People who think DBZ is crap are wacky?... but that would mean, and that would make me... you bastard!HeartbreakerByZep wrote:I don't see why someone would be so wacky that they'd think it's crap or something. It's a very well put together show.
Whenever I start a show, I always finish it. I make just one exeption to this, if I detect that the show is a "children's anime." I didn't just realize this, it has been my motto for years. Theres a reason for this. I am 22 years old, and my maturity level has risen a lot since when I was in high school. Jokes that I thought were hilarious back then make me cringe now. If I hear less than intelligent dialogue (in an anime, or in a movie), it makes me cringe. If I see two people getting into a shouting match, I leave. When I watch DBZ, I see characters throwing fireballs at each other, which are followed by bigger fireballs (a few episodes down the road), which are followed by even bigger fireballs (etc), until Earth is gone, destroyed by a giant fireball. I see dialogue that my English professor would regard as being written on a 4th grade level. When a major character dies, they can seemingly still fight alongside the living, and can even be revived several times. If a major character dies in any other anime, it is usually cause for shock or even tears. Its not that DBZ is a bad anime, for its intended demographic I would say its quite good (especially since Toriyama is a work horse and pretty much does everything, including the script).SSJ_Mitsuka wrote:True, kids can understand the plot of Dragonball Z, but that doesn't make it for children either way. Kids can understand Ranma 1/2 and many other anime too, so I guess that makes them all for children eh?..-_- lol!
Does this mean people 22 and up can't enjoy DBZ? Of course not. Age has nothing to do with taste (or the maturity level of a person's taste). I am NOT implying that DBZ fans are immature. As hard as this might be to accept, many people dislike DBZ because they have outgrown it. For a lot of them, watching the series would not change (revert) their taste in anime in general and thus would fail to impress them.
I have used a lot of language (such as "revert") which might imply that your tastes are less advanced or inferior to my own. What I am intending to say is that neither viewpoint is "above" the other, rather, they are on different frequencies. If you send a broadcast using an AM frequency, recievers with FM frequencies will be unreached. It is the same way with this anime. Thats why I have some respect for DBZ. For A type person, its a GREAT anime, for B type the opposite. Saying that DBZ is the worst anime ever, and holding that statement to some universal factual level is so simplistic and base that it could never be true (and vice versa). Such statements are only true from our perspective, and hold no universal value, so when someone says:
all they are saying is that "DBZ rules" from their perspective. It does not mean that everyone will Like DBZ, or that if someone doesnt like it, they are "wacky."HeartbreakerByZep wrote:DBZ rules
As a huge fan of love hina, I was totally unable to get one of my DBZ friends to watch the show. I mean I nagged him for weeks, and he REALLY pissed me off by not giving it more of a chance. I really felt that Love Hina was such a good show, that if anyone saw the whole thing, they would love it. After seeing one episode he said: I can tell I won't like it. This enfuriated me to no end, since even I didnt like Love Hina after one show either. But I realize now, that he was simply expressing himself as type B while I was type A, and theres really nothing wrong with that, its ok to be different. 8)
Not that I'm ashamed, I loved those days. I've just moved on to bigger and better things. I still like to rewatch some old eps and read some fanfics sometimes. ^0^
It's a good manga/anime but I've come to see parts of it as a little sexist and a little degrading. I'm not as huge a fan of it as I am anymore, but I do have a small shrine on it that I hardly ever update. 
