Dragon Ball Z Season 1 [DVD]

A lot cheaper than brand new sealed and all discs were in good condition.

Dragonball Z has been hailed as the greatest action anime of all time, and as a long-time fan I agree whole-heartedly. UK fans have been waiting an age for a DVD box set that they don't have the import from the US, and it is finally here!The series goes straight into the action as a new foe by the name of Raditz come to Earth making threats and looking for a man named 'Kakarot', and even goes so far as to kidnap the main protagonist Goku's son! After the final battle with this menace, the series grows dull for a good while as the good guys train to prepare for the arrival of Raditz's two comrades, Nappa and Vegeta. But once they touch down on Earth the action kicks off once again and this lasts through to the end of the season, making the training arc well worth the wait. If anything it only adds more anticipation as the impending danger looms over all of the main characters.The restoration work that they carried out really paid off, the animation is so crisp, clean and colourful! Obviously there's going to be a few issues with things being slightly out of proportion or the line-art looking a little torn, but anime first aired in the late 80's, it's a very old animation, and that is how it looked originally anyway. What's important is that they've managed to restore and immortalise everything onto an easily accessible set of DVDs!The English dub on this particular set is to a very high standard in terms of voice acting quality. This is a re-dubbed version by Funimation instead of the original one by Ocean Group. Funimation took over dubbing the rest of the series halfway through Season 2, and all the actors from Seasons 2.5-9 returned to re-dub Season 1, and by that time they'd gained a lot of experience at playing their characters. Sean Schemmel does a particularly amazing job at playing Goku, and Christopher R. Sabat joins him in a fantastic portrayal of Piccolo and Vegeta.And to top it all off this DVD box set contains THREE versions of the series for you to watch: the original Japanese voices and music, the English Funimation re-dub with the original Japanese music, OR the English dub with the new music by Nathan Johnson (the Bruce Faulconer score comes into the series halfway through Season 2), giving you the choice of three preferences when you watch the series! The Nathan Johnson music isn't as good as the Bruce Faulconer score in my opinion, but it still does the job and I can't wait to hear the Faulconer music (and the ORIGINAL Funimation dub) in the next box set from Episode 68 onwards!Fantastic packaging, a fantastic re-dub, fantastic restoration, and, of course, a FANTASTIC series.

Uk version great

An amazing series continuing off dragonball. Highly enjoyed it.

Having previously caught a small number of episodes of DragonBall Z as a kid, which I can barely remember, my interest was rekindled over the past few years as I noticed various people on social media nerding out over DBZ. With a week and a half off work approaching I finally went for it; youtubed a few clips and then bought the DVD - and I'm really glad I did.My main worry had been that I wouldn't be able to get into it having not got into it at a younger age and that other DBZ fans might just be heavily influenced by nostalgia. That wasn't the case at all. Basically I'm writing this for any people who, like me, might be interested in this but aren't sure if it's just for kids. DBZ can be enjoyed by adults too - I'd put it in the bracket of the likes of Harry Potter, Pokemon and, especially, Doctor Who (there's a lot of the same 'saving the earth from aliens who don't appreciate how great humans are, by heroes who do' vibe). There's a lot of Sci-Fi elements to DBZ along with bits of martial arts, action and adventure. Personally, it's only the humour that I have some problems with: at best it's cheesy/silly but there are some light-hearted scenes which I just don't get which might be a cultural thing. However, for me it doesn't detract from the more serious aspects of the programme and the main plot.I'm on Season 2 now and the other thing I'd note is that from what I can tell the 'seasons' that the DVDs are split into is a pretty loose term. It seems to just be a massive ongoing story (I'm on episode 50-something now in 'season' 2 and the plot is still directly related to events from the first several episodes) so if you're gonna get into this be prepared to be in it for the long haul (300ish episodes) because there won't be an easy point to stop halfway through.

I got the set today, and i am extremely happy with it, it came in perfect condition. I ordered it from supermartUSA on the 26th, and it got here on the 11th, so it did take a little while, but thats no matter. So now about the box:The box itself is very nice but there are a few flaws, one of which it the way the discs are stacked on top of each other. This makes them very hard to get out and sooner or later im probably going to brake them, so i recommend backing them up just to be safe. Also if you get all of the seasons and put them all next to each other the spine is meant to make an image, but you can only see the spine image if you take the box out of the cover box. also all of the discs have the same image design, now enough of the flaws, onto the good points, the box is very nice, it feels glossy and smooth, it even comes with a book! the book has hero profiles, enemy profiles, episode summaries, and the history of dragon ball z. This is a great set and well worth the money.Now onto the video. Now you get a lot of people who constantly complain about the cropped aspect ratio and the noise reduction process which occasionally makes it loose some lines of detail, but its really not that bad, it looks perfect, so far i haven't seen any line loss, and you only miss a little bit of footage of the top and the bottom, most of the time it really doesn't matter.The only alternative to this is the Dragon boxes, but they are rare to find now and incredibly expensive. Just stick to these ones, there cheap, the video and the box looks great, and it even has 3 audio choices! You can pick English with Japanese music, English with English music, or fully Japanese. You don't get that with the dragon boxes!To summarize: THIS IS DAMN GOOD!