Defining fandom generations

[ShaneisMC]

I was 6 years old and saw the "Ocean dub" as it was shown on Cartoon Network in 1998 from the beginning of Z as my introduction and naturally continued to watch as it eventually switched into the in house Funimation crew we all know today. At least that is my memory of it as far as I recall.

[Hellspawn28]

I saw Dragon Ball (Not DBZ) in 1997 and I didn't become a fan until four years later because I did hate DBZ for a little while seeing how popular it was. So I guess I would be a 4th generation fan (1999-2003 Toonami era). When I became a fan, I did watch it on Cartoon Network but I did went out to watch the other episodes uncut and subbed in 2001-2004. I got my first fan subbed bootleg in 2001 of DBZ Movie 8 and been hook on the Japanese version since then. As a kid, I didn't care if Goku sound like a woman, I thought it was cool seeing DBZ in Japanese and uncut because it was something special back then. I was like "DBZ in Japanese is so cool. I get to see the violence that was edited out on TV!". Kids now these days have faster speed Internet and streaming sites seeing that they can get a new episode of Super by tomorrow morning.

[floofychan333]

If I were to strictly talk American fandom, it would go:

1st generation:
Anyone who was into it before 1995. Anyone at all.

2nd generation:
Anyone who got into it from 1995-1998, spanning FUNimation's first attempt with Dragon Ball and first two seasons of Dragon Ball Z.

3rd generation:
Anyone who got into it from 1999-2003ish, spanning FUNimation's run of DBZ on Toonami.

4th generation:
I have no idea where to go from here.

This would all be completely different for any other country due to their own internal licensing, distribution, broadcast, etc.

There's somewhere to go for generation 4. Pretty much anybody who watched reruns until 2008. Generation 5 is me, people who just happened to discover it long after it was airing, or people who watch Kai now.

[Super Saiyan Swagger]

3rd Generation:
From 2003 to 2008, a generation separate from anime watchers and started with the video games from the first Budokai game up until Sparking Meteor and afterwards the interest in games kinda slowed down or died.

This is definitely the generation I fit into. Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 was what got me into the series in the first place. I then started to watch reruns on Cartoon Network AU.

[TheMikado]

2nd generation:
Anyone who got into it from 1995-1998, spanning FUNimation's first attempt with Dragon Ball and first two seasons of Dragon Ball Z.

2nd Gen for me but I preferred Z but still watched DB.

[MajinMan]

According to VegettoEX's dates, I would be part of Generation 3, although I do remember seeing Ocean dub episodes on TV at some point. I'd say (continuing his timeline) Generation 4 would be 2004-2009. Generation 5 would be 2010-2012. The current generation would be Generation 6, 2013-now (BoG-DBS).