What's the most bizarre thing to ever happen in the franchise?

[Neo-Makaiōshin]

From any medium (anime, manga, videogames, merchandise, etc) from any time period in the franchise be it new or old material. Meta stuff is also included (e.g: any behind the scenes stuff).

I will start with:

Yancha getting his own manga.

[Baggie_Saiyan]

The series getting revived in 2015, then it turns out Toei didn't think it through and we had to sit through retellings for a little over 2 cours and somehow the show was successful. After the fail of GT and Kai I was fearing the worst when we found out we would start with retellings.

[B]

The release of both the Orange Bricks and FUNimation's DRAGONBOX sets, "Goku is from outer space now!", everything involving Kenji Yamamoto since the beginning of his contributions to the series... The creation of both Janemba and Hildegarn stemming from the notion that Broly was a peak, maximum power enemy and that anything following him just had to be... well, bizarre. The mystery funding/production of the Ocean dub of Dragon Ball Kai. Splintering off the last 99 episodes of DBZ into separate "Japanese TV" and "international" versions of Dragon Ball Kai. The vast amount of music on the Japanese side that's never been put on a CD.

This franchise is weird.

[WittyUsername]

I'd say the fact that it experienced a revival in the first place is pretty bizarre. Before Battle of Gods was announced, none of us would've ever imagined that we would be seeing new adventures involving Goku and his friends, barring the Jump Special, which was a one-off thing anyway. Back in the pre-BoG days, if someone were to tell me that we would be getting Blue and Pink haired Super Saiyan transformations, I would've thought they were being silly.

[Chuquita]

Neon-green oozaru Brolli. Bardock getting multiple backstories. Dragon Ball SD.

[Cipher]

The post-2011 revival. I don't know if you guys realize this, but there are currently five concurrent spin-off series running in Saikyou Jump, on top of all the other material we're getting, and this looks to be the trajectory of the series for the foreseeable future, especially now that it has its own story committee within Shueisha.

In the space of a few years nearly two decades after its original run, we went from a self-contained manga fairly singularly tied to its author, along with some movies and one anime-only sequel, into this hydra.

[Jinzoningen MULE]

More specifically, Dragon Ball Super is incredibly bizarre in its own right. A rinky-dink thrown together tv show replacing a series of decently made movies as Dragon Ball's official modern continuation, which in themselves were strange phenomena.

[Wezenheim]

Goku's Fire Brigade.

A world where Goku's a responsible, level-headed firefighter, Muten Roshi doesn't eye up any women, and Bulma is a random girl who lives alone in an apartment with a pet cat named Tama.

[Neo-Makaiōshin]

DBkai would be another bizarrity, an edited rebroadcast of an old show on modern TV, which if I am not wrong is very uncommon in Japan.

[Jinzoningen MULE]

DBkai would be another bizarrity, an edited rebroadcast of an old show on modern TV, which if I am not wrong is very uncommon in Japan.

I notice that a lot of reboots started happening around that time, though not of the same breed as Kai. FMA and HxH are the first that come to mind.

[precita]

We live in a world where a new Dragonball series is airing in the year 2017. That's bizarre and shocking enough.

[Saikyo no Senshi]

Kai and the mess it was. If I could erase that thing, I would. Also, what Cipher said about the franchise's revival. Nobody thought it was going to happen.

I remember people used to laugh when somebody speculated about a new TV series, but here we are. A new TV series that has been going on for 2 yrs as of now. Just bizarre.

And, yeah Female Broli.

[Jinzoningen MULE]

Kai and the mess it was. If I could erase that thing, I would.

Strange, it was. I'm not near as negative towards it as I used to be, especially since it's dub has been so helpful as I've mostly lost my ability to read subtitles on anything but the stillest of screens at this point. My goal is to eventually learn Japanese and switch back to Z, though, so maybe I'll rejoin the hate camp in a few years.

I wonder if Kai was the first product of it's kind.

[Cipher]

Kai and the mess it was. If I could erase that thing, I would. Also, what Cipher said about the franchise's revival. Nobody thought it was going to happen.

I want to stress that it's not only that it happened, but the way it happened, and the rapid pace with which what had been a fairly self-contained, era-specific and author-specific series, merchandise and adaptations aside, truly became a multi-media fiction franchise. After a fifteen-year hiatus, no less.

It's insane.

[TheGodfather93]

I will always be grateful that Kai gave us a good, high-quality dub of the series. I just wish some people were more receptive towards it, or willing to give it a chance.

OT: I'd say most of the crap that comes out of Dragon Ball Heroes. That game has no restraint whatsoever.

[8000 Saiyan]

Probably the Big Green and Malaysian dubs.

[MozillaVulpix]

After 8 years of a successful story, trying to permanently kill off the main character and replace him with someone else was an incredibly ballsy thing to do. Same with having Goku suddenly grow up.

[Vijay]

Super. After disastrous GT, forgettable Kai TOEI Mfkers still had the balls to drag the franchise's name down

[Baggie_Saiyan]

Super. After disastrous GT, forgettable Kai TOEI Mfkers still had the balls to drag the franchise's name down

If anything Super has had the opposite effect, ratings are good, sales are up, Dragon Ball has become a strong name again.

[Cure Dragon 255]

I just LOVE how people are either misunderstanding what "Bizarre" means or just saw this thread as yet another complaint thread.