"Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters" FUNimation English Dub Official Announcement and Discussion Thread

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

If Buu Kai isn't replacing Cell, then I have no idea where it is going to go.

I know where it's going to go... straight to the DVD and Blu-Ray shelves.

As long as TOEI owns Dragon Ball that is not going to happen.

[90sDBZ]

If Buu Kai isn't replacing Cell, then I have no idea where it is going to go.

I know where it's going to go... straight to the DVD and Blu-Ray shelves.

At this point I'd welcome that. Having them put it all out in 2 sets would be way better than waiting another year for the whole thing to finish on Toonami.

[AzuraRacon]

If Buu Kai isn't replacing Cell, then I have no idea where it is going to go.

I know where it's going to go... straight to the DVD and Blu-Ray shelves.

At this point I'd welcome that. Having them put it all out in 2 sets would be way better than waiting another year for the whole thing to finish on Toonami.

It'd be more like five if they follow their standard "part" release pattern
With 14 on the first four and 13 on the last

No idea how they'll handle seasons with that number, unless they actually make new DVDs instead of slapping new labels on the Part DVDs

[DBZ_Lee]

Toonami just announced on their Official Facebook page, that JoJo has a marathon on 24/12, then Kai on 31/12.
With this being said, is it safe to assume either they start from episode 1, or go straight into the Buu Arc?.
Apparently 98 is due to air the 17th, then the JoJo marathon on the 24th, what is for sure, is that it seems as though Super won't be taking Kai's current slot.

Source:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... 8039583372

[thaman91]

Do they ever marathon new episodes? I don't think that they do. So that probably means that the marathon will just be Kai 1.0 episodes. And then the Buu episodes will hopefully air sometime in January.

[DBZ_Lee]

Do they ever marathon new episodes? I don't think that they do. So that probably means that the marathon will just be Kai 1.0 episodes. And then the Buu episodes will hopefully air sometime in January.

What they could do, is air the last few Cell Arc episodes again.

[thaman91]

What they could do, is air the last few Cell Arc episodes again.

Yeah I hope they do that. It would be the perfect lead-up to the Buu episodes.

[simtek34]

Or, do a highlights and air the best episodes from the series or random episodes?

[AzuraRacon]

Toonami just announced on their Official Facebook page, that JoJo has a marathon on 24/12, then Kai on 31/12.
With this being said, is it safe to assume either they start from episode 1, or go straight into the Buu Arc?.
Apparently 98 is due to air the 17th, then the JoJo marathon on the 24th, what is for sure, is that it seems as though Super won't be taking Kai's current slot.

Source:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... 8039583372

Dammit that pushes it back into the new year
We'll know by the time that marathon happens what's going on with Kai then
Granted, It's still cool of them to basically marathon the entire Cell games like that, and its not at all a bad way to celebrate the new year, but I did not anticipate the two weeks of marathons.
Didn't even realize Jojo had aired enough to be marathoned yet

[AzuraRacon]

What they could do, is air the last few Cell Arc episodes again.

Yeah I hope they do that. It would be the perfect lead-up to the Buu episodes.

That's generally what they do with marathons; they go back however many episodes will fill up a night and air them all in a row

[funrush]

They started Hunter x Hunter off with a marathon. That's probably it. And the faster they get through Kai the sooner they can air Super.

[AzuraRacon]

They started Hunter x Hunter off with a marathon. That's probably it. And the faster they get through Kai the sooner they can air Super.

I really don't want them to get super

Buu aside, those first two arcs will be painful at only one episode a week ever
And then there would never be any reruns save for special occasions

[mecha3000]

Seeing as how Funimation is releasing the final season of the original show on bluray this month, does anyone think it likely or possible to see them begin to release the initial parts of the Kai Buu saga in the first or second quarter of 2015, or do you think it more likely for them to wait until the show has completed its TV airing elsewhere in the world and we see a Fall 2015 beginning release? I don't see any reason why they wouldn't go ahead and start early in the year. Even if they were concerned about the tv airing, they obviously release the parts a few months a part at the time, so either way the initial broadcast would certainly be over well before all of the home release was finished being put into stores. Opinions?

Or perhaps do you think that the current Adult Swim run will continue on and it progress through the Buu arc on american television as a part of a single run through of the whole series before we get a home release? That thought just occurred to me as well.

Haha, I decided to respond to the VERY first post of this thread ONLY because it was posted December 1, 2014. Now, it's December 1, 2016 (as of post). It's been two years since Shane (and us) were hoping we'd finally see Kai's Buu Saga. Let's hope we don't make it to December 1, 2017 without an official announcement regarding Kai's Buu Saga- but with Kai ending on Toonami soon and Super coming early 2017: THINGS MAY FINALLY BE LOOKING UP!

[ShaneisMC]

I really, really want to post one of those spongebob pics with the "X hours/days/years later" signs.

[superrayman3]

Also they paid money for the license which wasn't cheap.

Don't automatically assume that just because they paid for it that there's any guarantee that they're going to release it, FUNimation also paid for the Dragon Box The Movies masters, and we never got those now did we?

[huzaifa_ahmed]

If Buu Kai isn't replacing Cell, then I have no idea where it is going to go.

I know where it's going to go... straight to the DVD and Blu-Ray shelves.

At this point I'd welcome that. Having them put it all out in 2 sets would be way better than waiting another year for the whole thing to finish on Toonami.

Right, but the whole thing about TV airing is the same thing that CrunchyRoll has taken over now. DBZ is big enough that it can & should air on TV, foreign markets included. It keeps piracy at bay & definitely maintains a decent stream of revenue for the people involved in the process. Ideally, a show as massive as DB would get a televised simuldub. It's just Toei being apathetic, for the most part, that keeps this thing an issue.

Toei has the money & proven success of DB (well, an adaptation of it) stateside. Bandai Namco simuldubs their games. This is definitely a lack of care from Toei overall. If they wanted it that bad, they'd pay (not very much, mind you) for the dub, a couple dozen thousand is not a lot for Toei & it's basicly what FUNi would pay for this.

[Baggie_Saiyan]

Also they paid money for the license which wasn't cheap.

Don't automatically assume that just because they paid for it that there's any guarantee that they're going to release it, FUNimation also paid for the Dragon Box The Movies masters, and we never got those now did we?

This is a bit different since they obviously paid dubbing fee's on top to get Kai 2.0 dubbed.

[PrinceVegetto]

Just found out the marathon on 12/31 will be airing the last few episodes of the Cell arc

[DB_Fan1991]

This marathon seems to be a warm up for the Boo arc which will likely start January 7th.

[thaman91]

Just found out the marathon on 12/31 will be airing the last few episodes of the Cell arc

Yeah I kind of expected that; hopefully the Buu episodes start the following week. But do you have a link to where you found this out?