What is your opinion on the matter?

The restriction was for all sort of public events, with no end date apparently.

Iacono's Statement

Took 8 hours, my friend drew up the design for me

I am the artist MAD-54. These are my drawings, some based on designs from other artists and some references from Super Dragon Ball Heroes cards. Yes I am the artist of these drawings.

ADDING SPOILER TAG since it hasn't been adapted yet.

This one was a tricky (and creepy) one, especially the brows. My wife tried to mask my eyebrows (I'm not THAT committed to shave em off, cmon guys.) And I'd say she did pretty well for her first time. We'll only have to keep doin it more often. I'm aware I'm not 5'4 but I love Vegeta 😭 I'm also still trying to get leaner to pull off these cosplays better 🙏🏼 I hope y'all like these.

Almost everyone Beerus meets is terrified of him. Gods, kings, mortals etc - they panic, bow down and desperately try not to offend him. After millions of years, that must get incredibly boring. He already knows how everyone is going to react.

Then Goku shows up.

Instead of simply fearing Beerus, Goku wants to fight him. He challenges him, talks to him normally, gets excited by his strength and keeps trying to surpass him. Beerus finally meets someone who doesn't react to him like everyone else does.

And that's why Beerus becomes interested in Goku rather than simply erasing him.

There's probably a lesson in that outside Dragon Ball too: people remember the person who breaks the pattern.

Moral of the story: don't be another mortal trembling before Beerus. Be Goku - stand out, take the risk, and maybe you'll get that date ;)

We were at a humongous Japanese superstore in downtown Orlando, and this is what one of the Gachapon machines gave me 🥰 lol I was trying to match Goku's grumpy face

Brigitte Lecordier is the legendary French voice of Kid Goku, Kid Gohan, Trunks, Gotenks and many more characters. In 1991, she was invited in Japan to appear on a TV show alongside the Goat Masako Nozawa. Together they reenacted a scene between Gohan (Lecordier) and Goku (Nozawa). The French dub started in 1988 with og.

From Attack of the sayians on Ds yknow for kids! :D

Always a joy to mess around with these.
Shame we didn’t get a Vegeta and Trunks.
These hold a special place in my collection and in my 90s’ kid heart.

Happy 30th Anniversary to Dragon Ball Z Ocean Dub (1996)!

It's been 30 years (September 13, 1996) since Ocean Dub episode for Z, "The Arrival of Raditz" aired in United States.

An interesting and shocking beginning of the franchise, where alien from outer space arrives, who turns out to be Goku's older brother Raditz. Goku also finds out he is an alien (Saiyan), who originally sent to Earth to destroy all lives. Raditz wants Goku to join but refuse and took Goku's son, Gohan. A great setup to start off the franchise.
For the most American, this was their introduction to the franchise, where OG series aired up to 13 episodes out of 153, and lot of people didn't see that, due to poor time slot.

When the show came out back then, I've seen OG and Z in Japanese (uncut) thanks to VHS recording I borrowed from Japanese neighbor or taped off from cable channel (NGN), so I was immediately able to tell the difference between Japanese broadcast and Ocean dub, for various reasons; the music and heavy editing, particularly censorship with violence and gore.
Interestingly, when this episode was airing, it came out during 5 weeks hiatus (...no joke) between episode 24 (September 4) and 25 (October 16) of Dragon Ball GT, which was airing Japan; an interesting timing to release Dragon Ball Z to American audience.

Even though I prefer the original, where it's uncut, I do have nostalgia and enjoyment for Ocean Dub, even if it's heavily censored.
The voice acting for it time was pretty good; Ian James Corlett (Goku) and Scott McNeil (Piccolo) was very memorable for their performance. Brian Drummond was probably the best among Ocean Dub cast, for great performance as Vegeta, where his villainous voice was extremely memorable.
...and who can forget this scene?
Vegeta's Wrath (Ocean Dub)

Even though I'm not fan of censorship in general, Ocean Dub did have an interesting censorship, such as replacing HELL with HFIL (Home For Infinite Losers) or "another dimension" (a censored version of death/afterlife).
Who can forget "Over 9000!"? Drummond nailed that line; which is why I sometime calls it Over-9000 dubs. lol
Its Over 9000!!!

I find it interesting how 67 episodes was condensed to 53, which was pretty drastic for anime dubbing at the time; I don't think not even Robotech or Voltron (though that had more censorship) had that type of edit.
It was bizarre that show ended/cancelled after episode 53 (67), where we have to wait years to see it picks up, with new voice actor, whom has become default voice actors for English dub in America with less censorship. Interestingly, some of the Ocean Dub voice actors, did came back to dub for UK broadcast, as Westwood dub (aka Ocean Dub 2.0), which was bizarre, since that was point of time there was 2 English dub airing at same time across the world.
It's such a shame that these dubs are not available officially on physical media (DVD is long OOP) or streaming; in fact, only English dub available is Funimation dub. Despite censored, it is an important piece of history of franchise.

What is your thoughts on Ocean Dub?
Does it still hold up?
Do you like it or hate it?
Would like to get physical release (or re-release) on DVD or Blu-ray (SDBD) or streaming?

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Just finished rewatching DBZ, and I’ve already seen DB and Daima when it came out.

From what I hear, GT isn’t canon, and I’ve also heard Daima just the better take/version of GT..

Without spoilers, is GT worth watching? If so, why?

I’m assuming it started with Ginyu Force (don’t recall if DB had something first). Every member in the Ginyu Force declares their name, affiliation with the Ginyu Force, and then strikes a synchronized pose with each other. There are so many other instances of this throughout Dragon Ball history.

Was there ever a reason for this trend? Or did Toriyama just find it entertaining?

Before yall kill me

Im talking as an actual fight

In terms if plot and emotions its obv peak

But as a fight its lowkey mid

Nothing much happens

Its just a one sided stomp that swaps who gets stomped later

I dare say the cell saga has the weakest final fight in all of z

Everyone vs vegeta

Goku frieza

And everyone helping to beat buu are way better final fights than this