Any Anime watchers?

SalvadoranCavsfan said:

I'd almost recommend on YouTube going to TeamFourStar and watching Dragon Ball Z Abridged. Short and sweet early on which is good because it really picks up when Vegeta and Nappa come to Earth.

As someone who grew up watching the show DBZA really captures the spirit but pokes fun at the slog it can be. Just took them a couple of episodes to start nailing down the humor. The whole series is probably 70 episodes (some are broken up).

Also Dragon Ball is far superior to Z as a series, in my opinion. Z has the spectacle but Dragon Ball has the best choreographed fights and heart.

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DBZA is great. Miss that era of youtube for sure

Out of the Rafters at the Q said:

Still powering through all of the Dragon Ball animes. Just started the Android saga of DBZ. Just had the episode where Goku has the heart virus whole fighting Androids 19 and 20.

The only seasons I've enjoyed were seasons like 3 and onward of Dragon Ball. Haven't really enjoyed any of DBZ so far other than the brief appearance of Future Trunks and that whole thing.

Does it get better?

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Also agree on Dragon Ball being better than Z for sure. So much more fun when its a martial arts anime, there aren't a billion aliens, and one out of three episodes is two guys yelling and slowly becoming more blond and muscular.

Z has some good stuff. Frieza arc is awesome. I unironically like the Gohan in high school filler arc. But you can tell when Toriyama stopped putting as much effort into it. Frieza arc was supposed to be the end of the series with Goku passing as the only SSJ, but the series was too popular so we got Cell and Buu arcs.

Dragonball and DBZ are both a bit tropey, but they are the original for a lot of these things like fighting tournaments and the aforementioned powering up for 3 episodes.

I would skip GT entirely. It has been uncanonized in several places and is bad. Super has some good stuff, tho I have read more than I have watched of it.

Adventurers Who Don't Believe in Humanity Will Save The World is the one I am keeping an eye on. I read the first book of the light novel. I think it could be good if done right...

Though I hate to say it but the market may be flooded with just to many animes and they all seem to be in similar genres...

sportscoach said:

Adventurers Who Don't Believe in Humanity Will Save The World is the one I am keeping an eye on. I read the first book of the light novel. I think it could be good if done right...

Though I hate to say it but the market may be flooded with just to many animes and they all seem to be in similar genres...

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its like mechs a decade ago

foucault87 said:

its like mechs a decade ago

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Yupp... plus I feel like, it's become so popular everyone wants to try and get their hands in the cookie jar and it's impossible to get a good show anymore

I am a huge bleach fan, the final season is out on hulu now.

RonG said:

I am a huge bleach fan, the final season is out on hulu now.

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Hoping the animated version ends up better than the manga did. The last arc was pretty disappointing in print imo

foucault87 said:

I would skip GT entirely. It has been uncanonized in several places and is bad. Super has some good stuff, tho I have read more than I have watched of it.

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Super is fun but...there is a lot of "found a new level" type stuff.

Tournament of Power, however, is my favorite Dragon Ball arc, full stop.

Amherstcavsfan said:

Super is fun but...there is a lot of "found a new level" type stuff.

Tournament of Power, however, is my favorite Dragon Ball arc, full stop.

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Who isn't here for super sayain God blue ultra instinct unleashed?

I stopped watching DBZ, cause it just became to much. They just focused on fighting and stopped really caring about any story in my mind lol

foucault87 said:

Who isn't here for super sayain God blue ultra instinct unleashed?

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Every time they talk about "going blue" I think about Tobias Funke in the Dragon Ball Universe.

The dragon ball super manga is much better imo and it just started back up in December after a 3 month break.

Just finished JoJo part 6 on Netflix. Wow. Did not expect that ending. The balls on Araki! Guess it's time to read part 7

I'm the oddball here, I don't like to read Manga lol I like light novels or anime. I just have never liked pictures and words together (Aka comics, graphic novels or manga).

sportscoach said:

I stopped watching DBZ, cause it just became to much. They just focused on fighting and stopped really caring about any story in my mind lol

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Still trudging along over here. Vegeta just went beyond super saiyan and is about to fight semi perfect Cell.

It's still okay. More of a "it's a big part of culture so I should watch it" than a "I enjoy this" sort of thing.

Slam Dunk or Kuroko no basuke (Kuroko’s basketball)

These 2 are awesome especially they’re both involved basketball. Slam Dunk even released a movie in Japan last month too.

J_J said:

Slam Dunk or Kuroko no basuke (Kuroko’s basketball)

These 2 are awesome especially they’re both involved basketball. Slam Dunk even released a movie in Japan last month too.

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Ace of Diamond is a great sports anime! It's a baseball story though...