Themes still unique to Dragonball

[Necrosaber]

It's hard to deny how influential the Dragonball series has been over the past couple decades. We can find elements of it littered throughout almost every shonen manga out there.

Because of the over saturation of these elements in today's action media, I've noticed a lot of youth dismissing the progenitor, Dragonball, as an anime full of cliche and predictable theming. Obviously it boils down to what they saw first. However, I'm wondering if there are certain ideas and themes still unique to the series that are rarely seen, if at all, in other manga/media.

Thoughts?

[Ketchup_Revenge]

That's tough considering that almost everything in Dragon Ball has been parodied or influential on other manga. The Super Saiyan or forms like it have been beaten to death.

I think out of everything, the overall random comedy has yet to be truly duplicated. There are funny series out there, but the stuff that Toriyama did in early Dragon ball really is unmatched, even today. It's so unique and random is practically "stoner-riffic"

[kemuri07]

That's tough considering that almost everything in Dragon Ball has been parodied or influential on other manga. The Super Saiyan or forms like it have been beaten to death.

I think out of everything, the overall random comedy has yet to be truly duplicated. There are funny series out there, but the stuff that Toriyama did in early Dragon ball really is unmatched, even today. It's so unique and random is practically "stoner-riffic"

That doesn't necessarily make it "unique." I agree that Toriyama operated at a level rarely matched by even today's manga scribes, but that just means he executed humor better than most.

[Ketchup_Revenge]

That's tough considering that almost everything in Dragon Ball has been parodied or influential on other manga. The Super Saiyan or forms like it have been beaten to death.

I think out of everything, the overall random comedy has yet to be truly duplicated. There are funny series out there, but the stuff that Toriyama did in early Dragon ball really is unmatched, even today. It's so unique and random is practically "stoner-riffic"

That doesn't necessarily make it "unique." I agree that Toriyama operated at a level rarely matched by even today's manga scribes, but that just means he executed humor better than most.

That's true, but I just thought I'd throw that out there because there really isn't anything else to mention that's exclusive to Dragon Ball.
But either way, the random and perverse comedy is extremely pronounced in most things Toriyama, not only Dragon Ball. If anything, Dr. Slump executes it better.

[matt0044]

I'd say that it doesn't overdo the depressing or angsty moments (well, not 24/7) and Manga wise it doesn't drag things out. And it's also a simple story compared to Shonen series today without the heavy details.