"The Namek Saga" is the second season of DBZ for the North American market as produced by FUNimation. The episodes currently released on discs (volumes 9-17) are the second season as-is from their original syndication run on American television (although in the original run, episode 26 was considered part of season one, but is included on the season two boxset). This means they are edited, English-dubbed ONLY (with the Ocean Studios cast, as opposed to FUNimation's in-house cast, which did not yet exist), and were distributed by Pioneer Home Entertainment. The Japanese episodes listed with these discs indicated which original Japanese episodes these dubbed episodes correspond to.

(For more information on the Pioneer/FUNimation licensing agreement, please refer to the "Newbie Guide").

FUNimation announced plans to go back and re-dub this season (as well as season one) with their own in-house actors (which have already done the rest of the series), and release this re-dub uncut on DVD with the Japanese version (and amazingly, the Spanish version), as well. These discs had been in-process of release under the "Ultimate Uncut Edition" line. The dub version of these episodes were aired "uncut" (note that FUNimation's dub is inherently far from "unedited" from the Japanese version) on Cartoon Network beginning in fall 2005.

In mid-2006, FUNimation abruptly (and silently) halted the release of the "Ultimate Uncut Edition" line after the ninth volume, which left the remainder of a second "season box" left to fill. Images and SKUs of an additional "Complete Vegeta Saga" had leaked online, with the official word from FUNimation being that more information on the set (supposedly consisting of five DVDs and available in February 2007) will be available soon, and that other "major announcements" concerning the release of the series will follow.

Continuing onwards with their success of "Season One", FUNimation's "remastered" DBZ Season Two boxset saw its release to DVD in May 2007. This particular set combines the episodes from "Series # 2" and "Series # 3" (The Namek Saga & Captain Ginyu) as originally released. Touted as a complete remastering, this release was produced in a (cropped) widescreen presentation with a "remastering" process by Video Post & Transfer in Texas. Despite FUNimation's claims, the set is indeed cropped (missing approximately 20% of its vertical resolution while only gaining approximately 5% of its horizontal resolution), it is not remastered frame-by-frame from its original film, and the color has been adjusted. Of note is the inclusion of a new audio track, featuring FUNimation's traditional voice track (with minor line alterations where appropriate) played alongside the original Japanese musical score. For more in-depth information on these types of sets, please listen to Episode #0065 of our podcast.