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By: Zach

Zach — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:01:12 +0000

I couldn’t have said it better myself. Dragonball is truly legendary. I’ll never forget the overwhelming feeling of shock the first time i saw goku transform into a super saiyan. Dragonball made me what I am today. Soon my own cartoon will be on tv. I hope people will like it a tenth as much as I liked dragonball.

By: Inzam

Inzam — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:39:09 +0000

I love dragon ball z to i seen every eposode since dragon ball to dragon ball gt never missed any

By: mate

mate — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:57:15 +0000

i was really little when i started watching it. but it suddently went off the air. sometimes i wish DBZ was reality

By: vance skenadore

vance skenadore — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:58:47 +0000

i wish that they would make more

By: vance skenadore

vance skenadore — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:56:32 +0000

its the best ever

By: Wang

Wang — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:36:29 +0000

Totally agree on gabby’s post and your article!!

yeah it may seem a little violent but… just… see… happy tree friends…

Dragon Ball is much much much better than that crap and all those craps airing in TV now.

and btw the author of Naruto, One Piece have openly admitted that their greatest influence was Dragon Ball and modeled their characters and stories inspired by DragonBall.
Also Bleach was originally rejected by the publisher but Akira Toriyama (creator of DragonBall) wrote a ‘letter’ that will totally change the situation.

In conclusion

Dragon Ball is the best.

By: Gabby

Gabby — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:13:15 +0000

I’m not a guy but I was obsessed with Dragon Ball. I started watching it when I was about eight, hence I grew up with Goku. I watched since he was a little boy until he grew up, got married, had kids, then grandchildren and he be became a boy again. I swear sometimes I wanted to smack the tv ’cause NOTHING of consequence happened but I was still there the next day for the next episode. I must credit my brother for this because he was the one that turn me to it, he wouldn’t miss it for the world. Lucky us, after a couple of years they started to transmit 2 episodes back to back, so the wait was less annoying and “the event” would happen faster. But we would have reruns and guess what? We watched every single one again LOL I missed that type of feeling in the new cartoons kids get to watch now, most are just crap. Maybe these were violent but they were still better than what they get to see now…

By: mechanix

mechanix — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:51:53 +0000

awesome. first time i actually got to dragon ball was when i rented a super nintendo video game. it was one of the first ones, when you start off fighting piccollo and cell is the last fight. i had no idea who these people were but for some reason their names and the dragon ball z title always stayed in my head…. and then it all began…

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By: TCskillz33

TCskillz33 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:16:12 +0000

Awesome article! I agree, I grew up on it as well, and recently just starting watching the episodes on DVD from the beginning. On season 5 now, just began the Cell Saga! DBZ is the best!

By: Vin

Vin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:48:50 +0000

I grew up on dragon ball as well I remember back in 97 when I saw the first promo for the show. I even used to have dragon ball z clock and two posters of Goku and Co. Well, not really one of them was actually that really cool screenshot of Super Saiyan Goku right after Friza fired an energy blast at him and he remained unphased. I even had about nineteen action figures for it as well. Likeitmuch, I agree with you about the movie but I have to say I did a review of it for my college newspaper (My longest and most detailed movie I had done for them), and I gave it three out of seven stars (get it, “stars”? Haha I’m so funny! Anyway, The ONLY reason why I gave three stars, (I had spend about 99 percent of the review explaining why the movie sucked) Is because of Brainiac himself, James Marsters. I really felt like he knocked picccolo out of the park. Yes I know piccolo did things differently then he did in the series but Marsters really captured the essence of who King Piccolo was.

By: LikeItMuch?

LikeItMuch? — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:05:26 +0000

I think I’ll add my little bit lol

I seriously think that they made Gohan into a woosie when he became an adult. When he was a teenager in the cell saga he frekin owned! lol but then in the next season he turned out to be such a little b*tch honestly I was so dissapointed but oh well great series still love it but frown upon the movie.

By: Matt Keith

Matt Keith — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:56:19 +0000

“he and Vegeta merged in SSJ4 Gogeta (I think)”

Yeah, they fused to take on Omega Shenron, but Gogeta played around the entire fight and used up all the fusion time.

By: John "Kahless" Taylor

John "Kahless" Taylor — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:42:34 +0000

@SIN
Gokuh reached SSJ4 in GT, after turning into Oozaroo and retaining his mind, transformed even further, into SSJ4. Later, he and Vegeta merged in SSJ4 Gogeta (I think), which was their most powerful level, to defeat the evil dragon. I do get what you are saying; I didn’t like much of the talk and definately could have lived without all the childish stuff, but it was a children’s show.

By: SIN187UM

SIN187UM — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:26:47 +0000

Show started to suck (for me) after Goku became Super Saiyan level one. They seriously just talked too damn much in every episode after he became super saiyan level 1. My interest was re-peaked with Cell saga but even that couldn’t keep me on board for GT as i kept seeing too much talk and the overly exposed Hercule and his goofness and not enough action, and then the whole krillin loving Android 18 was just kinda hmmm too me. Have they even shown Goku at level 4 in the animated series yet, or are they still trying to milk it.

By: John "Kahless" Taylor

John "Kahless" Taylor — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:17:46 +0000

Wow Kofi, you make me feel old.

I got hooked on DBZ when I saw a tape in some old video store and wondered what this was about. I think the tape was Fusion, and after watching, I had to find out about this show. After watching all of Z, I bought the tapes and eventually gave them to my son who, unsurprisingly, lost them to his children. I didn’t hate GT but it was inferior to Z. I continually get into light arguments with my son on who would win in a fight: Superman or Gokuh; of course, he always said Gokuh unless it was Superman from the comic. I will always have a spot in my heart for DBZ and the over-the-top action. It is unfortunate that the live-action movie did not capture what we all saw in Akira’s Dragonball universe.

By: SK-47

SK-47 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:43:50 +0000

Bruce, yeah man!
Annoying, but at least they didn’t dissappoint with the fight because it was so over the top and just plain nuts.

By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:37:55 +0000

Oh I get that.

It’s like you’re just waiting for the devastation to begin and … and … and … OH GET ON with it already and devastate!!!

By: SK-47

SK-47 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:19:54 +0000

What I hated the most was what Kofi has stated, they spend countless hours before something “big” would happen!
They would talk, and stare, then power up, talk again, stare endlessly and it would be 3 episodes later that they fight!

Exaggerating a bit here but you get my point.