The thought of a rebooted Dragon Ball with "modern standards" makes me sick.
Because let's see what "modern standards" means:
- Over-done squash and stretch animation, very badly trying to be "cartoony", most atrociously applied to any sort of ki wave so that it warbles and jiggles and completely negates any sort of sense of energy. Ironically, Dragon Ball actually was cartoony and got away with it without any of that shit
- Complete lack of any sense of impact, once obtained by shaking the camera only with a heavy hit, also obtained by having characters actually respond to attacks with weight rather than wispy jets of air coming out of their backs
- Shaky-cam liberally applied to any and every action scene, despite this being a cartoon and rooted so heavily in old kung fu movies (well known for having very stable cameras that ironically sold the impact of fighting exponentially better than the hack-frauds of Hollywood's attempt to cover up their inability to compose fight scenes or have trained actors)
- Soundtrack replaced with a generic electro-orchestral anime OST
- Characters rewritten to be more like stereotypes of themselves since the series is now both an institution of Japan as well as one of the faces of shonen anime, meaning the characters' best known representation is what we'd get
- Loss of that over-the-top 80s charm that the old series had naturally
Which just comes back to something I've been saying: if you want to remake Dragon Ball so badly to make it palatable to modern standards, why not just make a new series that's Dragon Ball in all but name (like I'm kinda sorta doing)? Watch a bunch of kung fu and wuxia movies, create a monkey-tailed protagonist, and do as you please. Do it "properly."
Dragon Ball, as we've learned time and time again, is never going to be treated "properly." People keep getting angry that Dragon Ball is disrespected in terms of new material, new releases, and whatnot— "How could they do this to Dragon Ball Z?!" is a common refrain I've heard at least a hundred-plus times in the past decade alone, and I'm sure that the OG of this forum have been saying it for much longer than I've noticed it. Quite literally the only piece of DB media in the past 10 years that people seem to unironically think was great without any "at least for DB standards" was FighterZ. It should be obvious that the people in charge are NEVER going to "treat the series with the respect it deserves" and do these sorts of things (partially because they think it's just a silly kid's comic, which it is— people here probably wouldn't think it's insane to have such feelings about, say, Arthur or Powerpuff Girls).
But bah, I'm just rambling again.