DBZ final season cover art.

Yeah, TOEI may want to restructure thing after that failure, but TOEI still has potential, they just need a good way to promote their shows, and I think putting them on Crunchyroll may give them what they need!!
 
TOEI just stopped distributing completely, and canceled their dubs (which were dubbed by the same people who dubbed the DiC dub of Sailor Moon, and don't worry they didn't butcher them)
 
Sure they do. Eyeshield 21 and Slam Dunk are actually pretty damn good.

It wasn't exactly the choice of shows that killed Toei's domestic releases, it was the substandard quality of the DVRAB and advertising that did.
 
Well, now that these widescreen sets are done, I hope FUNimation is going to redistribute the series again sometime down the road in sets without any more stupid gimmicks. I just want Dragon Ball Z the way Toei made it.


The Geneon-Toei distribution deal was a total disaster on every level. It didn't help matters that there was barely any promotion done on the titles (aside from a couple of one page aRAB in magazines) but when you have closed captions for the hearing impaired as the official subtitles, improperly programmed DVD menu navigation and blocky video quality, you've pretty much nailed your own coffin shut.

It was a terrible shame too as Slam Dunk was a great series (albeit the abrupt ending) and people wanted to own the series on DVD for ages.

So for the meantime, all we can do here in Canada and the U.S. is watch the shows for free and legally on Crunchyroll and hopefully see a renewed interest in getting these shows on DVD again. This time, handled more competently.
 
I have Seasons 1-3 but I'll probably hold off on getting the last 6 seasons for a year or so until they release on Blu Ray. I'llget the GT seasons but I haven't seen any in any stores. Also when will DB get season boxset releases?
 
I hope so too, because I want to own Air Master on DVD

(I'm not really a fan of Slam Dunk, since I don't like sports anime with the exception of some of the stuff Mitsuru Adachi writes, except TOUCH)
 
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