Dragonball Z is one of the most iconic anime out there with the anime often being the show that got other people into anime. Heck this is a show that i've wanted to do a review of for sometime but with the large amount of episodes with even Dragonball Z Kai having well over two hundred episodes doing a review of the series as a whole was always going to be out of the question whilst I was looking for an episodes of the show that was dubbed and that had Rock The Dragon as the opening theme song I came across something that I never knew existed and so then join me as I review the first dozen or so episodes of the TV show that got alot people into anime with the TV show in question being called simply just "Dragonball Z" enjoy.
The p;lot of these episodes is after his son is kidnapped Goku has to rescue his son and stop the earth from being invaded. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad with the plot being very entertaining as well as being quite engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in these episodes is Ian Corlett as Goku and Master Roshi , Saffron Henderson as Gohan and Brian Drummond as Vegeta and Yajirobe. Also starring in these episodes is Lalainia Lindbjerg as Bulma , Michael Dobson as Nappa and Kami , Jason Gray-Stanford as Raditz , I think Scott McNeil as Piccolo , Dale Wilson as Kami , Don Brown as King Kai , Laara Sadiq as Chi Chi , Ted Cole as Yamcha , Cathy Weseluck as Puar , Doc Harris as This Shows Narrator and Terry Klassen as Krillen.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. With all of this shows cast members turning in some really good performances of course they have nothing on the main Funimation dub actors but this dub cast still did in some rather solid performances none the less.
Doing in the animation of all of these episodes is the legends and the greats that are currently Toei Animation. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good which isn't shocking at all as this franchise is known for having some really high quality animation.
There's one thing that this era of the show is known for and that's censorship which is something that is evident right from the first episode. It's also something that doesn't really show up all that much at least in these first batch of episodes but it's also something that's not really needed either since all they;d have to do is say that Master Roshi is drinking a non alcoholic drink instead of just recoloring his beer so that it looks like water and yet still keep the froth at the top which only makes it clear what the drink was original supposed to be.
Incase you haven't worked out by now just by who i've listed as starring in these episodes i'm doing this review based of off the The Ocean Dub of this show. Which lasted the first fifty or so episodes of the show before dubbing was fully taken over by Funimation I have to admit that having never heard the The Ocean dub before now having only grown up on the Funimation dub it was hard for me to get on board with this dub just because of the fact that those weren't the voices that I was used to hearing but once I got over at I stopped hearing the voices and started to hear the characters as the dubbing for these early episodes was still really well done which something that I really wasn't expecting to be the case at all.
One of these episodes try to have a deeply emotional moment which just doesn't work as it comes far to early into this shows run. As such we don't really know these characters just yet and while this show was both a sequel show and being adapted for a manga there was still alot of people who were watching this show that hadn't the original Dragonball and as such all of these characters would be brand new characters to them that said tho the fact that this show dared to tackle the subject of death so early on in it's run is a brave thing to do.
Now then all of these episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly two hours and thirty six minuets and two seconds. Which means that I watched at the very least seven episodes of this show I see no reason why this first disk had to be that long since you could have gotten more mileage out of it if you had it be one disk for one arc and not one disk for every two and a bit arcs of this show this also makes these episodes a chore to sit through just because watching a two and half hour almost three hour long anime is always going to be a really hard thing to sit through.
So now then since this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. Which just like the animation isn't really all that new as this franchise is known for having some really good and exciting action and while the action would of course get better as the series goes on and so it's really nice to see that the action was still really good in these early episodes of the show in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall these first seven or so episodes aren't a bad way to start of this truly iconic franchise and it's a group of episodes that i;d recommend anybody watch even if it is just for the sake of nostalgia because they are still that darned good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in these very episodes in this very review and as such that means that these very episodes earn themselves a grand total combined score of exactly an 8 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Dragonball fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful the official Dragonball fandom wiki page since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on the official Dragonball fandom wiki page are all fairly high in quality and as well as being really fairly freaking high in definition.