Toon Zone Talkback - FUNimation Announces New May Titles Including "Dragon Ball Kai"

Yeah, like I said I'll be playing the waiting game with these releases. I can wait a couple years for a good deal. There is plenty of other anime already out to keep me occupied.

All though I doubt Funimation has lost a large amount of money. Compared to someone like ADV they are in good shape.
 
Wait, what?

"Air Complete Sollection S.A.V.E. Edition: $19.98"

They're doing the S.A.V.E. crap to Air, too? Oh, I see, series based on the Key games will get this treatment.

Because apperantly, both this and Kanon involve "saving". Get it?

No, because that ugly green stripe will ruin it's cover.

Also, FUNi, if you can make Kanon go from $70 to $20 (also, it has 24 episodes, just to let you know), why not do that to, you know, most of the other series you licensed?

Yeah, do that for a series like, I don't know, Karin, or Venus Vs. Virus or Red Garden, I mean, we're not made of money.
 
Definitely Brotherhood. Definitely One Piece. Possibly Dragon Ball Kai or Kenichi (season one was entertaining, it's good fun with its action/comedy mix). I might consider Initial D, but it's a rental first for sure.

Highly anticipating Eden of the East and Casshern whenever they come out.



Meh. Personally, I'm not believing in the green stripe until I see it with my own eyes. I still haven't found a significant online retailer that portrays the packaging that way. Certainly not Amazon and Rightstuf.
 
Dragon Ball Kai Part 1 Blu-ray
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Blu-ray
Dragon Ball Season 4 Uncut
Dragon Ball Z Dragon Box Z Set 3
One Piece Season 2 Part 7

RightStuf had a FUNimation sale relatively recently, but I'd love it if they'd have another one by May...
 
Hopefully a reply shall come quickly, then. I figure we might get some news about it out of FUNimation some time tomorrow, however...assuming their panel at Katsucon has yet to pass.
 
some of you must have much dough to blow or are just fools swallowing anything funi throws at you. i mean, look at the dbz so-called ultimate editions and all the re-releases. now you got dbk that's true hd widescreen, better vocals and music track, and could be considered what fans have wanted all along. just now it's being released for a bloated price. if you want it, go for it. but as has been mentioned, stuff will just be put on the bargain bin eventually and re-released yet again. makes no sense how gullible people are. but it's your money. spend it how you want. me, i don't do physical media anymore. give me the download, not the bd/dvd.
 
Except Dragon Ball Kai isn't being released in wide screen, certainly on Blu-ray, and it's not the Dragon Ball Z anime people know and love (or loath). It's a completely different experience and product.

And trust me, it's not what's fans have wanted all along.
 
it's kinda impossible for dbk not to be released in widescreen as that's its native aspect ratio. maybe the dvd will downscale the res from 720p but the bd will most certainly have to present the product fully.

by nature, it's not completely different. it's tighter and more cohesive. really, for new fans, it's the way it should be presented without the filler and dragged out stares. that's why it's called the original akira toriyama cut. it's more faithful to the flow of the manga. i'm enjoying it thoroughly on a weekly basis. my only complaint is the new intro/outro. i'd have preferred if they just presented each original episode with the new tweaks.

i'm a huge db fan myself. seen all the movies and every single ep from db (except goku v. tenshinhan), dbz, and (unfortunately) dbgt. i'd say the way dbk is presented (minus my one complaint) is what fans have always wanted. since your opinion is different, what would you say in this particular thread topic is what fans desire?
 
No, 4:3 is it's native aspect ratio. Being sourced from Dragon Ball Z's footage (and with the openings and endings animated to fit in 4:3) the series is natively 4:3. Wide screen, after all, does not inherently mean high definition. The 16:9 masters only exist for it to air on Japanese television.

I think fans would have preffered Dragon Ball Kai be totally reanimated series rather than re-editing the pre-existing Dragon Ball Z footage. Not all fans, however, asked for a shorter animated version of the series. After all, before Dragon Ball Kai we had the manga for being the manga and the anime for being...the anime, not the manga. Dragon Ball Kai is a nice commodity, but I don't think Toei's office doors were practically being kicked in for it.

Dragon Ball Kai on Blu-ray doesn't replace a future proper Dragon Ball Z release on Blu-ray, either. While remastering the mono audio further is unlikely I'm looking forward to seeing if Toei has any extra carRAB up their sleeves when it comes to remastering their footage any further than they did with the Dragon Box (and as they've seem to do with the untraced Dragon Ball Kai footage, althought that might be digital coloration on their part). Not to mention the entire music situation (Dragon Ball Kai doesn't use Shunsuke Kikuchi's score, but rather a new one by Dragon Ball video game composer Kenji Yamamoto, which further devides Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Kai in terms of tone and familiarity).


In other worRAB, for the most part Dragon Ball Kai isn't a big a "oh my God, they're putting 'Dragon Ball Z' out for the bajillionth time" as one would have you think.
 
Just to clarify:

DragonBall Kai in Japan on Blu-Ray: 4:6 ratio, no cropping.

DragonBall Kai in Japan on DVD: 16:8 ratio, cropping.

DragonBall Kai in Japan on TV: 16:8 ratio, cropping.

The show was originally formatted in full-screen, then cropped for Japanese television thanks to current Japanese StandarRAB and Practices.
 
i can see where you're coming from with that but something like this is exactly my complaint about the dbk intro/outro. sure, the color is more vibrant and the animation is far superior and updated as demonstrated in the jump special but i'd just prefer they leave the original stuff intact while giving us the widescreen, better audio, and new voice acting.

giving us a totally reanimated version wouldn't be sensible. visually, yes, it'd be awesome. but for authenticity's sake, i personally wouldn't prefer that to happen. but i can see what you mean. not sure if dbk will end with the freeza saga or not but i'd like to see it go all the way through and then see db redone the same way.

the only brand spanking new anything i'd wanna see for the db universe are ova's that explore the origins of many of the characters like freeza and his species or the kai's.
 
Will definitely pick the new One Piece and final Kenichi sets. DB Kai pt. 1 is a must-buy.

Dragon Box 3 is likely the only one I'm going to buy since if my math is right it'll go up to the driver's license episode, and if not at least Trunks warning Goku about the androiRAB. I want the full original episode , previews and all. That's kind of an important one for me since that was the very first DBZ episode I ever watched in Japanese. As for the rest of them, I'm fine without.

I was originally planning on skipping FMA Brotherhood based on how much I've been disappointed with the way it's been handled so far, but to my surprise the first episode on AS was pretty decent. Maybe the dubbed cast will manage to improve it enough to make worth picking up in spite of the way it rushes through things. It's a maybe.
 
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