Kozralex's Variety Mix!

Finally getting into the Dragon Ball series for the first time in 2018 was an interesting experience. Partially because I genuinely enjoyed DB and DBZ despite both being an adult and only more recently watching it. I think the thing that threw me off, though, is looking into fandom stuff and seeing many older fans talking about some genuinely cool parts of the series and attributing their feelings almost exclusively to nostalgia. And I started noticing it in other fandoms with older media too, but all over the place. Anything even remotely good that's older than 10 years gets called good "because it's nostalgic", which seems a bit dismissive of the more nuanced emotional experience imo. I don't share that nostalgia, I don't value nostalgia. To me, things are good because they're good, not because it was in front of me when I was a child. What a weird world we live in. Thanks, Dragon Ball.