Dragon Ball Z is the best anime ever

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#1 slipknot0129
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Dragon Ball Z is the best anime ever and that was a long time ago. Why hasnt there been anthing that comes close to Dragon Ball Z?

I tried watching a bunch of anime on netflix but still none as good as DBZ. Gonna watch some DBZ on hulu plus when I set my xbox up. My ADD does a good job of choosing what a good anime is.

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#2 DillonShwing
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I agree but to be fair, its the only Anime I have ever liked.

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#3 mrmusicman247
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Oh yes. This thread will be grand.

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#4 tekas0
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I literally just went through and watched all the seasons not too long ago. Debating whether I should start dragonball or GT next. I miss Toonami sooooo much :cry:

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#5 gameguy6700
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I really hope you're trolling...
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#6 slipknot0129
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I really hope you're trolling...gameguy6700
Not sure if serious.

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#7 branketra
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It just is. You know?
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#8 yokofox33
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Yu Yu Hakusho is the best. DBZ was good though. I don't really care for anime though.

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#9 mems_1224
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dont watch anime but i have seen alot of dragon ball z and it was awful. i really hate that show
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#10 Wanderer5
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Lol far from best. The series had too much dragging on scenes and filler. It one of the most overrated.

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#11 gameguy6700
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[QUOTE="gameguy6700"]I really hope you're trolling...slipknot0129

Not sure if serious.

DBZ is widely agreed to have been a rather mediocre show. People loved it because they were children (and as we all know, children have no taste), but like all shonen it's bogged down by filler and lazy writing. If you think it's the best anime, you're either still in a phase where you need "ULTIMATE BAD GUY FIGHTS ULTIMATE GOOD GUY IN ULTIMATE BATTLE OF EPIC" in order to be entertained, or your anime viewing experience can be summed up as "Dragonball, DBZ, DBGT, Naruto, Yu Yu Hakusho, and One Piece".
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#12 branketra
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^Kids are also known to be honest with themselves.
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#13 martinX3X
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It's an entertaining show to watch. It may not be a complex psychologolical anime like deathnote but it sure is fun to watch.

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#14 StrifeDelivery
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It's an entertaining show to watch. It may not be a complex psychologolical anime like deathnote but it sure is fun to watch.

martinX3X

Yeah but Deathnote wasn't good to begin with regardless.

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#15 coltgames
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i agree
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#16 SirWander
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[QUOTE="martinX3X"]

It's an entertaining show to watch. It may not be a complex psychologolical anime like deathnote but it sure is fun to watch.

StrifeDelivery

Yeah but Deathnote wasn't good to begin with regardless.

From what I've seen in the anime, I'm inclined to agree with you. But at least the manga was good until they killed off a certain character, it went downhill from there.

TC I don't agree with you, but dammit do I love Dragon Ball Z; Kai is so good.

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#17 cain006
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How many animes have you watched? Have you watched Ghost in the Shell? Cowboy Bebop? Hajime no Ippo?

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#18 ferrari2001
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It's honestly the only anime that I like. I recently watched all of DragonBall Z. It brought me back!
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#19 lpjazzman220
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i cant tell if troll...

samurai champloo, cowboy bebop, trigun, love hina, big o, gundam wing, full metal alchemist...they are all better animes than dragon ball z...and thats just off the top of my head...give me time to really think about all the s*** ive watched...then we could be here awhile...

but i personally have a problem with animes which have people who talk for 3 episodes during a fight with nothing happening...or someone powering up for an episode and no one does anything to pwn them while they are busy...its soooo aweful just cause of that...

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#20 AmazonTreeBoa
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I can't say what my favorite anime is. It is between Dragonball Z, Bleach, and Fullmetal Alchemist.

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#21 dercoo
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LOL no

Not even close.

Almost every single anime made by Studio Bones is better then DBZ anime and its super sayan 3 level of filler.

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#22 SolidSnake35
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I was all down with it.. until everyone decided to lock themselves in a cupboard for six years to "train" and then everyone randomly died and I was like.. k.
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#23 fueled-system
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In terms of fights its decent

My problem is that after watching dragon ball, watching dbz after the frieza saga annoyed me. Every single main character besides maybe piccalo became useless and irrelevant... they coulda made something for the humans for them to be more powerful....

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#24 SolidSnake35
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In terms of fights its decent

My problem is that after watching dragon ball, watching dbz after the frieza saga annoyed me. Every single main character besides maybe piccalo became useless and irrelevant... they coulda made something for the humans for them to be more powerful....

fueled-system
I thought they had the blonde hair thing going on?
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#25 fueled-system
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[QUOTE="fueled-system"]

In terms of fights its decent

My problem is that after watching dragon ball, watching dbz after the frieza saga annoyed me. Every single main character besides maybe piccalo became useless and irrelevant... they coulda made something for the humans for them to be more powerful....

SolidSnake35

I thought they had the blonde hair thing going on?

the saiyans did not the humans

tien, yamcha, krillin and bulma the 4 people that were big in dragonball were basically useless after the freiza saga

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#26 SolidSnake35
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[QUOTE="SolidSnake35"][QUOTE="fueled-system"]

In terms of fights its decent

My problem is that after watching dragon ball, watching dbz after the frieza saga annoyed me. Every single main character besides maybe piccalo became useless and irrelevant... they coulda made something for the humans for them to be more powerful....

fueled-system

I thought they had the blonde hair thing going on?

the saiyans did not the humans

tien, yamcha, krillin and bulma the 4 people that were big in dragonball were basically useless after the freiza saga

Oh right. I thought they were human. >.>
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#27 Tylendal
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You have got to be joking. I stopped watching it after I watched Goku spend three or four episodes charging an attack.
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#28 luisen123
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Legend of The Galactic Heroes. Look it up. Also, netflix has all the mainstream, you don't want mainstream.
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#29 Hekynn
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I agree Op and that series got me into anime! =D
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#30 spawnassasin
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Neon Genisis Evangelion is better

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#31 DanteSuikoden
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As a person that has watched Cowboy Bebop, Fullmetal Alchemist, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Detective Conan

I wholeheartedly agree.

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#32 ActicEdge
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I like Dragonball Z but I don't see it as best ever. I've watched some anime I would consider better personally.

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#33 Lionheart08
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I like Dragonball Z but I don't see it as best ever. I've watched some anime I would consider better personally.

ActicEdge

I like DBZ, but honestly it hasn't exactly aged well. Of course I think it shows since susposedly, Akira Toriyama actually wanted to end the series at the Frieza saga.

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#34 EsYuGee
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Dragon Ball Z is the best anime ever and that was a long time ago. Why hasnt there been anthing that comes close to Dragon Ball Z?

I tried watching a bunch of anime on netflix but still none as good as DBZ. Gonna watch some DBZ on hulu plus when I set my xbox up. My ADD does a good job of choosing what a good anime is.

slipknot0129

Oh no! *grits teeth*..... I can't ** starts to sweat**.... believe you ma- ***eyes start to twitch*** -de such a ****vein pops out of neck (while doing previous actions)** crazy opinion. Yaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!

Seriously though, DBZ was just a bunch of guys acting like they're constipated and just droped the mother of all deuces.

Cowboy Bebop was soooo much better. That's right. Throw down the gloves.

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#35 bobaban
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It was the best anime for me because I grew up after HS.
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#36 Arbiterisl33t69
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Cowboy Bebop is the best anime ever. One Piece is the best Shonen manga series ever. That's pretty much it.
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#37 branketra
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DBZ is such a good show.

There is one thing I'm curious about. I wonder where people get that characters spend 3-4 eps powering up.

I mean, that happens about three times.

1)Solar system spirit bomb.

2) Cell adding insult to injury before he blows up the earth. So he wasn't really powering up. He was just trying to scare Gohan. So two times.

2) Goku's spirit bomb against Majin Buu.

Although, even if I hadn't heard it, I would've thought that it was supposed to end at the Freezer saga. I like Trunks, though.

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#38 Desulated
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Wouldn't say it's the best but it definitely made my childhood.

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#39 starfox15
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291 episodes. How one would watch this show in it's entirety is beyond me. 2/3 of the show was filler. No seriously, it was filler. It was mandatory due to the nature of the manga being made at around the same time. They had no choice but to fill in certain episodes with bs and drawn out garbage.

Serialized anime shows have been, and will probably always be, the worst anime series that are available. It's just not worth my time to sit there and watch what very clearly amounts to filler surrounding a convoluted storyline.

I could draw comparisons to the very best animes and how they may only have 26 episodes, but I think its kind of unnecessary.

DBZ was an original storyline with a decent art style that was completely ruined by filler and nonsense. No, it is not the best series ever in my opinion.

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#40 branketra
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291 episodes. How one would watch this show in it's entirety is beyond me. 2/3 of the show was filler. No seriously, it was filler. It was mandatory due to the nature of the manga being made at around the same time. They had no choice but to fill in certain episodes with bs and drawn out garbage.

Serialized anime shows have been, and will probably always be, the worst anime series that are available. It's just not worth my time to sit there and watch what very clearly amounts to filler surrounding a convoluted storyline.

I could draw comparisons to the very best animes and how they may only have 26 episodes, but I think its kind of unnecessary.

DBZ was an original storyline with a decent art style that was completely ruined by filler and nonsense. No, it is not the best series ever in my opinion.

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It's the fighting. I think it says something if that's all that makes it good.
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#41 dbz987
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I agree

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#42 AceofTrades
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I think Cowboy Bebop is.

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#43 Ultrabeatdown55
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I completely agree.

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#44 Locutus_Picard
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291 episodes. How one would watch this show in it's entirety is beyond me. 2/3 of the show was filler. No seriously, it was filler. It was mandatory due to the nature of the manga being made at around the same time. They had no choice but to fill in certain episodes with bs and drawn out garbage.

Serialized anime shows have been, and will probably always be, the worst anime series that are available. It's just not worth my time to sit there and watch what very clearly amounts to filler surrounding a convoluted storyline.

I could draw comparisons to the very best animes and how they may only have 26 episodes, but I think its kind of unnecessary.

DBZ was an original storyline with a decent art style that was completely ruined by filler and nonsense. No, it is not the best series ever in my opinion.

starfox15
There is Dragonball Kai now, with the filler and irrelevent content cut and the story being sped up and identical to the manga. About 98 episodes to end with the Cell Saga. And I'm watching it atm. DBZ sure has its moments, the fights and the story are actually pretty good with character development like that of Piccolo and Vegeta. I haven't seen anything close to the self-sacrifice Goku made to save the earth from a self-destructing Cell. Or the epic fight on a dying planet Namek! DBZ is just a classic albeit there are better anime nowadays...it's always fun to watch good ol' DBZ.
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#45 dercoo
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Cowboy Bebop is one of the best anime ever.

Fairy Tail is the best Shonen manga series ever.

That's pretty much it.Arbiterisl33t69

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#46 bebop013
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I was huge into DBZ in elementary school. i remember toonami back when Moltar hosted it. haven't watched dbz in a while (exluding a few months back when i started watching GT....which was horrible) but i'm going to go with COWBOY BEBOP. i still love it/ watch it regularly. Its one of the only animes i can watch as an adult because iv'e grown so sick of the reaction sounds i.e "oohh", "uuuuhhhh", "ahhhhh" that plague most animes. Fun Fact: Steven Blum (Spike from cowboy bebop) also voiced Toonami host TOM. For Toonami's final brodcast TOM ended its over eleven year run with the final line from Cowboy Bebop; "Bang".
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#47 ActicEdge
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[QUOTE="ActicEdge"]

I like Dragonball Z but I don't see it as best ever. I've watched some anime I would consider better personally.

Lionheart08

I like DBZ, but honestly it hasn't exactly aged well. Of course I think it shows since susposedly, Akira Toriyama actually wanted to end the series at the Frieza saga.

It would have been appropriate for sure though I feel they wasted potential with gohan and vegeta if they did. and the awesome legacy of trunks special was awesome.

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#48 ff7fan2
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or your anime viewing experience can be summed up as "Dragonball, DBZ, DBGT, Naruto, Yu Yu Hakusho, and One Piece".gameguy6700
I've watched Higurashi, High School of the Dead, Magipoka, School Days, etc. and I still consider Yu Yu Hakusho to be my favorite. You frustrated?
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#49 EPaul
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Death Note is a better anime

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#50 JigglyWiggly_
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I agree, it is the best. I dun like anime, but DBZ, is all like AOAOAOOAOAOAOAOaa and pretty manly.