How long have you been a fan of DragonBall?

JesseD · Post by **JesseD** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:58 am

Great storys guys, I'm loving 'em. It's great to others history with the show. Also the show aired here like this over many years:

-DBZ(Saiyan to Namek)
-*repeat above*
-DBZ Freeza to Early Cell
-*short break*
-Early Cell to Great Saiyaman
-First half of original DragonBall
-The rest of DBZ
-First half of DBGT
-Last half of orginal DragonBall
-Last half of DBGT

Onikage725 · Post by **Onikage725** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:59 pm

I don't recall the year, but I think I was in middle school (so...94-ish maybe?)... whenever they first aired the Pilaf Saga on TV. I thought it was the cutest, quirkiest thing, and seemed similar to this "monkey king" story I had read about at the library :p

Then Z comes along. I followed in, but I was completely lost. i remember seeing yamcha and screaming in excitment, cuz he I fricken knew somebody besides Goku, Bulma, and Roshi! I actually half convinced myself that Piccolo was like Pilaf's kid and Kuririn was some powered up human transformation of Oolong...til I saw Oolong and was lost again.

ssorcd · Post by **ssorcd** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 10:59 am

Early 2000's on Toonami. My first exposure to anything Dragonball/Z/GT was Vegeta beating the hell out of Android 19.

Shenron · Post by **Shenron** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 2:03 pm

Hum, just at the beginning of the Androids Saga, around 1993 or something like that. I used to watch DB in the 80's, but then I went more into Saint Seiya.

I think the Saiya-Jin stuff made me curious ("WTF ? Who are these guys with golden hair ? I must have missed something !"), and I began to watch DBZ again...and I never stopped loving it.

omegacwa · Post by **omegacwa** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 2:38 pm

It's been almost Ten years now I think. I can't recall the first time I was exposed to Dragon Ball, it was either 97 or 98. A friend of my older brother told me about this crazy show on cartoon network, that had all this fighting and guys with crazy hair. So I checked it out and thought it was great. It was during the Goku/Vegeta fight in the Saiya-Jin Saga. I remember thinking Vegeta was stupid and had a huge forehead, which is funny cause Vegeta is by far my favorite character now.

So I watched a few episodes and then bought a couple of pioneer tapes, including movie 2. But there really wasn't all that much available, especially because this was a few years before they started to continue dubbing. So I noticed that a kid in a couple of my classes had a binder with DBZ stickers all over it. And it had Super Saiya-Jins and villians I had never seen, so i asked him about it. He and his family had been going to China town ever since he was little (He was half chinese/american), and he had been getting bootleg tapes of it. So he let me borrow some and the rest is history. I have been a huge fan ever since.

I remember I use to go to planetnamek.com everyday to read up on things and watch video clips and what not.

simmdogg113 · Post by **simmdogg113** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:05 pm

For me it was 1986. I was 4 and living in Okinawa, Japan. I was watching Dr. Slump on Fuji Tv, and saw advertisements by Toei for a new show made by Akira Toriyama called Dragon Ball. I was hooked, and watched it the next week. I watched it all originally in Japanese, and then in English on YTV and by Toonami on Cartoon Network. 21 years later, and I'm still hooked on the best show ever.

Son_Gohan · Post by **Son_Gohan** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:33 pm

Oh damn, it was so long ago...

I think I was 11, and I went to this party. This kid was talking to me about wanting to be a vampire hunter when he grows up and hunt vampires in Transylvania ( I was thinking to myself, this guy is pretty odd)...

Aside from the weirdness... he asked me if I watched DBZ, I had no idea what DBZ was at the time. So he explained to me that it had fighting and they could shoot energy balls and stuff. I thought it sounded cool, since I was doing martial arts at the time, so I asked him what time it came on and he was like in the afternoon, at 4:00. Which was awesome because I left for my Taekwondo classes at 5:00.

So, I remember the first episode I watched was the one where Yamcha got killed by the Saibaman. I was really interested in what would happen next and kept watching, it eventually became an addiction and my new favorite TV show... taking over the Pro wrestling spot. I told my friends about it and they started watching it too... eventually every guy in my grade was watching DBZ, talking about it was a daily thing.

As I kept watching, my favorite character became Gohan and to this day, still is. I liked the whole concept of him having hidden power, and when he got angry, he'd unleash it. I wanted to be just like him and used it as a motivator in my Taekwondo classes (Yeah, I'm a geek

), suprisingly, it actually benefited me a lot lol, especially the day when we were doing some kicking drills and I kicked the target out of my Sensei's hand.

My interests to DBZ, caused me to go buy DBZ coloring books, posters videogames, cards, even stickers (I still have them all in a big binder). I always went on the internet to search for DBZ sites, sadly, most of the good ones aren't around anymore. I still remember watching AMVs and seeing stuff in DBZ that was sagas away from what we were currently watching on TV... which increased my addiction, and interests more so.

I remember watching a Gohan AMV with some Metallica music, where he was killing the Cell Jrs and beating Cell, and I was literally pissing my pants! Luckily I've found most of the AMVs I grew up watching, even that Metallica one, the quality ain't good but I don't really give a shit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORszfKq7w58

So even now, I'm still a big fan of DBZ, and have watched every episode and movie that there is. I still use it as a motivator, especially Vegeta and his quest to surpass Goku lol, that really inspires me to give it my all.

Xell · Post by **Xell** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 6:04 pm

7 years ago. I remember first watching the Freeza Saga on Cartoon Network when I went around my friends house after school every friday. Can't say I enjoyed it, but something about it seemed to draw me back to it.

Wanting to watch more, I used p2p software to try to download some episodes. This was back in the day when I had 56k and could only download 20% of an episode before getting disconnected, but the first Japanese episode I watched was the Vegetto vs. Buu episode, subbed by the infamous Anime Labs. Being 10 years old, I found it very cool! Swear words every now and then, lots of gore. I then managed to download the Gohan vs. Gotenks Buu episode in Japanese (not trying to plug downloading or anything, I was only 10 at the time), and at this point, I was desperate to watch DBZ! I didn't have satellite, so I begged my dad to get it, and in the end we did (he ended up being grateful I persuaded him).

Soo anyways, every day at 5 pm, I'd watch DBZ, and that's pretty much how it was from then on. From when CNX first came along, to when DB finally ended.

Of course, every now and then, I'd go through a phase where I'd hate DB and think "NARUTO SO KUL!". Now a days, DB remains in my top 5 of favourite animes and will probably stay there for a long time.

Kunzait_83 · Post by **Kunzait_83** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:35 pm

Hasaki · Post by **Hasaki** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:10 pm

Lets see the first time I saw DB was in 1998 on Cartoon Network. I think right around that time VeggetoEX opened up his website, while Planetnamek had there site running. I saw the first 2 seasons dubbed by the ocean group, I got hooked to it right away. Then when they stopped at the start of the Freeza Saga I started to panic, surfing online every day untill I came across fansubbed DB manga. In a short while DBZ fansubbed episodes where accessible online, quality were crappy, but it did the trick to hold me off till HQ DVDs came out.

Teclo · Post by **Teclo** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:32 am

My first DBZ experience was actually reading a review of one of the old 16-bit games when I was very young. I had no idea who any of the characters were at all but SSJ Goku, Freeza, Piccolo and bizarrely Krillin all stood out and I remembered them for many years until I actually saw the anime.

Me and my best friend used to watch whatever episodes came on Toonami/Cartoon Network back when we were around 15 or so. We generally missed all of the "Saiyan Saga", most of Namek and the end of the Buu Saga. The main thing we knew of DBZ was the Cell Saga, early Buu stuff and certain movies. Nonetheless we both really enjoyed watching it and used to watch the all-day marathons they used to have on Cartoon Network.

We downloaded a few of the episodes over the old 33k connection, or whatever it was, and so we saw parts of the end of the Buu Saga in Japanese and it was then that it really hit me how terrible the US dub was.

I recently got back into DBZ and am going through it in order (currently at about episode 100) and recently read the manga up until Radditz's appearance. So I've been into DBZ for around 10 years but I haven't really watched it properly until recently so I'm simultaneously an old time fan and a noob, I guess.

Daizensushi-x · Post by **Daizensushi-x** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:11 am

Simple topic question=simple answer.

I've been a fan since 1999. That's all.

Cold Cobra · Post by **Cold Cobra** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 1:35 pm

Ever since it was first shown over here in the UK, so must of been around 98/99.

JohnnyBoy_Z · Post by **JohnnyBoy_Z** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:54 pm

I've been a fan since '96, when a friend of mine let me borrow two super poor quality VHS tapes with one having a few episodes from the Majin Boo arc on it, and the other having DBZ movie #7 ("The Three Great Super Saiyans"). I was hooked instantly. Of course, they were in Japanese with barely visible subtitles. But that didn't bother me one bit. I just knew then that I had found the greatest cartoon I've ever seen.

aegoku · Post by **aegoku** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:57 pm

I've been into the show for almost ten years now. I remember seeing commercials for it while I was watching Pokemon in the morning before school started. This is the period in which DBZ was syndicated. The ads were on UPN and I remember thinking that the show looked so cool, so much more mature than Pokemon.

One of my earliest memories of DBZ is of my Vegeta action figure. It was Christmas time and I was at Target with my Mom and Grandma and I saw Irwin's releases of the Super Battle Collection figures. I thought Vegeta looked awesome and I had to get him. Luckily, Grandma picked it up for me. I remember not knowing who Vegeta was but still thinking it was cool just because it was from DBZ. Oh, to be young and naive...

xzero · Post by **xzero** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:18 am

When I was in 7th grade, a local station aired Sailor Moon at 6, DBZ Seasons 1 & 2 at 6:30, and Pokemon at 7. I wasn't always up to watch Sailor Moon, but I saw DBZ and Pokemon daily. After watching everything up to the Ginyu Force episodes several times through, I began to hope that they would show what happened afterward. One afternoon, I was at a friend's house, and his brother was watching Goku fight Freeza on Cartoon Network. The next day when I was home, I watched it, and was hooked from then on.

The thing that really hooked me about the "new" episodes was Faulconer's music, actually. I loved most of his music, probably because I was, and still am, into video game music, and it was interesting to hear that same style of music being played on what I assumed to be a somewhat mainstream show, given the ads on Cartoon Network for it.

Anyway, in the Summer of 2001, I bought one of the Freeza DVDs in order to record what has now been labeled as "Vegeta Fights Freeza" on the CDs. Unfortunately, I had purchased Freeza: Transformation, the DVD with episodes right in the middle of the two where the song plays at that point in the show. So a few weeks later, the next DVD released, and I bought it. Then, I bought another. And another. And ... well, you get the point.

In the fall of that year, they began airing the Buu saga episodes. I watched the first few, though it was on at 6 or 6:30 pm to my recollection, which was an inconvenient time for me. I watched a couple, then got bored with the Saiyaman storyline. In late October, early November, I was sick one day, and that evening, I saw the episode where Babidi transports Goku and Vegeta to the stadium. I was so impressed with that episode, I bought the DVD for it the next time I saw it at the mall. I pretty much watched the rest of the series for that season, which was only another week or so.

After that, I just purchased the DVDs. Since then, DBZ is something I'll watch when it's on, but it has always been easier to watch the DVDs. All 150 of them. I can't do the math on how much I spent over the years; it would just make me cry.

DemonKingPiccolo · Post by **DemonKingPiccolo** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:58 pm

2000 I think for me.... even though I'd watched it before, it just didn't catch my interest at that time.

The first episode that got me hooked was (I think) when Piccolo fused with Kami. However, the first episode that I ever saw I think was in '98 or something when Goku defeated Freeza on Namek.

Piccolo was originally my favorite character, which is why I chose the username that I did. However, my favorite character now is either Goku or Piccolo. I can only stand Goku in the manga though, not in the anime. In the anime, he's "beefed up", and he loses his air-heady innocence.

mysteriousdbzgt · Post by **mysteriousdbzgt** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:26 am

I've been watching it from 1999, so that's about 8 years now. I was about 5 years old when i first started watching it.

Toniofalcon · Post by **Toniofalcon** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:49 am

Interesting stuff.

Payne222 · Post by **Payne222** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:28 pm

Uhm. I got into DBZ when Toonami started airing the rest of the Freeza saga. So, what was that? '98? '99? I dunno. I just know it was a long time ago.

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