). It's not perfect: some see flaws, others see quirks. For me, it's greater than the sum of its parts.I remember being in middle school (I'm a college student now) and being proud to show my interest in "more mature" content. Nothing like showing someone an episode of HBO's Spawn animated series to establish that. Looking back, it's a flawed mentality, and others in this thread have already done a great job discussing it. I wanted to add that, whether it's my particular age group or just this point in time, there's a resurgence of nostalgia and a proud-to-be-a-geek mentality. A decade ago, we'd try to show how "mature" we were through our interests. Now, I know people that get together and watch classic Disney movies. It's suddenly cool to know a lot of Transformers trivia. Nobody cared when the new Mortal Kombat game was released, but everybody wanted a piece of the cutesy Wii Sports. The whole thing's been flipped on its head. Just some interesting insight.
When I was in grade 8 I attacked anyone who said anything bad about me liking Dragon Ball, so eventually people hating on DBZ wasn't a problem anymore. Probably not the best way to handle that problem, but the point is don't beat yourself up about loving something. They just don't know what they are talking about!
I generally don't give a shit about what people say about the show. They can hate it, and I won't give a damn. They could make jokes about it, calling it a "kid's show", but I wouldn't really care. I don't even know if anybody in my school, (Which has 1,500 students) even knows what Dragonball is. Hell, they don't even ask me, or even have a clue that I like it. As much crap people will throw at it, the games, the show, all of it, I will still like it.
Enlightenment can be so entertaining.