Dragon Ball Kai

[Yoon]

Not sure if everyone's heard about this, but Toei Animation in Japan will be re-airing the Dragon Ball Z series starting in April, this time in HD format and marketing it as "Dragon Ball Kai". The HD remastering is likely to be similar to what Funimation has done with DBZ: Remastered editions.

Toei will also be doing significant cuts and edits to make the series very close to the manga, meaning that most of the filler stuff that was TV exclusive will be removed. I think this would be great, since it will make battles span across much fewer episodes and will make it a bit more faster-paced. A lot of the filler stuff material was unnecessary and boring anyhow.

They will also re-dub some parts using the original DBZ Japanese voice actors. More info on Dragon Ball Kai here:

Toei Confirms Dragon Ball Kai is Edited to Follow Manga

[Slayer]

sounds good i dont mind the long battles its when they stand there talking for 5 minutes when it gets boring

[Hadvi]

nice, thats cool. I hated the long talks between battles. Action pls XD.

[Yoon]

nice, thats cool. I hated the long talks between battles. Action pls XD.

Especially during the Freeza saga. That saga had so many useless TV-only subplots (like Bulma meets Ginyuu, retrospecting, fake Namek, etc.) that really didn't add to the main plot. Without the subplots, it could have been easily ~50 episodes shorter and keeping the focus on the main plot and battles.

[Slayer]

hmm i dont think i saw the subplots. i remember missing radizts though since we didnt get sky for a while and when i found it it was on the fight of gohan turning into a monkey against vegeta *wasent till alot later that they showed it again* i know how they could of stopped the 5 minute talking till actual action. put a load of glue in each of there mouths

[Tarquin]

The Frieze final fight was a big let down in the main series. It actually got boring in the end with them dragging it out for all it's worth. I am really looking forward to this!

[Slayer]

hmm does that mean the movies will be included in the series too?

[ascot]

ion think so... i guess movies are remade separately (like movie 1 was)

[Slayer]

i saw the first episode on youtube today and it looks really good

[ascot]

I've seen all 4 that were released till now and I must say it brings back memories :3
But OP and ED songs are awful X.x"

[Slayer]

what i like is how short the ratiz series was unlike the older one which was like 6 episodes long?