Aspects of the Dragonball series that piss you off

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Aspects of the Dragonball series that piss you off
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Anonymous Friend	Mar 18 2008, 02:02 PM Post #1
Filling the gaps in my memories with wild delusions Posts: 651 Group: Member Member #1,447 Joined: May 22, 2006	After making a posting in a topic about Dragonball fans who piss you off, I realized that there was also things about the series itself that upset me. It's not that I don't love Dragonball anymore but it's like being married for ten years and after a while the little annoyances that you completely ignored at first are always in you face and there's really nothing that you can do about them now. One of the things would be the structure of the series inwhich most of the major enemies are defeated, not by some clever strategy, both by the heroes getting some last second power-up or something. The only story arc where this really isn't employed would be the Saiyan arc where Vegeta underestimated his opponents. To go along with this is the fact that as soon as we reach a new plateau in power there seems to be an even stronger right around the bend. This I just happened to realize while watching the Trunks arc and how he effortlessly took out Freeza and his father. Then Goku shows up. And everyone's freaking out at the enourmous power levels of these four beings. But in about ten episodes we are introduced to characters who dispaches then rather easily (mainly 17 and 18 because the only reason Goku lost to 19 was because of the virus).
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+ Rebel X	Apr 22 2008, 01:52 AM Post #2
Posts: 11,612 Group: Legend Member #88 Joined: January 16, 2005	I havn't found anything that stands out in Dragonball Z that I absolutly think would piss me off. Umm i guess the power up ur talkin bout is a theme in defeating the enemies but it's not like it just all of a sudden happened. Goku trained alot to become SSj and so did Vegeta. Gohan was expected to be able to go SSJ2, its not that it was last second just not in use yet. Uh I guess the fact that Goten and Trunks got there SSJ powers easily was funny to see, they were still weak compared to gohan, goku and vegeta but still it turned into something that "everyone" could do. I found that funny but didn't piss me off. SO sorry not much that I don't like about DBZ



T-Unit	Apr 22 2008, 02:54 AM Post #3
[Urzu7] Posts: 834 Group: Member Member #3,247 Joined: February 4, 2008	Probably the thing that most of my friends that grew up with dragonballz remember. Everything took ages! Like when Namek was going to explode and it took like 5 billion episodes. Its like that all the way through dragonballz. It isnt a major problem for me but its the only thing i can think of.
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+ Byakko	Apr 23 2008, 07:32 PM Post #4
I once gave a Kangaroo a heart-attack just by staring at it Posts: 10,219 Group: Legend Member #158 Joined: February 7, 2005 Gender Male Favourite Anime Naruto Shippuuden What Browser do you use? Google Chrome Favourite Manga Fullmetal Alchemist	The constipated noise when they power up. And the time. Like T-Unit said, everything took ages. The Cell Games could be an example, the whole arc took like 50 episodes, while in fact it was less than a day, because it didn't reach the night. Same with the frieza saga. Namek was about to explode, and Frieza said "In 2 minutes this place will explode" and then fought Goku for like 60 episodes. which pissed me off.
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Haze	Apr 23 2008, 08:31 PM Post #5
~Out on the Tiles~ Posts: 142 Group: Member Member #3,390 Joined: March 26, 2008	The constipated noises and endless staring is one of the many reasons I prefer the manga over the anime.



Famicommander	Apr 26 2008, 07:07 AM Post #6
Jukebox hero Posts: 440 Group: Member Member #3,095 Joined: January 7, 2008 Favourite Anime Outlaw Star	1. Far too drawn out. I don't want to watch Goku charge up a Spirit Bomb for 15 episodes. 2. They totally abandoned Tien, Yamcha, Chiaotzu, Yajirobe, and Krillin after the Freiza saga. Sure, they all had a minor role here and there, but these characters got tossed aside in Z. They were a huge part of what made Dragonball so awesome. 3. The fact that the saiyans can achieve so many levels takes away from the aura of a super saiyan. SS2, SS3, etc. It just starts to sound corny after awhile.



Slade	Apr 28 2008, 12:49 PM Post #7
Posts: 1,029 Group: Member Member #72 Joined: January 7, 2005 Favourite Anime Death Note, Dragonball Z, Cowboy Bebop, Suzuka What Browser do you use? Firefox	I hate how everyone says, "Oh i didnt like Frieza saga cause Freiza said Namek would blow after 5 minutes and it took 60 episodes" When, Frieza only GUESSED 5 minutes, could have been longer or shorter but do you actually think Frieza can somehow predict a planets stability when the cores been blown out???
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Anonymous Friend	Apr 28 2008, 02:18 PM Post #8
Filling the gaps in my memories with wild delusions Posts: 651 Group: Member Member #1,447 Joined: May 22, 2006	The "five minutes" comment was something that came directly from the manga and if you were to be reading that it would have taken appx five minutes or so for the planet to explode. The people producing the anime should have altered the line to fit into what they were doing with filler and the extra time that passes when you animate things.
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Sariah	Apr 28 2008, 07:36 PM Post #9
Posts: 16 Group: New Member Member #686 Joined: September 9, 2005	T-Unit Apr 22 2008, 02:54 AM Probably the thing that most of my friends that grew up with dragonballz remember. Everything took ages! Like when Namek was going to explode and it took like 5 billion episodes. Its like that all the way through dragonballz. It isnt a major problem for me but its the only thing i can think of. Yep thats what i would say was the most annoying thing about the show too! Whenever there would be a major fight bout to happen it would take like 3 or 4 eps of trash talking before the fighting would start!



Anonymous Friend	Apr 28 2008, 08:57 PM Post #10
Filling the gaps in my memories with wild delusions Posts: 651 Group: Member Member #1,447 Joined: May 22, 2006	It's almost none existing if you can watch the show without commercials in bursts of atleast six episodes.
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Strawberry	May 5 2008, 04:36 PM Post #11
Chiaroscuro ♥ Posts: 17,000 Group: Rock Princess Member #1,750 Joined: September 24, 2006	Anonymous Friend Mar 18 2008, 02:02 PM But in about ten episodes we are introduced to characters who dispaches then rather easily (mainly 17 and 18 because the only reason Goku lost to 19 was because of the virus). yes, you share my pain! One thing that annoyed me was some of the comments characters would say, more particularly characters like Krillin, or Piccolo, who quickly became only viewers of the big fights. EVERY time a new big rival appeared, there was someone saying: "omg, I've never felt this kind of power". Lol with all their fighting experience they should have understood that stronger rivals would always come, but they always talked like it was the surprise of their lives. After a while that started annoying me, not to mention it got too predictable.
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Silver Raditz	May 6 2008, 02:22 PM Post #12
A True Saiyan Warrior Posts: 1,116 Group: Member Member #1,356 Joined: April 26, 2006 Favourite Anime Dragonball Z What Browser do you use? MSN Explorer	A few things already mentioned Too many SSJ levels there should have oonly been SSJ1, this also lead to another thing that pissed me off that the humans became less and less useful. Aslo SSJ became something everyone and their granny could do which made it seem like that it was a smaller accomplishment.
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* Valed Nexin	May 6 2008, 02:33 PM Post #13
Getting Better at GFX every day :D Posts: 1,208 Group: Retired Staff Member #238 Joined: March 6, 2005	Silver Raditz May 6 2008, 03:22 PM Aslo SSJ became something everyone and their granny could do which made it seem like that it was a smaller accomplishment. Hardly a thing 'everyone' could do, just those who remained. Don't forget they had different ways to get to it, which is probably why no one could originally get to it. probs one thing I would moan about is how you suddenly 'jump' a stage. Sometimes in the series you will see a jump appear out of nowhere, like how Goku said he was 'working' on getting SSJ3 for a while and just pulls it off out of nowhere, while SSJ1/2 were quite an achievement.



* Light	May 6 2008, 03:31 PM Post #14
Yo Posts: 5,563 Group: Retired Staff Member #2,705 Joined: October 5, 2007 Gender Not Specified Country United Kingdom Favourite Manga The Story of Light the Legend by Cal/DBZF Invasion! by Copy_Ninja	lack of character development, in a lot of animes you get to know the characters, including the bad guys, with Goku, or gohan it's not really a problem, as we watched them grow up, but people like Vegeta, we know nothing of his past, or how Frieza founded the Ginyu force etc



* Ben14	May 11 2008, 07:33 AM Post #15
Posts: 2,103 Group: Retired Staff Member #1,870 Joined: November 4, 2006 Gender Male Country United States	The only thing I can think of is when the two people about to fight each other stare at each other for about five minutes straight with the dramatic music playing in the background. I honestly wish they'd just get on with the fights at some point.



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