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Dragon Ball - Mystical Adventure

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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.

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 !

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!

I bought this DVD with some pretty high expentations, and I was totally satisifed! I would suggest sticking with the Jap. version with the english subtitles. The dud was all right but the voice actor for Goku is WAY diffrent then the one who is Goku on Cartoon Network, but the Jap. version makes up for it, that's why it got 5 stars from me.

Though kinda short the viewers see just how close Tein and Chiaotzu's friendship really is. It really doesn't tie in with any story line for Dragon Ball but good never the less.
I would diffently recommend this if you're a Dragon Ball or Dragon Ball Z fan!

Well, not that I'm a huge fan of Funimation's dub of Dragonball or Dragonball Z, as far as the dubbing itself is concerned, this movie is pretty good. But, come on, you aren't buying this for the dub! You want the Japanese version with subtitles. Frankly, this is Funimation's best DVD to date, and although the sound quality is a bit weak, the quality of the movie more than makes up for it. So go buy it now!!!

As a long time fan of Dragonball and Dragonball Z I am excited to see this finally find release in the United States. This movie spins off the early DB tournment saga very smoothly with a short scenic summery of Goku and Krillin's (Kuririn) training under Master Roshi. Their is a lot of good fun and some nice action sequences, including tournment fighting hosted by Chaozu. Familer DB characters are there, including Bulma, Oolong, Yamcha and Pu'ar and some new characters are introduced, including Tien and the aforementioned Chaozu. This is uncut so too suggestive for kids.

Both english and japanese were both fun too watch. They may of been different, but I think both went good with the movie. Don't know why it says brief nudity because there is none. Also in the english one the made goku sound real funny. Overall really good movie and a must buy.

Just for the statistics: in addition to the TV series there are several movies of DB and DBZ. (Note: in the Manga books the story just goes on. The Anime is called DB until Goku's getting married, from this point on it is DBZ).
The Movies don't always fully match the TV series. Some charakters do not act as we know them or have different relationship to others. But for everyone who won't mind that, I can highly recommend this movie (Original version, of course. Can anybody tell me why USA releases always try to show the "good guys" better and the "bad guys" worse than they were intended?)
Oh, and by the way: The DVD I got a week ago was coded 1+2+4!
Christine Scheiner, Ellwangen/Germany

I loved this DVD it was the funiest dvd since Trunks Mysterious youth. Finaly Goku has completed his training under Muten Roshi the turtle hermit and must enter the tournament presented the young Emperor Chaotsu. But watch out emporer because Shen and Tien have other plans. There is also the appearance of Arale a character from another one of Akira Toriyama's mangas. If you like the quality of the Frieza saga on Dvd, this is for you.

I've seen alot of Dragonball Z movies, (almost all of them), but this honestly was my first time seeing a movie from the origional Dragonball, and it certanly won't be the last! Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure was an excellent movie, that I have no doubts about buying. The story is like this:

Goku and Krillin have just finished their training for Master Roshi, and as a reward, they all go and enter the World Championship Fighting Tournament held by Empror Chiaotzu. Meanwhile, Master Shen, and Tao both are plotting to use all of the Dragonballs for their own evil purposes. Now its up to Goku, Krillin, Master Roshi, An Indian named Bora and his son named Upa to save the day...and Tien must choose between his personal duty, and his freindship with Chiaotzu.

The movie like I said was overall pretty good. It wasnt too long, just about 45 minutes at least, but they put it to good use. The action as always was excellent in this movie. Everyones favorate characters from the show appear on the movie like Bulma, Yamcha, Launch, Puar, Oolong, Shenron, and others. There's also a special cameo appearance from Arale (Dr.Slump), which was hilarious to watch. We also see just how the strong freindship bewteen Tien and Chiaotzu got started. Overall an awsome movie! I will be investing in more DB movies in the future.

5/5.