This show has amazing action, some great plotline outlines, some moments of great humor, and some amazing characterizations. Still, a sense of staleness and forced action keeps this shows going too often. There's missing heart in a lot of places, especially when filler is concerned.

The storyline for the Saiyan and Namek saga are great, and it felt like the prequel series was destined to lead to them. The Android saga had a great buildup as well, but it didn't feel "destined" as much as forced. Perhaps a better explaination for the Androids being so powerful was needed, or maybe it was the wrong story at the wrong time. Realistically, if the Buu Saga took place before the Android saga, and the Android saga had more technological buildup to it, the entire plot would make a ton more sense.

Overall this show's biggest issue is it stays in place too often, specifically after the Saiyan saga. Characters stand in place too often. The fights have way too many breaks. The action is far too drawn out. Plotlines are drawn out too much, sometimes to where you want things to just end already. There is way too much filler, especially when compared to the prequel series, which had about 8 episodes tops of true filler, and maybe a 6 episodes more that weren't anime-original storylines that were filler, but still was sort of filler. No, there's 3 mini-sagas of entire filler (Garlic Jr., waiting for Goku to arrive from Namek, and Gohan's High School Days), and well over 100 episodes of filler.

Fortunately, Dragon Ball Z Kai exists, and removes those issues. Too bad they couldn't reanimate the entire thing and make the series look visually on par with other action-heavy anime series, such as Fate Stay Night: Unlimited Bladework.

Pretty enjoyable and surprisingly deep and adult.

I really like how they show the darker side of the Taeko's childhood. They use negative and mean things her relatives did to her to hold her back that for her to overcome, and the way they essentially made her get a new family was quite interesting.

My big problem with this movie was the pacing was really odd. I don't fully get what they were trying to do with the pacing at times. It seemed pretty shaky at times.