Z-squad Episode 1

[Princesex Voskamp]

ZSquad chronicles the adventures of three ordinary school girls turned super heroines and their newfound, cuddly alien counterparts, the Zoots, as they search for enchanted crystals to save the Earth and Z-Nation from a cast of bumbling baddies. It is aimed at kids aged 6 to 9 and there are 26 x 24-minute episodes available. Girls will cheer the competitive-spirited heroines; boys will back the sarcastic schoolboys called the Drop Dead Gorgeous Three (the DDG3), as well as the powerful Prince Aramis and a wise wizard Woolaf.

Initial plans for a North American broadcast reportedly included YTV and Teletoon in Canada, with Disney Channel on board in the United States.[3] However, the show would never air on linear television in either market, instead being limited to video-on-demand platforms. In Canada, the series was included as part of the Kids Suite service for Rogers Cable customers in 2014.[8] In the United States, Z-Squad is available to purchase on Amazon Video and is available to stream on Tubi TV.[9][10]

Z-Squad chronicles the adventure of Chaney, Haemi, and Jeanie - school girls turned superheroes and their newfound, cuddly alien counterparts, Zoots, as they search for 144 enchanted crystals in order to save the Earth and Z-Nation from a cast of bumbling baddies.

The three were known as the most athletic girls in the school, defeating all the boys in everything they do. For example, in the first episode the audience is told that Haemi beat the boys at archery, Chaney defeated the boys in Tennis and Jeanie defeated the boys in track.

Whilst the three are the most athletic girls in the school their title becomes threatened by the three new boys more likely known as the drop dead gorgeous three or the DDG3 for short. They are known to be the most athletic boys as well as being cute. They come across arrogant and cheaters when facing the girls.

DragonBall Z Abridged (abbreviated as DBZA) is the title of Team Four Star's abridged series based on the original Dragon Ball Z anime. Though it is not official, this abridged series is one of, if not the most successful web series created and was featured on That Guy with The Glasses' official website under "Inked Reality".

On February 1, 2020, KaiserNeko announced that the series was officially over, and that Team Four Star's future focus will be on original content such as Dragon ShortZ.[1] A later video by KaiserNeko on Team Four Star's YouTube channel confirmed that all plans to adapt the Majin Buu Saga had been scrapped.[2]

On September 2, 2023, TotallyNotMark released his retrospective of the Buu Saga. In honor of this achievement, and out of genuine friendship, Team Four Star returned to adapt certain segments and moments of the Buu Saga for his video in the form of the Buu Bits.

DragonBall Z Abridged is a direct parody with most characters and plot lines remaining relatively unchanged. Origins of concepts and names within the series often alternate between the FUNimation Dub and the original Japanese version. For example, the character Tien is sometimes referred to as "Tenshinhan", which is his name in the original Japanese version. Some original attack names are preserved as well, such as Tien's "Kikōhō," instead of "Tri-beam." Many of the characters have many personality changes (i.e. Goku being an energetic and caring in the original series, he is now a dumb, one-track-minded man-child). Some of the biggest changes are to Mr. Popo, Nappa, Mr. Perfect Cell, Bubbles, etc.

On February 1st 2020, KaiserNeko announced on Twitter that Dragon Ball Z Abridged was officially over, and that Team Four Star's future focus will be on original content. Although the original plan was to adapt the Majin Buu Saga in the style of Dragon ShortZ, a post on the company's Patreon on February 6th, 2020 later revealed that they would not. The reasons for this are because the main trio was too burned out to abridge any more episodes, that they felt that the Majin Buu Saga was the point where the Dragon Ball franchise jumped the shark, felt that Cell-Out was a perfect finale overall, and Toei was ramping up its crackdown against TFS, going as far as to ban FUNimation from allowing them to participate in any official Dragon Ball material. The post added that the decision to cancel the series was made around October 2019, around the same time Bojack Unbound Abridged's cancellation was announced.

In 2023, as part of Totally Not Mark's review/retrospective series on Dragon Ball, TFS would collaborate with Mark on the video covering the Buu Saga, producing DBZA-style scenes which they called "Buu Bits" interspersed throughout the review. While not a full fourth season, Team Four Star announced that these "Buu Bits" are as close as they're ever going to get to doing one.

Z-Squad chronicles the adventures of three ordinary preteen school girls that they turned into cute superheroines and their newfound, cuddly alien counterparts, the Zoots, as they search for enchanted crystals to save the Earth and Z-Nation from a cast of bumbling baddies. It is aimed at kids aged 6 to 9 and there are 26 x 30-minute episodes available. Girls will cheer the competitive-spirited heroines; boys will back the sarcastic preteen schoolboys called the Drop Dead Gorgeous Three (the DDG3), as well as the powerful Prince Aramis and the wise King Woolaf.

International Coproduction: Between Enemes in South Korea and Nelvana in Canada. Out of Order: The episode order in the English dub differs from the original Korean. For example, "Blind Love" and "The Riddle of the Pandora Zoot" were originally episodes 6 and 7 respectively, but in the dub they're episodes 4 and 5. What Could Have Been: When the show originally debuted in 2006, there were official announcements that it would be shown on YTV and Teletoon in Canada, as well as Disney Channel in the United States, but the series ended up not making its way to North America until it became available on Amazon Video and Tubi TV.

Dragon Ball Z Abridged is the title of TeamFourStar's abridged series based on the Dragon Ball Z anime. This abridged series is one of the most successful series created in '08-'09 and is featured on That Guy with The Glasses official website under "Inked Reality" before it shut down.

Dragon Ball Z Abridged is a direct parody with most characters and plot lines remaining relatively unchanged. Origins of concepts and names within the series often alternate between the FUNimation Dub, and the original Japanese version. For example, the character Tien is sometimes referred to as Tenshinhan, which is his name in the original Japanese version. Some original attack-names are preserved as well, such as Tien's "Ki-Ko-Ho," instead of "Tri-beam." For more information please visit Team Four Star wiki.

After the success of NeighborhoodCluck Production's release of the first two Dragon Ball Z abridged movies, Lanipator, Takahata101, MasakoX, and Vegeta3986 decided to continue their working partnership to tackle Dragon Ball Z as a series due to fan demand. With Lanipator behind the wheel of the series, he and Takahata enlisted Kaiserneko's help to write, edit, and oversee voice recording duties. As the series progressed, Hbi2k was invited on board to oversea other matters (later becoming CEO of Team Four Star as a company).

On January 18, 2019 TFS released an update video entitled "DBZA: What's Next? TFS Update". In it, they mention that due to 'inconsolable differences', Hbi2k had left TFS, stepping down as CEO of the company.

Takahata101 explained on a reddit response that Hbi2k wanted to do some more serious things that "doesn't need the guise of a colorful 80s cartoon for it's audience" as he stated on his own stream. He wanted to do articles and "lecture" type things that tackle subject like grief, cheating, family structure, and the like. Takahata felt that as a comedic entertainment company, said content didn't really fit with TeamFourStar.

On Setember 2nd and 26th, 2023, TeamFourStar would somewhere return to DBZA to abridge The Buu Saga in a series of shorts for Totally Not Mark's Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Review series of videos in the form of Buu Bits. A series of short parody segments utilizing TFS's characterizations of the cast for select scenes of the Buu Saga. The full complation of those scenes and others can be found on TeamFourStar's channel.

TeamFourStar's Dragon Ball Z Abridged uses a shortened version of "Cha-La Head-Cha-La," the theme song of the original Dragonball Z anime's airing from episode 1 to the end of the Cell arc. From the end of TeamFourStar's Episode 18 to Episode 23, the opening and ending theme is replaced with "Sanjou!! Ginyu-Tokusentai!!", as the Ginyu Special Squad is featured in those episodes; at the end of Episode 23, the normal ending song resumes.

Note that in the end of Episode 18, the Ginyu theme plays behind the dialogue, and there is no regular eyecatch; the ends of Episodes 19-22 feature a Ginyu eyecatch before reverting to the regular eyecatch at the end of Episode 23.

At the beginning of every single episode, there is a disclaimer that says "The following is a non-profit fan-based parody. Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT are all owned by Funimation, Toei Animation, Fuji TV and Akira Toriyama. Please support the official release." Originally, it was a heavily edited KaiserNeko reading the disclaimer but starting from Episode 17 a character reads it, but only for the actual episodes; the edited voice remains for any special. As of "Cooler 2", the edited voice has been replaced by KaiserNeko's normal voice and as of Episode 44, the characters no longer say "non-profit" - though 10 Episodes later "non-profit" is said again. Beginning in Episode 57, Dragon Ball Super is added to the list, and "Fuji TV" is replaced with "Shueisha". The reading of the disclaimers was often times a foreshadowing of the said character's death or the fact they would be the focus of the episode.

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