited edition:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151686858539092
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151686873009092
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151686858539092
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151686873009092
biosnake20
Member
The blu ray doesn't come with English subtitles?
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Well, no. It's a Japanese release.
A few people on Twitter said the DVD has subtitles though.
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Oh, really? I hadn't heard that. That's odd then if the DVD does but the Bluray doesn't.
It has Japanese subtitles, like the Blu-Ray.
VanquishUK
Member
SSJ3 Goku: flicked to the floor and held back with a finger.
SSJ1 Goku: Putting up a pretty darn good fight.
The other day I ordered one of my favorite things from DBZ.
Cell.
Or to be more accurate
S.H. Figuarts Perfect Cell.
Not my picture but that's what he looks like.
Always enjoyed his character, if they had to make some bad guys go good I kind of wish he had been one. If nothing else because he would have been one of the few who could have likely powered up as much as Goku did and maybe play a half good/bad guy role.
He was one of the best characters to be created by far.
Cell.
Or to be more accurate
S.H. Figuarts Perfect Cell.
Not my picture but that's what he looks like.
Always enjoyed his character, if they had to make some bad guys go good I kind of wish he had been one. If nothing else because he would have been one of the few who could have likely powered up as much as Goku did and maybe play a half good/bad guy role.
He was one of the best characters to be created by far.
Huh?
"I was wondering what they were going to do when his head moved, since his hairstyle wasnt really consistent, so I admire whoever had to had to make it look as if it were. The voice fit my image exactly. But I guess thats only natural, since I listened to the seiyuu audition tapes and picked it myself (laughs). The truth is that I dont know much about anime, so even when I was told the name Nozawa Masako, at the time I had no idea she was someone famous."
--Akira Toriyama
Box of Bunnies
Banned
See, that makes sense. Only reason it'd have English subs is if they threw whatever's being used for the handful of international showings on there for some reason.
These things typical happen after the home media release, which has only just happened.
Chaotic-Strike
Banned
Are we talking about the same Akira Toriyama ,who can't even remember Mercenary Tao among other things? I'm pretty sure he decided that Nozawa was always what he envisioned for Goku after he got accustomed to hearing her for so long. Much in the same way, many English DBZ fans find Linda Young's Freeza what they always "envisioned".
That and I doubt he would ever disrespect any of the original voice cast.
Box of Bunnies
Banned
It says there in the interview that he selected her himself. What he can or can't remember now or how accustomed he is to the performance is irrelevant if he chose her while still doing the series.
First bad guy to ever beat Goku, but only shows up three times. Not exactly major.
Finished Kai tonight and went back to the Dragon Box. Pacing is night and day, voice acting isn't that noticeable but video quality is.
Would watch a thousand episodes about Gohan being a super hero though....oh no the world martial arts tournament and the plot have to come in and ruin everything. Shame.
Imperfect Cell is the villain equivalent of Yamcha. Shows up as a goofy looking world beater/serious threat, gets punked by Tien, is a real creepier towards android 18, gets obliterated by Vegeta and spends around two episodes of Kai begging off. Next time he is seen he gets all fat and has a temper tantrum.
Meanwhile the other two Cells are glorious bastards; the first one eats people and uses their souls to power up while sneaking around and being awesome while Perfect/Super Perfect Cell is just a glorious bastard; he no sells the Destructo Disc! Goes on tv to promote his tournament! Fights fair until he decides not to...picks on a little kid...well I guess we can't all be perfect.
Finished Kai tonight and went back to the Dragon Box. Pacing is night and day, voice acting isn't that noticeable but video quality is.
Would watch a thousand episodes about Gohan being a super hero though....oh no the world martial arts tournament and the plot have to come in and ruin everything. Shame.
Imperfect Cell is the villain equivalent of Yamcha. Shows up as a goofy looking world beater/serious threat, gets punked by Tien, is a real creepier towards android 18, gets obliterated by Vegeta and spends around two episodes of Kai begging off. Next time he is seen he gets all fat and has a temper tantrum.
Meanwhile the other two Cells are glorious bastards; the first one eats people and uses their souls to power up while sneaking around and being awesome while Perfect/Super Perfect Cell is just a glorious bastard; he no sells the Destructo Disc! Goes on tv to promote his tournament! Fights fair until he decides not to...picks on a little kid...well I guess we can't all be perfect.
Chaotic-Strike
Banned
I'm not necessarily arguing that he didn't choose her only that when he did the casting, Goku was still a child. By the time Goku grew up, he was already far to accustomed to her voice to ever change it. I guess you could call it irrelevant, but many still find the voice unfitting despite the creator saying otherwise.
He shows up twice, Red Ribbon Army arc & 23rd Budokai. He appears in some Cell Games filler though.
But it's Toriyama's character, he knows what the characters voice would sound like. You don't have to like the voice, but its pretty out there to call it "unfitting"
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Yeah, if you want to go after Toriyama for forgetting stuff, Lunch is the obvious example.
Yeah.
Although I think in that case it was a mixture of forgetting about her and not knowing what the fuck to do with her character at that point.
He did intend to put her in the Buu arc Genki Dama scene, but figured the audience wouldn't know who she was and put Seventeen's in that panel instead.
But he successfully killed Goku!
Chaotic-Strike
Banned
Considering all the complaint's it gets I don't think it's too far out there to call it unfitting. It's not exactly extremely common for someone with Goku's build to have that voice in animation that isn't played for comedy.
That was just the first example that came to mind. A more recent example is him mistaking SSJ3 for SSJ2. Then there's him forgetting Android 18 original hair color was blonde. Yeah...his memory isn't exactly the best.
Bills explains that
Goku still has access to high reserves of strength after exiting his Super Saiyan God form due to having absorbed the strength of the form in to his own body. Though he isn't quite as strong as he is as a Super Saiyan God, he's still incredibly powerful.
Does it even really get complaints outside of US fans that grew up with Schemmel's Superman-esque voice? I don't think the fans in Japan really minded.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
I don't trust the Abridged, so how did Trunks blurt out that he's the son of Vegeta and Bulma.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNQSxO2rGJo
Start at 1:12 since the Kai dub is pretty accurate Script wise.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
...so it's all Piccolo's fault!
Box of Bunnies
Banned
A lot of those complaints are from the same kind of people that call the original score "circus music" so yeah, I don't give much credence to them.
Chaotic-Strike
Banned
Keep in mind every dub outside of Japan Goku's voice is male. You don't seem to find too many fans of cross-dressing voiceovers unless the character is young or played for humor.
Schemmel sounding Superman-esque was primarily contained to the early Z dub which has it own sort of issues, mostly translation issues and the actors being completely new to voice acting. On top of that early on they were pretty much told to imitate the previous Ocean cast.
Schemmel's is really great for the character in Kai and the portions they later dubbed in2006. As for Japanese fan's not caring, we have direct equivalent in the English dub. Before Kai you would be hard-pressed to find casual fans of the Z dub minding Linda Young's Freeza . Heck some fans of the "original" Z dub still prefer her over the Kai replacement.
What about the complaints from other countries with the original Japanese music?
Nah, I count the first and second Tao fights as two separate appearances.
darkazcura
Member
Holy crap! I've only watched the sub'd version of Kai, but wow at that dub'd voice (just searched YouTube). I want to do a dub'd watch of Kai now. Have to get the blu rays sooner or later..
Uh, I remember a lot of casual fans making fun of Frieza's Genkai voice even before the recasting.
And personally I'm still not a fan of Schemmel's Goku. He's doesn't really have capture childlike innocence of the character. I won't begrudge others if they prefer it, though.
That's basically cheating.
HERE WE GO AGAIN
http://www.kanzenshuu.com/2013/09/13/funimation-blu-ray-dbz-season-one-listed-for-january-2014/
Release the new animation? Hell no, here's another DBZ release instead.
http://www.kanzenshuu.com/2013/09/13/funimation-blu-ray-dbz-season-one-listed-for-january-2014/
In July 2011, FUNimation announced a new Blu-ray remaster of the Dragon Ball Z TV series. Half a year later, after only two volumes hit store shelves, they announced their work on the release would be indefinitely suspended.
Last June, the company conducted an online survey asking fans about their potential interest in a revived Blu-ray release of the series, putting forth questions about cropping, a release schedule, pricing, etc.
Listings-superfan WTK posted up a link to the latest Previews sheet for Octobers solicitations, which clearly lists a Season One version of some type of Blu-ray release:
Are we looking at a January 2014 re-try for FUNimation and an HD version of Dragon Ball Z at $44.98? Will it be 2007 all over again with cropped video? Will the first batch of episodes be re-remastered to fall in line with whatever new process they have decided upon, or will it be the same remastering process just with a few more years worth of experience behind them?
As of right now, we know nothing so stay tuned
Release the new animation? Hell no, here's another DBZ release instead.
I was referring to stuff like Battle of Gods, Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans, Yo! Son Goku & Friends Return, etc.
oh jesus.
I hope it's at least the transfers they were using for the last blu ray release. they were pretty.
$45 a pop for a season is decent, unlike what they tried to do with that first blu ray release...
Attack of the Saiyans, Ultimate Butouden, and I guess Supersonic Warriors 2 if you like Arc System Works games.