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Episodes 20 and 92 have minor video errors, please downloaded the fixes from the folder above.
Episodes | Source | Resolution | PAR | DAR | Scan Type | FPS | Format | Encoder | Media Info |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1-153, SP1-2 | R2J Dragon Box | 708x480 | 177:160 | 4:3 | Progressive | 23.976 | H.264 | JySzE | MI Link |
Notes:
Episodes | Lang | Source | Source Media | Channels | Format | Provided by | Sync by |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1-153 | JPN | 1986-89 Original Broadcast Audio (Fuji, Tokai) | VHS/Beta TV Rips | Mono | FLAC | HKB / Kei17 | Team Mirolo |
1-153 | ENG | 2001-2003 Original FUNi Dub | HiFi VHS / “Saga Sets” DVD | 2.0 Stereo | FLAC | SoM TC | ZeroCool / Krycek7o2 / butler |
1-153 | ENG | 2009-10 FUNi “Remastered” Dub | “Blue Bricks” DVD | 5.1 Surround | FLAC | SoM TC | ergiman |
1-13 | ENG | 1995 edited FUNi / BLT Dub | Official DVD | Dolby Stereo | FLAC | ZeroCool | iKaos |
1-5 | ENG | 1989 edited Harmony Gold Dub | VHS TV Rips | 2.0 Stereo | FLAC | Tom_Servo | iKaos |
Notes:
Episodes | Style | Format | Timings | Styler |
---|---|---|---|---|
1-153, SP1-2 | Stylized OP/ED, OP Credits, Titles, Signs, and Dialogue | ASS | corre | corre / iKaos / moi15moi |
1-153 | Stylized OP Credits, Titles, Signs, Inserts, and NEPs | ASS | corre | corre / iKaos / moi15moi |
1-153, SP1-2 | Basic Subtitles | SRT | Isaac / iKaos | iKaos |
1-153 | English Dubtitles | ASS | OnionEclipse | iKaos |
1-153 | Japanese Subtitles | ASS | butler | iKaos |
All subs originally OCRed by Krycek7o2. NEPs for 31-71 originally done by Krycek7o2. OP credits timed and stylized by dubudavid. Names and romanization contributions from ajay, dubudavid, professorwho, Herms, Johnster, and SaiyaJedi. Timings contributed by Team Mirolo. Signs originally created by Evoshare and modified by moi15moi and corre. Signs re-colored by butler.
Notes:
Most extras were ported over from our previous release. Note that NONE of the extras are color-corrected. See the changelog above for specific details.
Video encoding - JySzE
Color correction - JySzE, Kura, Quazza, Romao
Color correction QC - Kura, JySzE, vanner64, AndroidxFusion, Davathan, VDenter, HRSM, KameZ
Video support and de-bleaching - JySzE, Quazza, Kura
White balance - vanner64, AndroidxFusion, Davathan, butler, Kura, KameZ, Tokimeku Panic, VDenter, FrostyGraybob, JySzE, Ronin559
Audio syncing - Team-Mirolo, ergiman, ZeroCool, Krycek7o2, iKaos, butler
Audio cleanup - Krycek7o2, Team-Mirolo
Subtitle timing - moi15moi, iKaos, butler, OnionEclipse, hydes, Krycek7o2
Subtitle styling - iKaos, moi15moi, butler, hydes, dubudavid
Translation assistance - dubudavid, professorwho, TheMrDoggo, butler, ajay
Eyecatch replacement - TheMrDoggo, AndroidxFusion
Chapter timings - Johnster
Scripting assistance - JySzE, Kura, moi15moi, Romao, Kaze
Overall quality control - CSManiac33, Krycek7o2, ZeroCool, iKaos, HRSM, vanner64, VDenter, TheMrDoggo, Adam, FrostyGraybob, Ploffy, Johnster, AndroidxFusion
Additional thanks to non-SoM members who directly contributed to this release: corre, DAN, Seru, SuperSaiyanPan, overdrive
1. Is this better than the French AB release?
While we would love to make a declarative statement, ultimately the answer comes down to subjective preference. The AB release has color grading and is “HD” (although still an upscale of the DBOX). However, it remains incomplete as of this writing. We believe that our color correction is more accurate, based on previous research mentioned in the Color Correction Process Document, and we have painstakingly labored to fix the most problematic episodes, in addition to all of the audio and sub benefits our release provides. We recommend you look at both releases and make a decision based on what works for you and your eyes.
2. You guys are gonna CC DBZ, right? Also when movies
We have been working on the other series and the movies concurrently with DB. Everything has been white-balanced and is in various stages of cc at the moment. We estimate our order of next releases will be GT, the movies, and then Z, with GT being fairly far along in the process. There is no time table for any of these however.
3. Why no upscale
Use MPV with Spline36 scaling, which we have included for your benefit in our extras folder. If you have a TV use a media player that uses MPV or allows Spline36 scaling. Since upscaling technology is ever-changing, we feel it would be a disservice to release anything beyond the original resolution at this time.
4. How can we thank you? Do you take donations?
We would never charge for our releases. If you want to donate, please consider donating to JySzE’s Ko-fi account. Without him, none of this would be possible.
To report any issues, please join us in our Q&A Discord: https://discord.gg/5HuFcx5msE
Comments - 120
JanSilver01
Great
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Special thanks to Just Color Picker 🫡
JySzE
Ploffy
DrBALL
Thanks JySzE.
Historic Release.
Quazza
CSManiac33
rnkz
WPR
Krycek7o2
LunarienAphelioak
I have no words guys. This is for sure THE legendary release, you guys are based af <3
piratemonkeyj184
I love you Seed Of Might!
PNGCracked
words can’t describe my gratitude. thanks a ton, everyone who worked on this massive project!
Gnome
freakin epic
3du-54n
Guildmaster2000
Based and skin-pilled.
Shinichi999
What a beautiful moment to be alive! Thank you for all your hard work and dedication! This is a priceless legacy in Dragon Ball history! 🥹
ethan2awesome
SERU LIVES ON
datlolboi
holy shit, dragon ball’s actually watchable now
FranciscoG
Thank you so much guys! I know you went through a lot of work but it was well worth it!
HARVEST
It’s happening!
Chouonsoku
Another incredible release. I have nothing but the utmost respect for everyone working on these.
DisplayNamee
Thank you for working hard is preserving/restoring this show. Funi/crunchy/toei/AB and so on don’t seem to give a shit, but the fans fixing problems will never cease to be admirable. Serious win for history. Well done!
Oosik
Oh no not another one.
JuanSenseiZStar
Toki wa Michiteee, Oh-Mesias, Oh-Mesias
sangofe
"DisplayNamee
User
48 minutes 6 seconds ago
Thank you for working hard is preserving/restoring this show. Funi/crunchy/toei/AB and so on don’t seem to give a shit, but the fans fixing problems will never cease to be admirable. Serious win for history. Well done!"
Rowri88
This is insanity!!! thank you so much!
Diogo_23
Thanks! 😁
hydes
Thank you for all the hard work!
Kura61
DonCanjas
KameSenninLegacy
Hugo2003DBZ
Thank you for this amazing release
Xarano
Frankenstein
darkmodejesus
sneed
Clemsi
Thank you !
Now we can watch Dragon Ball with the right colors !
Long live the Seed of Might Team !
PeePeePooPoo69
Very based work team. Som has done what every company refuses to do.
LaserNair
Thanks!
DisplayNamee
@sangofe maybe. If so, my comment was 2 letters off.
Team-Mirolo
The most expected release. Thanks !
Interruptor
Very interesting pdf file. Dragonball fans, for better or worse, are from a different breed altogether.
sangofe
DisplayNamee: two very important letters. AB actually hired fans who do care.
Astray02Kai
This really does look to be the perfect release and I hope to someday get the harddrive space to acquire it (God help me when Z, GT, and the movies are available too).
I really wish we could get some of these niche audio tracks off and just have the one JP and one English, and release other variants for those who really want those versions, but I know I’m just One Guy™.
torrentguy
HOLY
PeePeePooPoo69
You can use mkv toolnix to remove unwanted tracks yourself
jeisurii
As close to perfection as possible. All the thanks for another astonishing release
Nebula
Very thankful for all the work you guys put into this and definitely looking forward to the rest of the series, thanks a lot SoM!!
brilliantscientist
Finally!! Great job as always. The whole Seed of Might team deserves all the praise and gratitude. This globally demanded release is amazing. The way it was meant to be seen!
Metaridley
is there a reason why dragonbox audio got removed?
ethan2awesome
@metaridley
old torrent is still alive if u really want that shitty audio lmao
Krycek7o2
@Mataridley
Fellow SOM Member; HRSM, has an upload containing all the original DBOX AC3 audio if you wish.
As for a reason why; well its redundant to have inferior audio when Team Mirolo’s excellent Broadcast Audio exists.
Metaridley
just asking because in the last release it was still in there just for comparison to the broadcast audio
Astray02Kai
@PeePeePooPoo69 I would still need the space to download it first, which I sorely lack, which is my entire grievance here.
rnkz
@Astray02Kai
You don’t need to download the entire torrent to do that, you can do it batches. Download like 15 episodes, remove the extra tracks and so on.
Astray02Kai
@rnkz
Fair enough, I just always worry about takedowns or dropped seeds before I can finish it (Which is what happened to the last time I tried to get all of DB).
I have a very “all or nothing” mentality when it comes to this stuff.
Johnster
PeePeePooPoo69
Som generally seeds for years so it should be ok
NeoGohan
Looks amazing! Thanks to everyone who put in countless hours on what must’ve been very tedious work to make this happen. You’re true MVPs and may Yama/Enma let you keep your physical forms when you go to “another dimension”.
Bodhi
This is the best Dragon Ball has ever looked.
DisplayNamee
@Astray02Kai If you’re that worried about it, run to Wal-Mart and buy a hard drive. I don’t understand the issue. You could even remux it all, put the files where you want them, and then return the drive after wiping it and get your money back. There are so many solutions on your end that don’t require other people doing it for you.
Astray02Kai
@DisplayNamee
Yeah let me just do that with all the retail income I have.
Turns out my complaint is moot anyway, as even when removing the excess audio files, it’s still around 3gb per episode, so the JP broadcast audio and Remix dub must be the bulk of it anyway.
PeePeePooPoo69
The bulk of it is video. The audio is a very small part of the release:)
sangofe
“Why no upscale
Use MPV with Spline36 scaling, which we have included for your benefit in our extras folder. If you have a TV use a media player that uses MPV or allows Spline36 scaling. Since upscaling technology is ever-changing, we feel it would be a disservice to release anything beyond the original resolution at this time.”
Can someone post comparison pictures between this upscale and the release?
pukulan10jurus
There’s only one problem with this release: Now, when watching DBZ after this, we have to get used to green skies again… :P
And finally properly synced English audio for the original Dragon Box. I always hated the fact that you used Dragon Radar on your previous batch.
I was always angry at myself for not having the time to complete my old project, and thanks to you guys, now I don’t have to. :-)
Can’t help but notice the uploader asking for proper credit despite not giving it somewhere else in the description tho…
Bodhi
@sangofe You mean screen shots of the release with and without Spline36 scaling? Just grab MPV from the torrent, it’s small and they already have it configured to use Spline36. It looks better, but not as good as the Dragon Ball Z esrgan upscale from SoM.
rnkz
@pukulan10jurus
I’m not sure I understand what you mean by your last paragraph, would you mind elaborating?
pukulan10jurus
Somewhere in the description a guy gets full credit for something he only did about 30% of. It stings a little if you are the other guy and read that. You (again) get the feeling the uploader has something personal against you. But let’s not dwell on that. Let’s just celebrate this awesome release and keep this comment section the pure love it deserves. The internetz need that. ;-)
KingOfBunnies
This isn’t about the content of the torrent, but I need advice. I’m using qBittorrent to download this, and for some reason, it’s not utilizing my full download speed. Obviously since this is a big torrent, I’d like to download it faster, and I’m not sure why it’s not, since I have things set to use my full speed, despite it not using it. Does anyone have advice?
PeePeePooPoo69
It’s probably just because there are so many leechers. Over 300
pukulan10jurus
Insert over 9000 meme here :P
iKaos (uploader)
@pukulan10jurus Still not sure what you’re referring to, I have credited people to the best of my knowledge. I have nothing against you personally so if there is something you have contributed that I didn’t credit then please let me know and I’ll fix the credits.
JanSilver01
Sorry, who or isn’t being credited here for what portion? It’s easy to edit the description, it helps us keep track of things in the future if we need to know where a source came from.
pukulan10jurus
@iKaos: It feels good to hear you have nothing against me, because it seemed that way to me after some past interactions where you linked to “quality versions” in comments of some of our old stuff, but those could easily be misunderstandings/language barriers too. I interpreted that as “here’s a version that’s actually any good”.
If you’d want to credit correctly, you’d credit the entire Shen Long (formerly Pendekar) group for the NEP’s subs for 31-71, but it’s OK if you leave it like this. In fact, please do. Tandi became a close personal friend of mine after we did those together, and I don’t really care about being credited anyway, I just thought for a second you were giving me the e-middle finger lol. Glad to have that set straight.
Besides, I later discovered that we both overestimated our knowledge of Japanese, and found some mistakes in them. You can probably improve them quite a bit by looking at the French subs on their new BD’s, anyway… ;-)
iKaos (uploader)
@pukulan10jurus We actually looked into it internally just now and it turns out that we didn’t even use those NEP translations as we discovered way back when we did our first release in 2020 that they were less accurate than another set of NEP translations we had from Krycek7o2. So fortunately he is now credited properly but unfortunately that means that now neither of you are credited as we didn’t use your work, sorry about that but thanks for helping us fix our own mistakes.
pukulan10jurus
No problem. Knowing there’s no bad blood between us means a lot more to me than some stupid crediting, even if you did use our translation. And yup, our translations at the time had a bunch of errors. Our workflow was that I timed them and did everything I could understand, and Tandi would fill in the blanks. Unfortunately, he approved of some stuff that was wrong. Also, our knowledge of Japanese also kept growing, so we were almost constantly improving past errors. Which is exactly why I don’t feel like translating the extra’s from the Super Hero JP BD and that fix with the forgotten extra’s might take a while…
DisplayNamee
@Astray02Kai A hard drive is like £100 for a 5TB. How do you have a TV, computer, or internet? I’m not trying to make fun of you. I’m just saying that what you want and what you’re doing about it are silly.
KingOfBunnies
I guess now I can delete the old SoM DB from a few years back since the CC version is out. Unless there’s something from there I should keep? But I highly doubt it unless I’m forgetting something.
Price
Pillar of the Dragon Ball anime community
DoktorWeiss
Great work! All of the work this team did for a 153 episode series, they’re not human. These guys are unbelievably BASED machines! Red-pilled too, just saiyan.
DrBALL
I’m really impressed by the filtering and the encoding is just perfect. CRF10 alone is a great upgrade over the previous DB release. Looked over the media info for the other settings and it’s just perfect. The grain treatment is top-notch and CA removal has been spectacular. It no longer makes my eyes bleed. Amazing job JySzE and the rest of the team. I haven’t watched all of it yet but everything so far has been top-notch. Zero complaints.
It’s the greatest DB release ever!
Astray02Kai
@DisplayNamee
Inflation in the US is insane and bills have skyrocketed while my pay hasn’t. Have a nice day.
sangofe
Ikaos and pukulan10jurus: funny I translated and a kokujin-kun checked a lot of the nep’s for Krycek7o2 :)
Bleachway
Thanks for the great work on this release. Big shoutout to everyone involved in this project!! Amazing work.
TODO
I keep meaning to post re-timed subs, but I keep telling myself I should also make an easy way for people to remux them. At this point though I’ll just probably never get around to it so I’ll just post the subs and leave it as an exercise to the viewer on remuxing. https://mega.nz/file/I1gBCYgK#NHMne7XOxr3-z-F-JWyfojczn7hyd0_RXN7vO2dJHow
It’s automated re-timing mostly to reduce the incredibly common scenario in the existing subs where lines extend well past scene changes (even when the audio line has ended and CPS is fine even after reducing the duration). I haven’t watched every episode, but I’ve watched dozens with subs re-timed this way and it’s preferable at least for my watching experience. No changes to the actual content of the subs, and only dialogue timing is adjusted.
RyzakiT
Thanks for including the Japanese captions, will be very helpful for learners.
overdrive
My congratulations for that hardest work.
Metaridley
besides the 3 original run db animes, is there also a project out there for the og dr.slump anime and its remake about broadcast audio, cc and sub version? would be really interesting because dr.slump has some dragonball tie-ins
SSJBejito
Does anybody know when AB Group is gonna release the next HD Dragonball Box?
AndyTheSeveredHead
Not seeing any mention of what the individual fixes are for, besides the files for 20 and 92. Anybody know?
iKaos (uploader)
@Metaridley no
@SSJBejito no
@AndyTheSeveredHead very minor subtitle fixes that I added just because, nothing major.
DarkArrowsDLL
Deep respect and appreciation to everyone who worked on this painstakingly difficult project. Tho, i think asking for more would be too much, but if possible could you guys please do the same treatment to the Evangelion series? Specifically the original 1995 anime. As far as I know, all available subs has major issues, and it seems that Baws have already dropped the project. Anyways, thanks for this amazing DB release!! <3
Krycek7o2
@DarkArrowsDLL
You should really check out our discord or our Twitter! You’ll be pleasantly surprised with our latest update.
DarkArrowsDLL
@Krycek7o2
Woahh!! That was indeed a pleasant surprise! I didn’t know you guys were already working on Eva. My many years of waiting for a definitive™ release were about to be answered, and I’m really grateful to know that my favorite series is being handled by good hands. Thank you so much for picking Evangelion. Take your time with the project. I’ll gladly look forward to your release. Cheers!! <3
AndyTheSeveredHead
@iKaos Thanks, much appreciated.
RyzakiT
Can you guys please color correct pocket monsters kids station rips or AMZN WEB-DL http://sunyshore.com/raichu_cel.shtml
Cels for color reference
RyzakiT
Can you please color correct plan to Eradicate the saiyans original 1993 OVA? Current master looks like crap, it desperately deserves good colors, as well as GT is filler shit made to mint money just like boruto.
The-good_Man1994
@RyzakiT GT is WAY better than your childish retcons . DB, Z, GT and all of the old movies and OVAs are great. Anything after that is Pure Garbage to me .
Anyway, removing The original DBX Japanese audio wasn’t a good decision . Maybe it’s a little out of sync and muffled, but it’s way better than these non-Funimation dubs . Thank You .
As for GT, I can live with Funi Singles and DBOX is’n bad either . I’m just eager to watch your Z color correction . Good Luck with that
iKaos (uploader)
@RyzakiT
Yeah you convinced us, we’re gonna stop working on GT and switch gears completely to color correcting the OVA. Thanks for the tip!
@The-good_Man1994
One of our members anticipated your complaint so here you go https://nyaa.iss.one/view/1690242
ethan2awesome
had to make it 100 comments
Frankenstein
DonCanjas
@The-good_Man1994
Are you allergic to BA?
RyzakiT
Can you guys please also color correct Dragon Ball Z: Atsumare! Goku’s World and recreate the specials such as summer vacation one, new year one etc for all recap footage borrowed from eps, using remastered footage from the eps?
iKaos (uploader)
@RyzakiT no
Mdsn
damn take a break for a couple years and this happens, glad to see yall finally getting the cc done, fantastic job
MarioLuigi0404
This is awesome but RIP storage space, I don’t even think I have enough space for all this at once rn. Heh, maybe I’ll look into learning how to encode stuff properly and do my own release some time.
DisplayNamee
@MarioLuigi0404 Dear lord
Falcon639
Amazing job its sad that IP owners can’t attempt something like this. The best I’ve ever seen, can’t wait until your next release
Gandeloft
This is (way) too large.
mcbaws21
@Gandeloft women are always telling me this
altairdefiren
To those of you complaining about size: this release is for people who would rather sacrifice space for quality than quality for space. For people like us, folks like iKaos and the SoM crew are a godsend for making stuff that doesn’t sacrifice quality to fit a size constraint.
RyzakiT
Are you going to release both Fullscreen and widescreen versions of all 17 DB movies with edited and typesetted improved funi subs?
RyzakiT
WIsh you color corrected the previews, trailers too
iKaos (uploader)
@RyzakiT
Diogo_23
Could you just share the japanese subtitles?
Thanks!
Yusei573
@iKaos Is any member of SoM interested in doing a Blu-ray release of Slam Dunk in the future?
TORQUENDB
It’s absolutely gorgeous, what SoM has accomplished here is nothing short of miraculous. Toei will never give these series 1/10th of the respect and care as you guys, for me this is the final definitive release of DB. Toriyama’s legacy will continue to live on thanks to the tireless dedication of fans like you.
ujifujimoto
Is this the best Dragon Ball rip? It seems good.
WuTangKlann1
It’s not a rip but yeah it’s the best DB release
guysome11
stupid question but how should you label the specials so they show up properly in plex?