What time of the year is considered "peak Dragon Ball" to you?

[The Iron Fjord]

It can be any time of the year (season/month/week) where you find yourself paying more attention to Dragon Ball. It could be a force of habit, or a vague sensation, or just a particular memory that you reserve a certain point of time in the year with DB than you usually do than at any other time of the year. For me it has to be November, because there's nothing much for me to do in the gap between Halloween and Christmas (As a Canadian, I already celebrated Thanksgiving in October).

Every year since like 2011, I always found myself paying closer attention to Dragon Ball around November, whether it be rewatching a series or re-reading the manga. Last year I wound up starting a rewatch of Dragon Ball GT around this time (it took me until like February to finish it because I got bored around episode 30). This year, I started to watch the Dragon Ball movies, because I have never really seen them before, having just finished Mystical Adventure, moving on to Dead Zone later tonight.

I don't know why I associate with DB strongly around this time of year, maybe because the lack of activity in my life between now and Christmas, and why 2011 stuck out so much, but I just do. Is there any particular time of the year you find yourself more engrossed in Dragon Ball than normally?

[Cure Dragon 255]

Gotta say this new topic is awesome! I gotta say the August and September in General is great for Dragon Ball. Its when new shows are premiered.

[ABED]

May because that's when many of the important events in the series happened

[Kakkaroto735]

May because that's when many of the important events in the series happened

Dragon Ball tends to have most of its big events in the spring/summer in general. Also Piccolo day.

[90sDBZ]

Summer because of nostalgia of long marathons on TV during school holidays.

And October-December because we always used to get a new game during that period.

[Gligarman]

Summer and Fall. Because me and my best friend would spend all summer looking up facts about the show and learning about all of the material that was censored and then we'd go to school and brag about what we knew! Lol! Who the hell am I kidding, we still do that!

[MasenkoHA]

I guess Spring/Summer? That seems to be when most of the events in original story unfold. The first arc is set during the summer. Piccolo’s day was on May 9th meaning most likely the 22nd Budokai and Daimao arc take place in May. 19 and 20 arrive on May 12 and so the Cyborg/Cell arc takes place in May. Assuming Gohan didn’t start high school like in the middle of the school year the Boo arc likely takes place in April ish

[Matches Malone]

Usually the fall/winter as that's when major announcements tend to take place, mostly thanks to Jump Festa.

[PacificOceanDub]

For me, I always want to start Dragon Ball in the Summertime. Not sure why, but literally every single year, without fail, I find myself wanting to start from Episode 001 in July or August

[ABED]

For me, I always want to start Dragon Ball in the Summertime. Not sure why, but literally every single year, without fail, I find myself wanting to start from Episode 001 in July or August

The story does begin in the summer.

[Alruneia]

As far as I'm concerned, May is the Dragon Ball month. May 1st is Bardock Day, May 7th is the day of the World Martial Arts Tournament and also Go-Chi Day (for the Goku x Chi-Chi pairing), May 8th is Gohan Day, May 9th is Goku Day and Piccolo Day, May 10th is Goten Day, May 12th is the day of the appearance of the androids, and May 26th is when the Cell Games took place. There might be more, too, but these are the ones I remember off the top of my head. Based on all those dates (some of which are in-universe and others which are more "corporate"), it's gotta be May. For me, anyway.

[ABED]

As far as I'm concerned, May is the Dragon Ball month. May 1st is Bardock Day, May 7th is the day of the World Martial Arts Tournament and also Go-Chi Day (for the Goku x Chi-Chi pairing), May 8th is Gohan Day, May 9th is Goku Day and Piccolo Day, May 10th is Goten Day, May 12th is the day of the appearance of the androids, and May 26th is when the Cell Games took place. There might be more, too, but these are the ones I remember off the top of my head. Based on all those dates (some of which are in-universe and others which are more "corporate"), it's gotta be May. For me, anyway.

Why is May 1st Bardock Day?

[Alruneia]

As far as I'm concerned, May is the Dragon Ball month. May 1st is Bardock Day, May 7th is the day of the World Martial Arts Tournament and also Go-Chi Day (for the Goku x Chi-Chi pairing), May 8th is Gohan Day, May 9th is Goku Day and Piccolo Day, May 10th is Goten Day, May 12th is the day of the appearance of the androids, and May 26th is when the Cell Games took place. There might be more, too, but these are the ones I remember off the top of my head. Based on all those dates (some of which are in-universe and others which are more "corporate"), it's gotta be May. For me, anyway.

Why is May 1st Bardock Day?

Excellent question, I have no idea. My guess is that it's because May has Goku Day and all that, and as Goku's father, Bardock comes "first"... maybe. I didn't come up with it. I've just seen that at least part of the Japanese fandom celebrates May 1st as Bardock Day, so more Bardock art than usual appears on pixiv around that time, for example.
Here's an artwork like that. The text in the image, not counting the artist's signature, is "2020 5/1 バーダックの日記念!", which translates to "2020 May 1st Bardock Day Commemoration!". (Just to show that I'm not pulling it out of thin air.)

[Grimlock]

It's all about pun and pronunciation. Speaking those dates is similar to the pronunciation of the names. I also remember that there is Saiyans Day, Nappa Day and Gogeta Day. I forgot the exact date for them, though.

EDIT: Anyway, after a few minutes searching, found the Tweet in which Herms made a list about it:

[Alruneia]

It's all about pronunciation. Speaking those dates are similar to the pronunciation of the names, just like saying "Goku" is similar to saying "May 9th" in Japanese.

I also remember that there is Saiyans Day, Nappa Day and Gogeta Day. I forgot the exact date for them, though.

You're right on that one...

Spoiler:

This is how those days work as far as I know:
Saiyan Day is March 18th. 3 (sa, from san) + 1 (i, from ichi, or by mutating "hi" in the "hi fu mi" counting system) + 8 (ya, directly from the "hi fu mi" counting system) = 3/18 -> sa-i-ya
Gogeta Day is apparently on May 4th. 5 (go) + 4 (shi, changed to ji by voicing it) = 5/4 -> go-ji
I'm not familiar with Nappa Day, but my guess is that it's on July 8th. 7, na (from nana) + 8 (pa, from the ha in hachi, changed to pa by voicing it) = 7/8 -> na-pa (Edit: I was close at least!)

...but I can't think of any way to turn 5/1 into something that relates to Bardock, so I don't think it's as simple as that.

Actually, now that I've searched around a bit, it looks like the joke for Bardock Day is a kind of forced pun thing.
5/1 is read as "five one". Then you look at the one as a "stick" or a "rod" (In Japanese, the symbol for 1 is 一, so you can see the logic). The Japanese word used for the sticks/rods here is "bou" (棒). Five sticks/rods is "gobou" (五棒). "Gobou" is the Japanese word for "burdock". That's the connection. (source in Japanese)
Sheesh. Honestly I think I prefer my guess over this explanation.

Edit: Oh, you found something on it already. Oh well.