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Dragon Ball GT - The Lost Episodes - Reaction (Vol. 1)

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In this DVD we see goku and uub fighting 10 years after the dbz episode "Goku's next journey." Goku is turned into a kid again and he has to go to space to recover the dragonballs in order to save the planet. Pan secretly goes in the ship and the three of them, Goku, Trunks, and Pan, Launch into space to start their journey. In the way they fing giru. Episode 1 - Goku is turned into a kid and discovers the fate of the earth. Episode 2 - Vegeta makes trunks and goten to go with Goku into space, but Pan launches in place of Goten. Episode 3 - Goku, Trunks, and Pan crash in the planet of the merchants and that is where they find Giru. A very entertaining adventure and DVD!

This movie was a lot better than I initially expected. I was stuck watching it with my 8 year old (for whom it was a gift) one day when I was running on the treadmill. I was surprised to find some interesting concepts about the nature of time, multiple dimentions, and heaven and hell mixed with issues around teamwork, friendship, and the notion that good and bad can exist in the same person at once. My son loved it and watches it regularly.

I can't stop watching it!!! Great graphics, sounds, softh and beautyfull timeline and story line. Is great!!!

FUNimation did an outstanding job on the dubs for Dragon Ball Z, but they seemed to hurry through the dubs of GT. They didn't stop and think "How Cheesy will This Sound?" or "Wait...Isn't Pan 15?" No, FUNimation just used a collective of old voices from Z and tried to do a show with it. It doesn't exactly work. Add the rap/rock music track, and you've got a wierd show. The biggest things wrong with the dub is the absaence of Sean Schemell (Adult Goku) which takes away so much. There are also too few appearences by Christopher Sabat (Vegeta, Piccolo.)
But the Japanese version is perfect. The voices are great, the dialouge is well-written and funny and the music is outstanding. And FUNimation delivers it too us perfectly on this DVD. Unlike on the Z dvd's, where the sound is kept in mono and sounding 50 years old. (Although Z and GT are both pretty old) the sound is great and is as good as the english dub.
Okay, onto the main review.
The Lost Episodes is just episodes 1-15 that FUNimation didn't do previously. Now they are all here, making the full 64 episode set of GT. GT itself is a good series, nt as good as Z but keeping the same spirit. Akira Toriyama, japanese author of Z, must have been heavily involved in the spin-off of of Z. In short, buy this, then volumes 2-5, and then buy Affliction all the way to Generations.
And switch it to Japanese.

Well it's about time, these episodes are the correct begining for DBGT, I don't know why they released it as Lost Episodes, [My guess is that there is only the DBZ movies left, so they are trying to milk as much as they can for this series] because on the first DBGT disc there is a little quick summary episode of what happened before that discs 1st episode. It's very confusing, I was really exicited that DBGT was released on DVD and was disappointed that it didn't begin as it should have, cause there was a bunch of episodes missing. I first watch DBGT way back in 98, where the episodes were bootleg and subtitled on vhs. I was not real happy on the new installment of Dragon Ball, but once I started collecting the dvds, I really got into it. I will be adding this disc to my collection.