Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!
 

I completly forgot this was out...

http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=eWQYNj...eature=related

I recall it after that whole Dragonballl Evolution trailer deal... and since the other thread about this anime had basicly turned into talk about the movie... i guess this is as good as analog as any to the proper quality of the Upcoming movie.

So, this is a shot new special OVA, just 35 minutes long. A few new characters 9so you know they are going to show up in the next fighting game...) and the usual DBZ fare... including too-long power up sequences!

There are several tidbits of it on Youtube (there is probably the whole thing too...) as i have no idea of when it will come out of Japan, so enjoy it!

http://www.jumpland.com/animetour/db/index_en.html

Download the browser (button is near the bottom of the page) and you can watch the whole thing with English subtitles. This way is legal and complete.

Its just a TV special, but it was good to see them back in action. Not to mention Yamcha finally gets to show off his Spirit Ball technique, which I think is probably the coolest and most underused ability in all of DBZ.

The whole thing with Vegeta having a brother just might be a workaround to maybe bring foward the much desired "delete" of GT and a new DBZ Cartoon.... i mean, they went as far as to remake the entire opening... and yes, it's just for celebration... but still, one can dream!

Vegeta having a brother is perhaps among the LEAST distressing revelations of DBZ.

1. Goku is an alien
2. Goku has a brother
3. Goku was sent to Earth as a baby to destroy the entire planet
4. Goku hit his head as a baby

And that's just in the first 3 or 4 episodes.

Let's not forget that Trunks is from the future, Goku is a super saiyan, Kami has a convenient training room in which time passes more slowly, Garlic Jr. escaped the deadzone because of the alignment of stars, and King Kai is just one of four kai's serving a grand kai who himself serves a supreme kai who in turn answers to a much older kai.

But yes, the remade opening is awesome and looks great.

Let's not forget the great nerf... Goku isnt the Legendary Super Saiyan... Brolly is.

Vegeta, what does the Scouter say about his power level?
 

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Honestly? I enjoyed this special very much so. I liked how it really didn't take itself seriously in it's entire premise and is nice to old characters back on screen.

I think the problem (Of quite a few!) is that the entire cast got far too large to follow evenly, and this is evident watching the amount of characters appear in this Special. I was distressed to see Piccolo shunted to more of a comic relief character, and also Gohan taking a back seat to the DBZ story as I always got the feeling from the Z sagas that it was mostly his story (From The Saiyan Saga to the Cell saga anyway.) There are some genuinely interesting characters on the show that I would have liked to see more of.

Also, Hooray for Bubbles and seeing Vegeta doing anything remotely comic relief; as both always amuse me.

I really do love Goku. He's just so innocent.
Also it's nice to see that Abo and Cabo took their defeat well.

Also I never really understood all the GT hatred. Sure it had its flaws, but it had its redeeming moments too. Like Goku stripping naked to swim right in front of Pan. And who could forget Vegeta's mustache.

Also, unless I'm mistaken, Omega Shinron is the only main villain to ever be successfully destroyed by the spirit bomb.

Vegeta: Survives 2 of them
Freeza: Survives 1
Cell: Survives EVERYTHING.
Kid Buu: TECHNICALLY destroyed, but reborn as Uub.

Although in Shinron's defense... that universal spirit bomb had to have hurt pretty badly.

Oh, I really missed Dragon Ball, Roshi and after the budokai games, I missed Hercule Mr Satan too, I'm lucky the mexican dub didn't really add/remove anything :D, I prefer the mexican dub to the japanese because the voices seem more fitting, and over the US dub because it's not lame; lets say the ova gets dubbed in the US: *Tarble's ship passes through the city and knock's over a car* "Tarble: It seems whoever was in the car ejected just in time"

BTW, I just noticed... :sweatdrop

Kakarrot - Carrot
Raditz- Radish
Vegeta - Vegeta(ble)
What's a Nappa? and a Tarble?
Trunks - some sort of underwear (learned it at Paper Mario TTYD :D)

Oh, and I don't like the new logo :gonk:.

Here:

After having recently acquired nearly the entire dragon ball z series on DVD, I can say, conclusively, that Pre-Namekian filler is horrifically painful to sit through, and that the Garlic Jr. saga... still sucks.

I love the radish Roshi pulls out of the ground. He's such a horrible old man.