Kanzenshuu

I think there will be select scenes of filler where needed in order to get the episodes to full length while still being able to end at where the corresponding chapter ends in the manga. They've been doing that so far, so we may get a dumb scene here or there but I think all of the 100% filler episo...

Spoken honorifics in a dub of any show sounds beyond ridiculous (they're still pretty ridiculous when included in subtitles) and would be an instant-boycott for me. They could recast Kai with decent actors for some of the more off-sounding roles (looking at you, Freeza) and use an accurate script, b...

Yeah, don't think I'd ever get a DB tat. I love Dragon Ball and all, but a tat is something that you're stuck with forever and I'm not sure I want a symbol or a whole character from my favorite anime series. I got my first tattoo last year and I haven't regretted it at all, but it's something I will...

I'm sure Dragonball home video products make over nine thousand times more money in Japan than they do in the United States and everywhere else FUNimation sells their DVDs. Hence saying Kai is edited to make it easier for FUNi kind of doesn't make sense.

That "Gohan yo" in the first episode means "Time to eat," it's not a suffix attached to Gohan's name.

I think I remember Herms saying that in Japanese, Raditz refers to Bardock as "father". Not "your father" or "our father". I might be wrong. It can still translate as "your father" even though Raditz doesn't use a pronoun. Even saying "You look just like...

Doesn't Raditz say " You look... just like your father... " or something siimilar in Viz's manga? Why would he say "your father" and not "our father"? Raditz has not yet identified himself as Goku's brother at that point. Using "our father" in that line would...

This is going to be a long post so just a fair warning to everyone. I went through Volumes 17 thru 21 of the manga to draft out an estimation for what events will correspond to each episode of Kai up until the battle with Vegeta is over. Someone suggested that it would take 17 episodes to get throug...

Now, the cutting of canon material definitely goes against the message, but that's not the only problem with Kai in regards to pacing. When Raditz and Piccolo had their exchange, it almost seemed as though Raditz had arrived with the intention of leaving as soon as possible.... "Hey green man,...

Do modern anime tend to get their own BGM collections these days? If shows still do get BGM CD releases like they did in the old days, I'm sure Kai will be included, considering how much hype the new BGM score recieved. Nowadays not only are soundtracks released for most if not all shows, but longe...

And what the hell, they didn't fix Vegeta's green vomit armor and red hair? That's really annoying, why does it seem like Kai is taking a page out of Funi's inconsistency book? It doesn't seem that way, it's just that a lot of people seem to think that "...and we'll fix the incorrectly colored...

Thought Raditz's voice was pretty solid this time around. Didn't really feel like it was all that lacking in the first episode though, but he sounded like classic Raditz. Really liking the new score. I love the old score, but it's great to watch these scenes set to different music. It's the same dis...

I actually have a problem with a number of voices in the English dub of Z, as well as the script writing. I found the Cell Saga to be the best dub work FUNi did on Z, with the only exception being #19. But everything else was below par as far as I'm concerned (especially when retroactively compared ...

Great Wall of Text Maybe it's just me, and maybe I don't bleed Dragon Ball the way I used to, but I think you're giving up on a lot of things based on the first episode. I agree with the music not being on par with the original Z score, but in my opinion that is 99.9% because I have many years wort...

Kai IMO alters the tone into that of a much newer Shonen series of a very specific mold, one that Toei has been reaping some mad bank on recently with titles like Bleach and Naruto and One Piece. Do I like it? Not remotely. Do I fucking LOATHE it? Sometimes yes, but not always. As done here with Ka...

It's really irrelevant to me because I don't listen to these songs outside of hearing them when I watch the episodes. Truthfully I never cared much for Cha La Head Cha La. It's a nice song but it's not so fantastic that it should have been kept for Dragon Ball Kai. In this day of modern anime it's r...

Epic Quote Holy fucka Moses! That totally killed my review. You said exactly what some people wouldn't dare to say. I felt rushed too or at least miss cued like you said. Kai is great for me, but it's not perfect for sure. I didn't think Kai was rushed at all, and it certainly wasn't "racing t...

The alternative to the cropping on Kai is black bars on the left and right of the image. I've watched DBZ in 4:3 my entire life until I checked out Kai and honestly, watching it at fullscreen on a widescreen monitor wasn't hard. It didn't even feel different. Same old DBZ, with nicer colors and a re...

I did an episode guide for Z back when I was writing content for DB3K (and kind of running the site/forum for CJ during his AWOL time). I can't really recall how long it took me to do it but I want to say it was around 18 months. Yours is a little more complex with the screen shots and staff/cast tr...

Really looking forward to Dragon Ball Kai. Like everyone else here (probably), Dragon Ball is what turned me on to anime and manga over a decade ago. Now that I speak Japanese it'll be fun to watch the series as it airs in Japan and be able to understand and enjoy it each week. I'm really excited fo...