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Dragon Ball Z - Season Four (Garlic Jr., Trunks, and Android Sagas)

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Studio: FUNIMATION PRODUCTIONS, LTD
Catalog: DVD
Release date: 2008-02-19
Media: DVD
Running time in minutes: 735
DVD aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Format: Animated, Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
DVD Region code: 1
Ean: 0704400022463
Upc: 704400022463
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Director:
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User Reviews:
 Rating 5   Written on August 21, 2008
   Summary: Trunks Remastered!
Trunks never looked better! Increase you're ultimate DBZ collection with the set featuring the boy from the future, the return of the demon from the Dead Zone, and the 'terrible' androids!

 Rating 4   Written on July 24, 2008
   Summary: Another Great Season
I loved this season also. But it got 4 stars and not 5 cause when i receive this season in the mail the 5th disc was just laying around int he package with a few scratches and found that the clasp to hold the dvd in was broken so i need to be careful so that it doesn't get messed up any more that it is. But i recommend that if your a fan of DBZ to get all the seasons and watch them all in order. It will prolly bring back memories.

 Rating 4   Written on July 20, 2008
   Summary: It only gets better from here....
I've been watching this series over & over for about 10 years now, and must say that this is the beginning of the BEST story line in the series. Once Cell enters into the series, you'll know what I mean.

VIDEO QUALITY - Ignore the bad reviews. You won't even miss anything that was cropped out of the original print. Only the top & bottom 5% portions were cut, so NOTHING VITAL IS MISSING. I would have preferred they left the frames intact, but the original copy was too badly damaged to get a better digital quality from those sections. The reviewers who say otherwise are just not understanding the procedures needed to take to transfer film to DVD code (in layman's terms).The image is MUCH better than the previous video releases (U.S. OR Japanese).

SOUND QUALITY - While the claim to keeping the original Japanese audio overlayed with the English voice cast is true, I think they could have / should have kept the same Opening track in Japanese as well (known as "Cha-La-Head-Cha-La"). Instead they replaced it with a guitar track that doesn't really keep the timing well with the opening sequence. Otherwise, the sound has been cleaned up and sounds much smoother than previous releases did.

SPECIAL FEATURES - The marathon feature is great, being able to watch every episode on each disc right after one another, without the credits or opening sequences. Being able to watch it in Japanese with (badly translated) English Subtitles is nice as well. However, that's about it. I think Funimation could do a LOT better with the features, like adding in interviews with the Voicing cast, some studio outtakes, etc. There are only previews of other Funimation releases to look at, nothing else.

OVERALL - Great if you are only interested in the series, and looking for better video and sound. If you want cool special features, you'll have to get Japanese release DVD's (which also means a DVD player that supports that Region Code for DVDs), which is also a crap-shoot.



 Rating 5   Written on June 29, 2008
   Summary: Did I miss something?
The first thing I thought when I saw the box for this dvd was, Who the heck is Garlic Jr? I have read all the manga books and I never saw him once. So far this series had given us much filler, scenes that were slighlty longer than need to be but this is an entire saga of filler. Not only that but it creates some weird backstory about how Gohan and Goku defeated Garlic Jr. and sealed him in the dead zone. Did I miss something? When did this happen? I have seen all the Dvd sets up to now I have tried to think of a time period it could have happened but I am stumped. Gohan and Goku were never together long enough to fight anything except on Namek and this epic fight occured on earth. Did Trunks mysterious time travelling create yet another timeline? Eh, I won't lose sleep over it.

Once I opened up the dvd and looked at the episode liner notes I had my second though; the spice boys? Really? Is this some sort of reference to the spice girls. It can't be since this show was around way before the spice girls were around so maybe it is just a big coincidence but if it isn't then that might just be the lamest joke in the history of the series. The boys actually aren't that bad(they are a lot more reserved than the goofy Ginyu force)but at the end of the day they have to walk inside their house look into the mirror and realize they are called the friggin' Spice boys.

My third thought as I was watching the series unfold was; man, these androids are annoying. The things that made Frieza such a great villain are personified in the beings of #17 and #18 who look like a couple of spoiled punk kids hanging out at the mall and they can get anythingthey want without any effort. Frieza was a great villain because he was so insufferable he made you feel sorry for Vegeta for having to serve under him. And when Vegeta gets beat down by a smirking, big forehead having android after having worked so hard top finally become a super saiyan then you feel for him as well. What's a spiky haired, constipated alien to do? Seriuosly though, Vegeta is one of my favorite Anime characters and i don't like seeing him get crushed. Though in a way that makes me like him more. His Saiyan pride and his constant feelings of inferiority to Goku(Kakarooot!) are what makes him such a great character.

Anyway, even though I was tempted to take off a star for having to endure a nonsensical saga that was quite literally crammed into the storyline by means of dark magic and/or time travel but in the end I enjoyed making fun of the spice boys so much it was worth the time spent. With that in mind let me present the spice boys rap; "We're the spice boys and we're here to say*/we're a bunch of crappy filler villains so you better get ouuta the way/we'll punch and kick you and do things real gay/so you'd better savekamitravelundergroundspreadmagicwaterthroughoughtheworldtobreakthementalcontrolyadayad and save the day. Peace out...we suck."

*P.s. I am aware that this is the starting line of almost every crap rap of the eighties. I couldn't help it.


 Rating 5   Written on June 23, 2008
   Summary: So much easier
I already own the entire DBZ series on a mixture of DVDs & VHS. It takes up so much space that I needed almost an entire book shelf unit to hold them all. These new realesed DVD sagas are WONDERFUL. I am now packing away all of my originals and replacing them with these sets. They take up very little space and can be out with the rest of my DVDs. I plan to buy them all as they come out!

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CatalogDVDDVDDVDDVDDVDDVD
Release date2008-02-192008-05-272007-09-182007-05-222007-02-062008-09-16
MediaDVDDVDDVDDVDDVDDVD
released in theatres--1996-09-131996-09-131996-09-13-
Running time in minutes735615830835925700
DVD aspect ratio1.78:11.78:11.78:11.78:11.77:11.33:1
Audience RatingUnratedUnratedUnratedUnratedUnratedUnrated
FormatAnimated, Color, NTSC, Subtitled, WidescreenColor, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, WidescreenColor, NTSC, Subtitled, Surround Sound, WidescreenAnimated, Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSCAnimated, Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSCColor, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
DVD Region code111111
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Upc704400022463704400022470704400022456704400022449704400022425704400022487
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