Dragon Ball Z (ドラゴンボールZ（ゼット） Doragon Bōru Zetto, commonly abbreviated as DBZ) is a Japanese animated television series produced by Toei Animation. Dragon Ball Z is the sequel to the Dragon Ball anime and adapts the last 26 volumes of the original 42 volume Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama The series Debut in 1988-1995 on Weekly Shounen Jump. Dragon Ball Z depicts the continuing adventures of Goku and his companions to defend against an assortment of villains which seek to destroy or rule the Earth.
The anime first aired in Japan from April 25, 1989, to January 31, 1996, and was dubbed in several territories around the world, including the United States, Europe, and in Latin America.
Dragon Ball Z characters
Dragon Ball Z characters
In 1995, Funimation licensed Dragon Ball Z for an English-language release in the United States. They contracted Saban Entertainment to help finance and distribute the series to television, Pioneer Entertainment to handle home video distribution on VHS and DVD, Ocean Productions to dub the anime, and Shuki Levy (Saban’s in-house musician) to compose an alternate musical score. This dub of Dragon Ball Z had mandated cuts to content and length, which reduced the first 67 episodes to 53. Pioneer ceased its release at Volume 17 (the end of this dub), but retained the rights to produce an uncut subtitled version. After Funimation concluded their partnership with Saban and Pioneer, it continued to dub and distribute the series by themselves. Funimation used their own in-house voice cast and included a new musical score composed by Bruce Faulconer. This dub was produced with no cuts, but edits were later made for the broadcast on Cartoon Network. In 2004, Pioneer lost its distribution rights to the first 53/67 episodes of Dragon Ball Z, allowing Funimation to re-dub them with their in-house voice cast and restore the removed content. Funimation would take the original 67 episodes and reproduce them with the first releases of the uncut material appearing in 2005. These episodes’ American soundtrack was produced by Nathan Johnson. FUNimation’s later remastered DVDs saw minor changes made to their in-house dub for quality and consistency, mostly after the episode 67 gap, and had the option to play the entire series’ dub with both the American and Japanese background music.
Dragon Ball Z characters
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