The re-airing of the Dragon Ball Z anime titled Dragon Ball Kai will be edited to more closely follow the original manga from Akira Toriyama. During the original run from April 1989 to January 1996 Toriyama was still serializing his manga at the same time in shorter weekly installments, resulting in somewhat extensive story arcs for the animation to stay on the same level as the manga. That's why Dragon Ball Kai remastering will be called "Akira Toriyama original cut edition" and should please fans of the original manga.

The studio was working hard to change the animation from the original tv format to a hi def 16:9 widescreen version as well as putting in remastered sound effects and music . The re-airing will launch in Japan on April 5.



During the upcoming Tokyo International Anime Fair on March 20 there will be a special event called "CoFesta Presents The World of Dragon Ball Strikes Back!". The original seiyu of the main characters Son Goku and Gohan, Masako Nozawa are said to attend the venue and witness the first presentation of the new opening theme song and its so far unannounced singer.

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