![]() ![]() That soon breaks down to a more straightforward “big new threat on the horizon” story involving a wizard name Babidi and the demon Majin Buu he wishes to revive. ![]() Originally author Akira Toriyama’s plan was to have Gohan be the new hero of the story, which is why he is solely featured in the first few episodes of this set, but fan backlash soon led to the return of previous protagonist Goku, and a return to the old tournament arc format. Speaking of the content, for those not aware, the Buu Arc takes place seven years after the previous one, and it has a… troubled timeline. There are scenes of comedy filler that last several minutes and serve no purpose that are still on this set for no real reason. Ignoring the fact that Kai cuts out the anime-only arc of Goku fighting in an afterlife tournament, these episodes barely remove half an episode’s worth of content! It’s bizarrely full of filler-only stories and padding, the cutting of which is supposed to be why this series exists! Now, from looking at the two episode lists side-by-side, it takes DBZ 30 episodes to cover all that’s on this set of 23 episodes, so they do cut out roughly seven episodes’ worth of stuff, but it doesn’t feel like it, at least not until the proper action begins. You see, The Final Chapters being done in-house rather than with the same team that did the original series really shows, as while it is shorter than the Z telling, it’s not by much! This set opens with Gohan going to High School and eventually creating a superhero alter-ego in order to fight crime, as well as beginning a relationship with fellow high school crime fighter Videl. These “ Final Chapters” releases are the international version, which would be a good thing if it didn’t kind-of go against the whole reason Kai exists in the first place! Toei Animation would eventually hear the call and begin doing an in-house cutting down of the Buu arc for international distribution, then eventually cutting their cut-down version even more to fit in a Japanese TV broadcast. It ended at the end of the Cell arc, leaving the manga’s final arc un-Kai’d, much to a lot of fans annoyance. Dragon Ball Z Kai (or just Dragon Ball Kai in Japan) successfully, for the most part, cut down the original Dragon Ball Z anime and made it closer to the original manga’s pacing, removing filler episodes and long staredowns. ![]()
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