Did you watch DBZ without any spoilers?

[dchan316]

I wish. Curtis Hoffman summaries spoiled everything for me. Of course, I did read it from the beginning (save for what was already shown in America), and it is kind of like reading it in novel form, so perhaps not so spoiled.
Also, soon after, I read the scanslations (from Suushinchuu, or Wuken, I think, or didn't one of them merge or team up with Planet Namek?), so perhaps its better to say that I just finished it early, long before it was finished here.

edit: Holy cow, I just checked, and Suushinchuu is still there. I had no idea.

[Piccolo Daimao]

Not so much the plot, but many characters and transformations thanks to Final Bout.

Same here, only mainly thanks to DBZ Ultimate Battle 22. I mean, I didn't know that the Super Saiyan levels were transformations, but I knew about Super Saiyan.

But it was Budokai 2 that spoiled a lot for me in its story mode, even though they had twisted around a few bits. I knew that Vegeta was Goku's rival and that he'd join the heroes' ranks, I knew about the Androids and Cell absorbing them to become "Perfect", I knew about Bobbodi, Boo, Vegeta sacrificing himself to destroy Boo, etc. I didn't know the full plot back then when I was playing Budokai 2, but I knew the basic outline.

But yeah, fractions of DBZ was pretty much spoiled for me from the start. At least stuff like Piccolo sacrificing his life to save Gohan & Trunks' devastated future wasn't spoiled for me.

[BobZ]

I remember that when I watched DBZ on CN during the Cell Saga when Vegeta and Trunks had to emerge from the Time Chamber, our cable tv provider switched our CN channel with a different one that didn't have Toonami and DBZ... my world had been destroyed. I lived on without DBZ for a couple of years, when my friends discovered it was being aired again on some Italian/Spanish television. They had recorded episodes on a video cassette that they let me watch. It was 2 hours of pure Z experience... and it was the Buu saga. I had no idea what was going on, but I loved it still.
Then a friend received an original video cassette from France including episodes 280, 281 and 282 - the first two became my favourite ones. Only later did I had the chance to watch the series from start to finish on RTL II in good, old German.
In the meantime I continued to spoil my experience thanks to the Internet. I watched various clips online - had a huge collection of DB clips in fact. My favourite one was Goku's first SSJ3 transformation - that has got to be the biggest spoiler I've made for myself.

[Travis Touchdown]

I technically watched DBZ without any spoilers.

Back when I was a kid and read everything about DBZ on the interwebz, I had no idea what I had just read. I didn't understand any of it. It didn't help either that there were tons and tons of misinformation out there at the time (like Goku having a third son named Goku Jr. but he wasn't a fighter). It wasn't until a few months or so before Goku turned into a Super Saiyan on cartoon network that I learned that those pictures of SSJ Goku weren't a separate character. So basically, all I knew was who the Super Saiyans were, but didn't know anything else really.

[Hellspawn28]

I did for a while before Backket ruined the Buu saga for me though but I thought Goku beats Buu with the same spirit bomb that he used against Vegeta though.