I'm just reviewing the first 4 seasons, not the final chapters.
First things first. The voice acting is a 10/10 and I think all the replacements did a fantastic job. You can see how the old voice actors really improved. Their vocal inflections, timing, emotion, etc is a 100x more pronounced and believable. I really enjoyed Frieza's new voice. Chris Ayres's rendition of Frieza was genius. Gohan's new voice actor also does a wonderful job.
Filler is more or less absent or at least not noticeable. The pacing is also vastly improved. I didn't find myself clock watching or fast forwarding throughout my viewing of any of these first few seasons. Is there some "duh" moments? Yes. After all this is meant for a teen audience. Anyways, I found every minute to be entertaining even though I've already seen the original, I always loved and found the occasional jokes, funny reactions, and roasts refreshing.
The only things I didn't enjoy was toei's replacements for some of the cells, no pun intended, but some of the replaced frames look really really bad.. . Other than that, it looks better than the dragon boxes (just my opinion), it sounds better than ever before, and the writing is much more mature and faithful to the manga.
Music: I'm not a big fan of Kichuci's original score, so I found a way to replace the music with faulconer. There's a kazenshuu post with audio files that allow you to replace the music with faulconer's. This literally is perfect, the whole series is now nearly flawless.
P.S. Chiaotzu and Puar are still unbearable but thankfully only on screen for like 5 minutes total. I'd rather have ten filler episodes revolved around Yamcha than watch 1 minute of chiaotzu and puar.
First things first. The voice acting is a 10/10 and I think all the replacements did a fantastic job. You can see how the old voice actors really improved. Their vocal inflections, timing, emotion, etc is a 100x more pronounced and believable. I really enjoyed Frieza's new voice. Chris Ayres's rendition of Frieza was genius. Gohan's new voice actor also does a wonderful job.
Filler is more or less absent or at least not noticeable. The pacing is also vastly improved. I didn't find myself clock watching or fast forwarding throughout my viewing of any of these first few seasons. Is there some "duh" moments? Yes. After all this is meant for a teen audience. Anyways, I found every minute to be entertaining even though I've already seen the original, I always loved and found the occasional jokes, funny reactions, and roasts refreshing.
The only things I didn't enjoy was toei's replacements for some of the cells, no pun intended, but some of the replaced frames look really really bad.. . Other than that, it looks better than the dragon boxes (just my opinion), it sounds better than ever before, and the writing is much more mature and faithful to the manga.
Music: I'm not a big fan of Kichuci's original score, so I found a way to replace the music with faulconer. There's a kazenshuu post with audio files that allow you to replace the music with faulconer's. This literally is perfect, the whole series is now nearly flawless.
P.S. Chiaotzu and Puar are still unbearable but thankfully only on screen for like 5 minutes total. I'd rather have ten filler episodes revolved around Yamcha than watch 1 minute of chiaotzu and puar.