Dragon Ball Kai: Difference between revisions

The animation has been updated, the [[Inaction Sequence|talk breaks]] are few and far between, and there is next-to-no [[Filler]] or [[Padding]]. End result is a sleeker, faster, more action-packed show than the original series. The original ''[[Dragonball]] Z'' had 194 episodes up to the end of the Cell arc, while ''Kai'' has only 98; this means a ratio of roughly 1 ''Kai'' episode for every 2 ''Z'' episodes.

 

 

The English dub of ''Kai'' is noted to be considerably more accurate than the ''Z'' dub, without any of the character rewrites, replacement scores, or massive dialogue changes (though there are a few [[Never Say Die|dialogue alterations]] in the CW[[Four Kids Entertainment|4Kids]] version of ''Kai'') that the ''Z'' dub was most notable for.

*** Considerably more censored than the [[Nicktoons]] version, for example, one of the most confusing and rather pointless edits is the removal of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NVxxYHfdcM Shenron] from the opening.

*** Took the bullet that the farmer shot at Raditz, and turned it into a blue glowing...[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COqnyplv1YE thing]. [[Hand Wave|I don't even think they bothered to explain what it was.]]

*** The dead now have a little ball of light over their head, rather than a halo.

*** [http://twitpic.com/2ni9qm Mr. Popo is blue], as the block has made it a policy to never show blackface stereotypes uncensored after [[Pokémon|Jynx]] caused a stir.

** Due to DBZ Kai's popularity on Nicktoons, the network started airing the original DBZ movies. Amazingingly the network aired Movie 12, "Fusion Reborn" almost completly [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vegTxAwVVKs uncensored], save for the short gag scene with [[Adolf Hitler]], and its still all under a Y7 rating.

*** What about Super Android 13? The movie had seven uses of ''ass'', four damns, two craps and one "aw f-", still under a Y7.

* [[Home Version Soundtrack Replacement]]: Due to the copyright infringements made by Kenji Yamamoto's compositions (as noted below), the show's soundtrack has since been replaced with Shunsuke Kikuchi's compositions from the original DBZ.

* [[Hostile Show Takeover]]: During the [[On the Next]] segment after Ginyu uses his Body Change technique on Goku, he declares that ''he'' should be the star from now on and the show should be called "Ginyu Force Kai."

* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]: The first five minutes of the first episode reveals that {{spoiler|Goku is an alien, and that Freeza destroyed the planet Vegeta.}} Both of these are twists on the original series, and treated as such in Kai itself when they come up again.

* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Editing laws in Japan have gotten much stricter since [[Dragonball]]'s original run, some of the blood and nudity had to be cut out.

* [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya]]:

{{quote| '''Goku:''' "I'm a proud Saiyan who calls Earth home, and I'm here to defeat you. I am the warrior you've heard of in legends, pure of heart, and awakened by fury. That's what I am. '''I AM THE SUPER SAIYAN, SON GOKU!!!'''"}}

** Averted right in the opening with the line "Nothing ever dies, we will rise again"

* [[No Ending]]: ''Kai'' ends with episode 98, at the end of the Cell saga, with no indications that they'll continue on to the Buu arc. This, incidentally, makes a good deal of the ''Kai''-branded video games [[Covers Always Lie|irritatingly deceptive]].

* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: Freeza's [[Leitmotif]] contains Ominous Japanese Chanting.

** And during the moments before 2nd form Frieza guts Krillin, we actually hear this song in the American dub.