The show was so successful that it rather logically spawned feature films. ![]() If one were to be jaded with the prospects of another extension of the Dragon Ball Universe, they’d likely be less interested in yet another Dragon Ball Z film. As such, it’s quite easy to take a cynical view towards the show but it still has its moments where it’s genuinely entertaining and even charming.īeerus and Whis are the latest antagonists to threaten earth. It was basically like watching an animated fighting video game: it just moves from one battle to the next with very little connecting tissue in-between. The stakes are always the same, and even though characters are killed off several times, they usually find their way back to the land of the living and there are few lasting repercussions on the show (aside from the novel concept that the characters do age over time). Each “season” consists of the gang being forced to take on the latest “Most Powerful Being in the Universe” with the same familiar pattern: dispatch weak enemy, hear latest prophecy of doom, be defeated by said enemy, train endlessly, power-up and defeat enemy. The characters are all simply constructed and tend to embody one archetype. It’s the formula of Dragon Ball Z that makes it a rather pedestrian television program. While the Cell Games and Buu Saga have their moments, for the most part the show became almost a self-parody with extended filler sequences and familiar plot lines. Little did I know, that I had basically seen the best of the show up to that point. I was incredibly disappointed that the dub, for many years, ended right in the middle of the Namek Saga with Goku preparing to take on The Ginyu Force (I was also really disappointed when the series finally returned with an all new and quite terrible dub). ![]() For awhile during the 1990’s I found myself quite captivated by the show. This is not to say I find the show to be a bad one. Part of that also stems from the fact that Dragon Ball Z fans seem to regard it as the greatest anime of all time, rather than what it really is the most popular anime of all time. Some of that sentiment stems from the fact that it’s considerably more popular than its predecessor, Dragon Ball, despite being the inferior product. I’ve made no secret of the fact that I find Dragon Ball Z to be a pretty overrated anime.
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