Nicktoons TV Adds Dragon Ball Z Kai in May

Nicktoons TV Adds Dragon Ball Z Kai in May

U.S.'s Nicktoons will be showing episodes of Dragon Ball Z Kai in May.

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By luffycapri - Mar 11, 2010 11:03 AM EST
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America's Nicktoons television channel has announced that it will run the Dragon Ball Z Kai action anime series
starting in May 2010. Nicktoons, a spinoff of Nickelodeon, will also launch Voltron Panthera Force from World Events Productions, Ltd. in conjunction with Kick Start Productions. (The channel did not specify if Voltron Panthera Force is Japanese-animated or not.) Nickelodeon made the announcements in the press summary sheet for its 2010 Upfront Presentation for advertisers on Thursday morning in New York City.

The Dragon Ball Kai television series condenses the 1989-1996 Dragon Ball Z anime series to more closely follow Akira Toriyama's original Dragon Ball manga. In addition to a digital high-definition remastering and a re-recorded soundtrack, Dragon Ball Kai also enhances selected scenes with new effects or re-animated footage. The series premiered under the name Dragon Ball Kai in Japan last April, and it has consistently ranked among the top 10 anime in viewer ratings every week since.

Funimation had licensed the series for North America, and it plans to ship the first part of the series on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on May 18. The distributor already licensed both the Dragon Ball Z television series and the earlier Dragon Ball television series for North America. Funimation reassembled most of its original Dragon Ball Z cast for the English dubbing of Dragon Ball Z Kai, except for four new cast members. Viz Media publishes the original manga in North America.

Nickelodeon has run a number of anime titles in the past, although neither Nicktoons nor Nickelodeon has a Japanese animated program in the current season.

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GoGoGadgetsBruh
GoGoGadgetsBruh - 3/11/2010, 11:24 AM
DBZ was awesome!
GT pretty much sucked :/
StuckInPanels
StuckInPanels - 3/11/2010, 11:36 AM
O.O WOW!!!! thats a complete surprise to me. I thought another channel would pick them up. thats awesome. Good to see nicktoons growing a pair and starting to show they can branch out with other, better companies and not rely on our neighbors to the north all the time
ThisFan
ThisFan - 3/11/2010, 11:48 AM
i cant wait but the ad shows nothing like at all
Spock
Spock - 3/11/2010, 12:38 PM
GT didn't suck, I would love to revisit this again.
tazmaniak
tazmaniak - 3/11/2010, 1:17 PM
Spock, my friend, you are part of a very small minority.
Spock
Spock - 3/11/2010, 3:47 PM
@ Kenny I know, I just wished it continued. Anime is great@!
gorgeousgeeks
gorgeousgeeks - 3/11/2010, 4:35 PM
@Spock, sorry to say but that was "highly illogical." GT was such a disappointment. I hated Pan, I hated Trunks' stupid shorts and gay scarf, how Vegeta took a back seat, that Goku got turned into a little kid, and the lame space episodes.

Of course there were some good things to take away from it, like Chi-Chi slapping the crap out of Goten and Vegeta's mustache was the hardest I ever laughed in life. Ever.

And what the heck I'm am I supposed to do with my uncut Dragonball Z DVDs? How different is Kai anyway? Did they make anything new or is it just less pauses and interruptions from characters watching and thinking from afar during a major battle?
Spock
Spock - 3/11/2010, 5:29 PM
@ GG, well your opinion counts, but I disagree!
Talontd
Talontd - 3/11/2010, 5:51 PM
@Gorgeous

I've only seen a few eps, i I REALLY liked it! 85% of the filler nonsense has been cut out and some of the fight animation has changed a bit.

It really is what DRAGONBALL Z should always have been!

@Spock

I didn't HATE GT either. It certainly wasn't as good as Z, but I didn't think it was terrible.
gorgeousgeeks
gorgeousgeeks - 3/11/2010, 11:06 PM
@Spock. I had to throw the "highly illogical" thing out there because you're Spock. I didn't mean any disrespect.

I also didn't hate GT, though I did despise Pan and it was such a disappointment how Trunks turned out because Future Trunks was so cool. I think GT would have been much more interesting if Goten went instead of Pan and Vegeta is such a great character as far as anime goes period. He should have been included way more.

But I do prefer watching DBZ way more than GT and probably DB, because it was hilarious.

But I will never forget Vegeta's mustache. Epically funny.
luffycapri
luffycapri - 3/12/2010, 12:40 AM
don't like what they did with gohan at all.
gorgeousgeeks
gorgeousgeeks - 3/12/2010, 12:15 PM
Future Gohan who trained Trunks was awesome. Normal Gohan grew up to be a lame waste of time.
luffycapri
luffycapri - 3/13/2010, 11:22 AM
true but by the end of DBZ gohan was way more poer full than goku and and stronger than him to. in gt hes weak as hell.
superbatspiderman
superbatspiderman - 3/22/2010, 4:45 PM
I love dragonball z but is this going to be the same thing or is it going to be a nickelodoen version like wolverine and the xmen or Ironman
agentc00k
agentc00k - 3/23/2010, 2:45 AM
I'm sorry for all you DBGT fans out there, but IMO, DBGT was an epic fail. The story made absolutely no sense(when it comes in accordance to DBZ's story). Most of the main characters were ruined(both by most of their characteristics and by their horribly flawed power levels[yes....its over 9000..>.<]). And most of all, I really hate Pan...with a passion.lol. And another thing, almost all of GT's story elements(such as the black star dragonballs and the shadow dragons) shouldnt even exist. Again, I'm sorry for you GT fans out there, but GT was effin' terrible.
wallcrwlr
wallcrwlr - 3/25/2010, 12:34 PM
eh GT could of been alot better with a different story line but i did like the end gt with goku jr fighting vegeta jr
wallcrwlr
wallcrwlr - 3/25/2010, 12:34 PM
cant wait for this show
odie00
odie00 - 5/27/2010, 12:10 AM
hmm if i remember correctly when dbz was first released in america the voices were different cause they had canadians doing the voices from canada and then later on like during the freiza saga they changed again and stuck with those ones all the way through. so idk if kai actually completely changed some of the voices or if people are just confused by the original ones. but doesnt matter i have all the dbz seasons on dvd so dont care about watching it on Nick. and yeah all you dbgt fans obviously you like crap and didnt care that they ruined a lot of things in that series. everyone was pretty much weak except goku and i hated pan in that so much.
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