POP UK responds to fan enquiry about Dragon Ball Kai

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

POP has had massive success with Dragon Ball Super, which they only stopped rerunning sometime this year, from what I have seen.

I've always wondered why they didn't acquire any more Dragon Ball shows, but now thanks to my friend dbzforeverUK for writing an email the channel's team were kind enough to write a reply:

The Pop Team wrote:

Thanks so much for getting in contact with us and for tuning into our channels over the years.

We love hearing about what shows our viewers enjoy and what they would like to see more of! We'll pass your feedback onto our teams - we'll let them know that Dragon Ball Z Kai is a show that viewers would love to tune into and that anime is a genre that is highly requested.

Many thanks,
The Pop Team

Of course we all know how POP can make airing Kai even more of an event, and that is if they contact Ocean Studios in Vancouver asking for their dub rather than acquire the widely seen and already available Funimation dub.

If anyone still wants to see Ocean Kai please contact the channel at info@popfun.co.uk or via their Facebook to ensure that they seek out this dub if they decide to air the show.

Might also be worth mentioning Kai is hot property at the moment. Last year the show got dubs in multiple languages such as Polish, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada as well as a Hindi redub. This year Kai got a Castillian Spanish dub, which received a theatrical release for the first 4 episodes and a Dutch dub is coming, so now is the best time for a never-before-seen English dub, especially one with an established fanbase for actors like Brian Drummond and Scott McNeil.

This could be a great opportunity for the channel to have even more success with Dragon Ball, they've probably dropped Super after exhausting reruns of all 131 episodes, so if Kai does well (which it should do, especially if its Ocean's dub) Daima might come to the UK sooner than expected once an English dub gets underway.

I've also announced this on the Dragon Ball Ocean Dub Fans Facebook and Twitter pages, so let's spread the word so POP can finally give UK and Irish fans what we've wanted since Kai first aired on Kix back in 2012.

[Cure Dragon 255]

I think Toei should do one of their good ol package deals and say they should air Kai if they want Daima.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

I think Toei should do one of their good ol package deals and say they should air Kai if they want Daima.

I like that idea, but POP need to be convinced Ocean's dub is the right option. Even though it was probably ruled out because they made no money on Kai 1.0 part of me wishes Ocean dubbed The Final Chapters as I worry some TV executive might see they only dubbed 98 episodes whereas Funimation dubbed 167 and go with the latter on the basis of there being more on offer.

Another reason Ocean Kai needs to get out is because the only hope we have of them dubbing more Dragon Ball is if it gets released and performs well that Ocean dubbing Final Chapters, Super and anything beyond is considered a worthwhile investment.

Although I'm not sure TOEI will be as strict this time about TV deals and whatever stipulations, if any, they want in place. Remember they seemed to have given up on getting Super a TV deal in the UK and Oceania back in 2017 as both Manga UK and Madman Entertainment were able to release it on home video, only for POP, ABC Me (Australia) and TVNZ 2 (New Zealand) to start airing it less than 2 years later. So there may be a fear of losing money if other distributors aren't allowed release Daima before POP.