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Dragon Ball GT - Affliction (Vol. 1)

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Episode 1: A Grand Problem (Ep. 1-16 in Japan)
This episode is a poorly assembled collection of the first 16 episodes of the Japanese version. It cotains a good portion of the Japanese first episode and then skips ahead to the 16th episode near the end.

Episode 2: Pan's Gambit (Ep. 17 in Japan)

Episode 3: Unexpected Power (Ep. 18 in Japan)

Episode 4: A General Uprising (Ep. 19 in Japan)

Wow, Funimation doesn't care about the audience's pleasure at all. "What do little boys like, hmmmmmm......" Funimation decided that they were losing their audiences(mostly because they played dragonball z for years and showed thousands of repeats), so funimation decided they would target the younger audience. Instead of respecting the current dbz fans and giving them the show, they decided to cut out the first 16 or so episodes. Not only do we lose part of the series, but they show one episode to recap this. What can we diverge from this information? Funimation knew they missed 16 episodes.

The series is basically boring now. DBZ didn't end. They should of just ended it while they were ahead. Instead, the fights started becoming, "Hey, lets play around with our opponent for 3 days until he figures out a way to beat us!" Vegetto spent a good 5 episodes playing around with majin buu before he contemplated actually killing him.

Now for the older audience, you probably understand this. But the younger audience won't. DBZ's voice actors have been changed quite a bit in america. The DBGT voices are terrible! I loved the dbz voices, but these voices are different. Pans sounds like a 4 year old girl. She sounds like Goku in japanese(Goku's voice actor is actually a girl there). Its annoying and squeaky. I don't got a problem with little girls, but I don't want to watch a 60 episode series with a 16 year old having a 4 year old voice. Its almost as if the director of audio decided to give his daughter a shot at the big time, and lets her keep doing it to make her happy. Trunks is different. Trunks is tolerable, not enjoyable. Goku is somewaht okay. This is like his 3rd child voice actor.

Anyways, the series is butchered. Funimation obviously doesn't care about the series, they care about money. If they cared about dragonball at all they would show all the episodes uncut(not necessarly in japanese because kids are still learning how to read things).

The only good thing is the action, but even that is a little too frequent now.

Do not buy this unless you want a horrible memory of DBGT! Funimation did the worst job I have even seen bringing a Anime to America, First the cut out the 1st 15 episodes of DBGT, then they changed all of the music and the opening to some trash Rock/Rap. And the voice acting is horrible. 3 years ago I downloaded Super5's Sub DBGT's of the japanese series, and it was the best anime I had ever seen. It was the best Dragon Ball series. But when Funimation came out with this Id have to say its the worst Anime. The music on the origanals was so good, I just loved the opening theme with the animation. And now they have crap cuts from the show that make it look bad. If you want to watch DBGT how it was ment to be seen search "Super5" on your fav p2p software.Its breaking the law, but you may never see it in your life. But only buy this if you want some crap that will leave bad memorys of the end of the Dragon Ball saga

FUNimation announced long ago that it was starting in the middle of things with DBGT, making a composite of the first dozen or so episodes for the initial release with plans to release the full episodes later on. Those first episodes, as someone else said, were hated in Japan. So much so that, even after changing gears, the show never fully recovered and was cancelled far sooner than its forerunners. So FUNimation, for better or worse, decided to kick start the show this way.

"Affliction," the foundation for the last tales of Dragon Ball, borrows much thematically from the later DBZ sagas. What still disappoint are the new character designs (GT picks up 10 years later, but Trunks looks younger in GT than he did at the end of DBZ) and even with the edits, one senses the real story won't begin till the gang gets back to Earth. Overall, the first DVD does what it needs to do, introduces us and sets up for the wild action to come that DB fans expect.

You may not know it, but FUNimation did us a favor in releasing this DVD. The first 16 episodes were skipped but can be picked up on "Lost Episodes" DVDs.The English version has horrible music, rap. The menus look bad. The extras are bad(with the exclusion of the Japanese Textless Songs). The English Version overall is bad. But FUNimation has a PERFECT JAPANESE VERSION. Unlike Dragonball/Z DVDs it has the original Kanji Credits and the next episode previews in each episode. For any Japanese Version Fan who cares for GT should get this!

For those of you like me who went out and bought this tape and saw the first episode on it and was thoroughly disappointed with it because of the "butcher" job they did on it, don't get too upset. That first episode "A Grand Problem" is not Episode 1 of the English language series. According to the FAQ on the official DBGT website, "A Grand Problem" is a "primer" episode that is meant to provide some exposition to what has happened in the series up to that point (about the 16th episode of the Japanese series). FUNimation was aware that Japanese audiences considered the first part of DBGT to be the weakest part of the series, so to generate strong interest in the beginning for the U.S. release, FUNimation mostly skipped over the first 16 episodes.
So when will the actual beginning of DBGT be released in the U.S. in its entirety? It's hard to say, but hardcore Dragon Ball fans rest assured, according to FUNimation, it will be released someday.

I watched this volume of Dragonball GT last night. I have to say that it is all right. They did skip around the first 15 episodes and condensed them to one edited episode. This DVD has four episodes, but the first one is edited english only. That is the episode that condenses the first 15 episodes. The other three episodes are english uncut and original japanese, but they start around episode 16 or so.
GT was different at the begining. Funimation wants to appeal to the fans that like the action that Dragonball Z had. This can be seen in the opening sequence for the english version. It focus on the super saiyans and the future villans. The english theme song is not very good, but the japanes theme song is execellent.
The english version is all right except that they skipped the first 15 episodes or so. They did this on purpose. They did it to get striaght to the action to appeal to the DBZ fans. I think this was a mistake. I did hear a rumor that they are just skipping these episoeds temporaley. They might release them later, but even if they do they probaley won't air on cartoon network.
This DVD is great if you are willing to start with episode 16 or so and to have a extremely edited begging to explain the basic story. I am pretty sure that the rest of GT should be intact at least on the DVDs.
There is a chance they might release the uncut first 15 episodes at some point, but until then I will collect the uncut DVDs of the episodes that they do offer.
Funimation is correcting some of there editing mistakes. I am pretty sure they are working on uncut english versions of the first two seasons of DBZ and maybe they will do the same for DBGT. Until then I will take what I can get.

This may not be what most thought it would be and granted they did butcher it a bit. But look at it this way it is a Dragon ball z type of series. Also the original did not do so well. People hated it in Japan, so they just tried to revamp it, Corporate America give some lee-way. For those who may be concerned though it does still have good fights in it. I heard funimation did say that they would also come out with the originals. But if you are looking for some good old fighting then I would say buy it.

When pioneer first released Dragon Ball Z in America there were a number of episodes cut out of it. As I recall there were at least 15 episodes. Then funimation came along and although edited some content (yet still available unedited) they faithful translated each episode to the fullest. Then they announced the Release of Dragon ball GT. But what did they did, they cut out the first 1/3 of the series. Let me explain.

In Dragon Ball GT it starts off with Emporer Pillaf returning to try and conquer the world with the Dragon balls. He uses the Dark Star Balls that Piccolo created before he and Kami split. These balls are stronger but have a negative consequence. In one years time the planet the wish was made on explodes. Any ways Pillaf screws up and accidently wishes Goku back to a child. As a result Goku, Trunks and stow away pan search the galaxy for the Dark Star Balls. On the first episode they do this great big flash back of what happened in the very first episode. In fact the series starts off with them already having 3 of the Dark Star balls and into the Baby Saga.

Here is where they screwed up. Right off the bat they cut out the first 1/3 of the series because of fear that the comedy will turn of Z fans (which as far as I know are also fans of Dragon ball which is more comedy). By doing this I as well as anyone who did not watch the Japanese translations will be confused. This would be something Pioneer did at the beggining of Z.

However Funimation did do some good things. Despite the first episode being absolute confusing garbage the series picks up on the MEtal Mutant Planet. Goku and Trunks are captured and it's up to Pan to rescue them. After she rescues them Goku faces off against the Sigma force (think Ginyu Force with RObots) and then Genral Rildu.

Another good thing (for those who watch the english translated episodes) is that the voices are the same as they were in Dragon Ball and Dragon ball Z, so fans will not have to deal with new voice actors (as the japenese had to as I recall). Also the action is as good (and drawn out) as in Z so on that respect fans should enjoy.

I just wish Funimation did not cut out the first 1/3 out of paranoia. Maybe they will reconsider and release it like they did the cell saga later on. maybe.

In this review, you will find why DBGT is the devil's manga and why I will eternally hate it forever.

Akira Toriyama, Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z artist, was a sucessful artist expecially after his hit series Dragon Ball. After sucessfully ending the series, Akira decided to quit the Manga buissness and spend the rest of his retirement taking care of his children. But the producers didn't want him to quit. After trying over and over again to persuade Toriyama to write a new series, he gave in. Thus, he created his last manga ever, Dragon Ball Z. The true reason he named this series Dragon Ball Z was because Z meant the last letter of the alphabet, thus the last manga he will create. His true intentions was to end at the Frieza saga, but did the producers let him? NO. After dragging him into 16 saga, Toriyama finally decided to end this, his kids now 14 and 16. After retireing, the producers continued to push him into going back. They also preposed the idea of haveing another die hard Dragon Ball fan take over his career, but Toriyama declined. After his death, producers now had no one stopping them from creating the true devil's manga, Dragon Ball GT. The series launched in Japan was a tottal failure, they didn't even make a manga, they went right into anime. After getting bankrupt in Japan, the producers set their eyes on the manga inexperienced country, America. Thus, they released it in America. Their reaction was tottaly opposite from Japan. Japan hated GT so much, they went bankrupt in 64 episodes. On the other hand, America loved GT so much, their thinking about makeing MORE Dragon Ball series.

I really hope I changed some people's veiw of Dragon Ball GT with this story. As a die hard japanese manga loving shonen, I will enternally hate Dragon Ball GT and wish for its much desired end to come soon.