>>279664845That's exactly my point, how is it that a product that has toddlers as its main audience is easier to watch as an adult than supposed modern day "seinen"? (it's not just shonnens suffering from this). I'm not sure I'd be capable to watch DB from scratch now as a 35 yod if I had no nostalgia for it but I can at least objectively appreciate the direction and the writing in spite of it being a children's show.
One other example I can offer is Patlabor since I tried watching it recently for the first time, I dropped it specifically cause it's too silly and infantile at times to take seriously but I love the OVA and the movies. The problem I had with the TV show was its light hearted nature where everything has no weight and it had nothing to do with insufferable characters screaming or doing dumb faces, so in that sense it's a show I would recommend to anyone (even adults) without feeling like a clown, not something I can say about something like Demon Slayer.
So going back to DB, in the worst case scenario I'd see it the same way I'm seeing Patlabor TV had I not seen it first as a kid. This is the case for other older stuff I dropped, can't remember a single instance of something pissing me off in the way this new garbage does.