Dragon Ball Kai on The CW (Eps. #76-98)

This is an interesting one to be sure. Because I have a lot to say about this one.

Now, this is an anomaly of archival, anime history, whatever you may call it that I was privy to pretty early on, in fact, before it even made its debut in the summer of 2010.

However, being a teenager at the time, I didn't have much authority over the cable package so I couldn't get those CW-affiliate superstations like WPIX available to me.

As time went on, I eventually got it on my package, I'd say around late 2011-early 2012, and I did start DVRing them, but then realized I had no way of digitizing them. It was a real drag.

I kept them on there for the longest time until they oddly enough all got wiped through no fault of my own. I still don't know what happened there...

Luckily for us, the first 75 episodes that Saban staff cared enough to make streamable on their then-website, myvortexx.com: web.archive.org/web/20130831111343/http://myvortexx.com/shows/dragon-ball-z-kai?season=3

The earliest list of episodes:

The farthest of the archive at the time:

And God, I wish I could remember who it was, but there was one hero out there (you know who you are) who had the foresight to rip all of the ones on the site.

But unfortunately, not much headway after #75.

Now, I've looked through the dumping ground that is archive.org. And while I am grateful that I have found the useful nugget here and there, most Vortexx recordings consisted of Joshua Kahanding uploading 6 hours at a time of completely miscellaneous footage, sometimes including CW-broadcasted Kai, but it is perhaps recorded in the worst way I've ever seen to where not even the audio is salvageable. I hate to put a guy on blast like that, but it's just THAT bad.

I'm just wondering if I might on the off chance run into anybody that either recorded those CW broadcasts from 2013-2014 on VHS, or maybe have them captive on their backlogged DVR or TiVo system (how lucky would we be then?)

Anyway, enough of my ramblings, thank you for listening.