Dragon Ball Z, The most Legendary series of all time

[quzar]

Fair enough.

I'm not saying the show was that bad, just my main memory of it was of it being really stretched out. I never really saw much of it at all, not that big of an anime fan and I liked sleeping in.

Was the period you mention around the time when the main guy (goku?) was running on some path (i think through space) to get back home?

I seem to remember that going on for freaking ages.

Actually, no, he was running for ages, but the story happening in paralell to that was actually moving. What I was talking about was later on there is a period of maybe 10 episodes where he is standing face to face with an enemy and has been "beaten" and is just standing there and the taunt each other, then near the end of it he goes, good thing you gave me time to charge this power attack! Basically, in the first season there are two fights, one in the first 10 episodes or so, then one in the last 10 episodes or so, and unlike the rest of the series where the fight scenes are mostly empty space, these are actionful (although they still have rather silly taunting and whatnot).

[sourced]

i used to <3 DBZ.

dont really like it that much now..

[mastersho]

Dragon Ball was the best. I mean come on, Goku took about 3 shows to charge up the damn Spirtbomb and it still didnt work. Ill rather watch Son Goku freak out cause Bulma didn't have balls when he did a "pat pat"

[pibs]

First time I was introduced to DB was in mexico with spanish dubs. It was great and all uncensored, but when i came back to the states to see dbz and wow what a load of fillers in that show, almost as bad as naruto.

[Cap'n 1time]

This is what Dragon Ball Z was to me.

Bad guy: "hahaha I am going to destroy you!"
Good guy 1: "No you wont, you might beat me but Good Guy 2 is going to come and kick your ass!."

staring contest begins.

Camera: show bad guy face for a few seconds.
Camera: show good guy 1 face for a few seconds.
camera: show bad guy rushing at good guy 1.
.....
Good guy 1 gets beat'n up pretty bad.
Good guy 2 comes. Good guy 2 gets beaten until he unlocks more power.
....
Staring
Staring
Staring
fighting
the end.

[Sonicboy 101]

I never knew about DBZ until recently.
No, I am not kidding.
I think I saw it once though, some people with bizarre hairstyles were playing with cards.
But that could easily have been another anime.

[mastersho]

I never knew about DBZ until recently.
No, I am not kidding.
I think I saw it once though, some people with bizarre hairstyles were playing with cards.
But that could easily have been another anime.

Man you are so lucky to not know about DBZ. I envy you.

[SnesR0X]

Dragon Ball > Non Z portion of DBZ (in the manga Z started later) > DBGT > Z

How was DBGT better than Z? That was the worst thing of all! I know there was lots of parts of the show where everything was a stand-still and was stupid, but for the parts that weren't it was brilliant. The best part was the Frezia saga, (minus the part when he took 3 episodes to get to 100% power)

[Vampbri-n]

This is what Dragon Ball Z was to me.

Bad guy: "hahaha I am going to destroy you!"
Good guy 1: "No you wont, you might beat me but Good Guy 2 is going to come and kick your ass!."

staring contest begins.

Camera: show bad guy face for a few seconds.
Camera: show good guy 1 face for a few seconds.
camera: show bad guy rushing at good guy 1.
.....
Good guy 1 gets beat'n up pretty bad.
Good guy 2 comes. Good guy 2 gets beaten until he unlocks more power.
....
Staring
Staring
Staring
fighting
the end.

JA zats how i see zit most of se time. and screaming don't forget the screaming, zat took 2 episodes to do.:rofl:

[quzar]

How was DBGT better than Z? That was the worst thing of all! I know there was lots of parts of the show where everything was a stand-still and was stupid, but for the parts that weren't it was brilliant. The best part was the Frezia saga, (minus the part when he took 3 episodes to get to 100% power)

I'll rephrase what I said, and make clear accounts for divisions:

DB> sayajin saga of Z > second half of GT > rest of Z > first half of GT

I felt that from the moment they stepped onto namek on in Z the series was mostly downhill. I enjoyed a large portion of the android saga as well as it's alternate timelines and some of cell, but buu was way out.

As for GT, the first half of it was supposed to mirror the storyline/general action of DB which, while nostalgic, just wasn't the same, whereas after they return to earth in GT, it is basically the same as Z. I really liked the reborn androids and hell breaking loose, but didn't much like the seven dragons portion (similar to my breakdown of androids and cell vs buu).

I can't see how anyone would think the freiza saga was the best part of DBZ unless they are that hung up on the final transformation to super sayajin. It wasn't just a three part episode, at least 50% of that set of episodes was pure filler. I have to admit I still find the very last bit of the freiza saga to be great, but the sheer amount of filler in it really turns me off to it in a major way. That said, my favorite part of Z ever is Goku's return/trunks' introduction, but that isn't really a subsection of the series in any way because it is only 2-3 episodes.