Where would you have ended the series?

[fadeddreams5]

Had DBZ not aired first, I feel DB would have been moderately successful on Toonami, but would have most probably been canceled early on (as it was the first time around). The network pretty much anticipated that in the first place, which is why DBZ aired on Toonami at a time almost no one knew what DB was here.

I'm not sure about its success in non-English speaking places. I know when I went to PR in the early 2000s, my cousins were crazy about DBZ (I think we were just heading into the Buu arc, but they were airing the Cell arc for the first time there)... cause of the action. I also had a friend who watched DBZ in Peru, and another who watched it in Argentina. Never really heard much about DB. >.>

[sbk]

Let the 25th Tenkaichi actually play out and just end it there.

That could have been an interesting ending. Everybody gets their last goodbyes with Goku, the Goku/Vegeta rivalry finally reaches its resolution, the story ends with Goku being the strongest and the torch has been successfully passed to Gohan.

I think it would've been amazing.

Piccolo vs 18, Piccolo/18 vs any base Saiyan, Goku vs Vegeta, Goku vs Gohan (finale), Supreme Kai/Kibito vs anyone, etc, so many possibilities (assuming the Saiyans keep their promise and don't turn into Super Saiyans). It would've been a satisfying ending to me

I didn't really care for the actual Buu stuff that came after it so yeah..

[DBZAOTA482]

I feel DB would have been moderately successful on Toonami

It was.

[fadeddreams5]

I feel DB would have been moderately successful on Toonami

It was.

I meant if DBZ never aired before it.

[Kakacarrottop]

I feel DB would have been moderately successful on Toonami

It was.

I meant if DBZ never aired before it.

DB did originally air before DBZ, but not on Toonami. 13 episodes were dubbed using the Ocean cast in 1995 and they flopped in the ratings (partially due to bad timeslots on obscure channels), so FUNi skipped right ahead to DBZ.

[fadeddreams5]

DB did originally air before DBZ, but not on Toonami. 13 episodes were dubbed using the Ocean cast in 1995 and they flopped in the ratings (partially due to bad timeslots on obscure channels), so FUNi skipped right ahead to DBZ.

I know. I meant specifically on Toonami since that's when most people in the US got into the franchise.

[Rocketman]

Let the 25th Tenkaichi actually play out and just end it there.

That could have been an interesting ending. Everybody gets their last goodbyes with Goku, the Goku/Vegeta rivalry finally reaches its resolution, the story ends with Goku being the strongest and the torch has been successfully passed to Gohan.

I kinda like that idea. I'd put in a mini-arc like Bojack, Movie 10 or Garlic Jr, though, showing Gohan, Vegeta and Piccolo are in fact able to take care of things without Goku.

[IDreamtIWasABee]

Vegeta and Bulma fuck on Namek (scarcely less plausible than what actually happened), so when Goku dies fighting Freeza and Gohan and Bulma are the sole survivors, Trunks is born and joins them.

The spin-off anime has the Android twins start wrecking shit up, and Gohan, teen Trunks, and little Pan struggle against them (Gohan meets Videl when Satan very publicly gets murdered by 17 and 18). As audience interest wanes (either through Toei's incompetence or Goku-pining), all this is dumped as unceremoniously as Spider-Man's continuity. Bulma's obliged to build the time machine, since there are no dragon balls, and she sends Trunks through time and space to Namek, where he saves Goku and brings him to earth. From there the story continues as we know it, until we get to Vegetto, who never defuses.

Best of both worlds. The Freeza ending becomes the "canon" ending, while the Vegetto ending becomes the "actual" ending.

[Kakacarrottop]

Vegeta and Bulma fuck on Namek (scarcely less plausible than what actually happened), so when Goku dies fighting Freeza and Gohan and Bulma are the sole survivors, Trunks is born and joins them.

The spin-off anime has the Android twins start wrecking shit up, and Gohan, teen Trunks, and little Pan struggle against them (Gohan meets Videl when Satan very publicly gets murdered by 17 and 18). As audience interest wanes (either through Toei's incompetence or Goku-pining), all this is dumped as unceremoniously as Spider-Man's continuity. Bulma's obliged to build the time machine, since there are no dragon balls, and she sends Trunks through time and space to Namek, where he saves Goku and brings him to earth. From there the story continues as we know it, until we get to Vegetto, who never defuses.

Best of both worlds. The Freeza ending becomes the "canon" ending, while the Vegetto ending becomes the "actual" ending.

I'm getting the impression you dream about a lot more than Bees