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There\u2019s a tiny part of me that fears that inquiries like this will become more and more frequent throughout the rest of my life, which is going to make me come to the realization that it\u2019s not so much the world behaving erratically, but that I\u2019m clearly becoming old.<\/span><\/p>\n But seriously, chalk this up like my once\u00a0inquisition of the rising popularity of Deadpool<\/a>, but I have to ask, why is it that\u00a0Dragon Ball<\/em>\u00a0has evidently become so popular again?<\/span><\/p>\n It really does kind of baffle me.\u00a0 At least Deadpool\u2019s rise in popularity can be somewhat chalked up to a talented writer really giving him a chance to shine, and fans responding extremely positively in regards to said re-development of his character.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dragon Ball, to my knowledge hasn\u2019t really been given such a renewal, save for from what I understand was a slightly condensed version of the show to cut down the magnanimous fight sequences that lasted six, 22-minute episodes to detail the importance of a punch.\u00a0 But overall, it\u2019s still very much the same exact Dragon Ball that aired through the late-80s into the mid-90s.\u00a0\u00a0There<\/em>\u00a0is where I am perplexed to why it\u2019s apparently so popular.<\/span><\/p>\n Another part of it is has to do with the fact I was never a fan of it back in the 90s either, when I was at my prime anime-watching days, and worked at Anime FX then, where I had pretty much a vast collection of anime I could\u2019ve watched at any time.\u00a0 Frankly, I never saw the appeal, and that in itself was somewhat surprising, considering the fact that I was a fan of Akira Toriyama\u2019s artwork (from\u00a0Chrono Trigger<\/em>\u00a0fandom), and that I generally enjoyed the fighting genre, whether it\u2019s martial arts films to action sequences in movies.\u00a0 But for whatever reason, Dragon Ball had absolutely zero appeal to me.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s probably because I was such a hipster with my anime tastes back then, and when something is popular, I tended to go in a different direction.\u00a0 And for whatever reason, Dragon Ball was so stupidly popular amongst young boys, Hispanics and African-Americans, and its videos, action figures, posters and any other merchandising was the strongest selling stuff in the world.\u00a0 It\u2019s like there was always so much buzz about Dragon Ball, that I simply grew to resent it.<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, it perplexes me to how popular it\u2019s become again, and I frankly don\u2019t understand it.\u00a0 It\u2019s not really that different than what it used to be.\u00a0 Perhaps the fights are no longer 26 episodes but instead are 13, but still, it\u2019s not like there\u2019s any new content.\u00a0 Video games that act like the television show, where fights encapsulate battlegrounds that are larger than the Utah Salt Flats, and everyone can shrug off massive punishment and 9,000-hit combos like they were getting pelted by a Nerf gun.\u00a0 And then there are movies that have been made and are having sequels planned, and people are going ga-ga over it on social media, and making me have these thoughts of wondering how something that was once was hot, has gotten hot again, after such a dormant period in between.<\/span><\/p>\n Unfortunately for me now, I don\u2019t have the friends I did back in the late 90s who were on board with me with our mockery of Dragon Ball.\u00a0 If I\u2019m too vocal about how stupid Dragon Ball is today, I\u2019d be\u00a0all by myself<\/a>\u00a0and face accusations of being contrarian and elitist.\u00a0 So I\u2019ll just stick with the opinion that I simply just don\u2019t understand why Dragon Ball is apparently a popular thing again, and leave it at that.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There\u2019s a tiny part of me that fears that inquiries like this will become more and more frequent throughout the rest of my life, which is going to make me come to the realization that it\u2019s not so much the world behaving erratically, but that I\u2019m clearly becoming old. 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