At what age did you start watching the series?

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Re: At what age did you start watching the series?

Post by Daimo-Rukiri » Tue Mar 18, 2014 12:23 am

I hope I'm not the youngest one, I got into the series in 1993 when I was 4 years old!

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Re: At what age did you start watching the series?

Post by chaosyoshimage » Tue Mar 18, 2014 1:11 am

I think it was Fall 1999 for me. I started watching Dragon Ball Z on Toonami because it was on after (I think) Sailor Moon which I was really into. I guess I was 7 at the time.

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Post by Blade » Tue Mar 18, 2014 5:58 am

chaosyoshimage wrote:I think it was Fall 1999 for me. I started watching Dragon Ball Z on Toonami because it was on after (I think) Sailor Moon which I was really into. I guess I was 7 at the time.
I started watching around the same time, only I was 9 back then :)
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Post by Polyphase Avatron » Tue Mar 18, 2014 12:47 pm

I think I was 10-12 or so when I watched it on Toonami
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Post by JEFFMAN219 » Tue Mar 18, 2014 1:13 pm

I started watching Dragon Ball Z in the year 2000 back when I was 8 years old.

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Post by RocktheDragon » Tue Mar 18, 2014 3:57 pm

It was around 1996 or 1997 when I was around 4 or 5. I can't pinpoint the exact time when I was first introduced to DB but it was around that general period. The first DB related thing I saw was the Japanese version of Final Bout. Friend of my brother, who happened to have been originally from Japan, would bring it over and we'd have beam struggles all day long.

I wasn't familiar with the anime at all and I remember him bringing over some videotaped broadcasts of DBZ from time to time. The only reason I even had an inkling of what was going on was because the guy actually would take the time to describe what was happening on screen and fill me in with my brother.

DB didn't really hit me until I was seven or eight when it finally hit Toonami and they were speaking a language I could actually understand. I remember being taken aback by the Faulconer score though and thought it was an odd musical choice since at that time I was so familiar with the original score.
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Post by Drayenko » Tue Mar 18, 2014 9:26 pm

I was 5, 1998. The first episode I watched was 91 of Z. I was SO amazed, Dragon Ball's been pretty much my life ever since.

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Post by TheAldella » Wed Mar 19, 2014 3:54 pm

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Re: At what age did you start watching the series?

Post by Weejus » Sat Mar 22, 2014 4:35 am

While I may have watched it years ago with my cousins (since they gave me their copy of Budokai), I was probably too young to remember, so I'll just say I first started watching it when I was 14, when the UK Orange Bricks came out.

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Re: At what age did you start watching the series?

Post by El Diabeetus » Sat Mar 22, 2014 5:42 am

About 5 or 6. My older brother bought my 2 younger brothers each a different tape of the Pioneer FUNimation with Ocean Cast dub on it. I think it was Christmas of 98 or 99.

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Re: At what age did you start watching the series?

Post by Jodaku » Sat Mar 22, 2014 7:17 am

14 in the summer of 2000 when Cartoon Network UK was showing the Freeza saga.

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Post by supersaiyan3 » Sat Mar 22, 2014 7:04 pm

I think I was 5. I was in kindergarten at the time. I remember my parents would let me stay up until midnight just to watch it on Toonami. I don't remember when I stopped watching, but it was somewhere between Freeza's final transformation and Goku turning super saiyan. I rediscovered the show a decade later (in high school) when me and my friends happened to notice Kai on nicktoons. Been addicted to the show ever since.

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Re: At what age did you start watching the series?

Post by Gogeta8001 » Sun Mar 30, 2014 12:57 pm

I was 4-5 (around 1999-2000) when I started watching DBZ on YTV (Station that aired DBZ in Canada).

A lot of people here have been watching the series long before me lol.

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