Originally posted by: Darth_Evil

I like that they usually produce it unscensored here in America, unlike Anime.

Dragon Ball and DBZ

Originally all called Dragon Ball. Great series, they just came out with the final volume of Z. (I have all of them.) It's much better than the long and drawn out anime, which I can't stand dubbed.

Too bad that the DB series is not one of those that is uncensored. The "DB" part, for the most part was uncensored, but they actually censored out Popo's lips, which I find ridiculous, because not even DragonBall Z, when it was under Saban's syndication and crazy censorship rules, required them to do that. The "DBZ" quality has really fallen as of late. They went along with FUNimation and censored Mr. Satan's name to Hercule, #16's Hell's Flash to Inferno Blast (which I don't mind too much because it's pretty close), all nudity from day one has been censored out (I think Gohan not having anything down there at all is even freakier than seeing his genitals!), and they refused to ever use the term Majin or Madoshi in the Buu saga, instead calling him Djinn. It just makes those M scripts all over the characters' foreheads and clothing make absolutely no sense. But, yeah, it's much better than the dub of the anime, so I've collected all of them so far except for volumes 41 and 42. It kind of annoys me that they split them up into two series, but I can understand why they did, and it helped get everything finished faster, so I'm not too upset.

FUNimation's dubs just sucked! I've heard a lot of their newer work is much better, but I don't care. I can never respect them as a legitimate dubbing company since, even when they were releasing anime that was much better, they were still butchering the DragonBall series. DragonBall was the best of the three by far since the original music was in there, but the translation was still very, very loose. Z and GT (what little I saw of GT since I don't really care... it's non canon) were just abominations to dubbing and just to television in general. But at least DragonBall pronounced Kamehameha correctly at least once, so I give them credit for that!