Why did they make Dragon Ball Z Kai?

Answer 1

Technically they didn't end it, they just skipped five years and started Dragon Ball Z. In the manga the whole thing was just dragon ball similar to other series such as Naruto, where they split the anime into two different shows.

Answer 2

Toei Animation created Dragonball Z Kai for the anniversary of the original Dragonball Z series as a revision, removing most filler episodes and scenes from the anime to make the episodes faster paced.

While it's not known why they didn't revise the Buu saga, it's probably because it was too long. The rest of Dragonball Z, meaning after the Cell Saga, is episodes 195-291, nearly a hundred episodes. Most of which isn't filler, so it was probably to take a workload off of Toei because they had a strict schedule to stick with.

If you want Nicktoons to air everything after the defeat of Cell, you'd probably have to write up a petition to ask Nicktoons to license the remastered version of FUNImation's dub.

I wish they would have done that instead of going straight into GT. It makes me feel like all the kids who never saw DBZ before won't know who any of the characters introduced in the post-Cell arcs.

Answer 3

The author of the manga openly admitted to being bored of the series and left it.

Answer 4

Dragon Ball Z concluded because the author, Akira Toriyama, decided to end the series. Akira has continued the plot in a follow up film, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods.

Answer 5

because nick did not want any blood or other things that what they would think that would be inappropriate for children to watch plus made bad tweaks to the show

Answer 6

It's the end of the saga and then it was the buu saga