1. A series
based around 7 magical balls and follows the main character Goku through many years of his life. Alongside Goku are his
friends. They're also called "Z-Fighters". It was that got many people into
Anime for the first time. A lot of Animes are
based of DragonBall. At first there was DragonBall, then DragonBall Z, and last was DragonBall GT.
DragonBall was, according to popular belief, the most exciting. It began with Goku as a small and "vinsible"
child. The main characters weren't overpowered, so there were more obsticles in the heroes way.
At the start of DragonBall Z, our hero Goku grew up and had a family. However, the heroes became "over powered" and things started to get boring and repeatitive, consisting of:
* A bad shows up to destroy the planet.
* Goku's
friends get their asses handed to them.
* Goku or some of his stronger
friends show up and get their asses handed to them and say something like "'tis
guy = tuff".
* Picollo stands there and says "im-im-im-im-impossible" with his thumb in his ass.
* Goku's
friends distract the bad
guy while Goku charges up his most powerfull attack and destroys the bad
guy.
The "Z" is believed to mean Zero.
By the end of DBZ, the fans were tired of the same old thing again and again in DragonBall Z and wanted to see Goku like he was in the good old days; as in not "god-like". The directors decided to have a jackass villian from Goku's childhood in DragonBall accidentally wish Goku back into a kid again.
The show becomes more fun to watch in the beginning but soon the Z-Fighters become over powered again. This time the only real fighters are Goku and his rival Vegeta.
The fans and American censorship are most to blame for making the show look like shit.
Most of the fans consist of 12-year-olds with ADHD that always make AMVs on
Youtube or
spam the forums with quotes from the show like "KAAAAA MEEEE HAAAA MEEEE HAAAAAGH!!!!!" as their basic line of defense against any insult from a more evolved being. When they're not doing that, they're on MMO games making copyright characters from the show and try to act like bad asses.
* Censorship is the most to blame. By taking out all the gore, bad words and crude humor that the true fans fell in love with, it looked like a kids show. Kids got into the show more and made a mockery of it.
There's sometimes arguements on whether the series is overrated or underrated.
2. A magical ball with a specific number of stars inside. When they're all gathered together you say a password that unleashes a huge
dragon named Shenron, or Purunga, depending on whether the balls are from
Earth or Namek.
