We definitely prefer the old design.
Dragon Ball is, without a doubt, one of the most important franchises in the audiovisual industry, and by extension, one of the best anime in history. It managed, at a time when Japanese animation was not so followed in the West, to become one of the most watched series in much of the world, something that is highly admired. For this reason, it is why it is considered one of the series that managed to popularize the anime.
This was achieved, to a large extent, thanks to its characters, and it is that although he has been accused many times of not having a great storyOver the years, and all the series that we have received, we have been able to meet the most diverse fighters, who have helped, or even faced Goku, one of the best anime characters.
Unfortunately, we can’t say that Toriyama was able to make the most of all the characters, especially since many of them regressed, or even stopped appearing for no apparent reason. There are many cases, but among them, we have Bardock, father of Gokuwhich comes out quite rarely, but we can all agree that it has an impressive design, which could have been even more brutal.
The bandana is the key
We all remember the version of Bardock from the movie “Dragon Ball Super: Broly”, but to see the most brutal version of this character we have to go back further, to see the film in which we were introduced to Goku’s father. In it, due to various adverse situations, Bardock cannot accompany his companions to conquer a certain planet, with the bad luck that Frieza wanted to eliminate them on said mission. When he arrived, he couldn’t do anything more than see the lifeless bodies of his companions, so he decides, just before eliminating the murderers of his friends, to soak the white cloth he was wearing with the blood of his fallen brothers, so it turns red.
This fabric is the one he wears as a bandana in the original design, which gives it a more brutal, and even barbaric touch, as well as having a background. Unfortunately, in the redesign that was made for Dragon Ball Super, this feature was removed, which ended up taking away from the character a lot.