
Moving into new territory and fighting stronger baddies
Review created: 09/18/08(updated 09/19/08)

Ever since the late 1990s, one has really been unable to think about anime without thinking of Dragonball. Mostly because it's airing in America has proven so prolific, it's popularity among anime fans is pretty much the same as it's popularity in Japan. Finally, the series has gotten a release it's deserved.
The box proclaims the fourth boxset contains the 'Garlic Jr, Trunks and Android sagas' - which is just a fancy way of saying it's got the Garlic Jr saga and contains the Android Saga up through the discovery of a second time machine... an exact copy of the one Trunks used to come back in time with.
So, with that said, can everyone protect the Earth while Goku's gone - especially from Garlic Jr? What about when Frieza comes back? And who is this Trunks character, and how is he also a Saiyan? And what of his warning of the devastating future to come - with everyone but himself and Gohan dead?
When it comes to the features of this boxset... Funimation has officially stopped redubbing the series, instead sticking with the original dubs made back near 2000. This in itself is not a bad thing, as the dub by this point had become rather solid as a whole. However, the box set proclaims 'newly-revised English dialogue' but obviously does not deliver upon it at all. It's a little sad that way, but at least the dub still works great. However, the lack of a redub hurts extremely during Master Roshi's recount of the Red Ribbon Army events in the old show of Dragonball - changing character names, characterizations and so on... not to mention different voice actors all at the same time.
The widescreening and remastering still remains with us, obviously, but it feels somewhat like wallpaper at this point. Aside from Trunks' showdown with Frieza, there is honestly little here that improves with the addition of the widescreening process.
Like last time, the series can be seen in the original Japanese, in the American TV release format, or in English with the Japanese music instead. I personally prefer the TV-release music, as Brian Falkner's music almost seems to fit the series' intense action like a glove. That's not to say the Japanese music is bad, it's just my own preference.
Unfortunately, still there's a complete lack of extras on these discs - aside from watching more Funimation adverts for things you already saw on the other discs because you can't skip the opening-DVD-ads.
30 bucks MSRP for 32 episodes, all over 6 discs, is a great deal. However, the lowering of the episode count and the complete lack of extras is really starting to bother me, even more than last time.
Ah, well. Still not as great a release as the first boxset, but I'm beginning to wonder if that's possible now. Great if you're a DBZ fan, downright enjoyable otherwise.
Review ID: 10000000008761886

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