Losing interest...

[Piccolo Daimaoh]

I keep my interests spread out so I won't get burned out on any one thing.

Same with me. If you focus too much of your time and money on Dragon Ball, you're definately going to lose interest in it.

[Bura]

Am I seriously the only one who never really lost interest in the series? o.o

...Should I be worried?

[Conan the SSJ]

Am I seriously the only one who never really lost interest in the series? o.o

...Should I be worried?

Hey now, I've never lost interest!

[Big Momma]

To be quite quite honest, this site is one of the main things that keeps my interest in the series. If I wasn't listening to the podcast every week, posting on these boards, and checking the home page on Daizenshuu EX every day, I would probably be dwelling within some other fandom of mine.

One aspect of my fandom that's died though is watching Kai every week. I just couldn't bring myself to watch it this week for some reason.

Same here. If it weren't for this site/forum...my interest would have been long gone.

I'm pretty "meh" about a lot of stuff, as well. Heck...the last thing I was really excited about was Evolution. My FUNimation Kai DVD comes in today...and I'm just pretty neutral about it. And before Evolution....I'd say I was most excited about Budokai 3...


I still love the series, it will always be my number one. But...I just don't get excited about the news anymore. Now Dragon Ball is mostly just an inspiration to my artwork...among many others.

[yummypixels]

Well, I can safely say I've never lost interest. Sometimes I think "obsession" is a good word for my relationship to DragonBall. But of course, I have a few things I follow other than DB, which is maybe what keeps me from losing interest in any one of them. A variety is always nice. But I just can't say I've ever gone without since this was introduced into my life. Basically, I'm with the others who say they've never lost interest! Although, seeing the new stuff that comes out from time to time does make me feel old.

[.:PoetikaL:.]

I can honestly say that I have never lost interest in the show, and the only time where something along the lines of that happening came, it'd be something like "Ehh, I don't feel like watching it right now. Where's my Trigun Remix DVD." I consider myself a hardcore fan, because I enjoy Dragonball in any form, in any language, just to know how others, like me, enjoy it. Even though Dragonball was not my introduction to anime (it was actually Sailor Moon, crazy right?), it left an impression in me that I can never let go. Any chance I got to get something from the show I made sure of it to get it. Like back in 2002-2003, I got the Fusion Saga single (The one with SSJ3 Gotenks on the front) for $20 at the Show Boat in the Rhino store in Atlantic City.

In short, Dragonball to me defines my love for anime. No matter how repetitive, long, and obscure it may be at times, it's those things that make me comeback to it.

[Piccolo Daimao]

I find myself constantly going through "phases" of what I'm interested in, and what I'm not. All my different hobbies seem to come back one after another and I'll find myself listening to Dragon Ball music, reading the manga and playing Burst Limit when I'm really into it, but a few days later I'll throw on my Zelda playlist (for example), then start playing Zelda games, reading the manga etc.
I always "lose interest" in Dragon Ball for a short while, but when something big happens, I usually come running back.

I'm the same. Every once in a while I begin to lose interest in Dragon Ball, and most of the time it's when I became really interested in something that I pretty much "neglect", so to speak, my other hobbies. I remember months ago, I found myself reading Watchmen and going on Watchmen forums (not as a member, just browsing) more than ever, watching the film, etc. Now, my fandom for Watchmen has sort of gone down, I don't visit Watchmen forums anymore and rarely talk or think about it. But then there's always something to bring me back, whether it be a new video game, news of Dragon Ball Kai or something else. I'll always be a fan, but there'll be times when I'm less interested in it than I should be.

[MCDaveG]

I lost my interest and huge uproar back in 2004, now I'm only discussing things here and care about soundtracks and some news about the series when they pop up over the internet.
Back in the days I was little fanatic, because the series was new to me and after it ended in TV I started to care about games and other stuff. I'm interested in wide variety of things so it's virtualy impossible for me to be freaked out of one series.
Dragon Ball is not everything. Only thing I watched it again on DVD's were because I invited my GF into the series and my little brother and I won't be watching the series again probably for years and years. Only thing I'm interested in now are various tidbits from Herms, which is something I can't explore myself because of lack of Japanese knowledge and some rare stuff.

If there is one thing I'm still interested in, it's Star Wars since I was 5 years old, because there were three movies, and as I was growing, next new three were introduced + there you have great expanded stories in Expanded universe, video games and now the series Clone Wars in TV, book and comics......
Dragon Ball can't afford me something like that, there is limited story in manga series and 2 anime series with addition of expanded one GT + 17 movies and 3 specials (4 now). You will watch them all and then what? Dragon Ball ended, that's all what it was, it's simple shonen story like many other and I don't understand how some people think and trying to make something legendary and epic from it. Maybe if it was a massive scale series like Gundam is, but it isn't.
If Toriyama or TOEI will make some new spinoff or sequel, I'll be interested again.

Dragon Ball Kai for example is pretty boring stuff which I'm watching only to paste my free time at Sundays and out of curiosity, to see what they done with original material, what's new, how the music sounds and fits etc.
But for me actually, Kai is fail as faux-new series. As fan of manga, I'm against a big rehash in new animated form, but frankly, if they made a whole new animation and art, it will be actually interesting as ''new'' anime series. (It's great thing for newcoming fans tough)

[Bura]

Well, I can safely say I've never lost interest. Sometimes I think "obsession" is a good word for my relationship to DragonBall. But of course, I have a few things I follow other than DB, which is maybe what keeps me from losing interest in any one of them. A variety is always nice. But I just can't say I've ever gone without since this was introduced into my life. Basically, I'm with the others who say they've never lost interest! Although, seeing the new stuff that comes out from time to time does make me feel old.

I recognize myself in this... sometimes I also feel like DragonBall has become an obsession to me. It's almost my identity XD
But of course, when other great animes like Death Note aired I really liked that a lot too. But in the end that fandom kind of faded and it was all DragonBall again.

[Suupaa Gohan 2]

I lost interest years ago when I started getting into more modern, mainstream Shounen (and have since branched out towards other genres as Shounen is starting to get too predictable and boring for me overall). I think spending so many years obsessed with the series and learning it inside-out made it hard for me to find anything exciting and new about it, so it gradually got less and less interesting until I largely didn't care anymore. But I'll never forget the fact that it's the series that got me into Anime in the first place, and I owe my love of Manga and visual novels to the fact that it inspired my interest in Japanese media. It's incredibly nostalgic to me, like Pokemon, and makes me remember the days I would obsess over the series in middle school, back before Anime boomed in popularity...I felt special for being one of the only people I knew who was familiar with Japanese cartoons. So yeah, I've moved past it, and I don't even keep up with new info and happenings within the fandom as a result.

Back when I started to lose interest, I was afraid that I'd forget my love of the series completely, and I couldn't let that happen. It lead me to create 'Dragonball Remembrance Week', which is just what it sounds like...one week a year (usually overlaps with Thanksgiving just because the first time I 'celebrated' it happened to be in late November) where I re-immerse myself in the fandom, watch some DVD's, do some sketches, listen to my ol' playlist of DB music...for the sake of nostalgia, and so I never forget how much I love the series, even if it's the furthest thing from my mind the other 51 weeks of the year. Some members here might notice that that's usually the time I pop my head back around the forums here, too.

[TheGreatness25]

I think I'm just winding down on it. See I have everything that was ever released in the US, I'll continue to get it, I have a lot of closet space dedicated to it. Do I watch it? Not really. It's just nice to know it's there... and in many different versions. I saw and own every dub episode in every incarnation (Ocean dub, old FUNimation "Season" 3, etc., "Ultimate Uncut," redubbing for the Season Sets), I've seen every episode in original Japanese, I've had my closure with the series. I know so much of it and seen it over and over again, that I have no interest in revisiting it. Now with Kai, I can't say that I found my interest in it again, but I watch it. I watched the 13 episodes in English, I've watched them in Japanese (late nights staying up late with nothing to do lol), and I don't plan on watching any more, but I do have the Blu-ray in a nice spot. I know that I won't go out of my way to watch the series or whatnot. So it's not that I lost interest, it's that the series ran its course, I've gotten my closure with it, and that's that.

[nils0060]

I hear what you are mostly saying. After about 25 years, DBZ is due for something new! With this in mind you soon will all be amazed!

Mike

[Innagadadavida]

I hear what you are mostly saying. After about 25 years, DBZ is due for something new! With this in mind you soon will all be amazed!

Mike

Do you know something we don't? Aren't you famous or something?

[nils0060]

Hello,

I know a lot of what’s being developed for DBZ. For starters is the DBZ Museum is currently seeking funding!

More information will present its self in due time!

Mike

[Kid Buu]

A DBZ Museum? That sounds amazing, I can't wait to hear more details.

[Ketchup_Revenge]

I don't think it's that I'm losing interest in the actual series, I'm just extraordinarily disappointed with the limited marketing of DB-themed merchandise in the US. All DB-themed domestic release of merchandise is either limited, completely redundant, or mediocre at best. In other words, I want an English release of the entire Daizenshuu series, or high quality figurines that I can get easily without needing to spend big bucks on shipping.

[Silver Sinspawn]

I lose interest all the time. Its partly because there's no good merch here, and partly because all the games are sucking hard. I'm fucking OVER fighting games.

[Vashkey]

Of course. The series has been over in the US for years and in Japan for wll over a decade. It's nothing new and the the fact that Kai is nothing more than a repackage of Z doesn't help at all.

The games were fun for a few year but that too has got old after Atari milked the crap out of it with the wave of games they were releasing a few years ago. All we get is fighters and all we see is reinactments of stuff we already saw in the anime and the games just don't get half the care and respect as say something like Batman: Arkham Asylum.

And if I had the choice between the Dragon Boxes and a PS3 I'd go with the PS3 any time.

[ShonenKnife]

I hadn't been too interested for a while up until a few years back. I was 17 and studying for my exams, when some spare cash allowed me to import the first 3 orange sets. I quickly fell in love with the series again while watching it in my down time between studies, and now and again found myself with a little disposable income to use on the next set I needed. Carried right on up until I was about to buy season 6...

...Then the Dragon Boxes were announced and I more or less had a fan-fit, and got real angry, complaining about it to everyone at home. Upon reflection it was pretty scary how much it annoyed me. Sold off my sets and distanced myself for a time while I sorted out college and band stuff. Now as of April I'm buying the series again, and filling out my manga collection to boot.

Although actually losing interest, as opposed to intentionally boycotting, hasn't happened to me since high school. I have other things I have to concern myself with and so DB isn't something I'm trying to continually digest over and over again until I'm completely numb with it. I watch an episode now and again, and some of my more distant friends are closet fans, so a light discussion now and again is a tickle.

[Goku100xKamehameha]

A DBZ Museum? That sounds amazing, I can't wait to hear more details.

That news is already like a year, he wants you to donate!