Z Kai sucks

[Future Warrior]

It really does in my opinion, and I haven't found a good reason to warrant it's existence. Boo arc Kai is the absolute worst, but I'm mainly talking about Kai 1.0 since that's what most people give it credit.

The music is just dull generic modern shonen stuff (especially that opening, uh), not a fan of the bright feel it has to it's visuals, and chooses to remove actual decent filler but keeps filler that most would agree is pretty bad.

 

[SSJ2]

I haven't seen a single episode of Kai and I never will.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

I wholeheartedly agree about how they handled filler with it showing the directors didn't understand the reason some filler was inserted in the first place. Things such as Gohan's adventures in the Saiyan Arc or Goku's training in space add to the character's arcs and make some later moments feel more earned that the manga otherwise skimmed over, with Kai cutting such out causing it to suffer when stacked up to the original. This is especially apparent with the Cell and Boo Arcs removing filler that fit with or added more to the tones of the series such as the driving filler, the days of peace before the Cell Game or the Great Saiyaman adventures, yet retained more contradictive filler such as Kuririn fighting 1st form Cell or all the dumb powerscaling of the anime's Boo Arc.

The only arc I'd say Kai did better overall would be the Freeza Arc due to this being where Z started to suffer when it came to pacing being bogged down or stilted animation becoming more apparent, and even that arc lost a fair bit of good qualities from the trimming (Goku's training or Bulma actually doing something, for instance).

 

[Future Warrior]

The only time where I actually took a major issue with the padding throughout Z's run is the SSJ Goku vs Full power Freeza portion. Especially after watching it from start to finish for the first time, I never got the meme of ''characters fighting and screaming for 10+ episodes''. Not that DB memes ever made sense to begin with.

The filler material being a flaw of Z is also something I never really agreed with. It's not perfect, but it works well enough. The only one's I remember not liking was the Fake Namek and Ginyu Bulma shit.

 

[SSJ2]

I've never understood that gross exaggeration either. The only episode that I can recall with over the top screaming was Goku's SSJ3 transformation, and that was what, a 5 minute transformation? It was absurdly long and unnecessary, but 10 episodes? C'mon man.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

^Think it was even shorter, barely more than 4 minutes.

The main padding comes more from episode and flashback recaps, such as the episode just after Goku starts fighting the Ginyus having a 5+ minute recap or a flashback of most of the prior events of the Freeza fight just before Freeza is defeated going on for about 10 minutes. Then, of course, you have the beam struggle between Gohan and Cell being stretched out for an entire episode. I agree that the power up and Ki charging durations are extremely exaggerated by those in and outside the fanbase, though there are still some noticeable moments of unnecessary padding.

 

[Let's Go Fearless!]

It's only necessary to the casuals who wants to watch DB but in a short amount of time and DBZKai offers that. Not the best but at least it can save a lot of time.

 

[Future Warrior]

It's only necessary to the casuals who wants to watch DB but in a short amount of time and DBZKai offers that. Not the best but at least it can save a lot of time.

You're not wrong on this. Most kids these days lack the attention span to sit through entire story lines on the scale of Z, so at least it allowed for the series to gain more exposure to people from a newer generation.

But that could be due to conditioning, since most adults these days subjugate children only to T.V. shows that treat their audiences like complete idiots. Kids are as smart as you treat them.

The people in Japan certainly didn't have an issue with it.