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Dragon Ball Z - Season Three (Frieza Saga)
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List Price: $49.98
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Manufacturer: Funimation
Starring: Alistair Abell, Jon Allen, Philippe Ariotti, Sandro Blümel, Patrick Borg
Directed By: Daisuke Nishio
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Funimation
EAN: 0704400022456
Format: Color
Label: Funimation
Manufacturer: Funimation
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: Funimation
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-09-18
Running Time: 830
Studio: Funimation
Theatrical Release Date: 1996-09-13
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The Definitive Collection continues! The battle to decide the fate of the universe begins! On the distant Planet Namek, the seven magic Dragon Balls have been brought together and the dragon Porunga summoned. Now, Goku and the Z-fighters are all that stand between the evil Frieza and his wish for immortality! Having survived their encounters with Frieza’s dreaded minions, Goku and his friends are now left to contend with the ruthless tyrant himself. Despite their recent victories, however, the Z-fighters are ill prepared to face the terrifying reality of Frieza’s power. To defeat this seemingly invincible foe and restore peace to the universe, there is but one hope—a Super Saiyan must emerge! This 6 disc set contains the complete Freiza saga.
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Summary: The big bang!!
Comment: This is one of the great seasons, Goku facing the evil Frieza, and no commercials! The set is great and is a great buy.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great animation
Comment: Dragon Ball Z - Season Three (Frieza Saga)
This is a great product. I have always loved watching Dragon Ball z, and seeing that the originality of the product was kept, made this product even better. The redigitalization of the anime is excellent, faithful, and uncut. You experience the anime in its true form. Also, this product contains many episodes for a cheap price. Definetly worth its money.
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Summary: Season 3
Comment: I'd say this is one of the most important sagas in DBZ, and memorable to boot. The remastered video quality looks great, and the audio sounds perfect. Totally worth the money for a DBZ fan looking to buy it.
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Summary: Another excellent season set
Comment: Dragon Ball Z is the one greatest anime series ever created. With its action-packed universe and compelling storylines, Akira Toriyama's magnum opus has never failed to please. This is the latest season set FUNimation has released of the series.
This set picks up where the last one left off. The Ginyu Force has been defeated, and Piccolo has been wished back to life and brought to Namek. The inevitable battle with Frieza begins. Gohan, Krillin, Vegeta, and Piccolo face the tyrant as he undergoes a number of transformations, making him even more powerful. While they hold their own, the tyrant proves too much for them, and eventually our hero Goku enters the battlefield. It's up to Goku to defeat the evil tyrant, and restore peace to the universe.
The DVD set is divided amongst six discs, and contains the Frieza Saga (up until the end of Goku vs. Frieza, the Garlic Jr. Saga and Frieza on Earth episodes aren't included - they're in the next set.) The picture has been subjected to digital noise reduction, and the set includes a booklet of character profiles and episode listings.
Obviously, if you're new to the Dragon Ball franchise, you'll want to start with the Season One box set, but if you're already a fan, you'll enjoy these episodes. The fights against Frieza are great, some of the best fight scenes the series has to offer. Goku vs. Frieza is a truly epic battle, with a scene that has become an iconic moment in the series. The fight drags on WAY TOO LONG, but this is typical of the anime adaptation of Dragon Ball. This is still some of the best action in the series.
One of my personal favorite features of the set is the Marathon feature. FUNimation includes a feature in these sets that allows you to view all of the episodes on each disc from start to end with no interruptions from intros/outros/recaps/etc. This is an extremely handy feature I wish more TV shows on DVD had.
Like earlier Dragon Ball Z season sets, the picture has been cropped at the top and bottom (this was done due to excessive grain and damage to the original source), and it has been subjected to the digital noise reduction process. Obviously a lot of fans, myself included, were disappointed to see the picture get cropped. While the digital noise reduction doesn't do as thorough a job cleaning up the image as you'd hope, it IS the best these episodes have ever looked. In other words, it's a "give and take" scenario. You lose some of the picture you could see on earlier full-frame DVDs (and there ARE a few gaping moments that will really make you question FUNimation's decision), but on the good side, you gain some picture on the sides, and the image quality is superior to all earlier DVD releases.
Sound quality is similar to the earlier sets. English audio quality is fantastic, but the dub is still translated poorly and the voice cast is hit and miss. On the other hand, the Japanese audio quality is poor, showing its age, but it does feature a well-translated subtitle track from Steven J. Simmons that lets you experience the series as originally intended. Is Dragon Ball Z EVER going to get its Japanese audio remastered?
Additionally, like the earlier sets, you have the option of watching the English voice cast played against the original Japanese audio.
Disappointingly, the next episode previews aren't included. But they weren't in any earlier season set, so it's no big surprise.
No special features are included here unless you count the trailers and the same textless opening/closing sequence all other sets like this have had. On the good side, the set does include a booklet similar to the earlier sets, with character profiles and an episode guide, making it handy to go right where you need to go on the DVDs.
It's another good set. If you're a fan of the series and don't already have these episodes, you can get them all here for one low price. Cropping issues aside, this is a great set, and a good value, especially compared to the older DVD releases.
Highly recommended to any fan of Dragon Ball Z.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great boxset.
Comment: This boxset is a great buy for the money. $30 for the entire saga is well worth it. And, the digitally remastered episodes look the best they have ever been. Go buy it!
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