Our groups anime opinion extrodinaire!

[Xannidel]

So I have been itching to do something like this where we can all express our opinions about an anime (the anime will change) and so I will kick it off with Dragon Ball/Z/GT

Dragonball was AWESOME! It had great colors, great animations and awesome music. They did a great job trying to make Goku's journey resemble Sun Wukong's Journey. The plot was pretty decent and they did a pretty good job at introducing all the characters that we all fell in love with in DBZ. The fighting is what sets this anime apart from the rest of the franchise. This series focused more on martial arts and less on power levels which form e was a breath of fresh air. The one thing that sort of ruined this series for me was the drawn out scenes meant to extend certain episodes longer then they should have. One other thing that annoyed me was what ever happened to Pilaf and his 2 companions and also Launch after Dragonball ended. I know that a TINY scene with launch shows up in the Cell Games Saga and Pilaf is to blame for the black star dragon balls to be used up and thus cause the whole setting for GT; but I wish they went into better detail as to where they went after their purpose in DB was over.

Dragon Ball Z: Well this was where my childhood, and I am betting most of everyone elses' childhood was spent watching the awesome adventures of Goku and company as the series picks up 6 or so years later AFTER DB and ends well over 10 years later in the DB timeline. The best thing about this series was of course how action packed the fight scenes were and how drawn out they were to keep us sucked in. The bad things were of course the introduction to "power levels" among other small time things. I personally did not have much of an issue with the DBZ series until after the Cell Games Saga. The Saiyan saga/Frieza Saga was, hands down, the best parts of the series due to how strong everyone was at the begining because of their previous training. After Goku became a SS, everyone else became useless and only served as death fodder or just tried to delay the potential inevitability that an asshole may win. Also the decline of power in Piccolo was also really disturbing; he goes from being really strong and rivaling Goku to being weaker then Krillian almost. Character progression went really well for pretty much every character (Vegeta should get an award for how his character changed.)

/sigh

I might as well get my rant of the Buu Saga out of the way.
First, why does it exist? Didn't the end of the Cell Games not end the series really well? Goku sacrificed himself so Cell did not destroy the Earth but Cell still came back and Gohan destroyed him once and for all, in an awesome way I might add. They even had a DBZ movie that further pushed the storyline after the Cell Saga. I really just hated the Buu saga, the way Piccolo is now a pacifist BABYSITTER, how Gohan is just so damn awkward and dresses equally as bad to boot, to how they try to transition Babidi and Buu into the series, to the fusion concept to the fucking SS3 bullshit. When I saw Goku do that I finally saw that the series was done and all they were doing was just sucking on fanboys dicks to still be liked. SS2 was introduced when Gohan went completely mental which made SENSE because we had all known he had potential and now that was showing. With SS3, Goku just acts constipated and that really just was terrible. He had shown no increased power since Gohan went SS2 and he went on MULTIPLE times, I might add, that Gohan had surpassed him. If that is true then where the fuck did he get the "power" to go SS3? When we saw Gotenks go from regular SS to SS3, who else called BS? They only go that far two times in the series: once to get out of the hyperbolic time chamber and another so Buu could absorb them. No other point beside that.

Kid Trunks was another bad thing that happened. We go from Future Trunks who is strong, kind in nature and tries to think sensibly; to a kid Trunks who is reckless, stupid, a wise ass and just a complete douche nozzle. I think why they made him that way was to show off more of Vegeta's genes because future Trunks had more Bulma's genes then Vegeta's.

GT: Is there really anything to say about this? This is nearly everyone's least favorite Dragonball series and for a good reason. The plot just kind of jumps all over the place and, at times, barely makes sense. The characters were just...creepy. The enemies were also creepy/odd and I do not know how half of them were able to beat Goku and company. The only good thing that GT had was the final episode where it shows all the characters remembering their adventures with Goku and Bulma in Dragonball.


So I will ask you all what you thought about Dragonball and after awhile I will change the anime to some other topic (it may or may not be mainstream.)