by Marc on May 5th, 2010 at 1:18am in Feature
After doing the review of Dragon Ball Z Kai on Blu-ray I decided to check the DVD. Very quickly I noticed a difference in colors in the remastered Z footage. When I showed some screen shots to a friend to find out about the Japanese Kai Blu-ray, he actually ran it over right then so [...]
by Marc on May 4th, 2010 at 8:50pm in Anime Review, Early Looks, Feature, Reviews
The franchise that will never die returns, but on Blu-ray in a new ‘refreshed’ version.
Yes, Dragon Ball Z returns as Dragon Ball Z Kai. After stacks of releases in the USA, including the Dragon Boxes, is the modern refresh of Z on Blu-ray the new high bar for the series in the USA?
by Rachel Oliver on Jan 29th, 2010 at 1:50pm in Anime Review, Feature, Reviews
In 1999, Pioneer began releasing the edited TV version of the first two dub seasons of Dragon Ball Z on DVD. In 2000, FUNimation began releasing their own uncut, bilingual DVDs of the series, starting with the third dub season. In 2005, after the rest of the series was finished, FUNimation began releasing bilingual, uncut [...]
by Heath on Jul 19th, 2009 at 11:08pm in Editorial, Feature
Introduction by Marc- We get to welcome a new staff member to FBR today. Heath will be writing some editorials and reviews for us in the future. Many Dragonball Z fans will know him as Hujio, from one of the premiere American DBZ sites, Kanzentai. For his first article he wrote up a little history [...]
by Marc on Jul 18th, 2009 at 2:01pm in News
We are finally getting an American release of the fully remastered Dragon Ball Z Dragonboxes.
Not generally a person to just post post press releases, but for now I’m just quite happy that it’s actually happening, so I’ll let Funi’s press release do the talking. There are also more pictures of early packaging mockups from [...]
by Marc on May 27th, 2009 at 4:39pm in News
Looks like the DVD and Blu-ray for Evolution will have slightly different coverart (I’m sure many people will just jump at the chance to get variant coverart for such a…. fine…. piece of entertainment.
Here are the different covers for the 5 of you that are interested.
Just fantastic, I’m sure Goku’s flexed arm will be the [...]
by Marc on May 13th, 2009 at 2:38pm in News
Oh boy, everyone is gonna love this….
Apparently Fox is prepping a new/different (maybe it’s the foreign cut?) of Dragonball Evolution for home video, and it will be called….
Dragonball Evolution: Z-Edition
I’m trying not to laugh, but…. lol
edit- Having watched a screener of the “Z-Edition” film with two other staff members, I think it’s probably likely that [...]
by Marc on Mar 23rd, 2009 at 1:32am in Anime Review, Early Looks
Wow, we already have an American anime Blu-ray getting a double dip (well mostly anyways). Here we are again with yet another Broly Blu-ray. The original ‘prototype’ Blu-ray disk had quite a few problems.
Is this new disk’s power maximum? Let’s go take a look.
by Marc on Aug 20th, 2008 at 5:03am in News
It’s time for a new (and the final, if you believe Atari) Dragonball Z game for the Playstation 2.
So what’s up and what’s it about.
by Marc on Aug 14th, 2008 at 4:14pm in Feature
After going over ADV’s changing boxart, I realized another company is doing something in regards to their packaging.
Funimation has been emulating DVD packaging styles.
Let’s take a look at what they’ve done.