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by UpFromTheSkies » Fri Mar 29, 2013 2:34 am
penguintruth wrote:Ugh. I utterly despise the term "saga" to denote a story arc. It's as if nobody knows a thing about narrative structure. Funimation started this crap AND "season" for everything.
Also, everything in the manga falls under "original Dragon Ball".
Actually, it was started by fans. Before FUNimation even finished one story arc, fan sites referred to them as sagas, and I remember buying VHS Dragonball fan subs in "saga" sets.