Dragon Ball Kai comes to Disney+ UK

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

Seasons 1 and 2 were just added today.

Guess any more exposure for Dragon Ball on a major streaming service is good, although I still would have preferred the Ocean dub, as unlikely as that is at this stage.

[Tian]

Dragon Ball and Disney are two words that I never expected to be together in a sentence. Anyway, it's nice to know that the United Kingdom is still getting releases of DB.

About the Ocean Kai dub... I've already come to terms that it's not gonna ever be released. It sucks that Toei comissioned the dub for nothing but unfortunately that's a common thing in the dubbing world.

[TheRed259]

In France too.

[Yellow Flower King]

Is this edited? I dont mean because I want it to be edited, but Mr Popo's no longer allowed in polite company.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

Dragon Ball and Disney are two words that I never expected to be together in a sentence. Anyway, it's nice to know that the United Kingdom is still getting releases of DB.

Canada got it too.

And apparently Super Broly was on Disney+ in Asia.

About the Ocean Kai dub... I've already come to terms that it's not gonna ever be released. It sucks that Toei comissioned the dub for nothing but unfortunately that's a common thing in the dubbing world.

Agreed, still unfortunate though.

In France too.

Interestingly France was also included when Crunchyroll started getting the series here, so I guess this was a similar package deal with the UK and Ireland?

Is this edited? I dont mean because I want it to be edited, but Mr Popo's no longer allowed in polite company.

Assuming this is a copy and paste of what Hulu got in the US its probably a mix of uncut episodes and Nicktoons variants.

[Yellow Flower King]

Nicktoons didnt do any editing to Mr Popo.

[LostTimeLord]

Dragon Ball and Disney are two words that I never expected to be together in a sentence.

Sand Land and Bleach have both been Disney+ exclusives, so I can't say that I'm particularly surprised. I mean, I think that Disney+ is a weird platform but this is consistent with that rest of what they're doing.

And technically, they've had one Dragon Ball movie since Star/Hulu launched... Dragonball Evolution. Because it came with 20th Century Studios. Presumably, 20th Century are also the ones licensing Battle of Gods/Resurrection 'F'/Broly out to Crunchyroll?

Assuming this is a copy and paste of what Hulu got in the US its probably a mix of uncut episodes and Nicktoons variants.

Apparently not, as Anime Blu-ray UK are saying that it's the widescreen version with Japanese credits; and with the French dub available, which presumably wouldn't sync up to the Nicktoons cut. I'm guessing that the series was licensed from Toei Animation Inc and Toei Animation Europe in totally separate deals and the two of them handle their own materials. Interestingly, they seem to have removed the dubbed theme music since it was uploaded to Crunchyroll.

Still no word on Daima's dub releasing over here, but having Kai on a mainstream service is good news for what it is.

[Yellow Flower King]

Dragon Ball and Disney are two words that I never expected to be together in a sentence.

Sand Land and Bleach have both been Disney+ exclusives, so I can't say that I'm particularly surprised. I mean, I think that Disney+ is a weird platform but this is consistent with that rest of what they're doing.

And technically, they've had one Dragon Ball movie since Star/Hulu launched... Dragonball Evolution. Because it came with 20th Century Studios. Presumably, 20th Century are also the ones licensing Battle of Gods/Resurrection 'F'/Broly out to Crunchyroll?

Assuming this is a copy and paste of what Hulu got in the US its probably a mix of uncut episodes and Nicktoons variants.

Apparently not, as Anime Blu-ray UK are saying that it's the widescreen version with Japanese credits; and with the French dub available, which presumably wouldn't sync up to the Nicktoons cut. I'm guessing that the series was licensed from Toei Animation Inc and Toei Animation Europe in totally separate deals and the two of them handle their own materials. Interestingly, they seem to have removed the dubbed theme music since it was uploaded to Crunchyroll.

Still no word on Daima's dub releasing over here, but having Kai on a mainstream service is good news for what it is.

I cant imagine Mr Popo being uncut without some sort of disclaimer or something. But stranger things have happened.

[M16U3L2015]

Interestingly, they seem to have removed the dubbed theme music since it was uploaded to Crunchyroll.

From what I’ve read on Twitter, it seems to be a general policy that Toei Europe has implemented to keep the theme songs in their original Japanese versions. For example, songs that are dubbed in Catalan, Galician, and Basque were not included on the Z Kai Blu-ray released in Spain. Also, when I checked Crunchyroll, dub songs are still available in U.S and Latam

[Yellow Flower King]

Ew Vic Mignogna.

[LostTimeLord]

From what I’ve read on Twitter, it seems to be a general policy that Toei Europe has implemented to keep the theme songs in their original Japanese versions.

I don't know, it still seems out of the ordinary for them to remove the existing recordings. The newly 'remastered' One Piece episodes on Netflix, which have several new European dubs and use purely Japanese footage, still retain the existing dubbed theme songs. Toei Europe are also credited on the recent dub of Digimon Ghost Game, which has a dubbed opening.

[90sDBZ]

This is really cool to see, as Kai will get more exposure on Disney+, and it's arguably the best way to introduce newcomers to this franchise.

It would be cool to see more of the DB franchise on there, although Netflix would be an even better option.

I haven't had Disney+ for a while myself, but I have been meaning to renew it for the new Daredevil season, and the Malcolm in the Middle reunion.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

Just checked again today and Disney+ has almost all the episodes, but interestingly they have the Japanese broadcast version of the Buu saga (which is 61 episodes, not 69) rather than The Final Chapters (although they have The Final Chapters OP and ED), that portion of the series is also labelled as Season 4 and Season 3 is the entire Android and Cell sagas. Japanese title cards are used.

[TheRed259]

Just checked again today and Disney+ has almost all the episodes, but interestingly they have the Japanese broadcast version of the Buu saga (which is 61 episodes, not 69) rather than The Final Chapters (although they have The Final Chapters OP and ED), that portion of the series is also labelled as Season 4 and Season 3 is the entire Android and Cell sagas. Japanese title cards are used.

With English dubbing? If so, then logically the opening and closing narrations should be different.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

Just checked again today and Disney+ has almost all the episodes, but interestingly they have the Japanese broadcast version of the Buu saga (which is 61 episodes, not 69) rather than The Final Chapters (although they have The Final Chapters OP and ED), that portion of the series is also labelled as Season 4 and Season 3 is the entire Android and Cell sagas. Japanese title cards are used.

With English dubbing? If so, then logically the opening and closing narrations should be different.

The Funimation dub is there, that includes Doc Morgan's opening and closing narrations, but the Japanese OPs, EDs and title cards are used, theres none of the English variants.

[TheRed259]

The Funimation dub is there, that includes Doc Morgan's opening and closing narrations, but the Japanese OPs, EDs and title cards are used, theres none of the English variants.

So are they basically showing the English dub of the Japanese version with the 61 episodes? I ask because the Japanese version of the first episodes ends at a different point than the international version, so perhaps the opening and ending narrations have been altered because of that?

[LostTimeLord]

The Funimation dub is there, that includes Doc Morgan's opening and closing narrations, but the Japanese OPs, EDs and title cards are used, theres none of the English variants.

Wait, so are the title cards narrated in Japanese, or does Doc Morgan announce an English episode title over an a Japanese caption with the 'correct' title?
I don't want to be rude, but is it definitely the Japanese broadcast edit? I know it sounds silly, but could there have been a mix up and they've actually uploaded The Final Chapters with eight episodes missing?

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

So are they basically showing the English dub of the Japanese version with the 61 episodes? I ask because the Japanese version of the first episodes ends at a different point than the international version, so perhaps the opening and ending narrations have been altered because of that?

As LostTimeLord suggested its probably The Final Chapters with 8 episodes missing for whatever reason.

Wait, so are the title cards narrated in Japanese, or does Doc Morgan announce an English episode title over an a Japanese caption with the 'correct' title?

The title cards aren't narrated in Japanese, English episode titles are announced over Japanese captions with the correct titles. Think of how a hypothetical Dragon Box of Kai would have been presented on the dub track.

I don't want to be rude, but is it definitely the Japanese broadcast edit? I know it sounds silly, but could there have been a mix up and they've actually uploaded The Final Chapters with eight episodes missing?

Maybe there are 8 episodes missing from The Final Chapters. I didn't have time to spotcheck every episode, I just thought it was strange 61 episodes were there instead of 69. On second thought its probably not the Fuji TV edit.

[M16U3L2015]

Just checked again today and Disney+ has almost all the episodes, but interestingly they have the Japanese broadcast version of the Buu saga (which is 61 episodes, not 69) rather than The Final Chapters (although they have The Final Chapters OP and ED), that portion of the series is also labelled as Season 4 and Season 3 is the entire Android and Cell sagas. Japanese title cards are used.

With English dubbing? If so, then logically the opening and closing narrations should be different.

The Funimation dub is there, that includes Doc Morgan's opening and closing narrations, but the Japanese OPs, EDs and title cards are used, theres none of the English variants.

Can you check out the title card for episode 99?

This is the international version:


The Fuji TV version should look like this: