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Rest in peace. For anyone feeling like revisiting DBZ as an adult, I recommend watching "Dragon Ball Z: Abridged" on YouTube. Starts slow / amateurish, but oh

• acuozzo 3y ago
  > For anyone feeling like revisiting DBZ as an adult I watched DBZ as a child/teen, but now that I'm an adult I find that I'm much more entertained by DB than DBZ.
  • prmoustache 3y ago
    We use this term a lot in apps/services, but really DBZ is the perfect example of enshitification.
    • acuozzo 3y ago
      Perhaps, but it seems more like Toriyama changed the target demographic as his set of "original readers" aged; similar to what Rowling did with Harry Potter. And as an adult I find media targeted at pre-teens and teenagers to often be cringey, but I sometimes find media targeted at children to be charming.
      • prmoustache 3y ago
        Born in 1980 I still think I was during the DB-->early DBZ in the target demographic. I can't speak of the manga but on the anime I saw on TV it felt to me that they went from an original traditional storytelling manga to an industrial thing where a pattern of a generic story was repeated and dragging into tons of empty episodes[1] whose sole purpose was to sell child and preteens brain time for advertisers. Even I as a preteen I felt robed and insulted in my intelligence at the time and I don't consider myself a genius. [1] most of them were just several minutes of generic blabla without any action nor story development