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Dragon Ball Z

Dragon Ball Z ドラゴンボールＺゼット Doragon Bōru Zetto
Genre	Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Scientific discipline Fiction, Martial Arts
Anime series: Dragon Ball Z
Directed by	Daisuke Nishio (#1-199) Shigeyasu Yamauchi (#200-291)
Studio	Toei Animation
Written by	Takao Koyama
Licensor	Australasia Madman Amusement North America Funimation Funimation Great britain
Network	Fuji Television set Network Ten Australasia Drawing Network YTV Cartoon Network Cartoon Network, CNX, Toonami United States Beginning-run syndication, International Channel, Cartoon Network (Toonami)
Original run	Apr 26, 1989 — Jan 31, 1996
No. of episodes	291
Manga chapters adapted	195-519

Dragon Ball Z (ドラゴンボールＺゼット , Doragon Bōru Zetto , usually abbreviated as DBZ ) is the long-running sequel to the anime Dragon Ball. The serial is a close adaptation of the second (and far longer) portion of the Dragon Brawl manga written and drawn by Akira Toriyama. In the Us, the manga's 2nd portion is also titled Dragon Ball Z to prevent confusion for younger readers.

i Overview
- one.1 Story
- i.2 Production history
- 1.3 Censorship bug
- 1.4 Filler and differences from the manga
- 1.5 Reception and Touch on
2 Sagas
3 Movies, TV specials, OVA
- 3.1 Movies
- iii.2 Idiot box specials
- three.3 OVA
4 Releases
- 4.1 Japanese releases
- 4.2 Dragon Box releases
- 4.3 Pioneer DVDs
- 4.4 Funimation DVDs
- 4.5 Funimation Ultimate Uncut DVDs
- four.6 Funimation Remastered Box Sets
- 4.7 Funimation Dragon Box Sets
- 4.8 Funimation Rock the Dragon Edition Box Fix
- 4.9 Funimation Blu-ray Level Sets
- 4.10 Funimation Season Blu-ray Sets
- 4.xi Funimation 30th Ceremony Collector'due south Edition
5 Manga
6 Main cast list
seven Staff
eight Theme Songs
- eight.1 Japanese Themes
- 8.2 English Themes
nine Reception
10 See also
11 External links
12 References
thirteen Site Navigation

Overview

Story

*Dragon Brawl Z* opening title carte in the original Japanese version

Dragon Ball Z follows the adventures of the developed Goku who, along with his companions, defends the earth against an assortment of villains ranging from intergalactic space fighters and conquerors, unnaturally powerful androids and nearly indestructible magical creatures. While the original Dragon Ball anime followed Goku through childhood into adulthood, Dragon Ball Z is a continuation of his adulthood life, just at the same fourth dimension parallels the maturation of his son, Gohan, as well as other characters from Dragon Ball and more. The separation between the serial is besides significant as the latter series takes on a more dramatic and serious tone. The anime likewise features characters, situations and back-stories not nowadays in the original manga.

Production history

The other names the production was considering for this second serial before they settled on Dragon Ball Z were Dragon Brawl: Gohan's Big Adventure , New Dragon Brawl , Dragon Ball two , Dragon Brawl Wonder Boy , and Dragon Brawl xc .^[1] The anime showtime premiered in Japan on April 26, 1989 (on Fuji Tv) at 7:xxx p.chiliad. and ended on January 31, 1996. The serial boilerplate rating was 20.five%, with its maximum being 27.5% (Episode 218) and its minimum existence 12.i% (Episode 273). Like Dragon Brawl, the music for Dragon Brawl Z was composed by Shunsuke Kikuchi. The grapheme designs for Dragon Brawl Z were created by Minoru Maeda from the Raditz Saga to the Cell Games Saga and Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru from the Bang-up Saiyaman Saga to the Peaceful World Saga.

Toriyama'due south humor/parody manga Nekomajin, released after Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, features several concepts introduced in the series, and several Dragon Brawl Z characters brand diverse appearances in this manga. After Dragon Brawl Z, the story of Goku and friends continues in the anime-but serial Dragon Brawl GT, which is not based on a manga past Akira Toriyama just is a project past Toei Animation using the same characters and storyline that serves as a sequel to Dragon Brawl Z. xix years after the end of Dragon Brawl Z in Nihon, a new sequel series titled Dragon Ball Super premiered with original concepts past Akira Toriyama, taking place after the expiry of Kid Buu but before Dragon Ball Z'due south catastrophe.

In the U.Southward., the serial initially aired in outset-run syndication from September 13, 1996, to May 23, 1998, so aired on Cartoon Network'southward Toonami block from August 31, 1998, to April 7, 2003, though not always with the same continuity of dubbing (for details on the dubbing bug, see Sea Group dubs and Funimation dub). It was besides shown in Canada on YTV around the same fourth dimension. It aired in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, with the same dubbing trouble, on Cartoon Network, premiering on March 6, 2000 and running on that channel until 2002. The Majin Buu Saga, Fusion Saga and Child Buu Saga were after broadcast on CNX, which later changed its name to Toonami, with the prove catastrophe on February 28, 2003. Later the finished run, information technology was repeated daily, until Toonami merged with Cartoon Network. In Australia it was shown on both Cartoon Network and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation with Cartoon Network airing it in around 1997-1999 and ABC from 1999-2004. In New Zealand, it was shown on TV3.

In April 2009, a new 'refresh' of Dragon Ball Z began airing on Japanese television set. This re-cutting is titled Dragon Brawl Z Kai.

Censorship issues

Dragon Ball Z was marketed to entreatment to a broad range of viewers from all ages, and contains crude humour and occasional excesses of violence which are unremarkably seen as inappropriate for younger audiences by American standards. When information technology was outset marketed in the United states, the distribution company Funimation alongside Saban decided to initially focus exclusively on the young children's marketplace, because the anime market was still small compared to the much larger children'south cartoon marketplace. This censorship oftentimes had unintentionally humorous results, such equally irresolute all references to death and then the dead characters were just going to "some other dimension", and digitally altering two ogres' shirts to read "HFIL" instead of "HELL".

Starting with the Captain Ginyu Saga on Cartoon Network, censorship was reduced due to fewer restrictions on cable programming. Funimation did the dubbing on their own this time effectually with their voice actors. In 2004, Funimation began to redub the first 2 sagas of Dragon Ball Z, to remove the problems that were caused by their previous partnership with Saban. They as well redubbed the outset iii movies.

Nevertheless, the show however retained some level of censorship, non out of FCC laws, only out of choice by Funimation, to cater to the possible sensitivity of western audiences. For example, Mr. Satan was renamed "Hercule" to avoid any religious slurs; his daughter, Videl, was a play on the word "Devil", merely Funimation felt that the connection was obscure plenty to not worry about.

Filler and differences from the manga

Main commodity: Filler Filler is used to pad out the series for many reasons; in the case of Dragon Ball Z, more often than not, it was because the anime was running aslope the manga, and there was no mode for the anime to run ahead of the manga (since Toriyama was still writing it, at the aforementioned time).

Some of the series' principal heroes and villains

The company behind the anime, Toei Animation, would occasionally brand up their ain side stories to either further explicate things, or but to extend the series. Filler does not come merely in the form of side stories, though; sometimes information technology is as simple every bit adding some extra attacks into a fight. One of the more than infamous examples of filler is the Frieza Saga. After Frieza had set up the planet Namek to blow up in five minutes, the final fight betwixt Goku and Frieza still lasted well over five episodes, much less five minutes, although this can exist attributed to the fact that Namek simply took longer to explode than Frieza expected. Also, many numerous filler scenes took identify while the battle with Frieza was in move, which accounts for much of the footage during the planet's explosion.

As the anime series was forced to expand 12 pages of manga text into 25 minutes of blitheness footage, these changes were introduced to kill time or to permit the (anime) writers to explore another aspect of the series' universe. The Garlic Jr. Saga (Garlic Jr.'due south render from the Dragon Brawl Z: Dead Zone flick) between the Frieza Saga and Trunks Saga and the Other World Tournament between the Jail cell Games Saga and the Majin Buu Saga are both expert examples of this.

Besides having filler scenes and episodes, there are many other changes from the original manga. Among them are the following:

When Tien Shinhan loses his arm while fighting Nappa, his arm becomes a stump with but a small amount of blood seen. In the manga, the scene is much gorier.
In the manga, Frieza kills Cargo, only in the anime Dodoria kills him.
In the manga, Zarbon informs Vegeta most Frieza's ability to transform during their starting time fight. This was removed from the anime, simply Vegeta still subsequently tells Frieza that it was Zarbon who told him well-nigh Frieza's transformation ability.
In the manga, Appule finds all the Namekians in the village attacked by Vegeta dead and tells Frieza, who just tells him to telephone call the Ginyu Force. In the anime, the soldier is changed to another soldier referred to as "Orlen" in the airtight captioning for the Ocean Dub VHS tapes. This soldier is killed past Frieza when he tells that he killed the last survivor of the hamlet without asking him where Vegeta had hidden the Iv Star Namekian Dragon Ball.
In the manga, after Frieza survives Goku's Spirit Bomb, he immediately strikes downwardly Piccolo with his Death Beam technique. In the anime, withal, Frieza fires his axle at Goku, only for Piccolo to bound in the manner and get struck down by the beam anyway.
In the manga, Frieza'south total power was nevertheless never a match for Goku'southward Super Saiyan class, simply in the anime, Frieza appears to accept the upper hand for a short time earlier he begins to tire.
In the anime, when Vegeta is brought back to life on Planet Namek, he manages to witness some of the battle between Goku and Frieza, too equally Goku'due south Super Saiyan form, before being teleported to Earth by the Namekian Dragon Balls. In the manga, he is teleported to Earth about immediately later on being revived and does not go a chance to run across Goku as a Super Saiyan for the first fourth dimension until Goku returns to Globe himself later on on.
When Dr. Gero outset appears in the serial (as Android 20), he grabs a man by the neck and tears him through the roof of a automobile. In the original manga, he crushes the man'southward cervix afterward, trigger-happy his head off.
In the manga, when Goku fully recovers from the Heart Virus, Chi-Chi finds him but looking out the window of the bedroom he was resting in at Kame House. In the anime, however, Chi-Chi finds him outside the house, firing several Kamehameha blasts across the ocean.
During Gohan and Cell's Energy Disharmonism in the anime, Piccolo, Krillin, Tien, and Yamcha unsuccessfully effort to distract Cell before Vegeta succeeds in doing so, whereas in the manga, they all simply observe the struggle and Vegeta is the only one to attack Prison cell from behind.
- When Vegeta shoots a Galick Blazer at Cell, he is seen in his Super Saiyan course in the anime. In the manga, he is seen in his base form. Similarly, Goku's spirit is seen in his Super Saiyan form in the anime as he and Gohan perform the Father-Son Kamehameha against Cell, while he is seen in his base form in the manga.
Though the flashback of Future Trunks and Hereafter Gohan fighting Androids 17 and 18 are present in both the anime and the manga, there are notable discrepancies between the flashback and the scene depicted in the TV special Dragon Brawl Z: The History of Trunks. In the special, Gohan had non lost his arm yet at the showtime of the story, Trunks had non yet achieved his Super Saiyan form too, and at that place was pelting in the scene in question.
When Vegito fights Super Buu (with Gohan captivated) in the manga, Vegito immediately transforms into his Super Saiyan form. In the anime, Vegito fought in his base form for a while before condign a Super Saiyan. Similarly, in the anime Goku and Vegeta battle Super Buu together (unsuccessfully) before fusing into Vegito, while in the manga Goku is able to convince Vegeta to fuse with him before Buu gets a chance to attack them.
When Goku begins his battle against Kid Buu in the manga, he transforms immediately into his Super Saiyan 3 course. In the anime, however, Goku starts the battle as a Super Saiyan 2 and manages to hold his own against Kid Buu for a while before ascending to Super Saiyan iii.
In the manga, many characters have a dissimilar number of fingers on their hands; such as Piccolo (3 fingers and a thumb), Dodoria (3 thumb-like fingers), and Imperfect class Cell (2 long fingers and a long pollex). In the anime, everybody has human-like hands with 4 fingers and a thumb.

Reception and Impact

The impact of Dragon Ball Z is enormous. For more than xx years, the series has stood the exam of fourth dimension and has reached out to many children and adults alike across the globe. This is mainly due to the serial' very clear representations of good overpowering evil, love overpowering hate, the importance of family and friends, and an unyielding passion toward achieving goals. The serial also featured heavy sci-fi overtones, and a greater accent on fighting - making information technology extremely popular amid adolescent boys who had grown up aslope the original serial.

Dragon Brawl Z - along with Crewman Moon and Pokémon - has too played a large function in contributing to the popularity of anime in western civilization. Though the commencement two seasons of the series were played on various networks in the U.S. in 1996, information technology would not take off for ii more than years until August 31, 1998, when Cartoon Network featured the testify in its action-oriented Toonami lineup. Toonami heralded the show every bit "The Greatest Action Cartoon E'er Made," and information technology greatly boosted the popularity of Toonami, but unknowingly did so much more. Dragon Brawl Z's newfound popularity helped to bring well-nigh a greater interest in Japanese cartoons in the eyes of western youth, which in plough fueled the western anime manufacture to new heights. Because of its success on Toonami, Dragon Ball Z was the showtime anime that fabricated its style to the Wall Street Journal, who alleged it "A Huge Cartoon Striking."

Many items such as apparel, backpacks, lunch boxes, writing utensils, candies, drinks, foods and more characteristic Dragon Ball Z, in both Japan and Due north America. Action figures, collectible figurines, plush toys, bobbleheads, and character model kits were also made. The fast-food chain Burger King featured Dragon Ball Z toys twice in the early 2000s. Despite the TV series officially ending in Nihon in 1996, and in 2003 in North America, Dragon Brawl Z video games are created nearly every twelvemonth for nigh every console on the market, helping to innovate the Dragon Ball Z series to younger generations that never got a chance to meet information technology air on television. These games usually do very well in the market. Popular sites such as YouTube have attracted large Dragon Ball Z fan communities throughout the concluding few years, and Dragon Ball related videos receive many views. All of these examples showcase the incredible popularity of Dragon Ball Z in many countries of the world.

The original author of the manga, Akira Toriyama, held a peachy deal of respect for both the Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z anime and those that adult them. Toriyama also admired the fact that the anime managed to possess original stories created by the animation team and stated that he considered the Dragon Ball anime to be equal in importance to the Dragon Ball manga.^[ii]

Sagas

Toei sagas

Attack of the Saiyans (Episodes 1–35) (Apr 26, 1989—Feb vii, 1990)
Battle on Planet Namek (Episodes 36–74) (February 14, 1990—January 16, 1991)
Terrible Emperor Freeza (Episodes 75–107) (January 23, 1991—September 11, 1991)
Fight with Garlic Jr. (Episodes 108–125) (September xviii, 1991—Jan 29, 1992)
Android No. xvi~20 (Episodes 126–147) (February five, 1992—July 8, 1992)
Over the Super Saiyan (Episodes 148–165) (July xv, 1992—November xviii, 1992)
Get-go of the Cell Games (Episodes 166–194) (November 25, 1992—July 21, 1993)
Ano-yo'ichi Budōkai (Episodes 195–219) (July 28, 1993—March 2, 1994)
Majin Boo Returns (Episodes 220–237) (March nine, 1994—August 24, 1994)
Appearance of the Super Saiyan 3 (Episodes 237–254) (August 31, 1994—Feb 1, 1995)
The Final Fighter, Vegetto (Episodes 255–268) (Feb 8, 1995—June 28, 1995)
The Final Battle (Episodes 269–291) (July 5, 1995—Jan 31, 1996)

Funimation sagas

Raditz Saga (Episodes 1–6 [1–4 edited]; formerly part of the "Saiyan Saga")
Vegeta Saga (Episodes 7–35 [v–26 edited]; formerly role of the "Saiyan Saga")
Namek Saga (Episodes 36–67 [27–53 edited])
Helm Ginyu Saga (Episodes 68–74 [54–lx edited])
Frieza Saga (Episodes 75–107 [61–92 edited])
Garlic Jr. Saga (Episodes 108–117 [93–102 edited])
Trunks Saga (Episodes 118–125 [103–110 edited])
Androids Saga (Episodes 126–139 [111–124 edited])
Imperfect Jail cell Saga (Episodes 140–152 [125–137 edited])
Perfect Cell Saga (Episodes 153–165 [138–150 edited])
Cell Games Saga (Episodes 166–194 [151–179 edited])
Other World Saga (Episodes 195-199 [180-184 edited])
Great Saiyaman Saga (Episodes 200–209 [185–194 edited])
Globe Tournament Saga (Episodes 210–219 [195–204 edited])
Babidi Saga (Episodes 220–231 [205–216 edited])
Majin Buu Saga (Episodes 232–253 [217–238 edited])
Fusion Saga (Episodes 254–275 [239–260 edited])
Child Buu Saga (Episodes 276–287 [261–272 edited])
Peaceful World Saga (Episodes 288–291 [273–276 edited])

Movies, Television set specials, OVA

Movies

Toei titles

Return my Gohan!! (1989)
The World's Strongest Guy (1990)
Super Deciding Battle for the Unabridged Planet Earth (1990)
Super Saiyan Son Goku (1991)
The Incredible Mightiest vs. Mightiest (1991)
Disharmonism!! 10,000,000,000 Powerful Warriors (1992)
Extreme Battle!! The Three Not bad Super Saiyans (1992)
Fire Up!! A Close, Intense, Super-Tearing Boxing (1993)
The Galaxy at the Brink!! The Super Incredible Guy (1993)
The Dangerous Duo! Super-Warriors Can't Rest (1994)
Super-Warrior Defeat!! I'm the One who'll Win (1994)
Fusion Reborn!! Goku and Vegeta (1995)
Dragon Fist Explosion! If Goku Tin can't Exercise It, Who Will?(1995)
God and God (2013)
Revival of "F" (2015)

Funimation titles

Dragon Ball Z: Expressionless Zone (1997) (Remastered/Re-released on May 27, 2008)
Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest (1998) (Remastered/Re-released on May 27, 2008)
Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might (1998) (Remastered/Re-released on September 16, 2008)
Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug (2001) (Remastered/Re-released on September 16, 2008)
Dragon Brawl Z: Cooler'south Revenge (2002) (Remastered/Re-released on November 11, 2008)
Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler (2002) (Remastered/Re-released on November 11, 2008)
Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13! (2003) (Remastered/Re-released on Feb xviii, 2009)
Dragon Brawl Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan (2003) (Remastered/Re-released on March 31, 2009)
Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound (2004) (Remastered/Re-released on February 18, 2009)
Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming (2005) (Remastered/Re-released on March 31, 2009)
Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly (2005) (Remastered/Re-released on March 31, 2009)
Dragon Brawl Z: Fusion Reborn (2006) (Remastered/Re-released on May 19, 2009)
Dragon Brawl Z: Wrath of the Dragon (2006) (Remastered/Re-released on May 19, 2009)
Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods (2014)
Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' (2015)

TV specials

Toei titles

A Lonesome, Final Battle: The Father of Z-Warrior Kakarrot, who Challenged Freeza (1990)
Summertime Vacation Special (1992)
Resistance to Despair!! The Remaining Super-Warriors, Gohan and Trunks (1993)
Looking Back at it All: The Dragon Ball Z Year-End Show! (1993)

Funimation titles

Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Begetter of Goku (2000) (Remastered/Re-released in February 19, 2008)
Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks (2000) (Remastered/Re-released in Feb nineteen, 2008)

OVA

Dragon Ball: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans (1993)
The World of Dragon Brawl Z (2000)
Dragon Ball: The Return of Son Goku and Friends! (2008)
Dragon Ball: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans (2010)
Dragon Brawl: Episode of Bardock (2011)

Releases

Japanese releases

Originally, only the Dragon Brawl Z movies and the Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans OVA were available for home viewing in Japan. The movies were released on both VHS and Laserdisc format. The Programme to Eradicate the Saiyans OVA was released both on VHS and the PlayDia, as an interactive FMV.

Dragon Box releases

Primary article: Dragon Box In 2003, all of the Dragon Ball Z Tv series was finally released under the "Dragon Box" label for home viewing in Japan, on ii large DVD boxed sets, following the release of a similar set for Dragon Ball. Each Dragon Ball Z Dragon Box had a large number of DVD extras, also as an activity effigy and a book.

The video and audio transfers of the show used on these DVDs came off of the Fuji TV master tapes of the prove, as this immune Toei to put out a far superior and completely accurate version of the show on DVD, which was helpful since the unabridged plot of a season could exist summed up in about 10 minutes. This allowed all episodes to accept their original openings, endings, eyecatches, next episode previews, etc., compared to what was available in the Usa.

In tardily 2005 the Dragon Box Z DVDs were re-released in single volumes with six episodes per disc. While the packaging and DVD menus are different from the 2003 release, and and so far no plans have been announced for the 2 TV specials and the Playdia footage released with the 2003 versions, the Sound and Visual quality is the same equally those discs found in the 2003 Dragon Box release.

On April 14, 2006, a "Dragon Box: The Movies" DVD box was released. This release contained all 17 Dragon Ball and Dragon Brawl Z theatrical features, containing 8 DVDs in total, along with a book, and 2 scouters in the class of walkie-talkies. The video and audio are remastered; nevertheless, the video is cropped to 16:ix (widescreen) and contains less motion-picture show than the full-screen versions. This is a mutual occurrence for films from Toei based on long-running and popular Tv set series (See Saint Seiya, Fist of the Due north Star, and One Piece).

All Dragon Box releases contain Japanese language audio merely (with exceptions to foreign-language bonus clips), and no subtitles.

Pioneer DVDs

During the tardily 90's/the early '00s, the first 53 (Saban/Funimation version numbers, originally uncut as 67) Idiot box episodes were released on to DVD by Pioneer Entertainment (now NBCUniversal Amusement Japan). These contained only the edited, US-TV broadcast versions (dubbed past the Ocean Group), and totaled 17 volumes, comprising the 'Saiyan Saga' and the 'Namek Saga'.

Along with these episodes, Pioneer also produced bilingual, uncut DVDs of the first 3 Dragon Ball Z theatrical features. These DVDs retained the original Ocean cast for the English rails, as well every bit existence one of the starting time uncut and bilingual releases in the U.S. The English versions of these films were also subject field to a unlike handling than the serial; rather than replacing the original music, the original OP and ED themes, besides as background music, were retained. The only noticeable differences also languages are the inclusion of a few dissimilar sound effects which are non present on the original Japanese version. These films were released as a iii-disc boxset by Pioneer.

As of August the 31st, 2004, Pioneer's license for video distribution of the first 53 episodes ended, allowing Funimation to re-release them. At the moment, the rights for these episodes and the kickoff three Dragon Ball Z movies belong to Funimation.

Funimation DVDs

As of 2000, Funimation had released uncut versions of their Texas-based English dub on to DVD, with Japanese language rail, and English language-translation subtitles. This release does not include the first two sagas, as the rights for the distribution of that episodes were however held by Pioneer Entertainment. These DVDs begin with the Captain Ginyu Saga and contain every episode covering (Japanese numbers) 68 till 291. Boxsets were release for the Garlic Jr., Androids, Imperfect Cell, Perfect Cell, World Tournament, Majin Buu, Fusion, and Kid Buu U.Southward. sagas. However, to maximize profits, the DVDs were released out of continuity (certain amounts of one section of the series were released, and then Funimation would go back and release others). With no noticeable numbering visible, this caused frustration to those trying to follow the series from first to end.

Funimation too released Dragon Brawl Z movies iv-13, finishing the release of the movies with Wrath of the Dragon, the 13th picture show. These are all bilingual and subtitled, only do non follow the trend set by Bounding main's first iii movies. Music has been changed and altered, including the insertion of songs from rock bands such as Deftones, Disturbed, Breaking Indicate, and American Pearl. The movies apply Funimation's TV series Texas cast, though they also include the original Japanese version with subtitling by Steve Simmons.

Funimation Ultimate Uncut DVDs

Afterwards acquiring the video rights to the first 53 (67 uncut) episodes from Pioneer in 2004, Funimation appear that they would release these episodes uncut, with a new five.1 English language rails and uncut footage. The "Ultimate Uncut Special Edition" line was born. The release would be 22 volumes, bilingual, and extras. The Saiyan Saga was renamed the 'Vegeta' Saga (Parts I and II, covering 12 DVDs), probably to avoid confusion with the Pioneer volumes. However, after DVD volume 9, Funimation canceled these box sets and planned to re-re-release them in the DVD season boxsets. This upset fans who had purchased the expensive Ultimate Uncut DVDs, as the Vegeta Saga Function Ii was never completed and the Ultimate Uncut Namek Saga DVDs were non created.

Funimation had also acquired the rights for the get-go three movies from Pioneer in 2004 and re-released them. Even though the three had the same cover style, only the first movie was released under the Ultimate Uncut line. All of these movies had a v.1 English rail, new subtitles, different DVD extras and come up in a boxset titled 'Beginning Strike'. However, they do non retain the original dub and contain a new English language dub produced by Funimation's Texas cast. This version contains unlike music than the original dub and the Japanese version.

Funimation Remastered Box Sets

Main article: Funimation Remastered Box Sets

In November 2005, Funimation announced they would release a remastered form of Dragon Ball Z on DVD beginning in 2007. All DBZ episodes were to be digitally remastered and released in boxset form.

The commencement season set (the entire Vegeta Saga) was re-released on February 6, 2007. The first 39 episodes of this season are spread across half dozen discs and cost $30–$50 (the original intention was for five discs, but there was a risk of quality reduction). Funimation released a trailer for the new assail the Dragon Brawl Z official website.

Funimation released the second flavour set, containing both the Namek and Captain Ginyu sagas, on May 22, 2007. Beginning with this release, several of the in-house vocalism actors re-dubbed their characters' lines to continue consistency with the remainder of the dub. The third season set, containing the Frieza Saga, was released on September 18, 2007. The quaternary season, containing both the Garlic Jr., Trunks and Android sagas, was released on February 11, 2008. Season five, containing both the Imperfect and Perfect Prison cell sagas, was released on May 27, 2008. Season six, containing the Prison cell Games Saga, was released on September 16, 2008. Flavor seven, containing both the Nifty Saiyaman and World Tournament sagas, was released on November 11, 2008. Season eight, containing both the Babidi and Majin Buu sagas, was released on February 10, 2009. Season ix, containing both the Fusion and Kid Buu sagas, was released on May 19, 2009.

The series has been re-transferred at 1080p resolution with digital restoration technology removing all grain and scratches from Funimation's original prints of the series. It is important to note, however, that similar many late eighty'south-early on 90's Toei productions (for example, Saint Seiya, Sailor Moon, Marmalade Boy, Ghost Sweeper Mikami, and Slam Dunk), the series was produced on xvi-millimeter moving picture which tends to be fairly grainy and soft. The new restoration was supervised by colorist Steve Franko.

The serial is presented in a widescreen format (1.78:1, cropped from the original full frame) for the offset time. Comparing images from the new prepare show that while there is missing footage on the meridian and bottom, there is at to the lowest degree additional footage on the right and left that has not appeared in any prior release, having been taken straight from the original Japanese film master recording.

This format change was highly controversial amid fans, as this is not how the T.Five. episodes were intended to be seen and this substantially alters them. Many fans launched a letter of the alphabet-writing campaign confronting the release. In response to the negative fan outcry regarding the release's apparent cropping of the source video, a Funimation representative has released a document from the team remastering the video, which explains the logistics of the new release. This document details how sure areas of the original film are damaged, and admits that though the video is cropped, this release eliminates the grain that was present on prior 4:iii releases. Information technology has also been theorized that it is ultimately more inexpensive to transfer the serial in sixteen:ix and thereby remove the damaged portions of the frame than to repair 291 episodes' worth of damaged film.

The boxset contains a revised English language runway in Dolby Digital v.1 environs sound (it contains the original Japanese score by Shunsuke Kikuchi, although it is unknown just how the English dialogue is revised). For the first time, there is a choice between having the Japanese dialogue with Toei's original Japanese music or English dialogue with either Funimation'southward dub music or Toei's original Japanese music.

Special features include a featurette on the remastering of the original Japanese print and a 24-page booklet with episode summaries, character descriptions and a DBZ timeline.

Funimation Dragon Box Sets

Primary article: Funimation Dragon Box Sets

Funimation Dragon Box sets were confirmed for release by Funimation Entertainment on July 19, 2009. The Dragon Box was produced from the original Dragon Box masters later a frame by frame restoration and spans the entire 291 episodes of Dragon Ball Z.

This definitive DVD box release begins with Dragon Box One which includes the beginning 42 episodes, uncut, on 6 discs.

The Dragon Box releases feature an aspect ratio of four:3, the original Japanese audio (with options for an English track or English language subtitles), the original episode previews, consummate opening and closing credits and a collector's booklet.

While Toei's DBZ Dragon Boxes consists of merely two volumes, Funimation'south divides the serial into vii; Dragon Box One was released on November x, 2009, with an SRP of $79.98, while Dragon Box Two was released on Feb sixteen, 2010, Dragon Box 3 was released on May 4, 2010, Dragon Box 4 was released on September 21, 2010, Dragon Box Five was released on Apr 26, 2011, Dragon Box Six was released on July 5, 2011, and Dragon Box 7 was released on October eleven, 2011.

Funimation Rock the Dragon Edition Box Set

Main article: Dragon Ball Z: Rock the Dragon Edition

Information technology is the release of the original Funimation/Saban dub of Dragon Brawl Z in a box prepare. The gear up consists of the 53 episodes (which were edited from the kickoff 67 Japanese episodes of DBZ) and includes the first iii Dragon Ball Z movies (Expressionless Zone, The World's Strongest, The Tree of Might). It was released on Baronial 20, 2013. The collector's edition features the Body of water vox cast and opening theme vocal "Stone the Dragon". It besides features a hardbound full-color 48-folio volume that showcases the character's history, and tropes that helped elevate DBZ to the pop culture it is today.

Funimation Blu-ray Level Sets

In July 2011, Funimation announced plans to release Dragon Ball Z in Blu-ray format. The start volume was released on November 18, 2011. Nevertheless, after the release of the second volume, Funimation discontinued product of the remainder of the Blu-ray releases, citing concerns over restoring the original movie cloth frame past frame. The episodes were presented in their original iv:3 attribute ratio.

Funimation Season Blu-ray Sets

Funimation confirmed in June 2013 that the Blu-ray flavour box sets of DBZ would have place once more. The commencement set, "Dragon Ball Z Season 1", was released on Dec 31, 2013, and the final set, "Dragon Ball Z Season 9", was released on December nine, 2014. The episodes are presented in the cropped sixteen:ix widescreen format. Nevertheless, different the "Orange Brick" DVD sets which were a "directly crop", these use pan and scan so that important information in the frame is not lost.

Funimation 30th Anniversary Collector'south Edition

On March 2, 2019, Funimation appear that Dragon Ball Z will be jubilant its 30th Anniversary with a Collector's Edition Blu-ray compiling the full series in a iv:three aspect ratio forth with some extra goods. However, they need at least two,500 fans to reserve the set for it to exist produced. They need to measure interest since it's a high-cost attempt, and 2,500 is the minimum of interested fans needed according to Funimation. But if Funimation fails to get the 2,500 pledges to produce the Collector's Edition, they volition non release the anniversary ready. However, Funimation announced that they needed 3,000 pre-orders from fans and the previous 2,500 pledges was a fault. Funimation began taking pre-orders for the set on Apr 6 and had since and so reached the necessary 3,000 pre-orders making them eligible to produce 6,000 units of the prepare overall. The release of the teaser for this box set sparked many controversies among fans apropos the remastered footage's framework, color saturation and other footage components that looked worse than previous footage from older collectors editions every bit fans viewed the teaser featuring the remastered clips. Funimation responded by stating that they cropped the release past going in "scene-by-scene to make judgments based onto the image bachelor in each frame of how much to trim to go to a consistent iv:3 aspect ratio, while however attempting to cut every bit little out of the picture every bit possible," and that they felt the digital video racket reduction was "mandatory for this release based on the different levels of fan back up from various past DBZ releases with unlike levels of dissonance reduction over the years." Funimation took pre-orders for the 30th Ceremony Collector'southward Edition until May 5. It was released on November 5th, 2019.

Manga

An "anime comic" manga adaption of the Dragon Ball Z anime was released in Japan from 2005 to 2010. The sagas covered included the "Saiyan Saga", "Super Saiyan / Ginyu Special-Squad Saga", "Super Saiyan / Freeza Saga", "Artificial Humans Saga", "Cell Game Saga", "Afterlife Tournament Saga", "Majin Boo Revival Saga", and "Majin Boo Battle Saga".

Main cast listing

Grapheme proper name	Voice actor (Japanese)	5.A. (English language - Sea Grouping)	V.A. (English language - Funimation)
Goku	Masako Nozawa	Ian James Corlett (ep.1-49 [i-37 edited]) Peter Kelamis (ep.50-67 [38-53 edited]; 123-174 [108-159 edited]) Kirby Morrow (ep.175-291 [160-276 edited])	Sean Schemmel (adult) Ceyli Delgadillo (child) Stephanie Nadolny (child)
Gohan	Masako Nozawa	Saffron Henderson (ep.1-67 [one-53 edited]; 123-165 [108-150 edited]) Jillian Michaels (ep.166-194 [151-179 edited]) Brad Swaile (ep.200-291 [185-276 edited])	Stephanie Nadolny (child) Kyle Hebert (teen and developed)
Goten	Masako Nozawa	Jillian Michaels (child) Brad Swaile (teen)	Kara Edwards (child) Robert McCollum (teen)
Chi-Chi	Mayumi Sho (ep.1-66) Naoko Watanabe (ep.88-291)	Laara Sadiq (ep.i-67 [one-53 edited]) Lisa Ann Beley (ep.123-291 [108-276 edited])	Cynthia Cranz
Bulma	Hiromi Tsuru	Lalainia Lindbjerg (ep.2-66 [1-53 edited]) Maggie Blueish O'Hara (ep.123-258 [108-243 edited]) France Perras (ep.259-291 [244-276 edited])	Tiffany Vollmer
Vegeta	Ryō Horikawa	Brian Drummond	Christopher Sabat
Trunks	Takeshi Kusao	Cathy Weseluck (child) Allistair Abell (teen)	Laura Bailey (child) Eric Vale (teen)
Future Trunks	Takeshi Kusao	Allistair Abell	Eric Vale
Piccolo	Toshio Furukawa	Scott McNeil	Christopher Sabat
Krillin	Mayumi Tanaka	Terry Klassen	Sonny Strait
Yamcha	Tōru Furuya	Ted Cole	Christopher Sabat
Tien Shinhan	Hirotaka Suzuoki	Matt Smith	Chris Cason (ep.75-107 [61-92 edited]) John Burgmeier (ep.118-288; 12-107 remastered)
Chiaotzu	Hiroko Emori	Cathy Weseluck	Monika Antonelli
Yajirobe	Mayumi Tanaka	Brian Drummond	Mike McFarland
Master Roshi	Kohei Miyauchi (ep.2-260) Hiroshi Masuoka (ep.288-291)	Ian James Corlett (ep.1-46 [1-34 edited]) Peter Kelamis (ep.63 [50 edited]) Terry Klassen (ep.123-291 [108-276 edited])	Mike McFarland
Oolong	Naoki Tatsuta	Alec Willows (ep.18-57 [12-44 edited]) Richard Newman (ep.127-291 [112-276 edited])	Mark Britten (ep.88-169) Brad Jackson (ep.208-291; eighteen-107, 127-169 remastered)
Puar	Naoko Watanabe	Cathy Weseluck	Monika Antonelli
Turtle	Daisuke Gōri	Scott McNeil	Christopher R. Sabat
Mr. Satan	Daisuke Gōri	Don Brown	Chris Rager
Videl	Yūko Minaguchi	Moneca Stori	Kara Edwards
Android xviii	Miki Itō	Farrell Spence	Meredith McCoy
Baba	Junpei Takiguchi (ep.9-34) Mayumi Tanaka (ep.190-287)	Ellen Kennedy (ep.20-34 [14-25 edited]) Brian Drummond (ep.190-287 [175-272 edited])	Laurie Steele (ep.190-287) Linda Young (ep.seven-34 remastered)
Dende	Tomiko Suzuki (ep.46-288) Hiro Yuuki (ep.290-291)	Paulina Gillis (ep.46-67 [34-53 edited]) Andrew Francis (ep.173-291 [158-276 edited])	Ceyli Delgadillo (child - original) Laura Bailey (kid - remastered) Justin Cook (adult)
Ox-Male monarch	Daisuke Gōri	Dave Ward (ep.seven-64 [5-51 edited]) Dale Wilson (ep.171-291 [157-276 edited])	Mark Britten (ep.88-193) Kyle Hebert (ep.208-291; 5-193 remastered)
Dr. Brief	Jōji Yanami	Paul Dobson (upward to ep. 107) Scott McNeil (ep. 108-291)	Chris Forbis
Bikini	Mariko Mukai (upward to ep. 136 ) Hiroko Emori (ep. 136-165) Yoko Kawanami (ep. 166-291)	Jane Perry (up to ep. 194) Willow Johnson (ep. 194-291)	Cynthia Cranz
Mr. Popo	Toku Nishio	Alvin Sanders (ep.xiv-38 [nine-28 edited]) French Tickner (ep.137-288 [123-273 edited])	Chris Cason (ep.76-100) Christopher Sabat (ep.108-288; 17-100 remastered)
Korin	Ichiro Nagai (ep.26-192) Naoki Tatsuta (ep.217-285)	Paul Dobson (ep.26-38 [19-28 edited]) Ted Cole (ep. 137-285 [123-270 edited])	Mark Britten (ep.109-192) Christopher Sabat (ep.217-285; 26-37 remastered)
Kami	Takeshi Aono	Michael Dobson (ep.6-28 [four-21 edited]) Dale Wilson (ep.137-141 [123-126 edited])	Christopher Sabat
King Kai	Jōji Yanami	Don Dark-brown	Sean Schemmel
Supreme Kai	Yuji Mitsuya	Michael Dobson	Kent Williams
Kibito	Shin Aomori	Don Dark-brown	Chuck Huber
Old Kai	Reizo Nomoto	Scott McNeil	Kent Williams
Raditz	Shigeru Chiba	Jason Gray-Stanford (ep.ane-five [1-4 edited]) Alistair Abell (ep.182 [167 edited])	Christopher Sabat (ep. 104 [89 edited]) Justin Cook (remastered)
Nappa	Shōzō Iizuka	Michael Dobson	Christopher Sabat (original) Phil Parsons (remastered)
Frieza	Ryusei Nakao	Pauline Newstone	Linda Immature
Zarbon	Shō Hayami	Paul Dobson	Christopher Sabat
Dodoria	Yukitoshi Hori	Paul Dobson	Chris Forbis
Captain Ginyu	Hideyuki Hori	Richard Newman	Dale Kelly (original) Brice Armstrong (remastered)
Garlic Jr.	Shigeru Chiba	Don Dark-brown	Chuck Huber
Dr. Gero	Kōji Yada	Brian Dobson	Kent Williams
Android 17	Shigeru Nakahara	Ted Cole	Chuck Huber
Android 16	Hikaru Midorikawa	Scott McNeil	Jeremy Inman
Prison cell	Norio Wakamoto	Dale Wilson	Dameon Clarke
Pikkon	Hikaru Midorikawa	Brian Drummond	Kyle Hebert
Babidi	Jōji Yanami	Terry Klassen	Duncan Brannan
Dabura	Ryūzaburō Ōtomo	Scott McNeil	Rick Robertson
Majin Buu	Kozo Shioya	Scott McNeil (Innocent Buu, Good Buu) Brian Dobson (Evil Buu, Super Buu, Child Buu)	Josh Martin (Innocent Buu, Good Buu, Kid Buu) Justin Cook (Evil Buu, Super Buu)
Shenron	Kenji Utsumi Masaharu Satou (ep.192-193)	Don Brown	Christopher Sabat
Narrator	Jōji Yanami	Medico Harris	Dale Kelly (ep.68-194 [54-179 edited]) Kyle Hebert (ep.195-291 [180-276 edited]; one-194 remastered)

Staff

Serial Director: Daisuke Nishio, Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Episode Director: Atsutoshi Umezawa, Daisuke Nishio (23 episodes), Hidehiko Kadoda, Hidehiko Kadota, Hiroki Shibata, Johei Matsuura, Junichi Fujise, Kazuhisa Takenouchi, Kazuhito Kikuchi, Masahiro Hosoda, Minoru Okazaki, Mitsuo Hashimoto, Osamu Kasai, Shigeyasu Yamauchi (31 episodes), Takahiro Imamura, Tatsuya Orime, Yoshihiro Ueda
Banana Episode Director: Akihiko Yamaguchi, Hidehiko Kadota, Junichi Fujise, Keiko Hashimoto, Tatsuya Orime, Toshihiro Ishikawa, Yasuhiro Kamimura
Producer: Kenji Shimizu (Fuji Tv), Kōzō Morishita
Assistant producer: Hiromi Seki (Toei Blitheness), Seiichi Hiruta (Toei Blitheness)
Production manager: Matsuji Kishimoto (one-58), Have Torimoto (59-109), Akihiko Yamaguchi (110-169), Yuichi Suenaga (170-291)
Public Relations: Yumiko Shigeoka (Fuji Television set)
Series Composition: Takao Koyama
Screenplay: Atsushi Maekawa, Aya Matsui Hiroshi Toda, Katsuyuki Sumisawa, Keiji Terui, Masashi Kubota, Reiko Yoshida, Satoru Akahori, Sumio Uetake, Takao Koyama, Toshiki Inoue, Yoshiyuki Suga
Storyboard: Daisuke Nishio (26 episodes), Johei Matsuura, Katsumi Aoshima, Kazuhisa Takenouchi, Minoru Okazaki, Mitsuo Hashimoto, Osamu Kasai, Shigeyasu Yamauchi (32 episodes), Yoshihiro Ueda
Production Advancement: Akihiko Yamaguchi, Kazumi Fujioka, Kazumitsu Matsusaka, Kouichi Hirose, Mitsuo Hashimoto, Yoshiaki Yanagi, Yuichi Suenaga
Character Design: Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru (eps 200-291), Yuji Ikeda
Principal Designer: Ken Tokushige (eps 200-291), Yuji Ikeda
Art: Chigusa Yokoyama, Hitoshi Nagasaki, Kayoko Koitabashi, Kenji Matsumoto, Masazumi Matsumiya, Shigenori Takada, Shinobu Takahashi, Takeo Yamamoto, Tsutomu Fujita, Yoshito Watanabe, Yuji Ikeda
Background Art: Chigusa Yokoyama, Eiko Ito, Goichi Katanosaka, Hideaki Kudo, Hiroaki Kaneko, Hiromitsu Shiozaki, Hisaharu Iijima (ep 42), Hitoshi Nagasaki, Izumi Wada, Junichi Taniguchi, Kayoko Koitabashi, Kazuhiko Suzuki, Kazumi Chiba, Keito Watanabe, Kenji Matsumoto, Kyōko Matsunaga, Masanori Tachibanada, Masao Kajitani, Masuo Nakayama, Mio Isshiki, Momonori Taniguchi, Mutsumi Matsui, Nanae Fukui, Natsuyo Kato, Noriyoshi Doi, Reiichirō Yanagisawa, Rumiko Minemura, Sanae Makino, Sawako Takagi, Shinichi Kamiyama, Shinobu Takahashi, Shoji Tokiwa, Tadahiko Ono, Tadashi Iwasa, Takeo Yamamoto, Tatsuro Iseri, Tetsuhiro Shimizu, Toki Sakamaki, Tomoko Shitamoto, Tomoko Takahashi, Tomoko Yoshida, Toshiko Odagiri, Yoko Ichihara, Yuji Kihara, Yukio Suzuki, Yuko Iida, Yuko Saitou, Yumiko Ogata, Yutaka Ito
Animation Managing director: Ichio Hayashi (ep 245), Ichiroo Hattori, Isao Hayashi, Katsumi Aoshima, Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru (OP ii; eps 44, 120), Kazuya Kuda, Keisuke Masunaga (eighteen episodes), Masahiro Shimanuki, Masaki Sato (ep 64), Masayuki Uchiyama, Minoru Maeda, Mitsuo Shindō, Naoaki Houjou, Naoki Miyahara, Tadayoshi Yamamuro, Sachio Ebisawa, Shingo Ishikawa, Takeo Ide, Tomekichi Takeuchi, Yukio Ebisawa, Yuuji Hakamada
Chief animator: Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, Minoru Maeda
Central Animation: Akio Katada, Akira Inagami, Chikako Uesugi, Eisaku Inoue, Hideko Okimoto, Hiroshi Takeuchi, Hisashi Eguchi, Katsuhiro Nakatsuru, Katsuki Aoshima, Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru (21 episodes), Kazuo Takigawa, Kazuya Hisada, Kenji Yokoyama, Kiyoshi Matsumoto, Kuniko Iwagami, Mamoru Hosoda (ep 173), Masahiro Shimanuki, Masaki Sato (17 episodes), Masako Sankaku, Masayuki Uchiyama, Miki Ugai, Minako Ito, Naoki Mishiba, Naoki Miyahara, Naoki Tate, Naotoshi Shida, Tadayoshi Yamamuro, Noriko Ichihashi, Noriko Shibata, Taiichiro Kohara, Takahiro Yoshimatsu, Takeo Ide, Teruhisa Ryu, Tetsuya Numako, Tetsuya Saeki, Tomekichi Takeuchi, Tomoya Iida, Toshiyuki Sugano, Yoko Arai, Yoko Iizuka, Yosuji Kudo, Yukio Ebisawa
In-Between Animation: Akemi Seki, Akihiko Nomura, Akiko Matsumoto, Akira Kato, Ayumi Kondou, Chikako Uesugi, Chiori Matsuda, Chizuko Kawamura, Daisuke Hiruma, Eriko Kimura, Hideaki Maniwa, Hidehiko Kadota, Hideki Inoue, Hiroaki Shimizu, Hiroaki Yoshikawa, Hiromi Ono, Hiromi Shirakami, Hiroyuki Kanbe, Hisashi Nakayama, Iwao Ōtsuka, Izumi Ichiki, Izumi Komatsu, Jin Ehara, Junji Kiyohara, Junko Miyamoto, Junko Shirasu, Kanae Suwa, Kayo Nangumo, Kayo Tanahashi, Kazue Ōneda, Kazufumi Takano, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Kazuyoshi Minato, Keiko Sasa, Kenichi Koyabe, Kimiko Hoshi, Kiyomi Ishiwata, Kiyomi Masuda, Kiyomi Masuko, Kōichirō Tanigishi, Koji Usui, Kouji Aoki, Kumiko Horikoshi, Kuniko Iwagami, Kunitoshi Ishii, Kyoko Higurashi, Maki Ito, Masahiro Hamamori, Masahiro Takano, Masatoshi Hakada, Masayuki Yoshihara, Mayumi Fukushi, Mayumi Nakamura, Megumi Yamashita, Midori Iwai, Miho Fujimoto, Minako Ito, Mineto Shibawaki, Miwa Oshima, Miyako Nishiwaki, Miyuki Abe, Miyuki Nakamura, Miyuki Shibazaki, Miyuki Yano, Naoaki Houjou, Naoki Mishiba, Naoki Tate, Noriko Ichihashi, Rumiko Ōmiya, Sai Yamane, Sanae Kojima, Shigeru Komatsuzaki, Shigeru Nishioka, Shigetaka Nagata, Shiho Takeuchi, Shiho Tamai, Shinichi Kaneko, Shinji Higashida, Shiori Nozawa, Takahiro Umehara, Takashi Aoyama, Takayuki Komori, Takayuki Ushiki, Takeshi Mochida, Tomoko Hirokawa, Tomoko Tanifuji, Tomomi Shimazaki, Toshiko Nakamura, Toshiyuki Komaru, Toshiyuki Sugano, Wataru Abe, Yasushi Morimoto, Yoko Arai, Yoko Tanida, Yoshie Komatsu, Yoshifumi Miyaji, Yosuji Kudo, Yū Ōkusa, Yuko Inoue, Yūko Kogawara
Special Effects: Chiaki Hirao, Kazuya Sakurada, Kunji Tanifuji, Masayuki Kawachi, Masayuki Nakajima, Nobuhiro Shimokawa, Shoji Sato, Yoshiaki Okada, Yūji Okajima, Yukari Hashimoto
Ink & Paint: Fumie Itō, Hideko Sakai, Hiromi Saitō, Ikuno Shimada, Ikuyo Uemura, Kaoru Sugawara, Maki Kamioka, Mariko Higuchi, Mayumi Shiba, Michiko Masui, Miho Sudō, Misae Suzuki, Sachiko Itsukida, Satoshi Nakahata, Takayo Matsui, Tokie Ōkawara
Photography: Hiroshi Itō, Katsunori Maehara, Sadafumi Sano, Takeshi Ando, Takeshi Fukuda, Tetsuo Oofuji, Yukio Sugiyama
Music: Shunsuke Kikuchi
Music Pick: Shigeru Miyashita
Sound Director: Nobuhiro Komatsu
Sound Effects: Hidenori Arai
Recording: Kenji Ninomiya
Editing: Shinichi Fukumitsu

Theme Songs

Japanese Themes

Openings:

"Cha-La Caput-Cha-La":

Version 1: episodes 1~21 (non on FUNimation'south DVDs, except for the remastered version of Dead Zone and the Season 1 Blu-ray)
Version 2: episodes 22~117
Version 3: episodes 118~199

"We Gotta Ability": episodes 200~291

Endings:

"Detekoi Tobikiri Zenkai Power!": episodes 1~199
"Nosotros Were Angels": episodes 200~291

English Themes

Openings:
- "Main Title" (AKA "Rock the Dragon")
- "Dragon Ball Z" (AKA "DBZ Theme")
- "Dragonball Z" (Body of water dub episodes 108-276)
- "Dragon Brawl Z Uncut Theme"
- "Dragon Brawl Z Motion picture Theme"
- "DBZ Movie Theme"
- "Eternal Cede" (Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan theme song)
Endings: most English endings are just shortened or otherwise altered versions of the openings, yet the "Ultimate Uncut Special Edition" release used "Summon Upwardly the Dragon".

Reception

Dragon Ball Z peaked at 25% ratings and its lowest bespeak was thirteen.5%, much amend ratings than its successor Dragon Ball GT (which got up to xiv%). Withal in America Dragon Ball GT DVDs outsold Dragon Ball Z ones in 2003.^[3]

Come across also

List of Dragon Ball Z episodes
Dragon Brawl Z Kai

External links

Official Toei Blitheness's website
Official FUNimation'south website
Official Manga United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland'south website
Official Madman'due south website

References

↑ Supplemental Daizenshuu, 1996
↑ "The Anime and Me", Dragonball Z Anime Special, 1989
↑ Anime Insider December 2003 (#x), "The QT on GT"

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Companies	Bird Studio • Caramel Mama • Shueisha • Toei Animation

Author(s)	Akira Toriyama • Naho Ooishi* • Toyotarou* • Yoshitaka Nagayama*

Assistants	Takashi Matsuyama

Editors	Kazuhiko Torishima • Yū Kondō • Fuyuto Takeda • Shinichi Fukumitsu* • Daisuke Terashi* • Akio Iyoku* • Victory Uchida*

Directors	Minoru Okazaki • Akinori Nagaoka • Kazuhisa Takenouchi • Daisuke Nishio • Mitsuo Hashimoto • Takahiro Imamura • Shigeyasu Yamauchi • Yoshihiro Ueda • Masahiro Hosoda • Yasuhiro Nowatari

Producers	Keizo Shichijo • Kōzō Morishita • Kenji Shimizu • Tamio Kojima • Chiaki Imada • Rikizō Kayano • Tomio Anzai • Tsutomu Tomari • Tan Takaiwa • Seiichi Hiruta • Kōji Kaneda • Gyarmath Bogdan • James Wong

Production managers	Kazumi Fujioka • Matsuji Kishimoto • Take Torimoto • Akihiko Yamaguchi • Yuichi Suenaga

Screenwriters	Takao Koyama • Toshiki Inoue • Keiji Terui • Yoshifumi Yuki • Katsuyuki Sumisawa • Hiroshi Toda • Aya Matsui • Atsushi Maekawa • Yūsuke Watanabe • Ben Ramsey • Akira Toriyama

Fine art directors	Mitsuo Shindō • Yoshiyuki Yamamoto • Kunio Kaneshima • Iwamitsu Ito • Hiromitsu Shiozaki • Yuji Ikeda • Shigenori Takada • Masahiro Shimanuki • Ryuuji Yoshiike • Hiroshi Katō • Teppei Horita

Anime designers	Minoru Maeda • Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru • Tadayoshi Yamamuro • Naohiro Shintani

Animators	Masayuki Uchiyama • Naoki Miyahara • Naotoshi Shida

Special Furnishings	Hidenori Arai • Nao Ōta

Music composers	Shunsuke Kikuchi • Chiho Kiyooka • Akihito Tokunaga • Kenji Yamamoto • Norihito Sumitomo • Shuki Levy • Kussa Mahchi • Ron Wasserman • Bruce Faulconer • Julius Dobos • Mike Smith • Scott Morgan • Andy Baylor • Dale Kelly • Marker Akin • Scot Risch • Tom Keenlyside • John Mitchell • David Iris • Marking Menza • Dave Moran • Nathan Johnson

Vocalists	Hironobu Kageyama • Takayoshi Tanimoto • Ayumi Hamasaki

Vocalization actors	Japanese voice actors • Bluish Water voice actors • Ocean voice actors • FUNimation phonation actors

Series	Dr. Slump • Dragon Brawl manga • Dragon Ball anime • Dragon Brawl Z • Dragon Ball GT • Dragon Brawl Kai • Dragon Ball Super manga • Dragon Ball Super anime • Dragon Ball video games • Related manga

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