Anyways, to be quite honest, mostly everything in DBZ plot wise was just one ass pull followed by another ass pull. Goku is the main star of the show, yet he's completely overshadowed by his son, Son Gohan. I tried to put up with it, since Goku was clearly much stronger than him after the Freiza Arc, having been the first to attain Super Saiyan mode, but he ends up outdoing him after that. But that isn't what pisses me off; actually I came to appreciate Gohan as the show went on.
What pisses me off is what happens in the Cell Arc. First, Trunks comes from the future to tell them about the Artificial Humans. This isn't what bothers me btw; in fact I'm perfectly fine with it. What makes this an ass pull is that Trunks reveals he's Bulma and Vegeta's kid. Like??? It's too fucking early for that...I was hoping after I'd gotten spoiled by other anime fans I'd met who happened to be huge DB fans...like I said, I'm a superpower fighting anime connoisseur.
That being said...or reiterated; take your pick, I have a lot of connections to people of the same interests. And most of those people are huge DB fans. The reason I've hesitated to get into this anime for so long even though it fits all my criteria is because I've been spoiled so much about it that I figured what's the point of watching this show? I already knew so much about it thanks to other people...but anyway, as I was saying I was hoping after I'd gotten spoiled by DB fans that maybe Toriyama might take it slow and gradually reveal their interest in each other, but no.
Shortly after Freiza's defeated, literally for a few episodes those two interact and the next thing we know Bulma and Yamucha break up and Bulma's literally all like, "So I fucked Vegata and this is our kid...." Like? What? The? Fuck? That's exactly the reason I didn't want to get into this anime to begin with?? And when he revealed that he was their kid to Goku I wanted to drop it right there but I decided to keep watching, since I knew it could be much worse.
It didn't bother me that Goku was going to leave defeating Cell to Gohan; what bothered me was that he was going to stay in the Next World and not for like a short period of time like he did in the Saiyan Arc. Had it been like that I wouldn't have minded; I decided to do some research and found out that even more asspulls laid in wait. The bitch stays dead for seven years, come back for some shitty tournament for like a day, then goes back to being dead again. The entire fucking thing made me want to fucking punch the walls in my room (which would probably break it because this house is so fucking cheap, but anyways. Irrelo and not hilarious side comment is irrelo and not hilarious).
Again, Goku is the star of the show. Like you can't expect me to continue watching this after he's dead for 7 freaking years and comes back like nothing happen. Not to mention Goten coming into existence just like that makes no sense at all. How and when did Chichi and Goku even find the time to fuck? I mean really...Toriyama could've at least made Chichi seem like she was pregnant, but he didn't. Also the fact that Gohan grew up so fucking much after the Cell Arc and even has a girlfriend without literally any explanation or anything leading up to it didn't help at all.
Anyways, I couldn't take it and so I decided to drop this anime. There's probably not anymore superpower fighting anime that I could watch now - at least, not any decent ones. I feel like I've seen it all at this point. But I've never felt more disappointed in an anime like I have in Dragon Ball. The entire thing just crashed and burned with the Cell Arc all because Toriyama revealed too much and explained too little all at once. Like when Goku grew up in the Piccolo Jr Arc and shit w/o an explanation, it didn't bother me because it wasn't that big of a deal. Plus it was about damn time he grew an inch or two, or several, and for what it was worth the events had already been clearly laid out. But the way he handled the Cell Arc and the beginning of the Majinn Buu Saga was rushed as hell to the point where it didn't even make any damn sense.
I partly blame this fandom for spoiling the fuck out of me on this anime for my decision to drop the anime. If I hadn't been spoiled, I would've followed along no big deal prolly, but because I was spoiled, I began to expect shit to go a certain way because of the spoilers given to me in the past. If you're going to get into this anime and you've been spoiled a lot on it like me, then don't expect it to go a certain way, take it all at face value, and don't get attached. All I'll say.
