I will say I did like the Kai version of the Raditz arc. But yeah the editing isn't very good after that lol
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I will say I did like the Kai version of the Raditz arc. But yeah the editing isn't very good after that lol
Same here at this point in my life i would hate old dbz its why i don't watch the OP anime
Chaotic-Strike
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There's no better way to have that classic Z experience than to drudge through 400 episodes, including riveting episodes such as Bulma versus a crab and the Garlic Jr. saga.
And then you have to start at the beginning again randomly when you reach a sick cliffhanger, to get the true European experience.
Work of an Enemy Stand
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Can confirm that that was also true of the brazilian experience.
The Silver
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It happened in the U.S too, thank goodness we had an episode every day.
Work of an Enemy Stand
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Thankfully it aired every day too.
But that never quite got the stink of having to watch Goku arrive at Earth three times before watching his fight with Nappa actually begin off.
Og dbz is terrible.
Watch Dragon Ball Recut, it's a fan edit that removes the filler from the original Dragon Ball series. The same guy who made it is also working on Kai recut, which will remove the remaining filler from Kai and replace the video with a better quality image.
The original series recut is focused on Japanese but has an English option, while Kai recut will be equal for both.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
This is so passive aggressive. Jesus. lol
Chaotic-Strike
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Europeans had true dedication that's for sure.
We at least got a new episode every weekday before restarting over at the beginning again once Goku knocked out Recoome.
Work of an Enemy Stand
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I don't know how it was for Europeans, but I think I remember we got to Goku reaching Earth and then resetting back to Raditz at least twice before actually seeing Goku vs Nappa.
Good times.
Good times.
Haha, it was still pretty brutal as a kid. You'd get an episode hyping up the existence of Super Saiyans after seeing Goku kick all kinds of ass, and then the next day after school . . . Raditz!
Oh, wow. That's much worse than what we went through . . .
Work of an Enemy Stand
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Is the first episode of DBZ the most widely hated episode of anime of all time?
My gut says... maybe.
My gut says... maybe.
I gotta say I've been caught by surprise at how mixed the opinions are at which way a new viewer should approach the anime. Anyway, last night I gave the pilot of Dragon Ball a go and I found it cute. All of the sound effects and Japanese voice acting added to that, and I had no idea that Son Goku have a tail and how naive he is. Seeing how he thinks a car is a monster, and how he had never met a girl until Bulma came across. I still do wonder if Son Goku really is human; I really don't think he is.
After the resets probably
ArchedThunder
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Glad you're enjoying it, the show is a fun ride.
Haha, I can still vividly remember the first episode of DBZ I saw. It was an episode in the Namek Saga, I believe the very episode where Vegeta stole the Dragon Balls. I kept thinking Vegeta and Goku were the same damn person, and I was very confused! Had no idea what the hell was happening, but once I started seeing people flying around and shooting beams of energy, that was a wrap.
I found that I had this weird experience where my brain erases a lot of things that aren't canon even before I knew they weren't canon.
So I remembered Raditz pretty well, but I had no recollection of Gohan crying and running through the woods until I rewatched the series. Or him talking to a robot.
There was also that moment where Freeza eats a crab, and I felt like "this is so random that I should remember it" but nope.
Unless these got scrubbed from the US/Canadian broadcasts or something?
Yup, they were scrubbed in the Ocean Dub. I remember being confused when I first watched the Orange Bricks lol.
I need Faulconer and Levy lol. I am a total sucker for nostalgia. It just doesn't sound right any other way to me.
ArchedThunder
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The first episode I saw was episode 4. We had just moved into a new house and my brother showed me the show.
Nah.
I think i confused Yamcha for one of of the saiyans and i think i remember original DB running some years ago maybe as a kid and wondering why are Picollo and Tien such dicks. Also thought this Yamcha guy seemed cool because i didn't remember Yamcha in DBZ and never seen him in the games
Fuck. I need to find the Ocean dub for the full nostalgia experience, I guess. I also remember that they "changed" the theme song and I hated the new one; I guess that was shifting from Ocean to Funimation? I'm not a Dragonball historian.
Actually, can I ask some of you who have read the manga in Japanese a question? How does Recoome come across? I feel like he's vastly different across English media. In the Funimation dub, he's a generic idiot. In the manga, he tries Vegeta as a child because he's powerful enough to get away with it, and he's really more of an arrogant sadistic asshole than someone who is out-and-out stupid. In the Ocean dub, he was still a sadist, but it seems like they made him mildly intellectual for some reason.
P.S.: I'm also a Faulconer guy. Or at least a Kenji Yamamoto before he stopped even bothering to hide it guy.
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I remember vividly the first time I saw Dragon Ball because it was the first airing of the first episode of Z.
I don't remember why it was so important that I had to watch it though, most likely it was because of my brother who watched DB.
The funny thing about watching DBZ back then was that, because we had both japanese Final Bout and Legends for the PSX, I was spoiled as alllll hell as to pretty much everything on the show before everyone around me.
Goku hadn't even fought Ginyu in the show and I already knew everything from Trunks killing Frieza to Golden Oozaru Baby Vegeta and SSJ4 Goku, lol.
I don't remember why it was so important that I had to watch it though, most likely it was because of my brother who watched DB.
The funny thing about watching DBZ back then was that, because we had both japanese Final Bout and Legends for the PSX, I was spoiled as alllll hell as to pretty much everything on the show before everyone around me.
Goku hadn't even fought Ginyu in the show and I already knew everything from Trunks killing Frieza to Golden Oozaru Baby Vegeta and SSJ4 Goku, lol.
The first episode I watched... it might have been 4? It was definitely Raditz. My cousin showed me the show and made Oreo Blizzards. Good day!
I think the first time I encountered the franchise was playing Super Butouden 1 on another relative's computer. Has no idea that it was an emulator. From what I could tell, it was a game where you beat up villains and then you recruit them to your side, which I guess isn't too far from the truth.
I think the first time I encountered the franchise was playing Super Butouden 1 on another relative's computer. Has no idea that it was an emulator. From what I could tell, it was a game where you beat up villains and then you recruit them to your side, which I guess isn't too far from the truth.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
I think the first thing I saw on TV was the Mondo Cool episode, though CN was part of a cable package I didn't have so it was at a cousin's house.
Before that much earlier I saw some GT episode on VHS
Before that much earlier I saw some GT episode on VHS
Chaotic-Strike
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Once I saw the original Japanese score on the remastered DVDs specifically the scene when Goku has that vision and uses the 20 times Kaioken, I could never go back to Faulconer.
I don't remember the first episode I saw of DBZ. I saw the begining to Goku's arrival on Namik so many times on Toonami that I just don't know, haha.
There have been so many ways to experience the series over the years and depending on where you live. Nostalgia and personal preference with all of that are going to make some widely mixed opinions. Either way, I hope you enjoy the ride!
There have been so many ways to experience the series over the years and depending on where you live. Nostalgia and personal preference with all of that are going to make some widely mixed opinions. Either way, I hope you enjoy the ride!
Work of an Enemy Stand
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Oh, that reminds me.
Did you guys get all the variations of the Cha-La-Head-Cha-La OP?
I only found out there were 3 variations of the OP earlier this year.
From day one, we only got the last variation, the one that ends with Goku turning Super Saiyan.
I don't think I have to say what a giant spoiler that last shot was to show from the very first episode.
Did you guys get all the variations of the Cha-La-Head-Cha-La OP?
I only found out there were 3 variations of the OP earlier this year.
From day one, we only got the last variation, the one that ends with Goku turning Super Saiyan.
I don't think I have to say what a giant spoiler that last shot was to show from the very first episode.
I went from Goku 's wedding in DB to Z.
Just like God intended.
Wow this version is pretty good,is it in Portuguese?
I love how no matter the language, Cha-La always sounds like a fucking anthem to everything that is awesome.
I grew up with the Spanish Latin version,
https://youtu.be/5_b5N-iol34
Fun fact: The first kiss I gave to my now SO was during a live performance of that version.
Just like God intended.
Wow this version is pretty good,is it in Portuguese?
I love how no matter the language, Cha-La always sounds like a fucking anthem to everything that is awesome.
I grew up with the Spanish Latin version,
https://youtu.be/5_b5N-iol34
Fun fact: The first kiss I gave to my now SO was during a live performance of that version.
I would never watch fillers. Though sone of Z are good.
Kai is shit. Especially the german dub of Kai is shit, they changed all voiceactors from Z eventhough they were aviable and everybody loved them.
Very similar thing for me. Except it was YTV or Fox Saturday morning. Also we never made it as far as the Frieza saga. It kept resetting with the Vegeta/Saiyan saga. Between this and ReBoot going back to the first episode... man I'm just realizing how hard my childhood was.
Undead Fantasy
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More importantly though, let's discuss that time that Freeza ate a crab. Because as a kid, I'd watch Dragonball Z and imagine being able to fly and shoot kung fu lasers. As an adult, I watch Dragonball Z and wish I could devour a crustacean just by chomping into it, shell and all. None of this crab cracker nonsense, forget the hot butter, treat it like it's a fucking saltine.
Why would they remove this from the dubbed version? This is high art.
Why would they remove this from the dubbed version? This is high art.
Does Kai have the scene with him going SSJ for the first time?
Corronchilejano
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Whoever says DBZ is superior to Kai somehow forgot freezas five minutes.
Chaotic-Strike
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Yes, they kept it in.
They did leave it in if you stayed up and watched the midnight run.
I'm going to go check, and if it isn't I'm taking back everything good I've said about Kai.
Okay Kai, you're safe, for now.
But does it have that Goku flashback of Gohan almost going SSJ2 in the ROSAT? Dealbreaker.
Undead Fantasy
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While the scene was good, I will gladly sacrifice it to not hear the old funi dub.
That's a manga scene so I think so.
Chaotic-Strike
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That's in as well.
Nah, we just see them training and a few chapters later Gohan's already a Super Saiyan with no transformation shown.
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