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In February of 2009, Toei Animation announced that as an honor to 20 years of Dragon Ball Z, they will begin the production of a renewed DragonBall Z, named Dragon Ball Kai. This new anime chronicles the plot of DBZ and consists of parts from the original anime which are edited to a better quality and with new voices. Toei Animation also confirmed that the plot of DBK will be closer to manga style.
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Even though she inherited the roles of Puar and Chiaotzu in the games, this is Brina Palencia's first time being involved in a Dragon Ball related anime.
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Goofs
Lunch appears in the opening/closing credits despite not appearing in the latter half of Toriyama's manga at all (though it's possible she'll appear in flashback scenes).
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Crazy Credits
All-new opening and closing credits sequences were animated for the series, instead of the series just reusing the ones from Z.
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Alternate Versions
Here is a list of versions where the original Kenji Yamamoto score for "Dragon Ball Kai" was featured in:
- Episodes #001-#095 (Original Fuji Television broadcasts)
- Episodes #001-#076 (Japanese Blu-Rays)
- Episodes #001-#072 (Japanese DVDs)
- Episodes #001-#063 (USA broadcasts on Nicktoons; English dub)
- Episodes #001-#052 (USA DVDs/Blu-Rays; Parts 1-4 versions; English dub)
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Soundtracks
Kokoro no hane
("Wings of the Heart")
Performed by Team Dragon
Second ending theme
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I read the manga 13 years ago. This Dragon Ball kai is the what in TV was called Dragon Ball Z, from when Goku appears with his son Gohan. I've always disliked DBZ for the very frequent and boring fillers it contains (DBZ is more than 200 eps in total) and I wondered how a "serious" adaptation from the manga would be since I've enjoyed the manga very much. Now this surprise, I'm much older but it is fun to see Goku&Co adventures again. I've seen about 30 episodes so far and I think a good cut and paste of the original DBZ is being done, even if there are occasions when some little fillers are still present and maybe others when they cut too much (not real fillers) but it was probably necessary.
So this is a very rare possibility to see a popular long anime without boring and useless fillers and anyway it is a still very good fast paced action-fighting anime with energy blast and flying characters even if it has obviously outdated animation (about 15-20 years).