Dragon Ball Z Kai
2009 • Toei Animation
- Format
- TV
- Aired
- 2009
- Episodes
- 97
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Toei Animation · Funimation
- Genres
- Action · Adventure · Comedy
Five years after the events of Dragon Ball, martial arts expert Gokuu is now a grown man married to his wife Chi-Chi, with a four-year old son named Gohan. While attending a reunion on Turtle Island with his old friends Master Roshi, Krillin, Bulma and others, the festivities are interrupted when a humanoid alien named Raditz not only reveals the truth behind Gokuu's past, but kidnaps Gohan as well.
With Raditz displaying power beyond anything Gokuu has seen before, he is forced to team up with his old nemesis, Piccolo, in order to rescue his son. But when Gokuu and Piccolo reveal the secret of the seven mystical wish-granting Dragon Balls to Raditz, he informs the duo that there is more of his race, the Saiyans, and they won’t pass up an opportunity to seize the power of the Dragon Balls for themselves.
These events begin the saga of Dragon Ball Kai, a story that finds Gokuu and his friends and family constantly defending the galaxy from increasingly more powerful threats. Bizarre, comical, heartwarming and threatening characters come together in a series of battles that push the powers and abilities of Gokuu and his friends beyond anything they have ever experienced.
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Dragon Ball Z Kai was commissioned by Toei Animation to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the original Dragon Ball Z series. The production aimed to provide a definitive version of the saga by remastering the original footage in high definition, improving the color grading, and meticulously editing the pacing to adhere more closely to Akira Toriyama's original manga source material. By excising the vast majority of the original anime's filler content, the studio sought to deliver a more streamlined and intense narrative experience for modern audiences.
The production process involved the complete digital restoration of the 16mm film reels, which were cropped to a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio for contemporary television standards. A significant component of this revision included re-recording much of the dialogue with the original Japanese cast and replacing the musical score. While the project initially received some criticism from purists regarding the changes to the soundtrack and the cropping of the image, it successfully revitalized the franchise for a new generation, re-establishing the series as a staple of international animation broadcasting.
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