Anyone Watch Through The Series Recently?

[Mystic]

Dragon Ball, Z, GT, Kai or Super? Have you watched it recently and, if so, how has your opinion or perspective changed over time?

 

[Warmmedown]

Perspective/time=perspective/m=prspecve over m=p rspec ve over m=please respect vegeta over main
When I watched Kai a couple years ago I respected Vegeta more. He's the MC of Namek until he dies. Interesting to see how far his narcissism takes him, taking crazy risks that pay off for a while, until he's in over his head. He's still a prick tho.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

DragonBall Kai yeah. Still gooooooood, even the Boo saga.

currently back at 21st Tenkaichi-Budokai.

 

[Warmmedown]

I watched Goku fire service
I realised i shouldn't have left the stove on!

 

[Fantastische Hure]

I watched Goku fire service
I realised i shouldn't have left the stove on!

It’s too late now, but you live & you learn.

 

[Spiral-Force]

Still look at clips every now and then.

Something I've thought about recently is that Vegeta hardly reflects on strategic blunders in his fight career, just the PL differences in the end.

 

[Warmmedown]

Still look at clips every now and then.

Something I've thought about recently is that Vegeta hardly reflects on strategic blunders in his fight career, just the PL differences in the end.

You mean spamming ki blasts?

Or letting people transform or allowing more powerful threats to emerge even though they could turn out to be stronger than him?

I think he gets this high when he's powerful. Maybe it could characterised as a hypomania. And then believes he can do anything.
Or his pride is just too big. He can't stand to be seriously challenged by someone strong and back down.
Then his competive spirit is there, the same as Goku. Goku has it too, but Goku prioritises others' wellbeing a little higher. Though, I do wonder if Goku would have allowed Cell to transform or allowed A18 and A17 to be awakened.

 

[Scott]

Btw, Seed of Might has remastered all of DB, DBZ, GT, and the 2009-2011 run of Kai (only Boo arc Kai is left). If you're gonna rewatch the series, check out their remasters.

 

[Warmmedown]

Are they dragon box style?

 

[Scott]

Superior to Dragon Box

 

[Warmmedown]

I mean do they keep the grain? Do they keep the original colours? Are they 4:3 or 16:9?

 

[Scott]

https://x.com/seedofmight/status/2004069624938483933

 

[Spiral-Force]

You mean spamming ki blasts?

Or letting people transform or allowing more powerful threats to emerge even though they could turn out to be stronger than him?

I think he gets this high when he's powerful. Maybe it could characterised as a hypomania. And then believes he can do anything.
Or his pride is just too big. He can't stand to be seriously challenged by someone strong and back down.
Then his competive spirit is there, the same as Goku. Goku has it too, but Goku prioritises others' wellbeing a little higher. Though, I do wonder if Goku would have allowed Cell to transform or allowed A18 and A17 to be awakened.

I think you're on the right track. Another factor is how people treat what we saw. Quite a number of Vegeta's fans feel sorry for him as a result, but it's just how his character is constructed. Maybe if there was a B (to the main villain's A) antagonist (with a far closer gap than Ginyu/Frieza, for example), Vegeta could have carved out a more respected legacy in regard to wins and the weight of his wins.

Regarding 17/18: It's unlikely that Goku would go out of his way to ensure they're awakened, but he probably wouldn't be upset about it occurring. His fighting instincts will kick in, for better or worse.

Regarding Cell: If the Gohan in this scenario is capable of SSJ2 power, then Goku ought to remain confident at the prospect of Cell becoming perfect, though I don't think he'd actively encourage it. Additionally, Gohan's pacifism towards fighting, plus Krillin's reluctance for 18 to be absorbed could sway Goku away from this.

 

[Sovran Nila]

Does playing through Kakarot this year count? Essentially, I played/watched the definitive version of DBZ, with the Funi dub cast at their peak.

Could I watch through the original, inexperienced Funi dub from the late 90's again? I don't know, honestly.

 

[00 Unit]

After my last rewatch I would say that the Saiyan arc went from my least liked Z arc to my most liked. It's the perfect mix of the good from the 1st half of the manga with the good from the 2nd half of the manga. Solid enough writing, a wide breadth of contributors/fighters being relevant, fights being more technique based instead of just raw power creep (though you definitely begin to see this becoming a thing in the Saiyan arc), and the alien twist serves as a way to sort of re-open what seemed like a relatively completed character arc in Goku.

With Goku in Dragon Ball it felt like a big part of his character was coming to terms with his own humanity. Having lived in the wilderness all his life so isolated from civilisation, much of the original show in-between the action is basically him sort of adjusting to human society and it's customs. Making friends, learning that there's another sex, figuring out where humanity's social and cultural boundaries lay and not crossing them, etc. Nowhere is this more evident in that one scene where he goes looking for Bulma in West City, IMO.

So him having actually been an alien all along really kind of throws a wrench into everything just when we thought that Goku had figured everything out. Him finding out that he killed his own grandfather is a surprisingly feelsy scene. This ultimately culminates in him fulfilling the legend and taking some measure of pride in his Saiyan heritage in the Frieza battle, which is fantastic payoff. I think this sense of finality for Goku's character is why that old myth about the show having been supposed to end after the Frieza arc became so popular in the fanbase; it just feels right. Though I love the Cell saga as well.

But anyway, in my opinion the Saiyan arc has all of the good of Z; the fantastic action and fight choreography, constant power escalation and the highest stakes the series had yet seen while not suffering from the asspulls that subsequent arcs do. Like the zenkais/random power boosts on Namek because Tori wrote himself into a corner with the power levels and needed to keep the characters growing exponentially in strength to justify the numbers, or all of the time travel nonsense and characters acting like retards in the Cell saga, etc.

 

[Yoshi]

I’m thinking of rewatching the series since I have it on DVD.

 

[Warmmedown]

After my last rewatch I would say that the Saiyan arc went from my least liked Z arc to my most liked. It's the perfect mix of the good from the 1st half of the manga with the good from the 2nd half of the manga. Solid enough writing, a wide breadth of contributors/fighters being relevant, fights being more technique based instead of just raw power creep (though you definitely begin to see this becoming a thing in the Saiyan arc), and the alien twist serves as a way to sort of re-open what seemed like a relatively completed character arc in Goku.

With Goku in Dragon Ball it felt like a big part of his character was coming to terms with his own humanity. Having lived in the wilderness all his life so isolated from civilisation, much of the original show in-between the action is basically him sort of adjusting to human society and it's customs. Making friends, learning that there's another sex, figuring out where humanity's social and cultural boundaries lay and not crossing them, etc. Nowhere is this more evident in that one scene where he goes looking for Bulma in West City, IMO.

So him having actually been an alien all along really kind of throws a wrench into everything just when we thought that Goku had figured everything out. Him finding out that he killed his own grandfather is a surprisingly feelsy scene. This ultimately culminates in him fulfilling the legend and taking some measure of pride in his Saiyan heritage in the Frieza battle, which is fantastic payoff. I think this sense of finality for Goku's character is why that old myth about the show having been supposed to end after the Frieza arc became so popular in the fanbase; it just feels right. Though I love the Cell saga as well.

But anyway, in my opinion the Saiyan arc has all of the good of Z; the fantastic action and fight choreography, constant power escalation and the highest stakes the series had yet seen while not suffering from the asspulls that subsequent arcs do. Like the zenkais/random power boosts on Namek because Tori wrote himself into a corner with the power levels and needed to keep the characters growing exponentially in strength to justify the numbers, or all of the time travel nonsense and characters acting like retards in the Cell saga, etc.

I really like this take. I was into the earthling-saiyan identity aspect of Goku's character, but I've never seen that perspective of how Goku had just figured out how to be more typically human and then had the spanner thrown in the works.

 

[camdudetenger2018]

imagine rewatching the entire original timeline saga aka dragon ball original dragon ball z and dragon ball gt

that is a buttload of sagas and episodes lol

 

[Warmmedown]

imagine rewatching the entire original timeline saga aka dragon ball original dragon ball z and dragon ball gt

that is a buttload of sagas and episodes lol

There'l at least one person here who's read the entire manga more than 17 times. He's still going to the next page like "what's gonna happen?! Holy fuck, Goku is from space?!"