Dragon Ball Time Capsule

The Dragon Ball Time Capsule was made to preserve and archive important or special releases from multiple languages but prioritizing all english and japanese releases.

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Now for a brief summary of Dragon Ball:

Dragon Ball is great because it does have some flaws. The scripting and music for the series are very basic and unrefined, and the action sequences are extremely long and cartoony. The art of Goku and the Dragon Balls is also simplistic and derivative, and the series is riddled with inconsistent character designs that make the characters look older than they are.

The first Dragon Ball anime, Dragon Ball GT, is considered one of the worst adaptations of all time because it heavily edits out important scenes and changes the timing of events that happen in the manga, drastically changing the tone of the series and significantly changing the dynamics of the characters. A plot twist was deleted from the final version that would have caused Tien Shinhan to crash his fighter jet, and several scenes involving blood and humor problems were removed. Michael Dante DiMartino, who did the subtitling for the Funimation release, admitted that he did not know what to do with the censored scenes and overindulgence in alcohol, so he deleted them both from the uncut versions. However, he kept the subtitling intact for the Japanese version, due to the positive response to the subtitling distribution of the series with Funimation.

The censored specials include “Cha-La Head-Cha-La” (??? ???), which were produced uncut and exhibited at Mutation! Exorcist in the 1990s. The first two specials are censored to black and white, respectively. “Dragon Ball: Origins” (??? ??? ???) is censored to white and black, with the last panel of the uncut footage color-coded as “Don’t Call It A Birthday” (??? ??? ???) to better differentiate it from the previous specials. Later uncut specials include “Dragon Ball Z: Battle Of Gods” (??? ???Z ???) and “Dragon Ball Z: Roshi’s Anger” (??? ???Z ???); both feature much blood and violence, the former being much more violent than the latter. Both the Japanese and international versions of these specials feature additional scenes and content removal, some of which is censored out entirely.

Dragon Ball Z (???Z (???)) was the first animated Dragon Ball series to earn an English dub, the first outside North America. It was produced by Z.A. Levin of New York, New York, although he had previous experience voicing characters in the Sonic the Hedgehog and Dragon Ball franchises; such as the original Dragon Ball, the original Dragon Ball Z, and the Dragon Ball Z (1995) anime. It premiered in the United States on September 26, 1989, at midnight on the Nielsen VideoScan network, performing better

In 1994’s English dub, the characters’ distinctive deaths were replaced with a brief clip of Goku screaming at the top of his lungs before his heart stops and Krillin and the others run away. The scene was also removed altogether from the Japanese version, as fans were more used to Krillin’s death from Shenlong’s Cutie mark gaining in popularity. Later English dubs have retained the earlier edits, but drop the screaming scene entirely. In the Japanese version, Gohan’s reflection in the Dragon Balls mirrors Goku’s suicide attempt, with the audience’s reaction to the scenes ultimately determining the dub.

The dialogue cuts from the original Super Saiyan and Super Saiyan 2 transformations were removed entirely from the Japanese version, with most fansarchers complaining about the censorship. The transformation from Super Saiyan to Saiyan 2 was censored to a much more comedic tone, likely in response to the lighter tone of the anime. A poster for the Funimation/Ocean dub, released in Japan in 1995, seen above, shares a name with this poster and the Funimation/Saban dub of Dragon Ball Z, and was created to promote the dub.

The Kai trailer featuring Goku’s transformation was deleted from before its uncut release due to trademark issues, although it was re-edited for release in Japan. A fan film based on the cut was created alongside the cuts, and was released uncut in the United States and Europe in 2000. A second uncut trailer featuring Goku’s transformation was created in 2013 for the Japanese DVD release, but it lacks the edits and additional scenes removed for the Japanese release. Many other trailers featuring Goku’s transformations exist, some of which exist solely for his promotional tour, and others for his video games and movies.

A fan film focused on the Kai English dub, Goku’s Father, Funimation’s Tony Zulli, created in 1998 called Dragon Ball Z Dad’s Army, premiered at the Funimation/Saban Anime Festival in Los Angeles on April 8, 2001. It contains many of the same scenes that appear in the Funimation cut, but with a different background and different music.

A 2015 documentary titled Dragon Ball: The Cinema of Mirrors, which premiered on the History Channel, examines the distribution

During this time a mysterious figure called Cell emerges and takes out both Goku and Tien before escaping to a spaceship made up of his disciples and passengers. After absorbing two of the planet’s largest cities, Kid Buu and Mansion 19, for his private use Cell creates a massive arena in which to train his followers into warrior-kings (???). After absorbing the other planets inhabitants, Cell grows into a monstrous and arrogant tyrant before destroying them all in a massive explosion that leaves him no survivors.

It’s a shame that one of the more interesting aspects of Dragon Ball is the humor. The series balances seriousness and silliness quite well, though it definitely has its dark moments. The series also has a strong sense of humor and references to classic American culture from television, movies and music all come through in the show. Dragon Ball has a very catchy and memorable title song, as well as an iconic image of the Dragon Balls, which has become a very popular theme throughout the franchise.

The subtler edits also resulted in more subtle humor throughout the series, with Goku’s lengthy explanation of the Kamehameha finisher and the humorous timing of the karaoke lines from Dragon Ball Z leading to some of the funnier scenes. Part of the humor in the show comes from the characters’ exaggeratedly exaggerated facial expressions and exaggeratedly small waists, which makes them look ridiculous as they speak. The show frequently references other media, such as American cartoons, with characters including Fortuneteller Beerus in Dragon Ball Z, discussing the merits of watching American cartoons over Japanese ones, and Dr. Slump in Ghostbusters all referencing American cartoons.

The show’s tagline for Japan is most likely a play on the phrase “sad as can be” (ともころはいます), which can be translated as “not great” or “fallen down.” The sense of humor in the show is reflected through the use of puns and humor descriptions, which is evident when the characters use the N-word, which is shown as a play on words from N-word. The title is a play on the N-word as used in the U.S. The Dragon Ball Z overtones are also evident in the characters’ names, which are all variations of the same character.

Although the series is set in Japan, the majority of the characters are English-speaking, as are most of the locations. The majority of the cast is made up of voice actors from the English dub of the previous Dragon Ball anime, with Japanese voices casted by other cast members. J. Michael Straczynski, who plays Goku, was the first to recast the character in the United States. The English voice of Krillin from Dragon Ball Z also provided the voice of Krillin’s son, Krillin the Asian. The character Psylocke was also a character from the anime, having been created by Inti Creates to play against Goku’s voice in the Funimation/Ocean American release.

The storyline of Dragon Ball Z is very unusual in that it follows the exploits of Goku since birth. A scientist by profession, Dr. Kishimoto wanted Goku to have good physiques so he could create an inferior form of evolution through which to test his theories on evolution. This is reflected in the characters’ clothing and the language they use. The scientist’s assistant, Yashiro, suggests the character’s voice actor be Masatoshi Ono, after hearing his work as the main character Goku in the television anime Dragon Ball Z. The scientist’s male counterpart, Dr. Kamehameha, is voiced by Masaaya Hashimoto.

The first episode of Dragon Ball Z Kai is extremely violent and graphic, mostly involving blood and dismemberment. It is heavily implied that Goku’s parents were murdered, with the blood spatter being another sign that indicates their deaths were premeditated. A secks scene involving a resurrected Bulma and Kame-senpai is good.

May Kami have mercy on your soul.

@GojiitaAF

We have no interested in other language releases/content besides Japanese and English unless they have special value visually or audibly like the french dvds, the italian Z bluray movies, the Korean Z audio are good examples of fitting that special exception criteria.

Original Broadcast audio (not video), eng and jpn vhs captures would be the only thing we would pick up from what you mentioned. So its alot smaller than 10TB.

There are a ton of other dubs out there that are available like Hindi and Portuguese etc that we dont have because we (mostly I) dont find them valuable enough to archive. But I encourage anyone who finds them valuable to archive them. But if one of our team members were to extract all the audio and upload them to the time capsule I would welcome them but I would never actively try and archive them myself.

This is only a part of what we have.