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"Dragon Ball Kai" Saiyan Story Arc (#1-16) Talkback (Spoilers)

Well, like I said, I said I want to leave my 2 cents.

"Dragon Ball Kai" Saiyan Story Arc (#1-16) Talkback (Spoilers)

I'd agree with that.


Also, if you have nothing to discuss of the Saiyan arc, can we move this to the Planet Namek arc thread (check my signiture)?

"Dragon Ball Kai" Saiyan Story Arc (#1-16) Talkback (Spoilers)

I'm not saying its the worst OST ever, but it really didn't felt right. Didn't feel “Old-school” to me.

"Dragon Ball Kai" Saiyan Story Arc (#1-16) Talkback (Spoilers)

While I don't quite care for much of how the score is used here, there are certainly some good pieces. However, the breakneck pace of Kai sort of seems to be taxing Yamamoto's score.

Yamamoto's been doing DragonBall for years now. While I wish the Kikuchi score was being used, this is still a pretty good musical score.

"Dragon Ball Kai" Saiyan Story Arc (#1-16) Talkback (Spoilers)

I want to give my quick 2 cents about DBKai.

Though, I still personally think I still don't see whats the big deal is, but...

One is I love how they remove all the filers and unnecessary scenes. Pretty much skipping the boring stuff to straight to the fun. The color is ok. And, I got pretty much used to the OP/ED themes (But CHA-LA-HEAD-CHA-LA will always be the best)
And the JP dub. Yeah-Yeah-Yeah, always good, blah-blah-blah.


Though, I did found some parts to...Well, killed it for me.

I think in episode 16 were Vegeta went onto his rampage with Gohan. Some of the new animation killed it for me. I mean, it didn't felt right. I think the original animation work was the best.

And the new OST. Don't like it. Which, I find it odd ppl complain that FUNi OST was trying to sound cool; I personally think this new OST JP made sound more like they are trying to hard to make it cool then FUNi OST. I say just keep the original JP OST then making new ones.

But in all, yeah. I'll give it 7.5/10.

"Dragon Ball Kai" Saiyan Story Arc (#1-16) Talkback (Spoilers)

I agree that replacing the opening animation, not the song itself, could be a good idea. If anything I wan't to see Cell in the opening for the androiRAB saga.

"Dragon Ball Kai" Saiyan Story Arc (#1-16) Talkback (Spoilers)

That'd definitely be the best way to do it. I really like Dragon Soul personally, and think it would fit for the entirety of the series.

"Dragon Ball Kai" Saiyan Story Arc (#1-16) Talkback (Spoilers)

Yeah, that's what I was hoping for too. They remove the stuff with Goku fighting Vegeta and replace it with Freeza or the Saibamen and replace it with the Ginyu Force.

"Dragon Ball Kai" Saiyan Story Arc (#1-16) Talkback (Spoilers)

Like I said, some of the animation might be changed out for more Namek-centric animation, but for the most part the opening is good. There's no reason for them to change it and it's likely we'd have heard of Tanimonoto doing new vocals by now. Right now 50 episodes are confirmed. For all we know the series will only go up to the end of the Planet Namek arc with Gok

"Dragon Ball Kai" Saiyan Story Arc (#1-16) Talkback (Spoilers)

Yeah but Dragonball/Dragonball Z/Dragonball GT was in a different timeline from current anime. Anime back in the 80's/90's kept one theme and usually only changed the images depending on the arc they were adapating/doing. Nowadays long term ainme changes openings once every season of 20 something episodes. Dragonball Kai may jump aboard with that since times are different and they can't keep the opening they have now since it's primarily Sayian based. And really in truth since it's not like they're completley animating new material for the eps most of they're money may go into new openings/endings anyway.