giving into peer pressure: watching Dragonball Z · 9:14pm Mar 23rd, 2015
yep. i've reached a new level of boredom and have decided to give the Dragonball Saga a try. after some Wikipedia research on the characters, i finished the original series and am now on DBZ; currently at episode 2 where Goku meets his big brother Raditz.
by the way, did you notice that most of the characters have name similar to produce? think about it? Raditz sounds similar to Radish, Vegeta to Vegetable, Trunks to... well, trunks. Broly to Broccoli. Freiza to Freezer, the list goes on. then there's names they're not even trying, like Launch, Pan, Bra- someone actually named their kid Bra.
and since i'm watching DBZ for the first time, can any fans tell me what to expect? i already know the fights seem to go on forever, though i think One Piece broke that record, but what else can i expect other then fights that go on forever and a bunch of villains, some sadistic and some... really weird?
You'll want to try Battlestar Galactica, then. It's wicked.
Be ready for a shit ton of filler episodes
Are you kidding me? This is your first time watching DBZ? You have missed out a lot in the anime world there buddy, since every time someone get's a boost or transforms and people say 'going super sayin' it was because of DBZ. Watch the anime that defined transformations and defined that power levels are bull shit. Or watch the Abridged version that TeamFourStar did because there both good.
2903155 i can tolerate filer episodes. One Piece is pretty much the king of it. normally, a arc in a anime would take, what, a few episodes? One Pieces Dressrosa arc has gone over 100 episodes, half of which don't even move the plot forward.
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also, the fights will take a long time
You'll meet a very liberal interpretation of the concept of "five minutes".
2903162 i just never showed any interest in it, until i was fidgeting on youtube and caught a clip of Goku fighting Beerus in the Battle of the Gods movie. then that's when it caught my interest.
2903170 oh?
2903180 It's an amazing anime, even though people might say 'watch filler' or 'it takes forever' it's really enjoyable and awesome. It defined the action genre of anime in my opinion, like Gurren Lagann defined Epic in anime
2903168 for Dragonball or One Piece? cause the answer to both of those is: oh my god, yes. they don't take 2 or 3 episodes; they take a fucking dozen! my god, it's excruciating! whoever thought it was a good idea to make a fight last 20 dozen episodes is a fucking idiot.
2903148 i did. i found it meh. i'm just more of a Star Wars and Star Trek guy.
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I'll put it this way; when you hear that the planet will explode in five minutes, bring a chair.
Have fun with it.
You have a lot to catch up on XD
I'd watch DBZ Kai on Adult swim if I were you. It airs on saturday nights at around 9:00 pm et and shows the next episode at 12:00 midnight et. I'd stay focused on the story for now and just wait till you get to Namek, now that's something awesome.
Really, what 2903744 said. Kai cuts out a lot of filler and leaves the story intact.
2904177 If it's on Adult swim it's got the profanity and most, if not, all the blood shed that comes with DBZ.
Watch DBZ Abridged. It has everything you need to know about DBZ, but only takes you three hours to watch the whole thing, and it is funny.
Dragon Ball GT is also pretty decent, as well as the movies.