animeDragon Ball Z Season One is without a doubt a groundbreaking accomplishment in anime home video. For the first time is such a box set available with so much content for such a low price (I bought it for $30). Season One contains the entire Vegeta Saga, parts I and II. If you thought that the Ultimate Uncut editions were an accomplishment, this box set takes Dragon Ball Z even further.
Season One contains 39 episodes on six discs; that’s approximately 925 minutes or 15 hours and 25 minutes of pure Dragon Ball Z! What’s even better is that each episode has been digitally remastered from a high quality preserved Japanese film, and it’s been transferred in widescreen. That’s right, for the first time in anime history, Dragon Ball Z TV episodes are in 16:9 anamorphic widescreen!
Furthermore, the episodes have the new FUNimation voice cast’s dubbing over the original Japanese musical score. This truly is a fantastic combination; I’ve been relatively tolerant of the original Japanese score in the Dragon Ball Z feature films, but it made them seem less like movies and more like long episodes. In the episodes, however, the ...Read more
