A few questions

[crown_clown0]

I think you've probably heard of the new Dragon Ball Kai anime series that started a little over a year ago and is a filler-free remake of Dragon Ball Z, not to mention in higher quality. Well, as I'm following this series week by week, I search for the raw by using the japanese title in Google, and what regularly comes up as a good quality raw is

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[darklightshine]

The first video is just an AMV. Actually there _are_ official animated videos for the OPs and EDs, but they are TV-sized only. You can find those official videos in the comm as well.

The second one is available in the comm - it's the official pilot, it's real. You can find a raw version here and a subbed version here.

As for the interviews, someone ripped the interviews that were included in the American DVD edition, but I'm not sure if they are still available. She posted them in a community - you can find the link here.

And I've just cut the English subbed first OP for you, since I couldn't find it subbed anywhere. Sorry if the quality sucks a bit, but I'm inexperienced with encoding ^^;

[crown_clown0]

Really? Too bad it's not a real official long version, but it's pretty well edited and put together. :) I knew about the TV-sized ones, but this caught my interest because it claimed to be official and long.

Did you view the video I linked past the first 45 seconds? I was actually asking if the video with voices added in is official or fan-made. It would be so awesome if a real pilot existed with sound! The voices do take a while to kick in though. ^^;;;

I will check out that link, hopefully it's still available. And the digest interviews, I noticed they have japanese subs in some of the parts, so it would probably make it easier to translate those parts. I might have a look at that.

Well, if it's not a perfect quality, at least it's subbed. Since I can already find the HD version elsewhere, no worries. :) Thanks a lot for this!

[darklightshine]

Oh, I didn't watch past the first 45 secs, since it started all the same and seemed unnecessary ^^; But yeah, that's not official.

[crown_clown0]

Yeah, appearances can be deceiving. Oh, I meant to ask you this before: do you have subs of the other OP and the two EDs as well?

Also, I've seen people sharing the two OSTs of the TV series and the CD singles too, but no one seems to have shared the movie soundtrack, the new one from 2007. Do you have any mp3s of that? Is the content different from the old LP btw?

[huit]

Darklightshine, you beat me to it.

Only the pilot is real, I believe it is on the American DVD release as well. It's interesting to see how it is halfway between the design of old anime movie and the final tv show.

The OP video is a fan-edit. Anything including credits is going to be tv sized. The DVD specials are text-less versions of the tv-size OP/ED. The official PVs for each song don't include any animation from the show.

[crown_clown0]

Careful though... if you didn't see past the first 45 seconds, then you missed the voices that began at around 50 seconds. It's the pilot with voices that I want to know whether it's real or not. I suspect it's not, but I can hope it is. :)

I think I've seen one series where a full, or near full, version of the song existed to clips of the show. I think it might have been the Eizou Hakusho videos of the Yuu Yuu Hakusho series. They amounted to character videos using the full songs. I'm used to series having textless credits, since that's more common with newer series, but it's too bad that not many series have these little official anime music videos. :(

[huit]

Oh sorry. I didn't have head phones plugged in so I didn't realize there was different audio. The voice acting is definitely added in from the series. There's no voice acting in the original pilot, that's why they've got the text introductions between scenes. But the animation, bg music and sfx are all the same as the original pilot.

[crown_clown0]

Is it just me or do Jomy's eyes somehow look different in the pilot though...?

[luna_ashes]

Just an add-on to what others have said: I think some of the content you're looking for is only on the individual DVDs. I own the boxset version of the anime, and there's nothing of Type Blue on there, the Pilot, and a few other extras. There are some creditless openings available though, and a long interview with Keiko Takemiya about the manga and anime. :3

[crown_clown0]

You mean those Expansion Discs? At least I think that's what they're called. And with the japanese DVDs, usually some special disc comes too, right? Since they're still in stock, I was thinking of getting them. To me the pilot is very special. Some of the things the TV series changed I liked, and some I liked less, so the pilot is sort of the unspoiled fantasy version of what the anime could have been. A few scenes I'm not completely sure what I'm looking at though, such as when a few ships are taking off with people waving, and when Jomy, Harley and someone else are walking into a room and looking up at something. I think the latter might be from the end of the third manga volume... Haven't read it in a while. ^^

[luna_ashes]

If you're eager to own bonus content, then I'd say they would be worth the purchase. :3

The only thing I've seen of the pilot was the 2-4 minute promotional/advertising clip available on Youtube (unless they're on and the same?) I love how Keith and Shiroe looked in the pilot, but I prefer the changes they made with Tony and Soldier Blue for the final version. I kinda wish they'd kept in some of the Mu-mind-ability imagery from the pilot, too. Like the scene where Jomy's soaring up into the air, and there's this ominous, shadow-y image of Soldier Blue that appears before him. It would have been awesome if the anime incorporated more of those sort of animations.

And the eyes. I wish they'd kept the eye design. D: But not everyone likes those older designs, so I understand why they modernized them a bit.

I'm pretty sure that scene with Jomy, Harley, and (I think) Leo was intended for later in the series. I can't imagine what else it would be from, unless they were planning for a huge reveal in the beginning.

[crown_clown0]

I agree. :D

[nananeechan]

PVC figures?! Wait wait wait, I haven't heard about that o_o

[crown_clown0]

I guess you might not have. Was a post ever made on this community about them? Anyway, it's actually one figure, but Blue and Jomy. You can see it here. The price is kinda outrageous, but at this point I almost wouldn't mind paying that much for it.