History Trivia / DragonballKai

* AdoredByTheNetwork:
** When Creator/{{Nicktoons}} had the rights to the series, it would be shown multiple times a day with some of the weakest excuses for marathons. 11/11/11? They showed 11 hours of the show. {{Justified|Trope}} as the show was bringing in spectactular ratings for the network at the time. It got to the point where Nicktoons began airing the original ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' movies in an almost completely uncut format, with the only real edit being a Hitler scene in ''Anime/DragonBallZFusionReborn''. All blood, violence, and profanity was kept, at a [[PrecisionFStrike TV-Y7-FV]] [[AvertedTrope rating]] no less.
** While not to the extent of Nicktoons, Creator/AdultSwim loves this show despite it completing its run on [[Creator/{{Nicktoons}} other]] [[Creator/{{Vortexx}} networks]] and being based [[Anime/DragonBallZ on a show that completed its run years ago]]. And until ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' took its slot in August 2020, on Saturdays, [=DBZKai=] was usually the first show to air after [adult swim] signed on.
* AuthorExistenceFailure:
** Creator/DaisukeGori, who was the Japanese voice actor of Gyuumao (Ox King), Lord Enma and Porunga, committed suicide partway through the initial run and his ongoing roles were recast with Creator/RyuzaburoOtomo. Mr. Satan (whom he voiced in the original) was voiced by Creator/UnshoIshizuka.
** The role of Tenshinhan, whose voice actor (Creator/HirotakaSuzuoki) died of lung cancer in the intervening years between ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' and ''Kai'', and was replaced in ''Kai'' by Creator/HikaruMidorikawa.
** Tomiko Suzuki, Dende, Marron, and Bee's voice actress, died from a heart attack in 2003; she was replaced by Creator/AyaHirano, Hiroko Ushida and Masami Suzuki, respectively.
** Creator/TakeshiAono, Kami-sama's Japanese voice actor, suffered a stroke in between the Frieza and Cell Sagas, so Creator/BinShimada took over for his final few appearances. Aono died in 2012 due to the complications of the stroke.
** Creator/KenjiUtsumi, the voice of Shenlong, died from peritoneal cancer in 2013 during the three-year gap between the Cell and Buu sagas. Like with Daisuke Gori above, Ryuzaburo Otomo took over the voice for Shenlong when the series resumed and the Buu Saga began airing.
* ChannelHop:
** The show was initially licensed by Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} and aired on Creator/{{Nicktoons}} with edits for content. After the show was taken off the air, due to Nickelodeon presumably losing the license, ''Kai'' moved to Creator/AdultSwim and currently airs uncut on the revived Creator/{{Toonami}}.
** A minor example for the show's run on broadcast networks. Creator/FourKidsEntertainment licensed the show for airing on Creator/{{Toonzai}}. When Toonzai ended and was replaced by the Creator/SabanBrands-run Creator/{{Vortexx}}, ''Kai'' remained as one of the holdovers from Toonzai (and was notably one of the few shows that continued to air on Vortexx until that block was replaced).
* CreatorCouple:
** In the first 98 episodes of the Latin American Spanish dub of ''Kai'', Master Roshi was voiced by Jorge Roig, the husband of Bulma's voice actress Creator/RocioGarcel.
** Creator/MarianaOrtiz, the first Latin American Spanish voice of Yajirobe in ''Kai'', was married to the character's second Latin American Spanish voice Creator/LuisDanielRamirez.[[note]]Who was already the character's second voice actor in ''DBZ'' after its first actor Creator/AraceliDeLeon's death.[[/note]] They have since divorced.
** Cynthia Eslava Sarli, the translator for the Latin American Spanish dub, is the wife of Armando Coria, Dodoria's Latin American Spanish voice actor.
* DirectedByCastMember:
** As with most of ''DBZ'', the original ''Manga/DragonBall'', and the movies, Creator/ChristopherSabat returned to direct the English dub.
** The Latin American Spanish dub of the first 98 episodes were directed from episodes 1 to 54 by Creator/IrwinDaayan, Dende's voice actor, and from episodes 55 to 98 by Creator/PatriciaAcevedo, who played Chi-Chi (Milk in the Spanish dub) and Chaotzu (Chaoz in the dub). For ''The Final Chapters'', Gohan's voice actor Luis Alfonso Mendoza directed the dub.
* ExecutiveMeddling: In ''The Final Chapters'', Toei forced [=FUNimation=] to replace the audio of Cell Games Reenactment that featured Creator/TeamFourStar's voices with the audio from the original dub.[[note]]The team "reprising" their roles from ''Dragon Ball Z Abridged'', with the exception of Curtis Arnott, who played Fake!Mr. Satan, with plenty of in-jokes to the ''Dragon Ball Z'' dub.[[/note]]
* FanEdit: The author of ''Dragon Ball Recut'', a much-revered reduced-filler edit of the first ''Dragon Ball'' anime, is working on an edit of ''Kai'' that'll try to remove the pieces of filler that ''Kai'' still retained; the author's noted that some scenes, such as those involving Gregory, are too ingrained with the main story to remove, while many others, like the infamous Ginyu/Bulma body switch episode, were quite expendable.
* FanNickname: For the two parts of the series itself. After ''The Final Chapters'' came out, there have been several names fans have given both it and the first 98 episodes to distinguish both from each other. For the first 98 episodes, fans either refer to it as ''Kai'', or "''Kai 1.0''", while ''The Final Chapters'' gets either the abbreviated "''TFC''", "''Kai TFC''", "''Kai 2.0''", "Buu Kai", &/or "Boo Kai".
* FandomNod:
** The series included a little ShoutOut to ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' by having Nappa note that he hates the media.
** Another nod in one episode Vegeta shoots one of Freiza's men and the [[StockScream Wilhelm Scream]] is used, in ''Dragon Ball Z Abridged'' the scream was used in the same scene right after two of Freiza's henchmen were discussing it.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes:
** 95 episodes of ''Dragon Ball Kai'' with the Kenji Yamamoto score aired from April 5, 2009 to March 6, 2011, before he was fired by Toei for UsefulNotes/{{plagiarism}}, mainly of the scores for ''Avatar'' and ''Terminator: Salvation''. Reruns of these particular episodes have since replaced it with cues from the Shunsuke Kikuchi score from ''DBZ''. On the respective Japanese Blu-ray, Japanese DVD, American television airings, and American DVD/Blu-rays,[[note]]Parts 1-4, not the "season" sets.[[/note]] the Yamamoto score was intact on episodes #001-#076, #001-#072, #001-#063, and #001-#052. So your best bet to getting ''all'' 95 ''Kai'' episodes with the Yamamoto score would be to trade with someone who recorded the show off of Fuji Television during the aforementioned period in the run. Episodes #096-#098 were never released with the Yamamoto score, so you would be completely out of luck finding those with the music intact.
** The Cell Games Reenactment with Team Four Star's dialogue isn't featured on the home releases, but ''is'' floating around on the internet after a fan saw that their audio was still in a streamed version and quickly recorded it after seeing it, then put it online for all to see.
* TheOriginalDarrin:
** Japanese version:
*** Masaharu Satou was the original voice actor for Master Roshi following Kohei Miyauchi's death, but was replaced shortly afterward by Hiroshi Masuoka. Satou returned as Roshi for ''Kai'' and has continued to provide his voice since.
** English version:
*** Chris Cason was the original voice of Mr. Popo for [=FUNimation=]'s in-house dub, but left after the Frieza Saga was over, and Chris Sabat took over when the Android Saga began. Cason resumed his role as Mr. Popo when ''Kai'' was dubbed, 11 years later.
*** When the English dub of ''Kai'' was originally recorded, Brad Jackson had temporarily left [=FUNimation=] during the time period, so Creator/BryanMassey voiced Oolong for its original run as well as the dub of the first film, ''[[Anime/DragonBallCurseOfTheBloodRubies Curse of the Blood Rubies]]''. By the time, ''The Final Chapters'' was dubbed, Jackson had returned and resumed his role as Oolong, also playing him in the English dubs of both ''Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods'' and ''Anime/DragonBallSuper''.
*** Burter is voiced by Creator/VicMignogna, who had earlier voiced the role in the uncut redub for the first 67 episodes for ''DBZ''. However, he himself was redubbed by Chris Sabat for consistency for the uncut box sets, because he was unavailable to redub Mark Britten's lines for his other appearances. Sabat had previously voiced the role in some video games, and has since returned to the role again in recent games.
** Latin American Spanish version:
*** Creator/RocioGarcel and Creator/EduardoGarza, the original and second voice actors for Bulma and Krillin, respectively,[[note]]Garza having taken over Rossy Aguirre, who voiced Krillin as a kid and young adult from his first appereance until episode 60 of ''DBZ''[[/note]] resumed their roles here after being replaced by Creator/MonicaManjarrez and Creator/LuisDanielRamirez during the Buu Saga. Likewise, Creator/JoseLavat returned as the narrator of the series after being also replaced by Joaquín Martal in ''Anime/DragonBallGT''.
* TheOtherDarrin:
** Japanese version:
*** Invoked midway due to the suicide of Creator/DaisukeGori; his roles have been filled by Ryuzaburo Ohtomo. Mr. Satan was replaced with Creator/UnshoIshizuka when he appeared. Likewise, Ohtomo took over for Shenlong due to Creator/KenjiUtsumi dying in between the three-year-gap that took place between the Cell and Buu sagas airing.
*** Creator/BinShimada later replaced Creator/TakeshiAono as Kami-sama during his last appearances in the Android Saga following Aono's hospitalization for a stroke. Aono subsequently died from complications caused by it in 2012. He would also replace Creator/JojiYanami as Babidi for the Buu Saga, though Yanami continued to voice the Narrator and King Kai.
*** Creator/YukoMinaguchi was replaced by Shino Kakinuma as Videl, due to Minaguchi studying abroad at the time.
*** The entire Ginyu Force was also replaced, along with Zarbon and Dodoria.
** English version:
*** Most notable is Frieza's English voice. In the original Ocean dub and the early [=FUNimation=] dubs, [[CrossDressingVoices female voice actress provided his voice]].[[note]]Pauline Newstone and Linda Young, respectively.[[/note]] This, along with Frieza's character design and effeminate personality, led to ViewerGenderConfusion among Western viewers. In ''Kai'', a male voice actor, Creator/ChrisAyres, was selected to voice Frieza.[[note]]Young would provide Frieza's laugh at the beginning of the first episode, though.[[/note]] The reason for this being that they apparently had Young start to record the series as Frieza, but when they realized she wouldn't most likely be able to talk as fast as the animation and scripts needed, the role was recasted.
*** Stephanie Nadolny and Meredith [=McCoy=]'s respective roles of young Gohan and Android 18 were taken over by Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard. Although [=McCoy=] was supposedly contacted to reprise her role, Clinkenbeard was brought in anyway as a last minute substitute.[[note]]Since she had filled in for a video game before, and was voicing Gohan anyway.[[/note]] Even when [=McCoy=] started voicing 18 again in the later films, ''Super'', and video games, unlike Brad Jackson, they had Clinkenbeard voice her in ''The Final Chapters'' to maintain consistency. To this day, it is not 100% clear why Nadolny was replaced, as she claims she was interested in reprising the role.
*** Creator/MonicaRial replaced Tiffany Vollmer as the voice of Bulma. Vollmer says she had retired from voice acting, and later moved to New Orleans to pursue a career as a makeup artist.
*** Creator/ToddHaberkorn, the voice of Allen Walker in ''Manga/DGrayMan'', took over duties as Android 19, sounding even ''more'' robotic than the original dub voice.
*** Doc Morgan replaced Creator/KyleHebert as the voice of the narrator. Hebert would still voice Ox King and reprise his role as Gohan in ''The Final Chapters'', however.
*** Creator/BrinaPalencia replaced Monika Antonelli as Puar and Chiaotzu, as she had already done so in then-recent video games. Antonelli had moved away to Minnesota.
*** The Ginyu Force was completely replaced, except for Sabat as Recoome. Creator/RBruceElliott replaced the retired Brice Armstrong as Ginyu,[[note]]who himself had replaced Dale D. Kelly[[/note]], Creator/VicMignogna replaced Sabat as Burter while Creator/JasonLiebrecht replaced Sabat as Jeice,[[note]]Sabat has since returned to the two roles in video games[[/note]] and Creator/GregAyres replaced Bill Townsley as Guldo.[[note]]Townsley still returned to voice Cui.[[/note]]
*** Creator/AlexisTipton, who started voicing Trunks in ''Super'', is his character's half of Gotenks' voice for some reason. Additionally, Tipton also took over the role of Erasa, a classmate of Gohan and Videl's, from Creator/LauraBailey.
*** The broadcast dub uses Vic Mignogna as the singer for the shortened opening, while the Part DVD and Blu-ray sets switched the singers for the first six between Sean Schemmel, Justin Cook, Vic Mignogna, Greg Ayres, Sonny Strait, and Brina Palencia, while the last two feature a few different mixes of the voices switching off lines.
*** While Creator/DameonClarke, Cell's original English voice actor, [[http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/news/Dameon-Clarke-confirms-return-for-DBZ-Kai/ would reprise his role]] as TheOriginalDarrin, for Cell's lines in one of the Hell scenes in ''The Final Chapters'', as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIt3yPhh4s8&t=52s here]], he's voiced by Jim Foronda instead, who doesn't even remotely sound anything like him.[[note]]This is weird for several reasons; first is the fact that Clarke voiced Cell in the character's earlier appearances in the series, so it breaks a bit of vocal consistency with the character, they most likely could've gotten Creator/TravisWillingham to sub in, since he was also dubbing Ace's scenes in the ''One Piece'' dub while they were recording the dub of ''The Final Chapters'', or they could've simply reused his line from ''Z'', as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQUboi9ObnQ here]], and since they reused the ''Z'' lines for the Cell Games Reenactment to replace Team Four Star's, this wouldn't be that jarring.[[/note]]
*** For the first 98 episodes, Oolong was voiced by Creator/BryanMassey. In ''The Final Chapters'', Brad Jackson was finally brought back to reprise his role.
*** In an odd case, that's more of TheOtherMarty, it was shown in a preview that several members of Team Four Star recorded the voice parts of the actors in the "reenactment" scene of the fight with Cell that were dressed as the characters they play in ''Dragon Ball Z Abridged'' with their abridged voices. However, once the episode with the scene aired, their dialogue was replaced with a mix of the original ''DBZ'' dub's dialogue from the same scene. This was apparently demanded by Toei.
** Eventually subverted with the Latin American Spanish version:
*** For the first 98 episodes, aside from Eduardo Garza and Rocío Garcel [[RoleReprise reprising their roles]] as {{The Original Darrin}}s for Krillin and Bulma, most of the main characters were recast for financial reasons. It was also recorded at Candiani Dubbing Studios, as the original studio Creator/{{Intertrack}} was shut down. Makes sense with Yajirobe, whose original voice actor Creator/AraceliDeLeon died of a heart attack in 1999;[[note]]And here is voiced back by Luis Daniel Ramírez, who had replaced de León back in ''DBZ'', before Ramírez in turn was replaced by José Arenas during the Buu Saga[[/note]] as well as Master Roshi, whose voice actor Jesús Colín retired from acting in 2005 and moved to Acapulco, and subsequently died in 2011 of natural causes. The fiasco surrounding the financial issues caused Toei to re-organize its Latin American division.
*** By the time ''The Final Chapters'' premiered in Latin America, most of the original Latin American Spanish cast, including Creator/MarioCastaneda, Creator/ReneGarcia, and Creator/GerardoReyero, [[RoleReprise returned to reprise their roles]] [[TheOriginalDarrin that were previously re-cast]]. Majin Boo and Ox-King, however, were, respectively, re-cast with Marcos Patiño and Enrique Cervantes,[[note]]As by then Majin Boo and Ox-King's voice actor Mario Sauret had retired from voice acting in 2013 and was living in Querétaro due to labor issues.[[/note]] and Mr. Satan, Cell, and the Budokai announcer retain their voices from the previous dub of ''Kai''. As a bonus, Garza, Garcel and the actors voicing secondary characters who had reprised their roles stayed with the cast for the series.
* PosthumousCredit: Despite dying of a heart attack months before the Buu Saga episodes even started airing, Creator/IchiroNagai recorded all of his lines several months in advance and was given a credit as Karin.
* PromotedFanboy: Thanks to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJyUz-Xp6jM&t=11s this promo]], it's clear that Fake Goku and Fake Vegeta were voiced by Lawrence Simpson (Creator/MasakoX) and Nick Landis (Creator/{{Lanipator}}) of ''Dragon Ball Z Abridged''. Though this was left out of the broadcast version, the lines were still recorded and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzdsEsbkbic released online]].
* RealLifeRelative:
** Cynthia Eslava Sarli, the translator of the Latin American Spanish dub, is the older sister of Creator/IrwinDaayan, Dende's Latin American Spanish voice actor.
** Nayeli Mendoza Adame, Bee's Latin American Spanish voice actress, is the daughter of Luis Alfonso Mendoza, Gohan's Latin American Spanish voice actor and the dubbing director for ''The Final Chapters'', and the niece of Creator/RicardoMendoza, the Latin American Spanish voice actor for Yamcha and Guldo.
** Guillermo and Armando Coria, the Latin American Spanish voice actors for Dr. Gero and Dodoria, respectively, are uncle-and-nephew in real life.
* RoleEndingMisdemeanor:
** Kenji Yamamoto was the first composer for ''Kai''. However, Yamamoto was fired by Toei in 2011 after it was revealed he'd been plagiarizing tracks going as far back as 1991. This resulted in Yamamoto's score for ''Kai'' being replaced by the original Shunsuke Kikuchi score from ''DBZ'', both in later episodes and in DVD releases. Eventually, Norihito Sumitomo composed the music for ''The Final Chapters'', cementing him as the ''de facto'' composer for the ''Dragon Ball'' series.
** Team Four Star, specifically Scott Frerichs, Nick Landis, Curtis Arnott, and maybe Lawrence Simpson, who lives in his home country of the UK, got "greylisted" from working at [=FUNimation=] for a while as a result of Toei finding out that Chris Sabat tried to sneak them into the dub of ''The Final Chapters''.
* RoleReprise: Quite a few. For some, ''DBZ'' was their first voice acting role before becoming major players in the industry.
* ScheduleSlip: For the Buu Saga English dub. Back in 2012, Creator/MayumiTanaka, Krillin's Japanese voice actress, announced that the rest of the series was being put together specifically for overseas broadcasts. However, it wasn't until December 7, 2016 when [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-12-07/dragon-ball-z-kai-buu-saga-to-air-on-toonami/.109619 it was finally announced that]] the Buu Saga would be airing in January 2017 back to back with ''Super'', under its overseas title, ''The Final Chapters''. It was during this time that [=FUNimation=] released new ''DBZ'' Blu-rays, dubbed ''Battle of Gods'' and ''Resurrection 'F[='=]'', the latter in less time than they did the former, and announced that they were going to dub ''Super''.
* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: The English dub for ''The Final Chapters'' was recorded in 2013, but wasn't broadcast until 2017.
* StuntCasting:
** Creator/AyaHirano [[CrossdressingVoices as Dende]]. His recast English voice actress Creator/MaxeyWhitehead could count given her breakout role of [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Alphonse Elric]], but she'd already developed a niche for voicing young boys by then.
** Team Four Star's casting for the Cell Games Reenactment was pretty brilliant on Chris Sabat's part, since they'd become the most well-known abridging group on the internet to both ''Dragon Ball'' fans and non-fans alike, and had been voice actors at [=FUNimation=] for several years by then, doing tertiary and secondary voices in several of their properties.
* TalkingToHimself:
** Japanese version:
*** Masako Nozawa as Goku, Gohan, and Goten.
** English version:
*** Creator/SeanSchemmel as Goku and King Kai.
*** Christopher Sabat as Yamcha, Piccolo, and Vegeta.
*** Colleen Clinkenbeard as Gohan and Android 18.
*** Kara Edwards as Goten and Videl.
* ThrowItIn: One can tell from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzdsEsbkbic&t=70s this clip]] that all of the lines in the Cell Games Reenactment were entirely made up. Given that this was Team Four Star's doing, it's par for the course with their comedy and writing.
* UnCanceled: The series was cancelled in Japan after the end of the Cell Saga. Due to its [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff overseas popularity]], more episodes were produced for the international market. However, despite initial word being that it was specifically for the international market, ''Kai'' actually returned to Japanese TV on April 6, 2014 following the cancellation of ''Manga/{{Toriko}}''.
* UrbanLegendOfZelda:
** A rumor apparently going around on some forums indicates that Chris Sabat wanted Creator/ScottMcNeil, Piccolo's Ocean voice actor, to take over for the official [=FUNimation=] dub actor for him. This has never been confirmed by Sabat himself, and doesn't really make much sense, since he's been his official American English actor since 1999. This most likely stems from him giving up a lot of his secondary and tertiary roles in this series from ''DBZ'' to other actors to lighten his work load, but still keeping the important ones; Vegeta, Piccolo, Yamcha, Kami, Shenron, Porunga, and a few others. It might also come from the fact that [=McNeil=] voiced Shiki in the dub of ''One Piece: Strong World'', and the episodes of the show that he appeared in, in 2012, two years after the ''Kai'' dub started production.
** Among the fiasco of the Latin American Spanish dub, there was a rumor that the reason Creator/IrwinDaayan, Dende's voice actor and director of the first 54 episodes of ''Kai'' in that dub, quit directing ''Kai'' after episode 54 and subsequently didn't reprise his role as Dende in ''Battle of Gods'' and ''Super'' was because of the backlash ''Kai'' received in the region. While the circumstances behind him not reprising his role in ''Battle of Gods'' and ''Super'' are unknown and may have to do with the backlash, he has gone on record as saying that he actually quit directing because of financial reasons.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** At one point, Sean Schemmel and Chris Sabat briefly discussed the show getting an alternate English dub like most every other show in the franchise through the Ocean cast and studios. Kirby Morrow, Goku's third Ocean dub voice, then discussed the dub sometime later and said that casting was underway and that he sounded "too cool" to reprise the role. Many other Canadian voice actors, some that were a part of the Ocean ''DBZ'' dub, have also mentioned being a part of it. Then, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Qs5FfhO2Q in Geekdom101's video interview with Brian Drummond]], Drummond mentioned that he had recorded all of his lines as Vegeta for the dub some time ago. Then Kix, a UK kid's network, started airing their own edit of the [=FUNimation=] dub instead of the Ocean dub, leading many confused and speculating over the reasons, with the leading theory being that a lack of interest from Canadian broadcasters is the reason why the dub hasn't surfaced in Canada at least. So, the recordings are most likely sitting on a hard drive somewhere in Canada going to waste.
** Creator/LindaYoung was originally announced as reprising her role as Frieza, and her laugh is heard in the first episode. She also recorded a few more later episodes before Sabat decided to recast the role with a male voice in the role. However, Young continued voicing other characters such as Baba and Piza.
** Meredith [=McCoy=] was asked to reprise her role as Android 18, but turned it down, as she was living in Nashville at the time. Colleen Clinkenbeard was brought in to replace her at the last minute, as she had already filled in for the ''Shin Budokai'' video game in 2006. [=McCoy=] later returned to the role beginning in 2014 after moving back to Texas.
** Creator/DameonClarke was living in Los Angeles at the time recording took place, so his return as Cell was up in the air for a while. Creator/TravisWillingham, who had earlier filled in for several video games, was tapped as his replacement if he couldn't work it out.
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** Creator/MarianaOrtiz, the first Latin American Spanish voice of Yajirobe in ''Kai'', is the wife of the character's second Latin American Spanish voice Creator/LuisDanielRamirez.[[note]]Who was already the character's second voice actor in ''DBZ'' after its first actor Creator/AraceliDeLeon's death.[[/note]]

*** When the English dub of ''Kai'' was originally recorded, Brad Jackson had temporarily left [=FUNimation=] during the time period, so Creator/BryanMassey voiced Oolong for its original run as well as the dub of the first film, ''Curse of the Blood Rubies''. By the time, ''The Final Chapters'' was dubbed, Jackson had returned and resumed his role as Oolong, also playing him in the English dubs of both ''Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods'' and ''Anime/DragonBallSuper''.

** While not to the extent of Nicktoons, Creator/AdultSwim loves this show despite it completing its run on [[Creator/{{Nicktoons}} other]] [[Creator/{{Vortexx}} networks]] and being based [[Anime/DragonBallZ on a show that completed its run years ago]]. And until ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' took its slot in August 2020, [=DBZKai=] was usually the first show to air after [adult swim] signed on on Saturdays.

** While not to the extent of Nicktoons, Creator/AdultSwim loves this show despite it completing its run on [[Creator/{{Nicktoons}} other]] [[Creator/{{Vortexx}} networks]] and being based [[Anime/DragonBallZ on a show that completed its run years ago]]. And until ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' took its slot in August 2020, [=DBZKai=] was usually the first show to air after [adult swim] signed on.

** Creator/AdultSwim loves airing the show despite it completing its run on [[Creator/{{Nicktoons}} other]] [[Creator/{{Vortexx}} networks]] and being based on a show that [[Anime/DragonBallZ completed its run years ago]]. And until ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' took its slot in August 2020, [=DBZKai=] was usually the first show to air after [adult swim] signed on.

* AdoredByTheNetwork: Creator/AdultSwim loves airing the show despite it completing its run on [[Creator/{{Nicktoons}} other]] [[Creator/{{Vortexx}} networks]] and being based on a show that [[Anime/DragonBallZ completed its run years ago]]. And until ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' took its slot in August 2020, [=DBZKai=] was usually the first show to air after [adult swim] signed on.

* AdoredByTheNetwork: Creator/AdultSwim loves airing the show despite it completing its run on [[Creator/{{Nicktoons}} other]] [[Creator/{{Vortexx}} networks]] and being based on a show that [[Anime/DragonBallZ completed its run years ago]]. And until ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' took its slot in August 2020, DBZKai was usually the first show to air after [adult swim] signed on.

* AdoredByTheNetwork: Creator/AdultSwim loves airing the show despite it completing its run on [[Creator/{{Nicktoons}} other]] [[Creator/{{Vortexx}} networks]] and being based on a show that [[Anime/DragonBallZ completed its run years ago]]. Heck, it even airs on the normal block as well being one of the few anime shows to do that. Even after it finished its run in 2018, it was chosen to lead off the block on Saturdays where it airs to this very day.

* AdoredByTheNetwork: Creator/AdultSwim loves airing the show despite it completing its run on [[Creator/{{Nicktoons}} other]] [[Creator/{{Vortexx}} networks]] and being based on a show that [[Anime/DragonBallZ completed its run years ago]]. Heck, it even airs on the normal block as well being one of the few anime shows to do that. It currently leads the block off on Saturdays.

** Japanese version:
*** Creator/DaisukeGori, who was the Japanese voice actor of Gyuumao (Ox King), Lord Enma and Porunga, committed suicide partway through the initial run and his ongoing roles were recast with Creator/RyuzaburoOtomo. Mr. Satan (whom he voiced in the original) was voiced by Creator/UnshoIshizuka.
*** The role of Tenshinhan, whose voice actor (Creator/HirotakaSuzuoki) died of lung cancer in the intervening years between ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' and ''Kai'', and was replaced in ''Kai'' by Creator/HikaruMidorikawa.
*** Tomiko Suzuki, Dende, Marron, and Bee's voice actress, died from a heart attack in 2003; she was replaced by Creator/AyaHirano, Hiroko Ushida and Masami Suzuki, respectively.
*** Creator/TakeshiAono, Kami-sama's Japanese voice actor, suffered a stroke in between the Frieza and Cell Sagas, so Creator/BinShimada took over for his final few appearances. Aono died in 2012 due to the complications of the stroke.
*** Creator/KenjiUtsumi, the voice of Shenlong, died from peritoneal cancer in 2013 during the three-year gap between the Cell and Buu sagas. Like with Daisuke Gori above, Ryuzaburo Otomo took over the voice for Shenlong when the series resumed and the Buu Saga began airing.
** Latin American Spanish version:
*** Jorge Roig took over Master Roshi for the first 98 episodes, followed by Miguel Angel Sanróman for ''The Final Chapters'', to replace his original voice actor Jesús Colín, who had died in 2011.

* OlderThanTheyThink: The first official attempt to cut down the filler in the ''Dragon Ball Z'' anime was the 1996-1998 Saban English dub of the Saiyan and early Namek arcs done in collaboration with Funimation and The Ocean Group. It reduced 67 episodes to 53, and despite being censored, is the preferred cut of those episodes among many fans, to the point where Funimation reissued this version in a limited edition boxset in 2013. One compliment of this cut is that it removed the worst and most excessive filler, but still left in the more entertaining filler episodes, and enough to allow for good character development.

* OlderThanTheyThink: The first official attempt to cut down the filler in the ''Dragon Ball Z'' anime was the 1996-1998 Saban English dub of the Saiyan and early Namek arcs done in collaboration with Funimation and The Ocean Group. It recuded 67 episodes to 53, and despite being censored, is the preferred cut of those episodes among many fans, to the point where Funimation reissued this version in a limited edition boxset in 2013. One compliment of this cut is that it removed the worst and most excessive filler, but still left in the more entertaining filler episodes, and enough to allow for good character development.

*** Likewise with Dende, Marron, and Bee's voice actress (Tomiko Suzuki), who died from a heart attack in 2003; she was replaced by Creator/AyaHirano, Hiroko Ushida and Masami Suzuki, respectively.

*** Creator/BinShimada later replaced Creator/TakeshiAono as Kami-sama during his last appearances in the Android saga following Aono's hospitalization for a stroke. Aono subsequently died from complications caused by it in 2012. He would also replace Creator/JojiYanami as Babidi for the Buu saga, though Yanami continued to voice the Narrator and King Kai.

* UnCanceled: The series was cancelled in Japan after the end of the Cell Saga, presumably [[ScrewedByTheMerchandise due to low merchandise sales]]. Due to its [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff overseas popularity]], more episodes were produced for the international market. However, despite initial word being that it was specifically for the international market, ''Kai'' actually returned to Japanese TV on April 6, 2014 following the cancellation of ''Manga/{{Toriko}}''.

*** The entire Ginyu Force was also replaced.

*** For the first 98 episodes, aside from Eduardo Garza and Rocío Garcel [[RoleReprisal reprising their roles]] as {{The Original Darrin}}s for Krillin and Bulma, most of the main characters were recast for financial reasons. It was also recorded at Candiani Dubbing Studios, as the original studio Creator/{{Intertrack}} was shut down. Makes sense with Yajirobe, whose original voice actor Creator/AraceliDeLeon died of a heart attack in 1999;[[note]]And here is voiced back by Luis Daniel Ramírez, who had replaced de León back in ''DBZ'', before Ramírez in turn was replaced by José Arenas during the Buu Saga[[/note]] as well as Master Roshi, whose voice actor Jesús Colín retired from acting in 2005 and moved to Acapulco, and subsequently died in 2011 of natural causes. The fiasco surrounding the financial issues caused Toei to re-organize its Latin American division.
*** By the time ''The Final Chapters'' premiered in Latin America, most of the original Latin American Spanish cast, including Creator/MarioCastaneda, Creator/ReneGarcia, and Creator/GerardoReyero, [[RoleReprisal returned to reprise their roles]] [[TheOriginalDarrin that were previously re-cast]]. Majin Boo and Ox-King, however, were, respectively, re-cast with Marcos Patiño and Enrique Cervantes,[[note]]As by then Majin Boo and Ox-King's voice actor Mario Sauret had retired from voice acting in 2013 and was living in Querétaro due to labor issues.[[/note]] and Mr. Satan, Cell, and the Budokai announcer retain their voices from the previous dub of ''Kai''. As a bonus, Garza, Garcel and the actors voicing secondary characters who had reprised their roles stayed with the cast for the series.

* RoleReprisal: Quite a few. For some, ''DBZ'' was their first voice acting role before becoming major players in the industry.

** Kenji Yamamoto was the first composer for ''Kai''. However, Yamamoto was fired by Toei in 2011 after it was revealed he'd been plagiarizing tracks going as far back as 1991. This resulted in Yamamoto's score for ''Kai'' being replaced by the original Shunsuke Kikuchi score from ''DBZ'', both in later episodes and in DVD releases.

*** Creator/BinShimada later replaced Creator/TakeshiAono as Kami-sama during his last appearances in the Android saga following Aono's hospitalization for a stroke. Aono subsequently died from complications caused by it in 2012.

*** Doc Morgan replaced Creator/KyleHebert as the voice of the narrator. Hebert would reprise his role as Gohan in ''The Final Chapters'', however.

*** The Ginyu Force was completely replaced, except for Sabat as Recoome. Creator/RBruceElliott replaced the retired Brice Armstrong as Ginyu,[[note]]who himself had replaced Dale D. Kelly[[/note]] Creator/JasonLiebrecht replaced Sabat as Jeice,[[note]]Sabat has since returned to the role in video games[[/note]] and Creator/GregAyres replaced Bill Townsley as Guldo.[[note]]Townsley still returned to voice Cui.[[/note]]

** Another nod in one episode Vegeta shoots one of Freiza's men and the WilhelmScream is used, in ''Dragon Ball Z Abridged'' the scream was used in the same scene right after two of Freiza's henchmen were discussing it.