I am what you may call a Dragon Ball person.
I started to watch the original series back in the late 80's when they were being aired in France before most other countries besides Japan itself.
I was done with the all thing when it wasn't even being aired in the US.
I watched it again and again and again along the years as well as all the movies and specials that exist.
In fact, Dragonball was part of my youth and the benchmark for all animations afterwards.
So, when i learned about Kai and the fact that they were cutting stuff off and leaving a lot of the fillers in th trash can i had a "purist" reaction and refused to watch it as i considered that the original work should be preserved intact in my mind.
Nevertheless, with the appearance of the new movie Revival of F, i decided to give it a try as it was the only Dragonball material i had never seen.
Well, i must say that this is a lot better than the original.
Even if some fillers were fun and interesting, i agree that the pace of the Manga was much more proper for a Shounen anime of this kind. This Kai version shows this perfectly.
This new version is action packed like it should have been and settles many stuff like plot holes and other inconsistencies created by the original Z series by the fillers.
These fillers were being made up out of the manga because at the time, Akira Toriyama was actually late in the manga comparing to the anime. This show was so popular that the animation was ahead of the ink and they had to invent stuff and exaggerate the time of power ups and stare contests between fighters.
The Kai version is so much better, I recommend everyone to see it and forget about the original because, well, a good 1/4 of it is made up material without story validity.
Dragonball seems to be more alive than never with Kai reaching the end of the series and new movies of legit material being produced by Toriyama.
It's staggering to see myself, 25 years after the first Dragonball episodes i saw as a kid, still trembling of joy at the sight of new Dragonball material.
To me, this is undeniably the greatest anime franchise that ever existed.
