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Dragon Ball Z Kai: Part Five [Blu-ray]

Colleen Clinkenbeard (Actor), Sean Schemmel (Actor), Christopher R. Sabat (Director) Rated:
NR
Format: Blu-ray
4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
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Genre Anime & Manga
Format Multiple Formats, Color, Box set, Blu-ray, Full Screen
Contributor Colleen Clinkenbeard, Monica Rial, Christopher R. Sabat, Sean Schemmel
Language Japanese, English
Number Of Discs 2
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The epic showdown between Goku and Frieza reaches its climax as planet Namek crumbles beneath their feet! In the aftermath of battle, neither fighter is anywhere to be found, but Earth’s few remaining heroes have much bigger problems. A mysterious and powerful stranger known only as Trunks arrives from the future with a warning: the Androids are coming, they take no prisoners, and even Goku – wherever he may be – is no match for their kind!

Product details

  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 3.2 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 8789
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Christopher R. Sabat
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Color, Box set, Blu-ray, Full Screen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 5 hours and 25 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ June 28, 2011
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Colleen Clinkenbeard, Sean Schemmel, Monica Rial
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ Japanese, English
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Japanese (Dolby TrueHD), English (Dolby TrueHD 5.1)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Funimation Prod
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004O724UO
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 48 ratings

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Kevin M.
5.0 out of 5 stars Dragon Ball Z! The way it's meant to be seen!!!
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2011
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Longtime fans of DBZ seem to have mixed feelings about Dragon Ball Z Kai. The reasons are very obvious. Kai cuts out a lot of the filler material that was in the original 291 episodes (they've now cut it down to a mere 98). Part 5 deals primarily with the last moments of Planet Namek and shortly after that the beginning of the Trunks Saga all the way into the middle of the Android Saga. Part 5 encompasses what are without a doubt some of my favorite episodes in the entire series. My only complaint is that they omit the entire Garlic Jr. Saga. I believe this was done for two reasons:
1) It was considered irrelevant filler
2) DBZ Kai does its absolute best to stick as close to the manga as possible and to my understanding the saga was not present there.

Regardless this is a minor complaint because the original series is still readily available in both the HD Remasters and the Dragon Boxes. DBZ Kai features completely reworked English dub which is immediately noticeable by fans of the original cast. This of course really comes down to opinion. I personally enjoyed the new voice cast, and some of the original cast does make a return. I also know others that I grew up watching the show with that felt the opposite. Another noticeable change is that the show features far more action with a lot less breaks in between (just as it advertises). I will say however this is NOT the version that aired on Nickelodeon per se. There's quite a bit of language as well as blood. Nothing too over the top of course but I can promise you it wasn't on Nickelodeon at 2 o'clock in the afternoon that's for sure. This is definitely one of the most 'uncut' versions I've seen. I say this because if you plan on buying this for a 5 year old you might be better off picking up the HD Remasters (the orange boxes).

As for the Blu Ray versions of Kai it goes without saying that there is a very noticeable difference in quality from its DVD counterpart. In short, it's absolutely worth the few extra bucks to pick up the Blu Ray version.
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RODRIGO ARAUZ
5.0 out of 5 stars Trunks vs. Mecha Frieza!!
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2011
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Dragon Ball Z Kai receives a nice change of pace after the very action-heavy pace of Part 4. Now we get a much welcome amount of humor with the discovery of Trunk's parentage, and a very funny scene with Chi-Chi. Akira Toriyama is very good at writing humor with his characters and glad we got a better fusion (get it?) of action and humor. A major change to the series itself is the music. Kai had its own musical score until it was removed for copyright infringement. So, they reedited the original Japanese music from Dragon Ball Z into Kai. It took some getting used to at first but on the whole, the original music fits in better in my opinion. I think the copyrighted Kai music was better at big fights than the original score, but the original is better for a more variety of scenes. I also noticed that on the broadcast, earlier episodes' music was also changed to the original. Does this mean that the discs with the copyrighted music will become rare??? Of course, the blu ray picture is the best this series can possibly look and I absolutely love the new dub. If you've been buying the Kai sets then you need to definitely buy this one too. If you can get past the new music you should really enjoy these episodes. Oh, I almost forgot to mention the some actual special features like in Part 3 would be nice. Look forward to Dragon Ball Z Kai Part 6!
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William J. Granger
4.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing lack of bonus features
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2015
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This is the best I've ever seen Dragonball Z. I admit that the original anime has since bored me while growing up, but Kai reinvigorated my interest in it. The quality is great too. The only reason why I didn't give a full five stars is because it didn't have a great deal of bonus features.
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P. Marck
5.0 out of 5 stars Dragon Ball Kai just got even better!
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2011
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Technical Information
* Disc Format: Blu-ray
* Num of Discs: 2
* Episodes: 53 to 65
* Audio: Japanese (TrueHD 2.0) / English (TrueHD 5.1)
* Subtitles: English
* Regions: A & B

Extras:
* Clean Opening and Ending
* Trailers

The image quality is stunning as always, great to look at (with new footage too), the episodes are now more action packed than before because of the elimination of filler it had.

Music on Dragon Ball Kai, this is an interesting piece of the set to talk about now.

The music used on the episodes are from the Dragon Ball Z series, which is by, Shunsuke Kikuchi.

Regardless of the replacement music for the episodes, the NEP's (Next Episode Preview) and eye-catch still uses the original BGM from DBK.

At times the tracks used became a little repetitive due to the fact that only 100 DBZ BGM's were utilized for Dragon Ball Kai, however, it did not bother me and I completely loved it.

Finally, this part covers the whole Human Artificial saga, Cell's is up next (Part Six).

Next Dragon Ball Kai (FUNimation) Parts:
* Part Six: 66 to 77
* Part Seven: 78 to 90
* Part Eight: 91 to 98
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James
5.0 out of 5 stars Dragon Ball Z Kai: Part 5 - Blu-ray
Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2011
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I recently bought this off Amazon.com took about a month before i got it but the wait was justified by me being able to watch it. I love this cause it removes all the filler, i hear its been redrawn/animated but i don't understand why it wasn't done in 16:9 instead of 4:3 most tv's nowadays would have 16:9 screens.

The best part of this Blu-ray is when i looked this up on Bluray.com it told me it was Region A as well as Region B because i live in Australia i needed it to be region B so i was excited by this fact, because of the sale i got it for only $20, but if i bought it from Madman over here in Aus it would of set me back $61 :(

So I'm glad i bought it off Amazon.com :D
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on November 1, 2016
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dan
5.0 out of 5 stars really enjoyed this
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 27, 2013
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the discs are region AB so are supported on european machines the disk has 11 episodes covering from the end of the namek saga to a little bit into the cell saga there wasn't much in the way of extras but the disks followed the standard of the other episodes with remastered sound and restored picture if you enjoyed this as a kid then this is definitely worth adding to your collection
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