When do you think Dragonball should have ended?

[ahill1]

Some ppl say after Cell's arc, others say after Freeza, others after Boo...

While some think GT would be the best ending and some even say the 23rd Budokai would be a nice wrap up lol.

What about you?

 

[Yoshi]

GT, only because we would be spared of everything that came after it.

Evolution is not part of the franchise obviously, but that movie made Toriyama write Battle Of Gods, and Evolution is one of the worst movies ever made in general, so that needs to go as well.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

It should have ended...

Spoiler

WHEN YOU FIXED THE D*** DOOR!!!

 

[Papasmurf]

It should've been mercy killed when the humans got cucked by a metal door despite being able to blow up planets. The last two arcs of the manga both sucked.

 

[Hector]

In the first page, when Goku killed the fish, bringing peace to Mt Paozu.

 

[DBZAOTA482]

The Boo arc but actually follow through with Gohan being the new protagonist.

 

[sei'taer]

Defeating Frieza just feels like the best place to end the series. It's a a conclusion to the story that started as soon as Raditz appeared and the build up to SSJ was so good.

 

[Yoshi]

Defeating Frieza just feels like the best place to end the series. It's a a conclusion to the story that started as soon as Raditz appeared and the build up to SSJ was so good.

I agree with this. Piccolo's relationship with Gohan would make him lose interest in world domination as well. Just keep Goku, Vegeta, and Krillin dead and revive Yamcha, Tenshinhan, and Chaozu, and it would be a perfect ending.

 

[Warmmedown]

end of Cell Saga for series quality. But there were some good developments in the Buu Saga, esp for Gohan and Vegeta, even Krillin.

but honestly never

you know we all wanted more

 

[Fantastische Hure]

you know we all wanted more

Until we saw DB-Super.

 

[Warmmedown]

Yeh thats probably the answer. DB Super episode 5 is where it should have ended. We would have understood why it was for the best to stop.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

Goku: "Objection, your honour!"

 

[Southern Gothic]

I would have preferred the show end as it normally did (Boo/GT), while going on to do the recent movies just the same, leaving Super and the Manga out of it completely.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

I would have preferred the show end as it normally did (Boo/GT), while going on to do the recent movies just the same, leaving Super and the Manga out of it completely.

DragonBall had a non-ending (original manga, kind-of). Yu-Gi-Oh! had an amazing bitter-sweet ending.

 

[Future Warrior]

To uphold its writing quality, the Freeza arc (with some adjustments). However, the Cell and Boo arcs are too much a part of DB's legacy that I don't know if I'd prefer they never happened. Everything after that though, is not needed.

 

[Papasmurf]

GT is only needed if you were to focus on the next-generation Saiyans taking up the torch and Oob playing a large role rather than just failing to go back on Part 1 dynamics and shitting on everyone who isn't Goku or Pan like GT's actual "story" did. Super is wholly unnecessary unless, again, you shorten the pre-EoZ portions to maybe just the FT/ToP arcs and the movies barring RoF and go into EoZ to flesh out Oob and give Goten and Trunks shine. Since this will likely never happen under current writing directives, it's better to just euthanize Super, but Toei/Shueisha/Bandai never will.

 

[Spiral-Force]

Frieza Saga. The storyline as a whole was well coordinated and intertwined, and allowed Saiyan lore to come full circle.

Even so, I'm fine with how things turned out overall. I think that some thematically interesting ideas can be plucked from each later arc as well. For instance, the theme of "passing the torch" was done from two different perspectives; one that worked out (Cell Saga) and one that didn't (Buu Saga). Say what you want about the execution in either case, but either way, it's at least done a good job of generating discussion over the years.