{"id":20051,"date":"2010-02-02T17:20:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T21:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=20051"},"modified":"2010-02-02T17:21:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T21:21:10","slug":"funi-acquires-dragon-ball-kai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/funi-acquires-dragon-ball-kai\/","title":{"rendered":"FUNi Acquires Dragon Ball Kai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DBZKAI_logo_final.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DBZKAI_logo_final-450x254.jpg\" alt=\"DBZKAI_logo_final\" title=\"DBZKAI_logo_final\" width=\"450\" height=\"254\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DBZKAI_logo_final-450x254.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DBZKAI_logo_final-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/DBZKAI_logo_final.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FUNimation has <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.funimation.com\/2010\/02\/the-answer-is-yes\/\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed its acquisition<\/a> of domestic distribution rights to the current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toei-anim.co.jp\/tv\/dragon_kai\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dragon Ball Kai<\/a> anime television series, which will be released in America under the revised title &#8220;Dragon Ball Z Kai.&#8221; The domestic release will debut in this fiscal year, which may be as late as spring 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing Dragon Ball Kai, which premiered on Japanese television on April 5, 2009, is the 1989 Dragon Ball Z television series recut to adhere closer to the pacing of Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama&#8217;s original manga. Dragon Ball Kai includes remastered high definition video cropped to widescreen, digitally enhanced effects &#038; select re-animated footage, newly recorded Japanese dialogue, new theme music and credits sequences, and select censored shots of graphic violence that were not censored in the 1989 broadcast.<\/p>\n<p><i>I suppose new acquisitions are always a good thing, but after releasing the archival Dragon Box edition in America, I don&#8217;t see the advantage of following it with the censored version. Proof below.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/dbkai3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/dbkai3-131x450.jpg\" alt=\"dbkai3\" title=\"dbkai3\" width=\"131\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/dbkai3-131x450.jpg 131w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/dbkai3-87x300.jpg 87w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2010-02-02\/navarre-reveals-funimation-dragon-ball-kai-license\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FUNimation has confirmed its acquisition of domestic distribution rights to the current Dragon Ball Kai anime television series, which will be released in America under the revised title &#8220;Dragon Ball Z Kai.&#8221; The domestic release will debut in this fiscal year, which may be as late as spring 2011. The ongoing Dragon Ball Kai, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20054,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20051\/revisions\/20054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}