Dragon Ball Z - Rock The Dragon (4K Deluxe Edition)

Rest in peace, Akira Toriyama. I cannot overstate how grateful I am for having been fortunate enough to have experienced your many artistic contributions to the world throughout my life.

When I was a younger dude, I used to come home from school every afternoon and play back a VHS recording of a show I became obsessed with.

It got to a point where (due to a younger sibling's unforeseen bout of nostalgia) my automated schedule accidentally recorded over a family home movie.

As I got older, this show became a worldwide phenomenon... to the point that VHS tapes of it started being sold for like $35 at stores... or on seedy CD-ROM "video discs" shared between other fellow fans...

Alas... since that time long ago this now worldwide phenomenon of an IP has taken on what I would call an entirely different "feel." Nothing wrong with things changing, but I worry that with time that indescribable "feel" to older things gets lost or looked down upon.

I can't help but prefer to remember this show the way I originally experienced it - when the only way to watch was either on random Saturday mornings at 5am, or weekdays on a new block of animated shows on Cartoon Network called "Toonami" that was hosted by "Moltar" - a villain character from Space Ghost sort of "co-opted / repurposed" to be the cartoon equivalent of an MTV "V.J." for animated shows instead of music videos.

This little mini-obsession video project is just my attempt to show other more modern fans the way I remembered this little show called "Dragon Ball Z" - accurate or not - as I watched it every day after school (and sometimes on random Saturdays around 5 am or so when it showed up on UPN... right before Samurai Pizza Cats).

Chapters:
0:00 - 01 - Preview
0:10 - 02 - Start
1:46 - 03 - Title Card