Dragon Ball Z Kai: Season One [Blu-ray]

Dragon Ball Z Kai: Season One [Re-Release]
Here we go again! Another Season One Release for Dragon Ball Z Kai. Why you ask? Simply because Funimation, American Distributor, messed up the first release of this season. In March 2011 a scandal broke out regrading the Original Musical Score for the Show composed by Kenji Yamamoto. Shortly after Kenji's score for the show was completely removed and replaced with the Original Dragon Ball Z score by Shunsuke Kikuchi. With this issue the original release date for Dragon Ball Z Kai Part 5 was pushed back. When it was released the set contained the replaced score.
As expected Funimation dished out the "Season Sets" for the show, most likely to replace the "Parts sets", with the release of "Dragon Ball Z Kai Season One" back in October last year. Season one was was released to replace Dragon Ball Z Kai Parts 1 & 2, but with the Shunsuke Kikuchi musical score. However shortly after it's release many who bought the product found that the set did not contain the Shunsuke Kikuchi, but...
Dragon Ball Z Kai: Season One: 2011 Release [Blu-Ray]
This review refers to the original 2011 edition.

Funimation has been throwing around Dragon Ball Z releases for years from Volume sets to those hopefully forgotten Orange bricks sets. So what makes this new release any different from the rest?

Well this isn't the original Dragon Ball Z TV Show but a "Refreshed" edition of the show. Dragon Ball Z Kai takes to the vision of the Manga. Kai brilliantly removes all the filler from the original TV Show allowing a more faster and action packed story. For example the Garlic Jr Arc has been removed as it was not presented in the manga in a 4:3 aspect ratio. Not only that but the show is presented in a Full HD 1080p resolution with a complete dirt clean up giving it a whole new viewing experience. The show runs for a total of 98 episodes finishing off at the end of the Cell Games.

One of the main attractions to the English version of this show is it's Dub. The English Dub keeps strict to the Japanese Dialogue...
No Fillers but doesn't mesh completely well.
The biggest turn on about the new Dragonball Z Kai is simple, they eliminate all the filler that took place in what we regarded as Seasons 1 and 2, from Raditz touch down to the crew's adventure on Namek.
However not everything blends completely well and it becomes noticeable at times, such as why Chichi is seen fainted is never explained (but if you've seen the original series you know), Gohan's training and why the T-rex is missing most of his tail when the previous episode it was all intact, and all of the back story of Planet Vegeta that was explained by King Kai.
The worst editing was Zarbon and Vegeta's battle being very heavily edited, but it ended still rather well.

There's a new music track which only exists entirely in Season 1 and tends to not fit very well in terms of what's going on in the animation.

English and Japanese voice overs were completely redone to fit the series better, and the English version still does it's job of over dubbing...
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