Another excellent season set
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 second season set FUNimation has released of the series.

This set picks up where the last one left off. Many warriors died in the battle against the Saiyan elites, Nappa and Vegeta. Bulma, Krillin, and Gohan set out on a quest to the planet Namek, where the Dragon Balls were created - so that they can collect them and wish their friends back to life. Following some unexpected detours, they eventually reach the planet, but get an unwanted surprise - Vegeta is there as well, seeking the balls! And that's not even the worst of it. Frieza, the galactic tyrant who destroyed the Saiyan homeworld, and employed that species of warriors, including the Saiyan prince himself, has come to the world, seeking to take the balls by any means necessary, for his own selfish desires. Gohan and Krillin face many deadly foes serving Frieza on this new world, as Goku rushes to meet them (he was hospitalized and unable to leave with them initially.)

The DVD set is divided amongst six discs, and contains the Namek and Ginyu 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 the Dragon Ball franchise, you'll want to start with the Season One box set, but if you're already a fan, you'll enjoy these episodes. The set starts weak with the filler Invisible Spaceship and Raiti/Zacro episodes, but once our heroes hit Namek, the action gets going and rarely lets up (aside from two filler stinkers that focus on Bulma.) Many new characters are introduced here, the fight scenes are great, and perhaps most importantly, Vegeta begins a very long transformation towards becoming a good guy. As a whole, though, this set is great.

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 (and there ARE a few gaping moments that will really make you question FUNimation's decision), 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. Is Dragon Ball Z EVER going to get its Japanese audio remastered?

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 set. 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.

Season II
Well this is a great addition to a DBZ fan's collection. On the single DVD's they had a really cool song that was replaced by the original Japanese start song, which is worse in my opinion. I have also heard some reviewers saying something about widescreen black bars, but on mine you could resize it so the video takes up 90% of the screen and the bars take up 10%. Also while the "next time on DBZ" is missing", nothing else is, so unless your a die-hard collector, this shouldnt matter much as it was just a tv hook spot to get people to watch the show. If you have not seen the ORIGINAL TV spots of this show way back in the 90's, then, like me, you won't miss that much since you never knew about it to begin with. As for me, I read shone jump graphic novels of dragon ball and dragon ball z before I started watching the episodes.Still a great anime and there are some minor problems such that i mentioned before, but that won't affect the average fan. I'd say buy season 1 first, and if you like it, buy the rest because not much changes, because you can't change perfection, although this isnt "perfect", it's pretty damn close to it!

DragonBall Z better then i imagend
What can i say about this that many others have said, well i do say that some of the voices aren't what i remember from watching them on TV but i do love that theses seasons are uncut, cause from some of the sences that were'nt on the TV are on theses DVDs which is way cool.

Also i would of relay loved to have had the orignial Theme they had on the Cartoon network version (Rock the Dragon) but this one not bad.

Overall I would gladly recomend this and the ohters to any Dragonball Z fan.

My Review
I receive my item ahead of time, which is great and it come in perfect condition.

Continuation of greatness
Just like Season 1 box, this is great. There are a couple (non-important) scenes where cropping is noticeable, but hardly worth complaining about. If you're a DBZ fan who appreciated the first set, this set is worth adding to your collection.