DBZ Remastered

Funimation announced a wee while ago that they were going to remaster dbz in wide screen format as well as redubbed and remastered footage for the whole series. They've also announced they will be leaving the original Japanese music in. The ultimate uncuts have now been cancelled so the only way we are going to get the Namek saga and Saiyan saga is throughout these sets.

Here's a comparison of the 2 different formats.

Remastered footage:


Old footage:


So here is what we will be losing and getting.

So overall I'm loving the look of it even if we do lose a bit of footage.

They've also changed the cover for the Saiyan saga it's now orange not yellow.

Wasn't the music one of the only popular things about the FUNI dub? They released a whole bunch of Soundtrack CDs for cryin' out loud Damn, and I really liked the Namek Saga music.

I do like the original Japanese music, but I would have prefered that they had given the option on the DVDs e.g. if you're watching the English dub, then the dub music should play, and if you watch the Japanese dub, the Japanese music should play. The movie DVDs I own have that option. In fact when I play the Japanese dubbing the titles are different too and the original Chala Head Chala theme plays.

Actually, is the Japanese dub even available on the new DVDs?

So overall I'm loving the look of it even if we do lose a bit of footage.

They've also changed the cover for the Saiyan saga it's now orange not yellow.

okay. I'm totally glad they will be releasing it with my alltime favorite Japanese music intact...including "Kyoufu no Ginyu Tokusentai" aka FEAR OF TEAM GINYU! The best tune and the one and only tune to play during Zarbon's ordeal. that's a good thing if there was any...but i am upset that it is going to be widescreen format. i seriously did not want to loose footage in order to gain side footage which was moronic footage of trees and crap. They should not cut out parts of arms and hair, etc. That is what sucks about this version. still, how much is the release price going to be...I hope they release namek saga so i can buy it. it is my favorite saga after all and i have it all in edit version. i need uncut dammit. they need to pop that out already. it's taking them 5 years.

I think the original Funimation music was pretty good but when they released the Ultimate uncut it was really dull, annoying and depressing music.

I think it is good they are using the Japanese music considering that is what the original creators wanted. But I would agree with you about the original Namek saga music if you were referring to the Pioneer version but I think I still do like the Japanese music more.

I would agree about the widescreen considering the footage we are getting is unfinished footage. Look at Gohan's eye for example it's not even finished, they haven't even completed the white of his eye. So technically Funimation are showing footage that wasn't even meant to be seen.

The release price is still $50 like it was originally going to be but I think some sites are dropping the price.

that's idiotic. maybe those portions were supposed to be left out...lol.

but i looked for the date and it said february 6th on amazon. i wonder when my favorite season will be released. they STILL haven't released it yet. damn them. i hope it's soon and not pushed until late 2007 or something insane like that.

Here's what people are saying this scen is going to be like. It looks so fucking retarded.

oh my god. especially the part with vegeta. his face is like completely cut off. that's so stupid. how much could they chop off the top. jeez. they are so stupid. and i'm also pissed that season two's release date has still not been announced.

Knowing Funimation it'll take 6 months to a year before they release the next box.

they're stupid retards. plus they wasted a hell of a lot of time releasing the "ultimate uncut".....lasting 2 years and wasting time since they were going to re-release the same stuff AGAIN. it's SO moronic.

I ordered my Saiyan saga box set. It should come anytime soon now.

Anyway I found this on Wikipedia, I hope like hell it was just a vandal who made the cover but if it is real Goku is on the freakin' Namek saga box set. He only appeared in the last 10 minutes of it unless of course it contains Namek, Ginyu and Frieza sagas. If it is that it wouldn't be as bad but it would be a hell of a lot better if it was Frieza instead.

no. that's not the official artwork. the official artwork will be released later. Also, it is only going to be namek saga, not frieza saga. and the cover, honestly, shouldn't be just frieza alone either. the main fighters in the entire namek saga were zarbon, dodoria, cui, recoome, and guldo. i'd much rather have them on the cover for season two along with frieza. the season one cover sucked, as we know already...since it simply had vegeta and nothing else.

I cant wait for this. Ive waited so long as we all have. I hope the cover is reserved for Frieza and his crew as thats the way it should be.

I just got my Vegeta saga box set in the mail today!!! I like it all except for one thing they didn't change the dialogue, so Goz and Mez don't tell Goku he's in hell.

yes, the frieza force must have the cover. if they go and put krillin, gohan, and bulma, or goku on the cover, it will be extremely stupid of them.

Well, I'm not going to buy the box set. I can't stand widescreen. Besides that, I finally own all the dbz episodes, so that's good enough for me. The only thing that sucks is when I wanna watch something. Then I have to dig through my tapes and dvds.


I own most of the uncut version just because I taped the Saiyan-Namek saga when it was on Cartoon network.