>>543836001
>The biggest examples of this are the DVDs. I can't think of a big series that has worse releases than Dragon Ball.
It's mostly just the BDs and Orange Bricks that fuck everything up.
Pioneer, UUE, Levels, and even the DBoxes aren't ideal, but they're very standard Toei remastering efforts. I was able to live with the DBoxes for a good 15 years before Seed of Might's efforts were fully realized, and while the CC are the definitive releases, I could also mentally accept these other releases with their crushed blacks or decayed film resulting in bad colours.

The VA quality on these releases is completely abhorrent though, and I shouldn't be shocked that Toei allowed that to happen, but really, it is a bit shocking that their largest adaptation (pre-One Piece), spanning 508 episodes in its original broadcast run, had such atrocious sound quality.

>Dragon Ball Manga

Dragon Ball Kanzenban v01-34, Neko Majin v01 (Raw Scans) (Japanese) - 34 volumes
https://nyaa.si/view/1933107

Dragon Ball Super v01-23,101-104 (2017-2025) (Digital) (LuCaZ)
https://nyaa.si/view/1965793

>Dragon Ball Anime

Dragon Ball - COMPLETE (001-153) - Color Corrected Dragon Box [480p][x264]
https://nyaa.si/view/1691912

Dragon Ball Z (Not Color Corrected)
https://nyaa.si/view/1331089

Dragon Ball Z Specials (Bardock and History of Trunks)
https://nyaa.si/view/1924144

Dragon Ball Z Movies
https://nyaa.si/view/1885437

Dragon Ball Z Kai
https://nyaa.si/view/2006263

>Dragon Ball Super

Dragon Ball Z Battle of Gods
https://nyaa.si/view/1420876

Dragon Ball Z Resurrection F
https://nyaa.si/view/1422758

Dragon Ball Super (001-131)
https://nyaa.si/view/1493140

Dragon Ball Super Broly
https://nyaa.si/view/1954784

Dragon Ball Super Super Hero
https://nyaa.si/view/1905937

>DAIMA

Dragon Ball DAIMA
https://nyaa.si/view/2005548

>Seed of Might
https://xcancel.com/seedofmight

Why does arguably the most popular anime have so many bad home releases?

People hail the Dragon Box release as the best version(and it is) but even that release has inaccurate colors due to the film stock aging and Toei not bothering to color correct the series.

The majority of Dragon Ball Z was shot on 16mm film compared to the more standard 35mm. However, there were a few episodes of Z (episodes 73 to 80) shot on 35mm film

>>282054430
>>282055291
>>282055943
Toei should remaster DBZ

People hail the Dragon Box release as the best version(and it is) but even that release has inaccurate colors due to the film stock aging and Toei not bothering to color correct the series.

The majority of Dragon Ball Z was shot on 16mm film compared to the more standard 35mm. However, there were a few episodes of Z (episodes 73 to 80) shot on 35mm film.

>>11890514
>>11890672
>While this is true, most old animation already has noise from being on film.

DBZ Levels Set was pretty kino

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HChKbmB2J-c

Will remasters in 4K from the original 16mm/35mm film negatives of 90s anime ever happen?

People hail the Dragon Box release as the best version(and it is) but even that release has inaccurate colors due to the film stock aging and Toei not bothering to color correct the series.

The majority of Dragon Ball Z was shot on 16mm film compared to the more standard 35mm. However, there were a few episodes of Z (episodes 73 to 80) shot on 35mm film.