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Barbed Water (1969)
A terrible treasure.
Although an awful piece of history, Whaling is in fact history. Most places on the planet were never able to record whaling functions in video and those that did are black and white and jumbled. This documentary, in color no less, shows how shore whaling was done and continued into more modern times. Although terrible in nature, the preservation of it's historicity is a treasure.
That being said, for a whaling documentary it sure shows a lot of sitting on land.
Kûtei Doragonzu (2020)
Only worth it if you read the manga and even then...
One of the primary draws in the manga was the art style which they absolutely ruined in the show. The music and animation make it feel childish which is foolish for a seinen addaption. A good deal of the character relationships and humor are left out, leaving an uninteresting shell of the crew, and immatur running gags are added without reasoning. It can all be generally summed up by saying that they changed the whole tone for this addaption trying to keep the story and it doesn't work.
That being said, you can still enjoy parts of it and relate them to your reading experience. If you haven't read the manga at all, however, this show is definitely not going to be that enjoyable standing alone.