You think Dragonball Z has failed in some things because of to much fighting action??

[Bansho64]

You mean the first TV special, right? The scenario is by Koyama Takao and Sumisawa Katsuyuki.

Ohh, that's what scenario means. Sorry 'bout that. Thank you

[Metalwario64]

Its a martial arts manga/anime. Plot, characterization, high concepts, etc. certainly all matter a great deal; but at the end of the day when all's said and done this is a genre that's fundamentally at its root core about fighting, training, secret techniques, and so forth. Asking that a martial arts series have less of an emphasis on martial arts is like asking a space opera film to have less spaceships or a horror movie to have less scary imagery or a Western to have less horses, dusty towns, and cowboy hats. At a certain point you're just defeating the entire purpose of the whole enterprise.

I don't think it "failed" at anything but I wish it would've had more character interactions and everyday life scenes.

Any problem is not due to the 'high amount' of battles but the small amount of ordinary life scenes.

Super has already done more than its fair share of that type of domestic "day in the life of" material, and its been utterly soul-deadening. More episodes centering on insipid cookouts and shopping trips is as much the antithesis of Dragon Ball as anything else I can think of. This isn't a sitcom.

Let the simple kung fu manga/anime just be a simple kung fu manga/anime.

Exactly this. I watch Dragon Ball for action and adventure, not Goku's farming antics. I definitely don't mind some of that stuff now and then; I enjoyed filler in Z such as the driving and Android training episodes, but it's the least of my concerns in the grand scheme of things.

[ABED]

Slice of life is effective if it's kept to a minimum and it helps facilitate plot and character. For instance, it can reinforce what it is the characters are fighting for.

[floofychan333]

World building. A balance between fighting and exploring the Dragon World would have been great. The RRA arc is a very good example of it.

- Travis

I would have written it that way but I don't think the series would have had continued success then. I assume many fans were bored with the old adventure/comedy themes and wanted a change. Also, once the characters learned how to fly, the need for world building was really lost. While it was once a big deal for Goku to fly to Muscle Tower from Kame House, now Gohan can fly to West City from Mount Paozu and nobody really sees it as a high achievement.

[SaiyanZ]

Slice of life is effective if it's kept to a minimum and it helps facilitate plot and character. For instance, it can reinforce what it is the characters are fighting for.

This. I think the reason why a lot of those 10 day break before fighting Cell episodes was because of the shift in tone, in addition to the sparseness and placement of them.