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This long awaited ninth boxed set will finish up Dragon Ball Z on DVD. It's been just over two years since I excitedly bought the season one set and I have anxiously awaited this ninth one, but at the same time it's weird to feel like this series is ending for me all over again. Nevertheless these episodes are action packed and a fitting ending for one of the most loved anime of all times. This set contains the Fusion and Kid Buu sagas in these final 38 uncut episodes:

254 The Evil of Men_____________ 255 Buu Against Buu

256 Empty Planet_______________ 257 Time Struggle

258 Super Moves of Gotenks_____ 259 Trapped in Forever

260 Feeding Frenzy_____________ 261 Gotenks is Awesome

262 Unlucky Break______________ 263 A Whole New Gohan

264 Search for Survivors_________ 265 Majin Buu Transforms

266 The Old Kai's Weapon________ 267 Ready to Fuse?

268 Union of Rivals______________ 269 Meet Vegito

270 Rip in the Universe___________ 271 Vegito...Downsized

272 The Incredible Fighting Candy__ 273 The Innards of Buu

274 Mind Trap__________________ 275 Visions of Deadly

276 Evil Kid Buu_________________ 277 End of Earth

278 True Saiyans Fight Alone______ 279 Battle for the Universe Begins

280 Vegeta's Respect____________ 281 Minute of Desperation

282 Old Buu Emerges____________ 283 Earth Reborn

284 Call to Action_______________ 285 People of Earth Unite

286 Spirit Bomb Triumphant_______ 287 Celebrations with Majin Buu

288 He's Always Late____________ 289 Grandaughter Pan

290 Buu's Reincarnation__________ 291 Goku's Next Journey

These episodes are all for the most part entertaining and a lot of them are fan favorites. The stakes really get raised as everyone on the planet is put in immediate jeopardy soon after followed by the possible destruction of the planet earth itself. The final Kid Buu episodes are great and find the entire existence of life in the universe being threatened ratcheting everything up to it's highest possible levels. The final episodes should be truly pleasing for fans to rewatch or experience for their first time.

I've said before that I appreciate how these sets were made with an overall theme across the nine that line up well and look good together on a shelf. A well made booklet comes in each of these sets containing brief character bios and episode descriptions. The video is always well restored and in excellent condition, presented as Widescreen 16:9 Aspect Ratio. The audio is great with three different options:

American English Voice Track with American Music

American Voice Track with the Original Japanese Music

Original Japanese Voice Track with the Original Japanese Music.

The only extras on these sets have been trailer's for other Funimation productions and textless opening theme and ending credits.

These episodes are not just the final saga to the Dragon Ball Z series but also to the Dragon Ball series that began it all. The storylines here aren't just full of the science fiction and hard hitting fights Dragon Ball Z was known for but also the elements of magic, fantasy and off beat humor that Dragon Ball was known for. Looking at these episodes now, they are the perfect ending to such an entertaining series that artfully managed to constantly escalate things through a seemingly natural course of events. After these episodes it seems hard to imagine more epic storylines for these particular character's than what we're given here.

This final set is full with equal amounts of the fighting fans expect as well as the elements of humor and fantasy that make this series so loved, fusing the two perfectly. Akira Toriyama ended his long running story fittingly and satisfactorily for fans with these sagas all ending with a final nod towards the Goku we were introduced to way back at the start of Dragon Ball, a Goku that looks at everything as a challenge and adventure.

I can't wait until this set is released in May, thanks for your time.

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There will always be those that give this series bad reviews, but the fact remains it was one of the closest-to-script adaptations with some of the coolest voices from the cast of Funimation (as far as the English dub is concerned).

YES some supposedly 5 minute fights are dragged out over 10 episodes or more

YES Toriyama-san wanted to stop at the Freeza saga but the fans wanted more so it was pushed all the way to Buu saga

BUT YOU KNOW WHAT??? It has a solid story and solid action, great fights, great characters and development, and AWESOME villains. This anime gets an 11 out of 10!

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I ordered this in November when it was $11.99, didn't open til this week January 2012. I was surprised it was missing the Character bio/Episode guide Booklet. Also, the plastic thing holding the disc were chipped and cracked. It seemed like I got a used copy but sold as new. Contacted Amazon they did a replacement 1 day shipping. Got it today and opened it up. YES, it was Brand NEW no scratches no cracked or anything.....BUT NO BOOKLET AGAIN. I went on amazon reading the latest reviews and people are not getting the BOOKLET either. Strange I got booklet for all the other ones except this one. I thought Amazon got a faulty batch or something. So I emailed ProductConcerns@funimation.com

Within an hour I get this reply

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"XXXXXXX,

In the interest of going green we are no longer including printed versions of the episode & character guides in our packaging for Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball GT, and Dragon Ball Z season sets. However, we understand your desire to obtain these and have made them available via PDF download in the following locations (each season set has its own page, and the guide booklet download link can be found in the summary section):We have informed our retailers that this item is no longer included in the season sets.

Thanks,

Product Concerns

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So there is your answer folks, they don't include them anymore. So if you plan on buying it on amazon get it used that comes with it or something. Not sure about the other season sets because I got those booklets.

I talked with amazon support and let them know and they kindly refunded me partial credit ($3 from $11.99) So its all good I guess.

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Dragon Ball Z's Final Chapters!

The Z fighters Battle, To Take The Formidable Majin Buu Down In This Finale Of The Buu Saga. IT'S INDEED THE BEST Action Pack Season Set, Which Ends The Series OF DRAGON BALL Z!

Finally Funimations decide to be nice to us by releasing another Season Set and including all the remaining episodes of DBZ.

I still remember A couple years back, when I spent almost $50 dollars just for the 5 DVD Set that only included the Kid Buu saga, Not only were the Old DVD's expensive and almost impossible to find, there were also a total space waster. Season nine set is A must have! Not only is it cheaper, It's a non-stop fierce action show, that never stops to take it up to the next level, not even to the every End. (It also helps that the size of the Set doesn't take up a lot of room like the Pervious 1999-2003 Sets.)

So, finally having the Funny Guys at FUNImations releasing very easy to find Season Sets at $30 price range, make me want to slap my self for even attempting to collect over 80 DVD's of DBZ.

I really wish they would of released these Season Sets a long time ago and The way they take there sweet A$$ time to re-release this Series makes me wonder if there going to Re-re-release them again on (blu-ray) or try to release them like they did in Japan, with the Dragon Box which included all 291 Episodes in Two Large Box Sets and also included a large amount of DVD EXTRAS!!! Hmm.... Funimations! the ball's in your court!

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Majin Buu Has Cut a Path of Destruction Across The Earth, Leaving Nothing But Devastation, It Could Even Be Beyond The Power of The Dragon Balls To Repair. The Z-Fighters Have But One Final Hope Against Majin Buu, The Fusion Techniques! But For This Plan to Succeed, Goku MUST Join Forces With His Oldest Rival, Vegeta! Can These Warriors Put a Stop To Majin Buu Once and For all? The Final Battle Begins.

Season Nine Contains The Complete FUSION and KID BUU Saga's of Dragon Ball Z, in The Following 38 Uncut Episode's (254-291)

Fusion Saga:

254. The Evil of Men

255. Buu Against Buu

256. Empty Planet

257. Time Struggle

258. Super Moves of Gotenks

259. Trapped in Forever

260. Feeding Frenzy

261. Gotenks is Awesome

262. Unlucky Break

263. A Whole New Gohan

264. Search for Survivors

265. Majin Buu Transforms

266. The Old Kai's Weapon

267. Ready to Fuse?

268. Union of Rivals

269. Meet Vegetto

270. Rip in the Universe

271. Vegetto

272. The Incredible Fighting Candy

273. The Innards of Buu

274. Mind Trap

275. Visions of Deadly

Kid Buu Saga:

276. Evil Kid Buu

277. End of Earth

278. True Saiyans Fight Alone

279. Battle for the Universe Begins

280. Vegeta's Respect

281. Minute of Desperation

282. Old Buu Emerges

283. Earth Reborn

284. Call to Action

285. People of Earth Unite

286. Spirit Bomb Triumphant

287. Celebrations with Majin Buu

288. He's Always Late

289. Grandaughter Pan

290. Buu's Reincarnation

291. Goku's Next Journey

Like The Previous Season Sets, They Are Released In a 6 Disc Box Set, Digitally

Re-Mastered in High Definition Transferred From The Original Japanese Film Masters and Presented in Widescreen Format (16:9). Also Contains, Both The Japanese and English (Dub) Language with Optional Subtitles. (Region 1, 2, 4)

(Special Note: So far, None Of The Season Sets Contain The 4:3 Full Screen Format)

Extra Features Include:

24-Page Booklet Filled With Episode Summaries and Character Descriptions.

Revised English Dialogue Over The Original Japanese Music.

Anime/Movie Trailers.

And The Marathon Play.

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this is the end of the best anime series ever, and what a way to end it

if youve gotem all to this point no reason to stop now

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A lot of people don't seem to understand DBZ Kai, and I'm here to explain it. But first, let me say I've been watching Dragonball (in general) since about 1987-1988, when I was completely hooked on it. I actually thought Gohan was Goku (because he was drawn the same as Goku in the DB) when I first watched DBZ.

For some reason, I picked DBZ up when Goku was training with King Kai, rather than starting from the beginning. I watched it through to the start of the Buu arc (after skipping a good portion of the Cell arc because it was JUST SO LONG) and gave up because the pace was just so slow I couldn't take it anymore.

Having said that, here's the reason why DBZ was paced so slowly: DBZ aired year round in Japan. It didn't have seasons or repeats. Every week (barring interruptions for special events, which happened a few times a year) for 7 years. DBZ was being produced faster than the manga was. They didn't want to deviate from the source, so they had to pad out what little they had until they could get new material from the manga. This is why they talked so much and brought a lot of the episodes to a painful halt. This is why inconsequential subplots were introduced, so they had more filler. I remember the Freiza battle being particularly painful, where Frieza and Goku would talk for the entire episode about how much they wanted to kill each other while only doing 2 or 3 moves that entire episode. I almost abandoned the series then honestly, but managed to hold on.

So, enter Dragon Ball Z Kai. This has been recut to fit the pace of the original manga. This is what DBZ _should have been_. This matches the manga. This is how Akira Toriyama wanted it to be. The subplots eliminated were not part of canon, so to speak. Read the manga and see that it moves just as fast as Kai. (I know because I have.) Gohan always fought very reluctantly as, as mentioned early on, he wanted to be a scholar, not a fighter. DBZ made him look like some kind of gung ho fighting machine, which he wasn't.

Overall, this is probably a better series. Recommended highly.

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Ok so I'll list my likes and dislikes about this, starting with dislikes

Dislikes

1. Starting with the box set before we get to the anime. Funimation, would you please care about your product as much as we the consumer does. I mean come on! You screwed up by putting vegeta on the cover of disc 1 and raditz on disc 2; he's not even in disc 2. Gez.

2. The opening sequences, "commercial" breaks, closing sequences are amazing animation. I wish they would of done it that way, I didn't even know what to expect, I thought it was going to be that type of animation like the 1 for that dbz movie with vegetas little brother table. But oh well I guess they didn't want to. It would've put a whole new feel to it and would of been like watching a brand new dbz.

3. it's Watching dbz in fast forward. Which is fine and all but its kinda weird from watching the original so many times to this.

Likes

1. If you don't have time to watch all of the episodes normally, this is a great way to get your fill and fix.

2. Dying for a dbz fix, want to watch that amazing fight sequence, you won't have to look far and skip through scenes and episodes just to get to the beef of the action, it's pretty much here.

3. Feels like the manga is being flip booked for me with dialogue and action nd everything.

So all in all ill take the good with the bad, its dbz there's not much to ever hate about it. (Except for you gohan who decides to turn ink saiyaman and not be a major bad ass like we know you could of been.) Anyways, lol in the end dbz is dbz an ill take all I can get from the 20 + old series.

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Let's face it. As fun and nostalgic as Dragon Ball Z is, it's always had a bad habit of dragging on forever, to the point where even the most patient among us get fed up and yearn to see the villains' defeat and the start of the next saga. The series aired year round in Japan and Toei had to use filler so it wouldn't get ahead of the manga, which was still being published alongside it. So they inserted many side stories and diversions to keep the episodes going until there were more manga chapters to adapt, resulting in a very bloated, drawn out series.

I was a big fan of DBZ back in high school, when it aired on Toonami in the afternoons. I became an even bigger fan when FUNimation started releasing DVDs with original Japanese audio and subtitles. But somewhere along the way (I think it was when the first `orange brick' season sets were being released, where the picture was cropped to the point of distraction) I lost interest and moved on.

Then Dragon Ball Z `Kai' came along, and renewed my interest in the series. Here was DBZ with a new approach: all of that extra filler (like Princess Snake, Hell, the robot, the dinosaur, Fake Namek, the orphan children, the Ginyu Force on King Kai's planet (*shudder*) Garlic Jr. (*vomit*) etc. etc.) was removed, leaving behind only what was originally in the manga (well, I say `only' but there are a few exceptionsGregory, for example). Now I could watch the series without it taking forever to get to the good parts. Some people miss the extra material, but I think the series is better off without it. The old filler scenes are not only pointless and tedious, they sometimes create huge plotholes (like Goku's old spacepod being destroyed but being intact later to take him to Namek, or again, the Garlic bloody Jr. saga, which creates a movie/series continuity problem).

And in that aspect, Kai delivers. It covers a lot of ground very quickly. It starts off slow, with the arrival, fight with, and defeat of Raditz taking three episodes, but that's understandable. By episode 13, the last episode in this set, Goku has already started fighting Vegeta; in the original version he hadn't even made it to King Kai at that point. The story moves much faster, and it really feels more like an animated adaptation of the manga.

DBZ Kai also has a brand new English dub, which is far more accurate than the old FUNimation `Z' dub. Although I prefer Japanese with English subtitles, I'm glad I can finally watch the dub without feeling embarrassed. FUNimation no longer turns every character into a goofy comedian with lame jokey lines and puns, and the voices and acting are actually tolerable! Granted, King Kai still sounds like he is full of blubber, and the dub does kind of veer off in its own direction at times. Like when Kami is telling Mr. Popo that he knows Piccolo is no longer a demon. In the original manga and Japanese version (you can see it in the subtitles) he can tell because after Piccolo killed Raditz, his soul went to the afterlife instead of hanging in limbo forever. In the English version, Kami says Piccolo is obviously no longer a demon because he was a swell enough guy to train his archenemy's son. Um, what? Too supernatural for English audiences? They could have just changed that for the Nicktoons, or (God help us) 4kids versions. But it's a minor inconvenience. I'll take a few small changes over the entirety of the old Toonami dub and especially the old Saban era dub.

And in another first for a FUNimation Dragon Ball dub, there is actually mild swearing! Okay, so overall it doesn't make a difference to me either way whether there is swearing or not, but it certainly moves the dub away from American afternoon animation block territory, and makes it a little more grown up and realistic besides. A fight with invincible intergalactic supervillains that have the power to blow up entire cities would naturally include a lot of "Damns," "Hells," and "Bastards," don't you think?

The episodes in this set are uncut, meaning they haven't been edited for American audiences. However, because of new television broadcast standards in Japan, Toei already had to make its own (mild) edits to this new version before it was even brought over here. There's a little bit of blood and (male) nudity missing that was in the original Z. It's no big loss, because the show's violence and action are still intact. Punches still connect, bones are still broken, and limbs are still lost. And that's good enough for me!

The new music is enjoyable. It's not the original Japanese soundtrack from the old `Z', but it will do. I'm just glad that the English dub track no longer has a synthpop soundtrack blaring the entire time, including over moments that are supposed to be silent. Of course, there's the whole matter of Kai's composer being fired for plagiarism and all of Kai having the original Japanese `Z' score reinstated in Japan. FUNimation's newer Kai releases have episodes with the old `Z' music, but there's no word yet whether previous American DVD/Blu-Ray releases will be revised in the same manner.

Overall, `Kai' on DVD/Blu-Ray is worth checking out. It's a fresh revision of an old franchise, and a good way to introduce newcomers and younger viewers alike to the series.

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I liked the new openings and beginnings. I also like that there wasn't tons of filler episodes, but I was disappointed that they began to censor everything. All of the great animes don't have to be for children you know!

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I love Dragon Ball Z Kai it is just as good as Z. Kai is good because it is all about action. No filler. I like the filler though but I also enjoy it without filler. That is why I'm getting both Z and Z Kai.