Dragon Ball: Season 1

I was curious about Dragon Ball, so I caught a few episodes on YouTube and I enjoyed it so much that I had to buy the DVD set to continue watching. The YouTube quality for some episodes was good, but the DVD set is amazing. Others suggest that some of the individual set releases were better quality, but were edited. This set, from my understanding, contains the original unedited versions of the episodes. So, you see blood, brief nudity, etc.. And let me say that the video quality is amazing. I am watching it on a 65" HDTV and it resembles Blu-ray quality. I know some will balk, but unlike other animation sets I own, the lines are solid, with no noticeable jaggedness due to the upscaling of the SD quality to HD and the colors look vibrant. As usual, you will see some macroblocking with large areas of green or blue, in particular, but the set looks great overall. Best of all, the original 4:3 aspect ratio is intact, unlike what Funimation has done with DBZ.As for the packaging, I like it. There is a slipcover that matches the box art. If you remove it the spine of the box has a dragon image that you can combine with the other box sets to form a nice image of the dragon and the Dragon Ball logo on your shelf. The slipcover isn't necessary, but it is embossed, which is nice. All of the disks include the same art, which is applicable to the blue bricks, as they are called, for Dragon Ball, as well as the orange bricks from the Dragon Ball Z sets. Funimation, which produced the sets, stuck with a consistent design, which is commendable.Now, one of the complaints is that the blue bricks now lack the booklet, which includes character bios and episode synopsis. Apparently, Funimation decided to "go green" (i.e., save money) by not including them in the sets. However, you may download them in PDF form from their web site. It is a means to save money producing the sets, let's be honest. But, it is nice to be able to have them on my computer to view, so I don't mind. At least they aren't getting folded, torn, and just generally worn out. I will always have the digital version to reference if I like.For the price of these sets, you can't go wrong. You get hours of entertainment at a good price. The animation is beautiful and the show is a lot of fun. Funimation did a good job with these sets, although, the orange bricks are of lesser quality regarding the video, which is another story.

Dragon Ball Z, is a show that just sucked me in from the very first episode I ever saw. The intensity and amazing fights and very adult like premise just made me a fan instantaniously. I had always known that the show Dragon Ball existed, but it took such a long time for America to get it uncut not to mention getting the rest of the show. Funimation finally put the whole Dragon Ball saga into season box sets and affordable prices and of cousre like the first time around Dragon Ball is the last one to be released.Most of you know the whole Dragon Ball Z saga, but now we are taken back to a much smaller and simpler time in the world of the innocent, yet vallient Goku. Goku is just a boy living alone in the wild until one day a beautiful teenaged girl named Bulma ends up on his doorstep looking for something called Dragon Ball. Goku had no idea he had it nor did he have any idea what a girl was! Suddenly Goku's simple world is blown wide open and he joins Bulma on her mission to find all seven of the Dragon Balls. On their quest they meet many foes and also a few loyal friends and who knew what this simple mission would turn into years down the line. Maybe..Goku will finally figure out a few things about himself he never would have expected.This show is very different from Dragon Ball z. It such a delight to watch. It is filled with lots of laughs and a Dragon Ball Z fan will enjoy finally seeing where the story began and soon to come all the events that lead up to episode 1 of Dragon Ball Z. I think the part that the fans will like the most is just watching Goku and his friends grow up with each new adventure.

I watched dragon ball z when I was young. The games were one of my favorites. But I never watches dragon ball till now. I learned a lot about the show that I never knew before. It helps you understand more about all the characters. I thought it was really cool seeing goku grow up, and how he became so strong. Once I started I couldn't stop. I recommend getting the funimation app though. You'll save a lot of money, Amazon video doesn't have anything good included with prime. Everyone says it's not a good show for kids, but I watched dragon ball z when I was very young and maybe even dragon ball, but I mostly remember dragon ball z. I never noticed all the sexual jokes and how master roshi is a huge pervert, not till rewatching it now that I'm older. When younger kids watch something like this, they don't understand all the adult content they just focus on the fighting and action. If your kid wants to watch this, let them watch it, I'm glad I did, I have some good memories of watching dragon ball z with my brother and cousin. But kids probably would want to watch this anyway, it's to old for them.