how many episodes are there in dragon ball z
291 episodes 291
title: Dragon Ball Z text: manga. He said the reception to "Kai" was positive and Bandai had a hit with a card game, so it all worked out. The series initially concluded with the finale of the Cell arc, as opposed to including the Majin Buu arc. It was originally planned to run 98 episodes, however, due to the Tōhoku offshore earthquake and tsunami, the final episode of "Dragon Ball Kai" was not aired and the series ended on its 97th episode in Japan on March 27, 2011. The 98th episode was later released direct-to-video in Japan on August 2, 2011. In November 2012, Mayumi title: Dragon Ball Z text: It premiered in Japan on Fuji Television on April 26, 1989, taking over its predecessor's time slot, and ran for 291 episodes until its conclusion on January 31, 1996. Because Toriyama was writing the manga during the production of the anime, "Dragon Ball Z" added original material not adapted from the manga, including lengthening scenes or adding new ones, and adding new attacks and characters not present in the manga. For example, Toriyama was asked to create an additional character for Goku's training with King Kai, resulting in the cricket Gregory. Throughout the production, the voice actors were tasked with title: Dragon Ball Z text: previously used a similar Vancouver-based voice cast in their short-lived 1995 dub of "Dragon Ball"). Saban musicians Ron Wasserman and Jeremy Sweet, known for their work on the "Power Rangers" franchise, composed a new background score and theme song (nicknamed "Rock the Dragon"). Funimation's initial English dub of "Dragon Ball Z" had mandated cuts to content and length, which reduced the first 67 episodes into 53. It premiered in the United States on September 13, 1996 in first-run syndication, but halted production in 1998 after two seasons. This was due to Saban scaling down its syndication operations, in order to title: Dragon Ball Z text: with both the American and Japanese background music. In January 2011, Funimation and Toei announced that they would stream "Dragon Ball Z" within 30 minutes before their simulcast of "One Piece". As of 2017, "Dragon Ball Z" is no longer being streamed on Hulu. The Funimation dubbed episodes also aired in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Australia and New Zealand. However, beginning with episode 108 (123 uncut), AB Groupe and Westwood Media (in association with Ocean Studios) produced an alternate English dub. The alternate dub was created for broadcast in the UK, the Netherlands and Ireland, although title: Dragon Ball Z text: ending the first anime and creating a new one would result in more promotional money, and the result was the start of "Dragon Ball Z". The title was suggested by Toriyama because Z is the last letter of the alphabet and he wanted to finish the series because he was running out of ideas for it (though ironically enough, the sequel series would end up lasting much longer in episode count than the first series). "Dragon Ball Z" is adapted from the final 325 chapters of the manga series which were published in "Weekly Shōnen Jump" from 1988 to 1995.