Dragon Ball Kai

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Dragon Ball Kai
"Dragon Ball Kai" Episode Title Card
ドラゴンボール改 Doragon Bōru Kai
Original Run	05 April 2009 – 27 March 2011 06 April 2014 – Ongoing
Broadcast	Fuji TV (Sunday, 9:00 – 9:30AM)
Animation	Toei Animation
Production	Fuji TV Toei Animation
Episodes	Ongoing (List of Episodes)
Chapters	Chapter 195 to Chapter 519
Main Staff
Series Director	Yasuhiro Nowatari (1-98) Terazaki Naohiro (99–ongoing)
Series Organizer	Kazutaka Sado (1-98) Caramel Mama Kōhei Obara (66-98)
Planning	Yōko Matsuzaki (1-98) Kōzō Morishita (1-ongoing) M​a​s​a​t​o Seino (99-ongoing)
Music	Kenji Yamamoto (1-95) Shunsuke Kikuchi (96-98) Norihito Sumitomo (99-ongoing)

"Dragon Ball Kai" (often abbreviated as Kai), known internationally as "Dragon Ball Z Kai", is a Japanese animated television series produced by Toei Animation. The series is a "revised" version of the Dragon Ball Z TV series, produced for a high-definition (HD) presentation, and features re-recorded dialogue, new music, updated sound effects, and new digital effects. The first 13 episodes feature a formal title card stating that Dragon Ball Kai is a "Commemorative Encore of the Broadcast's 20th Anniversary" and is an "Akira Toriyama Original Cut Version" of the series.

Plot

Five peaceful years have passed since Goku's victory over Piccolo in the 23rd Tenka'ichi Budōkai and his marriage to Chi-Chi, when a mysterious alien warrior arrives on Earth in search of "Kakarrot". The alien eventually finds Goku, identifying him as Kakarrot, and introduces himself as Goku's older brother, Raditz. He proclaims that Goku is actually a Saiyan, the strongest warrior race in the universe, that was sent to Earth to exterminate humanity. From here the series takes to the stars, with even stronger and stronger opponents appearing before Goku and friends.

History

Japan

In early 2009, Toei Animation officially announced that a "refreshed" version of the Dragon Ball Z TV series, re-titled Dragon Ball Kai (改; Kai meaning "renewed" or "revised"), was being produced for a high-definition presentation in honor of its 20th anniversary. The first episode of Dragon Ball Kai aired on 05 April 2009 as part of Fuji TV's new hour-long Sunday morning anime block, "Dream 9". The block began with Dragon Ball Kai at 9:00AM and was followed by Toei Animation's other mega-hit anime series, One Piece, at 9:30AM. This marked the first time the franchise held a regular television time slot since Dragon Ball GT ended in November 1997.

During its original production, filler material was incorporated into the Dragon Ball Z TV series in order to stretch out story elements and avoid catching up with the concurrent weekly manga serialization. With no weekly serialization constraining Dragon Ball Kai, and the storyline already established, the series was able to cut out much of this material and move the story along with a faster tempo in an attempt to create a higher "sense of excitement". In addition, unlike the previous TV series, each episode's prologue and next episode preview could be produced in advance.

Characters

Further information: Dragon Ball Characters

Main Staff

• Original Author: Akira Toriyama
• Planning: Yōko Matsuzaki (Fuji TV; 1-98), Kōzō Morishita (Toei Animation), ​M​a​s​a​t​o Seino (Fuji TV; 99-ongoing)
• Producer:

Fuji TV — M​a​s​a​t​o Seino (1-98), Osamu Nozaki (99-ongoing)
Yomiko Advertising — Kyotaro Kimura (1-14), Kazuya Watanabe (15-98), Naoko Sagawa (99-ongoing)
Toei Animation — Kōhei Obara (1-65), Gō Wakabayashi (66-98)
SKY Perfect Well Think — Norihiro Hayashida (99-ongoing)

• Music: Kenji Yamamoto (1-95), Shunsuke Kikuchi (96-98), Norihito Sumitomo (99-ongoing)
• Production Supervisor: Atsunori Kazama
• Series Organization: Kazutaka Sado (1-98), Kōhei Obara (66-98), Caramel Mama
• Editing: Shin'ichi Fukumitsu (1-10), Nobutaka Maki (11-98), Kenta Katase (12-ongoing)
• Editing Assistance: Kentarō Furushō (1-98), Kiminori Furuta (99-ongoing)
• Audio Director: Yukio Nagasaki (1-ongoing) & Satoshi Motoyama (99-ongoing)
• Recording: Mitsuharu Itō
• Recording Assistance: Miki Arakaki
• Original Sound Effect Design: Hidenori Arai
• HD Production Coordination: Hidehiko Kadota
• Assistant Director: Yasunori Koyama (1-98)
• Performance Direction: Hiroshi Kamiho (99-ongoing)
• Digital Mastering: Q-TEC (1-98), Toei Digital Lab (99-ongoing)
• Digital Mastering Coordination: Nobuhiro Kobayashi (1-98), Shin'ichi Fukumitsu (99-ongoing)
• Director: Yasuhiro Nowatari (1-98), Terazaki Naohiro (99-ongoing)
• Production Coordination: Toei
• Production: Fuji TV, Yomiko Advertising (Uncredited), Toei Animation

Episodes

Further information: List of Dragon Ball Kai Episodes

External Links

• Fuji TV's Official "Dragon Ball Kai" Website (2009)
• Fuji TV's Official "Dragon Ball Kai" Website (2014)
• Toei Animation's Official "Dragon Ball Kai" Website (2009)
• Toei Animation's Official "Dragon Ball Kai" Website (2014)