Overheard a group of teens arguing that Dragon Ball Z is 'too slow' for modern anime viewers

I was eating lunch at a food court last Saturday and some high school kids next to me were debating old vs new shonen. One of them said he tried watching DBZ Kai and still thought the fights dragged on forever. That got me thinking about pacing and how we all got used to 12 episode seasons with nonstop action. Has anyone else had a younger fan tell them a classic show felt boring compared to stuff like Demon Slayer?

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murray.drew1mo ago

Wait, thirty episodes for five minutes? That can't be right. I remember watching that arc on Toonami after school and it felt long but not that long. Are you telling me they literally spent twenty something episodes just on the Ginyu Force and Frieza transformations? No wonder my younger cousin says he couldn't get through it. I tried showing him the original Frieza fight and he pulled out his phone three minutes in. Makes me wonder how we all sat through that back in the day without falling asleep.

michael_coleman101mo ago

Eh, who cares what kids these days think.

jamesroberts1mo ago

Kai cut the filler but the Saiyan fight on Namek still took thirty episodes for five minutes.