You can just FEEL the moment where the creators were informed they wouldn't be getting a two-part pilot after all.

I wish I could say that it’s hard to pick a favorite and that both adaptations have their own merits, but I’m not in the business of lying to y’all.

I liked the extra bits of worldbuilding that the OVA managed to fit in, as well as spending a little more time on the grunts. Unfortunately, it's still one step forward and ten back when weighed against the merits and flaws of Die Neue These.

It's been a long time, but we're doing the next episode of the second LotGH adaptation. And, right after this, watching the first two episodes of the older OVA. Probably adapting more or less the same material, so that should be interesting.

Bardock managed to capture most of the best aspects of DBZ while circumventing most of the worsts. Trunks, I feel, did the opposite. Aside from that one interesting subversion, everything in it felt like a weaker, reprocessed version of earlier arcs.

I had positive memories of DBZ from watching it on Toonami as a kid, but I really didn't think it would hold up this well.

I appreciate how much plot these cartoons were able to compress into so little screentime, but this is a case where the characters and story suffered badly for it.