I love Dragon Ball and DBZ too but what i come to review here is the Funimation English release which is just a very mutilated mediocre and violated version of a Great series. First i'll talk about the acting which is lackluster at best all due to the fact the dub actors at the time we're very unfamiliar with the characters. It goes from lame and cheesy American dub acting to bland American action movie performance, each time they talk is cringe-worthy, say what you want about Goku's original Japanese voice sounding as a woman at least the acting is good and the voice is actually memorable and endearing. Now about the translation, this is the aspect that earned the "Mutilated" adjective i gave to this release, maybe the censorship is not as awful as in other Anime shows in the past, but it's not exempt of Americanisms, starting by trying to make Goku sound like Superman, Cheesing up the dialogue (Hope of the Universe my d@ck)and changing the motivation for some of the characters actions (Goku sparing Vegeta), not to forget the unnecessary monologues during the Cell arc, like the first aspect, it is lame. The last aspect is the music change, taking out the Original Shunsuke Kikuchi's instrumental score and changing it to Faulconer Productions' synthesized score, which represents an obscene exaggeration of the common perception that Dragon Ball is just about muscled super powered guys fighting in a testosterone filled bullshit situation, it's just generic and tasteless, usually the music aspect is just a tertiary aspect, but here turns this series in an amalgam of all the worst aspects of DBZ (y'know the all just strong guys in endlessly dragging battles with no logic or substance and a lot of exaggerated power levels)creating one of the worst reputations this show ever had,so i may be going too far but i'll say this... Faulconer F@cked DBZ!(also Funimation did).

I do not usually let my saltiness take over my reviews but this time my objectivity and my hatred converge and coincide in this. Also i not used to disrespect other people's preferences but here is where i loose it and refuse to believe an intelligent person actually thinks this violation is good or better tan the original.

If you wanna see the real Dragon Ball Z anime, watch the sub and avoid this mess.