because Funi had already mastered those episodes on DVD/Bluray before Toei told them to make the switch. And if you're like me, and watching it on Funimation's releases, episode 1 through 52 has Yamamoto, and 53 through 98 have Kikuchi. If you're watching it on TV these days, every single episode has Kikuchi's retrofit score. If you watched Dragon Ball Kai as it was airing in Japan, episodes 1 through 95 had the Yamamoto score, only for the Kikuchi replacement to end the series final two episodes ( and third 'final' final, straight-to-DVD episode). The tl dr is: Long time DBZ music contributor Kenji Yamamoto scored Dragon Ball Kai in place of Shunsuke Kikuchi's original score, but Yamamoto got in trouble for plagiarizing basically his whole catalogue, so his score was removed from Kai and replaced with seemingly random selections of Kikuchi's score. It just makes a show that isn't as good as either the original manga, or the TV show from which it's recycled.ĭragon Ball Kai has a long, strange history with its music.
Dicing it up and stitching it back together doesn't automatically make a show more true to the source material. Every episode of DBZ has a clear artistic vision, a tone, an arc, all to tell in its 24 minutes of air time. Every episode of Dragon Ball Z was expertly directed by Daisuke Nishio, with scripts overseen and often written by Takao Koyama, and an award-winning musical score crafted and lovingly placed by Shunsuke Kikuchi. Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z were made by a veteran staff of top notch writers, animators, and directors ( and also Uchiyama was there too). While filler is indeed removed, that isn't always a good thing.
Dragon Ball Kai removed the classic soundtrack, re-recorded the dialogue ( with many characters recast due to retirement, death, or some other reason), and redrew frames, with an embarrassingly noticeable drop in quality, for the sake of censorship, converting the picture for a widescreen broadcast, and removing strobing and other old special effects.
Everything you love about Dragon Ball Z, upscaled into HD, and given a sort of Director's Cut to make it more resemble the manga's pacing. Announced as a way to celebrate Dragon Ball Z's 20th anniversary, Dragon Ball Kai was sold to us as a "refreshed" broadcast.
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