A lot of Dragonball anime/manga news today. First off, more details about Dragonball Kai have surfaced. The latest issue of V-Jump gives us those details.
The story will be developed speedily!
“Kai” starts from the invasion of the Saiyans. This version will be re-edited to hew more closely to Akira Toriyama’s original story, so the story’s development will progress all the faster!
The opening and ending songs will be completely renewed!!
The opening and ending songs will together be made anew! Furthermore, in “Kai”, the background music will be newly recorded. Let’s enjoy “Kai”, where even the music has been powered up!!
Through digital processing, the image will be made vibrant!!
All the grime, damage and noise remaining on the “Z” film will be removed! In HD, the image will be even clearer. We’ve carefully made the ultra-powerful “Kai” world even more impressive!
An all-star voice cast will record the lines anew!!
The original main cast, centered around Masako Nozawa as Son Goku, will reunite. They’ll breathe life into the characters again, to support their appeal!!
Don’t know anything about the intro and ending song yet, or anything past episode 1.
All of the scenes that were being worked on so far are not being cropped…in fact, quite the reverse, they’re being extended. The old format of the original footage is too small to fit the standard frame sizes used for anime nowadays. So all the artwork has to be extended outwards to fit the new frame sizes; this includes both the animation itself and the background art.
Secondly, a video game is being made for the Nintendo DS that will be entitled “Dragonball Kai : Saiyan Invasion“. Yes it is being based of the newly “refreshed” Z series. The game hits stores in Japan on May 21st 2009, no domestic release date is set.
And lastly…the Shonen Jump anime special (created by Akira Toriyama) entitled Song Goku and Friends Return will be making its return manga style. It releases March 21st 2009, but unfortunately it is not being drawn by Akira Toryiama.
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