What reignited your interest in the series?

BlazingFiddlesticks · Post by **BlazingFiddlesticks** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:20 pm

Cipher wrote:
BlazingFiddlesticks wrote:It is pretty interesting that the Season Sets- as the beginning of Funi's Dragon Ball Box Sets- ultimately started the Dragonball mini-revival, followed up by Kai.
In the U.S. maybe. And why not? Sure, the video is terrible, but at the time, as someone with only a passing interest in the series who finally wanted to own a large chunk of episodes, they were great. At least they weren't so bad enough I felt the need to boycott for something better.

You can look into all the implications of that, but that's what happened. We got lucky and FUNimation realized that people were paying for large chunks of episodes, not for over-done remastering and cropped widescreen. But it could have gone much differently.

Must apologize for my regional mindset, I only know that an American DBZ revival is a big deal no matter how you slice it.

But that was one of the beauties of the Season Sets, they came out long enough after the series had left the air that high schoolers, college students, and beyond could say "Holy cow I loved that show! And they're in 29-39 episodes packs!" and buy it. VegettoEX wasn't lying when he said Funi was riding the box set wave with those things.

But getting the Dragon Boxes was a miracle, no question.

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:21 pm

interest was reignited by DBZ Budokai on PS2 when it first came out. However, it wasn't a total re-ignition of my interest as it was just a general "fond memories" sort of thing while focusing the majority of my interest on the various DBZ games up to that point.

My total re-immersion back into Dragonball happened when the American Shonen Jump started running the Dragonball manga.

Jackal puFF · Post by **Jackal puFF** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:34 pm

Dragonball Z Kai got me that fire inside again. After watching it for a few weeks, I bought all the season sets of Dragonball shorty after.

AnimeMaakuo · Post by **AnimeMaakuo** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:14 pm

Chibi Gohan · Post by **Chibi Gohan** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:15 pm

I watched a Dragonball Z AMV one to many times and decided I wanted to watch the series again.

Son Geeko · Post by **Son Geeko** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:35 pm

I lost interest in the series around late 2006/early 2007 after I bought the "First Strike" movie set and Movie 13 single. I didn't really get back into it again until when I heard about the live-action movie finally going in production, I then started playing the games again and I'm pretty much where I am now.

kaialone · Post by **kaialone** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:08 am

Dragonball Z Abridged

Ahiru77 · Post by **Ahiru77** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:39 am

Some users on Soompi.

FreezaSama · Post by **FreezaSama** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:40 am

Dragon Ball Z Kai and the FUNimation Dragon Boxes reignited my interest after an 8 year break. I don't know why.

violadude · Post by **violadude** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:40 pm

Team Four Star and their DBZ parody did it for me. I can also thank them for getting me interested in the Japanese version because they used CHA-LA-HEAD-CHA-LA as theme music and I thought it was catchy, and it all went on from there.

SparkyPantsMcGee · Post by **SparkyPantsMcGee** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 11:46 pm

With the help of the games(up until recently) my interest in the series never really stopped. Then while I was flipping through the Dragonball section I found a picture of Toriyama's concept art of Teen Gohan provided by this site. I then spent the next few days browsing the main site and lurking in the forums; haven't stopped since. With the live action movie, Kai, and a yearly round of games I kept finding fresh new topics to keep me interested in the series.

AnzuMazaki · Post by **AnzuMazaki** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 12:43 am

The original series

skatezeppelin · Post by **skatezeppelin** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 2:25 am

Becoming single again

Senzu_Bean · Post by **Senzu_Bean** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 4:59 pm

What reignited your interest in the series?

Dragonball Evolution and then Dragonball Multiverse.

SSJ YUSUKE · Post by **SSJ YUSUKE** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 5:46 pm

I think that my interest was reignited by Dragon ball Kai ,just watching it changed my perception of the franchise.
Before that time dragon ball was basically the Funi dub and the movies, but after watching Kai I was exposed to the Japanese dub. Once I got used to the Japanese voices I started watching the original show and started learning what the series was really about in its original form.
Within 2 months I had gone from loving the Funi dub to cringing every time I heard them speak, I had been converted to the original series.
Also I guess Dragon ball also reignited my interest in anime in general.

pjay · Post by **pjay** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 8:00 pm

Personally it never really went away for me, sure it cooled off a lot, but the announcement of the domestic Dragon Box Z's really ignited it again for me.

Hellspawn28 · Post by **Hellspawn28** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 10:20 pm

I never took a break from Dragon Ball. I'm not big of a fan as I used to be, but I still read and watch the series sometimes. I always keep my interest of Dragon Ball ever since I have became a fan back in the early 2000's. I think if it was not for the Internet and the video games, I would stop becoming a fan after the Ultimate Cut episodes or GT ended.

Vhanos · Post by **Vhanos** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 5:52 am

I stuck with the series since the very beginning when I got into the series. I never distanced myself away from the anime/manga. Though I have gone through periods of time that I didn't spend with anything Dragon Ball but I have thought of it or discussed about it from afar.

Kingdom Heartless · Post by **Kingdom Heartless** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 5:57 am

I've never really lot interest in the series... I just have breaks in between releases.

Like, I haven't watched much in the past few months, but I'll start watching straight away, when I get Dragon Box 5.

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