Has any other anime transmited the "DB magic" to you?

[SSJ3_Zack]

Nope, no other Anime or Manga comes close to matching that DragonBall magic for me. Truth be told the only other Anime/Manga I truly really enjoy is Berserk. I should change that though because I was watching Hokuto No Ken & Yu-Yu Hakusho at one point but stopped watching them .

[shinmaru]

I have a weakness for Transformers G1 and old cartoons but not the same magic as DB. Dragon Ball is the only series I can watch 100 times over without getting bored. Everyday Goku day here for the past 26 years

[Theophrastus]

For me "the DB magic" refers mainly to the sense of wonder and discovery that the series gave off from the beginning through the Red Ribbon Army arc (basically the period where hunting for the Dragon Balls was actually something that deserved a whole story arc and wasn't something that was just off-screened for plot convenience).

One Piece and Hunter x Hunter have been the only things to really replicate that feeling for me (despite their execution being notably different otherwise). I'm a sucker for stories where the protagonists discover just how big the world is, pretty much.

[TRL]

In terms of giving me the "Dragon Ball feeling" a.k.a. a feeling of adventure, comedy, action and goofy characters, the only other show that's ever given me that feeling is Avatar: The Last Airbender. In my ways I consider it to be the true "next Dragon Ball" versus giving that title to One Piece or Naruto.

I'm surprised not more people have mentioned Avatar. I remember watching the first season and being so enthusiastic like "damn this is THE next dragonball". After season 2 already though that feeling started to go down for me, because it became more focused on angsty teen and shipping stuff. :/ But in the first season, the fighting, the comedy, the adventure all hit that spot. I loved them visiting all these unique villages and temples. Aang taming beasts and becoming an epic beast himself at the end. Just perfect that season.

I've also seen big parts of Naruto and One Piece but neither ever hit that mark for me. Naruto the first couple of seasons, with the really good music and the whole unique setting came closest to me of the 2. Naruto also suffers from angsty teen and shipping stuff.
One Piece came close with the humor but the world and action is dissapointing to me. Plus a lot of the characters designs look a little too freaky to me. Somehow Dragonball always managed to stay grounded and normal looking in it's designs. It helps when you have Toriyama as a design genius. (He also designed the equivalent of the entire Pokemon franchise worth of monsters for the Dragon Quest games)

[DoomieDoomie911]

The only series that even came close was One Piece, but even that was nothing like Dragon Ball. It's what got me into manga in the first place, and it has such a unique and special feel to it. Nothing I've read has ever been able to replicate it.

[PhoenixEX]

I don't really like Shonen anime, except for Dragon Ball.
As for another anime that has caught my interest in the level of Dragon Ball, it'd probably have to be Death Note.
Everything else is just there to watch for fun.

Oh, I also do like Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters. That's the Japanese one with Yugi, Kaiba, etc., not the shitty 4Kids dub. I also dislike all of its spin-offs subbed or dubbed.

[Rocketman]

Oh, I also do like Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters. That's the Japanese one with Yugi, Kaiba, etc., not the shitty 4Kids dub. I also dislike all of its spin-offs subbed or dubbed.

The Japanese one is just as crap as the 4kids one.

[theoriginalbilis]

For me, the "DB Magic" basically means any series/comic with great fights, a memorable cast, an epic expansive storyline, and yet has lots of heart. If it motivates me to draw fanart or to workout, that's got some o' that magic.

I don't care for most shonen titles, but I'm a big fan of gems like Hajime no Ippo, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, and Rurouni Kenshin. They come pretty close to channeling the "DB Magic". I'm honestly more of a fan of anime/manga that skews towards an slightly older demographic; shows like Berserk, Macross, Gundam, Giant Robo, and Cowboy Bebop. As someone in the animation field, I think it's beneficial to sample animation from different genres, eras, and demographics in order to round out one's tastes and influences.

And to me, Yu-Gi-Oh! is rather "meh" in all it's incarnations... but at least the first couple of GNs were pretty interesting.

[Looneygamemaster]

The feeling I get from reading Dragon Ball is the childlike glee of a goofy adventure. The only Dragon Ball anime where I've felt that same feeling thus far is the 2nd movie, "Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle." And the only other anime would be Konosuke Uda's run on One Piece.

Though if we branch out into western animation, Disney's TV shows pre-Darkwing Duck have that same kind of feeling.

[godku23]

Toriko (manga) definitely comes to mind. That and One Piece to a lesser extent.

[Cure Dragon 255]

None. Not even anime I adore now like One Piece or Pretty Cure have that magic. But that doesnt mean they are inferior to DB or viceversa, every work of art has to have its own voice, its own charm and it could be said their own magic.


However, Dragon Ball is insanely dear to me. Its the one anime I watched with all my siblings and we all loved it!

[LuckyCat]

There were a few moments in Gurren Lagann that brought some DBZ-like magic in terms of message and spirit. It's hard to think of another martial arts anime that could really hit the spot, though.

[sxanthony]

For me there were a bunch of series all kind of wrapped together because I was watching them at the same time -- DB, Ranma 1/2, Yu Yu Hakusho and Tenchi Muyo. So they all kind of have this magical, deeply nostalgic feel for me.

[Rocketman]

I guess part of the problem is I've never seen Dragonball as a particularly "magical" series, at least not in the "happy shonen adventure funtimes" sense people seem to use here.

[Doctor.]

I just interpreted the "DB magic" as "No matter how many flaws you find, you'll still love it". I can easily name 10 other manga titles, if not more, that are better than Dragon Ball, but I don't like any of them more. The more flaws I find in the series, the more I like it for some reason.

If the "DB magic" is just "happy shonen adventure funtimes" then this series isn't that magical either.

[soulnova]

Naruto's first part and the early Shippuden era came close to it. I was all over the time-skip but then... well, we know how that turned out.

[Thanos]

As I've mentioned previously on a couple of occasions, including a topic I started some months back, Dragon Ball is the only anime that I'm still interested in. As a teenager I loved all kinds of anime, but somewhere along the line my interest for others went away (in fact my opinion of them tends to lean more toward negative than ambivalence), but my love for Dragon Ball never wavered. So I think in that sense, nothing else has managed to capture that magic that makes me want to stick with them as Dragon Ball has.

[TheGmGoken]

Tengon Toppa Gurren Lagann. Has such an amazing charm that it exceeds DB 400x full. While I do enjoy many anime much more than DB. I do admit DB is a very very charming anime that makes it special. Gurren Lagann also produces a charm that is just breath taking.

[dougo13]

Space Cruiser Yamato, Space Pirate Captain Harlock, Hokuto no Ken, Saint Seiya, Mobile Suit Gundam, and many others. Yamato is probably on the top of the list...

[Lord Frieza]

The main one that jumps to mind is Toriko and to a lesser degree One Piece.