Dragon Ball Z Kai Part 7

[rs_chaosmaster]

Is anyone else getting concerned with there being no announcement about part 7? With all their DBZ releases I am really beginning to wonder if part 7 will be out before the end of this year. I assumed they would do the same release schedule as last year, which would have placed this release on the 13th of December. Funimation has already announced January's release schedule and this title is still nowhere to be found!!! If anyone has any information please post below.

[ulisa]

Well, I was at Sabotencon last month and Sean Schemmel was one of the guests. When questioned about Kai, he responded with that he had been unable to record his parts due to him having some medical problems and just recently he was able to get to Texas to do so. His most recent blog commented that they were at "about" the episodes where Gohan achieves SSJ2. So, given that the dubbing isn't entirely finished, I'm willing to give a few more months of leeway.

Ulisa

[DragonBoxZTheMovies]

I think they're waiting until 'Nicktoons' gets a little further ahead. There's only about a 2 episode gap between the broadcast and the home release right now.

[funrush]

Yeah, a trend I've noticed with every set (Exception being Part 1) is that I think they have to wait to release the sets until they're aired on Nicktoons, so Nicktoons gets as much ratings as possible.

[rs_chaosmaster]

Well i thank you for that information but, even if this is the case part 7 will just go to the very beginning of the Cell Games fight Goku vs Cell. So they should easily be able to get this released by December, and by this time Kai will be just about done on nicktoons.

[superrayman3]

Yeah, a trend I've noticed with every set (Exception being Part 1) is that I think they have to wait to release the sets until they're aired on Nicktoons, so Nicktoons gets as much ratings as possible.

That and the fact that it's extremely rare for a dvd release of a show that hasn't aired all of it's episodes yet to show more episodes than what's already been aired. Think about it from this perspective if you could get an uncut dubbed episode of a show before an edited (censored) dubbed version of the same episode even airs on television would you get said episode? 9/10 probably would which in turn would cost Nicktoons their ratings and viewers of kai and Funimation would lose profits from what nicktoons pays them for the show because people would be watching the uncut episode without giving the edited version a second thought, so either way you look at it releasing part 7 before enough episodes air and in such a short time-frame would be a lose/lose situation for both nicktoons and funimation.

[rs_chaosmaster]

Right but this really is not the issue, Nicktoons has started showing new episodes. In 3 weeks from Thursday they would be to the point that part 7 end 3 weeks puts us in the middle of November so, this is not a very good argument why they need to wait until February to release it. Which is what it seems they are doing since it is not on Funimations solicitation report for December or January :/.

[TheBlackPaladin]

Yeah, a trend I've noticed with every set (Exception being Part 1) is that I think they have to wait to release the sets until they're aired on Nicktoons, so Nicktoons gets as much ratings as possible.

That and the fact that it's extremely rare for a dvd release of a show that hasn't aired all of it's episodes yet to show more episodes than what's already been aired. Think about it from this perspective if you could get an uncut dubbed episode of a show before an edited (censored) dubbed version of the same episode even airs on television would you get said episode? 9/10 probably would which in turn would cost Nicktoons their ratings and viewers of kai and Funimation would lose profits from what nicktoons pays them for the show because people would be watching the uncut episode without giving the edited version a second thought, so either way you look at it releasing part 7 before enough episodes air and in such a short time-frame would be a lose/lose situation for both nicktoons and funimation.

You do present a valid point but, on the other hand, the first uncut volume of Kai was released before it started airing on TV.

[funrush]

Well, yeah, the first set can't exactly be used as a comparison point as it was an odd case. The show in itself hadn't even started airing yet. Unlike how the next 5 sets followed the trend of waiting until Nicktoons brought the stuff out first. I think at this point, the reason it hasn't been announced yet is one of three things.

1. They have to wait until Nicktoons airs the episodes.
2. The Parts are being phased out by the "Season" sets.
3. Funimation is trolling us.

[superrayman3]

I don't know if this has any validity or not so don't flame me but a few days ago I recall reading somewhere that funimation was trying to negotiate a deal with toei that would allow them to use both the yamamoto score and the kikuchi score in all future releases of kai and if that's true then could that be a possible reason that they haven't announced part 7 yet?

[funrush]

Really? Where'd you read this? Give us a link? I would love to have both audio tracks.

[superrayman3]

It was a comment on a youtube video of the song news of the cell games IDK for sure if I correctly interpureted what that person said i'll leave that for you to decide also while i'm on the topic what episode is news of the cell games used in?

[AgitoZ]

...also while i'm on the topic what episode is news of the cell games used in?

Episode 85.

[superrayman3]

...also while i'm on the topic what episode is news of the cell games used in?

Episode 85.

Thanks I never could figure out which episode had this awesome song but now I know

[DanielGClapp]

I don't know if this has any validity or not so don't flame me but a few days ago I recall reading somewhere that funimation was trying to negotiate a deal with toei that would allow them to use both the yamamoto score and the kikuchi score in all future releases of kai and if that's true then could that be a possible reason that they haven't announced part 7 yet?

As awesome as that would be, it wouldn't make sense. Parts 5 and 6 already have the replacement score, so giving us a choice on part 7 would be plain weird. Not to mention, the last few episodes have never been broadcasted with the Yamamoto score.

[superrayman3]

I don't know if this has any validity or not so don't flame me but a few days ago I recall reading somewhere that funimation was trying to negotiate a deal with toei that would allow them to use both the yamamoto score and the kikuchi score in all future releases of kai and if that's true then could that be a possible reason that they haven't announced part 7 yet?

As awesome as that would be, it wouldn't make sense. Parts 5 and 6 already have the replacement score, so giving us a choice on part 7 would be plain weird.

Maybe the reason Funimation did parts 5-6 like that was because Toei ordered them at the last minute to use Kikuchi's music in parts 5-6 because talks weren't going on at the time. I mean look at the release of DBZ Kai season 1 for example. On the season 1 box it has Kikuchi listed as the composer but it uses Yamamoto's score in the show. Now why would Funimation use Yamamoto's music if they're not allowed to use it for any future releases of Kai? It might have been a mistake on their part but I doubt it.

Not to mention, the last few episodes have never been broadcasted with the Yamamoto score.

96-98 would have Kikuchi's music either way since that's the only way those episodes aired in Japan, but what Funimation is trying to do -- if what that YouTube user says is true -- is that Funimation is trying to talk Toei into letting them use both Yamamoto and Kikuchi scores for episodes 1-95 on the DVDs/Blu-rays since every episode up to 95 in Japan had Yamamoto's music. It'd also be nice if they could find a way to allow the Nicktoons airings to use the score that the user perfers.

[Son Satan]

It was a comment on a youtube video

I honestly wouldn't believe shit from a YouTube comment.

[funrush]

It was a comment on a youtube video

I honestly wouldn't believe shit from a YouTube comment.

Same, that's the most unreliable source of information, next to little kids saying "My dad said...".

[dbboxkaifan]

Dragon Ball Z Kai: Part Seven is definitely taking a long time to be announced, fingers crossed it'll be listed on FUNimation's February 2012 titles.

I already have all the previous Dragon Ball Z Kai Blu-ray Parts so I'm not going to spend money on the Season Sets.

superrayman3 @ I too read on YouTube that Toei would be releasing Majin Boo's arc in 2012, obviously not going to happen (Dragon Ball Kai got cancelled) but still some people believe them.

[Fri1991]

Dragon Ball Z Kai: Part Seven is definitely taking a long time to be announced, fingers crossed it'll be listed on FUNimation's February 2012 titles.

I'm hoping for that as well. Wow, I know that FUNimation just released the DBZ Level 1.1 Blu-ray, but what they're doing for both the Z and Kai Blu-ray releases as of now confuses me a bit.