It's over NINE THOUSAND!!!
 

So yea, lets reminisce about Dragonball. Yea, its campy as hell, the characters are fairly generic, and the majority of them look the same, and yea, the majority of Z is powering up all arc to 1 hit the villain, and yea, the story is barely existant and not exactly interesting, but damn, theres just something about, y'know? What was your favourite parts, least favourite, etc...

My favourite part was in the end of GT, seeing SS4 Gogeta. That was jsut straight up badass.

Dragon Ball Z started out okay, Dragon Ball was great, and everything just started to go to hell after we started having Fusion Dances and Potara Earrings and energy-amplifying old dudes and Z-Swords and Time Chambers and blah.

The Androids era was okay, Future Trunks was a big favorite of mine (How I first coined my name back when I was, you know, 13), but I swear I couldn't stand GT. It was the ultimate sign of forced sequel-rehashing.

It had one good thing that came out of it. ONE.

This.

I actually used to love Dragonball Z back in the day. I could never really get into Dragonball and the same with GT. I used to think it was a great show, but the whole "I'll keep powering up by doing Fusions, using Earrings, going SSJ 15" just got to be a little too much. I would have to agree that Dragonball is probably the best because it was at that point where you felt like Goku was still special and powerful but not so insanely powerful that he and enemies would just nonstop keep leveling up and until Goku finally killed the enemy. Almost made it more believable in the sense that Goku felt like a person with superhuman strength, but still somewhat human in that he wasn't freaking godlike as in Dragonball Z.

I always thought the sagas were interesting enough but after Cell and especially Buu I just really got sick of how the only way to keep the enemies from dying too fast is to make regenerate their body parts like with Cell and Buu.

All of the hundreds of different powerups got to be a little bit too much, but I actually liked the ideas of SSJ4 and Saiyan Monkey-things though I can't say that I ever really watched GT. The Freeza Saga had to be my favorite because it felt like Goku had finally reached that ultimate point of Super Saiyan. I mean, it was supposed to be this 1 in a million type power for Saiyans and then after that every single person, even the little kids were going SSJ, SSJ2, and SSJ3 which just kind of ruined it.

I never really got into it but some of my friends used to read the manga and apparentely the 8 episode powering up silliness of the cartoons is nowhere present in the manga. I watched most of the cartoon mostly because it was a good way to just blob out after school.
I heard some rumour that all the cartoon filler episodes occured because they were making the cartoon at a similar speed to which the comics were being created and they needed to hold back though I'm not sure if that's true.
But Cell and Buu are the exact same villain. How are they any different! They both continually regenerate and gain power and change form by absorbing their enemies. One comes for the past, the other the future. Silliness!

I always felt that Super Saiyan was a ridiculously wasted concept. You became one in a fit of primal emotion so I felt the Super Saiyan should also be full of that emotion, usually anger, and be uncontrollable. Mostly they were either A) Childish or B) Just a powerup. Though this was just my not-very-interested interpretation. Maybe they did explore it somewhere.

Dragon Ball is the only shounen anime with more than a hundred episodes that I've been able to watch in its entirety repeatedly.

We Gotta Power indeed.

Well it was great when Goku was the Super Saiyan.

It was forgivable when Vegeta broke his Super Saiyan barrier through sheer jealousy.

It was...understandable when Trunks powered up because his mentor Gohan got killed by the androids and he found his dead body.

Once a 10 year old Goten and Trunks broke their barrier just by practicing I was like "Okay seriously I am not believing this stupid retcon bullshit."

It's only healthy to refer to a liking of DBZ in the past tense. Kind of like Power Rangers and Pokemon and all that, good when we were younger and it didn't matter. Go back and watch DBZ right now and you should quickly realize how totally retarded all those shows are, absolutely totally retarded.

But that's not always a bad thing in itself. The bad thing would be if you watched it and didn't realize how totally retarded it is.

DBZ should've ended with the Cell saga... it would be an amazing Ending...

the Show itsefl is pretty good, if you watch it one epi a day, it's just right. But 1 epi a week is painfull... too slow.

The show itself is greatly fun. The fighting is totally over the top, and yet convincing to a level that i've never seem any other anime do yet.

I mean, When Vegita's Final Flash Bounces off the Planet after a direct hit, it's amazing

And Gohan going SSj2... you could totally face the screen and KNOW that some shit would go do big time. It's one of the best anime momments ever

Also... Brolly is the best Villan, he deserved more than movies...

Scratch the Majin Boo saga, just Make a Saga about Brolly

Broly is cool and all but I was always bothered by how him (and the other movies) just didn't fit within the continuity. The one I really really liked though was the story of Future Trunks and Alternate Gohan. Awesome stuff.

I wouldn't want the Majin Buu saga to be eradicated though. I believe Akira Toriyama said once that he would've liked to make an spin-off series about the wacky adventures of Buu and Mister Satan. If he ever gets around to doing that I'd be the first to buy the manga.

Gotenks was the epitome of awesome.