Product Description: No Description Available No Track Information Available Media Type: DVD Artist: DRAGON BALL Z Title: SEASON 3 Street Release Date: 08/28/2007 Domestic Genre: TELEVISION
Amazon.com: The third season of the popular shonen (boy's) show Dragon Ball Z continues the adventures of Goku and Gohan on Namek, Piccolo's home planet. Goku, who has been in a regeneration tank since the end of season 2, recovers just in time to challenge the sniggering Frieza, one of the most grating villains in anime history. Having defeated Gohan, Krillin, Vegeta, and Piccolo, Frieza takes on Goku in a protracted duel. When he begins to doubt his ability to overcome Goku, Frieza destroys the core of Namek, ensuring it will explode in a matter of minutes. Enraged by the death of Krillin and so many others, Goku transforms into the one thing Frieza fears: a Super Saiyan, a legendary warrior who appears once every 1,000 years. As the seconds tick away, the two most powerful individuals in the universe duke it out. While they're beating the soba out of each other, King Kai hatches a plan to use the Dragon Balls of Earth and Namek to ensure a happy ending. As the battle between Goku and Frieza intensifies, the kicks and punches fly, producing titanic explosions. But the duel goes on for more than 20 episodes: With only a limited budget and crude special-effects techniques at their disposal, the filmmakers have to recycle footage endlessly. Dragon Ball Z: Season 3 is more entertaining when the viewer allows a few days to elapse between episodes, rather than indulging in a Super Saiyan marathon. (Rated TV PG. suitable for ages 8 and older: violence, brief nudity, tobacco use, ethnic stereotypes) --Charles Solomon
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Season 3
I'd say this is one of the most important sagas in DBZ, and memorable to boot. The remastered video quality looks great, and the audio sounds perfect. Totally worth the money for a DBZ fan looking to buy it.
Rating: - Another excellent season set
Dragon Ball Z is the one greatest anime series ever created. With its action-packed universe and compelling storylines, Akira Toriyama's magnum opus has never failed to please. This is the latest season set FUNimation has released of the series.
This set picks up where the last one left off. The Ginyu Force has been defeated, and Piccolo has been wished back to life and brought to Namek. The inevitable battle with Frieza begins. Gohan, Krillin, Vegeta, and Piccolo face the tyrant as he undergoes a number of transformations, making him even more powerful. While they hold their own, the tyrant proves too much for them, and eventually our hero Goku enters the battlefield. It's up to Goku to defeat the evil tyrant, and restore peace to the universe.
The DVD set is divided amongst six discs, and contains the Frieza Saga (up until the end of Goku vs. Frieza, the Garlic Jr. Saga and Frieza on Earth episodes aren't included - they're in the next set.) The picture has been subjected to digital noise reduction, and the set includes a booklet of character profiles and episode listings.
Obviously, if you're new to the Dragon Ball franchise, you'll want to start with the Season One box set, but if you're already a fan, you'll enjoy these episodes. The fights against Frieza are great, some of the best fight scenes the series has to offer. Goku vs. Frieza is a truly epic battle, with a scene that has become an iconic moment in the series. The fight drags on WAY TOO LONG, but this is typical of the anime adaptation of Dragon Ball. This is still some of the best action in the series.
One of my personal favorite features of the set is the Marathon feature. FUNimation includes a feature in these sets that allows you to view all of the episodes on each disc from start to end with no interruptions from intros/outros/recaps/etc. This is an extremely handy feature I wish more TV shows on DVD had.
Like earlier Dragon Ball Z season sets, the picture has been cropped at the top and bottom (this was done due to excessive grain and damage to the original source), and it has been subjected to the digital noise reduction process. Obviously a lot of fans, myself included, were disappointed to see the picture get cropped. While the digital noise reduction doesn't do as thorough a job cleaning up the image as you'd hope, it IS the best these episodes have ever looked. In other words, it's a "give and take" scenario. You lose some of the picture you could see on earlier full-frame DVDs (and there ARE a few gaping moments that will really make you question FUNimation's decision), but on the good side, you gain some picture on the sides, and the image quality is superior to all earlier DVD releases.
Sound quality is similar to the earlier sets. English audio quality is fantastic, but the dub is still translated poorly and the voice cast is hit and miss. On the other hand, the Japanese audio quality is poor, showing its age, but it does feature a well-translated subtitle track from Steven J. Simmons that lets you experience the series as originally intended. Is Dragon Ball Z EVER going to get its Japanese audio remastered?
Additionally, like the earlier sets, you have the option of watching the English voice cast played against the original Japanese audio.
Disappointingly, the next episode previews aren't included. But they weren't in any earlier season set, so it's no big surprise.
No special features are included here unless you count the trailers and the same textless opening/closing sequence all other sets like this have had. On the good side, the set does include a booklet similar to the earlier sets, with character profiles and an episode guide, making it handy to go right where you need to go on the DVDs.
It's another good set. If you're a fan of the series and don't already have these episodes, you can get them all here for one low price. Cropping issues aside, this is a great set, and a good value, especially compared to the older DVD releases.
Highly recommended to any fan of Dragon Ball Z.
Rating: - Great boxset.
This boxset is a great buy for the money. $30 for the entire saga is well worth it. And, the digitally remastered episodes look the best they have ever been. Go buy it!
Rating: - Great show, boring season.
If you haven't seen the entire Frieza Saga then you probably don't realize how extremely dragged out it is. One fight should not take EIGHT HOURS. If you don't have the seasons before this one, I would buy them first, as they are far less boring. I would suggest the Namek Saga, as there are many fights but none get boring as here.
Rating: - Frieza Remastered!
I'll quickly dispel any of the doubts you may have reading other reviews. No, the cropping isn't that noticeable on this set, its about the same as the 2nd season which is not much (read that review of mine). The colors of Namek and the sky are wonderful in their remastered version, just as good as Earth's (don't know why people complain about that).
The Super saiyan fight is on! A great addition to the DBZ collection showcasing the overthrow of the mighty tyrant whose sole purpose is ultimate conquest and cruelty. No DBZ fan can go without this!
- Season 3
- Great boxset.
- Great show, boring season.
