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Dragon Ball: Season Two |  | Actors: Justin Cook, Stephanie Nadolny, Tiffany Vollmer, Sonny Strait
Studio: Funimation Prod
Category: DVD
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 1948
Format: Animated, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 5
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 720 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 1.1
MPN: 704400051913
UPC: 704400051913
EAN: 0704400051913
ASIN: B002KPINEI
Release Date: November 10, 2009
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Product Description
Goku and his friends go on a journey to search for the seven Dragon Balls, which will grant them a wish when brought together.
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The second season of the hit fantasy Dragon Ball concludes the story line involving pint-sized Emperor Pilaf and focuses on Goku's battles with the nasty officers of the Red Ribbon Army. The evil General Red wants the magic Dragon Balls to make him ruler of the world; Goku wants the Four Star Ball as a souvenir of his adoptive grandfather, who owned it. Chuckling merrily as he goes from battle to battle, the irrepressible Goku dispatches the minions of General White in Muscle Tower and befriends android Number Eight (whose appearance and kindly demeanor may remind American viewers of Milton the Monster). After a visit to Bulma, Goku tackles effete General Blue and a robot pirate on a hidden island. Season 2 ends as Goku challenges Korin, the cat who controls magical, strength-giving water atop a precipitous tower. Goku needs the water to grow stronger and defeat assassin Tao Pai Pai, who murdered his friend Oopa's father, Bora.
Although Goku's adventures will delight legions of fans, these episodes include some of the most egregious stereotypes in the Dragon Ball franchise: Oopa and Bora are clichéd American Indians in war paint and feathers, while General Blue minces and swishes (his dialogue in the subtitles is quite offensive). Parts of the episodes set at Muscle Tower were recut into the fourth Dragon Ball movie, The Path to Power (Saikyou e no Michi, 1996), also known as "The Way to Become the Strongest." Rated TV 14, but appropriate for ages 12 and up: nudity, risqué and toilet humor, cartoon violence, ethnic stereotypes, alcohol and tobacco use). --Charles Solomon (32. The Flying Fortress: Vanished! 33. The Legend of a Dragon, 34. Cruel General Red, 35. Cold Reception, 36. Major Metallitron, 37. The Ninja Murasaki Is Coming! 38. Five Murasakis, 39. Mysterious Android No. 8, 40. Horrifying Buyon, 41. The Fall of Muscle Tower, 42. The Secret of Dr. Flappe, 43. A Trip to the City, 44. Master Thief, Hasky, 45. Danger in the Air, 46. Bulma's Bad Day, 47. Kame House--Found! 48. Deep Blue Sea, 49. Roshi Surprise, 50. The Trap Is Sprung, 51. Beware of Robot, 52. The Pirate Treasure, 53. Blue, Black and Blue, 54. Escape from Pirate Cave, 55. Penguin Village, 56. Strange Visitor, 57. Arale vs. Blue, 58. The Land of Korin, 59. The Notorious Mercenary, 60. Tao Attacks! 61. Korin Tower)
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The Hunt Becomes A War (Pt. 2 of 5) September 5, 2010
Underground Reborn (ny)
After his very first venture out into the world, the young Goku is eager to get back out and explore. Goku is on the hunt for just one of the seven Dragon Balls, but he is not the only one. Now, Goku is about to face his toughest challenge, the evil Red Ribbon Army. These men are fierce and mean serious business. They will do whatever it takes to get the Dragon Balls for their leader, Commander Red. With the help of some old friends and some brave new ones Goku is going to make sure that the beautiful planet that he has just started to see will not be painted red with the bllod of the innocent.
As a fan of Dragon Ball Z, I am loving every episode of Dragon Ball. I love how the story is much simpler and so much more fun. It is amazing to watch Goku grow up into the noble warrior that he is in DBZ and now it is great to finally see how all of his friends are thrown into the story. The best part about DB is because the story is so much smaller all the characters that didn't get so much development in DBZ are getting their much deserved time in this series. Master Roshi, The Ox King and yes even Oolong have so much more importance in this piece of the story and it just makes me so happy to see it. What I do know is as the story moves towards the DBZ sagas the story of Dragon Ball will get darker, but for now like Goku in the first and now second season I am just having fun.
Dragonfever August 21, 2010
LC Collins (Newark, DE USA)
Since I already seen dragonball on t.v. first I just wanted to say that the uncut version is way better then the edited version. Dragon ball is so funny it will have you laughing from beginning to end. It's about a boy named goku and the red ribbon army is trying to get the draonballs from him so he goes on an all out war with them to stop them from their evil plans. I say this is a must have for any dragonball fan out there who is making a collection or is just wanting to see how it all begins.
Season 2 May 9, 2010
Brooke R. Plummer
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Making new friends is what GOku is all about, and also making new enemies. With the terrible Red Ribbon Army after the dragonballs what will Goku and his friends do? Highly Recommended!!
 The low point of Dragon Ball. May 4, 2010
H. Tague (Lake Ariel, PA United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Dragon Ball season 2 box set offers nothing new in terms of quality, packaging, or extras. It's the same old package but of course with new episodes. As such I will focus mostly on the new episodes and story arcs themselves, as the rest is self-explanatory.
Season 2 continues the lengthy Red Ribbon Army saga where the last set left off. This story arc for me represents the ultimate low point of the series. Goku fights his way through the ranks of the Red Ribbon Army, resulting in a series of short one-sided battles. There isn't a whole lot of plot going on at this time. Goku is on a quest to relocate his grandfather's four star dragon ball, but the Red Ribbon Army is also searching for the balls for their own corrupt devices.
The episodes start to drag by the time Goku climbs muscle tower. We're introduced to the first Android character, number 8, but he doesn't fight Goku, and doesn't become a regular character either. Krillin and Bulma join in around the same time General Blue debuts and things get even more redundant. The set pushes Blue as being the first character capable of challenging Goku, but this is far from true. General Blue is tougher then the rest of the army, but he's still shown to be a chump compared to Goku inc. The only attack he has that gives him a cheap edge is a rather annoying paralysis inducing gaze, and some very limited telekinesis. After being a pain in the neck for far too many episodes, Blue is finally sent packing not by Goku or Krillin, but by a new character named Arale.
Arale was the main character in another children's manga written by Akira Toriyama. She was an android with a simple and innocent personality but with incredible fighting power. Her home, penguin village, is like a ride through the mind of a drug addict. Nothing makes sense and everything is really weird. It's easily the most bizarre episode in the history of the series, and that is saying a lot.
Things only start to pick up when Mercenary Tao is introduced. A hired killer, Tao is not only the first villain to flat out beat Goku, he's also the first to kill another character. Bora and Upa were only just introduced but we see Bora is a superhuman fighter like Goku as bullets bounce off his chest and he tosses giant boulders like they were small stones. Still Tao sets the pace by killing Bora with ease, and then eliminating Goku almost as easily. Tao is the first true threat Goku has ever faced, and he would be the last for some time.
The story takes a pace after that more akin to a typical Chinese martial arts movie. Goku must undergo special training to be able to defeat Tao so he climbs Korin's Tower for the first time and trains under the mystical master, who also trained Master Roshi many years ago. Unfortunately the set ends there. There's only a few episodes left in the Red Ribbon Army saga so I really don't see why they didn't bother to include them. In the same way, it would've helped if they tacked a few more episodes onto the first box set, and things would've evened out more for them. At this point it appears Funi is starting to fall back into old habits of bilking the series for all it's worth. As if releasing three distinct sets of DVDs simultaneously wasn't enough, right?
All things considered the saga drags on very slowly but the fight with Tao is not only important to the story, it's also a pretty darn good fight. The best yet in the series. Unfortunately you have to wait until you get the next set to see how it plays out. However I can't feel that the end justifies the means here and the rest of the saga is just so bad that it's hard to give this set a decent score. The fight with Tao and the training with Korin are important, so even if you aren't a completist I would still recommend this set. But be warned before wading through the other four discs. It's going to be a long and slow journey.
See Dragon Ball Universe the way it was meant to be seen April 12, 2010
Kenji
I must admit that these uncut episode are just classy.
I love the humor and all the fights scenes that they have in this series.
I would want to say that it's not as exaggerated as Dragon Ball Z.
If you like DBZ or if you saw the edited versions then I KNOW that you should buy and watched these because your missing out if you don't
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