

RELATED: Dragon Ball Super Reveals the Truth About - And It Could Kill Him The Final Chapters Just in time for the anime series' 25th anniversary, Dragon Ball Z Kai returned in 2014. However, Kai's popularity with overseas markets, including North America, led Toei to begin developing a re-release for the anime series' final storyline focused on the villain Majin Buu. Initially, there was no intent by Toei to continue Kai beyond the Cell Saga, ending the re-release with Goku's heroic sacrifice to save Earth and Gohan's epic last stand destroying the villain. The initial run for Kai ran from 2009 to 2011 for 98 episodes. Saga and drastically reducing Goku's battle against Frieza. It restored and replaced damaged frames, created new opening and closing title sequences and removed filler content not found in the manga, including the complete omission of the Garlic Jr. With the original Dragon Ball Z animation frames having faced the test of time, Toei Animation decided to remaster the old animation in high definition and adjust the aspect ratios for a 20th anniversary re-release.
