I am a huge DBZ fan and I once thought it was the best anime ever conceived by man but later on I realized I was being stupid and narrow minded because their were MANY great action anime out there and anime in general that put DBZ to shame. Anyway, I accidentally came across an anime on youtube entitled Dragon Ball Episode of Bardock. Initially, I thought it was some fan made bullshit but then I found out it was legit, here's the link the anime:
I am sure you guys can find it or watch it by other means if youtube takes it down due to copyright issues, but at least you guys know it exists. Anyway, the movie/episode was OK but not memorable because cuts were made to appeal to a mass audience, hence the action and the story weren't nothing to write about, and we have modern cable to thank for that.
Back in the day cable was more lenient to violence but today networks are strict, and sometimes by unreasonable means, so the violence had to be toned down, unfortunately. Look at Dragon Ball Kai, wasted project in my regard, I would have much prefer a redrawn remake instead of a cheaply produced edited show. Yes you read correctly, it was heavily edited for the worse, especially the violence. It is not the show we grew up watching as kids, and it sucks that they edited the violence and the process they took to bring it up to Hi-res format was just horrid.
I know changes were made to get DB Episode of Bardock to TV format because I did my research on the Manga which seems to be an alternative story or cannon to the original series/manga. I kind of liked it but then again the story has some issues, like how the hell did Bardock get warped back several 1000 years to the past. And if he is the legendary Super Saiyen--which is a cool concept by the way--it contradicts with the main story since they said first Legendary Super Saiyen was insane and power consumed himself and almost destroyed the Saiyen race to extinction own race...anyway it doesn't matter since this is a "what-if" story and not totally align with the main story.
I like it, it was cool, and it got me wishing for a Dragon Ball remake and I may get my prays answered thanks to Naho Ooishi. Naho Ooishi is the guy we should be thanking since he's the reason why we are getting updated versions of DBZ content in a modern setting, we may get a whole new TV series in the near future. He's currently doing alternative spinoffs and remarks on the Dragon Ball universe in manga form and we may get a whole new series called Dragon Ball SD in animated form since there is already manga version currently running. Personally, I don't like the SD form graphics but I will watch the series if it is better than the original with some twists, which it has, but improves upon the story and the battle. I am just happy Dragon Ball is being revamped for the newer generation because it is a legendary anime that deserves this level of attention and love.
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