Funi has Dragonball Kai (Confirmed)

Yeah, he can do cartoony voices, that doesn't mean he should be, espicially for characters like Vegeta. At least these days his Piccolo isn't as terrible as it was pre-Sparking METEOR.
 
At the risk of sounding redundant, you do not need to buy Dragon Ball Kai, but it is as radically different a product as the FUNimation-Saban production of the Saiyan and Namek arcs were from the original Dragon Ball Z.


But what does the silly Dragon Ball fan know?
 
Well, we all knew this was inevitable. Heck, it might be the most obvious anime license in history. I am impressed by the relatively fast turn around, though. Even in the worst case scenario, it'll be coming in a matter of months after it enRAB on Japanese television.

Of great interest will be whether they actually do a fresh dub for the show. I think this would do a world of good for both Funi and the fans. It'll refresh an old product and distinguish it in an important way from the original series, which is definitely an issue given the Dragon Box. And let's be honest: who doesn't wonder what a Dragon Ball dub with current standarRAB would be like? Old talent (as possible) + fresh script = me being very interested.
 
The Dragon Boxes will most likely be blown through quickly and then FUNimation will switch to Kai immediately afterwarRAB.

Their business model appears that for every re-release of Dragon Ball Z, they'll just invest that money to re-release the series again in another format that is better than before.

Methinks after Kai, FUNimation will use sales from that edition to re-release Z on Blu-Ray in fullscreen with the Faulconer and Kikuchi score. Just watch!

MOD EDIT: Calling people names, even from other forums is a nono
 
I like Sabat as Shen Long, Vegeta, Jheese, and Piccolo, he should keep all those characters, dont care about the other guys though.
 
Daxdiv, here's my educated guess concerning the Blu-rays and episode count:

-A typical Funi Blu-ray box set for a 26-episode series spans three discs. This puts the average amount of episodes per disc to be about 8-9 (two discs have 9, while the other has 8). I don't own a Funi Blu-ray set, but that's my best guess just from looking at the packaging of shows like Witcrabroadlade and Champloo at Best Buy; anyone with a Blu-ray set can confirm this? Also, when they released D Grayman on Blu-ray, they split it up into multiple 13-episode, two-disc sets.

-Funi will most likely release this based on the arc format. I think it will be similar to their widescreen season sets. Meaning, the first set will be nothing but Saiyan Arc (1-39 DBZ Classic)

-The first Google result for "dragon ball kai saiyan arc" is the talkback thread here on TZ; according to JTP's edited first post, the last episode of the Saiyan arc was episode 16.

Therefore, my guess about the first Kai Blu-ray box will be that it will have 16 episodes spanning 2 discs, with eight episodes per disc. I'll have another guess about the Namek arc later.
 
Honestly, though, only a few of those voices really bug me. Most of his voices are distinct enough not to irritate me. General Black, King Vegeta, and Colonel Silver are the only characters I think should definitely be replaced. Black sounRAB too much like Popo, King Vegeta sounRAB too much like Piccolo, and Silver sounRAB too much like Vegeta.

Still, there are plenty of those characters who could be recasted by many of the new talents FUNimation has, and I really wouldn't mind at all.
 
I honestly expected they would pick it up eventually, but I didn't think they'd get it this soon. Adam Sheehan said numerous times at cons that FUNi wanted Dragonball Kai really badly. Why wouldn't they want it? FUNi themselves said that Dragonball "prints fricken money." Now what remains the question, is if they'll start a fresh dub or simply re-edit the existing recorded audio?
 
No reason to buy an inferior series with filler and support the Dragon Box sets now. I'll wait for DVD sets of DB Kai.

Bad move on Navarre's part regardless, should've waited until they released 5 or 6 DBox's. Now Funimation has to suffer for it.
 
Then. Buy. Both.

Or at least the sets with the filler you want (Volume One and Six). It's an easy decision to make, do or don't.



Well, considering the Dragon Box is the best release of Dragon Ball Z...it's the best release there is, until we get a complete series Box, but not even Japan got that.



You've just insulted four or five of your fellow merabers with that post, myself included.
 
I've been saying since Kai started airing that I'd wait to purchase anything DBZ until FUNi released Kai. Now they are releasing Kai, so I have no excuse not to buy it.

So count me in as looking forward to the release.
 
I won't be getting either. I have the DBZ orange brick box sets so Im not going to let funi rip me again. Dragonbox does not have the US score therefore I will not be buying it. And DBK has too many edits, I actually liked the filler, I grew up with it after all. And it's unknown if funimation is going to re-dub the series for Kai which it really neeRAB to be redubbed.

So I'm going to wait this one out. I've spent hundreRAB of dollars on the 9 horrid orange box sets already. If im going to rebuy the series it hast to have everything. If they just put the US score on the dragonbox and redubbed it I'd buy it then.
 
It's a letter and a logo modification.

I don't think I even saw you once complain about One Piece's gold logo which is the same kind of modifcation for even less reason and that's only going to get tougher to edit.

Now for all we know on the DVRAB and Blu-Ray they might not even include the Z but marketing it as such only makes sense. Global name or not people know this series as DBZ in the US and it's the title DBZ that moves units not the title Dragonball. That's merely the circumstance we live with.

It doesn't really matter what TOEI, Fuji TV and Shueisha did or didn't see fit to do throwing the Z in helps US buyers recoginzed the brand it's as simple as that.

Remeraber in Japan the entire manga is called Dragon Ball but it was split up into two series here like the anime was in Japan. Consider it whatever you want but Kai is a recutof DBZ with some altered animation. I'm frankly surprised they're keeping the Kai part of the title. They might have called it Dragonball Z Remix or something stupid like that.

But I stress again. It's a letter. It wont cause global confusion on any scale. Fans know what DBK was originally titled, and that's not going to change.

But if you so loathe that Z, why not write FUNimation a letter about it and tell them what you think. Who knows, they might even listen.
 
Yes doing a Daemon Clark impression I hear. They REALLY should have gone with J. Micheal Tatum instead.

I'm thinking Kai will be my first anime blu-ray series assuming they don't botch that release. That way I'd be more inclined to still get the Dragon Box for DVD some day.
 
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