Why do some people want to make DB Dark and Gritty?

[SingleFringe&Sparks]

Darker, edgier tension is the only thing that moves the plot alone with any sense of instilled need for progression of the characters. When the show is nothing but corny gags and silliness it never feels like anything is really happening. Compare the Fat Buu x Mr. Satan subplot and the Great Saiyaman Arc with the Babidi-Dabra recon arc and the desprate Fusion training arc. The only time the show actually felt like it was moving was when they were scrambling around trying to keep up with the villains. When too much of the focus of the show is just nautical nonsense it gets really stale and feels pointless... as most of BoG was. Its much different in DB because characters were a lot weaker and less was at stake in the old days, it was mostly about adventure and wonder. DBZ wasnt about that, its about a spiritual cold war between the heroes and the villains always trying to one-up each other. Adding it in now just feels dated and out of place, not to mention the humour tone doesnt really fit the maturity of the characters anymore without simply mocking them.

Fat Buu is actually a pretty effective villain, because he has the whole "psychopathic manchild" personality.

Actually I never found him like that, at least entirely. He was an interesting villain because he wasnt really evil at all, he only destroyed things because thats what he was told to do and what he learned was fun to him - he never actually wanted to kill people the same way Freeza did. He killed people because it was all he really understood until times came where when people werent scared of him, he would heal them so they would run away from him but when they didnt he was curious about what helping people meant to them, then progressively enjoyed doing it; while too naive and gullible to have morals like Goku but enough understanding to know when to stop. Thats what made Fat Buu interesting.

[Herms]

Please stop necro-posting.