Dragon Ball Z Kai: Season Three

DBZ Kai at its best
Kai has been a wonderful series. By cutting out the filler that was not part of the manga, Studio Toei has done a wonderful job bringing the series to Akira Toriyama's original vision. Gone is the ridiculous filler that created plot-holes and dragged the series on and on without a sign of resolution in sight. Granted, I am a fan of long stories and unabridged novels, but all the extra story to the original series was was just filler to pad out episodes. Now we have Kai, a series closer to the manga as it should have been from the start. Now the stories flow better and feel less bulky.

Season three is incredible. While the first sagas were pretty good, such as the Saiyan and Freeza Saga, this is where it picks up it's stride with the Trunks, Androids, and Cell Saga. The storytelling, though not deep, is compelling, dealing with time traveling, androids, Cell, and a vengeance from the past in the form of a mad scientist angry at Goku for something that happened in the...

Kick IT!
I love watching DBZ, but I hate that it takes 5 epeisodes for them to fight each other! Not so with this DVD..No BS here! My only complaint is Gohan's voice is done by someone else and it's not as good...blah

Best Version of DBZ!
From the get-go, this is the best version of DBZ, minus a few cast changes for main cast members (Gohan, Bulma, etc) From just hearing the theme song, you can tell it's great. This show is brilliantly filler-free, minus Gregory in the 1st season, but he doesn't affect the story much. I can't wait for season 4 & the Buu Saga, since their gonna come out some time in the next several months, or so. The newest animation threw me off at 1st, but it's easy to see the difference of over 20 years ago & today's Japanese animation.
It's also brilliantly re-written w/ new scripts that are VERY close to the Japanese scripts. I've been watching the episodes in English w/ the English subtitles for the Japanese dub & besides some more words & switching the words around, the English dub is the best for these anime shows. I only wish there was a different subtitle track for the English dub, but it's better than nothing. Basically, it's like a thesauraus, some of the lines are different in...

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