So I've never seen any of the #DragonBall series and as an adult I want to give them a go but I really don't care for filler which the series is well known for having. So over the last few days I've located trimmed down fan edits of the original Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z Kai (itself already trimmed of most of the filler before the fan edit). They're titled Dragon Ball Recut and Dragon Ball Kai Recut, both by the same guy who goes by various usernames that all use "The Milkman" in them.
The Kai fanedit is uncensored, and has the Yamamoto score reinserted after the retail Kai removed them to fan disappointment. All in all the retail Kai edit in addition to the fanedits to both shows to make the story more streamlined and closer to the Manga, reduced the total running time by roughly 76 hours! Thats 23 hours cut from the original Dragon Ball, while 41 hours are estimated to have been removed from DBZ via the retail cut of Kai and the fanedit removed another 12 or so hours.
Then I compiled a list: recommendations for when to watch the movies (adjusted for the fan edits altered episode count, although I understand most of the movies are themselves filler lol), throwing in fan favorite filler episodes that were removed from the retail cut of Kai, and placing Dragon Ball Daima and Dragon Ball Super before the final 3 episodes of Z (also intermixing their movies too).
So now I believe I've built an ultimate streamlined Dragon Ball viewing list for people who've never seen the series before. I can share if anyone wants the list. 😁 But I'm excited to see what all the fuss is about with this Anime, hopefully I'll be able to do the same with other popular anime's in the future. 🤞