Dragon Ball Z Kai
Release Date:
Apr 5, 2009
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In February 2009, Toei Animation announced that it would begin rebroadcasting Dragon Ball Z as part of the series' 20th anniversary celebrations. The series premiered on April 5, 2009, under the name Dragon Ball Kai (ドラゴンボール改(カイ) Doragon Bōru Kai?, lit. "Dragon Ball Revised"), with the episodes remastered for HDTV, featuring updated opening and ending sequences, and a rerecording of the vocal tracks by most of the original cast. The footage was also re-edited to more closely follow the manga, resulting in a faster moving story, and damaged frames removed. As such, it is a "new" series created from the original Dragon Ball Z footage. Like all other Dragon Ball-based anime, Funimation Entertainment licensed Dragon Ball Kai for an English-language release in North America, premiering on Nicktoons Network on May 24, 2010, under the title Dragon Ball Z Kai. In addition to Nicktoons, Dragon Ball Z Kai also began airing on The CW's Toonzai programming block on August 14, 2010. Both the Nicktoons and Toonzai airings are edited for content, though the Toonzai version is edited even more so than Nicktoons, possibly due to The CW being a broadcast channel.
