Dragon Ball Z

[Rye]

Dragon Ball Z used to be one of the greatest shows ever. Up to the end of the Cell era was awesome. The Bu era was like... wtf? 5 year old kids that can blow up a million planets and fusion hah and all that stuff. Weird.

I miss the old episodes. But what's also great about DBZ is its cliches, like the 100 episodes for a 2 minute battle before a planet blows up, the battle field that's impossibly large yet so accessable, Goku being impossibly perfect and nice to the enemies, etc.

Dragon Ball Z in a Nut Shell and its sequal show off these cliches pretty well, they're really funny.

Did you like DBZ? What was your favourite era? Mine is definitely the Freeza era, but the Cell era was awesome too.

[Destai]

I used to love it while on cartoon network but then they put it onto this cartoon network anime channel which I didnt have and I lost contact with it.

[Aurey]

Ahaha, this brings back memories.

Yes, I totally used to be obsessed. My friends and I would act like characters from the shows and we used to call eachother by the person we "claimed" or played or whatnot. And we used all watch it together at six o clock at my friend's house. Oh man I was so cool back then. I wonder what happened. D:

The shows are really all a blur to me, so I can't remember what I era I really liked. I think the Cell era, maybe.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

My fav saga was the ...*thinks back* The Cell Saga. I liked most of the movies though,they were fun to watch (only watched the first six and that was twice or three times each)

[TheAbominatrix]

I never could stomach much of it. While some of it is very cool (I really like the non-battle interaction, like the driving lessons episode), I find it to be too insanely reptitive, and it drags on far too long. As I've said before, this, I feel, sums up pretty much every episode of DBZ:
*bad guy appears, good guys attack with everything and cover him in smoke*
"Yay, we won!"
*smoke clears*
"Haha you can not kill me!"
"Oh noes!"

And basically that, getting stronger, fighting, dying, getting stronger, fighting, fighting.

Oh, and the battle on Namek drove me insane.
"Oh noes, the planet is gonna blow up in five minutes!"
*25 episodes later*
"Oh noes, the planet is gonna blow up in three minutes!"

It has it's moments, but on the whole it drives me bonkers. I also find Toriyama's style to be very ugly, but I do like the 'people named after food and underwear' bit to be quite amusing.

[DK]

Dude I used to be such a fanboi, my first name on EoFF was Majin_Squall xD I had DBZ sigs and Avatars for about two years as well. I could probably dig some of them up now If I could be arsed. I used to be obsessed with Vegeta. But eh, I got bored with them constantly repeating it because of lack of translated versions and lost interest in it.

[Peegee]

I had the benefit...nay horror of watching all 291 episodes. It actually makes a lot of sense and doesn't drag on as it seems in dubs (probably because you have to watch 100 eps for about 3 months to get through namek saga). The story actually does drag on, but no in the manner you seem to state -- for example yes Namek is going to blow up but in those 10 mins a lot can and does happen -- some talking, some off topic scenes, etc, but it makes some sense.

It's like in movies when you have ten seconds to stop da bomb.

[TheAbominatrix]

The battle of Namek takes WAY too many episodes, and it's WAY too much banter for that time. I dont mean the shots of people on Earth or whatever. They circle eachother on Namek, talk, fight fight, talk, banter, talk fight talk. It's horrendous.

[Destai]

*bad guy appears, good guys attack with everything and cover him in smoke*
"Yay, we won!"
*smoke clears*
"Haha you can not kill me!"
"Oh noes!"

And basically that, getting stronger, fighting, dying, getting stronger, fighting, fighting.

Oh, and the battle on Namek drove me insane.
"Oh noes, the planet is gonna blow up in five minutes!"
*25 episodes later*
"Oh noes, the planet is gonna blow up in three minutes!"

xD I laugh because its true.

[Black Mage]

Dragon Ball Z is best viewed subtitled, or nine years ago when it was on Fox at 6:30am after WMAC Masters.

Or best yet, in Manga form.

[Wiegrahf42]

I abhor DBZ now though I do admit I used to like it. DBZ in a nutshell however I adore.

[MoonZapdos]

I like DBGT better =D

[crashNUMBERS]

I should kill who made this thread. Oh hi rye!!

[XxSephirothxX]

I loved it as a kid, but now I realize it's utter crap and one of those shows that give anime a bad name. It took me years to convince some of my friends that all anime wasn't retarded thanks to that show. Bebop and Mononoke solved that problem.

[crashNUMBERS]

I loved it as a kid, but now I realize it's utter crap and one of those shows that give anime a bad name. It took me years to convince some of my friends that all anime wasn't retarded thanks to that show. Bebop and Mononoke solved that problem.

Same here!!