This is the best way your going to experience the original Dragon Ball HANDS DOWN! in summary...

- Worst filler removed

- Bad pacing almost all removed

- Most likely the best possible quality you will ever see Dragonball

- More picture as the Dragon box footage is zoomed out a bit (Used "iKaos" release for this edit)

- Color corrected

- Bad edges fixed and cropped

- Insert songs back into the english dub

- Commercial animation break removed or "eyecatch" (included in extra folder)

- Editing improvements over original first edit (V1 was used with the worse quality "Blue Bricks" dvds)

- Opening theme and ending themes played once for each saga in CD quality

- Official alternate mixdown of theme song for the 2nd opening theme

- Fixed the outro theme to match the ending of each saga

- Bulma and other nudity restored

- Episodes 149-153 edited together as unoficial "Movie 4" named "Wedding Dress In Flames"

- ENGLISH DUB ONLY

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ORIGINAL (153 Eps) = Around 62 Hours -------------------------------------- AV EDIT = 41 H, 28 Mins

(The original runtime calculations was done with the entire untouched episodes, with intros, outros previews eye catch ect.)

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DETAIL

WORST FILLER REMOVED

- Just like I did with the original edit back in 2011 I based every episode on the massive job I did back then, I just used the 2011 series edit as a reference so I could quickly go through the episodes to match everything up to all the cuts I did (if curious I just put each episode in my editing program vegas, over top the new better dragonbox full episodes and just set it to 50 percent transparency and skimmed through it to make sure everything lined up and every time the video went off showed where I made the editing cuts before, this way I didn't have to watch the entire series again to re-edit it.

While doing this I made very minor adjustments by keeping in a bit more in some episodes and even taking out a bit more in certain episodes but for the most part between this new version and old edit its basically the same. For example because with the old edit I didn't use Vegas I was very limited with what sort of edits I could do I could just do basic cuts, this way by using vegas I did a more professional job and whenever necessary I was able to manipulate certain scenes to work in my favor.

For example in episode 91 I had previously removed the scene where Chiaotzu spins and headbutts Krillin, it was clear to me why I removed it because it wasn't anything special and was more or less just padding especially with yet another scene of them starring at each other again. But there were a few moments in there that I decided should be left in so because I had vegas I showed the best bits of the action and was able to get rid of the part where they starred at each other by removing all the audio and tracking down the original Dragonball sound effects, I needed to get the sounds for when Chiaotzu takes his hat off, shoots it on the ground and the sound effect of the sun hitting his head, I needed these because annoyingly the ending of a song was playing during this and to cut straight to that scene was too obvious, so that is why that entire scene was removed in my old edit because I couldn't deal with figuring that part out, since I am doing this on vegas now I was able to re-construct the scene to the point no one would be able to tell its been tampered with.

BAD PACING ALMOST ALL REMOVED

While skimming through every episode again to see what I removed in the old edit I made sure I re-watched everything that I decided to take out before and 95% of what I took out I still agree with, there are so many pointless scenes that are there for one thing and thats to drag the episode on just to make sure it runs at the standard 22 minutes of a typical episode.

Basically all instances of characters pointing out how long something is taking or how there describing the fact that nothing is happening is all so painful. Its one thing to have pointless dialogue to drag something on but to have the characters waste screen time by commenting on how literally nothing is happening is just stupid, it makes it even more obvious.

The tournaments are really bad for this. I cant count how many times while the characters are starring at each other it cuts to a character like Launch, or just random spectators saying "Why are they just standing there!?" or the announcer saying "the match is still on continue fighting!"

Stuff like while Goku is in General White's tower and it keeps annoyingly cutting back to the little girl with red hair Snow, was removed and only shown when necessary, repeated uses of fight scene choreography and very rarely but if a filler scene is really terrible and its possible to remove without messing up the plot then it gets taken out, perfect example is around episode 30 when that bum kid steals gokus dragon radar while hes swimming in the bush and brings it to be pawned I was able to completely get rid of all scenes of that character without messing up the plot of the episode.

a very small amount of dialogue that doesn't make sense was removed mainly to Goku, for example when he blows up the 2 red ribbon army soilders trying to r*pe Bulma in episode 46 Goku throws up the peace sign but in Japan it just means victory, I guess Funimation thought he was doing the American "peace" sign and awkwardly makes Goku say "ppeeaaaaccee" So I was able to just show him put up his victory sign and cut out that dialogue.

Its hard to list every single example but in short all throughout the series I cut out anything that feels like its dragging on, not adding anything to the plot, or if its just plain stupid, not every episode is cut to shreds though, you'll notice some episodes are very close to the original full runtime the first 20 episodes have little to no cuts in them, it all depends on the episode but I found the further you get into the show the more it was in need of edits to fix the pacing

MOST LIKELY THE BEST POSSIBLE QUALITY YOU WILL EVER SEE DRAGONBALL IN

Absolute best possible quality from the Dragonball Dragonbox's in standard definition original full screen format.

So many things better compared to the first edit I did which was used the USA version "Blue brick" dvd season sets, compared back to back the blue brick set is a lot worse quality it has all grain removed which took out a lot of detail in the picture, everything is too bright or too dark in some cases, and when compared the image actually looks more "flat" and worst of all the picture is zoomed in and cropped a little.

The new V2 edit uses the Dragonbox version and additional digital clean ups by a handful of people from the "iKaos" collection they put together online. Since people are saying there will never be a proper bluray release this V2 edit will probably most likely be the ultimate definitive experience.

With the first edit my main concern was having a decently small file size for storage issues but since now storage space isn't a big issue as much I made these episodes around double the size (You can see my handbrake settings I used in the extras folder to see how I compressed them)

While watching on my huge tv I realized we probably don't even need a 1080p or 4k release of Dragonball, the quality is FANTASTIC and I never knew 480P could look so damn good literally my mind is blown.

COLOR CORRECTED

- The original Dragonbox does have some problems though and one of the biggest is the fact is hasnt been color corrected, (the iKaos releases were left untouched when it came to this) it has a very bad yellow aged film tint to it, basically every episode if you look at the eyes they are supposed to be white and every episode they have yellow tint in the eyes, I spent hours and hours to get a universal color correct saved preset that could be applied to every episode.

I soon discovered that all the episodes looked slightly different! so based on the preset I adjusted accordingly to make it as consistent as I could, bottom line is I greatly reduced the yellow tint for the entire series and changed the sky color from teal more close to a true blue as well as the pink tinted skin to be more closer to yellow. Think of it landing somewhere in between how the colors look on the blue bricks and the dragon box with it being more closer to the dragonbox colors with the yellow tint removed Also I noticed with Funimations blue bricks and other releases they make it too bright or washed out and when comparing to Funimations other "remasters" I think they over do it, after researching about color correcting sure enough I found that most people who do it tend to go overboard so I can only imagine a company like Funimation probably more or less came up with a universal color correction setting and called it a day. I think I was able to find a perfect middle ground in between the dull and aged film in the dragon boxs and the overly burn your eyes off bright that the blue bricks and funimation seems to have a lot.

In the blue brick sets, things like gokus black hair are pure deep black but in this better color corrected job of mine I made sure that gokus hair is not pure 100% black it has a little bit of grey, I noticed when comparing it to the blue brick sets by making the blacks pure black you lose the detail in certain things like I noticed some clothing that was black you could see line work with my color corecting job but in the blue brick it was just pure black so to my eyes and many other people it seems like my color correcting job on this V2 edit is the best all around, in summary, it has the old aged yellow tint mostly removed, things like the sky are now blue not teal, pink skin is more yellow, and the brightness and contrast has only slightly been bumped up, and its not as contrasted as the blue brick sets.

There are quite a few episodes that looked really dim and dark and with these I tried my best to make them look consistent with everything else but when something is really dark you can only bump the brightness up so much without it looking like shit.

FILM EDGES FIXED AND CROPPED

Very few episodes had edges of the film reel or the endings of the pages you can see mostly at the bottom of the screen.

Episode 51 - Beware Of Robot was absolutely terrible, the entire episode had the screen slipping up way too much to the point you could see black bars and a whole bunch of the pictures end so I had to almost cut the entire episode up scene by scene so I could manually zoom in and crop to get rid of it, every scene had a different amount showing so I had to manually crop almost every scene differently to make sure you get to see most of the picture during the entire episode.

MOST INSERT SONGS ADDED BACK INTO ENGLISH DUB

Something I missed during the first edit was the lack of "insert songs" throughout Dragonball, I noticed they had them by the time I got to episode 28, the iKaos team re-inserted them back into the english dub which is something I never bothered with during the first edit as I didn't know of them.

This new edit takes into consideration the songs so I was careful to make sure the edits I did before don't make the songs noticeably skip if I did certain cuts to the footage. However, I didn't include every single instance of having the insert songs as some of the episodes that had them felt too fillerish, for example during the 2nd world martial arts tournament they do a quick compilation of everyone fighting just to get to the actual main fights and they used one of the insert songs for it but in my original edit this scene was already entirely removed as it wasn't necessary to see it so as a result with this new edit that scene is still gone along with the insert song for that episode

COMMERCIAL ANIMATION BREAK REMOVED (EYECATCH)

Commercial break jingle animation removed this time around. Look its cute and awesome but years after watching the show I quickly realized it just gets annoying ESPECIALLY since nowadays people just binge watch, to have to see that every single episode grows old. If you REALLY want to see it I put it in the extras folder

EDITING IMPROVEMENTS OVER THE FIRST ORIGINAL AV EDIT

I'm basically just putting the mp4 files of the first edit over top of the new dragonbox footage at 50% transparency so I can match it up, whenever something goes off I can go back to the frame where I made the cut in the first edit and then I just cut and move the footage accordingly until I match it back up again, then I skim through as everything matches up until it goes off again ect. This way I thankfully don't have to spend anywhere near the amount of time I did when editing it the first time.

Along the way though if I notice something that I can edit differently and better I'll do it, already I have shaved off a few more fillerish moments for this new V2 edit.

OPENING THEME AND ENDING THEMES SHOWN ONCE FOR EACH SAGA IN CD QUALITY

Opening and endings played only once per saga.

In my original edit since it was based on making the files as small as possible I got rid of every opening theme and ending to save the most space and make the episodes short as possible, also one thing I hate and sure many people do is watching the theme song over and over again for every episode especially when you want to watch more than one at a time, I find myself just skipping ahead to get to the episode.

This was fine for my original edit but after missing the theme song for Dragonball and the first ending song, I decided that it would be best to see the opening theme for the very first episode for each saga and then see the ending theme at the end of each saga.

Also I replaced the audio with the superior cd quality version of the opening and ending themes, I also chose to go with the original japanese theme song as I feel it is way better and went with the english outro version, there is nothing wrong with the japanese ending theme but I really do love the english ending theme (As an easter egg or to switch it up for my custom movie 4 I used the japanese ending theme for it)

OFFICIAL ALTERNATE MIXDOWN OF THEME SONG FOR THE 2ND OPENING

The 2nd opening starting with episode 102 has new animation so it felt like a good idea to take the alternate "remix" version off the official Dragonball soundtrack cd, its basically the exact same song and lyrics but the instrumentation is a little bit different so since its a new saga and newer animation added to the theme I figured it would be cool to switch it up with this one!

FIXED THE OUTRO THEME TO MATCH THE ENDING OF EACH SAGA

There are different ending outros throughout the show but some of them don't make sense. You only see Korin in the outro I think in the ending outro of episode 102 and you see Korin WAYYYYY before, so I thought I'd finish off the red ribbon army saga with adding Korin into that outro ect. This way each ending has the appropriate characters that apear in the outros.

BULMA AND OTHER FEMALE NUDITY RESTORED AND ENHANCED

Bulmas ACTUAL official n*pples have been restored back into this new edit! During the first edit I edited the part where Krillin pulls Bulmas shirt down during the fortuneteller baba arc and I noticed in the original they only showed her actual b*obs with the n*pples for literally a single frame, for the first edit I held that frame longer so you could get a longer better look at them!

With that in mind since I was editing the episodes again I noticed the same thing when Yamcha sees bulma naked under the covers in episode 6, and sure enough it was just 2 frames repeated I think 4 times over but this time her n*pples were covered by yellow stars. I thought it was too bad they were covered this time because I wanted to again extend that shot to show it longer but it didn't really matter as they were covered anyway. It was then as I watched more I seen Yamchas face with his pupils as bulmas n*pples and the idea hit me! I could photoshop those out of his eyes and place them back onto bulma! after all those n*pples in his eyes ARE bulmas and there drawn by the animation team so it shouldn't look too off or fabricated if I could photoshop them back on.

I used the clone stamp and used a combination of her skin and the 2nd different frame with the stars in different places to re-construct bulmas chest without the stars covering her, under her right arm I had to digitally drawn it by using the clone stamp and small sections of different angles of lines on her arm and draw it to her body as both the only 2 frames of her laying down had a yellow star both in this exaxt same spot.

After this was the easy part, I erased yamcha and his white eyes around bulmas n*pples and adjusted the brightness and contrast a bit then simply just placed them onto her. Final step was too extend the scene so we can get a little bit of a longer look at them, using the first freakout reaction of Yamacha seeing bulma in the show I used that audio to extend him yelling to make it a seamless edit. I also digitally colored her n*pple and showed it for a few more frames right when Yamcha rips off the blanket.

Thats not all though, I went back and looked at the scene in episode 2 when Goku sees bulma in the bath and sure enough when she dives underwater there is one single frame of her chest and b*obs coming above the bubbles but her b*obs have no n*pples (I guess this is censor laws so they couldn't draw n*pples or something) Since I had the perfect pair of bulmas n*pples I figured why not just add them here too? After putting them on I extended the frames so you see 3 frames instead of 1 and now this scene serves almost as an easter egg.

In episode 8 bulma flashes roshi and you see her chest from the side except there is no n*pple, I used the side shot of bulma under the covers from episode 6 that I digitally painted and placed this on her boob here. So there isn't much more female nudity in Dragonball as much as you see kid gokus d*ck but for the few more times you do see b*obs mainly with master roshi I used the same n*pples to finish off what the animators probably wanted to do all along but couldn't.

Also in episode 65 when Roshi guides Bulmas flying robot to the beach I was able to add these same n*pples from Bulma and was able to add them to the n*ppless girl at the beach and show it for a bit longer as well.

Finally the last scene I enhanced was episode 73 when Krillin pulls out Bulmas b*obs for Roshi, out of curiosity I checked how this looked in the manga and sure enough they looked way better than what you see in the show, I was able to photoshop her chest in the manga into the single frame where they pop out so now they look way better and the extra frame I put in makes the animation look so much better as now it looks like they really are popping out of her shirt! I of course extended the scene by a few more frames so the viewer can take in the new frame bettter!

NEW UNOFICIAL MOVIE 4 USING EPISODES 149-153 EDITED TOGETHER AS "WEDDING DRESS IN FLAMES"

Finally the last 5 episodes of Dragonball are a real drag, especially after you see such an intense amazing ending to the show, these episodes are basically I think the worst filler episodes in Dragonball and are basically one fetch quest after another.

I DO NOT like removing episodes or merging them together as it just makes it confusing but this is the ONE and only time I decided to do it. I thought maybe I should just edit them down shorter to make it less brutal but I realized no matter how I cut it there was no way to make these episodes better they quite honestly are just a waste of time compared to the entire show that is.

I thought of how with the Dragonball movies they take a scene that already happened and then go off on an alternate timeline as the story for the film and realized this dress fetch quest could be exactly that!

So if you want to see how the entire shit show of getting the dress there is an alternate timeline movie tv special of it now!

and for the ending of the show I just made a custom edit of how the story ends based on the manga just with all the fetch quest stuff removed!

ENGLISH DUB ONLY

Sorry for the Sub fans but I don't understand Japanese so it would basically be impossible to edit this and remove content without understanding the language

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