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Once Frieza has arrived on the scene, everything goes nuts. In "Fighting Power One Million" Frieza reveals the death of Vegita's father and Planet Namek. And to celebrate this reminising, he transforms into a giant. In "Gohan's Attack" Frieza attacks Krillin for the worst. Stabbing him in the stomach with his horn and throwing him into the lake. This leaves Gohan furious and he launches an all out assault against Frieza. Thanks to Dende, Krillin is ok, but Gohan is now the one in jeopardy. In "Piccolo The Super Namek" Krillin must lure Frieza away from Gohan until Piccolo arrives. One Piccolo arrives, things get ugly. In "Deja Vu" Frieza and Piccolo go one on one in an all out grudge match. Piccolo also reveals his new power after having fused with Nail.
The menus have really improved with nice music and fair graphics. Still, I wish FUNimation could include a different kind of extra instead of previews. The menu is basically inside a Capsule Corp ship. The video quality is much, MUCH improved over the last discs. You get the original opening and closings, but their textless, so don't expect to see the original Japanese voice cast. I thought Frieza in his second form sounded like Principal Kuno from Ranma 1\2. If you have to buy one DBZ disc, make sure it's this one. You won't regret it.
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This is another great DVD of Dragon Ball Z, entering the third chapter of The Frieza Saga. For those that have been following DBZ on DVD for the last 60+ episodes, you'll be excited to know that on this disc the action-packed epic 30 episode long battle with Frieza finally begins. While the dubbed English voices are still really cheesy, (most likely because Funimation is now handling the dubbing, rather than Pioneer, that handled it on the first 17 volumes), thankfully you can watch the original Japanese version with english subtitles. I noticed major differences in the dialogue between the two versions is different - nothing major - the main points are still made, but sometimes scenes in English look a little awkward with the made-for-american-TV dialogue. This is still lots of fun, thought - and addicting as ever!
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