For kids of the 1990s, Saturday mornings were the closest thing to a holy time as one could get in terms of entertainment. The 1990s introduced kids to a plethora of shows be it cartoons both new and old, live-action showcases like “Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers”, and even an hour of WWF wrestling to cap it all off before college football & basketball games started airing. During the middle of the decade something unexpected happened as Japanese animated programming started finding its way across the Pacific full of terrible English dubbing and obvious poor editing to censor some of a show’s more gratuitously violent moments.
Anime (or the terribly dubbed “Japanimation” as it was originally called by the woefully unaware) found a footing in west thanks to distribution companies choosing & working with the best of the best shows Japan had to offer (or least the most easily marketable to kids of both genders). While girls (and even quite a few boys including yours truly) embraced the early weekday morning action of “Sailor Moon”, Saturday mornings were for the rowdiest of boys looking to rock the dragon courtesy of “Dragon Ball Z”. Now the story of a simple family man who just so happened to be an alien purged from a planet full of great, globe-conquering warriors is retold in full. Lets scream to the sky and get some first impressions of “Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot”.
