Does Dragonball Kai make going back to DBZ difficult?

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nhlstar95

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One reason DB Kai is so great is it fixes all the pacing problems of DBZ and removes some of the bad or unnecessary filler. For those who are watching DB Kai, do you think you could ever go back to watch DBZ?

I admit that I miss some of the filler stories, specifically some of the Saiyan training eps, some of the eps where Goku is training on his ship, I miss Goku falling off Snake Way, and I'm going to miss the Pikkon Tournament from the Buu saga, but otherwise I think I will stick with Kai.

The best thing is if I DO like the filler, I can stick with kai for the main story and then watch select eps of DBZ to rewatch the filler episodes I liked. Is anyone else like this?
 
So far, is hasn't been too hard. Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Kai are really totally different beasts. With FUnimation putting out the Dragon Box I'll probably be rewatching the whole second series via that, and with the acting and music different enough, it'll be worth it. Dragon Ball Kai, as a speedier and modern adaptation of the original story, has it's own charms, so even though I own nearly the entire comic, have read it a dozen times, and have seen most of the four anime...I'm still pretty excited for each new episode each week.


Next week is episode 31 of Dragon Ball Kai, and Gok
 
To be honest, yes. I will go back watching DBZ again.
I'll say that DBKai did improve many things. Taking out stuff that was pointless and making the pacing way better.
But, I really can't handle the new BGM's. And some of the new animation really killed it for me. I think EP:16 in DBKai is a good example.
 
...Well, I think Dragonball Kai, as a whole, is a superior series to Dragonball Z. However, several of the major events were handled SO much better in DBZ. I mean, just try and watch Goku and Vegeta's beam-struggle in DBZ episode 31 and compare it to its equivalent scene in Kai. The original is WAY more intense, mostly due to the epic soundtrack. I also seriously doubt that DBK can match Gohan's utterly amazing transformation-scene in the Cell-games, or pull off Goku's victory over Majin Buu as well as Z did. But that's the thing; I think DBZ has some great MOMENTS, while the quality of Kai is a lot more consistent; Good, but not fantastic. Due to that, I suppose I can still go back to DBZ, but if I were to rewatch either Z or Kai, I'd probably go with Kai.
 
Kai, easily. I absolutely despise filler, especially in the Dragonball series, so it's nice to see the majority of it cut out. Plus, I love Kai's soundtrack. It retains the feel of Kikuchi's score while still having a modern sound to it that I really enjoy.
 
To tell you the truth I kinda hate kai for these reason...
-Going Faster than the manga
- censoring important scenes
-I miss the old score
- the voice actor's sound too old
 
I see no reason to 'hate' Dragon Ball Kai when the original animated adaption is available, as well as the comic. It's the few edits made (primarily nudity and bird flipping) are a bit dissapointing, but sense it doesn't replace DBZ and pretty much markets itself as a different entity all in itself, I'm not really driven mad by them (there's a joke in there for you guys--you know who you are--just 'cause I love yas), either.


I'm also glad to see Nozawa return and reading the latest interview with her on the Blu-Ray box set was incredible fun. I love how she comments on having done Gok
 
Uh...how? I mean, it's not like Inuyasha: Final Act where I can actually feel it going faster. I never really got that feeling with Kai

If we're talking about blood....well, I guess that is quite weird but that was like only three times.Can't argue with that

No, they sound like they fit to the character. The dub sounRAB too young is what it is.
 
Haven't watched it yet, but I will when I get a chance. I'd say the only downside is getting rid of a filler episode that actually tells a fun story (Goku and Piccolo trying to pass a driving test, and the two appearances of Mercenary Tao) as opposed to the ones that are 20 minutes of powering up and talking about fight moves.
 
I've been meaning to ask about the music. Do you feel Kai's score is an improvement over the original, or do you like the original soundtrack better? Which captures the mood of the episodes better?
 
I found the Kai score better; it sounded mature, and that's what made it better to me.
DBZ's original score was good and all, but the silly trumphets had cute and corny written all over them. It might have worked for DB, but not for DBZ.
 
Personally, I find DBK to be a much more consistently good series than DBZ, which kind of got screwed over with all of its pointless filler and dragged out power-up scenes, but like others have said, DBZ is still on top when it comes to the most important moments in the series, and I would re-watch certain parts of DBZ which I liked that weren't featuredi n Kai. However, having said that, I still prefer Kai over DBZ based on its pacing alone, so I will say that I personally find it to be the better series.

As for the musical score, I don't know why everyone seems to have a problem with Kai's OST. I LOVE the original OST for DBZ, and nothing could ever truly replace that, but that doesn't mean that Kai's OST being different makes it not good. I personally find it to be fantastic,a ndl ikes omeone else here said, it still manages to capture the same type of Dragonball "feel" that the original scores did, while also sounding different enough in tone to distingush the OST as being something that exclusively belongs to DBK.
 
Well:
I like the old DBZ OST because it sounRAB old school. It gives it a 90's feeling I like and love.
And the Dub DBZ OST gives me my old childhood feeling when I was a kid. And some of those tracks works.

But, DBKai just sound like a video game. Not a bad video game, but not a good one as well. It doesn't give me an old school feeling nor gives me something about me watching it as a kid.
 
Improvement? No. Shunsuke Kikuchi original score is a classic that fits all mooRAB of Dragon Ball. It's pretty hard to remove the original score that globally fans have known for 20+ years now.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Kenji Yamamoto's score a great deal and have quite a few favorite tracks...I simply would've preferred the original, I think, but that's what I have Dragon Ball Z for.



'Silly trumpets'? How much of the series have you actually heard with the original music? A snippet here or there?


There isn't this sudden shift of tone between the last episode of DB and DBZ, people. The Piccolo arcs have 'serious' and 'dark' music themselves.
 
What's with the attitude? Being as big a fan as I am of the music I know for sure your description of the music covers only a small portion of the music used in the series. Dragon Ball Z isn't "ACTION! EXTREME!! BLOODGUTSGORE!!!" so the music can be silly, espicially considering the roots of the series.
 
I know that very much, the music fit for the scenes with calm and good humor, but when it came to the action scenes it just didn't cut it. Let me point out, I am one who prefers narrative over action; I just like it when music fits the proper scene.

(Oh, and even though DBZ lacks incredibly deep narrative, I'm mostly in for the art and the characters.)
 
While I disagree (terribly so), I concur that Dragon Ball hasn't the 'most deep' narrative.




Wow, this is sort o' a waste of a post...

...uh, support Dragon Ball Kai by buying the Japanese home videos! The US and Japan share the same BR region code so you can watch import and watch the episodes in glorious high-def!!
 
I can't quite get into Kai. The pacing's great, yes - but the redrawn frames just don't quite mesh with the old hand drawn stuff and nine out of ten it just sounRAB awkward.

Oh, and the score...way, way too generic. Regardless of what you say of DBZ's old score, it added just one more unique touch to it. I can't watch a scene like the death of Raditz without the silence building up to Piccolo shooting off the Really-Big-Word-That-Starts-With-Ma. When the music finally kicks in...you know it's going down.
 


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