This is quite a change, as all the Dragon Ball series have almost always appeared on Cartoon Network in the United States.Ī new anime series based on the Toriko manga has since debuted in April 2011, and took over the Dragon Ball Kai time slot at 9 AM on Sunday mornings before the One Piece anime series. The show has also been airing premieres on the Nicktoons since May 24, 2011, and ended on January 1, 2012. On April 26, 2010, 4Kids Entertainment announced the series has currently aired on The CW's Toonzai block in its 2010-2011 season. The "Kai" in the series' name means "updated," "modified," or altered." Interestingly, despite the series being only a director's cut of Dragon Ball Z, The Z has been completely removed from the title (at least in the Japanese version).įUNimation Entertainment has been dubbing Dragon Ball Kai into English for a North American release, under the release title of Dragon Ball Z Kai (more information can be viewed below). Two issues of Shonun JUMP have included some primary information about the series.
DRAGON BALL Z KAI SEASON 5 AMERICAN VERSION TV
It premiered on Fuji TV on Apat 9:00am just before One PieceĪnd ended on Augwith 98 episodes, and the two shows areīeing marketed together as 'Dream 9', which refers to the hour in which "Dragon Ball Revised", is an anime series that is a high-definition remaster and recut of Dragon Ball Z, done for its 20th Anniversary. It's more enjoyable than you might think.Dragon Ball Z Kai, known in Japan as Dragon Ball Kai, Doragon Boru Kai lit. For those of you that dismiss Dragon Ball Z as just another simple cartoon, I'll tell you to just give it a try. Most of that editing, which I didn't like (Not that I'm interested in seeing blood, or a persons rear end, I just don't think that children should be censored so much, and should instead see consequences to real actions.) stays in the third season, and the following seasons. Instead of threatening to kill someone, they threaten to send them to another dimension, and when people are killed, they try to cover it up, saying that they were only slightly hurt, but still alive, or that they managed to escape. Characters rear ends somehow get covered by towels and of bits of ripped up clothing. A frothing mug of beer becomes a frothing mug of water. Because the first 2 seasons were meant for syndication, certain graphic parts had to be edited out. The other editing changes include content as well.
The guys at Funimation knew this, and did small editing changes to speed the show up, however, it seems the guys at the Cartoon Network probably didn't have the time (or possibly the experience) to make the editing changes. Granted, some of the Dragon Ball Z purists want there to be NO editing done at all, however, in trying to be dramatic, the Japanese tend to drag things on a bit. There should've been more editing from the Japanese version as well. The music never quite seems to fit the scene. The translation didn't quite come through very well, and very little editing was done on it, so the dialogue is horrible. Now the voices are kind of poor, with voice actors that can't act. Being as the Cartoon Network apparently had a smaller budget and wanted to get 50 episodes out quickly, I think the show lost some of its charm to the North American audience. In the third season though, Dragon Ball Z changed hands from Funimation to the Cartoon Network. When they had to change Gokus voice mid-way through the second season, it lost a little bit of itself, same with the change of Kamis voice mid-way through season 1, and Master Roshis voice in season 2. The voices, the translation, the dialogue, the music, the sound effects, and the editing. I thought everything about the first 2 season was good. Using a continuing series to do this sort of thing works even better than it would in any movie, as they can explore many other nuances in-depth. Unlike most North American cartoons, Dragon Ball Z has actual character development, and depth as well.