The only two

Unfortunately, the level sets sold poorly as a result of the poor timing of their release. For some reason, FUNImation is under the belief that most fans aren't interested in 4:3 restorations due to that, despite the poor sales of the levels sets being their fault. We'll likely never see them be continued.

@@bigboi5545 Yeah, the only way they would re release the og dbz is if they do a 2025 40th anniversary release which will be very unlikely and if they do do it it will probably be REALLY bad

It's been over 10 years, get over it. The steelbooks are the best set to date.

​@@ericstaples7220clearly not if even the video creator is having trouble explaining the shotty quality of the stealbooks lol

These have the falconer soundrack

@@HeroinBob91 are they better visual quality than the season sets?

@@dominiqueodom3099 I don't know if I would say they are substancially better but at the very least these are not cropped to 16:9 so that is a win for me.

i have the bluray season sets....is the video/sound quality better on those or these new steelbooks?

@@stephensturges5711 I would say yes just because it's not cropped to 16:9 which is a good thing. There's still some cropping tho. They are not great but they are for sure better than the season sets.

Yeah... Oh well...

This.

This. I’m waiting for a release that has 4:3, dragon box quality, HD, and faulconers score/opening and endings. Probably another decade of waiting.

@@Cruxis_Angel just buy those and sync with them whatever you want

@@hellodigitalworld8224 I just thought about starting a project like this a few days ago but it will be expensive and time consuming. The Dragon Boxes being the holy grail go for HUGE amounts of money, especially if all 7 volumes are included. There's one on Ebay right now like that for $1,850. Then for upscaling, you could go for Topaz Labs which is pretty good at keeping in grain and details despite the upscale. That's about another $200. The Orange Bricks (for the Faulconer score) shouldn't much, about $60. Of course you'll need one of the DBZ single DVDs with the opening you want (Rock the Dragon or the Toonami version) and that'll be another $20-$30. Only things left to get would be a good DVD ripper and a good software for editing menus, chapters and burning discs if you want physical media. That should be another $100-$150. So in total to fix DBZ, it'll cost nearly $2,300! Thank you for screwing us Funimation!

Dude I was in the same position. I pulled the trigger and in-person the color difference isn't as much as it seems in the side by sides, not at all. The steel book colors are supposedly saturated and boosted... They look about the same to me, and even muted in some scenes. That's just me.

@@lancedolan The colors hurt my eyes

@@culex2513 Take a look at the original celluloids painted by the original artists. They are bright. What you're seeing, and what is apparently hurting your eyes, is how dragon Ball z originally looked on celluloid and how it was intended to look on TV. You're just used to seeing a faded picture, watered down by the technology of the '80s and '90s.

@@lancedolan this man here! 💯

@@lancedolan Yeah, that makes sense actually.

The steelbooks should have came in that slip cover sleeve the 2013-2014 set came in. I saw somebody selling a complete steelbook set that was inside that 2013 blu ray slipcover and I was like that is a AWESOME IDEA. I should have bought it but kept sleeping on it. If I ever find the right price for a complete steelbook set that is new I'm going to buy some steelbook protective slip covers for each one then put them all in the 2013 blu ray slipcover. I get ocd with not scratching the art work lol.

Enjoy them!! RIP Toriyama 🙏

Yes, I do think so. I'd say, get them.

@@fldsmdfr9107 Oh, don't get me wrong, the Dragon Boxes are great, and yes, the quality is beautiful. However, I really do think that comparing these 2 together, it really does come down to preference. You're getting a full screen experience, either way. Just, they just look vastly different from one another, but, not entirely in a bad way. The blu-rays look nice, as they sort of try to do their own thing. For what we have again, it looks pretty alright, and it's affordable. The Dragon Boxes do look real beautiful though, I do think so, for sure. And, I'm lucky enough to still have them. Honestly

Yeah I personally prefer the steelbooks. Grain wasn't drawn-in by the original artists, it's an artifact if the technology in the 80s. The less grain, the more it looks as officially intended. The detail loss due to DNR isn't noticeable for me. If you compare frame by frame, I can see the difference but... Completely unnoticeable while watching. Colors look great too.

@@fldsmdfr9107 dude look up images of the original celluloids. There's exactly zero grain in every single piece of art used to produce every single episode of dragon Ball z. The grain doesn't occur until they use their crappy 1980s technology to photograph the celluloids onto film. Dragon Ball z episodes have grain for the reason that anything you watch on a VCR tape has grain: it was a limitation of the technology, not an intended characteristic of the original image.

@@lancedolan "the less grain, the more it looks as officially intended". You could not be more wrong. "The detail loss due to DNR isn't noticeable for me." Are you blind?

It would be a dream for the Final Chapters was released in 4:3 and removal of the blu tint.

@@awsomeboy360 dbz Kai final chapters was created to be formatted in 16:9 so no picture is missing from the image

Exactly... Which is frustrating.

No, I know that, lol

@Andresito LT1 Nope No shakes etc. it’s not the footage but funimation crap release

It's definitely the original show that had the shaking camera. It's your own fault for never noticing it before.

Hey would you sell the season 1 Steelbook?

The shake is from the format dbz was made on. It’s on 16mm film

The constantly shaking and moving is normal since the Anime was made on 16mm film and not digital.

Kai, the pacing is faster with a better dub.

Amazon or right stuf. Right stuf ships your stuff great

Let's hope they will make a native 2160p master of this show and not the upscaled crap

TV shows aren’t really getting 4K sets. Certainly not older shows.

How about Dragon Ball, that deserve more!!

Lol 4?? Resolution aint everything make a decent 1080p first lol. The dragon boxes is still the best release so far and that’s 10 years ago.

@@pauljulian3937 Hell no bro lol, the level sets were the best thing to ever happen let's be honest.

Yes

If you are rich

@@christron5368 well I got them for $34.99 each when they were still new at a store.

@@gleamingtv3946 lucky

@@christron5368 smart.

@@gleamingtv3946 Funny, I recall them being $60.

The dragon boxes maybe expensive but you could buy the singles of the dragon boxes on Amazon it takes a long time to find them on Amazon but if you go on the amazon jp website find them and then change the .jp to let’s say us you can then buy them that way without making a amazon jp account heres the first disc they are only in Japanese but it’s better than nothing I will probably rip the English subtitles off the orange bricks heres the link for the first one good luck www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B000B66IZ4/ref=ya_aw_od_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Some of them are expensive brand new but if you get them used on Amazon you can get them for dirt cheep

Theyre not worth it either way, its missing faulconers score

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@@majinvegeta7777 that means you are wrong

@@christron5368 yeah no sorry bro but the japanese score is lame boring bland & emotionless. Faulconers score brings dbz to life💯

I never purchased the 30th Anniversary Box Set, but to my understanding, they are the same. I know the European sets from Manga, come with really amazing packaging. Probably the best PHYSICAL box set ever. However, I do believe that the footage is the same, as what we have in North America. I'm not 100% sure on that yet, though...

@@TheY2KReviewer ypu mean the slipcover manga uk ones? Those come with goodies yea like poster and cards in each season those are the best? I heard steelbooks can rust overtime

@@saiyanlives9872 I mean... idk. They are essentially the same, it's just that they come with a bunch of fancy stuff inside, right? So... yeah.

@@TheY2KReviewer yea just a poster and picture cards yea

These steelbooks are literally the 30th anniversary sets

Definitive release*

Would you suggest buying the steelbooks and watching the series vs streaming it on crunchy roll?

Tf u mean the colors arc correct? the saturation is fucked up and the linework was turned into a smeary wobbly mess because of their stupid DNR filter, It's far from being good but hey, you're a Walmart buying DB fan so I guess your standards are very low

​@@chasen432Pirate the show, there's a fan encode that looks much better than any other release

​@@ayerooownwhere

How were the quality of these for you? I'm thinking about doing the same thing. Been thinking about getting the old pioneer/funimation dvd singles or pony up and get the steelbooks.

Yes

@@yadi5d230 thx

@@dbzking np

@@yadi5d230 but is no cropped 4:3 aspect ratio 1:33:1 or? It is really original full 4:3 aspect ratio 1:33:1?! :)

The only thing good with with the final chapters is the tfs reference. But I do like plain Kai 1-98

@@christron5368 Final Chapters is apart of plain Kai. They still cut a chunk of the filler out. Not as much is the past episodes. But still enough as Buu arc filler wasn't as much of a nuisance pacing wise. It also still gave us a better dub close to the Japanese.

@@OWmyDragonballz facts

Kai is not good dub wise and the filters are so bad the Japanese animators on Twitter hated em

@@fridaynightnicktoons6885 Sure the reanimate scenes were trash BUT when they used the original cels it looked beautiful and the best they have ever looked. What do you mean by the dub though? Sure you may not like gohan’s new voice but the dub overall is WAY better. It is way more accurate to the manga with basically about everything.

Yellow?

@@culex2513 the uk has yellow bricks rather than blue bricks.

I own the yellow brick (which is UK/European Dragonball). These are good releases, 4:3 and has the original grain in it

@@DragonboltBlastter yeah they are even better than the blue bricks. I believe they use the saga sets footage (which is the first dvd release of dragon ball in the us and only release in Australia)

No, no they are not. I don't think footage wise, you can beat that. Technically the Level sets do, but, yeah... Those poor Level sets. I am going to make a follow up Video to this topic soon!

@@TheY2KReviewer alright cool love to see next video also I would love the dragon boxes but they are 480p and are very expansive I dont wanna dish out all that cash for old dvds =/ I just want a good quality bluray set is this the best bluray we got so far? If we are ignoring dragon boxes this is the second best? Also I could do what u said and download the dragon boxes but I read online that dvd rips or encodes are always less quality then the actual disk cause of compression and encoding that means even worse than dvd quality =/ , I just want the best quality version u can get is all lol funimation is making it diffecult

Smh go use Google you fool. Bruce faulconers music comes in on season 3

Wtf these are out print now??

Makes me glad I picked up all 9 for 380 on ebay last year

Not just that, but Crunchyroll (the new Funimation), they got rid of the steelbooks and brought back the previous widescreen blu rays.... 🙂🔫 We just can't win.

​@@MTMfilms2Yeah that alone made me start my hunt for all of the single dvds from the 2000s and then get the steelbooks too. The 2013 or 2014 blu ray set is way too bright. Everything seems fluorescent and no falconer on Crunchyroll. So far I have the Saiyan Saga,Namek Saga, and Frieza Saga on dvd with slipcovers for the dvds too in really good condition. Having the old dvds with the ocean dub and younger sounding voices that then transitions to Sean and Chris and then having the steelbooks blu rays for a modern touch is a nice collection to own if you are a dbz fan. Best of both worlds. I grew up watching the toonami/Cartoon Network versions. Kai is completely irrelevant to me as its just not the same. I dont mind filler and the voices of Kai for instance Gohan is a instant NO for me. Colors might be great but thats about all it has going for it imo. I wish they would realize the amount of people who want the level sets to return and just invest back into it. The market for it is definitely there I guarantee they would sell like HOTCAKES but if they did that then they couldn't continue to release a botched set over and over because if they finished the level sets there wouldn't be a need to buy another set ever again. Great way to rinse and repeat for Funimation. Sorry for the little rant lol.

​@@thecluckingassassin I pre ordered each of these sets as they were getting released. Had a feeling that funimation would make these a limited released

Just use Archive.org at this point.

The generic song, unfortunately...

@@TheY2KReviewer smfh. Thanks. I guess there's no hope for Sprit vs. Spirit in the dub either. Or Mind Power Ki either iirc. It took them a decade of complaining for us to get 4:3 at a decent price after all... maybe 50 years and 10 re-releases from now we'll finally have a release that isn't stupid beyond belief. Thanks for the info though, boss. Guess I gotta frantically switch to the Japanese audio at the start of the ED and switch back when the OP ends still

They are objectively trash.

@@TannerBartko To call them trash is just to say that you don't like them. It's by definition a subjective statement.

@@TannerBartko why you hating bro? Dont tell me ur a kai dweeb

@@majinvegeta7777 It's objectively not what the show is supposed to look like.

@@majinvegeta7777 Kai has nothing to do with what any of these people are talking about. Plus, kai is probably the definitive way to watch. And don't come at me about the Nicktoons/toonzai versions, I mean the uncensored version from Japan, and the dvd releases. The music is great ( not counting yamamoto's score), It's actually hd, and has been redubbed greatly. Not just by the u.s., but japan as well. And, biggest of all, NO FILLER! I'd say it's worth anyone's time, old fans, or new fans alike.

There's nothing wrong with that, lol. Kai is great too.

Well Kai is sort of a different show