Funimation to Host 'Virtual Con Panel' on Thursday

Virtual Con Panels can actually be a great way to reach out to fans who can't attend conventions for whatever reason.

This one apparently wasn't too exciting. But maybe they can improve later on.
 
About 119 people were there total the band with was going crazy I heard, and Rojas said he was getting a load of questions. So it was pretty crowded.
 
Yeah I agree.

Honestly Jacob, how does leaving footage without an English dub bring an anime into the same fold as other FUNimation properties. As far as I can tell it does the opposite.
 
With how important this release is it seems quite frankly stupid to make such an oversight. Especially with the possitive response to the dubs of Dragonball GT's OPs and ERAB that I've seen. That's something that really should have happened for this DEFFINATIVE SET as it were. That's not bringing DBZ into the fold of how they treat the rest of their properties... its once again cutting corners for no apparently good reason and making the dub version on the disc even more inferior in presentation to the sub version by not having dubbed episode previews. How will that even work? They just skip them if the setting are on English?

It's not enough to make me not want the Dragon Box but once again FUNimation makes an oversight that makes this release incomplete. When it's such as easy thing to deal with I really don't see why they shouldn't have done it even if the "core audience" aka "sub audience" wouldn't care if they're there or not the dub audience sure would.
 
Eh? They're keeping the dub with the original BGM. I was merely praising their removeral of the Faulconer track.



It's not like this will likely ever be the last release of Dragon Ball Z, y'know. As for the dub audience? The French DBox (as I understand) spliced in the Japanese version of scenes that weren't dubbed, I suppose this will be similar. The purpose of this release seems aimed nigh strictly towarRAB fans of the original so 'dub fans' who FUNination has catored to for 15 years (at least as a few more 'old school' sub fans I know of like to put it), are 'left in the dark', if you will.


I guess FUNimation is saying if you can't enjoy the original vocals and the original narration...you're not a 'hardcore fan'?


EDIT: This link will take you directly to the Dragon Box question asked. Apparently 'Super-duper-hardcore-fans' are JPN version fans?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrGE1iriLYk#t=16m51s
 
So much for bringing the fanbases together this will most likely only make them dislike eachother more.

And don't even get started on "hardcore fans" that's a debate we really don't need to have here. Save that for less civil message boarRAB.



My appreciation for the original series in Japanese asside... if that's the statement they want to make then screw FUNimation and their Dragon Box.
 
Yes that has become painfully obvious, and that's really the problem.

What is it about Dragonball Z that makes it so FUNimation is incapable of catoring to all their fanbases at the same time? It's just puzzling.

You either get it one way or the other, not both at least not without other problems (poor remastered wide screen footage in the case of the orange boxes).

This is still the best release DBZ has gotten here but if they had just put a bit more care into this they'd have a truely defininative release of DBZ (and no I don't mean including the Falcouner score but that would be nice).

It just seems... short-sighted. Something FUNimation rarely seems to be except when it comes to DBZ.

You know... now I'm starting to think a full redub of this series is the only way for them to break their bad habbits with DBZ. But I guess I'd settle for Kai getting a faithful translation.
 
Honest to God, this won't be the last DBZ release. There's a special place in Washington that prints the money that people spend on Dragon Ball.

Just take what you can get and wait for the inevitable 20th anniversary release of the series in America (which would be...six years away, actually)...(or the next best thing from Toei).


Although a total redub of all 508 episodes, three specials and 17 films would help push 'a complete release' a lot more, I'm sure.
 
Of course it wont be the last release of DBZ. They'll never stop releasing DBZ cause it sells no matter how many times they re-release it.

It's like FUNimation's equivalent to a Nintendo portable. Minor upgrades over many many years when they could probably go leaps and bounRAB more often than they do.
 
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