Prepare yourself as a “new age of kai” is coming. That’s right, a new series of Dragon Ball Z Kai has been announced. This new series was announced in the April issue of V Jump, where the new anime series of Kai will be airing this Spring, on April 6th. This new series will feature the fourth major Saga in Akira Toriyama’s manga, the Majin Buu saga. The series will also cover the final two arcs of manga: the Fusion Saga and the Kid Buu Saga.
There were initial reports of the Majin Buu saga being animated, with Australian anime distributor Madman Entertainment commenting that “DBZ Kai buu Saga should be released sometime. We’re just waiting on dubs etc to be finished.” Additionally, voice actors Sean Schemmel and Kyle Herbert, the voices of Goku and Gohan respectively, have commented that they were recording for the Buu saga in April last year.
Dragon Ball Z Kai anime is a revision of the original anime series that aired from 2009 till 2011. It condensed the original series’ 291 episodes into 98 episodes. The series was produced for the 20th anniversary of the manga, and all in HD. It stopped at the conclusion of the Cell Saga.
Dragon Ball is an acclaimed manga created by Akira Toriyama that was first published in 1984. The first anime adaptation of the manga, Dragon Ball, first aired in 1986 and was produced by Toei Animation. The series ended in 1989, in which the second half of the manga was then adapted with a new name: Dragon Ball Z. The anime and manga series were insanely popular in Japan, with the manga itself selling over 156 million copies to date, being the second highest selling manga of all time. The anime was soon picked up by Funimation Entertainment in 1995 to distribute in North America, where they made their own dub for the anime. Since then, a slew of merchandise, films, manga, games and card games, began releasing worldwide to capitalise on the franchise’s popularity till this day, over 30 years since the manga was first published
The new Dragon Ball Z Kai anime will be airing on April 6th, at 9:00 a.m. on Fuji TV.
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