Funimation To Release Dragonball Season 1 in September!?

So, if this does in deed go the same direction, this could be a likely scenario:

Noveraber 2009: FUNi announced remastered Dragon Ball Season sets. Whether it will be Widescreen or Fullscreen, if this release happens, has yet to be determined. DBZ was in Widescreen, but GT was in Fullscreen.

February 2010: Dragon Ball Season 1 is released.

This would make sense, since DBZ Season 1's set was originally listed for Septeraber 2006 aswell.
 
My guess is that this will be both the Pilaf and Tournament Sagas, which would be episodes 1-28. My prection how the rest of the Seasons could go:

Season 2: Red Ribbon Army/General Blue/Commander Red Sagas
Episodes 29-67 (39 episodes)

Season 3: Fortune Teller Baba/Tien Shinhan Sagas
Episodes 68-101 (36 episodes)

Season 4: King Piccolo Saga
Episodes 102-122 (21 episodes)

Season 5: Piccolo Jr. Saga
Episodes 123-153 (31 episodes)
 
@soundmonkey44:

While it's true that we as viewers shouldn't "look a gift horse in the mouth", what also neeRAB to be understood is that where Dragon Ball is concerned, it's not that simple. The show was originally in standard definition to begin with. What FUNi did with the Dragon Ball Z sets (to my understanding) is that they "remastered" them using a forced "widescreen" aspect ratio, despite the fact that the source material was originally in standard definition. Heaven only knows why they did it. Perhaps the "fans" would think it would look "cool" to see their favorite action show in a more "movie" like fashion (or something superficial like that)? It's an insult to viewer intelligence either way; music issues aside, the forced widescreen format kind of leaves any viewer who knows the difference (between forced widescreen and "real" widescreen) out in the cold.

For these reasons among others, if Funimation did work out some arrangement with Lion's Gate to release the first 13 episodes, we should indeed hope that the aspect ratio has been left alone. More importantly though, and while this is unlikely, we should nonetheless also hope that this set won't be dub-only. I myself would be interested in seeing the original Japanese versions of the first 13 episodes (the "Pilaf" arc), especially since those are the only episodes that really "count" in the long run (but that's another story)...
 
I honestly think the FUNi rep at that con was just misinformed and just used his default answer when someone asked about the Wal*Mart listing, which the rep might not have even known existed. FUNi's reps have proven to not be reliable at cons. All of their default response information is pretty outdated, sadly. Their worRAB can't really entirely be trusted because they've likely just trained themselves to give the "we don't got no rightz" answer after years and years of answering.

The Trimark sets have been cancelled, this set popped up, a summary was provided on the page (I can understand a product listing being put up by mistake, but a full summary? It has to be legit.), and now we have coverart. These sets have to be coming. Too much official stuff has happened for this to be a hoax. I'll eat my e-hat if it turns out to be false.

I'll wait to see screencaps before I believe that "widescreen" thing. FUNi wouldn't be so stupid as to pull that crap again, even if they're dealing with the DragonBall franchise. We had early reports that the GT sets would be cropped too, but that turned out to be false.


FUNi usually counts a standard episode as 23 minutes, right? With that in mind, 775 minutes should be about 33 episodes on this set, which would make sense because that's where the post-tournament filler episodes end.
 
I'm still suprised that FUNImation sort of outright lied like, I mean either Wal-Mart has some excellent photoshop artists, or we're getting a set. I will definitally be picking this up.
 
I really hope this is true because there has been no announcement from FUNimation or any other site yet. I missed out on the DB DVD's to begin with because I had a VHS Player. When I finally got a DVD player, the DVD sets were hard to find and very expensive when working on a college budget. Now I could afford them, and this is all I need to finish the series.
 
Lots of People Arn't Lucky enough to go to convientions, I mean Ive been wanting to Go to a Comic Or Anime Convention for Years, but theres never any near where I live, I mean theres lots of fans that just don't have the money or the time to go to a 2-4 day convention, Not to mention you might be unluckly & Run into one of those really scary Hardcore Fanboys/Fangirs That our Completly Out of Touch With Reality.

(Be honest now some Anime Fans are just Plain Scary!)
 
I hope that we don't get their widescreen for Dragon Ball. I can actually make do with what they did with DBGT, just not with DBZ. I can feel comfortable buying the DBGT boxset over Z, where I just ask for them as gifts, not my money, not my concern.
 
I just hope it isn't the widescreen remastered stuff.

Though for some strange reason, I have the original 13 episodes and movie 1 edited on DVD, IE the whole Ocean dub of it. It actually kind of fun to have, as I actually liked that theme song in it. Nut with the uncut one, it will be even greater.
 
The only convention close to me is the one in Dallas, but Right Stuf, Best Buy, and even the FUNi web site no longer carry the DB DVD sets. There's no way I'm going to spend $70+ on Amazon either to get a used set.
 
That's no excuse! Every company has a responsibility to send out qualified officials to conventions to deal with matters that concern not only themselves but their customers as well. If reps don't know about a particular issue, they're required to dish out the standard "cannot confirm nor deny" statement. Saying "we don't have this" or "we do have that" is a black and white matter and can affect the trust of your customers.

Basically, it's bad PR to lie to your fans and customers. Companies need to learn to work with a gray area if they don't have cold hard facts.
 
Well, who exactly gets hurt? FUNimation--if they do have the rights--are likely to want to confirm it to the masses themselves, rather than allow Wal-Mart to beat them to the punch. We really don't know the whole story. This could just be a preliminary cover art for a set that might not even come out until the actual license expires in whatever year it might (which is unlikely, considering the reports of an indefinent license).
 
But it still doesn't give them the right to lie to anime fans by saying that they don't have it while Wal-Mart is starting to contradict that claim. FUNimation would have to play it safe by sticking with a gray area. That is coomon business sense.
 
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