Product Details

• Actors: Jôji Yanami, Masako Nozawa, Mayumi Tanaka, Ryô Horikawa, Toshio Furukawa
• Directors: Minoru Okazaki
• Writers: Akira Toriyama, Katsuyuki Sumizawa
• Format: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Funimation Prod
• DVD Release Date: February 27, 2001
• Run Time: 48 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004YKPL
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #201,180 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Dragon Ball - Mystical Adventure" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Funimation Prod Inc Release Date: 02/27/2001

Customer Reviews

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dragon Ball Movie 3: Makafushigi Daibouken!, February 14, 2002

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P. Bothenius Lohman (The Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dragon Ball - Mystical Adventure (DVD)

What's on this DVD? Dragon Ball Movie 3: Mystical Adventure.

The cover of this DVD is realy nice. FUNimation usually restrict themselfs to a simple screencapture, but this one had more work put into it. As always, it includes the splash with the 'Includes two versions...'. Let's open the DVD. Again, no insert. A little card with the chapters, would be nice. Oh well, you aren't buying it for that ofcourse, but it would still be nice. The DVD itself has the same picture as the cover.

As we insert the DVD, the FBI warning comes op, followed by the FUNimation logo. The menu is simple, yet pretty. We see a picture of Tsuru-sennin (Kame-sennin's rival, and former trainer of Tenshinhan and Chouzu) looking at his giant Dragon Ball Radar. But -get this- FUNi actualy used the Japanese music in the menus! Nice. You can immeadiatly play the film, or first select a language, or scene. There's also extra's. Well, extra's...It's just some commercials for FUNimations other Dragon Ball products. Come on, this can be better.

Let's play the film. I reccomend you select the original Japanese version, for it has the best acting, dialouge and music. The picture quality is great. And I do mean GREAT. For something this old, it cannot get better. Not one rainbow or flickering. Great job, FUNi. The Japanese audio is in MONO, so don't expect the best quality. Still, it's good enough, and after a while, you won't notice. The DUB audio is in Stereo.
Again, Steve "Daimao" Simmons translations of the Japanese versions are great. The only problem with the subtitles is that they sometimes move a bit fast, so be prepared to read fast.

Pro's:

-Great video quality
-Japanese version, with great translation

Con's:

-Extra's

Video: 10/10
Audio: 8/10
Extra's: 1/10

Final score(Not an average): 9/10. If you want to see Dragon Ball in all it's glory, get this.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mystical Goodness, July 4, 2002

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"trunksxl" (AUS) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dragon Ball - Mystical Adventure (DVD)

I recently purchased this DVD based on Amazon reviews and guess what ! They were right.

This is 1 must get DVD. The voices are excelent, whilst it was a shame they had all the voices from the series except goku's, oh well it's still excelent.

Whilst the extras are not much to speak of this movie is as good as the current dbz movies.
With a great story and its good to see an alternate solution to what happens after there training.

The movie does sadden me though as the intro shows many cut clips from the series and i cannot wait for funimation to release series 1 dvd uncut.

None the less this is highly recommended and lets try and get the other 3 movies on dvd
Curse of the Blood Rubies
Sleeping Princess in Devils Castle
and the 10th anniversary special - The Road To The Strongest.

Msytical Adventure, is a fast pace, intersting and funny movie that i highly recommend you add to your DVD Collection today !

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dragonball at it's best!, May 29, 2003

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Kevin Artinian (Whittier CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dragon Ball - Mystical Adventure (DVD)

This was the first feature film based on the original DB series that I watched, and it literally blew me away! Dragonball Z is always touted as being faster than Dragonball, yet this movie is more frenetic than any battle against Cell, Cooler, Frieza, Lord Slug, Majin Buu, or any other part of the DBZ story. Speaking of story, this story doesn't quite fit into the original DB storyline (since when is Chiaotzu the emperor? and since when is Master Shen and the Red Ribbon Army working for Chiaotzu? And for gosh sake, why is Emperor Pilaf working for the red Ribbon Army!?). Ah, but who cares? We get to see Goku and Krillin kick some serious butt here, plus appearances from almost every great villain in the series. It's a little too frenetic, but it's still a lot of fun. Plus, we get to see Tien and Chiaotzu's friendship unfold. But the best scene of all is when Bulma and Launch pose as nuns on a pilgrimage as they try to sneak into the palace to steal the dragonballs. If you have no idea who these characters are, I suggest you introduce yourself to Dragonball through one of the sagas, but preferably not through this or the other features. Same goes for my other DB/DBZ reviews, because I'm not going to summarize the entire series for you (check the Dragonball web site for that). Anyway, this is a great story for all you fans of Goku and his friends. Kamehameha!