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Recently, i came across an internet post of someone saying Dragon Ball Z may be the greatest anime of all time. I replied with something validating and someone responded with, "There's a hell of a lot of anime better than Dragon Ball, dude." This really got me thinking, Dragon Ball isn't even my favorite series, so why did i think that statement could be valid?

Well, It's about objectivity. I've always thought there was something to be said about media that's easy to digest, stuff with relatively simple plots and a good mix of action and nonaction (example:"The Princess Bride"), I think Dragon Ball ... easily fits within this category. You'd know it for it's fights and it's yelling, but those fights wouldn't be nearly as iconic without all of the emotion behind them, without each character having their own reason to fight, without the enemies willing to play by a set of rules - leaving the stakes high but the mood not too dark; Dragon Ball is about a hell of a lot more than fighting.

I honestly believe that anyone could enjoy it on some level if they just gave it a tiny chance. It may not be your favorite anime, It's not even mine, But how many people will enjoy your Loli Romance Magic robot fighting anime? How many people will enjoy your absurdist existential novel written from the perspective of god? Maybe a lot, if they really wanted to give it a chance, but maybe not, probably not. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it doesn't fit into a specific niche, it just "is Dragon Ball", which is a good thing. Watching it is an experience in itself even if you're only thinking about the fact that you're finally enjoying a piece of history and culture that spread across the globe like wildfire. You may think I sound like a crazy mega-weeb talking about it like that, but who in the world doesn't know Goku?

Absolutely beautiful, an icon in the weeb community, also a jam. Would recommend watching multiple times. wow myanimelist why do i have to write a longer review i feel like i've written enough. hm probably gonna get some water after hitting submit, prolly watch the newest my hero academia as well. Okay is it long enough now? Nope. hhhhhhhhhhh kms. Man you know what i miss? Those old like half-anime ass browser games. I wonder if those are still a thing and im just old now, also those phone rpgs "zenonia", or whatevs, p godly. Man i should really get into wierd perv animes. ... That reminds me, while OPM was my first true anime, i did try watching like one episode of some random shit on some free anime app in like my preteens, as well as reading some manga as a kid and a middle schooler, also i was pretty into naruto as a kid but never got past the chunin exams. Man, gotta watch one day, Okay hopefully this is enough and i can get my water now bye.

One punch man has a special place in my heart as the true first anime i really watched. Of course, like anyone else, i saw pokemon and cardcapturor sakura and probably whatever else came on public television in the 2000s, as well as various miyazaki films. But does that really count? I'm not sure; OPM marks the first time i saw people on the internet talk about an anime being good, saying "hmmmm, maybe i should try it.", and then going onto a site and watching it. And man, did it change me. For months afterwards, i think i saw it in january 2016 ... and didn't watch another anime til like june, this was my one thing to fan over; I would tell everyone i knew that they needed to watch it, I'd rewatch it multiple times, i'd even listen to the fucking soundtrack. What can i say? First anime i really fanned over.

I think what excited me was the action and the heroism and just how iconic everything was, all the heroes especially, they were like pokemon you could collect just by noticing them, every one unique and awesome in their own right. To this day i still maintain that the art and animation are some of the best I've seen, which honestly makes sense. The iconic shitty art of one himself mixed with probably the best manga artist in the business, murata, turned into an animation with some amazing fight scenes, of course it'd be good.

The music is iconic, the brooding "wet my scales" tied to my favorite villain, deep sea king, the shitty, lame- then amazing and teary eyed "justice rider" for the coolest superhero ever created, mumen rider, the absolute PERFECTION of "violent acts", man, i instantly loved it. It's like everyone and everything has their own theme and it works beautifully.

As i said before, the collection of heroes is one of the things that pulls you in, but i also think the characterization of some characters can be it's downfall. Almost every single hero gets developed to the point that you can see them running their own series - metal bat, stinger, the tank tops, etc. But, after reading the webcomic, and coming down from the euphoria of seeing something so flashy for the first time, i noticed some things that bother me now. To be honest, mainly Puri Puri Prisoner; an awesome character in his own right, even if you just watch the anime you have to admit his powers are some of the coolest, but, in the anime at least, his character is pretty much "bad outdated gay stereotypes". In the webcomic, he has this whole thing where everyone sees him as a joke and it leads to some self hatred, especially since he's at the botom of S-class, but he never stops fighting, because that's what a hero does. Zombie-man as well gets like 0 screentime, and anyone who's read the webcomic can tell you he's honestly one of the most badass heroes in the series, and essentially the protagonist of an entire arc.

Maybe i'm judging it too hard, to be honest i skipped past the whole of everything that gets covered in the anime while reading the comic, but i'm pretty sure its a fairly faithful recreation, so maybe they just didn't have the time. Either way, the show is gonna get a lot better when they develop King (An absolute beauty), puri puri, superalloy, zombieman, etc. So i gotta give this one a 9 for now, in hopes that the later parts of the story can be a 10. Hopefully that's next season, but i never read the manga, which is an entirely different thing, so i guess we'll see.

(If you're wondering why characters still gets a 9, the ones that do get development are awesome, which is honestly most of them.)

This is a great anime to watch if you don't wanna spend an assload of time watching anime, like if you want to get some anime in but you want to try to be productive as well. With its 10 fifteen minute episodes i feel it's fair to call this sort of a "snack anime", that's how i watched it anyway. Aside from it's refreshingly quick pace, it's just generally a funny, light hearted show with a cute artstyle, (thick lines and bright colors make me nut) and judging by my girlfriend's work rants, a pretty good representation of life as a young woman working ... a low position at a company.

(I rated the sound a 7 because while i had no complaints about the music or anything, and think it fit well with the show, i couldn't really think of any super iconic tracks or anything. I mean it's a comedy show. 7 is "good")