Completed Anime
Dragon Ball Z Kai

“Adult Goku faces alien Raditz, learns Saiyan origins, and begins defending Earth with allies using Dragon Balls.”

Dragon Ball Z Kai

7.78
1,171 rank · 430,753 viewers · 3,985 favorites
Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Martial Arts Shounen
97 episodes · 23 min per ep min · Spring 2009 · Toei Animation · PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
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Episodes · 97 97/97 aired
EP 01 ~2 ep / stripe EP 97

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Synopsis

Adult Goku faces alien Raditz, learns Saiyan origins, and begins defending Earth with allies using Dragon Balls.

Five years after the events of Dragon Ball, martial arts expert Gokuu is now a grown man married to his wife Chi-Chi, with a four-year old son named Gohan. While attending a reunion on Turtle Island with his old friends Master Roshi, Krillin, Bulma and others, the festivities are interrupted when a humanoid alien named Raditz not only reveals the truth behind Gokuu's past, but kidnaps Gohan as well. With Raditz displaying power beyond anything Gokuu has seen before, he is forced to team up with his old nemesis, Piccolo, in order to rescue his son. But when Gokuu and Piccolo reveal the secret of the seven mystical wish-granting Dragon Balls to Raditz, he informs the duo that there is more of his race, the Saiyans, and they won’t pass up an opportunity to seize the power of the Dragon Balls for themselves. These events begin the saga of Dragon Ball Kai, a story that finds Gokuu and his friends and family constantly defending the galaxy from increasingly more powerful threats. Bizarre, comical, heartwarming and threatening characters come together in a series of battles that push the powers and abilities of Gokuu and his friends beyond anything they have ever experienced.

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Community consensus

Derived from 36 sampled reviews

7.9 /10

What 36 viewers settled on.

93% recommend
Score distribution
median 8 mode 9 σ 1.74
1510
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σ 1.74 · some divergence

mixed
The polarity gap

5.1 pts

Recommenders 8.6 · others 3.5

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↑ 1.89

Running avg · May 2011 → Feb 2025

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A Tv Production · Spring 2009

Toei Animation.
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Fuji TV

  • Format 97 × 23′ eps × min
  • Total runtime 37h 11m all episodes
  • Aired Apr 2009 – Mar 2011 Spring 2009
  • Source Tv media type
  • Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
  • Ref. BS-4415 catalog

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