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Dragon Ball Z: Season Four (Garlic Jr., Trunks, and Android Sagas) |  | Director: Daisuke Nishio
Actors: Alistair Abell, Miyoko Aoba, Don Brown, John Burgmeier, Dameon Clarke
Studio: Funimation
Category: DVD
List Price: $34.98
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Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 870
Format: Animated, Color, Widescreen, NTSC, Subtitled
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 6
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Running Time: 735 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 1.1
MPN: 704400022463
UPC: 704400022463
EAN: 0704400022463
ASIN: B0010X8NMS
Release Date: February 19, 2008
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Goku is still missing in action after the destruction of the planet Namek, as the fourth season of Dragon Ball Z opens. With Goku unavailable, Gohan and the other Z-fighters must defeat Garlic Jr., who has reemerged from the Dead Zone with his accomplices, the Spice Boys. Gohan saves the Earth by ramping up his powers and destroying the planet Makyo, the source of Garlic's strength. Before the dust can settle a new menace arrives: A largely robotic version of Frieza and his more powerful father, King Cold. These villains are easily dispatched by a new Super Saiyan: Trunks, the illegitimate son of Vegeta and Bulma. Trunks has come from the future to save Goku from what would have been a fatal heart virus. Goku must live to prevent the Artificial Humans created by Dr. Gero from ravaging the Earth. (Gero was one of the leaders of the Red Ribbon Army, which Goku destroyed in Dragon Ball.) But Trunks' mission may have altered the future in ways he didn't intend: Instead of two Androids, there are three, all programmed to kill Goku. The season ends on a cliffhanger, with the fate of the Z-Fighters--and the Earth--hanging in the balance. Trunks' visit creates a number of paradoxes, including the problem of his existing as an adult and an infant in the same space-time. However, these questions are unlikely to trouble Dragon Ball fans, who will be too busy watching Vegeta training at 450 gravities, Gohan mastering his latent powers, Goku's new combat move, and any number of battles, not to mention the comic relief of Krillin's courtship of Maron and Master Roshi's continued lechery. Some of these epsiodes were recut into the feature The History of Trunks. (Rated TV PG. suitable for ages 8 and older: violence, alcohol and tobacco use, ethnic stereotypes) --Charles Solomon
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After destroying Frieza, the Z-fighters struggle with finding Goku and face a youth with Super Saiyan powers who tells them that in three years they w
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 Inconsistent and a bit of a lull in the series-- but some of the best moments in the whole series September 7, 2010
LynnJynh9315 (Missouri, USA)
Traditionally, for VHS and such, Dragon Ball Z has been broken down by "sagas" rather than the more popular "seasons" which have become the standard on DVD. The new season formats for DBZ can probably best be understood by breaking the series up into three separate story-arcs, each consisting of three complete seasons and culminating in an epic confrontation with one of the series' three super-villains. As such, it would look something like this:
Season One
Saiyan saga
Season Two
Namek saga
Ginyu saga
Season Three
Frieza saga
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Season Four
Garlic Jr. saga
Trunks saga
Android saga
Season Five
Imperfect Cell saga
Perfect Cell saga
Season Six
Cell Games saga
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Season Seven
Great Saiyan-man saga
World Tournament saga
Season Eight
Babidi saga
Majin Buu saga
Season Nine
Fusion saga
Kid Buu saga
Along with Seasons One and Seven, Season Four of Dragon Ball Z is often remembered as a generally lackluster entry in the series. I say "generally" because when Season Four has its moments... they are often some of the most epic scenes in the whole series. If I was of the mind to introduce a noob to Dragon Ball Z and I only had an hour or two... I would mostly likely start with Season Four and Trunk's superb and thrilling battle with the resurrected "mecha" Frieza.
Unfortunately, Season Four starts off with the ill-advised Garlic jr. saga, which acts as a sequel to the Dragon Ball Z film "The Dead Zone" (not to be confused with the Stephen King book). Thankfully, the Garlic jr. saga adds absolutely nothing to the ongoing narrative of the Dragon Ball Z series and can be skipped without any fear of missing some important plot point. That said, once the series returns to form with the stellar Trunk saga, fans will be drooling with the action. In a short but sweet little battle, a mysterious youth appears out of nowhere to confront the newly returned Frieza and his father, King Cold. Egos bloat up, insults fly... and then our new friend turns into a super saiyan in one of the most shocking moments in the whole series. Killing his enemies with ease, the mysterious super saiyan reveals that in three years time, a pair of uber-powerful androids will appear and turn the world into a living apocalyptic hell unless Goku and the Z-fighters stop them.
As the beginning of the second main story-arc in the series, one can well expect that Season Four ends on a bit of a cliff-hanger lacking any sense of resolution... or even a mini-climax like Seasons One and Two did (with victories over Vegeta and Captain Ginyu respectively)--it ends abruptly.
In short, Season Four of Dragon Ball Z is a bit of a mixed bag--it has some decidedly lifeless moments, but the good parts are so powerful that fans will love it regardless.
Have to get this season! July 21, 2010
Tyder
This season of Drangon Ball Z is great. Not only do they step up the action, but the story itself is also getting better. With cliff hangars that will leave you wanting to buy season 5 and beyond this is a must have. Unlike the previous seasons this one moves a lot faster. You don't spend hours watching all of the talking scenes mixed in with a little action, but instead have a healthy balance in season 4. This is a must have for any Dragon Ball Z fan!
Another great DBZ box set! May 4, 2010
H. Tague (Lake Ariel, PA United States)
Dragon Ball Z Season 4, most of this set is really more of the same. Presented in wide-screen format, the screen crops off some of the top and bottom picture, while revealing more of the sides. It fits perfectly on a widescreen television, and even looks decent on a standard television. The film transfer itself is very good. The original framerate has been restored so the animation looks a lot more fluid. The difference is definitely noticeable. The colors have been restored and while the grain has been cut back considerably, it still isn't perfect.
The biggest flaws in all these sets are the vulnerability of the packaging. It isn't too uncommon for discs to get scratched or for the box to come apart and the damages done are sometime irrevocable. When releasing a series as popular as this, Funimation really should've been smarter with the packaging. As usual there are no extras to speak of, some textless songs and trailers.
Storywise season 4 is a transitional stage. It starts with the filler saga about the return of Garlic Jr. an immortal villain from the first DBZ movie. It's actually a pretty good saga that has some nice fight scenes and overall does a good job at filling in the space until the next major event. It's the first step in showing how Gohan inevitably has to step up to take his father's place as leader of the Z-Fighters.
After that is about two episodes that encompass the `Trunks Saga'. Rather short for a self-titled story arc no? Anyways Freiza survived his fight with Goku and comes to Earth rebuilt as a cyborg along with his father King Kold. The Z-Fighters panic to assemble a team to resist the icy tyrant but they are beaten to the punch by a mysterious teenage Super Saiyan. I can't say I like the way Frieza and his father are beaten so easily by this young new character. They should've put up a better fight, but alas. The new character dispatches the alien invaders and invites the other Z-fighters to accompany him to meet Goku upon his landing planet side.
After the main character finally returns, Goku and the new Super Saiyan have a one-on-one conversation. We learn that the young boy is a fighter from the future named Trunks, the son of Bulma and Vegeta. He travels to the past because in his time the world is destroyed by the Androids, artificial beings created by the maniacal Dr. Gero. With this startling revelation Trunks gives Goku some medicine to make sure he doesn't die of a radical new heart virus that will strike him before the Androids arrive, so that Goku can help in the battle. The Z-fighters each begin their own special training to prepare for the appearance of the androids.
Three filler episodes are all that separates the Trunks Saga from the beginning of the Android Saga. Three years pass and the Z-Fighters assemble to battle the androids. Goku's heart virus takes him out of the action early, and Vegeta arrives just in time to save him. Revealing that he has finally become a Super Saiyan as well, Vegeta makes short work of the first android. After a lengthy and `suspenseful' chase scene, the second android is cornered and defeated rather soundly by Piccolo. However Trunks arrives and announces that the androids they are fighting aren't the same as the androids from his time. Bulma adds to the revelations by announcing the android who escaped Piccolo is actually Dr. Gero. Another race sequence begins as the Z-Fighters search out Gero's lab, while the evil doctor himself does the same.
Inevitably Gero activates his other two androids, but 17 and 18 quickly turn against and kill the doctor. They proceed to activate another android that even Trunks did not know about, 16. Vegeta proceeds to challenge the androids himself and has a spectacular fight with 18 but in the end the Saiyan Prince falls, along with all the other Z-Fighters. Only Krillin stays out of the fight, but surprisingly the Androids don't kill any of them. Instead they continue with their primary mission of assassinating Goku, who's still recovering from his heart virus.
Before the Z-Fighters can figure out what to do about androids 17 and 18, another menace arises. That struggle will begin in the next season.
 DBZ is TOP ANIME EVER! February 14, 2010
Marshall A. Baker (CAMILLUS, NY, US)
IT was great shipping and price new and still in package
very reliable stores.. and DBZ is the best anime ever!
Awesome! February 13, 2010
RWB (USA)
If you're a DBZ fan, you'll want this in your collection. It was so painful to wait for these episode to come on TV & restart countless times. I'm so glad I can watch these back-to-back when I get a DBZ itch now =).
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