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

[TheAldella]

....Hm....The sense of gravity when someone gains a leap in power.

[Mystic Buu]

Simple plot.I don't like complicated stories.

[DragonBoxZTheMovies]

Whilst reading through the Manga, I found myself really liking Toriyama's artwork.

The characters look cool, the backgrounds are detailed, and everything's so easy to follow.

[Saiga]

Dragon Ball Z the anime, or the Raditz - Boo segment of the manga? For the anime, I love that they extended the Great Saiyaman chapters into a full blown arc. Filler that I watch for the entertainment value it has rather than watching it because it's between the parts I want to see? Yes please.

For the manga, that's really hard for me. There's just so many things I love, that I don't really know what it is I love most. For something the original series lacked, I would say I loved the escalation of events.

[flashback0180]

like every fights.

[90sDBZ]

The intensity and suspence of the battles. That and the triumphant moments of victory. And faulconer.

[Kendamu]

For me, it always changes. There's some new aspect that I love and I sort of latch onto it for awhile.

When I first saw anything related to Dragonball that actually stuck with me after seeing it, it was Goku defeating Reacoom and then easily dodging Baata and Jees' attacks so quickly that you couldn't even see Goku's movements. At the time, I had some martial arts experience but that was the day that I was inspired to become so much more than that. That was when it hit me that I could really train to become unreasonably awesome at fighting.

After that, I'd say that the sense of adventure was my favorite thing. Getting together with friends if even setting out alone and making new ones as you explored new places always seemed cool to me. So, naturally, the adventure vibe resonated with me well.

Then, it was the friendship and comradery aspects that hit me. It also fell in with the martial arts stuff (friendly rivals) and adventure stuff, but this time the friendship aspect took the forefront. Turning enemies into friends, keeping up with lifetime friends, and having great times with them was something that stick with me for awhile.

Nowadays, I think that the minimalist nature of many of the characters is something I'm starting to notice. While it's never really played with that Goku and most of his friends don't have much use for excessive amounts of worldly possessions, it is something I've noticed and I really like it. I'm not a true minimalist but I do try to cut down on useless clutter and it's not hard for me to part with much of my stuff if I think I need to. Maybe as time passes I can start to further cut back on stuff and focus even more on the things I mentioned above.

[Vijay]

Isn't stereotypical.

And we're talking about an anime made in late 80's/ early 90's.

Character designs, characterizations, fights: aren't stereotypical.

I feel thats what makes DBZ distinctive.

[SingleFringe&Sparks]

I love his character designs for the main cast and the vilains hes created including GT's main antagonists. Its near impossible to find a truly bad design from him and I love how he was actually able to create a successful story and mithos without having to rely on the abuse of easy fanservice. (Yes dragonball had its moments but within the context they were in it was usually for the fun of comedy.)

With DBZ specifically I just love the depth of its sources, all the things people willfully overlook, the characterization and development of Vegeta, Piccolo, Krillin, Cell, Hurcule, #18, #16, Future Trunks, Bardock and Goku are very timeless and often respectable. Often can be argued done a lot better than its decendants in modern anime. Some of the best personality and most consistant lines of depth to their points of view in their lives. It didnt no convoluted, complicated, or archaic melodrama to emphasize itself either. DBZ was very easy to get into and easy to go back to. You dont need to know as much of the background as you do for Naruto to follow its story yet it has its complexities underneath its own inspirations. Son-Goku the Knower of nothing for example was perfectly shown through our own Son Goku to the letter. People just have such a skewed idea of what makes a great character in anime today that its sad how underrated DBZ is in the areas that actually have depth and symbolism.

Then there is of course the fighting, I respect DBZ for how it turned up the level of action for a show to have. The intensity of their fighting hand-to-hand is very entertaining and always fun to watch. There are newer animes trying to apprrprate that element (fairy-tail) but never really capture exactly what makes it so iconic to DBZ.