At what age do you personally think that someone is old enough to watch Dragon Ball?

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Re: At what age do you personally think that someone is old enough to watch Dragon Ball?

Post by Lord Beerus » Wed Apr 12, 2017 10:28 am

DanielSSJ wrote:18+ Only MATURE adults can handle such content like boobs getting grabbed or the intense blood and gore. Dee Bee Zee is way to hardcore for little babies to watch. I mean, have you seen the Vegeta/Bulma sex scene?!
You mean the one where Vegeta fires his Galick Gun? Yeah, man. That shit was intense.

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Re: At what age do you personally think that someone is old enough to watch Dragon Ball?

Post by DanielSSJ » Wed Apr 12, 2017 10:42 am

Lord Beerus wrote:You mean the one where Vegeta fires his Galick Gun? Yeah, man. That shit was intense.
I thought that was the scene where he first uses his "Big Bang Attack".
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Re: At what age do you personally think that someone is old enough to watch Dragon Ball?

Post by sangofe » Wed Apr 12, 2017 12:46 pm

DanielSSJ wrote:18+ Only MATURE adults can handle such content like boobs getting grabbed or the intense blood and gore. Dee Bee Zee is way to hardcore for little babies to watch. I mean, have you seen the Vegeta/Bulma sex scene?!
Ki Breaker wrote:As soon as the soul leaves it's body and is ready to be born again..
In fact start showing them since their previous life..

I show my balls Dragonball daily, one of those tiny bastards is sure to be born and he will be born knowing how cool gohan is
These replies aren't very serious. I hope other parents here will have something interesting to say...

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Re: At what age do you personally think that someone is old enough to watch Dragon Ball?

Post by Ki Breaker » Wed Apr 12, 2017 12:53 pm

sangofe wrote:
These replies aren't very serious. I hope other parents here will have something interesting to say...
It wasn't meant to be serious..
Plenty people replied seriously, why not go the other way round once a while :)
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Re: At what age do you personally think that someone is old enough to watch Dragon Ball?

Post by sangofe » Wed Apr 12, 2017 2:01 pm

Ki Breaker wrote:
sangofe wrote:
These replies aren't very serious. I hope other parents here will have something interesting to say...
It wasn't meant to be serious..
Plenty people replied seriously, why not go the other way round once a while :)
Not many parents, though. To me this would be very interesting if other parents talked, as I'm a father myself.

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Re: At what age do you personally think that someone is old enough to watch Dragon Ball?

Post by Ki Breaker » Wed Apr 12, 2017 2:31 pm

sangofe wrote:
Ki Breaker wrote:
sangofe wrote:
These replies aren't very serious. I hope other parents here will have something interesting to say...
It wasn't meant to be serious..
Plenty people replied seriously, why not go the other way round once a while :)
Not many parents, though. To me this would be very interesting if other parents talked, as I'm a father myself.
If I had to consider this seriously, It would be okay for kids to watch this when they start to find it interesting..
As a kid , I remember I used to drop whatever I didn't find interesting, I dropped db too after I lost interest..
It's only when I was 18 that I actually watched the dragonball franchise..

To conclude, as soon as the kid developes interest in it and it isn't effecting his day to day activities negatively, it's fine to watch Dragonball..
Kids shouldn't be sheltered too much, and Dragonball's main focus isn't on sexuality either..

If you are up for it, I would like to know your thoughts on the topic as well
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Re: At what age do you personally think that someone is old enough to watch Dragon Ball?

Post by sangofe » Wed Apr 12, 2017 3:07 pm

Ki Breaker wrote:
sangofe wrote:
Ki Breaker wrote: It wasn't meant to be serious..
Plenty people replied seriously, why not go the other way round once a while :)
Not many parents, though. To me this would be very interesting if other parents talked, as I'm a father myself.
If I had to consider this seriously, It would be okay for kids to watch this when they start to find it interesting..
As a kid , I remember I used to drop whatever I didn't find interesting, I dropped db too after I lost interest..
It's only when I was 18 that I actually watched the dragonball franchise..

To conclude, as soon as the kid developes interest in it and it isn't effecting his day to day activities negatively, it's fine to watch Dragonball..
Kids shouldn't be sheltered too much, and Dragonball's main focus isn't on sexuality either..

If you are up for it, I would like to know your thoughts on the topic as well
Sure. Here they are viewtopic.php?f=7&t=38213&start=40#p1290860

I can add to what I already wrote that she very much wants to watch Dragon Ball. And it all started when she caught me watching Dragon Ball Super Goku vs hit lol.

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Re: At what age do you personally think that someone is old enough to watch Dragon Ball?

Post by Neo-Makaiōshin » Wed Apr 12, 2017 5:47 pm

One they are able to grasp the concept of fiction and differentiate between fiction and reallity.
Dragon Ball was always a kid series and fans should stop being in denial.

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Re: At what age do you personally think that someone is old enough to watch Dragon Ball?

Post by Hellspawn28 » Wed Apr 12, 2017 10:15 pm

Netter75 wrote:As others have said, it depends on the child. I know I could handle the violence and sex in movies like Basic Instinct and A Nightmare on Elm Street when I was 5-6 (they were my favorites haha) but my current roommate can't even handle something toothless like the 2008 Prom Night remake. Parents know their kids, its all relative.
I'm surprise that some people here seen Basic Instinct since I notice most people here only like to watch kids stuff. Also I feel bad for your current roommate. I guess he is probably had a shelter life growing up.
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Re: At what age do you personally think that someone is old enough to watch Dragon Ball?

Post by saunasolmu » Wed Apr 12, 2017 10:29 pm

Cipher wrote:18. They actually show kids' dicks in this thing!
That just means that anybody over 18 shouldn't be watching it!

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Re: At what age do you personally think that someone is old enough to watch Dragon Ball?

Post by sangofe » Thu Apr 13, 2017 9:01 am

Neo-Makaiōshin wrote:One they are able to grasp the concept of fiction and differentiate between fiction and reallity.
Now that's a smart thing to say!

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Re: At what age do you personally think that someone is old enough to watch Dragon Ball?

Post by Hellspawn28 » Sun Apr 16, 2017 7:30 pm

Shonen just means young boys in Japan. In Japan, view Dragon Ball no different on how we view Transformers and Ninja Turtles, shows for kids. I still think a 6 or 7 year old can watch the whole series just fine.
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Re: At what age do you personally think that someone is old enough to watch Dragon Ball?

Post by dragonballgeek » Thu Apr 20, 2017 8:48 pm

I started watching when I was 9. Back then I was only allowed to watch the edited VHSs.

Which didn't bother me :lol:

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Re: At what age do you personally think that someone is old enough to watch Dragon Ball?

Post by sangofe » Fri Apr 21, 2017 1:51 am

Hellspawn28 wrote:Shonen just means young boys in Japan. In Japan, view Dragon Ball no different on how we view Transformers and Ninja Turtles, shows for kids. I still think a 6 or 7 year old can watch the whole series just fine.
This highly depends on the fact that was brought up by Neo-Makaiōshin:

sangofe wrote:
Neo-Makaiōshin wrote:One they are able to grasp the concept of fiction and differentiate between fiction and reallity.
Now that's a smart thing to say!

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