| Just finished watching Gintama and it parodied this show a lot, so it felt like a good show to watch next, Dragon Ball never aired in my country so is only through the memes and Gintama I got the premise of the show. So is the show still worth watching in 2022, does it still offer the same level of excitement and storytelling you can get from modern action shows |
Cestlavie_Apr 25, 2022 7:38 PM
Yes, it’s still top tier in terms of animation quality, and the story and villains are still great. But no…to a certain extent, because of all the filler. I loved the filler as a kid, but as someone who’s watched the series countless times, I get annoyed by it now. Like Frieza’s fight with Goku is ridiculously long, I’m just like: I would recommend Kai, but I still have soft spot for the original. |
Kirok451Apr 25, 2022 5:37 PM
imTsuku said: Indeed Dbz Kai is way better with op and Visuals and also with no fillers, it's the best way to watch dragon ball seriespls just watch dbz kai instead |
HERO123456 said: imTsuku said: Indeed Dbz Kai is way better with op and Visuals and also with no fillers, it's the best way to watch dragon ball seriespls just watch dbz kai instead But I still need to watch the OG dragon ball before Kai? |
| DB yes Z oh fuck yeah GT meh Super good love the DB series! |
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| At this time there are a lot of better stories, so in that way it's not the same than long ago. But Dragon Ball is still a fun, charming adventure. You definitely can enjoy it. Dragon Ball Z has aged more, in my opinion. It's soooo slow, and these days there are very few reasons to watch it beyond it's a classic. But I think it's still enjoyable. So these shows have not really aged too much. Just you have surely watched better shows at this rate. |
Cestlavie_ said: ya but it's on u, allot of people didn't watched Dragon bal Og neither did i watched But i can say u can Watch Dragon ball z kai without watching Dragon ball since Dragon ball z kai is way different and if u watched the Og then try Kai version since it's better and shorter and good opening and endings, u won't miss a thing except only fillersHERO123456 said: Indeed Dbz Kai is way better with op and Visuals and also with no fillers, it's the best way to watch dragon ball series But I still need to watch the OG dragon ball before Kai? |
| I'd say so yes, especially with dbz kai sitting there as the definitive version of Z And as someone else said start from the original dragon ball its worth it! |
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| As an older viewer (35) who began watching the series circa 2000, I would say absolutely not. DBZ got big back then since there was barely any anime on TV and watching online wasn't an option in the dial-up Internet days. There is simply no way that a battle shounen with such awful, brain-dead story, shitty fight choreography, and worst of all, glacially slow pacing would have become a big hit if it had come out even 10 years later. Hell, I loved DBZ when I was 13/14, but a few years later, being exposed to other anime, I realized how bad it was by comparison. Most people who love DBZ now do so out of nostalgia. In about 10 years, I expect its reputation to continue sliding and many younger fans of the medium to scratch their heads at how it was ever so big. |
| there is no other anime that did what DBZ did and there never will be. |
Chuffy30 said: The original child arc aged like fine wine, but it may not ofer the excitement and action you want. DBZ is only good through the Frieza saga (some say through the cell saga, but I disagree). I like to pretend the show ended after Goku becomes super saiyan. So you would omit Gohan vs Cell from the good quality of DBZ? |
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| Still to this day one of the most entertaining and memorable anime works ever made, so of course it has more than aged well. |
| Yes, it has aged well. While it isn't as refined compared to most battle shounens today, I'd argue it still holds a lot of merit in its own right. The pacing of the show is admittedly a rough edge though. |
| No, it hasn't. It still has shit levels of power scaling just for the plot to stay relevant. Has some of the most cliche tropes and is filled with plot armour and some plot holes. Many modern shounen which I don't consider to be too good are way better than that. Of course, it's an og shounen and I respect it for that but saying it's outstanding, better than modern anime, is the best anime/shounen of all time is just plain bs. The pacing is ass, the fighting is shitty, and the dialogue is so cringe. It's literally carried by nostalgia and the fandom is the same if not worse than the Narutards. Depends on you. If you wanna watch it, go for it. |
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Fischer77 said: there is no other anime that did what DBZ did and there never will be. many other anime/series have achieved much better feats than DB. The only thing it has to it's name is nostalgia from the 90's |
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