First off, he's talking about Dragon Ball, not Dragon Ball Z.
First off, he's talking about Dragon Ball, not Dragon Ball Z.
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Have you ever run into the people who think Dragonball started at Z? Not just "oh that's when it got good" either, legit didn't know anything existed pre-Saiyan arc?
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Why would you watch the original dragon ball
I watched it
I still don't know why I did
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Dragon Ball as a franchise is so overrated, the only good parts are the one everybody hates and the literal fan do-over
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OG is my favourite part of Dragon Ball. Before everything became power levels and S-Cells and Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan 6 Blue Supersized Dollar Menu Ultra Instinct.
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Whaddya mean before, the power creep was already there, they just didn't bleach their hair everytime
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Says the perpetually wrong.
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I found Dragon Ball silly as a kid (except the tournament arc). I can't imagine actually watching it as a (sober) adult at this point.
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Z is decent if you could watch some kind of supercut version that deletes all the unnecesary footage of someone standing around yelling, all the times an episode repeats an earlier episode plot point frame by frame, all the stock footage, and any time the transforming pig is on screen. Since the abridged version does do some of that (as well as try maybe a bit too hard to parody everything) I can understand why someone might consider ig the superior version.
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Once and always and nevermore.
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Spoiler:
The "original" series (a meaningless distinction; the manga was never formally split) had the Piccolo Daimaoh and the 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai arcs, it's automatically better than Z.
The anime became Z at the Saiyan Saga.
I think of Dragonball much like people would perhaps of Seinfeld. It's hugely influential (especially outside of Japan) in spreading the aesthetics and structure of the standard battle manga, but its not particularly interesting to me these days. And I say that as someone whose very first manga was Dragonball. Back when I was a kid (around 10-12?) I was truly obsessed with it.
I don't know if your comparison works there. Seinfeld still feels unique all these years later. Maybe Friends?
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2-3 years ago I did rewatch dragonball, it's fine
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