Hi everyone, my name is Tachikoma, and im an ex DB-er It's been about 6 years since I watched an episode and though "gee I really hope they never stop making these" Since I realised they are nothing more than a drawn out mess, with dubious scripting and shoddy animation, my life has been better. People say its cool to hate the DB series because its old, I say its cool to like it if you want, but for me, even back then people must have had doubts. Sure it may be one of the most succesful series' ever in Anime history, but have you really taken a step back and had a hard look at it? The original series was mildly enjoyable, little Goku and a young Bulma wandering around looking for the Dragon Balls. Getting into mischief with those dastardly Red Ribbon Army chaps! Since then though, it has been a mess, the first "saga" in all wasn't too bad. What killed the series, was the fact each and every other "saga" was exactly the fucking same, but with a different bad guy, and Vegeta swapping sides every now and then. I'm glad I finally shook that monkey (no pun intended) off my back, it let me finally appreciate effort in plot writing in real anime. Now where's my Onegai Sensei boxset got too...?
Of course Dragonball is redundant, but its made to appeal to little kids. Little kids generally like watching the same .shit recycled over and over. People can definately dislike it, just because of what it is. I'm not saying everyone should like it. But no one can deny that it is not anime, nevertheless a decent one. Afterall it defines the kiddie anime genre. Also, its not just a mildly successfull anime, its by far THE most successfull anime series, period.
I used to be a fair bit of a DB/Z fanboy. I still like watchign the show now and again....apart from the FReiza saga and everything after the Android saga ^_^ In my honest opinion, there wasn't enough Yamcha in Dragonball Z! He's my favourite character :smt023 I don't hate DB/Z though....just not all that interested in it anymore.
I LOVE DBZ!!!! YES, I DO! , i love the mexican dub and original japanese, but i hate french,spanish, and english, they totally suck ass :snipe:
I like the even slower paced Japanese/Mexican series too I'd like to let you all know that I don't actually watch DBZ, or any anime in general anymore though lol
i used to be a dbz fan too, and i'm not one of them anymore , but i read dbz book , by time to time just to remember the old days, now i love others manga , with more develloped story , ill try to view dbz in the cinemas to rember the old days, or if i can't go to view it, ill rent it wen he will be released in dvd. it will be fun to rememorate my youger times :smt033 .
I have a friend in Japan in the process of getting me the first $1000 DBZ Box set. I'm sure everyone in Japan has heard of it, with all the advertisements everywhere in Tokyo
I used to be a DBZ fan as well, but I just couldn't stand the cencored American crap any more so I quit watching it. I have one DBZ manga, it's ok, but I am not buying any more.
Hehe I have all the DB manga (Shonen Jump tankouban) and a few other "behind the scenes" books in Japanese packed away. Also have a few Chinese manga for some reason. Oh, I also have an autographed portrait of Goku drawn and signed by Toriyama sensei
oh my god.....i don't want see that DBZ movie..... give me back my real look plz.... let me use Dragon Ball ....do that dream~~~
They.... They are making a Dragon Ball Z movie? Oh god please no... NNNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! We have to stop them. We have to all hitchike to Hollywood Jay and Silent Bob style and kick thier asses before they can fuck up DBZ forever. I live in LA, we can use my place as a home base. I'll start buying some stinkbombs and slingshots. My sister is an Agent for DPs, she can get us passes at the studio. We must all dress up in Goku uniforms and wage nonstop gurilla warfare, spikes in the tires, TP thier houses, sending a bunch of pizzas that they didn't order, the works. We have to save Dragon ball. Now is the time for all great men to come to the aid of DBZ. We have nothing to fear but Hollywood. United we stand, divided they make this shitty movie. We have nothing to lose, and they have millions of dollars to lose. We can defeat them. Viva la resistance.
:smt043 :smt043 don't talk in bad of the end of revolutons, that was really a good end for this trilogy . :smt033
