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Dragon Ball Z Kai

9.75Score #98Rank
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Comedy
  • Fantasy
  • Martial Arts
  • Super Power
  • Shounen

Synopsis

Five years after the events of Dragon Ball, martial arts expert Gokuu is now a grown man married to his wife Chi-Chi, with a four-year old son named Gohan. While attending a reunion on Turtle Island with his old friends Master Roshi, Krillin, Bulma and others, the festivities are interrupted when a humanoid alien named Raditz not only reveals the truth behind Gokuu's past, but kidnaps Gohan as well.

With Raditz displaying power beyond anything Gokuu has seen before, he is forced to team up with his old nemesis, Piccolo, in order to rescue his son. But when Gokuu and Piccolo reveal the secret of the seven mystical wish-granting Dragon Balls to Raditz, he informs the duo that there is more of his race, the Saiyans, and they won’t pass up an opportunity to seize the power of the Dragon Balls for themselves.

These events begin the saga of Dragon Ball Kai, a story that finds Gokuu and his friends and family constantly defending the galaxy from increasingly more powerful threats. Bizarre, comical, heartwarming and threatening characters come together in a series of battles that push the powers and abilities of Gokuu and his friends beyond anything they have ever experienced.

Background

Dragon Ball Kai is an edited and condensed version of Dragon Ball Z produced and released in 2009 to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the original series. In addition to its new music tracks and re-recorded voice acting, Toei Animation updated the series' visuals to take advantage of high-definition televisions. The series concluded after 98 episodes, whereas the original Dragon Ball Z took 194 episodes to reach the same point. Kai was continued in 2014 with what is considered its own series, Dragon Ball Kai (2014).

Characters

Kuririn Main
Piccolo Main
Gokuu Son Main
Gohan Son Main
Vegeta Main
Appule Supporting
Bardock Supporting
Bubbles Supporting
Bulma Supporting
Bulma's Mother Supporting

Staff

Justin Cook Producer, Theme song performance
Masato Jouno Producer
Kyotaro Kimura Producer
Christopher Sabat Producer, ADR director
Yukio Nagasaki Sound director
John Burgmeier Script
Toshiki Inoue Script
Takao Koyama Script
Joel McDonald Script
Patrick Seitz Script