Your fondest memories related to DB?

[Bullza]

1. Going to Tokyo on my Holiday and seeing Resurrection F in theatres. That's not really going to be beaten for me. The chance to actually see a new DBZ movie in it's own country in theatres was unforgettable. I went to see it twice.

2. Going to see Resurrection F in theatres later in the year in my own country in a packed theatre surrounded by fans laughing and enjoying the movie.

[TheGreatness25]

1) 1998 while in 5th grade, kids started making "Dragon Ball Z folders" which had a bunch of pictures and information that they printed online from the very primitive internet.

2) My parents bought me toys of Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, and Piccolo from the Saiyan arc. These toys were pretty bland and only moved their arms up and down, the waist, and necks. But to me, those things were awesome.

3) In late 1999, my parents went out and came back with Greatest Legends and Final Bout for the PS1. Final Bout was in Japanese and they got a Gameshark-like thing so I could play it. I got that right before "Transformed At Last" first aired on Toonami.

4) Around the time that Budokai came out for the PS2, DBZ started getting buzz again in my high school.

[RisanF]

1. Watching Dragon Ball Movie 3 "Mystical Adventure" for the first time. It's the most plot-oriented movie in Dragon Ball, and it introduced me to Arale.

2. Finishing my fanfic "Makafushigi Adventure", and reading some of the good reviews I got. Of course, there were also some reviews from people who HATED it, but c'est la vie.

3. Watching the Dragon Ball dub, and listening to that awesome English version of "Makafushigi Adventure." (the song, not my fanfic). Being familiar with the old dub music, hearing them give the original music this kind of treatment was a welcome surprise.

4. Having my fanart of Goku and Arale featured in Viz's monthly Dragon Ball comics (Issue 9 of Part 4).

5. Getting reviews for my fanfics at My Favorite Games. This is more bittersweet though, since the MFG message boards disappeared some time ago.

6. Dragon Ball Origins 2, and getting to play as both Arale and a gun-slinging Bulma.

[Kunzait_83]

1) Playing entirely too much Super Butouden 2, 3, and Hyper Dimension on SNES circa '94/'95/'96 with my then-closest friend (who was also a big Dragon Ball fan). DBZ Legends and Shin Butouden on Sega Saturn were also favorites of ours.

To this day I can still play all those games damn near blindfolded.

2) The above-mentioned friend's older brother was the person who had introduced the two of us to anime in general (by taking us to see Akira at the local art house theater), and Dragon Ball specifically shortly after as well. He was my main source for fansub tapes for a good number of years in the early 90s, and I met a ton of very cool, fascinating people through him at the time.

In my earliest period finding out about DB, I'd read about it in Newsgroup threads, would see it pop up in a few video game and anime magazine articles, but largely I'd hear quite a bit about it via this friend's older brother and his friends' conversations about it, who had all been following it for a little while at that point. It had already been built up quite a bit for me before I'd end up seeing my first episode of the anime (pretty sure it was 142: Piccolo facing down 1st Form Cell after fusing with Kami, or at least right around that point) by somewhere around the tail-end of '92: it certainly didn't disappoint.

To an 8 year old with an MTV-fried brain in '92/'93, seeing raw DBZ for the very first time while it was still fresh was almost like looking at an 80s Ching Siu-Tung movie filtered through a more testosterone-laden Aeon Flux: making it basically one of the all-time coolest things I'd seen in anime up to that point. Granted not quite as cool as something like Fist of the North Star, Manie Manie Labyrinth Tales, Wicked City, or Golgo 13, but still up there.

Also an early favorite: episode 146. Largely filler, but REALLY well directed, atmospheric, and beautifully animated filler. Made Kuririn instantly into a favorite character (I've always been predisposed to the Shaolin, Wudang, or Taoist monk characters in wuxia, and I loved Kuririn's underdog charm: a pint-sized anime Gordon Liu) and the overall episode dripped the horror-atmosphere on mighty thick.

Flesh-devouring giant insect monster versus wulin monk at an airfield, capped off with a wonderful little Twilight Zone: The Movie shout out: yep, I was completely and totally “in” on this one right from the getgo.

And of course, y'know, Trunks special. Kinda self-explanatory there.

3) This had to be around mid-late '94 or so, but I was at a dorm room get together of the above-mentioned group of friends' of my friends' older brother (who were all in college at that point), and we had a pretty rowdy and fun viewing of the big Goku vs Majin Vegeta rematch in the Boo arc. It got... pretty loud. Lots of "Oh shit!"s and "God DAAAAAAAMN!!!"s and such. Pretty sure Movie 8 also ended up getting viewed in there at some point (that particular movie was largely inescapable at that point).

4) The aforementioned then-close friend (same with the older brother) was a pretty huge pen & paper RPG nut. We used to play a ton of them (largely Shadowrun, Heroes Unlimited, Cyberpunk 2020, Vampire: The Masquerade, and some heavily modified D&D: a few other more obscure comics and anime based ones as well) with him, or sometimes his brother, mainly DMing. At one point though, he tried his hand at making his very own pen & paper game from scratch with his own ruleset and scenarios. A few of us, including me, pitched in a few ideas, but it was largely his baby. Again, this had to be around '94/'95 or thereabouts, probably 5th grade.

The idea was we'd wanted to do a wuxia/supernatural martial arts-based RPG, since there wasn't much like that available at the time (at least in English) and stuff like horror, cyberpunk, superheroes and the like were already well covered. We only ended up playing through one scenario with it, but it was pretty wacky and out there. A ton of characters from a bunch of other wuxia and wuxia-themed stuff we were into at the time got used, including Dragon Ball. Pretty sure this, combined with our seeing DBZ episode 214 way earlier, lead to our long-standing Piccolo vs Kaioshin debate/rivalry (I was firmly team-Kaioshin, he was a staunch Piccolo fanboy from the getgo).

5) The speculation and “where the fuck is this all going now?” atmosphere surrounding the early Boo arc (especially circa the 25th Budokai and initial attack on Babidi's spaceship) is also always a huge point of fondness when looking back at ye olden days of fandom. So many batshit theories, so many utterly wrong predictions: like others, I was so convinced that Dabura was gonna be a major player throughout the entire arc. Or that Vegeta, after becoming Majin-ized, was ultimately gonna wind up one of the key villains that ended the storyline, bringing him back full circle to how he started the series. Or that Kaioshin would at least get ONE more genuinely awesome fight after getting his ass whipped by Fat Boo.

Also gotta love how many people utterly lost their shit (in a good way mind you) the first time Kuririn was revealed to have grown his hair out. And that he and 18 wound up having a daughter.

Good times.

6) First seeing my sextet of all time favorite DB/Z movies and specials sometime in early-ish '94 maybe I think (possibly late-'93 even): DB movies 2 and 3, DBZ movies 1, 2, and 3, and the Bardock special. Each of those were mind-blowers in their own various ways. DBZ Movie 1 and Bardock are neck and neck tied for my all time favorite singular animated Dragon Ball works.

I've long held that if I had to pin down one single, self-contained thing to introduce Dragon Ball to someone who'd somehow never experienced any of it before, the ultimate taste tester for it, something that perfectly distills everything that is its raw essence down to bite-sized form, as if to say “Here it is: is this something you think you'd want to sit through over 500 some-odd episodes and more than a dozen other animated movies of?” then DBZ Movie 1 would undoubtedly be it.

And the Bardock special is just masterfully executed, no matter one's thoughts on the rest of DB/Z. My non-video game introduction to Freeza: instantly iconic from Nakao's very first droll utterance of “Ooooooh?”

These movies got so. Many. Rewatches, just in that first year alone, its a wonder how I didn't immediately demolish the tapes from wear.

6) Also around '94 was when I took a trip to New York to a black market basement sale of imported, foreign, un-licensed nerd paraphernalia from all over the world. It was a literal basement sale as it was held in an actual basement of this huge, huge church. A LOT of anime, Toku, and other assorted Japanese stuff was there natch, and in terms of Dragon Ball it was a veritable goldmine of DBZ fansub tapes, raw manga tankobon, and imported merch.

I was mainly there for the tapes and the manga: I really struck paydirt by nabbing a tape with episodes 77 through 83 of the Freeza arc, episodes which were NOT at all easy to come by back then. I was never really into toys or anything like that, so when it came to general merch I've always been pretty spartan. But even so, I did also end up snagging this poster...



...along with this wall scroll...



...both of which hung on my wall for the rest of middle school, and the former poster surviving even though most of high school (the latter wall scroll sadly ended up getting lost in a move: I'd only end up replacing it much, much later).

7) Finally getting ahold of and backtracking through original Dragon Ball, also around maybe mid to late-ish '94 I think?

The 23rd Budokai stuff in particular blew some minds at the increasingly large gathered viewings those tapes spurred on (even some friends who weren't much into anime at all couldn't help but get sucked in): pretty sure it was a combination of the 23rd Budokai eps mixed with those earlier-mentioned Freeza arc eps (which covered the entirety of Piccolo's fight with 2nd and 3rd form Freeza) that made my earlier-mentioned close friend into such a die-hard Piccolo fanboy. Not that I could hardly blame him: Piccolo fucking ruled mightily.

Me on the other hand, as much as I too was loving Piccolo, I was even more magnetized towards Tenshinhan. Everything about the 22nd Budokai was like mainlining pure, distilled Wuxia awesomeness in animated form, and his confrontation with Tao Pai Pai and rematch with Goku in the 23rd? This shit was everything great about the Hong Kong filmscape of the time cranked up to a hundred and change.

And Daimao of course, in all his egg-barfing glory, was just a boatload of fun. And Goku's filler training journey and the Mutaito/Daimao flashback episode were all basically like watching Zu Warriors: The Anime. Again, I was in my glory with this shit.

8 ) Combing the internet endlessly throughout '93/'94/'95 for anything and everything I could find on the episode/story arc gaps in my viewing: the Saiya-jin and Freeza arcs mainly. What happened, which characters did I not see before or know anything about yet, etc. Out of all of Dragon Ball, those were the arcs that had the longest-held degree of “mystique” surrounding them: both because of how elusive to find they were at that point (as opposed to original DB and all the then-current Cell stuff, which was what everyone was presently obsessing over) and for how much BADLY needed context they provided for the characters in the then-ongoing Cell arc (Vegeta and Gohan especially).

Finally seeing those eps (first scattershot across a few tapes I was able to scrounge up, then finally in their entirety on IC in '96/'97) didn't disappoint in the slightest. Both Vegeta vs Zarbon fights remain, to date, some of my favorite brutal, vicious maulings in the series, and the episode where the three Namekian warriors take on Freeza's henchmen before getting slaughtered by Dodoria is among my single favorite episodes in the entire anime.

Also gotta love the tense aerial chase between Dodoria and Gohan/Kuririn/Dende. And oh the many, many things I can say about my endless love for the Ginyu Tokusentai (and the COUNTLESS inside-jokes that they inspired among my friends at the time). And Vegeta's escape from Freeza's ship.

The early/mid Freeza arc is just a bottomless treasure trove of excellence. The whole damn Saiya-jin arc ain't no slouch either: Rocketman always used to sing the praises more than anyone else around here about how great the final battle against Vegeta is. He ain't wrong at all.

9) First time ever seeing DBZ Movie 12 a short while after it hit video.

11 Year Old Kunzait: “...did Gotenks just Kamikaze Ghost an undead Hitler and the Nazi army? And why are gigantic jellybeans now suddenly a key part of Hell's décor? The FUCK am I watching?”

Even among the people who were completely and utterly on total DBZ burnout by mid-'ish 95, few things were as unifying as the then-collective anime fandom's palpable love for Rebirth of Fusion. Nobody could front on that one: that shit was FAR too lovably weird and loopy to hate.

DBZ Movie 13 also got a ton of love (especially from Kaiju fanatics). So, soooo many early AMVs came out of this movie.

10) Doom Z. Yep, you read that right: Doom Z. Yes, that Doom. Some wonderful, lovely individual out there sometime circa 1995 or so made a DBZ-themed Total Conversion for Doom. Complete with voice samples from the anime and/or other DBZ video game sources.

All the weapons are replaced by either standard Ki attacks or characters' various signature techniques. And yes, the Kienzan is indeed the stand-in for the chainsaw. Enemies take on the form of all kinds of villains from the series, including the various Zombie-fied space marines being subbed out for Saibaimen and Cell Juniors, down to the Cacodemon being replaced by a hover-chair riding, Death Ball-slinging Freeza. Stimpacks and other health items are made into various kinds of senzu beans. The armor powerups look like Saiya-jin/Freeza army armor.

Etc. and so on and so forth.

Steve Simmons helped really disseminate this thing on his original Dragon Ball website back in the day. We're talking Doom and Dragon Ball here: two of my biggest 90s obsessions ever coming together into one, horribly mismatched amalgamized mutant abomination. You'd better believe I gobbled this thing up like a smack addict at the time.

Its certainly far from the best-made Doom Total Conversion that anyone's ever cooked up, and I wouldn't really recommend using it with any modern source ports that aren't Chocolate Doom (otherwise the seams REALLY show): but its still definitely worth a playthrough, especially if you're a hardcore classic Doom fanatic like I am.

11) As much of an overall letdown as it ultimately was, I'll cop to being pretty damned excited for the initial build up for GT throughout early '96. Of all the people at the time who were totally burnt out on, spent, and done with Dragon Ball by that point, I sure as hell wasn't among them and was totally game and willing to take the plunge on the Toriyama-less experiment.

As much as I could, did, and have ripped deeply into its many, many faults, the basic ideas and concepts running throughout so much of GT were really creative and interesting. On paper its SUCH a cool final capper to the main preceding series. In actual practice though...

Its one of the all-time examples of “I love the idea of this more than the actual end result of the thing itself”. And even still, every so often it'd manage to rise to the occasion here or there and live up to its promise. The final episode thankfully being chief among those instances.

12) Among a number of Japan-only games and curios I'd drooled over in game magazines for years and years throughout the 90s were the three DBZ arcade titles. All of them looked immensely interesting (though who was to say at the time, unplayed, if they'd actually be any good or not, since DBZ games were universally as hit and miss as they were experimental and immediately attention-grabbing), but I was lucky in that the very best of three, the 2nd one Super Battle, was imported by one of our local arcades in the late-90s. Playing that on an actual cabinet was an absolute delight, and the game remains easily one of my all time favorite DBZ games.

(Sidenote: I've recently become a hopeless Fightcade addict, and among the very, very many more arcade games that I strongly feel deserve to be added to their selection, DBZ Super Battle is certainly among them).

13) As lousy as the general atmosphere was during the DBZ dub's earlier years on CN at the tail-end of the 90s and early-most 00s, that was right around when I was also going to high school and Dragon Ball weirdly was a major factor that helped bring together me and all my closest friends (little suspecting they'd end up being my lifelong family for years and years and years right on up to this very day).

All of them were first exposed via the dub, but most had already very quickly converted to the Japanese version on their own before we'd even started hanging out: and the couple who hadn't didn't take very long once they started hanging around me since I still had all my old fansubs and raws at that point, along with the IC airings which were still going on.


Anyways, that's all that's coming to mind for the time being. That '92 through '97-ish period was easily the very best of it on a pure fandom level (obvious reasons: it was all still freshly coming out, and the entire fanbase hadn't yet cracked, splintered, and divided like a bi-polar Namekian just yet), but all the same, for as much annoying shit came out of '98/'99 through 2002/03-ish or so, credit where due I can never, ever fully hate on something that's created the kind of enduring friendships I wound up getting out of those particular years.

This doofy, doofy fucking kung fu series man. What the hell?

[Marugoto]

1) Stumbling on Dragon Ball while zapping through TV in late '99. It was DB episode 9 (german dub). Such a weird premise. Some little boy with a magic staff fighting Rabbit Nazi's who turn people into carrots. Some girl wearing a playboy costume and a flying, talking cat that can transform into anything. All of that taking place in a dessert town surrounded by the giant mushrooms from Super Mario Bros. I was immediately hooked. Unfortunately I wasn't able to follow the show regularly because it took around an hour to get from school back home. I only got to see the episodes where Pilaf captures the gang and summons Shenlong, and some of the early Budokai episodes( I was hyped when I saw Goku and this new bald kid in the Kame uniforms). I didn't get to see the show on a regular basis until midway through the Red Ribbon arc. I've been a fan ever since.

2) Seeing DBZ for the first time in '01 after my family moved to the Netherlands. The dutch Cartoon Network aired the entire Goku vs Vegeta fight (saban ocean dub) one evening. I couldn't follow the plot since neither my English nor Dutch was up to par at the time, but it was still pretty awesome.

3) Consistently watching DB in German with my brother and after that, DBZ in English. Together we always theorized what would happen next. Also reading some of those fan magazines and early fansites.

4) Buying DBZ Movie 6 on VHS (Big Green) and then later all the other movies. Movie 3 was the first time I heard Cha-la Head-Cha-la in Japanese. There was also a shop that sold MADMAN import DVD's. That's where I got The Bardock special ( 2nd DVD I ever bought!) and later the Trunks special. It took some time, but I eventually checked out the Japanese track. The first time I saw DBZ in Japanese.

5) Playing through Budokai's Story mode for the first time with my brother and a friend of his, who rented a PS2 when the game first came out in '02. That was the first time I came into contact with the Japanese cast. it was very bizarre hearing Goku's voice at first. I eventually got the game myself when it finally came out on Gamcube and replayed it many times since. I guess it was mainly thanks to Budokai 1 that made me fall in love with the Japanese cast.

6) Starting to collect the German Manga volumes. And my utter shock when I discovered that many things I liked from DB and early DBZ were just filler! Never got past vol. 31 though. since I started to lose interest in DB around '05.

7) Playing Budokai 2 with my best friend when he got it for Christmas in '03. We played it almost non stop through 2004, and we where hyped for Budokai 3. I got it myself when it finally came out, because my brother had gotten a PS2 by that time. Me and my friend, we where helping each other to unlock every character. I also got a mp3 player around the same time and listened to CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA on infinite loop throughout summer vacation. Sometime in '05 I moved back home. When the first Sparking/Tenkaichi game hit shelves later that year, I immediately bought it and was pretty disappointed. I kinda lost interest in Dragon Ball around the same time. I guess I subconsiously blamed Sparking 1 for it.

8 ) Importing funimations Dragon Box set's when they came out, and being able to watch the show from start to finish in Japanese. I also got Dragon box the Movies relatively cheap on ebay around the same time. My passion for Dragon ball got re-ignited and I also finally got the last couple of manga volumes and a year ago I got all of the Japanese rental DVD's of the original Dragon Ball. I watched through them all on my computer with external subs.

That's pretty much all of my fondest DB memories that come to mind. I've been thinking of getting GT next and maybe giving all the new stuff a shot. Only problem is that I've barely got time for anything nowadays. Makes me realize how much free time I had as a kid

[Footlong Shoe]

For me, my fondest memory is reading the manga for the first time. My friend in elementary school was really into manga, and he would show me whatever manga he brought with him that day. The only one that ever really caught my attention was Dragon Ball, probably because it was funny to me, whereas all the other manga was more serious (Fullmetal Alchemist sticks out as an example, probably because I eventually got into that one, too).

Also, for some strange reason, watching the Saiyan arc makes me feel nostalgic. I have no idea why, since I don't ever remember watching Dragon Ball Z as a kid.

[Esfír Dedragón]

In the best chronological order that I can remember:

1) Watching Latin-American commercials of Dragon Ball Z. At the time, I had no idea what kind of show it was, but I knew that I had to watch it.

2) Hearing Chala-Head-Chala in Spanish. Despite liking the English soundtrack, I knew that it was a great opening song and that I would always associate it with DBZ.

3) Seeing the main cast appear at the end of DBZ's Cell Arc opening and Goku finally appearing before he transformed.

4) Watching Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z back-to-back on television during their broadcasts. Sometimes on the same day. It was kind of funny since I would be watching kid Goku looking for the Dragon Balls and later I would watch him as an adult fighing some evil guy.

5) Finding out that there was an English dub of Dragon Ball Z in the United States.

6) My first DBZ game: Dragon Ball Z Budokai

7) Playing Super Butuoden 2 on Super Nintendo with my cousins.

8 ) Finding out about the manga and reading it.

9) Watching some of the DBZ movies that aired on Toonami.

10) Buying a How-to-draw Dragon Ball Z characters book.

11) Having dreams throughout my life in which I attempt to do a Kamehameha.

[Trunksuu]

I have a few good ones:
1. My older brother introduced me to GT while it was on TV years ago. I thought it was super cool, even though GT wasn't that good anyway. Funny because Goten and Gohan looked so alike, so I had to ask him which one was Goten and which one was Gohan.

2. Later on I got really into the series. So I sat there and watched Dragon Ball for hours on end up until episode 50 on my parents' computer.

3. While I was watching Dragon Ball, I gained my first, (until I found out about Future Trunks), crush on an anime character ever. (It was Yamcha btw. I thought he was super dorky and cute.)

4. My sister and I got my brother Budokai 2 for his birthday. We played it together for hours. That's when I learned about some of the fighters' I didn't know then. It blew my mind at that time.

5. Once I tried to fly and do a Kamehameha on my porch. I had no idea they were fake, and I only believed I could do it because the humans could do it.

6. Also me and my sister would roleplay the Saiyans all the time. It was so fun and I wish I could do it again.

I think that's it. Otherwise I don't remember much.

[SuperSaiyanBatman]

Bonding with my mother over it. She turned 18 the year I was born ('95) to give some context about her age at the time if it seems weird, the original broadcast dub was something she watched taking care of me when I was very young, so we kind of came together through that. She's had to work a lot and through some personal stuff there's been issues but we've always had something in common with DB, so I'm very grateful for that. We watched the first DVD of the Kai dub (I only have that one, d'oh!

The original copy, not the later release) together too, was fun to do.

I had lots of good times with my circle of fan art people when I was around 13, even though that ended in disaster, I still enjoyed when it was good.

There's probably some other things I can't think of right now, but the most important one to me is family bonding through DB.

[HybridSaiyan]

Honestly, Goku going SSJ after Frieza killed Krillin will forever be engraved into my memory. I still remember it as a kid when it was aired on Toonami. That moment, I knew this show was special.

Others would be playing all the Budokai and Tenkaichi games. Childhood right there.

[TheQuazz]

Watching Raditz's arm get cut off by Krillin when I used to watch DBZ before I went to school. It was hardcore as shit.
You don't know how disappointed I was years later when I realised that never actually happened.

[Captain Strawberry]

The ones related to Goku, people can downplay the good side of Goku (that he's not noble etc) but it's always related to Goku's character like being kind and giving ice cream to his granddaughter Pan is kind inspiring to me. And I'll always appreciate the good side of Son Goku.

[FoolsGil]

Growing up, Wondering if Trunks was a boy or girl when promos appeared on Toonami, and marathoning the Garlic Jr Saga, also on Toonami

[MCDaveG]

1. My fondest memory is being 11 years old in early 2000, switching channels when lying ill at home from school and stumbling upon Dragon Ball Z during the Goku vs Majin Vegeta fight.
Thought it is awesome as I loved kung-fu movies and fell in love with the artstyle, then another two episodes went in and as I saw the logo, I realized that it's the probably sequel to that Dragon Ball series that ran on RTL II that I watched ocasionally waiting for Digimon. Had to watch both simultaneously!

2. Another memory is from later that year, when my friend was hooked up as well and I didn't yet had PC, so I was visiting him and we played all day after school and one day he said: ''Main, I'll show you something!''
And he started emulator with Dragon Ball Z L'appel du Destine (it's on SEGA, can't remember the official name of the game) and we were both excited as hell. That was actually first Dragon Ball game I played, because DB games weren't released here at all before DBZ Budokai.

3. My grandparents were living on the border with Germany and we were going on trips there. It was at the time the Dragon Ball Z was new in Germany, and I was buying Animania magazine full of Dragon Ball stuff.
Also, I was excited about the Dragon Ball Z Movie (12 & 13) later, as trailer was going for them on RTL II, but never went to the cinema to see them actually. Downloaded them a while later from Kazaa, as I've learned what movies those actually were. Oddly, they were presented as one movie. This was ages before importing for me was possible, so you either bought the stuff abroad as you spot it, or later with PC and little faster internet, downloaded them (I think it was 5 days of downloading movie 10 on Kazaa, bad quality from subbed VHS).

4. Emulating full on around 2001/2002, SNES games, when I've learned how to do Kamehameha attacks in Super Butouden 2 on keyboard, LOL. Which I still can and it was fucking helpful when I bought Street Fighter 4 on PC years later.
I was actually never using controller on PC, because I've transfered on consoles fully in 2009 and outside of really old games, I don't play anything on PC. Last and only PC game I was playing until I've realized that I don't have that much free time was Star Wars The Old Republic.

[Ringworm128]

This forum. No really, I have tons of great memories from here. Talking about the Kai dub when it was still coming out, laughing at stuff like "bitch I Look like Goku", and coming up with silly theories etc. Great times.

[MonkeyKing16]

1) My first exposure to DBZ was the World's Strongest on Toonami. It was a lot of fun. Actually, watching the other movies on Toonami was fun too (Tree of Might and Dead Zone)

2) Seeing some family friends play Butoden 3 on the Super Nintendo all night long. I remember once confusing Dabura for Piccolo (my knowledge of DBZ at the time was lacking)

3) Reading the original Dragonball manga and sharing it with my friends.

4) Watching Kid Buu finally get disintegrated by the Spirit Bomb for good.

5) Similar to the first one, watching Bardock: THe Father of Goku and The History of Trunks for the first time on Toonami. There was something about the dark tone and intensity of it it that drew me to it even as a 11 year old-needless to say, those two specials were on my mind for quite a while.

[Hellspawn28]

I still remember when I was new to the series, I wanted to check more of the first DB series before waiting new episodes on Toonami. It was hard to find fansubs for that show at the time compare to DBZ. I remember in 2002, I end up watching Path of Power and Goku's battle with Young Piccolo Daimao on fan sub VHS at some flea market. My inter 11 year old was very happy to see it.

I also remember my older cousin was into DBZ before I was. So he give me a box of old stuff. VHS fan sub copy of DBZ Movie 2, 7, 9 and 10. And bunch of old magazines of Dragon Ball Z. Blew my mind at the time back in 2001.

I also remember i saw the end of DBZ before it ended on Toonami. I remember kids in my school refuse to believe that Goku will defeats Buu. Everyone thought Gohan will be back to beat him or Gotenks will.

[Jinzoningen MULE]

The first time I started watching weekly. I had played video games, but never watched beyond a few episodes. At some point, they were re-running the Android Arc of DBZ, and I loved it. Unfortunately, it stopped right before the Cell Games, that was disappointing.


Just a note, this had to be after the Faulconer lawsuit, but I've never heard of it airing in America with Kikuchi, and I can't personally remember the score. Even though I definitely remember watching it, I'm not sure that the timeline adds up, and I have lots of memory problems.

Not sure what happened here, so I'd actually appreciate someone confirming or denying whether of not DBZ aired on American Television after the legal problems with Faulconer. Thanks in advance!

[Anime Kitten]

I've never heard of it airing in America with Kikuchi, and I can't personally remember the score.

I cannot confirm nor deny that it aired in North America with the Kikuchi score, but I do know that some of the DVD releases have the option to use that score. Though this probably doesn't help.

[Jinzoningen MULE]

I've never heard of it airing in America with Kikuchi, and I can't personally remember the score.

I cannot confirm nor deny that it aired in North America with the Kikuchi score, but I do know that some of the DVD releases have the option to use that score. Though this probably doesn't help.

I knew that much, but thanks for trying to help out.