Dragonball Kai: Dragonball Z HD Remaster vs TV Comparison
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Mar 2, 2009 06:02 JST
- Tags: Comparison, Dragonball, Fuji, Marketing, Remakes, Remastered, Toei, TV
A recent preview of the upcoming Dragonball Z HD remastered TV series, entitled Dragonball Kai, reveals a good glimpse of what the updated animation will look like once the rebranded show airs next month.
Most noticeable is the change from 4:3 scale to 16:9, which unfortunately results in a cropping of the original frames…
Here are some comparison shots of the original 4:3 animation above the new 16:9 shots, kindly provided by 2ch:
Comparison A
Comparison B
It appears Son Goku’s marvelous full head of hair will likely be a casualty in many scenes in the updated series, but otherwise the animation quality of the 20 year old show is impressive, as can be seen in the PV:
Dragonball Kai is announced for airing April 5th, according to the official Toei website.
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So the cropping in comparison A makes it look like the guy is getting a blowjob from a midget while the girl looks on.
Gotta love fake widescreen. :P
You are an idiot for not knowing the name of the DBZ characters.
You're an idiot for not respecting other people's ignorance. Not everyone watches Dragon Ball and not everyone know the characters from that show. It is NOT a show for everyone and NOT a must-watch for anime fans. I'm a proud otaku and I admit I've never watched a whole episode of Dragon Ball.
you're not american, I take it
Eh huh.
if are a proud otaku you most know famous lines and were they come form and how they get famous ~_~
OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
XD
Over 9000 has to be the lamest moment in all of DBZ... "WHAT!? His power level is over 9000!" "What! That's impossible!" *moment goooooooooooooooooooooone*
most lmao moment of DBZ was when goku use spirit bomb in super sajian >_>"
and totaly dont forgot the 20 eps of the almost explote planeet >_>" (still 5 min top i gave dis planeet)
All who hate DBZ suck major ass and love grandmas titties.
seriously
I've never watched dragon ball z either.
iv watched DB DBZ DB GT and i can say there not the best anime around.. way to much od it is draged on and then introduction of new charicters to incres there power level to the new limit.. till the Next limit is there.. woo
-_- if you want a few laughs there are some there but i think theres better anime around
DRAGONBALL Z IS THE BEST ANIME !!!!
NO, WAIT......ITS NOT THE BEST ANIME .....................................................ITS THE BEST THING EVER CREATED ON THIS PLANET WORTHWHILE TO WATCH !!!!!!!!!
IF ANYONE DOESNT LIKE DRAGONBALL Z, THEN THEY SUCK ASS !!!!!!!
For a twenty year old show, it looks pretty damn good. I might watch a few episodes despite disling DBZ. Oh but the new logo looks atrocious.
*disliking
It looks like the HD remasters that have been coming out on dvd, 20% more on the sides while loosing about the same from the tops.
When I got to tour the TOEI studios that were actually doing the re-mastering they let me draw on some 'cels' (the original cel artwork is gone, and they're drawing over the published footage.
I noticed the difficulty of having to draw new material at the top and the bottom of the frames - while the immediate need is to add to the sides.
Here's a video of how it's done [http://ghostlightning.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/dbz-in-hd/] (well, not exactly).
Are they actually adding the sides of the frame rather than just cropping then?
According to Jay Hernandez, the in-between animator who toured us some new art is being done - specifically on the sides and on the bottom.
My theory is, looking at the comparison videos you put up: these were either rushed, or they really don't have a lot of time.
Given TOEI Philippines' Presidents' comments confirming how the current economic conditions are affecting the industry [http://ghostlightning.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/interview-toei/], I wouldn't be surprised at all if they cut a few corners.
"I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they cut a few corners."
Literally, in this case as the cut the corners off to make it widescreen. :) :)
lol, they add on the side too...
Thanks for the interesting information ghostlightning, it would've been handy to have talked to you before writing this post, but alas...
thanks dude! I was wondering how they did that..
at first I thought most parts were just re compressed...
so really, they were remastering it
wth!!! where in the Philippines is that!!!???
lol, I'm also noypi...
they used Retas Pro right?
hmm... the animation really DOES happen in the Philippines...
gonna find a way to go there in TOEI...
This HD version is going to suck so bad compared to the live action movie.
Which in turn will suck so bad compared to such masterpieces of filmmaking as "Manos: The Hands of Fate" and "The Crawling Eye".
MANOS.. *Sobs.* THE HANDS OF FAAATE ;_;
*Repetitive theme music plays.*
*Shuffles in.*
H.. Hello.. I am T.. T.. Tuh.. Torgo.. I watch the place while the Ma.. Mah.. Master is away.. Th.. The Master will be... Very disturbed..
*Reaches forward with gnarled shaky hand to molest your face.*
I hope that's sarcasm there.....
F.. Fuh.. Fuck you.. Manos is.. Is.. A wo.. Wun.. Wonderful movie and the Ma.. Mah.. Master is very disturbed with y.. y.. you..
I have only read the Dragon Ball manga and when it ended I wasn't intrested in giving Z a chance because of it's episode length and the chance that It would ruin my expectations. However, now when they will do a rerun I probably will give it a go.
Is Z equal to the manga or better?
I would say equal. The anime does try to portray the events that happened in the manga though...just not extremely well since it was an old anime. However, I still liked both.
Looks pretty good
Dont get why this is a big deal. They already released remastered widescreen versions with 5.1 sound in North America with the newest boxsets (orange boxed ones, like $25-30 each). Did they never bother doing it in Japan?
Read the link in the first paragraph for the earlier post we did on this to find out why it's gotten some attention online.
Where to start...
The US remastered boxsets are absolute crap.
The source is an old copy of the VHS film.
It wasn't even remastered properly either. It should have been done frame by frame to remove signs of glue, hairs and so on, but instead they took the cheap option and did batch process.
DBZ has been remastered before in Japan, in the form of the 'Dragon Box', which is universally regarded as the definitive DBZ collection and sells for crazy amounts at auctions.
Unlike this, it isn't cropped and the pitcure is suberb, much better than the example shown in these screens.
Still, this is a great way for Toei to milk a dead cow. We've already seen people are stupid enough to buy upscaled stuff on Blu-Ray, so I'm pretty sure there would also be interest in a condensed, cropped version of DBZ on that format... ^_^
I don't really get the line: Going out soon.
Becouse I already have 001 - end of the Cell Series in Wide Screen HD.
They should do a GTO Kai instead though.
I LOL AT THE FACT THE FUNIMATION WOULD LICENSE THIS AND RE-RELEASE LIKE ALWAYS DBZ DVD's
The dragon ball kai is going to be great but they could have made the whole dragon ball z series in ultimate uncut box sets.This is still good well its better then nothing i would watch this remake and not be dissapointed.
The best thing about this is that there will be no fillers. Meaning there will no longer be long dragged out moments.
8D
Nope, there were still long dragged out moments. Seriously, they managed to get the voice actors back, they should have just remade the anime.
this is gonna be soo awesome
Just to clear things up and let every single person know right now.
DRAONBALL KAI IS NOT GOING TO LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THIS. ITS JUST A PROMO. DRAGONBALL KAI IS GOING TO LOOK EXACTLY LIKE THAT DBZ SPECIAL THAT CAME BACK OUT IN NOVEMBER 2008. I DONT KNOW WHY IN THE HELL PPL KEEP POSTING THESE COMPARISON PAGES NO OFFENSE BUT IM GLAD YOU GUYS WAS CURIOUS ENOUGH TO DO IT JUST TO MAKE SURE THOUGH.
well you were wrong, DB KAI is just like this, I'm sure you've downloaded the first episode by now.
It's weeeeeeeeeeeeeeak.
otaku is the worst anime ever out of all the japannese anime dragonball z is the best and probly the most known so go fuck your self or go wach pokemon you stupid faggot!
Some things no one has mentioned:
THE THEME SONG IS DIFFERENT
THE MUSIC IS DIFFERENT
THE VOICES ARE DIFFERENT
This is serious crap. Why would they do this? There is a stupid rhythm guitar during EVERY scene, like you can't watch people talking without music in the background. it's more like the lame american version. Once again, dumb japs doing whatever americans do whether it's better or WORSE.
I guess they figure the REAL remaster is the DRAGONBOX set. Now they can screw it up for the younger generation who don't know any better.
It's like all those old people who are tricked into buy those yellow sunglasses because they're called HD VISION. "oh it's HD so it must be better"
lame.
Yeah, you should try animating a show sometime, or um, shut the fuck up about how people don't do what you want to the show that THEY make. Plenty of people like it, they don't need you in their audience, champ. ;)
do u know when its going to air in North America?
Having watched the first episode, it seems like they re-outlined the cels on top of the backgrounds for definition purposes, and have done zero to the backgrounds.
Also, damn, you have a lot of flame wars/arguing on your site. Anytime I read an article there are extensive threads of bickering...