Before i watch DBZ

should i watch Dragon ball z or Dragon ball z Kai

Edit: i'm watching them both starting with Dragon Ball Z

DBZ Kai is a remake of the original, but remastered and some stuff redrawn. However, they made it shorter too. The first DBZ followed the manga and that's why it's over 200 episodes. Kai has some major arcs cut out so you get a series with 200 + reduced to around 50 episodes. I haven't seen Kai yet, but this what I read. My recommendation watch the original first and then Kai. That way you won't lose miss anything. Hope this helps.

yeah it did thanks

Well, I've never watched the original, but from my understanding, this is massively false. Kai is supposed to be extremely true to the manga. The original anime had tons of filler because a weekly anime covers content 3x as fast as a weekly manga (20pages/weekly chapter and 60pages/weekly episode), so all those story arcs were invented to give Akira Toriyama time to write the real story. It really baffles my why JP animation studios work like this rather than alternating which shows they do.


Second, your ratio is exaggerated to the point of hyperbole. It's much closer to a 1:2 ratio than a 1:4 ratio. (just over 50 kai episodes have covered the equivalent of just over 100 original episodes)

Long story short , go watch Kai and forget about DBZ.

Sifian is in the right here. Kai is truer to the Manga and DBZ has a shit ton of filler. I for one didn't mind the filler, but whatever.

Watch Dragon Ball of course before watching DBZ or Kai and I suggest the Dub versions. The Dragon Ball series is one of the best dubbed series ever. I can't stand the Japanese voices as they don't sound near GAR enough.

Yeah, it's a question of whether you prefer your main protagonist, who is supposed to be one of the greatest warriors ever, sounding like a 60yr old woman, or double the duration or zoomed in faces of warriors screaming at each other without any real action.

Or wait for the Dubbed Kai- which would be the best of both worlds, but will take forever.

Well theres that new DBZ game coming out, Raging blast 2. So maybe the dubs should be on their way =)

^This and anytime your bored always listen to Sean Schemmel and Chris Saban in a screaming contest. Though personally when it came to Vegeta's Dub I always preferred Ryan Drummond over him.

Completely False. Have no idea where you got your information from. Like what the others say, Kai is follows the manga more closely without the lengthening and wasting hours of your life. Forget Z and watch Kai.

Yep. Kai is basically the filler-free version. Watch that. Also its remastered so its going to look and sound better.

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That doesn't make any sense

I'm a real fan and it's pretty obvious that DBZ Kai is a lot better.

Like people have already said, it's been remastered, re-dubbed and edited to follow the manga (a.k.a. no gay fillers or 5 minute doomsday deadlines that take fifteen 20 minute episodes).