I haven’t experienced any of the problems with things peeling apart that others have had, and two months later, my box remains in pristine shape. To start, the packaging is the highest in quality that I’ve ever personally seen in a FUNimation release. It’s like FUNimation was reading my mind.īut enough about me let’s get to the set itself.
They seemed to be exactly what I wanted, but at a cheaper price, playable on all of my American DVD players without fuss, and with subtitles so that I can more easily watch the series in social settings. But shortly after that, before I’d even had time to watch my imported discs, FUNimation totally surprised me by announcing North American versions of the Dragon Boxes. So, I began gradually importing a few of Toei and Pony Canyon’s single volume releases, thinking that it was probably my only option. With that, it seemed clear that FUNimation was not interested in appealing to someone with a purist attitude like mine, and combined with the announcement of Dragon Ball Kai, I began to fear that even Toei might phase out their Dragon Ball Z DVDs in favor of promoting the new baby. I chose to go without owning Dragon Ball Z rather than settling for those, in spite of the fact that I had never even seen most of the pre-Ginyuu episodes, thanks to the way the old releases were handled. Those sets eventually materialized as the nine season sets, which were not even remotely the type of release I was interested in. However, there was talk of FUNi potentially re-releasing the series in economy box sets from beginning to end, which certainly piqued my interest as a cheap and easy way to re-start my collection. So, at that point, I had gone back to square one and no longer owned any of the Z TV series. But FUNimation’s cancellation of the releases killed my desire to even attempt to pick up my few missing volumes, and other circumstances soon led me to getting rid of everything I did have.
After a few years, I’d collected nearly all of those individual volumes, save for a few of the final releases. I began collecting FUNimation’s Dragon Ball Z DVDs in 2001, back when there was only a handful of 3 episode volumes available. As someone who undoubtedly falls into the “hardcore” category, this feels almost too good to be true, and this review will undoubtedly live up to the name of this site.īefore I begin, I think it’s important to explain my perspective on this release. Additionally, there is increased focus on the original Japanese audio, in spite of all the reversioning treatment and marketing that FUNimation had previously done for the series. But this time, the releases are aimed at the “hardcore” fans by mirroring the limited edition “Dragon Box” sets that were released in Japan in 2003, featuring a proper, thorough remastering of the video in its original 4:3 aspect ratio. However, very recently, at the end of 2009, FUNimation started over for a third time (or fourth time, if you count the TV edited releases). Thus, there has only been one consistent release of all 291 episodes of Dragon Ball Z in North America, but at the cost of roughly one-sixth of the footage from every frame of every episode. However, in 2007, FUNimation re-started their Dragon Ball Z DVD releases in a “remastered” format that was cropped to widescreen, and fully released every episode this way from beginning to end in boxed sets. But those releases were quietly canceled before even the first dub season was finished, leaving a gap of forty episodes that were never released in this format. In 2005, after the rest of the series was finished, FUNimation began releasing bilingual, uncut versions of the episodes that were previously sub-licensed to Pioneer (now known as Geneon). In 2000, FUNimation began releasing their own uncut, bilingual DVDs of the series, starting with the third dub season. In 1999, Pioneer began releasing the edited TV version of the first two dub seasons of Dragon Ball Z on DVD.
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