TooKakkoiiforYou_321

Exactly, this episode like the entirety of the Sogoroku segment of this show would fit well into the Masterpiece that is the 70's run of Jim Starlin on the Marvel Character warlock like the previous segment on Baby's planet could fit on his 90's run of the Silver Surfer Run (Dynamo City of issues 40/41 anyone?), so much that I expected the Ten Leans clown (satire of Stan Lee) from that one to appear in this. Also, the racoons are very reminescent of Pip the troll from that same series. As a cherry on the cake, FINALLY! It only took 433 episode for an enemy who doesn't use the Dragon Balls to get younger, be immortal or generically conquer the world to appear but it happened, in the form of the charismatic villain Baby Vegeta to recreate the planet from which he originated (it wasn't the planet Vegeta, like the description of this episode on here suggests). So much for people hating on this show because it added something the greatest writer of all times Akira Toriyama (irony mode on, being a big fan of the Dragon Ball IP doesn't mean not aknowledging the true quality of the writing of the guy) couldn't envision all by himself!

I came up to this movie because a character in the first (and only, the second one is terrible, sexy shots of Balalaika's legs in episode 2 permitted) Black Lagoon series mentions the series this movie spawned in the original japanese language in episode 11 as a series he enjoyed when he lived in Japan. Unfortunately, this movie turned out to be a contrived borefest of epic proportions that make the stupid complaints about the unbelievability of what is going on in the first Black Lagoon series (I have no idea what people expects from an animated series) completely disappear because nothing of this movie makes a lick of sense in any way, shape or form. Also there's an overabundance of the typical tropes that you expect from the prison genre, with the usual stuff of a prisoner pretending to be ill to get the attention of a guard, two guys using the railroad to free themselves from the chains, etc. I get it, this was probably cheap entertainment stuff not to be taken seriously, but still it's extremely outdated by today's standards and I don't recommend this movie one bit. I guess I won't look at the following 16 (!) sequels if this is the "quality" of the original.

I'm currently watching the original DBZ series and I have only 20 episodes to finish it, so far I'm enjoying it even with some chinks in it (Gotenks I'm looking at you) and I wasn't bored once through the entirety of the runtime, even during the so-called "fillers" that fill on nothing because they actually make some improvements on the characters and the lore, and yes I'm referring to stuff like the episode on Namek dedicated to Bulma searching for the Dragon Balls underwater which highlights a character otherwise left alone in the grand scheme of events as well other episodes like the one in which my beloved wife No. 18 makes the best impression of the Action Comics No. 1 cover I've seen to this day. So, if a person like me who has a tendency to become bored easily will finish the series this means there's no need to watch this ca$hgrab as well as any of the "manga-accurate" fanedits circulating online, particularly if both are supposedly focusing on making the story of an IP not based on plot and story like Dragon Ball better by unnecessarily cutting content that had no reason to be cut in the first place (no, great Saiyaman, not even you need to be cut). Watch the original DBZ series in japanese with japanese OST and with subs from start to end and it will suffice.