3/5 Peace can be so boring! (Pt. 7 of 9)
  by Underground Reborn (ny)
So DBZ is back and we flash forward in time seven years. Gohan is fully grown and off to high school handling problems a little different from fighting. There are two new additions to the DBZ gang in the hilarious tag team of Trunks and Goten and now that Cell is gone Mr. Satan hogs all the glory of being the greatest hero and saving the world.

This point of the DBZ series has possitives and negatives. The parts I like are the expansion of the Otherworld universe showing us that King Kai is not the only omnipitant being in the world beyond. In fact there are more powerful Kais that have even bigger roles to play in this story. Explaning the world of Dragon Ball Z outside of fighting is great to see because this show has a lot more to offer than just amazing fights. This season brings back the old comedic charm of Dragon Ball. The only negative I see is just the story once again grinds to a hault and it just moves so slow. So what do you do you bring back the World Martial Arts Tournament. Unfortunatly when the fighting is only for fun it just makes you crave another villian. Still, the interesting part is there is a villian among the heroes the question is who could it be?

5/5 Great "DragonBall Z" boxset!
  by Dbzgirl
I've been a diehard "DragonBall Z", "DragonBall GT", and "DragonBall" fan ever since I was six years old and I love this DVD box set! Continuing from where Season Six(The Cell Games Saga) left off, Goku is still in the Other World and is training, then fights in an afterlife tournament there; meanwhile, the other good guys, after a while where Gohan is The Great Saiyaman, decide to fight in the World Tournament. Eventually, towards the very end of the World Tournament Saga, two henchmen, Spopovitch and Yamu, the henchmen of Babidi, yet another one of my favorite villains from the series, that's in the next boxset, go to the tournament, fight against Videl, Hercule's daughter, and steal energy from her, and then fly off to Babidi's Spaceship, prompting the Z-Fighters to fly off after them, leading up to the next boxset. There are a lot of new characters in this saga, such as Pikkon, Aqua, Frog, Onion, and many other fighters in both the afterlife tournament and the World Tournament, and Videl, Hercule's daughter. You get all of the episodes from Season Seven(the Great Saiyaman and World Tournament Sagas combined), such as when Goku fights in the afterlife tournament, when the other good guys fight in the World Tournament, and when Spopovitch and Yamu steal some of the energy to revive Majin Buu and fly off to Babidi's Spaceship and the good guys fly off after them. The only things I miss from this boxset are that there's no scene selection feature and that the American music Bruce Faulconer made isn't there, but the show is still amazing! I love this boxset and I can't wait to get this and the rest of the "DragonBall Z", "DragonBall GT", and "DragonBall" boxsets that I don't have yet!

3/5 Great series, another average DVD set, not the best episodes
  by A Customer
Dragon Ball Z is the one greatest anime series ever created. With its action-packed universe and compelling storylines, Akira Toriyama's magnum opus has never failed to please. This is the latest season set FUNimation has released of the series.

This set picks up where the last one left off. Cell is dead, but Goku died in the process. Everyone has gotten on with their lives. Goku enters a tournament in the afterlife, fighting against some interesting, often dangerous opponents. Seven years later, Gohan has grown into a teenager, and has taken up crimefighting in addition to his schoolwork. He now has a younger brother, as well. The World Martial Arts Tournament is coming up, and the powers that be in the afterlife have granted Goku permission to come back to Earth for 24 hours for the tournament. He's going to be needed - a new evil scheme is in the works.

The DVD set is divided amongst six discs, and contains the complete Afterlife Tournament, Saiyaman, and World Tournament Sagas. The picture has been subjected to digital noise reduction, and the set includes a booklet of character profiles and episode listings.

Obviously, if you're new to Dragon Ball Z, you'll want to start with the Season One box set, but if you're already a fan, you'll enjoy these episodes. Unfortunately, these are some of the weaker episodes of the series. The Afterlife Tournament is a filler, though it has its moments. The Saiyaman and World Tournment episodes tend to drag on, and not much happens. Of the nine season sets, these episodes are my least favorite. Still, they have their moments and it's essential to completists.

One of my personal favorite features of the set is the Marathon feature. FUNimation includes a feature in these sets that allows you to view all of the episodes on each disc from start to end with no interruptions from intros/outros/recaps/etc. This is an extremely handy feature I wish more TV shows on DVD had.

Like earlier Dragon Ball Z season sets, the picture has been cropped at the top and bottom (this was done due to excessive grain and damage to the original source), and it has been subjected to the digital noise reduction process. Obviously a lot of fans, myself included, were disappointed to see the picture get cropped. While the digital noise reduction doesn't do as thorough a job cleaning up the image as you'd hope, it IS the best these episodes have ever looked. In other words, it's a "give and take" scenario. You lose some of the picture you could see on earlier full-frame DVDs, but on the good side, you gain some picture on the sides, and the image quality is superior to all earlier DVD releases.

Sound quality is similar to the earlier sets. English audio quality is fantastic, but the dub is still translated poorly and the voice cast is hit and miss. On the other hand, the Japanese audio quality is poor, showing its age, but it does feature a well-translated subtitle track from Steven J. Simmons that lets you experience the series as originally intended.

Additionally, like the earlier sets, you have the option of watching the English voice cast played against the original Japanese audio.

Disappointingly, the next episode previews aren't included. But they weren't in any earlier season set, so it's no big surprise.

No special features are included here unless you count the trailers and the same textless opening/closing sequence all other sets like this have had. On the good side, the set does include a booklet similar to the earlier sets, with character profiles and an episode guide, making it handy to go right where you need to go on the DVDs.

It's another good Dragon Ball Z season set, enough said. Not my favorite episodes, but essential for completists all the same. If you're a fan of the series and don't already have these episodes, you can get them all here for one low price. Cropping issues aside, this is a great set, and a good value, especially compared to the older DVD releases.

Highly recommended to any fan of Dragon Ball Z.

4/5 Epic
  by DONFREA D. WOOLFORK (Atlanta, GA)
Hey everyone, if you like DBZ just as much as i do, then you'll love this DVD just as much as the other Seasons. In this particular season set of coures the season starts kinda boring with the Sayaman saga but comes to life as soon as Gohan starts training Videl.

4/5 Meh
  by Krystal Ng (bay area, ca)

This saga is okay, but nothing special. I liked it because it offered a change of pace from what normally goes on, but in the end, nothing really happens, which kind of annoyed me by the time I was on the last DVD.

You get to watch Gohan growing up and going to school for most of it, which I found funny and enjoyable....but when the World Saga tournament hits, it kind of goes downhill and ends up with basically "buy Season 8" because it tells you nothing of what's going on if you don't. Overall it's not terrible, but it lacks a villain to get into(it lacks action overall), and is easily the shortest length of all the DVD season sets by Funimation because of this.

Quirky fun, and most likely, you're going to need this set for your collection, otherwise this is one I'd say most people can skip if they are just into the epic battles and struggle for survival.