Sad to see that some fans have not seen the old Dragonball

[sintzu]

I think some of the blame can be put on the companies behind the franchise because for a decade and a half they've treated Z as the franchise's main product while DB as its unimportant prequel.

To make things worse, Toriyama wrote Z in a way that it doesn't require watching/reading DB and its sequels (GT&Super) only require Z so fans just don't bother with it.

I seen people say that the first DB show is too old and boring to watch. I notice that with a lot of pre-2000's anime with younger fans.

It doesn't hold up as well as Z but I think every fan should at least watch it once cause it's still a good show and story, both as DB's 1st story and as a standalone story.

The Pilaf saga wasn't particularly great, it started well but then it became kinda dull. The Red Ribbon Army saga was hit and miss and the Piccolo saga felt like one of those standard Toei DBZ movies but if one were stretched out into a full length saga.

I think a Kai version would've fixed a lot of the pacing issues at least.

I saw Dragon Ball Z first which is why I don't find it so memorable. For fans who haven't seen the original Dragon Ball like this thread is about I can see them having a similar problem I have with it.

Nobody else fought him unlike all the other villains. Nobody else except Goku did much of anything. Half the cast spent the whole saga idling at Roshi's house.

I do somewhat but I blame the anime's pacing cause I like the stories themselves, especially the RRA arc which is an unpopular arc.

I always read about how important the other characters are in DB compared to Z yet 90% of the screen time and focus is on Goku.