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Dragon Ball Z Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Shounen Episodes: 49 Episodes
Status: Ongoing Airing Date: Apr 05, 2009 Classic martial-arts shonen series Dragonball Z will be receiving an extensively remastered HD re-broadcast this April. The rebroadcast will include newly recorded dialog by the original seiyuu, new sound effects, new OP/ED sequences, and a brand new HD video transfer. (Sankaku Complex)

Toei Animation has confirmed that Dragon Ball Kai will be edited to more closely follow Akira Toriyama's original manga. The Dragon Ball Z anime series originally ran from April 1989 to January 1996 in Japan. However, since Toriyama was still serializing his manga at the same time in shorter weekly installments, the Dragon Ball Z anime expanded its story by inserting additional content. The new Dragon Ball Kai remastering will be an "Akira Toriyama original cut edition" that will quicken the story presentation and adhere more with the manga's story. Toei has said that they are planning on cutting the series down to around 100 episodes.