Synopsis:

Dragon Ball tells the tale of a young warrior by the name of Son Goku, a young peculiar boy with a tail who embarks on a quest to become stronger and learns of the Dragon Balls, when, once all 7 are gathered, grant any wish of choice.

Intentions:

My goal with this edit was mainly to improve on the great work done in Fanedit895’s edit which combined Bardock: Father of Goku with the flashback scenes from DBS Broly. However, one thing about it that I always found lackluster was the fact that the original Funimation Dub isn’t that great imo. Luckily, DBZ Kakarot has a Bardock DLC with nearly every scene from the original special with a brand new dub that sounds much better. This new dub essentially gives the Special the Kai treatment, with Frieza’s newer voice and everything. On top of that, I wanted to add the King Vegeta flashbacks in Z because they aren’t fully in Kai and they mirror Bardock’s story in a way. It’s even stated that King Vegeta was killed by Frieza in the manga even if the filler from Z isn’t canon. That’s why my edit is called “Pride of the Saiyans” because it’s focused on Bardock and King Vegeta. My edit also aligns better with the Bardock material in the Dragon Ball Super Manga thanks to a new scene I made with AI voices. All that combines to create my personal favorite version of Bardock’s story. I hope y’all will enjoy it too. Also, this will be the start of a series of edits called "Dragon Ball Z Kai Gaiden" that will integrate filler I like and some of the movies into DBZ Kai through extra episodes and specials. Look forward to more news on that after I finally finish my Sonic X Adventure Arc edit.

Change List:

Custom Bardock-themed Dragon Soul intro New AI opening narration to account for not opening with the birth of Goku Added year text to each time there is a time jump Broly movie prologue until King Vegeta breaks the scouter All scenes from Super Broly and Episode of Bardock are now rescored with Kikuchi score to match the Father of Goku and Z footage New Dragon Ball: Pride of Saiyans logo (made by me) over original Bardock special music Most, if not all scenes, with Bardock and crew, Frieza,l his men, kid Vegeta, and more completely redubbed using the cutscenes from DBZ Kakarot DLC to make it more accurate to original Sub Kept the “father, son bonding” line from Funi Dub to make Bardock seem a little less mean towards Kakarot Transition from Bardock knocked out to Vegeta flashing back to him and his dad while training against the Saibaman from Episode 124 of DBZ Deepened King Vegeta’s voice in the Z portions throughout Cut the line about training plenty to maintain continuity with Vegeta’s character from the Sayian arc Changed soundtrack while Vegeta fights Saibaman to one from the Sayian arc Cut Vegeta and Nappa talking shit about Frieza in the middle of a Frieza Force base Using Kakarot lines and AI Frieza now has his Ayers/Mills voice throughout (No more Linda Young!) Used AI to restore the two scientist’s conversation from the Sub Used AI to fill in some Tora lines that were missing in Kakarot Cut Baby Kakarot crying in his crib Changed Kakarot crying footage during Bardock’s visions to be when he’s in the Sayian Pod from the Broly movie Added Gine and Leek to Bardock’s first vision Cut the scene where Bardock sees Kakarot in his crib in the hospital because… New scene between Bardock and Gine from the Dragon Ball Super Manga using reused animation from Broly and AI lines (mostly performed by me lol) Cut Dodoria reporting back to Frieza and Zarbon after he blasts Bardock (Which felt confusing when watching Fanedit895’s cut) Used lines from Sparking Zero to remove the implication that Frieza was going to blow up the planet that day Added audio and visual of Gine crying during Bardock’s vision in the hallway Kept Goku saying “Bardock” during the scene on Namek from the dub but removed the rest of his dialogue Cut Bardock getting up on the stairs Transition a few years later to the events seen in the Broly movie and Dragon Ball Minus (The events with Bardock in the Granola arc would take place during the time skip) Replaced spaceship shot with one from Episode of Bardock to keep Planet Vegeta red Cut mention of the Super Saiyan God just to keeping this as a more Z-styled special Cut Bardock saying “I have a feeling” so he just says “Death is on it’s way for us” to make him seem more like he actually knows what’s coming Cut to Z Broly movie palace establishing shot King Vegeta scene from DBZ episode 78 with Frieza’s dialogue made closer to sub using AI Cut weird dub line about there being “nothing left to defend???” New Ai line from King Vegeta saying “Curse you Frieza” Cut to Bardock and Gine sending Kakarot to Earth Vision of Goku growing up added Shots of Kakarot leaving the Planet from the Father of Goku used to keep Planet Vegeta red Same thing with Planet Vegeta establishing shot in the second Broly movie Frieza scene Used Vegeta scene from Father Goku to have Vegeta on a mission instead of on Frieza’s ship like in Ep 78 Added King Vegeta AI line about Frieza being afraid of Sayians teaming up from the sub Changed soundtrack to one from Tree of Might Cut shot of Vegeta before Frieza steps on the King’s amulet Cut scene with Frieza and Zarbon after he kills the Sayians to not conflict with Father of Goku scene Another new Scene with footage from Episode of Bardock to create a bridge between Bardock sending Kakarot off the planet and him heading in the final battle Inspired by the Kakarot DLC and Bardock’s Ultimate in the Budokai games Retouched some frames to remove Yammamuro shininess Also shows Bardock putting the red bandana back on for the final battle Redrew earlier from of Bardock with a scouter jumping to avoid directly showing Bardock jumping from Tower Used a mix of lines from Kai, Kakarot, and Sparking Zero to update lines during final battle in space Removed scene of Frieza telling Zarbon to open the hatch “Everything Changes” from Kai Reaction shots of Gine and Leek from Broly movie seeing the Death Ball used Also used Bardock’s last stand from the Broly movie as Bardock’s last-ditch effort to save the planet Retains the Father of Goku reaction from Frieza about the fireworks using audio from DBZ Ultimate Tenkaichi (assume the scene from Broly happens after that off screen) Uses most of Bardock’s last words to Kakarot from the game but uses last line about the “Pride of our race” from Kai to tie into the title of the movie Scene of Nappa, Vegeta, and Raditz reacting to Planet’s Vegeta destruction from Broly movie instead of the Vegeta one from Father of Goku but cut short to end on Raditz

Other Sources:

Dragon Ball Z Episode 1 “Mini-Goku is an Overprotected Boy! I Am Gohan.” (1989) Dragon Ball Z Episode 2 “The Mightiest Warrior in All of History is Goku’s Older Brother!” (1989) Dragon Ball Z - Bardock: The Father of Goku (1990) Dragon Ball Z Episode 78 “A Nightmare Super-Transformation!! Freeza's Battle Power Reaches One Million” (1991) Dragon Ball Z Episode 86 “Such Regret…!! The Proud Saiyan, Vegeta Dies” (1991) Dragon Ball Z Episode 124 “I Will Overcome… Goku!! The King of the Saiyan Warrior Race” (1992) Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan (1993) Dragon Ball Z Kai Episode 1 “Prologue to Battle! The Return of Goku!” (2009) Dragon Ball Z Kai Episode 42 “Defeat Frieza Son Goku! The Proud Vegeta's Tears” (2010) Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock (2011) Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi (2011) Dragon Ball Heroes “Galaxy Mission 6” (2013) Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018) Dragon Ball Z Kakarot: Bardock Alone Against Fate (2023) Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero (2024) Dragon Ball Daima Episode 1 “Conspiracy” (2024)

Special Thanks:

Credits: Dragon Ball Super: Bardock Special by Fanedit895 Bardock: the Father of Goku - Everything Changes Edition by SaiyamanMS Episode of Bardock Fan Dub DBS BARDOCK VERSION - ORIGINAL "HARUKA" ENDING 9