How long have you been a fan of DragonBall?

chronocross · Post by **chronocross** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:37 am

Since 1995, I still love the show but I have decided to take the Geeknights advise and only get the anime once it is in the way I really want to own it. Also, I have the whole Japanese manga to keep me company until that happens. So many pretty pictures

Recently I have have cool of my fanboyish love towards this show to re-discover other cool mangaka such as Tezuka and the manly Go-Nagai.

Zitese · Post by **Zitese** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:34 pm

1999 I believe.

I was in a restaurant with my family and the 15 year old who cleaned the tables told me about Dragonball Z and how he watched Japanese tapes of it.

I went home, Watched it, fell in love.

The next week I bought a Super Saiyan Goku figure.

I wish I still had it

ect5150 · Post by **ect5150** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:51 pm

Since 1993. Got hooked on the video games first (Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden 2 was the first one I played). My friend, who was a Japanese Exchange student brought it over with him. I thought 'KameHame-Ha' was rather odd, but hearing Cell shout it in the game had me hooked. Then got a chance to watch some of the movies. God, those were the days of trading fansubbed VHS copies.

Talk about horrible quality. Comparing those to what we have today makes the FUNI widescreen releases seem like mana from heaven. I remember some of the hard core fans back then would swear up and down over their mother's grave that the TV show of DBZ would die before we ever got to see Goku transform into Super.

I'm glad they were proven wrong

bardock013 · Post by **bardock013** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:29 pm

I started watching DBZ since a kid (5 or 6 years old, can't remember.)
I remember just turning on the TV and seeing The World's Strongest on. Man, that had a huge impact on me. All the fighting in that movie was awesome, i was hooked right from the first couple of minutes I saw that.
Later I started watching it on Toonami with Freeza. Awesome times man.
I remember everyone would know what DBZ is in my school. Even today If I ask someone if they know what DBZ is they would say yes, surely, even if they haven't seen it.

Mystic · Post by **Mystic** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:19 pm

Since the fight between Nail & Freeza on Namek. Sometime in '99 I believe.

Sun_Wukong · Post by **Sun_Wukong** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:16 am

Zitese wrote:1999 I believe.

Same here, I had just moved to a new town and everyone at school was raving about it. I checked it out on Toonami when I got home. First episode was Jeice looking for a new Ginyu Force I believe.

Golden Lockhart · Post by **Golden Lockhart** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:35 pm

When have I been a fan of the epic series? Let's see:

Of course I knew about it before I started watching it because the kids at school wouldn't stop talking about it. I would hear names like "Piccolo" or "Goku" or "Gohan" but I wouldn't know what they would be talking about.

It's funny really because I actually wasn't interested in it. The earliest memory of me watching it when was on telemondo one morning. Even earlier was watching Dragonball in 1995 but I didn't have a clue what I was watching.

Anyway, the year was 2002. Funimation were working on the final Buu episodes....and other events that went on that year. Me and my brother were over at my Grandmothers house and my cousins were there. My brother had asked if he could watch their dragonball z tapes and I watched them with him and well...the rest is history. Ever since then, I was hooked.

How I actually was able to hear the Japanese version for the first time was my Cousin had aqquired the Broly DVD. It had the Japanese language track on it so I put it on. "That's wierd" I thought as I had an entirely different theme song which was "Cha la Head cha la". I soon noticed different music and different voices and...the rest is history.

I am used to Funimation's Voices to. I find myself doing Piccolo's Gruff voice all the time. Anyway, that's when I have been a fan of Toriyama-sama's famed manga/anime and I will always be untill I die.

SuperSaiyan3Goku · Post by **SuperSaiyan3Goku** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:58 pm

Well, I believe the time that I began to like Dragonball was when CN started to show it on Toonami, (the good version) and I just fell in love with it. I used to watch it every day after school and every weekend, when they would have the 2 hour block with both DB and DBZ. Then they took it off. And I was very pissed.

I loved the show so much that I actually got the DBZ Becett magazines, and some of the stuff in it was probably from the Japanese version, or a variation of it, and I had no clue what it was.

Then, I started to get the DVDs, my first was Broly's first movie. The Funi dub. Before that, I had a few tapes, the Babidi saga, a few random Android saga tapes, and the last DBZ tape. I also got a crapton of figures, bought from Walmart, Toysrus, you know.

the original ero-sennin · Post by **the original ero-sennin** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 5:33 pm

I discovered it on Cartoon Network when I was ten-years old. Ah the memories.

shenron002 · Post by **shenron002** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:11 pm

My first glimpse of Dragon Ball was in 1991, when I was 5 years old, I was sick from school, so I rented loads of NES games, and "Dragon Power" was one of them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Power

My second glimpse of Dragon Ball was when I was 10, in February 1996 on YTV Canada, they were airing episodes on Friday nights and Saturday mornings, the original Saban 1-13 episodes. Also that year I was watching Dragon Ball Z on FOX Rochester at 4 in the morning.

My third glimpse at Dragon Ball Z was in October 1997, when Teletoon was airing it on Wednesday nights, right after Spawn the animated series, this only lasted for a couple months.

My forth glimpse of Dragon Ball Z was in September 1999 on YTV Canada, and I watched it there until March 2001, than they switched the dub from FUNimation to the Saban.

So from there I had to download the rest of the episodes of the Majin Buu arc of FUNimation dub, using whatever download clients available at the time.

I'm 22 years old now, I've been into for over 15 years. Dragon Ball has been there almost from day one for me, I might not be able to support the franchise with my wallet, but I can differently support it with found memories it has left me.

Suupaa Gohan 2 · Post by **Suupaa Gohan 2** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 3:34 pm

Waha, mine is a long, sad tale of one, like many of us, who first got into the fandom through the original Saban dub of DBZ.

But I'm lazy and don't feel like detailing it.

It was probably 2000 or 2001, though.

The short(est) of it is that one random day I was randomly at my grandfather's house and I randomly turned on the TV to randomly see a cartoon I had never seen before. ...Randomly.

This also, mind you, was back in the day before I really knew what 'Anime' was - I had been into the Pokemon fad when that first was a hit, but the only time I ever heard the word 'Anime' used was when I started watching Monster Rancher on and off on some-such Saturday Morning block. So it was just some random cartoon with one of those weird animation styles I had been seeing a lot lately.

The amazing thing is I happened to randomly catch one of the very first episodes - I don't know which it was, due to the way they conglomerated so much footage together and spliced episodes back in that dub, but I tuned in about halfway through the episode just as Radditz was kidnapping Gohan and Gokou was teaming up with Piccolo. Obviously this is where Dragonball Z began, but I had no way of knowing that, and thus I figured since so much didn't make sense that I was missing a lot and picking up an episode in the middle of the series (ironically I later found out that I did not...and even later, that I actually DID!!).

I found it interesting since typical cartoons were self-contained and I liked the continuing storyline I compared to as 'soap-opera like' (since back then I hadn't seen many series' that used the format besides the soap operas my mom watched) and the animation. So I started watching it and eventually got hooked. I was, as the typical 11-year old (I think about that age, it was 5th/6th grade I got into it) watching the series at the time, nonethewiser about the atrocities the Anime felt, and I wouldn't learn otherwise until the dub entered into that loop where all they did was replay through mid-Freeza Saga.

I got so into it I found fansites and everything, had a 'that's not Gokou...' reaction when I started seeing images of him as a Super Saiyajin labeled as being Gokou, then eventually got those really cheesy summaries to fill me in on everything that happened in the series past where I was stuck...noticed in said summaries that some character names and terminology was different...etc, etc, etc...and ended up finding more fansites to explain this shit to me.

So I happened upon the legendary DBZ Uncensored and I never went back.

Next thing I remember was in my 8th Grade Computer SWAP (School Wide Activity Program; something we did at the end of the day on Tuesdays/Thursdays that was basically like a mandatory school club, and I got into the computer one so we could just...use the computers for an hour at the end of every day) that I tracked down fansubs on another long-dead fansite and got hooked on that version even more. It left a lot of holes in my viewing experience, though, so to this day I've never seen about half of the mid-Cell Saga in Japanese, bits and pieces of the Buu Saga, the early half of the Freeza Saga (furthest back episodes the site had were Vegeta vs. Zarbon) and the entire Saiyajin Saga. Nor most of Dragonball since I never found fansubs of that when it was DBZ that everyone cared about. I've read all of the Manga, though (in Spanish ^^; ) but it'd be nonetheless nice to one day have the money/ambition with my dying DBZ fandom to be able to experience the Anime version of everything I ended up missing.

And that's my TL;DR story. ...So much for being lazy.

Kanzenshuu

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