Unpopular DB opinions

[Tian]

Bardock's best English voice actor is his Big Green's VA (David Gasman) in my opinion.

[Danfun64]

"Ahhh! Ahh. Ahhhh? AAAaaahhhhhh..."

I'm sorry, but the noises he makes when he dies just aren't that good. I do admit that the Big Green actor for Bardock and Goku does a good job a lot of the time. Who knows how well he would have done with better direction?

[Anime Kitten]

^ That's how I feel with the Ocean dub. The "screams" of pain are awful. But anyways...

Gohan's first Super Saiyan 2 transformation is obviously great, but still very overrated. Goku's first SSJ was much better since we got much more build-up.

[Neo-Makaiōshin]

Speaking of transformations.

Super Saiyan 2 Gohan must be one of the most terribly writen parts of the series overall, before the Cell games itself Gohan was barely doing anything in the whole Arc and when he does get to do something it´s during the latest part of the Cell games, before there´s no meaninful character development for him. Moreover, N°16 dead being the trigger to his rage feelscontrived, neither Gohan nor Him share any meaninfull connection (unlike Goku with Kuririn, Tenshinhan, Yamcha and Piccolo) and because of that the emotion is not strong.

Good example of dead triggering power up transformation would Trunks in his TVSpecial, we spend time connecting with both Gohan and Trunks and their struggle in their current situation and because of that when the former kicks the bucket, the feelings burst out from us and so does from Trunks, it´s impactful, emotional.

[Hellspawn28]

I don't care if Gohan is not a major fighter in Super. At the end of DBZ, he is retire and I think Super is trying to follow that path for him after the Buu saga.

[Anime Kitten]

I don't care if Gohan is not a major fighter in Super. At the end of DBZ, he is retire and I think Super is trying to follow that path for him after the Buu saga.

Agreed. If the scholar path is what they want to take, then EP52 is the way to do it.

[Bansho64]

Goten should've been given more personality traits and development. His whole dating thing didn't really cut it for me in GT but it's quite a bit better than whatever the heck they're doing with him in Super.

[fadeddreams5]

Speaking of transformations.

Super Saiyan 2 Gohan must be one of the most terribly writen parts of the series overall, before the Cell games itself Gohan was barely doing anything in the whole Arc and when he does get to do something it´s during the latest part of the Cell games, before there´s no meaninful character development for him. Moreover, N°16 dead being the trigger to his rage feelscontrived, neither Gohan nor Him share any meaninfull connection (unlike Goku with Kuririn, Tenshinhan, Yamcha and Piccolo) and because of that the emotion is not strong.

Good example of dead triggering power up transformation would Trunks in his TVSpecial, we spend time connecting with both Gohan and Trunks and their struggle in their current situation and because of that when the former kicks the bucket, the feelings burst out from us and so does from Trunks, it´s impactful, emotional.

I agree. His lack of character development throughout the entire saga was a major issue. That said, the actual emotion and intensity of that arc was so amazing, I can forgive the bad writing. The beam struggle remains my overall favorite sequence in the entire series.

I don't care if Gohan is not a major fighter in Super. At the end of DBZ, he is retire and I think Super is trying to follow that path for him after the Buu saga.

Gohan never retired at the end of DBZ. Hell, I believe a GT guide states he continued training. Just so happens you couldn't be relevant if you were not Goku in GT. Super completely regressed his character, nerfed him, and cast him to the sidelines, which is just terrible.

[Hellspawn28]

At the end of DBZ, he has the nerdy look to him and it's likely that he step down to become a teacher. As for the GT guide books, a lot of the old guide books can be out of date now given how some of the statements are no longer relevant.

[Anime Kitten]

I loved the idea and execution of Ginyu-Tagoma.

[Lord Beerus]

The only time the franchise has every truly had great animation is when Studio Cockpit were involved in an episode.

[Bansho64]

The only time the franchise has every truly had great animation is when Studio Cockpit were involved in an episode.

Dang, not even Shimanuki or Hisada?

[Kanassa]

I think that Gohan's tranformation scene in the Cell Games was a very badly exercuted scene in terms of writing. Bad build up, seemingly rushed and overall the trigger for it for me was stupid. Seriously, why is 16 the one giving Gohan the pep talk!?

[ABED]

I think that Gohan's tranformation scene in the Cell Games was a very badly exercuted scene in terms of writing. Bad build up, seemingly rushed and overall the trigger for it for me was stupid. Seriously, why is 16 the one giving Gohan the pep talk!?

Agreed to an extent. It's not as well executed as it should have been, but it still gives me goosebumps. And while it would've been stronger had the pep talk been from someone close to him, I do kinda like it that 16 was useful. His presence meant something.

[Lord Beerus]

The only time the franchise has every truly had great animation is when Studio Cockpit were involved in an episode.

Dang, not even Shimanuki or Hisada?

They're very good but not great.

[Soppa Saia People]

Viz gets to much hate. Sure the censorship in the Boo saga and recent releases are a bit ridiculous, but the translation is solid (minus a couple things) and it's a good English adaption of the series, and to be completely honest, it's my preferred way of experiencing the series, even over the original JPN version. Also Clyde "Tomato" Mandelin doesn't get enough credit for his work on Dragon Ball (and going off topic here for a moment, his legends of localization site is great).

[Bansho64]

Funimation's dub for the Boo arc isn't good. It's better than the stuff that came before it by a small margin but I don't really think they were good. There were still badly translated lines and some of the voices were still bad in my opinion.

[Hellspawn28]

I still dislike the Funimation dub from 1999-2003. I don't get how it's better than the other anime dubs that are Americanize to kids like with DIC's Sailor Moon and Saban's Digimon? Both took out the Japanese music, had bad voice acting, bad dialogue and edit down the violence.

[Saikyo no Senshi]

Great Saiyaman is Gohan's character at his best. It's the one and only time I really liked Gohan.

- Travis

[Baggie_Saiyan]

I loved the idea and execution of Ginyu-Tagoma.

Wow that is definitely the definition of an unpopular opinion haha. Curious why did you love it? It stripped away all of Tag's character growth just to seemingly have yet another Z throwback.