Does DBZ have any merit? Why would someone choose to watch DBZ over other shounen shows?
Is it a masterpiece?
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Mason Richardson
Evan Cruz
DBZ is the most important animanga to date.
Bentley Cook
What makes it so important?
Zachary Young
Goddamn Jiren is fucking STRONG
Luis Lewis
The Dragon Ball manga is a masterpiece. The anime however, is bottom of the barrel gunk
Julian White
its ok
Cooper Garcia
It doesn’t take itself seriously, and the fact that this makes people mad is amusing
Aiden Rivera
Friendly reminder that SSJ3 is a stupid useless form that never accomplished anything.
Gavin Johnson
It's like listening to Hendrix or the Beatles instead of more modern performers. Is it important and pivotal to its medium? Yes. Is it the best fighter Shonen you can start watching now? Not by a longshot.
Aiden Wood
If you haven't watched DBZ, I don't know if you can even be considered human. It's an essential anime for both weebs and non-weebs. Make sure you get the one with the Bruce Faulconer soundtrack
Nathaniel Ward
>I decided to make Dragon Ball a work without substance.
>M: Without substance?
>T: That’s right, Matsuyama-kun, have you ever learned anything by reading Dragon Ball, that you can remember?
>M: Well, of course, um…
>T: No, there’s nothing you can learn by reading Dragon Ball. It’s not a lesson in life, it’s useless in our lives; it’s just a funny comic. And that’s fine!
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Brandon Cox
Toriyama is kinda a retard for not realizing that readers might extract meaning from a work the author did not intend, death of the author and everything.
Mason Russell
Answered your own question.
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David Richardson
>Does DBZ have any merit?
Culturally absolutely
>Why would someone choose to watch DBZ over other shounen shows?
See above. It's still decent on it's own
>Is it a masterpiece?
No lol
Ian Fisher
Yeah, but it looks cool.
Julian Gonzalez
You are kind of a retard for not seeing through the very thin layer of irony in that interview. You're projecting Goku's personality onto Toriyama when it's obvious he's much deeper and a bit sarcastic, Dragon Ball doesn't have c like that, just as Toriyama says.
James Parker
*characters like that
Elijah Jones
DBZ, and Dragon Ball as a whole, doesn't have that much merit or substance. People only watch it for the fights and power ups, so it's entertaining as a kid. As a adult though, It's not really good, and shonen (and anime as a whole) is not known for it's good writing.
If I can give DB anything, is that Toriyama's art style is unique among anime.
Oliver Martin
You're not wrong but you're not right either, people watch Dragon Ball because deep down they also desire to be free like Goku, embracing the power of being powerful while staying uncorrupted and pure hearted. That is true freedom well I think that's what Toriyama is trying to convey.
Thomas Morales
>You are kind of a retard for not seeing through the very thin layer of irony in that interview.
See through irony from text translated from Japanese to English, yeah okay. For all I know Toriyama is another jaded old fart like Miyazaki.
Not to mention the entire second half of the article is the author seething about Toriyama 's comments on how DB means nothing.
Andrew Stewart
>DBZ
no
>The Dragon Ball manga
Absolutely. God tier artist