Dragon Ball Z Kai:The Final Chapters – Part One [Blu-ray]

DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:

Finally completed Dragon Ball Kai Collection. It took a couple years but eventually happened. To be honest though, I feel that “The Last Chapters” was a very lazy release compared to original 8 parts. Each of the last chapter parts contain 23 episodes per set and about $5 more than a season set. It seems funimation took way too long to start dubbing these sets and ended up deciding to release each set one month apart from each other before those episodes even played on tv. This review will be divided in Packaging, Picture, Sound and Special Features.

The Packaging:
The packaging is pretty standard, 3 disc set, however I find the labelling to be a little silly. It starts at part one but the episode count starts at 99. Would it have killed them to just continue onto part 9. It may however to Toei animations fault, as they decided that the international market must call it “The Final Chapters”. The packaging is also not in line with the Original Dragon Ball Z Kai releases. I would have preferred this to be released in 4 parts to match the original set – Part 1 to 4 Saiyan/Freeza Arc, Part 5 to 8 Android/Cell Arc, Part 9 to 12 Majin Boo Arc.

-P. W. Granger

Much better than the original DBZ as it cuts out most of the filler, but the pacing early on is dreadful and drags as badly as the Namek Saga. Just as it really starts to pick up (emergence of Majin Vegeta), you’ve reached the end of the last disc and need to pick up The Final Chapters Part Two. Still, Funimation has done a stellar job with the Kai production as always, and if you prefer you can always listen to the original Japanese dub.-jj

DVD Wholesale Main Features:

Actors: Christopher R. Sabbat, Sean Schemmel, Kyle Herbert, Eric Vale
Directors: Christopher R. Sabat
Format: Animated, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: Japanese (Dolby TrueHD 2.0), English (Dolby TrueHD 5.1)
Subtitles: English
Region: Region A/1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 3
Rated: NR-Not Rated
Studio: Funimation
DVD Release Date: April 25, 2017
Run Time: 575 minutes
ASIN: B01N35GYFA