Toei Addresses Infringement in Kai's BGM

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For some time now, many fans have been questioning the inspiration for some of the musical pieces in Yamamoto Kenji's score for DragonBall Kai, and it seems to have finally caught up with him. It appears that someone, or more likely a company, has brought this to the attention of Toei Animation, as the company recently posted a brief press release on their website addressing the issue of musical infringement in DragonBall Kai's background music.

Toei Animation Corporation

Concerning the "DragonBall Kai" Animation Background Music

It has currently come to light that among the music recorded for the TV animation title "DragonBall Kai", which is produced by our company, there are several musical compositions which may possibly violate the rights of a third party. As these musical compositions are being used as background music in "DragonBall Kai", we are swiftly taking steps to replace them.

We are also moving forward with a quick investigation of all the facts, and discussing future countermeasures with the concerned parties.

Our buddy kei17 has noted that many fans in Japan have commented on Twitter that the background music in recent re-runs of the series have already been changed to remove any questionable music. Although we haven't been able to confirm this yet ourselves, it is being reported that some of Yamamoto's questionable score may have been replaced with Kikuchi Shunsuke's original score from DragonBall Z. In fact (thanks to our buddy Jacob for this tip), both Toei Animation and Fuji TV's official DragonBall Kai websites are now listing Kikuchi Shunsuke as the series' main composer, completely removing Yamamoto Kenji from the picture.

It will be interesting to see how this situation is handled, considering all of the merchandise (CD, DVD, Blu-ray, etc.) that has already been released. This could ultimately be the reason behind the abrupt second cancellation of the "DragonBall Kai: Original Soundtrack Collection", whose listing has subsequently been removed entirely from Columbia's official website, cover art and all. And with so many overseas companies dubbing the series and keeping Yamamoto's score in-tact, the situation could become quite messy for all parties involved.

Source: http://www.kanzentai.com/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1299776510&archive=&start_from=&ucat=4&

So people If you want to hear the Score in this version of Kai before its removed from the shelves you better get it now like Iam, So parts 1-4 will have the Kai score and parts 5-ongoing will have the Z score.