sintzu wrote:I'm not the only one who thinks this considering that's how Toie decided to introduce new kids and anime fans to the franchise.
I've seen this consistently in enough posts of yours to assume that it's not just a typo, but the name of the company behind the animated adaptations of Dragon Ball is Toei, not Toie. I hope this is helpful.
Xeztin wrote:Oh God, as a kid I started with DBZ on the episode Gohan speared Raditz. At that point the action caught me the same way Ninja Turtles does my little cousin. Growing up with it, everyone in school tried to go Super Saiyan, I don't think anyone cared where Piccolo or the cast came from during my chilhood. It was the fighting, the character designs, music, and screaming that capitivated us. Before DBZ, we had your run of the mil cartoons like Johnny Bravo. DBZ showed us a mature different path, a gateway that till this day is helping other anime get dubbed. DBZ, Yugioh, and Halo were the big things all the kids liked growing up here. Everyone had an immediate connection with adult Goku.
That is an interesting story and not too dissimilar from my own (although no one I knew cared about Yu-Gi-Oh, and I hated Halo). And maybe I'm just weird, but that same basis never stopped me from being fascinated in what came before. It tantalized me. In fact, it probably did moreso BECAUSE it was lost and mysterious. I remember being extremely amazed at that flashback Blooma had when she was captured by Freeza's men. There was actual footage of what came before! There was also my friend Justin, who was into DBZ like the rest of us, but he's actually seen the original Dragon Ball when it had aired! His memory was a bit fuzzy (he thought Piccolo was a grown-up version of Pilaf) and assumed those 13 episodes were literally the entire series. But he'd been there! When I got the Internet and found FUNimation's website and saw their store carried all the tapes, do you think I bought DBZ? Hell, no. I could record that off the TV. I bought every single tape of Dragon Ball, and my friends and I sat around in my room watching the first ever episode of how our favorite series began.
Later on, it was a huge boon to me to find Curtis Hoffmann's manga summaries because, for the first time, I was finally able to accurately fill in the gaps. When I got into the Japanese version and started getting fansubs, of the first three tapes I ordered, two were DB, and one was later DBZ America hadn't gotten yet. Again, maybe I'm just weird, but I can't imagine someone getting into DBZ, realizing the series had gone on for a few years prior to that, and not dying to know what all he/she'd missed.
