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Dragon Ball Kai Official Thread

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wth kag >:| You said you liked that other DBZ version. I knew youd come to your senses :)

SSJ 2 Gohan next. Wonder if they will use a song insert like they did in the original.
 
wtf @ wanting this to end without the Buu saga

I want to hear what kind of silly music they can come up with for Gotenks, after the amazing Ginyu force theme.
 
Takao said:
No he didn't. He came up with the character designs, and in one of the guide books he states how he's excited to see how the story unfolds because for the first time he'd be able to sit back and watch it as a viewer, and not the creator. Later on during the Dragon Box GT release, a note he wrote actually says how interesting the concepts in the show were, and that he would have never thought of them.

You can read a transcript of that letter here.
hmmmm i see see.

plus yeah, buu saga FOR THE FUCKING WIN. i find it weird that everyone hates cell and buu's saga. those were fucking dope.
 
If they don't air the Buu Arc, they will be effectively be ignoring the final chapter of the Manga. Not a smart move considering its supposed to be faithful to the "Z" arcs of the Dragon Ball manga.
 
It was supposed to end with Frieza, goku dying a warriors death and saving the universe. Editors said no.

It was supposed to end with Cell, Goku passing the torch to his son, living a peaceful afterlife.
Editors said no.

And then there was the Buu Saga, were things just went crazy.
 
Lirlond said:
It was supposed to end with Frieza, goku dying a warriors death and saving the universe. Editors said no.

It was supposed to end with Cell, Goku passing the torch to his son, living a peaceful afterlife.
Editors said no.

And then there was the Buu Saga, were things just went crazy.

Yeah, I never did finish the Buu Saga. I liked the beginning with the World Tournament stuff, but once Buu himself was introduced and it just kept going on and on and on and on, I just lost interest.
 
Orin GA said:

Fail.

Unmei no Hi truly is a perfect song for that moment. That moment really was many, many years in the making for the character and it was handled perfectly. No stupid inner monologue like in the English version either. We can see perfectly fine why he snapped with the visuals alone. Even the original narrator's lines were handled better.
 
Orin GA said:
Yeah, the lines are terrible, but I was just championing the music not the dialog :p
Yeah that monologue was freakin stupid...
Thinking about it the only bad part about ending the show after the Cell saga is that we don't get the awesome redeeming speech that Vegeta gives when Goku is fighting against Buu.
 
As much as I'd like for Kai to end with Cell, my buddies wanted to watch the Buu saga yesterday, so I popped the DVDs in. Good god, that arc would benefit greatly with Kai. The pacing is fucking atrocious.
 
Anth0ny said:
As much as I'd like for Kai to end with Cell, my buddies wanted to watch the Buu saga yesterday, so I popped the DVDs in. Good god, that arc would benefit greatly with Kai. The pacing is fucking atrocious.

The catch is: Most of that isn't filler. Hehehehehehehe
 
Takao said:
The catch is: Most of that isn't filler. Hehehehehehehe

They could still significantly pare some of the more ridiculously paced scenes and save a reasonable amount of time. Maybe that arc will become watchable!
fat chance

Stripping out most of that Saiyaman stuff would be a good start.
 
jman2050 said:
They could still significantly pare some of the more ridiculously paced scenes and save a reasonable amount of time. Maybe that arc will become watchable!
fat chance

Stripping out most of that Saiyaman stuff would be a good start.
Would that make Gohan not a bitch for the rest of the saga?

And a person who likes the children in the buu saga. I guess a fan of everything exists.
 
Celsior said:
Would that make Gohan not a bitch for the rest of the saga?

Unfortunately since Gohan wasting his newfound ultimate power and performing the most epic of epic fails in one of the most integral moments of the conflict is one of the main driving forces of the plot at that time, no.

And a person who likes the children in the buu saga. I guess a fan of everything exists.

Goten and Trunks are mind-numbingly terrible. Gotenks is so stupidly ridiculous and bad that it's actually hilarious, thus he owns.
 
I hope they do the Buu saga. I gave up somewhere in that saga when it was first airing and I'd like to see it in full. I always liked the Gotenks failed forms. And the Buu stuff up on Kami's tower was cool. Well, at least it was when I first saw it. Who knows what I would think now that I'm older.

Choppasmith said:
Oh come now, I'm not saying she's better than Mayumi Tanaka, but she's far from "ruined" the character ESPECIALLY compared to the 4Kids voice.

I know this is ridiculously late but I haven't seen the thread pop up in awhile. I personally find her voice to be much closer to 4Kids than the Tanaka version. Why they went with a raspy voice over a fun voice eludes me and it still hurts. I've warmed up some but I don't think I'll ever like it.
 
Celsior said:
Would that make Gohan not a bitch for the rest of the saga?

And a person who likes the children in the buu saga. I guess a fan of everything exists.


I'll one up that and say that the Buu saga is my favorite saga from the series. Moreso as it was the saga in which I first bought the tankouban in back in the mid/late 90s.
 
Celsior said:
Would that make Gohan not a bitch for the rest of the saga?

And a person who likes the children in the buu saga. I guess a fan of everything exists.
Well I'm only basing this on the manga. I don't know what shenanigans they added in the anime.
 
The Buu saga has some of the most epic moments in the series for me. Sadly though, they are surrounded by the some of the most terrible.

Am I the only one who never found Gohan's SSJ2 transformation (or Goku's SSJ1) that amazing? They just didn't carry any oomph. I enjoyed Vegeta's first transformation that much more. And I don't think I would've cared about Gohan's SSJ2 transformation if the fight wasn't eventually capped with that awesome kamehameha against Cell.
 
Choppasmith said:
Oh come now, I'm not saying she's better than Mayumi Tanaka, but she's far from "ruined" the character ESPECIALLY compared to the 4Kids voice.

Honestly, there are times where I've found her better than Mayumi, and this is coming from someone who listened to the Japenese first. I like both interpretations and I really don't think it's fair to say one of the actresses ruined the character just because it isn't your cup of tea.

Just saying. Nobody's forcing you to listen to the dub, because the Japanese track is right on the discs too, VGChampion. But this has nothing to do with Dragon Ball, so....

For anyone that follows the dub, Nicktoons has leaked a bunch of stuff from future episodes.

Episode 57 Preview (Goku and Trunks Meet)
Vegeta's Pink Shirt

There's several more uploaded by the same person so if you're a bit curious how these will be handled in English, check it out.
 
So I was bored and with the new SSJ2 Gohan scene coming up, I decided to browse some videos and I stumbled upon "Chi-Chi, Bulma, Videl and Dabura searching for Gohan in heaven" WTF is this filler shit? :lol While it was hilariously bad now, I can't imagine having to watch it while actually watching the series
 
Deadly said:
So I was bored and with the new SSJ2 Gohan scene coming up, I decided to browse some videos and I stumbled upon "Chi-Chi, Bulma, Videl and Dabura searching for Gohan in heaven" WTF is this filler shit? :lol While it was hilariously bad now, I can't imagine having to watch it while actually watching the series
I don't even remember most of the filler, other than Goku searching for some mother dinosaur's eggs...or something? I dunno. There was some crazy, stupid crap in there. The rest of the filler I must've blanked out on, because I don't remember much.
 
Relix said:
SSJ2 scene was a bit weak. Meh =/. Music wasn't that good at all.

It seemed pretty epic to me. Really fitting of him being really really pissed off rather then the more mellow tone of the original.
 
Amazon has a bunch of the Blu-Ray sets on sale:

Part One - $23.99
Part Two - $23.99
Part Three - $24.99

I'm Canadian so I can't buy them (like I'd watch Kai anyways), but good deal for you Americans. I guess I should also mention that it appears Funimation dropped the MSRP of the upcomming sets.
 
Takao said:
Amazon has a bunch of the Blu-Ray sets on sale:

Part One - $23.99
Part Two - $23.99
Part Three - $24.99

I'm Canadian so I can't buy them (like I'd watch Kai anyways), but good deal for you Americans. I guess I should also mention that it appears Funimation dropped the MSRP of the upcomming sets.

Why can't you buy them? Amazon.com ships DVD's and Blu's to Canada.
 
Anth0ny said:
shipping costs and customs fees end up equaling what we pay on amazon.ca most of the time lol.

I imagine this is true, but to be honest, I wasn't aware Amazon.com shipped things this way until now...
 
True, but that's what gamesforcanada.com is for.

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=179597

The total cost to have those three seasons shipped to Canada through him, including shipping and his fees, would be $84.00. (About $8 shipping and $5 in fees)

They didn't use to charge the import fees, which made it a lot easier, since then though I've used the above services and buy 90% of my games/movies from Amazon.com.
 
Kintaro said:
*watches the scene*

Oh...boy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMo0Ct_5kyQ <--- Kai's version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CncprLa_E-c <--- Original scene.

No way. Kai's version is way better. For one, the music actually fits the mood of the scene and makes the scene feel much more intense.

In either case, this is my first time seeing the original dub. Gotta say, it's much better than the old English dub. Much more suspenseful when Gohan's not spelling out his (cheesy) thoughts for us.
16... You loved life... You gave everything to protect it.

IT'S SLIPPING.​
Okay.

Last episode was one of the worst episodes in terms of artist consistency, imo. It's like they couldn't decide on how big his hair should be, so in one scene it would be huge all over, and another scene it'll be short in the back and small in the front. Not that DBZ has ever been "pretty", but this is the ugliest by far.

... Or maybe it was me paying more attention to them now since this is my favorite part of the entire series.
 
Haven't read the whole thing but allow me to add my unneeded $0.02

I just don't like how when they do the director comments they act as if the show was something they've created. I can appreciate the work they put in but, c'mon give more credit to the original creators.

That being said I do enjoy how much fluff the cut out of the series to just get to goddamn point.

Any ideas if they are going to do the whole dbz saga or are they planning to cut it after king cold?
 
Lando Jones said:
Any ideas if they are going to do the whole dbz saga or are they planning to cut it after king cold?

Well, we're in the cell saga now, Gohans just went Super Saiyan 2, soooo that sort of answers that. Not sure if they're doing the Buu Saga though
 
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