The roughly mid-90's and earlier (generally pre-Toonami, pre-anime boom) era of anime & manga fandom: early cons, clubs, tape trading, Nth Generation VHS fansubs, old magazines & fanzines, fandubs, ancient merchandise, rec.arts.anime, and more!
usamimi wrote:
I kinda wish that Discotek would pick it up. I know they probably wouldn't be able to license all the music (since they had OPs/music done with bands from some big name music group label (I think it was Johnny's? I can't remember), which was something that gave Funi a lot of problems, if I recall.
Yeah, the first OP was by TOKIO. I knew it wasn't a request from the band but their management company not to grant rights - and you were right, Johnny's strikes again! That license requirement really screws with the first episode the most but I fell for this show via fansubs like you did; really offset the feel of the early part of the show for me. I got the first couple singles but not knowing what else was going to be changed, I tried hunting it down Japanese releases and gave up on the American releases.
Yeah, that Kodocha license was messed up. I remember watching the DVD and I thought there was a defect in the DVD because spoken dialogue was being muted. I understand that the company's hands were tied because of that singer's management company, but I think it really ruined it for everyone wanting to watch the show in Japanese.
So today while I was out running errands, I stopped by our local Dollar Tree and was surprised to find Japanese packs of DBZ cards that Funimation sold here stateside in 2000-2001: https://twitter.com/bunnycartoon/status ... 7692526592 (They also had Italian and Spanish packs, too, as well as random packs of the Trading card game).
If you have a Dollar Tree near you, check em out. $1 a pack!
Also, today in the mail I got a package from someone I met online who wanted to get rid of these "Japanese Anima" books (she called them XD) that she didn't want any more & didn't know what they were from....I happily took them off her hands:
Nice finds usamimi! What exactly are those Project A-ko books, animanga/film comics?
I'll have to check out one of the Dollar Trees near me to see if they have any DragonBall cards; I remember buying the Italian and Spanish card packs back in the day. I believe Suncoast had them set up right next to the American DragonBall cards. At the time I was buying them, the American Card series had not progressed beyond the Namek/Freeza arc, but the Italian and Spanish series had images all the way up to the Buu arc.
Kame-Sen'nin wrote:Nice finds usamimi! What exactly are those Project A-ko books, animanga/film comics?
I'll have to check out one of the Dollar Trees near me to see if they have any DragonBall cards; I remember buying the Italian and Spanish card packs back in the day. I believe Suncoast had them set up right next to the American DragonBall cards. At the time I was buying them, the American Card series had not progressed beyond the Namek/Freeza arc, but the Italian and Spanish series had images all the way up to the Buu arc.
I think some of the packs where even sticker cards, but I didn't pick up any. I might go back for a closer look, since I was out running errands at the time, lol.
usamimi wrote:I think some of the packs where even sticker cards, but I didn't pick up any. I might go back for a closer look, since I was out running errands at the time, lol.
I checked one of the Dollar Tree stores near me, but (unfortunately) didn't see any of the older DragonBall cards. However, I did run across some new DragonBall Z trading cards. Apparently Panini is reviving the DragonBall Z Trading Card Game. The packs I found have 5 cards per pack, and are labeled "2014 Dragon Ball Z Trading Card Game".
I noticed many of the Dollar Trees around me also no longer have the older Dragon Ball Z cards, just the trading card game. Maybe they got all cleaned out during the holidays. Bummer too, because I was collecting them.
How does one tell the difference between them? I saw some DBZ cards at my dollar store and thought of this thread, but I don't know which are the good ones.