by jellydonut25 » Thu May 07, 2015 1:09 pm
I'm currently in the last quarter or so of the Saiyan Saga (or Vegeta Saga, whatever they've re-named it).
I had never seen DragonBall before, only Z and GT, and I had only seen sparse episodes here and there of DragonBall as a teen, which I didn't like because no Super Saiyans and no Vegeta and other stupid reasons. I rather enjoyed watching that series. A couple "meh" sagas (I fel the Baba saga was only just kinda fun but a little unmemorable, and I felt the General Blue stuff of the Red Ribbon Army was maybe the weakest). I loved all the Tournament sagas though, even though the Piccolo Jr saga makes little to no sense logically. He wants to win the tournament for no real reason since his goal is to kill Goku and take over the world, but it was a tournament saga and I like those, personally.
The ending of the series take a little too long (I could have done without 5 episodes dedicated to putting out a fire), but overall it's really a lot of fun and there are certain elements (like an emphasis on the hunt for the dragon balls) that I'm sad were basically thrown to the wind by the time DBZ ended (after seeing Dragon Ball, I think it would have been kinda cool if Babidi was on Earth not just to awaken Buu, but to get the dragonballs to do so). From the time the Garlic Jr saga ends, the "hunt for dragonballs" stuff from earlier in the story of Goku is just basically GONE and the balls and their purpose just pop up in brief snatches to wish someone back to life or something.