Do you feel old yet?

[Tyro]

According to the American airing dates, DBZ episode 1 was shown just after my 5th birthday. I'm going to be turning 19 this year, so that's between 13 and 14 years of Dragonball fandom (growing ever closer to the latter).

14 / 19 = 73.68% of my life

[Hellspawn28]

I have became a fan for almost 10 years now. I used to hated DBZ as a kid until I watched the end of the Cell saga, then I became hook with the series .

[Castor Troy]

About to be 12 years this fall. I remember putting DBZ as priority over my calculus homework.

[Corporate_Nothing]

My first explicit memory of watching Dragon Ball Z on Toonami was rushing to my step-grandparents' guest bedroom to catch some episodes airing that involved the Ginyu Force, but I don't remember whether it was the start of Season 3 or the end of the Namek Saga, but needless to say I was slightly confused when the series went into reruns AGAIN after that.

Kinda weird to think I thought I was done with Dragon Ball for the most part when Funimation finished releasing the Kid Buu Saga on VHS in 2002, and yet here I am 8 years later, arguably more of a fanboy than I was almost a decade ago.

[DragonBoxZTheMovies]

About 7 years. I'm only 13.

[Scarz]

I've been fan for about 10 years I think? To be honest I don't feel old at all because I'm still in my early twenties. Being a fan for almost a decade now just makes me feel like a devoted fan (and super a nerd).

[MCDaveG]

I have different trouble, I'm 21 now, I'm fan since my 10th birthday and I feel too young.
My lifestyle is like of a more matured teengaer, I have responsibilities and I think, pretty much sense, but I don't have a kid as my dad for example and my work sucks

[Piccolo Daimaoh]

I've been a fan for about eight years now, which is slightly less than half my life.



How do I feel about this? Meh.

[Rory]

@Rory: Don't blame me, blame the education.
But yeah, a university degree in English has also changed my appreciation for the story, but I think in a way that helped maintain my fandom all these years. I've grown to love a good story more than I did when I first became a fan.

Studying creative computer design has massively changed my aspect on the video games side of Dragon Ball. I can pin-point nearly all the flaws within any of the video games (which is why you'll find me hating on a certain series in the Video Games area of the forum so much).
When it comes to the story, I still take it as is. I don't tend to look into it too deep, or justify plot-holes etc.

[Piccolo Daimao]

As a Dragon Ball fan, I don't feel that old. I've been a fan for about 6 or 7 years, which probably isn't that long compared to some of you guys who have been fans for over 10 years. Plus, I'm 14, so being a DBZ fan for a long period of time doesn't have the same amount of impact as some of you twentysomethings have. It is half my life, but I've been a Sonic fan since I was 3 or 4, and I'm still "young" by today's standards. In a general sense, I feel that I am growing up, because I'm going to be starting my GCSEs in only a couple of months, and then I look forward to the future, seeing myself doing my A-Levels, then going to university, having a job...

Yeah, it can be scary growing up. I do hope that I'll stay a Dragon Ball fan forever and don't just lose interest in it like I have done other things. It's never nice having a strong fandom for something, and then it dropping off because the initial excitement of liking that thing dies away.

[Rory]

It is half my life, but I've been a Sonic fan since I was 3 or 4,

Yeah, it can be scary growing up.

I do hope that I'll stay a Dragon Ball fan forever and don't just lose interest in it like I have done other things.

You remind me a lot of myself when I was still doing my GCSEs... good times. Cherish'em kid, even if life is great later down the road, you'll still miss those high school years.

[ChaojiShucaiRen]

I first remember watching in on Kids WB and loving it, so that makes it about 13 years or so as a fan. What I find funniest about being a fan back then, was that NOBODY knew what the hell you were talking about when you started rambling on about Dragonball Z!

[Undercooked Sausage]

26 years . I was born in 1980, than my family went to Japan.

You became a fan at age four? Can four-year-olds comprehend anything?

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiet bro, when I was four I was the biggest TMNT fan on the motherfuckin planet. Of course you can comprehend shit when you're four.

I've been a fan for about 13 years ever since I started watching DBZ before Mega Man. Don't remember if this was 97 or 96 but regardless I was around 10-11 and I'm 24 now. but honestly, I feel like I didn't become a HUGE fan until everyone else stopped caring about it around 2002-2004. That's when I started lurking here, buying the DVDs, watching the show in japanese...etc etc.

So I feel like there were two levels of my fandom, the child fandom, like how when we're kids we watched fraggle rock or GI Joe or that shit, and then my adult fandom, where I actually view Dragonball as something more than just a kids show, that's been for about six years now.

[The Tori-bot]

Closing in on 3/4 of my life.

[desirecampbell]

Just did a quick check - I caught Dragon Ball on YTV in '95. That's 15 frigin' years ago.

[Hujio]

I've been following the series since July 1997, so about 13 years (half my life)... and look at me now!

[Fin]

I've been a fan for about a decade I believe, which is a little under 45% of my life. That's slightly less than one of my other big fandoms, The Legend of Zelda (started in early 1999) and significantly less than Star Trek (early 90s).

God, I feel super nerdy now.

[TripleRach]

I've been a fan for ten years, which is 40% of my life. It doesn't make me feel old so much as it makes me wonder where the time goes. A few minutes ago it was still 2006.

[Booney]

I'll be a fan for 10 years this year which will mean I've spent half my life on the fandom.

It doesn't make me feel old in general but maybe too old for the show?
I remember thinking fans in there 20's were no life geeks when I was 15.

Now I say "fuck you" to my younger self and just embrace the little nerd in me.

[Bura]

11 years, also half of my life ^^