Your Earliest Memory of the Dragonball Series

Tony93 · Post by **Tony93** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:29 am

Mine was when i was like, 4-6 maybe 7.

I was watching Dragonball Z on some channel, I remember the whole gohan captureing happening in that episode. The year was 97-99 or 2000.

Anyways as i was saying, i was fascinated with this show, too bad i wouldnt be seeing more episodes until Way Later.

Also, IT WAS IN FRIGGIN SPANISH Talk about bad luck.

Post by **desirecampbell** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:39 am

Actually, from what I've heard, the Spanish dub's pretty good

I started with Dragon Ball on YTV (I have no dea when, any other Canuks remember the year?). They only showed the first season though, so I had no idea who Kuririn, Tenshinhan, or Piccolo was when DBZ started - but I do remember that I thought Gohan was Goku, until he said "this is my son, Gohan".

I was like, "Holy crap - what did I miss?!".

Ah, memories.

Super Sonic · Post by **Super Sonic** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:46 am

First saw "Curse of the Blood Rubies" on tv back in 1995. I admit it kind of spoiled the whole Yamcha/ Bulma thing for me before the series began.

DaemonCorps · Post by **DaemonCorps** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:50 am

Ah, another of these "earliest DB memories" threads. It's been a while, so I guess I'll just repeat what I said a while back.

The earliest memory of DB for me would be when I was watching one of the Namek episodes during the weekend. It was around the time when Kuririn, Gohan, and Dende sneaked the dragonballs away from Vegeta to summno Porunga. I vaguely remember the line about "pissing off the god of love" and Porunga turning into a steaming statue before disappearing due to Saichoro's death. And of course, this was when I first heard "Rock the Dragon." Good times.

Either before or after this happened, my friend at the time was completely obsessed with dragonball and was taping the JP episodes from the i-channel. Since he carpooled with me, he'd show up at my house in the morning with his latest taping of on of the Cell Games episodes. He also brought what he told me were his cousin's tapes of movies 7-11. For some reason, the OP was replaced by a MegaMan OP theme

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Anyways, I was completely freaked out by how incredibly violent the show was at first, but eventually eased into it.

Mr.Piccolo · Post by **Mr.Piccolo** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:13 pm

I probably answered this question before so I'll post my old answer about my earliest memories of DragonBall (and the reason why Big Green is my favorite character).P.S. Earliest not Earlyiest..
-Rick

Mr.Piccolo wrote:It was the summer of 1997 at my cousin's house in South Jersey. I wake up to something strange: my cousins screaming that "DBZ" is on. Needless I was basically forced watch. It was giving the episode in which Chaozu sacrificed himself. This was on Channel 11, WPIX look it up, so its understood this was the worst time to get into the show. I was so damn confused: How come this dude with three eyes can survive with one arm and how come this kid 'travels' through dimensions again and again? From that one episode I hated the show. That's right, Mr. Piccolo hated DBZ. That is until it aired in Toonami (Cartoon Network). I caught the episodes when Piccolo fought Freeza. That really brought me into the series. That is also why I'm a Piccolo fan. From there with the help of some other fans and the internet, I got more information on the series and learned the truth so to speak.

Jerseymilk · Post by **Jerseymilk** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:21 pm

desirecampbell wrote: I started with Dragon Ball on YTV (I have no dea when, any other Canuks remember the year?).

1995. And that was my first introduction to DB too.

Mystic Jack · Post by **Mystic Jack** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:24 pm

Funnily enough the first ever view of Dragon Ball was of the 21st Budokai in which Goku was saved by Kinto'un from Giran throwing him out of bounds... of course I had no idea what the hell it was... but it still stands.

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:29 pm

My first memory of Dragonball EVER was in Spain, I was about 2 or 3, and I saw a little capsule machine and I pumped a coin in, and voila, I got Piccolo.

(I called him 'Green Monster')
But after that, I didn't even hear from it 'till it first aired here in the UK.

Jive Talka · Post by **Jive Talka** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:52 pm

I was around 10 or 11 and started watching it back when it used to air with Robotech. It was back when Toonami/Cartoon Planet was the best thing about Cartoon Network.

Iyouboushi · Post by **Iyouboushi** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:02 pm

Wow, when I first saw DBZ I was still in jr. high. A friend came rushing over with a tape that he had recorded from the Radditz vs the duo fight. I was instantly hooked.

At school there was someone who actually had copies of the raws. I remember watching the Majin Vejita vs Gokuu fight (7th grade) and movie 13 (8th grade) both raw. I think it was the reason I started to learn Japanese. haha.

Good times.

Jive Talka · Post by **Jive Talka** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:56 pm

Iyouboushi wrote:
At school there was someone who actually had copies of the raws. I remember watching the Majin Vejita vs Gokuu fight (7th grade) and movie 13 (8th grade) both raw. I think it was the reason I started to learn Japanese. haha.

Good times.

Yeah that's pretty much the same thing I did. Around the 8 or 9 grade I got a copy of an Anima Labs fansub of the Majin Vegeta/Goku right; then I got a fansub of Movie 12.

It's been at least 7 years since I've last watched those tapes, that is if I even still have them.

Post by **desirecampbell** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:01 pm

Jive Talka wrote:Yeah that's pretty much the same thing I did. Around the 8 or 9 grade I got a copy of an Anima Labs fansub of the Majin Vegeta/Goku right; then I got a fansub of Movie 12.

It's been at least 7 years since I've last watched those tapes, that is if I even still have them.

My first fansub was Movie 8. I was 14. It was spectacular.

Conan the SSJ · Post by **Conan the SSJ** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 3:02 pm

Christmas 92, 93, I forget which; I got the NES game Dragon Power. At this time I had no idea what DB was, but I knew at that young age there was something unique about this game, even though I had no idea what edits were done and the truth of the names. Still, I wouldn't have cared, I had a ball with that game and still have it even today at my parents' house somewhere. That's my first exposure/memory.

PythonMonty504 · Post by **PythonMonty504** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 3:16 pm

My earliest DBZ experience might be watching Ocean dub Season 1 and 2, which on constant reruns on Cartoon Network, circa '97-'98. I loved the series from the start, even though I was pissed there were never any new episodes.

Good times.

Prince Vegeta · Post by **Prince Vegeta** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 3:18 pm

There's nothing really special about my first encounter with the series,it was about 1998 when I first started to watch dragonball and it was at about episode 10-20.

Sonsaiy · Post by **Sonsaiy** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:13 pm

Earliest memory would be in 2000 whist visiting my grandmother, sure was a visual treat.

The sky was pink,
There was a blue guy,
A man with a halo was chasing a monkey running around an incredibly small planet
And a car.

The volume was incredibly low so I couldn’t even understand what was going on, not that I probably could anyway. But I remember trying to think of why this guy had a halo (I was dense enough to not think of the obvious reason.)

In the end I came to the conclusion, the guy must have really enjoyed the food he ate.

caejones · Post by **caejones** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:23 pm

1998. The random giant tractor tires strone about a field that the intermediate center called a playground. A kid that was maybe slightly slow talked about playing DBZ... and... He was "the green dude". And everyone was to gather the dragon balls to make wishes, but "they just wish for more powers [so they can keep fighting]". And he seemed fond of the spirit ball. And I had no idea what was going on, but it sounded coolish. And I only heard things here and there and picked up characters names and such from random scenes on Toonami (it was close to Voltron's old timeslot), and eventually I pieced together the first two seasons to some extent, saw bits of the first three movies... and around the time that season 3 came out I was into the series.
And then came the guy that apparently knew that DBGT started with the Garlic Jr Sega, and that Vegito reached SSJ7 and then exploded, and that SSJ3 was just like SSJ2, but with white hair...

SonGokuGT · Post by **SonGokuGT** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:50 pm

1990

I watched the first episode's premiere in Spain in the afternoon with my grandpa. I was 5 years old.

QuantumDestiny · Post by **QuantumDestiny** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 6:03 pm

Jerseymilk wrote:
desirecampbell wrote: I started with Dragon Ball on YTV (I have no dea when, any other Canuks remember the year?).
1995. And that was my first introduction to DB too.

Same... though I guess my first memory was seeing a bunch of the boys waay back in elementary school wearing those sweaters with DB images on them

. I remember asking my friend who/what they were but he didn't want to tell me, so I spent the whole week hounding him until he gave up.

The picture was one of those generic group shots with lot of the characters as Super Saiyan..
Me: Who's that?
Him: That's Goku.
Me: Ok... who's that?
Him: That's Gohan.
Me: ....And that?
Him: Gotenks.
LOL... I remember just laughing because they all looked the same to me and all the names sounded the same.

TheJoo87 · Post by **TheJoo87** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 6:54 pm

Tony93 wrote:Mine was when i was like, 4-6 maybe 7.

I started watching it when the Cell arc originally aired. I was around 15 and I bought a fansub of movie 7 (which I believe came out around 92-93 I think) at this old pawn shop that no longer exists. So thats pretty much of what I can remember at the moment. I later purchased subtitled copies of movies 9 since I saw Gohan in it and I remembered him from the Cell arc and eventually obtained a copy of movie 12. So those movies and a pretty good amount of the Android/Cell part of the series was my earliest introduction to the series.

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