Dragon Ball Z Kai differences

[MOONPHASE]

Originally Posted by The Dark Uniter

Dragon Ball Z Kai doesn't have any Faulconer music, the Faulconer score is a replacement score used in the Funimation Dragon Ball Z dub. If you want Bruce Faulconer, get the Level sets on Blu-ray.

Faulconer's music only applies to the Frieza saga till the last episode of the original DBZ. When Funimation re-dubbed the 1st 2 seasons, they featured new music by different people.

[TheAnimeLegend]

Can someone tell me if the DBZ Kai sets have English music on them as well as Japanese? I am just wondering that is all...

[FromTheInside]

Originally Posted by RachaelLane1984

Can someone tell me if the DBZ Kai sets have English music on them as well as Japanese? I am just wondering that is all...

They only have one music track, its the Japanese. The old Kai sets had Yamamoto, the re-released Season sets have Kikuchi.

[TheAnimeLegend]

Originally Posted by FromTheInside

They only have one music track, its the Japanese. The old Kai sets had Yamamoto, the re-released Season sets have Kikuchi.

Thank you.

[heatison10]

I appologize if this question was already made. I saw a comment that Kai in remastered in HD 16:9 but the screen shots on the sit,e seem to be in 4:3. I was just wondering which it is. Im considering getting the whole Kai set if indeed its 16:9.

[FromTheInside]

Originally Posted by heatison10

I appologize if this question was already made. I saw a comment that Kai in remastered in HD 16:9 but the screen shots on the sit,e seem to be in 4:3. I was just wondering which it is. Im considering getting the whole Kai set if indeed its 16:9.

KAI is in HD, but it is OAR, 4:3

[ps3bd_owner]

It's in HD but it could've looked a lot better.

[TheAnimeLegend]

Originally Posted by FromTheInside

They only have one music track, its the Japanese. The old Kai sets had Yamamoto, the re-released Season sets have Kikuchi.

Is the Kikuchi score better than Yamamoto? I haven't seen all the episodes to DBZ Kai yet so I am not as familar with the original BGM as everyone else might be who watched it since it aired.

[Krycek7o2]

Originally Posted by ShamelessFanGirl

Is the Kikuchi score better than Yamamoto? I haven't seen all the episodes to DBZ Kai yet so I am not as familar with the original BGM as everyone else might be who watched it since it aired.

Did you watch the original DBZ in Japanese? If so, that's the music you'll be hearing with the replacement score. The bad thing with the replacement score was that the person who did the replacing overused a particular track.

[supersix4]

Originally Posted by ps3bd_owner

So you're happy buying 18 Blu-rays... Okay.

Yep! I'd buy more if they wanted to try and increase quality even more.

Originally Posted by ps3bd_owner

I sent an email to FUNimation about Dragon Ball Z Kai: Season One containing Kenji Yamamoto's DBK BGM instead of Shunsuke Kikuchi's DBZ BGM.

If FUNimation were to use Kenji Yamamoto's DBK BGM all along they wouldn't just used the replacement DBZ BGM on the Parts 5 & 6.

But then again, I read on Amazon that the Season One set does have S. Kikuchi's DBZ BGM, so there may very well be a mix of both (two versions of Season One each with different BGM's - e.g v1 - Yamamoto / v2 - Kikuchi).

Oh FUNimation, you never cease to amaze me.

I'd laugh if I was being paid to read their emails

[TheAnimeLegend]

Originally Posted by Krycek7o2

Did you watch the original DBZ in Japanese? If so, that's the music you'll be hearing with the replacement score. The bad thing with the replacement score was that the person who did the replacing overused a particular track.

Actually, yes. I haven't seen all of the original DBZ in japanese but I have watched parts of some and thought the music was pretty good. Thank you for the info Btw, I am curious, what track have they overused?

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by supersix4

watching on cartoon network which is where allot of people here in the states started watching the show

How young are you people? I first saw DBZ on WPIX (channel 11 in NY) way before there even was a Cartoon Network on cable. Same thing with the original DB, also on channel 11. By the time there was a Cartoon Network, the show had already been shown in the USA so they were all reruns for me.

[tommyboy81]

Originally Posted by Scarface32

How young are you people? I first saw DBZ on WPIX (channel 11 in NY) way before there even was a Cartoon Network on cable. Same thing with the original DB, also on channel 11. By the time there was a Cartoon Network, the show had already been shown in the USA so they were all reruns for me.

I'm 31 and started watching it in 99 or 00 on the Cartoon Network (Toonami). Last year of High School. I know the Cell Series was in 01.

NY I believe had and still has more stations than down here in Georgia.

[ultlife2013]

They're releasing the orange boxes on blu ray right? I saw 2 blu rays at best buy today with 16 episodes each I think.

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by tommyboy81

I'm 31 and started watching it in 99 or 00 on the Cartoon Network (Toonami). Last year of High School. I know the Cell Series was in 01.

NY I believe had and still has more stations than down here in Georgia.

I'm 31 as well, started watching the series in 1996 on WPIX. Before that (around 1991/1992) I watched the original DB. I watched an episode right before school, they aired around 6 or 7am.

By the time the Cell saga aired, I was watching it on Cartoon Network. Cell and Buu were the only parts I saw for the first time on CN, everything before that I saw on WPIX.


In the late 1980s and early 1990s I also watched Voltron, Tundercats, Astroboy, Merrie Melodies, Loony Toons, Inspector Gadget, Heathcliff, Garfield, Fat Albert, etc. I miss those days!

[Scarface32]

One thing I don't like about Kai is when Piccolo trains Gohan, they jump from Gohan having a tail to Gohan not having a tail. The few seconds when Piccolo pulls his tail out and then Gohan wakes up and notices it missing, were removed. So you're wondering "how come Gohan doesn't notice his tail is missing"

[TheAnimeLegend]

Originally Posted by Scarface32

One thing I don't like about Kai is when Piccolo trains Gohan, they jump from Gohan having a tail to Gohan not having a tail. The few seconds when Piccolo pulls his tail out and then Gohan wakes up and notices it missing, were removed. So you're wondering "how come Gohan doesn't notice his tail is missing"

Well according to the manga, that is what happened. There was some in between scenes from the time that Piccolo removed the tail to where we Gohan again but it is pretty much the same..

The only issue that I have with the show is in the edited version they made Popo blue. Why make that change? It was unnecessary to do this.

[I-C-Blue]

We finished Season 6 orange brick finally and I've been freshly comparing them between Z and Z Kai. While there are many well re-written lines with condensed fight scenes, I am a little disappointed with some conversations such as when

[Show spoiler] Future Trunks talking about Vegeto to Bulma in the future. She was more invested to know how Vegeta was to Trunks where as in Kai, it's like "Wow Vegeta's was nice?! Well that's cool. O well *sets tea*".

Still can't wait to get Kai though. Now we're enjoying the beginning of Season 7. So wide awake, I'm curious and a little worried how Kai will trim these Gohan in highschool episodes.

[Agent Bond]

Kikuchi > Yamamoto

[TheAnimeLegend]

I bought the Season Sets last year and though the Kikuchi score is not bad and I don't have a major problem with it, it is just after watching two seasons of the same music playing over and over again it has gotten very repeative and a bit boring. I am thinking of selling my season sets and buying the parts with Kenji Yamamoto's music. Can anyone tell me if at this point it be worth the switch or should I just stick with my Season sets?

*UPDATE*

I sold the Dragon Ball Z Kai Season sets at Fye and only got $18 for them which I am disappointed about though I wouldn't have gotten much store credit for them either. They told me that they would give me $22 in store credit so I just took the cash. Now I am planning to go back and buy Dragon Ball Z Kai Parts 5-8 on Amazon and then afterwards picking up the rest of them that have the Yamamoto score.