*16 in DBZ:* "Listen, Gohan, I know it's scary, but you have the ability to stop this. I believe in you!" *16 in DBZKai:* "It's okay, Gohan. There's no shame in fighting for what you believe in. You can do this!" *16 in DBZAbridged:* "By refusing to fight, you're not just useless, you're being _actively detrimental._ Now stop being a little _bitch_ and fucking _do something!"_

Cell throwing up 18 is funnier when you remember that he eats backwards, so throwing up is the equivalent to him pooping his non-existent pants

Fun fact that I know others are going to point out: All of the Cell Jr's are named after all the different VA's of Cell....yes, including the DBZA version (Edit: Vegeta Jr Jr is not a VA. The creator's just needed an extra name)

22:30 It actually is! That song is in the original Japanese Dub, but TFS made an English cover of it (not a direct translation) because they thought it would be the most effective thing for the scene. They went all out!

40:08 It's important to remember here how instant transmission actually works. He can't just pop up whereever he wants, he has to concentrate on a particular person's ki signature, that's why he did it

Did you guys notice 16's halo in the credits. It was a nice way of saying he did have a soul and went to heaven in this version.

all three parts in one video?? what a fucking treat im ecstatic

22:30 "This should have been the soundtrack of the actual show" This song is in fact an english cover of the japanese track used here, which was completely replaced with something different in the english dub.

I love how Cell is portrayed in the final part. His calm and prideful demeanor have gone out the window and he’s clearly losing it. Though unlike Frieza’s more manic meltdown, Cell is more frightening. He’s still pompous and charming, but he’s screaming and more so than ever before, everything he says is just dripping murderous intent. His “Worst case scenario, you die and get stronger. IT DID WONDERS FOR ME!” line is a great example of him just barely holding it together

16 is such an interesting character to me. At first he seems superfluous, sidelined except for a fight to stall out cell. But his speech to gohan, whichever version you prefer, is so impactful and illustrates the duality of loving peace and needing to defend it with conflict.

22:30 “This should’ve been in the actual show” It was. It literally was.

Yamcha never enters the Buu Saga tournament, he's in the stands watching. It almost feels like he's watching Krillin's daughter while 18 and Krillin enter the tournament. And they never even invite him to compete in the Tournament of Power. haha

We just gonna gloss over the fact that Bulma now has a nuke in her possession?

Fun fact: all the cell jrs, save Vegita jr jr obviously, are named after the people who voiced cell over the years.

The reason they actually quit making dbza is because: 1. They think they couldn't top this and the rest would be letting down the fans. 2. the next movie caused an incredible amount of burn out.

Fun fact: Super Saiyan 2 only started being called that way after Goku explains the Super Saiyan "levels" just before Super Saiyan 3 reveal and calls it Super Saiyan 2. Before that, it's just refered to as "the level beyond super Saiyan" or things along those lines.

"They should have used this in the actual show" "I can't tell what's been cut" From the original episode, nothing is cut from 21:54 to the end of part 1. Just translated the song and dubbed what few words are spoken, they played that scene as straight as they could

Yamcha didn't patriciate in the World Tournament in the Buu Saga. They even ask him while they're on their way there and he says he's given up fighting (probably because the gap in power between him and the Super Saiyans and Piccolo is so extreme at that point that he doesn't see the point).

The question is, did they ever notice that if a character dies in an episode, it's that character who reads the intro bumper. Because I don't think they ever bring that up in their reactions

The soundtrack is from dbz, TFS made a cover in English. It is gohan's theme

I love that “DRAMATIC FINISH!” After Takahata101’s amazing performance of My Way to reel you back in to the comedic aspect of this show😂 TeamFourStar did an amazing job and deserve all the praise for this🤯

Fun fact; In the Super manga the Cell Jr's survived this and are living under the protection of 17

So, all three parts premiered on Twitch a week or so apart, and every part got more and more viewers. The finale had something like 45k in live chat. It was glorious chaos. Chat was going so fast that you could barely register that there was a given comment before it disappeared. At the time, I was working security, so I went "on patrol" and watched the streams.

Are they watching the DragonShortz and HFIL after this, or even the Buu bits?

13:48 I like how Cell named his cell jr’s after Cell’s various voice actors in the DB franchise.

I will say, in the original show, Goku does know Gohan prefers stuff like fishing and studying to fighting- like before the Cell Games he even tells Gohan like "we gotta save the world so you can become a scholar like you wanted" and takes him to a fishing trip like he promised him (Piccolo respects Gohan's interests far less in comparison tbqh 🤔) Like I get the DBZA take, but dont get confused and think this is what it was like

You guys should definitely watch the Buu bits they made to go with totally not Mark's DBZ review

"And now the end is near and so we face the final curtains" I'm glad we're doing all 3 parts in one this has been such a fun ride episode 60 is still probably my favorite episode all 3 parts are truly perfect

I just love how Goku had the same bet on Vegeta+Krillan like Bulma, cause those two has literally known V+K the longest.

Goku's instant transmission can only teleport to a person, so King Kai was kinda one of his only options. He can't just teleport a place.

To this day, I continue to get chills from the TFS super saiyan 2 transformations, the cover of Day of Fate, it's insane

While it's generally more well known nowadays, Gohan's transformation sequence is more faithful than the actual original english dub. Them putting that song as well the silence from both the Narrator and Gohan is exactly how it was done in the original air in Japan. In the english dub and in other dubs as well, like with the Italian dub, that was just removed and other stuff was put instead of it and the scene was SEVERELY diminished because of it (the before mentioned narrator and Gohan's nonexistent internal dialogue). It hits so hard, and even harder than the original for most because it was originally diminished with these languages in the first place

Nope, there was no telepathic conversation in the original. He pops up, King kai and gang freak out, Goku says he didn't know where to take him and King Kai responds with "You could have called first" before Cell blows them all up 😂

22:30 It's from the original Japanese episode. TFS recreated the moment but with english lyrics.

The thing about Mr Satan saying that he beat Cell was basically more framed as him doing it to keep everyone calm when they thought the world was going to be destroyed. He KNOWS the truth and actually respects Goku and co for their part in beating Cell, but eventually, even Goku realized it would be better to keep things under wraps as to how close the world came to ending. Mr Satan didn't mind the publicity, but he's a good guy deep down. Later in the series, it's even shown that he keeps Goku's family afloat with his cash as thanks for the whole thing, basically.

They actually just vaguely referred to it as an Ascended Saiyan until much later when the name Super Saiyan 2 is introduced. Whether or not you decide to watch Kai, I genuinely recommend going back and watching some of those iconic scenes or episodes in the original dub. The whole atmosphere with the voice direction and the Bruce Falconer music is just next level. All of the iconic super saiyan transformation scenes are my favorite.

22:30 It WAS in the original! It's an English cover of Day of Fate, the song written for this in the original Japanese Anime. The Dub changed the score because... well, it's music, so the dub is legally obligated to be bad.

TFS didn’t stop because of copyright strikes. In fact, while Goku’s goodbye speech was actually a goodbye to the fans speech saying maybe they’d come back someday, this episode ended with a notice that they were continuing with season 4. Then it continued with DBZ Kai 2.9 (the 3.0 April Fools’ joke), 3, and 3.5. But then after they wrote and rewrote the Bojack movie script over and over again and not being happy with it, they made an announcement that they changed their minds, that they realized they were burnt out on the series and they didn’t want to force themselves and maybe come to resent DB, which they love. With that, the announcement at the end of this episode was clipped out so people wouldn’t keeping asking what happened to season 4. Then came Dragon Shortz and HFIL based on their abridged characters. I personally love HFIL. Also, fairly recently, Totally Not Mark did an expose on DBZ season 4 and TFS did a set of season 4 bits for it and they later compiled them onto their channel as “Buu Bits”.

"It's even better than the soundtrack in the actual show" That's literally an english cover of the soundtrack of the actual show. The american version has the wrong soundtrack because heartfelt and intense OST were not american enough apprently.

It's funny, despite the recurring joke about how weak Yamcha is, the writers LOVE him. He even gets his own episode in Super where he beats the strongest warriors of another universe in baseball.

It just occurred to me: Vegeta caught a lot of strays in Episode 60, but the one who caught the ULTIMATE stray was actually King Kai.

The mutual flipping off and Vegeta constantly copping strays gets me xD

The Yamcha thing, there are 3 moments. At the start of Buu, there's a World Tournament that Yamcha goes to watch, but doesn't participate in. Near the end of Buu, in the afterlife, Yamcha is seen beating Olibu AND Pikkon, the latter of which beat King Cold, Frieza, Cell and the Ginyus all at once. By the way, Yamcha beay Olibu and Pikkon at the same time, but Pikkon also beat all those villains at the same time, I just worded that poorly And in the Tournament of Power, Yamcha wants to be invited, but Goku picks someone else.

40:10 There is no Moon anymore. Piccolo blew it up in the Saiyan Saga to stop Gohan from transforming.

Gohan when he fought Cell was younger than Goku at the begining of the story. He was THAT much stronger than Goku.

The song that played when Gohan went SSJ2 is actually an english cover of the original japanese score for that scene

I'll be honest. I have seen DBZ Abridged many times, and people reacting to it many more. I never understood why King Kai was upset with Yamcha when they used the wishes until this time. It's because Yamcha specifically asked for people on Earth to be resurrected, meaning King Kai wasn't. I don't know how I didn't realize it sooner.

That song when gohan went ssj2 That song IS in the show. The original Japanese dub had that song but tfs made an English cover for their own version

Android 16s "good man doing nothing" speech still holds up really well, it's cool to see how far the quality of their writing for this came since the first ten episodes.

DBZA stopped for three main reasons: the aforementioned copyright issues with Toei, the immense amount of time and production each episode took, and the gang experiencing burnout while trying to write for the film Bojack Unbound. Making Season 3 and especially episode 60 put them through the wringer, and they didn't want to sacrifice quality by pushing themselves through a Season 4.

Funniest part is he's actually supposed to be 9 here, or close to 10 given the time chamber shenanigans because they didn't spend the entire year in there.

“I’m not done ripping the wings off this butterfly” goes extremely hard

Yamcha just being humble and letting the others win, such a good friend.

I'm glad to see your reaction for the end! Teamfourstar also did their own animated series called HFIL, which follows Cell in hell. So, if you guys want more content, there's that series.

I get chills every time Gohan goes SSJ2 and the song plays. The tears dry from his eyes . . . and he scowls - the bang is down - death is here.

Fun fact: the song that plays when Gohan goes SSJ2 is in the Japanese version. However, the TFS version is the only version of an English variant of the song.

There's also the "buu bits" video which is kinda like a speed run through of them doing clips of the buu saga if you want a little more to watch. Also the "cell vs" clips, those are good too

fun fact, each of the cell jrs are named after voice actors for perfect cell from all the different dubs, including abridged.

"this is better than the soundtrack in the actual show". It actually is the soundtrack in the show. They dubbed the song that plays in the og japanese version when gohan goes ssj2

Goku technically had no choice but to take Cell to King Kai's planet. Instant transmission requires that he teleport to an energy source, which means he'd have to go somewhere with at least 1 person. At least with King Kai's planet, he could guarantee the least deaths.

Fun fact: When Cell lists the names of his children, he's (mostly) saying the first names of people who have provided their voices for the role of Cell across multiple mediums and countries.

Yep, in the Tournament of Power they even point out that Yamcha is just "Waiting for everyone to invite me" He doesn't say he wants to join the team, just assumes they want him. He doesn't even get an invite. And Puar is used to train ROSHI.

in og dragonball, the king watched as Goku literally fought down to his last limb to save him from demon king piccolo. its kinda poetic that he recognizes Goku's son, who is also now saving the world with only one arm and a kamehameha.

you guys are goated for all 3 parts in a single video, favorite reaction for that one

Several reactors have been continuing with DBZ Kai after this. It's a very good transition point and a great way to see just how incredibly accurate the Abridged was to the dub.

Doing part 60 all in one video? Damn, HYPE! 🔥🔥If I wasn't broke I'd sub to Patreon for that

I think if you plan to watch the Buu Bits you should watch the actual Buu saga first. They are well bits so they don't have much context so things can't really build up like the abridge did to fill in blanks. Whether you start Kai at the beginning or right after this I would say depends on how quickly you want to get to the Buu Bits. Also if you want another abridge series I would recommend Bleach S or Fate UBW abridge(both by the same people) assuming at least some of you have seen original Bleach or Fate. It can be watched without knowing the original like DBZA but I think its always good to have someone in the know.

It wasn't just the copyright issues (which did play a big part, since their channel was almost nuked more than once), they were facing serious burnout, other projects that they could profit from, and members of TFS wanting to leave to do their own thing. All that stress and pressure lead them to realize that this was probably the best place and time to end it. Especially since they literally got stressed over how to write the next movie and season. All in all, it was down to keep going, but everything after this would be of less quality because their heart wasn't in it, or end it here

"Part of the journey is the end." 🗿🔥🐉

You know, after this, you can still watch the Buu bits that they did recently, along with HFIL and DB Shortz.

this was a great journey, i've appreciated every moment

I like how Jimmy firecracker in this version basically asked Mr. S to take credit to calm down as rioting fans

All 3 parts in 1 video!?! It’s a Christmas miracle! 🎄

They initially called it "Ascended Super Saiyan", but after Buu saga Goku ascended beyond *that*, he decided to just number them instead, for brevity. Otherwise, in the words of Buu saga Krillin, "what would that make him, 'double ascended [super saiyan]'?"

"Im a head" "Then maybe you should quit while you are"

34:20 Remember I said take note when Gohan was about to study cellular biology and he said that cells are boring? This is why.

22:31 It IS the soundtrack of the actual show, in the japanese version and pretty much every dub worldwide, but you know, America being America, doing a complete different thing for the rest of the world and kind of sucking on it XD

This show has increased my appreciation for Sinatra

(At 33:33) Gohan's reminding Goku the number of times he NEVER to finish his fights… that he started, in _that_ order: Goku vs Vegeta Goku vs Frieza Goku vs Perfect Cell

Thanks for giving us all 3 Parts in 1 Episode! What a great Christmas Gift guys!

I waited a whole year last week to watch this.

i am down to watch all of Kai

I love seeing that TeamFOurStar is still getting the love they deserve! You guys are luck you get to binge it all. At the time, waiting for a new episode was killer but they made me feel like a child again.

In the actual lore, instant transmission is not location based but ki based. Goku can find anyone with a ki signature he recognizes and teleport to near them. So he couldn't teleport to an abandoned planet or dead space, his choices were somewhere else on earth, new namek, or king kai's

If you're continuing with DBZ Kai, please continue from the Buu Saga. Would be a great watch!

I'm gonna be honest, i really hate the all "you are a coward" speech everyone gives to Gohan. He's by far the bravest for not wanting/liking to fight but doing so anyway because he know is the right thing to do.

For context, each part of episode 60 was about a year apart, which is why "My Way" was so much more impactful. Those of us who grew up with it had been WAITING. FOR. YEARS. for the conclusion.

A treat watching you guys react to episode 60 in one part--was great seeing your reaction to 60 because it's hands-down top-notch quality from TFS, down to the English cover they commissioned for the "Day of Fate" cover used in Gohan's SS2 transformation (which was used in the Japanese version of the show there). Love coming back to 60 often, and honestly hearing their behind-the-scenes on it for their commentaries was powerful; it's clear a lot of love went into this knowing what a pivotal moment it was not just for DB but for anime altogether. As for what to watch next, I'm sure Boom would enjoy DBKai for sure, though I'd recommend maybe going through Dragon Ball too. I'd recommend looking up a "Dragon Ball Recut" fanedit by IAmTheMilkman, which removes a lot of the filler from DB and makes it about 80 episodes; from there, I'd jump into his "Dragon Ball Kai Recut," which he just finished up the Buu arc for; altogether, it takes the 167 episodes from all of Kai (Saiyan-Buu) to 130ish, with Saiyan-Cell being 82 vs 98 originally. Kai got a bit worse about removing filler into the Buu arc, so he makes it a much more streamlined time, lol. I'm sure that'd be fun all around! (Also, for DB, I kinda would recommend going with the Japanese subbed version because the dub still takes some liberties where it shouldn't, but Kai's dub is fantastic)

That "A good man doing nothing" line hits really hard in current times. Too many good men do nothing while our society crumbles because we don't want to harm anyone, even bad people. I think times are about to change.

I wasn't expecting the whole three part in one video I appreciate the effort I can't wait for the Kai and Buu reactions, also the HFIL reaction

I havent seen this posted yet but gohan is actually 9 here but was changed to 11 and called teen gohan for marketing in the west. But if you read the manga he is only 9 years only during the cell games. Then a 7 year time skip to make him 16 in the buu saga. Great content btw. This was a nice journey to go on with you guys.

I love how the tears go up and off of Gohan's face until there's nothing but that look of pure determination. And the song, man!! THAT SONG!!! YES!! 🤩

Fun fact: Super Saiyan 2 didn't actually have an official name up until right before the introduction of SS3. Most called it "a level beyond Super Saiyan" or "Super Saiyan: 5th Grade " Grades 2-4 were Super Vegeta, Super Trunks, and Full-Power Super Saiyan. In that order

"This has no sense being this good"- TFS are die hard fans, they actually made one of the best scenes in DBZ even better than what it was, I salute these guys cause it gives me chills every time I watch that scene. It was cool too watch others perspective on it.

"TeamFourStar really took it out on Gohan, eh?" Well here's the thing.....yeah pretty much. Because Gohan is watching his friends and family be hurt, and soon to be killed, and he refuses to do what he needs to do to stop it. What 16 is doing is breaking Gohan in logical manner, basically letting him know "you either do this or everyone's gonna die, and if everyone dies, that's on you." So Gohan becoming Super Saiyan 2 isn't the usual "the hero has arrived" moment. Instead, it this is breaking the hero to the point of potentially turning him into a killer just to kill a monster.

It was originally called Ascended Super Saiyan. It didn't become known as Super Saiyan 2 until a 3rd level of super saiyan came out and started making the naming awkward

The sound track during gohans transformation is the official track but an English version. If you only watched the original Dragonball Z English dub you're basically watching a completely different show with all the script changes.

Man, I can't wait for the buu arc reaction. I'm glad you guys have had fun with the series so far

And now, the end is here. Well done dudes. I can't help but chuckle a little though, every one is crapping on the Super Saiyan naming conventions but Luffy just uses gears, like a car, haha.

22:32 in the first, original , DBZ Japanese version, they used this soundtrack for this moment, and it made the moment of ssj2 Gohan more epic than what we got later on. The soundtrack was in Japanese though, but it was still fire.