Kanzenshuu

Trying to calculate the rate of Freeza's strength gains to the day assumes his species grows at a comically absurd rate like the Saiyans do, as if Freeza was running himself ragged then chowing on senzu beans the way Goku was on the way to Namek. And that is probably true to a point, what with his h...

Whenever I ponder this, I always conclude that I don't want Goku to be angrier, I just want to know he's invested in how high stakes the Piccolo-on fights are. But funny enough, adult Goku's usual attitude is the better one to have in those situations. If you're going to paralyze Nappa for making a ...

It is easy to downplay a lot of its success if you downplay what can pass as popular in Dragon Ball's pop culture sphere. Say "It's Jump success doesn't matter because a lot of Jump mega hits are puerile " or "Sure it has a long cultural tail, so do Transformers and Pokemon ". It...

I'm not finding any of the old comparison shots at a glance either. So do we think Toei assigned the movie transfers to different people across the two versions? You would think it would be easier for them to be consistent, it would be a shame if the best version really was stream only, if only for ...

Funi's HD releases of the Z movies, while worthy of critcism, remain about the same quality as the Blu-rays available in Japan, but have been available several years longer, etc. etc. etc. so clearly they don't care about a release being superior). You think so? I know the transfer quality changed ...

I don't think I've see n the Broly sequels all the way through on account of their reputation! In light of that I think I'd give it to Android 13, Cooler 2 and Lord Slug are similarly by-the-numbers but have slightly more redeeming features. Lord Slug in particular is delightfully mean-spirited star...

I find my fondest memories of these sorts things are people driven, so playing through Budokai 1 and to a lesser extent Budokai 3 with various friends and following FUNimation's releases of the movies with one of those come to my mind first. We tied Broly 1's American release to a birthday after-par...

The anime version saw a great opportunity and took it, it just chose to go about it in a way that undermined Vegeta. The manga's version is simple by compare but is both an actual surprise - last we saw Vegeta he was on the ground and had seemingly given up- and some actual comeuppance for Vegeta af...

I do wonder if the iterative sequels were a necessary evil to kick of the annual home console game process again. I would love to be a fly on the wall at Namco to see how far ahead they plan these games. I think we can actually throw around what the real "dark time" was. The early 2000s we...

You cannot replace the audio track on the original discs themselves. You can make high quality copies of the video in a format that supports multiple audio tracks (.mkv being a popular one), and add the broadcast audio to that video copy. I am not sure if you could rip a 1:1 ISO and replace the Japa...

I was not into Dragon Ball enough to be curious about the home video market at the time, just savvy enough to know I was watching a punched-up English dub and obviously the cast switch, but I was almost waiting for Mike to say "We have this thing, we are capable of giving it to you, but we won'...

The biggest thorn they've left us is the silly expectation that every Dragon Ball game with a character select screen should have 120+ characters because Spike broke some eternal franchise-wide ceiling that must be respected, on weaker hardware, with no thought for the time allotted and needs of a g...

The younger staff with more wide-ranging tastes definitely have an effect on the characters being more queer and gender and sex non-conforming. It also helps that there us a genuine fandom for queer characters and themes. Otaku are by nature queer, even if their relationships with 3D partners are h...

It's funny because there's another sizeable window in the 7 year gap between Cell and Buu that they could use but refuse not to. I wonder why? Granted, the depths of power were more firmly established between points A and B then, plus there wouldn't be Goten and Trunks to use, but they still could ...

TheGreatness25 wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2019 4:01 pmSo, I'm glad that this is the DVD alternative. I tried to throw in a Blu-ray (not Dragon Ball, albeit) into MakeMKV and when I try to play the ripped file, it basically says that it's unsupported :/

Do you have the means to play Blu-Rays normally?

Mike, far be it from any of us to presume the lack of a podcast means you are not working on the site! I recall one of the answers to the Kazenshuu Q&A was that Dragon Ball Z is so freakishly popular in the English-speaking world that it has different "markets", which is a polite way o...

Having just watched those episodes again to reply to this, if anything the filler scuffle just further highlights how sudden Toriyama's placement of Vegeta after the Freeza arc is. Vegeta spends the entire Freeza arc and, on the surface, the entire Android/Cell arc thinking he is just one transforma...

"I have ridden galactic slugs faster than this vehicle!" - Vegeta, on Bulma's airship to the 28th Tournament in the Buu arc And of course Android 13 is the entire early FUNimation package in less than 30 seconds: "I know, we should all just let bygones be bygones, but that ain't the w...

"Carrot on a stick" was the name of the game. Toei did not know if and when Toriyama was going to do anything with Gohan, but they could never rule it out, so they had to plant seeds that could sprout if his time came, and stay in the ground if it never did. That would inevitably make Goha...

FUNi using the faulty "modernization" logic of their cropping and scrubbing to turn aspect ratios into a a collector's item again? :thumbdown: Not that we need any more proof of that after the Blu-Ray seasons. It will be interesting to see what the full package looks like, it sounds like s...