
As covered above, DBZ's airing of the Buu Saga added 92 episodes, not counting the initial five-episode filler Other World Tournament Saga, which Kai completely bypassed.

For The Final Chapters, this only applies to the recap of the original Kai arcs, as The Final Chapters opted to not use redrawn shots.
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To a lesser degree, the redrawn shots in the original Kai series are plainly digital, having far more vibrant colors than the original footage whilst also lacking the grain, frame drift and quality of background and line art compared to the original footage they're spliced into.The opening to The Final Chapters, particularly for backgrounds that the camera flies through.Kai contains series-exclusive examples of the following tropes: It formally concluded its run on June 23, 2018. The Final Chapters began airing on January 7, 2017, running alongside Funimation's dub of Dragon Ball Super. The uncut version of the English dub would be aired via Toonami on Adult Swim in November of 2014, followed by reruns on proper beginning in February 2015.

Unlike previous dubs of DBZ, the English dub of Kai comes considerably closer to the Japanese version lacking the character rewrites, replacement scores note though the entire Japanese score ended up replaced around the world with recycled music tracks from DBZ when the composer was found to have infringed upon other artists' work, and major dialogue changes note Save though a few Never Say "Die" moments in the Nicktoons and CW broadcasts that their dubs of DBZ had. note The Japanese version was created after the version for international distribution was already complete with a Japanese track for the eventual DVD release, so two Japanese versions of this arc exist.Ĭhristopher Sabat directed the English dub of the series. While the international version (subtitled The Final Chapters) has 69 episodes (down from 92, for a 25% reduction in length), the Japanese version was cut down even further to 61 episodes. Toei announced in 2012 that it would produce the Buu Saga for overseas markets these episodes starting airing in Japan on April 6, 2014.
