Then a time skip. 10 years go by and my life changes a lot. I got older. I got divorced. I fostered a successful career and climbed the ladder. Between then and now my only re-visits with the series were Battle of the Gods and Resurrection F, both of which I loved, but when Super started I was uninterested. It looked like a bloated retelling of the last two movies with worse animation. GT had left a bad taste in my mouth and a new series with a similar diversion in aesthetics did not demand any of my attention whatsoever. I'll just wait, I thought, and if it gets better then I'll check out.
It took an interaction with my girlfriend's co-worker's husband last week to finally bring me back in. He's a fan and he caught me up on Super, informing me that it had finished, gotten much better in the second half, and expanded a with a new Broley movie that was really good. This, and my gf, who is a big Urusei Yatsura fan, asking to rewatch the original series was enough to churn my butter again. Thus, I set out to get caught up on 10 years of Dragon Ball news in a few short days.
Holy shit. Funimation fucked up another remastering. Like, literal deja vu with their trailers and damage control. Holy shit, the Dragon Boxes aren't actually the perfect remasterings like we thought. They were created from faded prints and horrible audio. The sky isn't supposed to be green!! Holy shit, buying Dragon Ball Super is nearly as frustrating as it was procuring the original series and DBZ all those years ago. Ok, not really, but of course Funimation hasn't put out an attractive and affordable collection or box set, and I've got to buy 10 individual releases consisting of a measly 12 episodes each (time to go back to making custom boxes!) all while dodging a slew of bootlegs on Amazon and Ebay. THIS IS COMPLETE MADNESS. IS IT 2007 RUGHT NOW??
I just wanted to say 'hello again'. I'm excited to watch the new series
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