That seems to be the case for quite a few fans, including those here in the States who were introduced to the franchise through Z back in the day although when you actually watch the show it only really has that type of distinctive Dr. Slump style of over the top gag comedy for the first couple of arcs. Then it really transitions to the more DBZ like action based angle in the later half around the 22nd Budokai but especially the Piccolo Daimao arc and it doesn't make sense to me either. But of course, seeing as Z is the most popular of the three series the original 153 episodes too often get sidelined and are underrated. This despite that they are both one story in the manga which was split in half during the original run of the anime to rebrand for marketing purposes back in 1989.Robo4900 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 24, 2020 1:42 pmAgreed.SuperSaiyaManZ94 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 24, 2020 1:35 pm I really don't get skipping over the original DB series to Z either, because in doing that you're passing a large chunk of the manga's story and a lot of the things which are established here that are revealed later.
I think it's just that a lot of westerners just grew up on Z, and if they gave DB a try, they only watched material in the first 13 episodes, decided "nah this is stupid kids' shit" and never went further. And it's totally baffling to me... Would people skip Fellowship Of The Ring if The Hobbit was also contained within its first several chapters and Peter Jackson adapted Two Towers first, before then going back and doing Fellowship, then Return Of The King?
Would people skip the first third of Breaking Bad if they'd only seen the latter two thirds? Would they just gain the outlook that "Eh, it's not important enough for me to bother going through it."
Ditto for Game Of Thrones, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, Mad Men, Community, etc. etc.?
Every show has its startup time, and if you've only seen the show starting from the middle of its golden years onwards, it could be weird trying to go back to the beginning, but consistently skipping the entire first... Well... I've said first third, but really it's closer to the first two fifths...
Again, it's 2020, not 1996, we should all know better than to skip 153 episodes/194 chapters all willy-nilly.
And Toei should have known better in 2009 as well, when they did Kai.
Still though, you really shouldn't skip the original DB because you miss so much like how the characters first met and so on.