What's the one thing you love most about DBZ?

[thatdbzguy]

Decided to make a positive thread for once. So, what's the one thing you love the most about DBZ? (or "second part of the manga", if that suits you better).

[dbboxkaifan]

1. Masako's performance
2. Kikuchi's soundtrack
3. Wakamoto's Cell

Such a shame there's still no official release with the Japanese broadcast audio.

[Quebaz]

Gonna make this global

-DAN DAN
-Kikuchi's Soundtrack
-Most of Portuguese dub
-DBZ Movie 1
-GT's ending montage

[crisis]

Senzu Beans.

[FortuneSSJ]

-It's has the best fghts I ever saw
-Kikuchi's Soundtrack
-Some of the greatest characters first appeared in Z era: Gohan, Vegeta, Trunks, Freeza-sama...
-Tranformations, both saiyans and enemies.

Portuguese dub

And this made evertyhing special.

[ConfusedPhantom]

- A good handful of the characters
- It has one of the best fights I've ever seen
- It's just flat out entertaining

[crisis]

OP: What's the ONE thing you love most about DBZ?
Posters: *Makes lists of more than one thing*

lol

[RandomGuy96]

The villains.

[Patrick]

Cell's voice in both English and Japanese.

[dbboxkaifan]

OP: What's the ONE thing you love most about DBZ?
Posters: *Makes lists of more than one thing*

lol

There's the primary one and then the others are supplementary.

[Nanotchi]

Toriyama's odd sense of humor :p

[Fizzer]

If I really have to say DBZ, then it's how utterly epic the Freeza saga is.

I firmly feel, however, that "DBZ" does not exist. There is only Dragon Ball, and the thing I love the most about it is change.

[DarkPrince_92]

THE FIGHTS!!!

[B]

I can't think of anything exclusive to that portion of the series that wouldn't extend to everything else: the world and its characters. That, for the most part, never changes or stops being interesting.

I suppose narrowing "thing" down to something specific: Majin Buu.

[baneofdemon22]

The characters. I love how the characters develop and inspired by each other, especially by Goku, to make themselves better. Despite the extraordinary events, the characters feel very real to me, because I've lived with people who have very similar personalities to them. Final Atonement is my all time favorite moment in TV or movies, because of my enjoyment of seeing how far an evil character like Vegeta changed.

[DBZ Mick]

The characters.

Love how they grow and develop and interact with each other.

[Ajay]

Masako Nozawa

Nobody embodies Goku like she does. Without her, there would be no animated Goku.

[Cipher]

1. There's a sense of progression and escalation the first "half" of the series didn't have that really makes the whole experience more complete. Dragon Ball would be a very different series without this element. By the end of the Piccolo arc, the characters were strong enough to save the earth from it's own threats. Then things get cosmic. Then things get universal, to the point that we end the series, action-wise, with fighting on the level of the highest gods (all delivered with a constant sense of whimsy). It makes sense.

2. Along with that, I like the way the Saiyan and Namek arcs provide a thematic cap to many of the elements introduced earlier in the series. The Freeza arc is as much a capstone to all the content to come before it as the 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai is. In many ways, even more so.

3. The second half the series introduces longer time skips and a multi-generational focus, which is a huge element of the series to me. There's a lot less to dive into in the first half, which is a pretty simple, statically casted coming-of-age story in comparison.

4. The Boo arc. The Boo arc is amazing. Handily my favorite single story line in the series.

I have trouble picking which "half" of the series I like best. The experience without both isn't worth even half as much.

[TheDevilsCorpse]

The Dragon World.

That is, the universe Toriyama has created for us. The characters, the settings, the events that unfold. the ever expanding universe with varying types of content. All of it is great and the part I enjoy the most is trying to figure out how it all pieces together. I honestly wish all the material fit together like a nice little puzzle, but of course it can't be that easy,

[Codarik]

Goku, overall.