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This is one of the worst shows I have ever seen. Now, everyone knows that Japanese culture is inferior, so I attributed the stupidity of these shows to some Japanese cultural flaw. That made sense to me. Since Japan was isolated from the rest of the world for thousands of years, they developed a lot of.....interesting..... ideas. For instance, had they shared technology and findings with the rest of the world, they might have discovered that having teacups without handles is not a very good idea. Tea is intended to be hot. China conducts heat. NOT a good idea. The British figured this out and did the simple thing of putting handles on their teacups, but NOT the Japanese. Nooo, they're too good for fancy handles! Similarly, they eat with sticks despite the fact that much simpler ways have been discovered for instance A FORK. But no. The Japanese couldn't figure this one out either.
It makes no sense? Why would they make such horrible shows? Not many people know this but when the Japanese adopted their new constitution in 1946, a proviso was added stating that any fictitious character created needed to be able to transform into a robot which later combined with other robots to form a giant super-robot. This strange trend in Japanese fiction now made sense to me. However, their shoddy animation still defied explanation.
The animation is terrible. It features characters with strange looking eyes that talk by simply opening their mouths. Their hair is all pointy like the statue of liberty (even though they're not even American) and their eyes are all big and stuff. Then they have this weird swooshy stuff in the background and they're constantly fighting with one another. Why does every Japanese cartoon have constant fighting and no storyline? Stupid Japan, they don't even have a military. Why train their children to be overtly violent? Or maybe that's why they do it... because since they can't do anything cool in real life they need to do it in stupid cartoons to get it out of their system. Whatever it is, we need to stop importing this crap.
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this is where the action starts to heat up for the final battle
this is a great collection of episodes
this is a must have for any dbz fan
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Ok im watching dbz everything is going good then the player is unable to read the disc it cant read the half the 2nd and third
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Dragon Ball Z is the one greatest anime series ever created. With its action-packed universe and compelling storylines, Akira Toriyama's magnum opus has never failed to please. This is the latest season set FUNimation has released of the series.
This set picks up where the last one left off. The Z-Fighters pursue the strange warriors from the World Tournament to a remote location - and meet up with the new threat at hand. Babidi, an evil wizard, is trying to get energy so he can release Majin Buu, the ultimate evil. Our heroes have no trouble taking out Babidi's henchmen, but things take a turn for the worst when the evil wizard possesses Vegeta, restoring him to his former evil self. It isn't long before the strange new monster is released, and innocent as this new monster looks, he is going to be the Z-Fighters' greatest challenge.
The DVD set is divided amongst six discs, and contains the complete Babidi Saga, and the first half of the Buu Saga. The picture has been subjected to digital noise reduction, and the set includes a booklet of character profiles and episode listings.
Obviously, if you're new to Dragon Ball Z, you'll want to start with the Season One box set, but if you're already a fan, you'll enjoy these episodes. After the disappointing Saiyaman and World Tournament episodes, this is where things finally start to pick up. We get to see some great battles, and finally get to see the rematch of the century - Goku vs. Vegeta! The Majin Buu Saga (including what is featured in the next set) drags on far too long, but there are a ton of great fights and moments of brilliance. No fan of DBZ will want to be without these episodes.
One of my personal favorite features of the set is the Marathon feature. FUNimation includes a feature in these sets that allows you to view all of the episodes on each disc from start to end with no interruptions from intros/outros/recaps/etc. This is an extremely handy feature I wish more TV shows on DVD had.
Like earlier Dragon Ball Z season sets, the picture has been cropped at the top and bottom (this was done due to excessive grain and damage to the original source), and it has been subjected to the digital noise reduction process. Obviously a lot of fans, myself included, were disappointed to see the picture get cropped. While the digital noise reduction doesn't do as thorough a job cleaning up the image as you'd hope, it IS the best these episodes have ever looked. In other words, it's a "give and take" scenario. You lose some of the picture you could see on earlier full-frame DVDs, but on the good side, you gain some picture on the sides, and the image quality is superior to all earlier DVD releases.
Sound quality is similar to the earlier sets. English audio quality is fantastic, but the dub is still translated poorly and the voice cast is hit and miss. On the other hand, the Japanese audio quality is poor, showing its age, but it does feature a well-translated subtitle track from Steven J. Simmons that lets you experience the series as originally intended.
Additionally, like the earlier sets, you have the option of watching the English voice cast played against the original Japanese audio.
Disappointingly, the next episode previews aren't included. But they weren't in any earlier season set, so it's no big surprise.
No special features are included here unless you count the trailers and the same textless opening/closing sequence all other sets like this have had. On the good side, the set does include a booklet similar to the earlier sets, with character profiles and an episode guide, making it handy to go right where you need to go on the DVDs.
It's another good Dragon Ball Z season set, enough said. The Buu Saga is not my favorite saga, mostly due to the fact that it drags on for what seems like forever, but essential for completists all the same. If you're a fan of the series and don't already have these episodes, you can get them all here for one low price. Cropping issues aside, this is a great set, and a good value, especially compared to the older DVD releases.
Highly recommended to any fan of Dragon Ball Z.
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what more to say then dbz season eight is the epic introduction and beggining the battle of the z-fighters and majin boo. so all you dbz fans go out and get this one cause it's one of the best seasons so far released.
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