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by Gyt Kaliba » Tue Feb 20, 2018 5:43 pm
For me, entertainment order (at least with things that have anything resembling a 'canon', or at least just a 'this story takes place at this point in time' kind of order to them) tends to be in whatever order they take place in terms of the story. I know a lot of people tend to prefer to view things in the order they came out - and there are some franchises where I do that - but most of the time, I like to just get the timeline in order as much as I can. Within reason, anyway - I'm not likely to pop out a disc that has like one more episode on it just to pop in another one to watch in that level of order, at least not usually.
So just for a shorter example, with Star Wars movies, I'm the kind that would watch the prequels (Episodes I-III) before watching the original trilogy (IV-VI), and then moving on to the newer ones. That of course gets muddier with the Story films coming out now that take place at different points in time, where you have to slide them in place, like so, for my preferred kind of viewing order.
[spoiler]Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Rouge One: A Star Wars Story
Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope
Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens
Star Wars: Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
I'm guessing on 'Solo' since it's not out yet, but based on Rouge One leading like...RIGHT into the original film, Han would be the age we saw him in the original in that one, so him being much younger means it has to be before Rouge One. Seems like a safe assumption to me anyway.[/spoiler]
So yeah, basically like that. For Dragon Ball itself, which has movies that don't fit into the main narrative at all, I tend to just slot them kinda sorta where they'd go...with the exception of the three DB movies and the 10th anniversary film, since they're flat-out re-tellings. For those I just kinda let them space out a bit. So, it'd end up looking like this for my preferred viewing order. This is all basically based around the anime too, and sans Kai, as the manga itself is it's own thing where I'd just read it all in order without interruption (with Jaco just either before or after it in entirety), and Kai I basically just watch on it's own whenever I'm wanting to experience the newer dub.
[spoiler]Dragon Ball Z: Bardock: The Father of Goku
Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock
Dragon Ball
- Dragon Ball Arc
- Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies
- 21st Tenkaichi Budokai Arc
- Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle
- Red Ribbon Army Arc
- Fortune Teller Baba Arc
- 22nd Tenkaichi Budokai Arc
- Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure
- King Piccolo Arc
- 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai Arc
- Dragon Ball: The Path to Power
Dragon Ball Z
- Saiyan Arc
- Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone
- Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest
- Dragon Ball Z: Tree of Might
- Namek Arc
- Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug
- Garlic Jr. Arc
- Androids Arc (Trunks arrival episodes)
- Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks
- Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge
- Androids Arc (All the rest, up until the Cell Games are about to start)
- Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler
- Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13
- Dragon Ball Z: Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan
- Dragon Ball Z: The Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans/The Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans
- Androids Arc (The Cell Games)
- Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound
- Majin Boo Arc (Afterlife Tournament and Great Saiyaman material)
- Dragon Ball Z: Broly: Second Coming
- Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly
- Majin Boo Arc (the rest of the series, up until just before the time-skip)
- Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn
- Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon
- Dragon Ball: Goku and Friends Return
Dragon Ball Super
- Battle of Gods Arc/Battle of Gods (the movie)
- Resurrection 'F' Arc/Resurrection 'F' (the movie)
- Universe 6 Arc
- Future Trunks Arc
- Time Pass Arc
- Universe Survival Arc
(Now at this point, depending on how Super ends, it would either be just watch the rest of Super, OR, if it ends up retelling the end of Z, then...I'unno. I guess I'd have watched the End of Z timeskip stuff already back with Z instead of leaving it hanging, and then just watch it again here in Super. No other way to do it other than picking one or the other.)
Dragon Ball GT
- Black Star Dragon Ball Arc
- Baby Arc
- Super 17 Arc
- Shadow Dragons Arc
- Dragon Ball GT: A Hero's Legacy[/spoiler]
That's all for the 'storied' stuff anyway. For the completely off in it's own world stuff like...I dunno, the two DB Safety videos, the live action films, etc., they'd just go wherever essentially. Again, my main goal usually is just to get as cohesive of a narrative as can be feasibly done in regards to the story, not necessarily in regards to when things came out. It's just my own personal preference.
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