Toei Confirms Dragon Ball Kai is
Edited to Follow Manga
Toei Animation has confirmed that this spring’s Dragon Ball Kai re-airing of its Dragon Ball Z anime will be edited to more closely follow Akira Toriyama’s original manga. The Dragon Ball Z anime series originally ran from April 1989 to January 1996 in Japan. However, since Toriyama was still serializing his manga at the same time in shorter weekly installments, the Dragon Ball Z anime expanded its story by inserting additional content. The new Dragon Ball Kai remastering will be an “Akira Toriyama original cut edition” that will quicken the story presentation and adhere more with the manga’s story.
The anime footage will be enhanced with the latest digital technology. This includes a new full-HD remastering from the film reels of the original run, renewed soundtracks and sound effects, and new dialogue recordings with most of the original cast. The re-airing will launch in Japan on April 5.
There will be an on-stage event, “CoFesta Presents The World of Dragon Ball Strikes Back!” at the Tokyo International Anime Fair at the Tokyo Big Sight convention center on March 20. The guests will include the original voice of the main characters Son Goku and Gohan, Masako Nozawa. The event will also reveal the new opening theme song and its as-yet-unannounced singer.
James Wong and 20th Century Fox’s live-action film adaptation will open in Japan on March 13, and will then open in America on April 8. Viz Media published the original manga, while Funimation had commissioned a remastering of the Dragon Ball Z anime series for its recent DVD box set releases.
New Dragon Ball Anime Announced
As we had announced this awesome news last April here, now we have more updated news on what’s coming your way this summer at the JUMP Super Anime Tour 2008 in all 10 major cities of Japan!
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A new episode of the Dragon Ball fighting action story will screen with an original concept by manga creator Akira Toriyama.
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An early adventure of the main pirate character Luffy from Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece manga will be animated for the first time.
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Tite Kubo’s Bleach supernatural action manga goes with the first animated version of a “hilarious little side story.”
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Hiroyuki Asada’s Letter Bee (Tegami-Bachi) adventure manga about the young messenger Lag will get its first anime.
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The Blue Dragon fantasy anime portion will preview AT, a new enemy.
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Finally, the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s special will feature a high-speed duel of the main lead Yūsei on the story’s trademark motorcycle-like D-Wheel.
Another news:
Is being prepared for an unprecedented anime Dragon Ball and one Piece, in commemoration of the 40 years anniversary of the weekly magazine Shounen Jump. They will have exclusive special episodes on the Jump Super Anime Tour event, scheduled to be held in 10 regions of Japan in the last quarter of this year.
There are estimates of other titles such as Bleach, marking presence at the event, although it is unknown how to participate
ABOUT THE TV SPECIAL :
The story, set two years after the defeat of Majin Buu, puts Son Goku and his friends against a new, powerful enemy.
This special introduces four new characters: Abo (アボ?) and Kado (カド?), red and blue aliens wearing battle fatigues who later merge into a large, purple alien named Aka (アカ?), a Saiyan named Tarble (ターブル Tāburu?), the younger brother of Vegeta who had previously been sent away from Planet Vegeta, and his wife Gure (グレ?), a small yellow alien.
Tarble:
KADO:
ABO:
AKA:
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October 4, 2008 at 9:20 pm
I CAN’T BELIVE IT!! IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING!! I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS THE MOMENT I HEARD THEY STOPPED MAKING DBZ EPISODE!! GO DBZ!! DBZ FOR LIFE!!
October 12, 2008 at 2:50 am
ohhh awesome a new DBZ special!! that’s freaking awesome!
the good old anime is back!
October 25, 2008 at 2:58 am
0_o
……….i cant say anything
October 25, 2008 at 9:01 pm
because it rocks
October 30, 2008 at 4:01 am
it’s cool ,… ^_^
November 6, 2008 at 2:33 pm
i dont know about the show but it will be nice to see tarble there but the story will be more interesting if tarble already succeded ssj3 and goku and vegeta ssj5.COOL HUH!
November 6, 2008 at 7:59 pm
omg ive ben a fan of dbz since i was liek 3 years old and became a major fan at age 6 im now 16 and am astonished and unbeliveably happy akira NEVER STOP pleaseeee
November 23, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Thats Awesome !! i cant belive it.
: D
December 5, 2008 at 9:18 pm
I love Dragonball(z)(gt) and have seen the new special, it’s really good. But to be honest, I really think that another series would be wonderful, even just a manga copy. Because to be fair, it is what everyone wants, people trying to recreate stuff such as DBAF will just ruin the series because nothing could come close to what Akira has done. Another series would be amazing, I understand if it doesn’t happen but hey, I’ll always be on the edge of my seat wanting more Goku and friends – Amazing anime, amazing special – Amazing ordeals are sure to come, I hope so anyway.
December 7, 2008 at 12:01 am
Holy crap! I still can’t believe they’re bringing back dragon ball z! The animation, fighting, graphics and everything are so amazing! God I love it! I can’t wait till they finally start coming out with more episodes!
December 8, 2008 at 5:12 am
omg!tis is awesome!!!been waitin 4 tis forever!! i’ve been a diehard fan since i was a kid.. Love goku n the gang to death!!! thank u akira…! pls keep doin tis! we love dragon ball too much!! n now i know ters hope..yay!
))) WE WANT MORE!!!!!
December 13, 2008 at 1:09 am
I have been watching the dragonball series since before I could walk. When I was in grade 7, the series was done. I am 17 now and this is the best news I have heard in a long time. When the series ended, I felt like a part of me died. It was the only show that followed me as I grew up. It was like losing a brother or something. Enough of this foolishness though. Long live DragonballZ!
December 23, 2008 at 4:15 pm
I have watched dragonball z since i was borned and still im watiching it over and over and over, half this world is DBZ fans and almost everyone know what dbz is, so pls make a new dbz serie and i can promess that dbz will never die out !!! WE WANT A NEW SERIE, THE WORLD NEEDS A NEW SERIE !
December 27, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Vageta had a brova no way!!!!! they betta make tarble in dbgt if there is onatha one….anyway dbz 4 lyf naruto bleach die die die
January 5, 2009 at 10:10 pm
firstly dbz is da best thing 2 happen lyk eva !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i have seen the new special, it’s really good. But wud luv it very much if dey bring in a new series !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! until dat dey i will b waitin !
January 28, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Pleeasseee tell me this isn’t a joke.. I AM A VERY BIG FAN,, have watched all the Dragonball, Z and GT episodes.. and all the movies… im 17 now and untill this day I always hoped there would come more episodes!!
January 31, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Dragonball Z is dead, give it up. There comes a time where everything must end.
Ever since Dragonball GT ended the entire series has spawned nothing but movies with little relevance to the story. Basically, each and every movie after the series ended were made to “feed” the fans. Give it up people, the series was over a long time ago.
Dragonball GT was made without using the guide of a manga and that is the essential part of an Anime. Manga’s arn’t made AFTER an Anime, they are made BEFORE an Anime. Please try to understand and quit asking. Because of you fans, people spawned rip off versions of the once proud series. I’m sure you heard of the Dragonball movie Hollywood is releasing.
Quit it, just stop it. Be thankful they’re still making games and other crap that is all too repetitive. The series is done, it’s over.
Now to be a little more On-topic, the new OVA is shit. It sucks because “Tarble” who is Vegeta’s brother has no reference in ANY OTHER EPISODE/SERIES OR MOVIE. I honestly yelled at the screen for a good 5 minutes. I mean honestly who the hell is this Tarble guy? I quickly assumed he would die at the end of the show but no, he didn’t! I can only hope they’ll make another video of him dying. If not, this OVA should not even exist. It’s insane.
Just drop it.
February 2, 2009 at 4:02 am
dude there has already been a prequel ( what happened b4 dbz, like dragonball and all those movies ) and a sequel (dbgt and the son jr goku stuff etc) plus the new movie he made…
dusnt seem like the writer dude can think of anything more lol
February 27, 2009 at 1:40 am
Awesome!!
March 20, 2009 at 10:32 pm
sweeet
while your addit make a move of the 3 lost years 
lots of people want to know how some things happend:P
April 13, 2009 at 1:18 am
tears in my eyes i love dragonball Z.
pls make more new episodes and movies the owners will be more richer there are alot of dbz fans. i will buy all the new episodes dont care how much it costs.
DBZ 4 life!
April 18, 2009 at 7:33 pm
omg god has answered my prayer thank you guys so much for bringing it back!!!!
April 25, 2009 at 10:37 pm
DBZ 4ever!!! ever since the series ended i have been on my computer everyday hoping something will come up. And over 5 years later i found this! I started watching at 3 yrs old. now im 15 and i am tearing up as i write this… PLEASE MAKE ANOTEHR SERIES!!!!!!!!!