Okay one of the things bouncing around in my head of late has been "Why didn't they make Dragonball Kai as cool as the intro?" I am certain that many Dragonball fans like myself have seen the intro all ready, if not then here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAxFHKvzEQo&feature=channel_page .
Now I am usually the last guy to watch a subbed anime, the reason being I find it just easier to remain interested in the plot of something if I can understand what is being said without reading it. However I decided to break and watch Dragonball Kai subbed as I already knew the plot anyhow, and all I really wanted was to know what kind of experience to expect in terms of the animation.
It started off with the incredibly awesome intro sequence which I expect you have watched by this point, and I was thinking "Awww yeaaah, this is gonna be the BOMB!" Then when the show started I got treated to the same crap I have seen a thousand times over, that is the original DBZ animation. Now don't get me wrong, the DBZ animation was quite good for its day, by anime standards anyway, but seeing them pass off all the old animation as "enhanced", which it was not in any manner by the way, just drained every ounce of excitement from me. The main reason for me brining this up is because as I understood it the term "enhanced" generally means you are going to release some manner of OVA or something, which us Dragonball fans know they can do as they have already with this little production http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuJ14o3IcHk
which there are more parts to but I am not going to post them. I suppose I wouldn't have gotten so irritated if they had just decided to fix the rest of the animation as was done with say the Hellsing OVA, which there was not only a great deal of changes to the overall story as opposed to the anime, but also the animation was improved significantly.
My point is that I feel that Dragonball Kai could've been at least justifiable if they actually put some real effort into making it better. As it stands it simply propegates the notion that all remakes are bad, and should be avoided at all costs.
Now I am usually the last guy to watch a subbed anime, the reason being I find it just easier to remain interested in the plot of something if I can understand what is being said without reading it. However I decided to break and watch Dragonball Kai subbed as I already knew the plot anyhow, and all I really wanted was to know what kind of experience to expect in terms of the animation.
It started off with the incredibly awesome intro sequence which I expect you have watched by this point, and I was thinking "Awww yeaaah, this is gonna be the BOMB!" Then when the show started I got treated to the same crap I have seen a thousand times over, that is the original DBZ animation. Now don't get me wrong, the DBZ animation was quite good for its day, by anime standards anyway, but seeing them pass off all the old animation as "enhanced", which it was not in any manner by the way, just drained every ounce of excitement from me. The main reason for me brining this up is because as I understood it the term "enhanced" generally means you are going to release some manner of OVA or something, which us Dragonball fans know they can do as they have already with this little production http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuJ14o3IcHk
which there are more parts to but I am not going to post them. I suppose I wouldn't have gotten so irritated if they had just decided to fix the rest of the animation as was done with say the Hellsing OVA, which there was not only a great deal of changes to the overall story as opposed to the anime, but also the animation was improved significantly.
My point is that I feel that Dragonball Kai could've been at least justifiable if they actually put some real effort into making it better. As it stands it simply propegates the notion that all remakes are bad, and should be avoided at all costs.