I don’t think there’s an IP out there as experienced in celebrating itself as Dragon Ball. We’ve seen game after game look back fondly at the Frieza Saga, the Cell Saga… We’ve seen recreation after recreation, retelling after retelling. I will admit that it got tiring after a while, and I was worried at first that Sparking! Zero would amount to the same. I was, it seems, quite wrong. Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is less of a narrow nostalgia trap, and more of a festival dedicated to the series’ earliest moments and recent climaxes.