Toei Confirms Dragon Ball Kai is Edited to Follow Manga

Toei Animation has confirmed that this spring's Dragon Ball Kai re-airing of its Dragon Ball Z anime will be edited to more closely follow Akira Toriyama's original manga. The Dragon Ball Z anime series originally ran from April 1989 to January 1996 in Japan. However, since Toriyama was still serializing his manga at the same time in shorter weekly installments, the Dragon Ball Z anime expanded its story by inserting additional content. The new Dragon Ball Kai remastering will be an "Akira Toriyama original cut edition" that will quicken the story presentation and adhere more with the manga's story.

The anime footage will be enhanced with the latest digital technology. This includes a new full-HD remastering from the film reels of the original run, renewed soundtracks and sound effects, and new dialogue recordings with most of the original cast. The re-airing will launch in Japan on April 5.

There will be an on-stage event, "CoFesta Presents The World of Dragon Ball Strikes Back!" at the Tokyo International Anime Fair at the Tokyo Big Sight convention center on March 20. The guests will include the original voice of the main characters Son Goku and Gohan, Masako Nozawa. The event will also reveal the new opening theme song and its as-yet-unannounced singer.

James Wong and 20th Century Fox's live-action film adaptation will open in Japan on March 13, and will then open in America on April 8. Viz Media published the original manga, while Funimation had commissioned a remastering of the Dragon Ball Z anime series for its recent DVD box set releases.

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hmmm i doubt i'll watch it since i know the story from the manga and from the anime ~

 

it'll be interesting... no more filler.

 

filler? psh... it wasn't the filler that was annoying as fck... it was waiting on Goku to go SSJ in 5 eps...

 

and too many unnecessary dialogues >.< other than that, still love it ^^

 

forget that make us a sequelllll

 

kool!

 

Watched it and happy to see it back but kinda disappointed they didn't update the animation like they've done with the Intro and Outro. Still it brings happy childhood memories

 

they couldve just redone it like Full Metal Alchemist to be honest }

 

I want to ask people who has seen it, whats the little difference between DBZ and DBZ: Kai so far?

 

I dont see any major difference in the first episode for Kai, but i guess that still needs to come.....

There are some clips up already on youtube:
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Oh my, no waii am i watching all of that again, this is just a cash machine

 

I haven't watched any Dragon ball since i was 6,lol...
Perfect opportunity to catch up

 

is this the Z-series? or is it dragonball?

 

Dragon Ball Z, first episode is when Gokou brother came to Earth. no difference from the older anime. i was expecting a total revamp to be honest.

 

^ its a cash machine

 

Now THAT was the filler of fillers