He then asks Goku to join them in exterminating the population of Earth, taking Gohan hostage when Goku refuses. Raditz reports that he and Goku are of an alien race called the Saiyans and that he and Goku are among the last four remaining. Goku cannot remember this, as he suffers from brain damage caused by a fall when he was a child. The stranger says that his name is Raditz and that he is Goku's older brother. The Enemy is Goku's Brother?! The Secret of the Mighty Saiyan Warriors The stranger arrives and surprises everyone when they notice he has a monkey-like tail, just like Goku used to have. The other strong life form is Goku, who at Master Roshi's house presents his son to Roshi, Krillin, and Bulma. Piccolo is nearly killed by the stranger, but this is averted when the man leaves to scout out a more powerful life form. A man in battle armor emerges from the vessel and flies off to scout out a powerful life form he locates with the help of an apparatus on his eye. Elsewhere, an odd-looking spacecraft crash lands on Earth. Goku and Gohan are heading towards a reunion with Goku's friends. Five years have passed since Goku's victory over Piccolo at the 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai, and he has since married Chi-Chi and now has a son named Gohan. The episode begins with a flashback of the destruction of Planet Vegeta at the hands of Frieza, and the upbringing of Goku on Earth as depicted in the original Dragon Ball series. Prologue to Battle! The Return of Son Goku
In addition to Nicktoons, Kai also began airing on The CW's Toonzai programming block on August 14, 2010. Funimation's dub of Kai features most of the voice actors from their in-house dub of Dragon Ball Z, along with several re-casts, as well as a more faithful adaptation of the Japanese dialogue and episode titles than their previous dub.
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Soon after, Nicktoons announced that the series would be broadcasting on their channel, and the series made its U.S. In 2010, Funimation Entertainment licensed the series for an English-language release in North America. The first DVD and Blu-ray Disc compilation was released on September 18, 2009, with individual volumes releasing monthly as well as Blu-ray box sets. Although the story footage is taken from existing material, the opening and closing sequences were made from scratch using different animation methods. The second ending theme, starting from episode 55 onwards, is titled "Kokoro no Hane" ( 心の羽根 "Wings of the Heart" ?) performed by Team Dragon from AKB48, an all-female group composed of members from AKB48. Both pieces are part of a unit called Dragon Soul with guitarist and composer Takafumi Iwasaki. The opening theme, titled " Dragon Soul", is performed by Takayoshi Tanimoto, who also performed the first ending theme, titled " Yeah! Break! Care! Break!". The series uses three pieces of theme music. Much of the material from the Dragon Ball Z anime that was not featured in the original Dragon Ball manga will be left out in Kai, thus reducing the total episode count to the point that the "Cell" arc is now planned to end on episode 98. Some frames were selectively cropped, while other frames feature new portions added to scenes that were hand drawn to conform to the designated picture ratio. As most of the series' sketches and animation cels had been discarded since the final episode of Dragon Ball Z in 1996, new frames were produced by digitally tracing over still frames from existing footage and filling them with softer colors thus reducing visible damage to the original animation. It features remastered high definition picture, sound, and special effects as well as a re-recorded voice track by most of the original cast. It began broadcasting on Fuji Television on April 5, 2009. Japanese promotional poster of Dragon Ball Kaiĭragon Ball Z Kai (known in Japan as Dragon Ball Kai) is a revised version of the anime series Dragon Ball Z produced in commemoration of the original's twentieth anniversary.