DRAGON BALL KAI
2010-2012: Dragon Ball Kai was released on DVD and Blu-Ray first in Parts between May 18, 2010 and June 5, 2012 and Seasons between August 18, 2011 and March 12, 2013. Parts 1-3 were always printed with the Kenji Yamamoto score, and some copies of part 4 had the score, although parts 5-8 were released with the Shunsuke Kikuchi replacement score, and while Yamamoto remained credited on the covers of part 4 the discs were at some point reauthored with the score replaced by Kikuchi. The first printing of season 1 contained the Yamamoto score, but the reprint, released on May 22, 2012 and subsequent seasons exclusively used the Kikuchi replacement score. The English dub was recorded by Okratron 5000, produced by Funimation and for the first TV broadcast editing was provided by Ocean Studios in Vancouver, Canada.
Dragon Ball Kai arrived on Nicktoons May 24, 2010 with Funimation's dub, aired with the Yamamoto score up to episode 63, and later premiered on the CW's Toonzai block August 14, 2010, again with Yamamoto. Toonzai's first Kikuchi-scored episode premiered March 27, 2011 and their final new episode in general, which was episode 52 on May 14, 2011 as the sale agreement between themselves and 4Kids stated they didn't have the rights to any more episodes. Nicktoons aired Dragon Ball Kai Mondays-Thursdays, becoming the highest-rated series premiere in the channel's history. The success led to Nicktoons becoming the fastest growing kids channel and them forming a partnership with the NFL to produce animated shorts titled Rush Zone: Guardians of the Core. In August 2010 reruns of Kai on Nicktoons started from episode 1. Nicktoons held a "Z it all weekend" Saturday-Monday marathon in October 2010 for fans to catch up on episodes 1-36 by airing 12 a day. Frieza saga began on Nicktoons October 20th that year. Kai also featured as part of an All-Heroes Weekend marathon on November 27 2010 starting with the episode Vegeta's Covert Maneuvers! A Tragic Assault on the Namekians! as well as the premiers of episodes natively titled Awaken, Legendary Warrior! Goku the Super Saiyan! and The Angry Super Saiyan! Goku Throws Down the Gauntlet!. An 11-hour marathon was held on May 30, 2011, which Nicktoons promised would lead in to Dragon Ball's Cell saga. Episodes 44-64 aired that day with 64 being the only premier and the first episode to debut debut the Kikuchi replacement score, which the CW already began airing as they had been receiving new masters for the earlier episodes. CW also used a temporary placement of the Kikuchi score that differed from what Nicktoons used on all subsequent reruns of the first 63 episodes. In mid-July 2011 Nicktoons aired new episodes of Kai alongside clips of Kung Fu Panda Legends of Awesomeness for a broadcast slot titled Kung Fu Crew. Another marathon that featured Dragon Ball Kai named Marathon-A-Thon followed where each day Nicktoons gave a select show a 24-hour marathon each day that week. Dragon Ball Kai's marathon was held September 2, 2011 and featured episodes 13-60. Toonzai wrapped up their season of Kai with an "encore season" on September 17, 2011 where fans could win prizes like a 3D TV, PlayStation 3 and touch tablet. Nicktoons held an 11-hour marathon for Kai on October 10 2011 for Columbus Day and reran every episode from Goku's New Move, Instant Transmission! The Three-Year Training Session Begins! to The Battle Turns for the Worst! Cell Attacks Android 18! and then premiered the next episode with the following episode making its debut a week later. The next marathon was on November 11th but this one had no new premiers. Nicktoons was airing episodes 53-63 with the Yamamoto score as late as the end of November. The US home releases stopped using that score prior to this point in the series. Another marathon took place on November 25th when Kai was part of Nicktoon's “Feast of Fury Week” and scheduled for an 8-hour marathon of episodes 75-90. A new episode premiered that night. The last couple of marathons that year were when Nicktoons hosted what they called a "Super Saiyan Saga" where from December 5th to the 19th 9 episodes a day aired followed by the premier of episode 92 and a new episode until friday that week. Fans got a new code each night to unlock sneak peaks and have exclusive access to a never-before-seen episode the final night on nicktoons.com/dragonball.
2012-2013: Nicktoons premiered Dragon Ball Kai episode 98 on January 1, 2012, although they didn't rerun the series from episode 1 until March, which was months before news of The Final Chapters leaked. The last time Kai aired on Toonzai was August 11th that year, on that day the block held a "Brawl-A-Thon" to hype up Goku vs Freeza by airing 8 episodes. After Saban's acquisition of the CW's Toonzai programming block Dragon Ball Kai premiered on the new Vortexx block on August 25th that year and aired until Setptember 27, 2014. Nicktoons began the first day of 2013 with a 24-hour marathon of Dragon Ball Kai from episodes 37-84. The show remained in reruns with double bills Monday-Friday. Nicktoons aired the final episode of Kai (a previously home video exclusive) on February 8th that year, marking it as "the lost episode". The show remained in reruns on Nicktoons until the week of April 17, 2013, although it was still being aired on Vortexx until the block closed on September 27, 2014.
2014-2016: It was announced on May 24, 2014 at MomoCon that Dragon Ball Kai would be coming to Adult Swim in the US. Adult Swim began airing Dragon Ball Kai on their Toonami block November 9, 2014 marking the show's uncut debut on US TV. A new episode aired every Saturday until all 98 episodes premiered on the channel with the exception of a few weeks the show took a break. The first 4 weeks was a consistent run of new episodes followed by a break and resuming on the first Saturday of 2015, taking another break the end of that month. Conversely the first episode in February premiered the second Saturday of the month after another break. The first Kai marathon took place on July 5, 2015 where episodes 25-30 were rerun with the next episode premiering the following week. Further week-long break took place the first Saturdays of September and the first and last Saturdays of November and the last Saturday of the year. In 2016 there was a new episode every week until the end of May.
As summer 2016 commenced a new episode of Kai was aired except the first week of July and September. An episode aired every Sunday from early October until the end of the month where there was a Gundam marathon. The final episode of Kai premiered on Toonami a week before Christmas.
2017-2019: Dragon Ball Kai : The Final Chapters premiered January 7, 2017 on Toonami US and wrapped up on June 23, 2018. In terms of home video the DVD and Blu-Ray releases were exclusively Parts. These were released on April 25, 2017, May 23 and June 20th the same year.
2020-2026: Sometime after the initial conclusion of Kai: The Final Chapters, Toonami announced they would be having a Kai marathon on April 11, 2020 featuring episodes from the Cell saga. Dragon Ball Kai returned to Toonami on February 24, 2024 from the very first episode. In honour of Toriyama Toonami held a marathon on March 16, 2024. The final episode aired that year was episode 47 on December 27th. The next year Dragon Ball Kai was rerun from episode 39 on January 5th to 47 on March 2nd. The next rerun from the first episode began on December 30, 2025.
DRAGON BALL SUPER
DRAGON BALL DAIMA2016-2018: Following Funimation's announcement they had acquired the dubbing rights for Dragon Ball Super it was announced it would premier uncut on Toonami and be simulcasted on FunimationNow. Dragon Ball Super premiered in the US on January 7, 2017 and wrapped up on October 5, 2019. Like Dragon Ball Kai the Texas English dub was recorded by Okratron 5000 and produced by Funimation, but unlike the previous series TOEI were credited with ADR approvals. New episodes of Dragon Ball Super premiered Saturday nights with a rerun before midnight. The premier of Dragon Ball Super had 1,063,000 viewers.
Dragon Ball Super was released on DVD and Blu-Ray between July 25, 2017 and January 14, 2020.
2019-2021: Reruns of Dragon Ball Super on Toonami began, although not from the first episode. On July 4th episodes 60-67 were shown followed by the start of the Universal Survival arc the week after[/url]. One episode of Dragon Ball Super was cancelled on Toonami US, which was to help viewers deal with programming delays brought on by the COVID pandemic. A bundle for the first 3 parts was released on October 1, 2020. The final episode of Dragon Ball Super was rerun on Toonami September 12, 2021. The next week a rerun starting from episode 27 followed, and the final episode aired that year was episode 38 in the early hours of St Stephen's Day.
2022-2026: A complete series Blu-Ray steelbook collection was released on September 20, 2022 and 2 standard complete series sets followed on August 1, 2023 and November 5, 2024. Crunchyroll released a Complete Series Blu-Ray box set for Dragon Ball Super on May 11, 2024.
2024-2026: Dragon Ball Daima arrived on Crunchyroll with episodes premiering Saturdays from October 11, 2024, Netflix and Hulu on a week later. It was the Japanese version with English subtitles. The English dub was produced by Crunchyroll LCC and recorded at Okratron 5000. First three episodes of Crunchyroll's English dub hit theatres from November 10-12th courtesy of TOEI and Fathom Events. Dragon Ball Daima had its US TV debut on Toonami June 14, 2025 and ended November 1, 2025. The English dub also became available in full on Hulu July 2, 2025. Reruns on Toonami followed between November 8th that year and March 28, 2026. Crunchyroll was to release the series on standard and collectors edition Blu-Rays on March 6th the next year, fans reported delays, currently its slated for August 11th, although some copies were already sent out.
