Obviously this is a review for Kai 2014/Buu Saga/Season 2, or however you want to call it, but for simplicity I'm going to refer to Frieza and Cell as Season 1 of Kai and this, the Buu Saga, as Season 2 of Kai.
#DRAGON BALL Z KAI THE FINAL CHAPTERS SERIES#
Normally I'd just write one review for a series that has multiple seasons but sometimes the quality of a season can be slightly or even notably different whether thats for the better or for worse, and unfortunately this is the latter. If you want to watch it instead of reading this then check it out hereĪfter finally finishing the first season of Kai I of course had to watch its second season which retells the Buu Saga. It's simply not worth it in any form.ĮDIT: I recently made a video review of DBZ Kai 2 on my Youtube channel which is heavily based off this review with the script being nearly identical. All in all, I think everyone would've been better off had this not been made the way it was.
Most of them were not removed for this release anyway. In the end, this is a negligible version of the series and you are better off watching it either with Kikuchi or Faulconer and skipping the filler scenes in Z. If you liked Kikuchi or Faulconer's scores, you could simply save money by buying the Blu-ray remasters and skipping filler content to save some money. The Funimation dub is VERY similar to the original dub they did for Z, as by the time they reached the Majin Boo arc originally they had gotten more accurate in their translations. While the audio for the characters was re-recorded and a new score composed by Norihito Sumitomo (who scored Battle of Gods, Resurrection 'F', and now Super) was done, this version of the show isn't something you truly need to watch. So now the two biggest points of a Kai version for the Boo arc are gone: less filler removal and a remaster that hurts the eyes and dishonors the vision originally intended by the people who worked on the original version of the show. The quality has a HUGE drop with a crop to 16:9, haloing, poor framing in certain scenes, bad DNR that removes detail, and for reasons unknown to this day a green tint over the video excluding the OP, ED, and eyecatches. Whereas Toei paid QTEC to remaster the footage for the first 98 episodes of DBZ Kai, this version's remastering was done internally at Toei. The remastering process was gimped as well.
This arc could've had much much much more filler removed than it did. The first Kai took episodes 001 to 194 of Z and turned it into 98 episodes. Here, the arc begins at episode 99 and goes to 167-69 episodes total (international version, not Japan version that aired on Fuji TV). For reference, the Majin Boo arc for DBZ began at episode 200 and lasted to 291-91 episodes total. Right off that bat, the biggest point of a Kai version for the Boo arc is mostly gone. If I remember correctly, Kanzenshuu said that the international cut only removed 25% of the filler from the series while the cut that actually did air in Japan removed only 33% (it got 9 less episodes than the rest of the world did). The filler removal is less than I would have hoped for.
But since this was never planned to air in Japan and the first Kai got low ratings, Toei half-assed this as much as they possiblyĬould. Investors wanted it for the overseas audience, thus they went ahead with it after all. While it's better than the Z version for the filler that was removed, Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters is a poor sequel to the original Dragon Ball Z Kai that we received a few years ago.Īfter the end of DBZ Kai with its lower than expected ratings, Toei did not plan to make a Kai for the Majin Boo arc of the series.
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