Feast your pretty little eyes on this:
Japan is getting a new Dragon Ball Series Starting April 5th, 2009. But allow me to crush your dreams (partially) right now. Dragon Ball Kai isn’t a new series, but rather a condensed version of Dragon Ball Z. How condensed, you ask? Try 100 Episodes. Hopefully they are going to (hopefully) cut out the filler and that 10 episode 5-minute Freeza fight for starters.
DBK (oh man, I love the sound of that!) also brings those 100 episodes remastered in High Definition. OK, I know what you’re thinking: “Didn’t Funimation just do this with the whole series!??” Well, yes and no. Funimation created Hi-def masters of DBZ, but they made them from OLD Betamax tapes and cropped the top and bottom of the original frames. Also, their “remastering” was little more than a photoshop filter ran on the frames…
…but I digress. No only will Toei NOT be cropping the original frames, but they will also be adding art to the sides of frames to make this a true widescreen dbz release. We are talking a frame by frame restoration and master in High Definition!!! Also, it will be airing in High Vision (Japan’s term for High Definition).
Excited? Annoyed? Sound off!
(Scan courtesy of Daizenshuu EX)
