What part of the series did you start watching first?

Hao_Kaiser · Post by **Hao_Kaiser** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:44 am

I'm pretty sure the first part I saw was something from the old Ocean dub of seasons one and two.

I remember it was Nappa and Vegeta stuff. The first bit I remember seeing was when Vegeta and Nappa landed on Earth... And then I remember people fighting Nappa after his armor got destroyed.

And I'm pretty sure that this was the end of Cartoon Network's constant rerunning of the first two seasons, because the next part I remember is early season three stuff, but it wouldn't have been long enough for them to get through the first two seasons again.

piccolo-san785 · Post by **piccolo-san785** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:33 am

I began watching around the Namek Saga

TriforceCaptre · Post by **TriforceCaptre** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:00 am

I first saw and became aware of the show during the stuff on Namek, but, I didn't actually start watching and getting into the show until about the time Majin Buu first showed up.

rereboy · Post by **rereboy** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:10 am

Dragon ball ep 1

Piccolo Daimao · Post by **Piccolo Daimao** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:37 am

I was introduced in Dragon Ball Z before I actually watched a DBZ episode. I really only got into it from the DBZ games, like DBZ Ultimate Battle 22 and DBZ Budokai 2. I didn't have Toonami or any of the channels that aired DBZ at that time, but my friend did. One time, when I went round his house, DBZ was showing on Toonami, and they were showing the episode where Gotenks had finally been formed and Old Kaioshin was doing his dance ritual around Gohan. That was the first full episode of DBZ I had watched, although I pretty much knew the whole basic story of DBZ from Budokai 2.

Although, unfortunately, because of Budokai 2, I was misled into thinking that Raditz came to Earth with Nappa, Saibaimen were around in the story as, like, "henchmen for rent", Dr. Gero had fought against Son Goku and a whole lot of other false stuff.

DemonRin · Post by **DemonRin** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:38 am

The Ocean dub from the very beginning of Z!! XD

Wow, that was a while ago!

Supa Saiya-Jin Tullece · Post by **Supa Saiya-Jin Tullece** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:34 am

I started from the begining: Ocean dub appearance of Raditz.

Though, I still haven't seen all of the Buu Saga. It's a weird feeling. I do have all of the gaps covered though (I haven't seen almost any of the Fusion Saga, but I have the manga volumes of it. I've got it covered).

VFX · Post by **VFX** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:57 am

Started at the beginning of Z back in 98.

Tyro · Post by **Tyro** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:06 am

I started watching the series from episode 1 back in '97 or '98 when it first came on Toonami at 5:00 or 5:30. It was moved around a lot, so I'm not sure when it originally aired. However, to my own sadness, I didn't actually start watching the show religiously until episode 2, as I changed the channel not long after episode 1 began. For some reason I didn't care about episode 1.

Tweaker · Post by **Tweaker** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:15 am

I started watching the series through Dragon Ball Z when the Saban dub used to air on UPN very early in the morning around the time when Pokémon used to be aired around the same time. I don't remember how long I watched this particular version or if I even did it more than a few times, but that's how I remember my first exposure to the series. After that, Toonami started airing their dub of the show, which I'd watch until it stopped airing entirely.

After Dragon Ball Z, I started watching the original Dragon Ball, which was also on Toonami at the time, though it didn't start airing until later on. Eventually they showed GT as well, but I never got to watch it much--whenever it was on, I'd either not be around or I'd be watching something else. I ended up never liking the dub of GT that much anyway, so it was no huge loss in that regard.

Other random exposures to the series include my copy of The World's Strongest and Tree of Might DVD, but I'm pretty sure I'd already been a fan of the series pretty adamantly at that point.

Undercooked Sausage · Post by **Undercooked Sausage** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:21 am

The first episode i saw was the filler episode before namek where they're on that spaceship with all the people who's home planet had been destroyed by freeza. It was on at 7:30 or so right before Mega Man on UPN. Must have been 1997 or 1996.

Did not start watching regularly until Moltar era.

However, as someone who followed video games religiously as a child, this was not the first time I saw DBZ-related media. I remember a couple magazines(Tips & Tricks, Game Players) covering or referencing Dragonball Z in their import section. This was in 1994 or so. I always thought it was a video game series before I knew it was a manga/anime.

KillerCory · Post by **KillerCory** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:07 pm

Friend told me how cool a show it was...

So I bought the first few DBZ VHS tapes.

So episode 1 was the first.

Or maybe I should say episodes 1-4(5) as these episodes were put together as a movie.

MCDaveG · Post by **MCDaveG** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:08 pm

Piccolo Jr. saga on RTL II but it was in the middle of fight and I didn't got what the hell is it about and I wasn't interested, some time after it I went ill and switching between channels, there were broadcasting Buu Saga, Goku vs Vegeta on Polish RTL7 channel, French dub. I thought, hey nice, I never thought that fighting in cartoon should be interesting like that, I wonder how it's called? Dragon Ball Z?? That means that it's the same show but different series of that boring stuff I saw on RTL II.....

So there I started to watching whole Dragon Ball on TV and today I think that Dragon Ball is a lot better then Z and from manga I enjoy Goku vs Piccolo Jr. battle most from all those battles.....

JulieYBM · Post by **JulieYBM** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 2:28 pm

If anyone has the CN schedule for October 14, 1998 then I can confirm that that was the date I saw my first episode of DBZ. I know it was the episode where Vegeta slaughtered that Namekian village (Ocean episode #39, I think). I remember a friend has convinced me to change to CN (I was eight at the time...and I think it was the first time I'd ever seen the channel) and such was that. I remember that I was concurrently watching an episode of Power Rangers in Space ("The Silver Secret"), but from there on I was hooked. When we first began to see promos for the airing of a DBZ MOVIE, man the neighborhood kids were wetting ourselves.

The use of Rock the Dragon also stunned us!! Man, I think I might still have that recording on tape somewhere...

Kunzait_83 · Post by **Kunzait_83** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:07 pm

Zuhalter2000 · Post by **Zuhalter2000** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:05 pm

My first time watching was when Frieza transformed from his 3rd for to his final form. Oh Toonami...

email2003 · Post by **email2003** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:50 pm

I first started watching where Gohan, Krillin and Vegeta were all at Guru's House and Vegeta was talking smack to Nail. DBZ was on WB channel 39 here in Houston and was aired around Saturday mornings at 6 or 7 A.M. back in 1996.

SuperSaiyan3Goku · Post by **SuperSaiyan3Goku** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:26 pm

When I started watching the series, I think it was the Buu arc, because I remember watching the SSJ3 Goku episode, although I do remember watching episodes of the Cell Games and early Saiyajin episodes, and I don't specifically remember if those episodes were before or after seeing the Buu episodes. But oh well.

jjgp1112 · Post by **jjgp1112** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:40 pm

It was when Toonami was re-airing the Cell games saga. To be specific, episode 181, when Gohan first started fighting Cell. At first, I was only watching it because I was bored, but after seeing the next episode preview for 182, I wanted to see what would happen next and just got more interested. Gohan snapping at #16's death and going SSJ2 is what hooked me onto the show and made me a fan.

Adamant · Post by **Adamant** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:28 pm

My introduction to the series is pretty convoluted, and I don't remember too much of it myself either, but I do know that the first EPISODE I saw was the first half or so of the English-dubbed DBZ episode 1, through an unfinished download I got from some peer-to-peer program long ago. I was somewhat familiar with the series prior to that, through both video games and various internet fansites, though fansubs and the like were much much harder to get ahold of in Norway than America, so I had to do with mostly indirect exposure until the manga got released in Denmark.

I had always known "Dragon Ball Z" was predated by "Dragon Ball" (and I knew this split didn't exist in the manga before I started buying it), and when by a complete random chance I came across a store selling import DVDs, I first asked for "Dragon Ball". Dragon Ball was not available on DVD, however, so I had to do with DBZ, and picked up the earliest material i could find - the English dub-only release of Z episode 5-10. Some time after buying the manga, I got ahold of the dub-only DVD release of the 13 first episodes of Dragonball, and eventually started picking up the bilingual Dragonball DVDs once Funi started releasing them (at this point I believe i had read the manga up to Gohan going SSJ2, so almost all the DVDs I could get ahold of would cover material I had already read. The Z DVDs were like 60$ for 3 episodes, too, so i stuck with the early material.

Dub-wise... those first 19 episodes I bought were on dub-only DVDs, so I had zero choice in the matter, but I do remember buying the "Tournament Saga" and intending to watch both the original and the dub of each episode. I mean, I had paid for them all, it essentially meant getting twice as many episodes, and the DVD set wasn't exactly cheap ($100 or so?). So I watched DB episode 14 in Japanese, my first ever exposure to the original dub of the series. Then I watched the dub of the same episode. And that the point I decided the was zero point in watching this crap any more, and stuck to the original from that point. It was just that much better.

(I still do have a tiiiiny bit of nostalgic affection for Ocean dub DBZ episode 5-10, though. Not enough to actually want to rewatch them, but I can't bring myself to actively dislike them as much as the rest of the English dub, so I kind of see where you dub fans come from)

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