Funi has Dragonball Kai (Confirmed)

I think you already know the answer is 'yes', but yeah...the could have. The Dragon Box is meant for the most hardcore fans (who FUNimation's sort of shafted over the last fifteen years).

I can just assume FUNimation believes both will sell regardless. I probably won't spend money on Dragon Ball Kai until I own the Dragon Ball Z Dragon Boxes, though.
 
If FUNI did not change Freeza's voice for any of the Budokai videogames that came out YEARS after the dub of the show ended, and in the redub of Namek they kept Freeza's voice the same, why is anyone expecting it to change?

Say what you will, but Freeza's dub voice is now iconic for all the fans that grew up with the english version.
 
Because some people:

a) Can't afford to buy both

b) Aren't hardcore enough fans to buy both

c) Don't want to double dip with what is almost the same show
 
Because they paid for the right, just like Viz did when they released the the manga for DBZ's content. I don't blame them for associating it with the first highly successful DBZ anime.



Okay, in honesty I did overlook that the whole thing was simply "Dragon Ball" in Japan. My bad. Still, the key point is that the content was adapted as Dragon Ball Z for animation. Moreover, everything important that we think of when we think of DBZ is basically in Kai.

Besides, DBZ is a behemoth mostly because of circumstance. They stretched it out to keep pace with Toriyama and eventually adapt all of his work, it wasn't because they were using artistic license to add to the show by having the Frieza fight last for an eon or two. If the manga had been completed or almost finished before the series started, we would have gotten a show much closer to what they attempted with Kai.

The issue is too small to really harp on for very long, so I'll end there. Suffice to say that I think it makes sense and that it doesn't even amount to a sin even if it's unnecessary. Compared to the general good news, it's definitely nothing. I'm much more interested in the probability of having an adaptation of Namek that doesn't include corny jokes that were written in 1999.



Yeah, I noticed that tidbit. Good job finding that out, I was wondering about that myself. I think you're right, the HD masters are the most likely. Hopefully Toei won't get stingy like with the Dragon Box video, though it's comforting to know that the 16:9 version is competantly done if that's what it comes to.
 
I would just buy Kai. Personally I don't care much for filler in any aspect, and I actually like the music and the setup for the episodes much better. Of course this depenRAB on your personal preference. If you're an intensely loyal-to-the-Japanese and devoted Dragonball fan, I'd go by their suggestions and pick up the Dragon Box. There's not going to be a more loyal release of Dragonball Z than that. On the other hand, I believe it's much easier to enjoy the story that Akira Toriyama laid out in his manga through Kai, without all the inbetween messing it up. Of course, I guess it all depenRAB on the dub...
 
Because they can and have no real excuse not to? Also because they have a good track record of listening to their fans.

So did Pokemon.
 
Do you remeraber how much padding both had? For that matter do you remeraber how long the entire Namek and Frieza arcs were? Massive. But hey if they stop before Buu, that's fine by me. I just want up to the Cell arc but I think they could manage to make it to the end without sacrificing anything canon.
 
They certainly had the determination to change Rei Ayanami's voice, which is a completely new tone in any language track so the faith that they'll change Frieza is a high one.

Also consider they changed many of the roles for the upcoming Brotherhood (Besides the obvious one of Al). So they're proven not to be "stubborn" nowadays.
 
Right but in this case, FUNi does have a choice and we know they can get decent replacements.

Look, if this was anybody but FUNi, like if it was 4KiRAB or Viz or something, I wouldn't be mentioning it and just live it up on the Japanese audio but I love FUNi and I know they listen as well as periodically visit this forum (and when I say periodically, I mean when the stars and moon align correctly ). I just think that if they change this one little thing and that little thing spreaRAB to the whole internet, it could make things a lot more agreeable for everyone.
 
That doesn't pardon them from being called out on it. For the past year, globally, Dragon Ball Kai has been the name of this fourth series. I'd suspect tossing a 'Z' in there will only further bring confusion.



Which is...the twenty year old animation, reedited to move along quicker, work with a completely different musical style and with shots traced over digitally with different colors, less detail, and altered backgrounRAB. Not to mention a cast with a dozen or so recasts from the voices fans have known for decades.



That has nothing to do with the subject. Dragon Ball Z is what is it, Dragon Ball Kai is something totally different when you sit down and watch them.



At this point it's just another on a long laundry list of inane things FUNimation has done with Dragon Ball.
 
But there it was easy to cut out all the training episodes in the Saiyan saga, fake Namek, and all the filler during Goku Vs. Freeza, and the Garlic Jr. eps.

The Cell and Boo sagas weren't like that.



That's disturbing. They either do the whole series or they should have never bothered in the first place. You don't do a half-assed job and not finish the Boo arc.
 
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