Dragon Ball Z Kai, known in Japan as Dragon Ball Kai (ドラゴンボール改カイ Doragon Bōru Kai, lit. Dragon Ball Revised), is an anime series that is a high-definition remastered and recut of Dragon Ball Z, done for its 20th Anniversary.
When the series premiered on the Nicktoons television channel on May 24, 2010, it initially featured the soundtrack by composer Kenji Yamamoto, however the soundtrack on Nicktoons screens only lasted until episode 63, and then from episode 64 to episode 98 the series was broadcast with the music of Dragon Ball Z, by the composer Shunsuke Kikuchi, because Yamamoto was sued for musical plagiarism at the beginning of March 2011, causing Nicktoons, As already said, on said channel the series came to have Yamamoto's ost until episode 63.
However, when Toei ordered the batch of episodes from 55 to 98 to be dubbed in Mexico for its broadcast in Latin America in 2012, using the censored version that was made for Nicktoons in the Latin Spanish dubbing as a base for all 98 episodes, for some strange and insane reason, episodes 55 to 65 could be heard with Yamamoto's music when activating the SAP (Second Audio Program) option on Cartoon Network and Warner Channel, as well as activating the English audio of these 10 episodes in the Latin American version of HBO Max, thus confirming the existence of episodes 64 and 65 in English with the censorship done by Ocean Productions Inc., for Nicktoons. Despite the fact that today Warner Channel Latin America no longer broadcasts Dragon Ball Z Kai, in any case, thanks to HBO Max Latin America, and your option to watch the series in English, It is possible to get the audios of episodes 64 and 65 with censorship with Yamamoto's Score.
Fortunately, on August 27, 2023, these 2 episodes after more than 10 years of their premieres on Nicktoons, were finally uploaded to the cloud storage page "Internet Archive" by the user MACA Koopa ツ. Commenting that he managed to get the audios of the episodes on HBO Max Latin America, thanks to the fact that a friend of his lent him his laptop with his HBO Max account to capture the audios from there, after that synchronize the audios with the episodes recorded on Nicktoons and finally, he shared them on the aforementioned cloud storage page.
However, on the night of January 28, 2024, MACA had removed the 2 episodes, mostly to make certain corrections, such as respecting the resolution of the screenshots of the episodes when broadcast on Nicktoons in 480p, and correcting certain parts of the audio so that they were not choppy, re-uploading this a day later, on January 29, 2024.
In addition, he decided to upload in another separate folder, these 2 episodes with Yamamoto's score, but without TV channel logos, commenting that for this, he used the Latin American version of Crunchyroll, where the Spanish Latin dubbing of DBZ Kai in the first 98 episodes are censorship made by Ocean Productions Inc. for Nicktoons, also implying that in the censored version of Dragon Ball Z Kai, Ending 2 doesn't exist, and as a consequence, said Ending in Latin Spanish and in Brazilian Portuguese was never dubbed.
He uploaded this version of episodes 64 and 65 without TV channel logos one day after uploading the now corrected episodes captured in the Nicktoons broadcast, that is, on January 30, 2024, and this also makes it clear that Dragon Ball Z Kai with the censorship of Ocean Productions Inc., it is possible to watch it without television channel logos.
External Links[]
- https://archive.org/details/dragon-ball-z-kai-64-and-65-cut-c-w-official-yamamotos-score-nicktoons-2011 (Dragon Ball Z Kai - 64 & 65 [Cut][C-W] (Official) (Yamamoto's Score))
- https://archive.org/details/dragon-ball-z-kai-episodes-64-65-cut-no-tv-channel-logo-official-yamamotos-score-2011 (Dragon Ball Z Kai - Episodes 64 & 65 [Cut] [No TV Channel Logo] (Official) (Yamamoto's Score))