The "peak" of your Dragon Ball fandom

[Dayspring]

1998-2000 for me. I started collecting the French manga because the anime wasn't progressing due to licensing issues in Canada, while the English manga was waaaay behind. During that time, I was going as far as to order fansub tapes from total strangers online. I was constantly searching for toys as well, but they were tough to find. During the Gameboy Advance days I picked up pretty much all the video games, but I was nowhere near as big of a fan as I was while reading the manga for the first time. I even left the boards here for, what, 3 years? 5?

And I don't know why, but I suddenly remembered the old Daizex Randomness boards. Good times. Thanks for the nostalgia punch, gang!

[emperior]

Like Saiyans power, my interest in Dragon Ball is limitless.

[theoriginalbilis]

I was absolutely crazy about DragonBall from about 1998-2001 (the initial run of Z on Toonami.) I taped and re-watched all of eps. 1-52 and acquired the Pioneer releases of DBZ Movies 1-3. Even though I started realizing the show was censored, I was still more than happy to watch it. Around 1999-2001, when the FUNi in-house dub started, I was able to start collecting fansub VHS tapes from a local comic shop, and that's how I was able to see original Japanese content well before Cartoon Network aired it. It helped that a lot of my friends in high school were also into video games, anime, and DBZ. Our mutual interests have helped to forge life-long friendships with several of my high school chums, and we still talk to this day.

My fandom waned a bit (but never died) from 2002 to 2006, since I started working, and had money to spend on games, comics, and other anime/manga at the time.

My interest in DragonBall resurged in a big way from about 2007-2009, when I was able to re-watch the entire franchise from beginning to end thanks to FUNimation's completed DVDs. Also, Tenkaichi 2/3 and Burst Limit sucked up more of my gaming time than I care to think.

Nowadays?

I still love the franchise; I never have time to re-watch anything though. I make sure to catch the new movies and specials though. DragonBall has been one of the reasons I decided to pursue a degree in animation. And I'm thankful it has allowed me to meet and talk to such wonderful people like certain FUNimation cast members, and more importantly, Nozawa-san, Nakao-san, Furikawa-san, Horikawa-san, Minaguchi-san, and Furuya-san. I've been able to meet and speak with the kind and gracious Mike and Meri, whose podcast and online content I've been a fan of since 2005.

TLDR; If there's people around to talk DragonBall with, I'll still keep a foot in the fandom. That's why I really enjoy this community.

[Hellspawn28]

To me both Godzilla and Dragon Ball have the biggest impact on my life. I can't imagine my life without them since Godzilla help me got into Japanese culture which lead me into becoming a DBZ fan. DBZ made want to draw action comics and become even a bigger anime fan that I know myself today. I was a anime fan before DBZ, but not as much before DBZ. I would watch whatever was on TV and not try go after whatever I can find.

[Bardo117]

Probably around the time the DragonBoxes came out