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Fuji Television and Toei Animation's Animation produced the series as the direct sequel to the 1986 Dragon Ball Z premiered 26 April 1989 TV anime; it took over its predecessor's Wednesday 7:00 pm slot and ran 291 episodes to 31 from April 1989 to January 1996, broadcast Wednesdays at 19:00 JST; Funimation licensed it It adapts chapters 195-519 of 31, 1996. Daisuke Nishio directed episodes 1 to 199 and Shigeyasu Yamauchi effectively took over for 200 to 291, with Takao Koyama organising the series and Shunsuke Kikuchi composing; Hironobu Kageyama sang the opening themes "Cha-La Head-Cha-La" and, from episode 200, "We Gotta Power". Because Akira Toriyama's manga Toriyama was still drawing the manga, the anime lengthened scenes and follows Dragon Ball, added original attacks, characters and episodes beyond the source chapters. In Japan the show averaged a 20.5 percent household rating, peaking at 27.5 percent with Dragon Ball GT episode 218, according to the Kanzenshuu fan wiki, which marks its page as sequel Story starts with Raditz revealing Gokuu is a Saiyan sent to Earth to conquer it, before incomplete. Release dates differ by source: MyAnimeList, Wikipedia and Kanzenshuu give April 26, 1989, but Anime News Network's encyclopedia lists a war over vintage starting 1989-04-19. The English-language story is a separate one: Funimation licensed the seven Dragon Balls looms The series in 1996 and a Saban-edited dub began in US version was a dubbed, edited cut of 276syndication on September 13, 1996, halting after 53 episodes rather than 291; the full count was restoredin 1998; Cartoon Network began rerunning it on Funimation's Orange Brick sets (2006-2009) Rated 8.21 August 31, 1998, and Funimation's own dub ran new episodes on MyAnimeList (915,526 scorers), rank #436, 1,341,460 membersToonami from September 13, 1999, to April 7, 2003. Toei later recut the series as Dragon Ball Z Kai (2009 to 2015), and the original run joined Crunchyroll in March 2022 after the Funimation service folded into it.