Did DB Kai Succeed in reeling in children?

[Cure Dragon 255]

I think Nicktoons and, for better or worse, Toonzai introduced DBZKai to a lot of kids!



What do you think?

[Cipher]

I don't know how active they are any more, or if they're even still around, but go check Nicktoons' Dragon Ball Z Kai message board. I made a thread about it about a year ago; there were lots of excited kids at the time.

Anyway, given how often Nicktoons replays it and how quickly they ordered the movies and Dragon Ball GT, I'd say it did quite well with its target audience.

[Cure Dragon 255]

Yay! I'm glad DBZKai was good for something at least.

[gmster]

Ratings were always good on Toonzai. Even the worn out reruns do decent, compared to the rest of the block.

[TheBlackPaladin]

Yes, it has. Which is probably my favorite thing about Kai, actually. It brought a huge smile to my face to see all of these kids online talking about how Kai was the coolest show they had ever seen. It made me feel reborn, in a way...seeing how much these kids loved the show brought back memories of when I was a kid, channel-flipping until I landed on Cartoon Network, and being in awe of DBZ when I first saw it.

[Super Sayian Prime]

So of course Bandai America capitalized on this new found interest in the younger generation by releasing a wide range of action figures!

Actually no, there was nothing on toy shelves during Kai's broadcast. A huge missed opportunity.

[Gonstead]

So of course Bandai America capitalized on this new found interest in the younger generation by releasing a wide range of action figures!

Actually no, there was nothing on toy shelves during Kai's broadcast. A huge missed opportunity.

Too true man, too true.

[VegettoEX]

It's the kind of thing we probably won't know for sure until another, I dunno, seven-to-ten years later... which is exactly what Toei was aiming for, anyway -- hook the kids and set them up for a third-wave down the road.

It's like how all of a sudden there were people that actually liked the Faulconer Productions replacement score despite seemingly never existing until they were old enough to start registering on message boards and wanted to speak their mind about it. Up until that point, fandom was convinced that not a single person on the face of the planet could stomach that stuff.

We won't know that the Kai-lovin' kids exist en masse with any significance until they come around again in a few years talking about the crazy music changes they never understood and wondering why all the other clips they see online show Freeza with a horrible voice they don't remember from watching the show.

[gmster]

We won't know that the Kai-lovin' kids exist en masse with any significance until they come around again in a few years talking about the crazy music changes they never understood and wondering why all the other clips they see online show Freeza with a horrible voice they don't remember from watching the show.

And wondering why Popo was sometimes blue

[Gonstead]

We won't know that the Kai-lovin' kids exist en masse with any significance until they come around again in a few years talking about the crazy music changes they never understood and wondering why all the other clips they see online show Freeza with a horrible voice they don't remember from watching the show.

And wondering why Popo was sometimes blue

Or why Piccolo is a Saiyan just like Raditz.

[johnboy1]

Or why Piccolo is a Saiyan just like Raditz.

Wait, what? I was out of the fandom loop for most of Kai. What the Hell was this about, again?

[[SP]]

Or why Piccolo is a Saiyan just like Raditz.

Wait, what? I was out of the fandom loop for most of Kai. What the Hell was this about, again?

Toonzai's introduction promo of their broadcast of DBZ Kai.
Toonzai/4kids' own VA Jason Griffith (The former voice of Sonic The Hedgehog) summarized the first few episodes. One of the lines he said was

Gokus gotta get his boy back! But he knows he can't beat Raditz on his own. Thats when Goku's old enemy Piccolo shows up! Now Piccolo is a Saiyan just like Raditz,

Here is the video of the infamous error on Youtube - Toonzai- Piccolo is a Saiyan

[Cure Dragon 255]

Ugh. That was cringe worthy.

[johnboy1]

O_O

*opens mouth to say something, pauses, then closes mouth*

...

*opens mouth again, pauses, then closes mouth*

...

*silently walks away*

[TheBlackPaladin]

I have this funny image of a memo sent to the offices of 4Kids...

ATTN: PICCOLO A SAIYAN
NOTES: NO

[dbboxkaifan]

Internationally the older DBZ dubs had much more success than Kai did and kids nowadays are more used to watch Ben 10, Cartoon Network-related, Disney Channel-related (+ Disney XD), etc etc. Back in the 90's we had magazines filled with DB-content, toys, episodes airing every day, it was huge, but now, now it's not that active any more.

In America it might've been different.

Despite AB Groupe's unnecessary changes they made a lot of EU countries dub Dragon Ball and welcome children/teens/people to the anime world.

[Cure Dragon 255]

Yeah.

DBZKai was a failure here in Latin America. I think the only place were the kids recieved DBZKai warmly was on the US.

[[SP]]

In my opinion and my country alone, I think that the broadcast of DBZ Kai here didn't work as well as the original DBZ did.
DBZ has been on reruns for years on CN Australia (Until 2011)
DBZ Kai went from Part 1 to Part 8 Once.. (Post - November 2011)

[omegalucas]

episodes airing every day, it was huge, but now, now it's not that active any more.

We kinda still have episodes everyday, and a bunch of them! We have 1 episode of Kai on SIC Radical in the evening, and 3 episodes of Z (the episode of the day, the episode of the day before, and a rerun of the episode of the day) close to midnight on SICK. Not counting the reruns of all the episodes of the week in the weekends: Kai's are in the morning, Z's are at midnight.

[SRB2Unleashed]

Well from my experience running my Toonanza block and just general conversations with younger folk at the Boys and Girls Club this summer, people who are atleast 9 and older watch Kai on mainly Toonzai, though they KNOW it's edited (mostly due to my less edited version I show with the Faulconer score just because I have a bias for that soundtrack) some know Nicktoons has been finished. So yes, I would say Kai did work reeling in children, at least over here. The YOUNGER ones however, don't know practically anything about Dragon Ball. A youngling that's about 7 asked me if Krillin was also Goku's son O_o