Your Best Dragon Ball Memories

ShinRogafuken · Post by **ShinRogafuken** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:57 am

This is a thread where you just list a wonderful time related to Dragon Ball Z that you might be starting to forget or has happened a long time ago. I'm pretty sure there's been this type of thread before, but the point here isn't necessarily to post but to remember.

So, I remember back in 2002 when Toonami's DBZ line-up included

6:00- Dragon Ball (Tien Shinhan Saga)
6:30- Dragon Ball Z (Fusion Saga)

Those were the good times. I also remember how at one point Dragon Ball Z was only aired at like 1:00 am so I used to stay up that late every Saturday to watch it (I believe the Other World Tournament arc). Good times, good times.

Booney · Post by **Booney** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:07 am

I remember my mom to always make remarks about them charging up.
When they were all screaming and stuff she would say things like; "are they taking a dump again?".

At the time I was like; God mom he's like becoming super powerfull it's supar serial!!!
But now I kind of agree when watching to characters scream while charging up :p

B · Post by B » Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:17 am

ShinRogafuken wrote:6:00- Dragon Ball (Tenshinhan Saga)
6:30- Dragon Ball Z (Fusion Saga)

Yes. This. Good times. Coming home to some King Piccolo arc was the highlight of my weekdays back then.

Haha, word filter'd.

ShinRogafuken · Post by **ShinRogafuken** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:39 am

B wrote:
ShinRogafuken wrote:6:00- Dragon Ball (Tenshinhan Saga)
6:30- Dragon Ball Z (Fusion Saga)
Yes. This. Good times. Coming home to some King Piccolo arc was the highlight of my weekdays back then.

Haha, word filter'd.

Yeah, you just made me remember that when they were showing the King Piccolo arc the episodes started later than 6:00 because of some mini-series (I think it was Star Wars) that took up the first few minutes of the 1/2 hour.

Great times.

Captain Awesome · Post by **Captain Awesome** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:27 am

One of my fondest memories was after the shenanigans that was Madman's dub-only dvd releases, I was in need of a Dragonball fix, so I picked up the first Budokai despite reading all the bitching about the dub cast and the game itself, because I was sick of walking by it on the shelf.

I vividly remember popping the disc in for the first time, loading the game up and hearing the Japanese voice-cast come out of my tv's tiny speakers, I also remember squeeling with fanboy glee and doing a little dance.

Vekurotto · Post by **Vekurotto** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:54 am

Playing the SNES and pre-final bout video games. I remember them being the best things ever back when I first found them.

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 1:50 pm

Dbz on Weekday Toonami. I was so excited when I heard there were going to be "91 new episodes" (Cell arc) because the sheer number of eps seemed like an insane amount to me. XD

If we're speaking in general, I'd also count all the great fellow fans I've met, amazing fics I've read, and astounding art I've seen. :3

Chrono Trigger · Post by **Chrono Trigger** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 2:09 pm

For me it was when my mom brought home Final Bout back when it first came out. I was really into Dragon Ball Z at the time and remember looking at the back at some video game magazines, where they showed a bunch of Japanese DBZ games and I always wished I could play one. Then she came home one day with this game I'd never heard of and it was just about the best thing ever. All the voices were different and I was playing with characters I'd never heard of but it was still cool to be playing DBZ.

JulieYBM · Post by **JulieYBM** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 2:09 pm

Chuquita wrote:Dbz on Weekday Toonami. I was so excited when I heard there were going to be "91 new episodes" (Cell arc) because the sheer number of eps seemed like an insane amount to me. XD

If we're speaking in general, I'd also count all the great fellow fans I've met, amazing fics I've read, and astounding art I've seen. :3

Woah, which promo advertized NINETY-ONE new episodes?!

Velasa · Post by **Velasa** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 2:18 pm

God, 1999. I was thirteen and my whole life as soon as I'd gotten home from school I'd always done my homework first. But that year I didn't- that year I'd run home excited and park myself in front of the tv with my brothers and stare up wide-eyed with joy as DBZ came on. I didn’t even know Dragonball existed, I'd never heard of GT, I wasn't yet in the fanbase or online- but goddamnit I loved DBZ to my core and every new episode was like an amazing revelation. The length of Freezer has never really bothered me because every episode I see reminds me of those early days curled up on the couch between them cheering the Z fighters on.

I still remember the first time a Super Saiyan was ever realized on American television. *moment of silence, breathing in the glory of it* I prefer the transformation in the anime. It's just so short in the manga, there's no time to savor the wild building as the lightning flashes and his hair phases in and out before finally striking gold- no time at all to jump off the couch cheering at Goku to go get that monster after all he's done to all of the others, to all the green people, to Vegeta and Piccolo and Krillian and MAN that guy's gonna pay for it!! I still have the date marked on my calendar. October 18th. God that was so amazing.

Was it 5 or 5:30 on classic Toonami? I can't remember exactly anymore.

On the fandom front, there's the Glory days of PN, which introduced me to fanart and fanfiction, the Japanese origins and my first glimpses of the manga... It educated me on everything I needed to know and introduced me to friends I still have today. I'm eternally grateful to that place and will always mourn it deeply.

God, the early days on Fanfiction.net. "Live", "Silent One", "Consuming Madness", DH's Himegami stories in "DBI", "For the Love of... Gohan?", the still continuing "Dark Star", the lost to us "Two Princes" and so many more. I met a lot of friends there, and even as the place has gone downhill the memory of that community we had still glows bright in my mind.

Mosaic · Post by **Mosaic** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 3:35 pm

The Shonen Jump Launch Party was my best Dragon Ball memory. I think I was 13? 14 at the time? My mom and I went up there (I got out of school early - hellz yeah) and had a blast. Got free promotional stuff, got autographs from Chris Sabat and Laura Bailey. And best of all, I got to meet and (briefly) talk to Akira Toriyama.

*shows off*

Ah... that was a better time. When Toonami was on weekdays and didn't suck. When you could turn on the TV and Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, The Big O, and Ronin Warriors was playing.

B · Post by B » Sun Mar 22, 2009 3:49 pm

This shit was so hit when I was a kid.

Also, Optimus Prime is the narrator!

jda95 · Post by **jda95** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 1:58 am

My only memory of DB (before I got into the series again in 2006) was when Goku became SSJ3. I was struck by the epic music (the only piece of dub music I like) and the intensity of the scene. I stayed behind to watch it and I missed the bus.

SweetCosmicPope · Post by **SweetCosmicPope** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:15 pm

I remember my first experience with the Japanese version. I had been intrigued by an add for dragonball, and a subsequent episode I had seen. I guess this was around '97, maybe?

Anyway, I had bought the "Saiyan Conflict" DBZ box set on VHS (with the most badass DBZ cover-art I've seen) and loved it. I was curious what happened next, though, so I did research, not knowing at the time that the DBZ I had seen and loved was horribly mutilated, and was actually cut-off abruptly in the middle of the next saga.

So my greatest memory is what happened next. I had my dad order the entire series front-to-back on fansub for Christmas. I remember the day that big box came in the mail, and the day I opened the fansubs. The most magical moment was the first time I saw that opening to DBZ, the first time I saw a farmer die instead of moaning how much that bullet hurt, and the first time I saw Goku with a big gaping hole in his chest. I spent my whole Christmas break watching those episodes and movies, and by the time it was done, I had an encyclopedic knowledge of that series.

Good times.

Kunzait_83 · Post by **Kunzait_83** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:35 pm

Mr. Announcer · Post by **Mr. Announcer** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:51 pm

I think my best memories of Dragonball came from my third trip to Japan in 2001 when I was twelve. I had already been watching the series on TV in America and had one or two volumes of the manga, but man, when I went there and saw all 42 of those babies lined up on the shelf of a bookstore near my grandma's house, I became hardcore obsessed to the max. At first I just wanted to read everything that happened before Z since I was less familiar with it, but I soon found that the comic was the superior experience and decided that I had to have them all! It was all so fresh to me then and it opened up a completely new chapter of my life in terms of learning the Japanese language and changing my artwork forever. I think my entire outlook on life changed. I wish I could live those days all over again.

omegacwa · Post by **omegacwa** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 1:34 pm

I remember being ridiculously excited when I got Dragonball Z Legends on PS1 as a gift for graduating Middle School back in 99.

Satan-Sama · Post by **Satan-Sama** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:14 pm

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Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:27 pm

Back in '02 when I had just finished boot camp I got to watch an episode of DBZ. It was the dub, but I didn't care. I finally got to see DBZ again! I truly appreciated the series that day.

MCDaveG · Post by **MCDaveG** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:39 pm

That's some 10 years back, when I was watching Dragon Ball first on Polish RTL 7, it was 3 episodes per day at afternoon. I came from school, turn on the TV and after half hour of Magic Knight Rayearth or Dr. Slump, there was DB in French dub wih Polish overdub by one man, and then later, I started to watch German Dub on RTL 2, but beeing annoyed by Pokemon and Monster Rancher, which were broadcasted before Dragon Ball, and 2 months later, they begun broadcasting Dragon Ball Z. I was watching Dragon ball GT again on RTL 7, because France and Poland was first in central Europe to broadcast it.....

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