^You guys didn't grow up watching Cartoon Network huh?
My advice for a DBZ noob? Go back in time about 20 years.
I watched DBZ a few times as a kid on Toonami and I hated it, I was more of a Sailor Moon and Dragonball guy than a Z fan until like the remastered set, which I only bought the first one of the entire series.
Yeah, those season sets are a beauty, aren't they? Them looking this way has nothing to do with Japan though.
Also, every Funimation release aside from the old vhs ones have been uncut, so that point is insignificant now.
I'm justing thinking they would have going on how Japanese companies usually try to screw over the domestic releases to make people buy only the Japanese releases, case in point, Evangelion and Sailor Moon. Only one of those got a better release while the other got a VHS quality DVD and since Toei pulled its licensing for a decade.:redface2: Who the hell does that? We could have gotten Stars on the late night Toonami block, but no...... :disappoin
Hopefully, CN or someone else will get the remake and air it, and possibly Funi will release a better quality version of the original saga [Though I'd like to see an uncut dub done with the original cast mixed with the later Clover cast for characters that didn't exist in the DIC version.
So, that's it. If you want to see DBZ in all it's original glory, the way it was meant to be seen, get the Dragon Boxes or DBZ Kai. If you want to see where DBZ Abridged gets some of its material, either get the Remastered sets or something like it.
Ok.
Watch the original series and then Kai. There is no reason to bother with Z unless you want to sit through 200 episodes of banter and constipation. Don't get me wrong, the full length version of Z is enjoyable, but it takes too damn long for fights to end and there is a lot of terrible filler in it. Plus, the Buu saga is one of the biggest insults to the entire Dragonball universe. It turns Gohan into a loser, brings GOku back yet again, and features the dumbest villain concept ever.
No one has said truer words. Kai is much better than Z ever was in this regard.
As for languages, it is hard to say, as I have never actually watched the dub to the original Dragonball.
Its awesome , especially the cover for Mystical Adventure being so much better than the Japanese original. Too bad it never got a full english cover for an album.
The only negative to Kai is how the music is changed at the end of the Freeza saga due to the composer apparently plagurizing and Toei just threw in the old music without a care in the world.
However, if you watch the original Z series, watch it subbed (and in that case, watch both DB and DBZ subbed) as the Z dub is down right terrible.
I heard something like that, but I never knew about this specifically.
The ''remastered'' box sets and the dragon boxes both contain the exact same dub track and are both completely uncut.
I'll check them out when the original series DBox comes to DVD or BR. I hope its soon since I loved the original series when I was a kid and I've heard about the quality being somewhat legendary.
Apparently it was due to Toei being cheap (what else is new?).
And con men. Just ask Go Nagai when they broadcasted the dubs of Mazinger Z and never got his permission, or when they stole Gaiking from him. It took some time before he would work with Toei again.
Glad those got cleared up because of the incoming Gaiking film.:169: