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Summary: Wait for the uncut set
Review: The first thirteen episodes that started it all. However, it is the highly edited versions. I suppose if you have really young children, it is alright to get this; but I suggest that you wait until funi releases the uncut episodes.
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Summary: Grate
Review: This is grate every one buy it. BD is no longer on in memphis. (that i can find)
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Summary: Good Stuff Here
Review: Ok if you want to see how the whole dragon ball thing got started then this is for you, Great audio and video quality + an interactive game in a 2 dvd boxed set, dubbed in english, i would give it 2 thumbs up, very affordable too.
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Summary: Ugh, I liked it better when spoken in Japanese
Review: Cha-laaa Head Cha-laaaa!
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Summary: Good for younger audiences
Review: Ok, first off, if u have a five or 6 year old, get this. Even with the monster cuts and editing, its still pretty funny.DragonBall came before Dragonball Z. Since the characters weren't very strong and couldn't fly, it focused on comedy. This is the set of the first 13 eps. of DragonBall. It introduces Goku, Bulma, Master Roshi, and Yamcha. Remember there are over 150 eps of DragonBall and this is only the first 13. Okay, this set is nice for the 5 year olds. I gave it four stars cuz its made for the young audience. If you have a 13 year old or so, I suggest the Viz Graphic Novels.
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Summary: good
Review: DB good,
no bad,
me like,
good dvd,
good game,
A+,
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Summary: A look back into the history of DB in America
Review: First of all, let me say this: If you're planning on getting this set to see the version of the first 13 episodes that you've seen airing on Cartoon Network, you're sorely mistaken. These episodes were dubbed in 1995, and are fairly different from the newer incarnation. Not only are they heavily censored, but they are dub-only, and the discs are poorly encoded to boot. Funimation can't release an uncut version of the of these particular episodes yet, because KidMark still holds the rights to them. However, since the 1995 dub only went to episode 13, the next 15 episodes of Funimation's "season 1" can be found uncut with the "Tournament" saga heading (and they will get a dub/sub DVD treatment, as with the newer DBZ discs). First and foremost in the differences between the new and old dubs: the music. Although the new (2001) dub from Funimation uses the original Japanese score and English arrangements of the original themes, this uses its own score. The theme's kinda catchy, and reminds me a bit of the ending theme to Mystical Adventure (movie 3), but the music in general reeks of a generic "American cartoon" quality that doesn't fit the series too well. It's mainly this that gives it a feel quite apart from the new version. Then there's the voices. Some of them will seem familiar to you if you've seen the first two dub seasons of DBZ, or live in part of the world that shows the KidBiz DBZ dub instead of Funimation's. In general, they're pretty good, but hard to get used to after over three years of hearing Funimation's voice actors in these roles. The pronunciation that this dub used for "Kamehame-ha" gets pretty annoying, too. The scripts are fairly accurate outside of the censorship (which there's a lot of), but there are also the classic Funimation jokes that fall flat. Also worthy of note is that many of the lines from this dub carry over into at least the edited version of the new one, though there are some changes. Censorship in this set is, for the most part, roughly equal to that of the version showed on Cartoon Network. It's in different areas, though. Cut-wise, a little more of the video is left in, but it's made-up for in some completely ridiculous use of digital paint and bad script rewrites. There's even some extra footage thrown in the first few episodes, and added recaps in most of them (since true recaps didn't really start until about episode 22 or so). One example of the goofy censorship in this version: Goku catching a fish in the first episode. In the newer Cartoon Network version, Goku is naked, though much of the scene is cut. In this version, all of the scene is left in, but Goku is wearing very poorly-drawn digital underpants. One major digital censor that carries over into the newer edited version is the use of American dollars on the fishing pole in episode 5 to catch Oolong (instead of Bulma's panties); you may notice that, when the episode airs on Cartoon Network, Goku dives into the water nude, but is suddenly wearing underpants when he surfaces. The feature, "Curse of the Blood Rubies," is a sorta-dub of DB movie 1, "Shenron no Densetsu" ("The Legend of Shenlong"), with some footage from episode 2 thrown in. I'm not quite sure why this was done, though it was probably either to replace a very perverted scene or just balance out the amount of cuts from the film... probably both. Overall, I wouldn't recommend getting this if you like DB for its off-color and oft-perverted humor; the newer "Tournament" tapes will suit you fine, and if you wait about a year, you should have an uncut version of these episodes to feast your eyes upon. Only get this set if you're really itching to see what Funimation intended all of the Dragon Ball franchise to be like when they first set out to dub the series: a mere shadow of its original self, aimed squarely at kids far too young to appreciate Akira Toriyama's quirky sense of humor.
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Summary: Wonderful and disapointing
Review: Wonderful, but as mentioned before it is EDITED for your 5 yearold brother. All the jokes, anecdotes and gems that make dragon ball dragon ball have been removed... would not have purchased if i had known. But all in all its still very funny!! I just wish they would release the origional... hint hint funimation... ; )
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Summary: Children shmildren
Review: Dragonball is a really funny series, so I was very much looking forward to buying the DVD...until I saw it was only available edited and dubbed. WTF? I know the DB series, especially the original, are very popular among children. But there are many fans over 18 that would just like to enjoy the series without the nonsense editing. Have two versions - one edited English dub only, and one bilingual uncut. And I mean UNCENSORED as well as uncut. Give people the option to choose. I really don't get it. Doesn't Funimation WANT money? And another thing, what is the deal with certain parents demanding that DBZ and DB be edited? Did you perhaps not realize it is insanely violent? Just because it vaguely resembles Disney doesn't mean it has that same level of child friendly quality. And since when did we start editing cartoons? Why was Wiley E. Coyote and Popeye good enough for my parents to watch, but now all of a sudden I can't see it uncut? Where's Mighty Mouse to save us from this nonsense? This whole censoring garbage has gone too far. Did you know that Crystal Communications recently banned songs from their radio stations that are anyway even remotely related to NY's WTC attacks? Everyone from Megadeth to Buddy Holly. Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York" is banned! Ridiculous! Oops, I started ranting. To sum up: DB is funny. DB on DVD censored is NOT funny.
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Summary: I'd wait for when they release the uncut version of the new
Review: You may be more familiar with Dragon Ball Z, than Dragon Ball. Dragon Ball Z, is a story taking place long after Dragon Ball when the characters of Dragon Ball are adults. The first season (included on this DvD) and some of the second season is based on an anciant Chinese ledgend, drastically modernised to the not-so-distant future in a simular world to ours, of course that's not so distant future as anticipated from the 80s when this series was first released in Japan, which explains why many of the computer displays are "green phospher" colored, and the total lack of use of flat panel displays like in modern Anime and Science Fiction. (Although Star Trek: TNG featured plasma flat panels at this time, they didn't have the idea that it could be propped up on a stand yet.) For those of you not familiar with Dragon Ball, it is the story of Goku in as a young boy. He lived in the mountains in the house of his adopted grandfather Gohan (you may recognize the name from Dragonball Z. That character was named after Goku's grandfather). Goku is no ordinary boy of course, besides having a peculiar tail, he is unbelievably strong, and well trained in Karate. Before his grandfather died, he had given Gohan a precious Dragon Ball to remember him by. Little did Goku know, but when all 7 Dragon Balls are gathered, a Dragon will appear and grant the bearer a single wish. Of course that changes when Bulma, a 17 year old girl, searching for the Dragon Balls in order to make a wish rather typical of a teenaged girl, for a perfect boyfriend. Goku decides to go along with Bulma searching for adventure in order to seek out adventure, and to keep the Dragon Balls, out of evil hands, not just nieve ones like Bulma's. Along the way many adventures await Goku, including (forgive my spelling, Funimation has a tendancy to use non-standard Japanise to English phonetics on names) Roshi the turtle hermit, shapeshifters Oolong and Kwar, Karate expert Yamcha with his Wolf Fang Fists, and most importantly Emporor Pilof (and his less then competent spies) who is seeking the Dragon Balls to wish for world domination. Unfortunatly, this particular edition of Dragon Ball has lowsy translation, and over-localization. The Curse Of The Blood Rubies has severe MPEG compression artifacts, and they completely re-wrote the title and credit sequences on the series eposodes. This is even beyond Funimations low standards in regards to such mangling. A different translation is airing on Toonami right now. The Toonami version has the original music track, is significantly less censored, but is cut for run-time around the commercial breaks (it seems the American and Japanise commercial breaks line up at different times) If Funimation has any brains at all, they will probably be re-releasing the entire series on DvD next year. I doubt the version that is currently airing on Toonami will be cut for run-time on DvD format. If I could make my purchase of Dragon Ball DvDs over, I would wait for the new version to be released
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