If you really think about it, the Japanese DragonBox isn't..

[Kaboom]

AnimeMaakuo: This constant anti-FUNi and generally anti-anything-English-DB hook of yours is getting very old, very fast. Your "participation" in this particular thread has been especially obnoxious. Knock it off.

Bardo117: As a kid I wouldn't have cared. I'd be more interested in the story and the action. But since I also like things such as Star Wars which had their own recognizable full orchestral scores, just like Dragon Ball does, I'm sure I would have been pleased.


Now this thread has gotten so disgustingly dumb, not to mention off-course, that I think I need to just end it.

[VegettoEX]

Getting in one last word because I own the damn place and sometimes I just want to be a jerk like that.

And to those people saying that DBZ was big was simply because it's "DBZ", that's wrong. Wasn't DB(Z, not sure) syndicated in the early 90's and failed because it was crappy? Somebody had to come along and know how to expose DBZ the RIGHT way.

This is the kind of thing I was talking about earlier when I noted that you were talking about things and getting them completely wrong.

DBZ was doing fantastic in syndication. It was doing so well, in fact, that Saban managed to get an hour timeslot for its second season. Think about that for a second. A foreign show was getting double the allocation as the domestic competition right alongside it.

I don't think any of us have the full story when it comes to what went down with FUNimation and Saban in 1998. Some people say something, some companies say some other stuff, and somewhere in between we have what actually happened. Regardless of business shenanigans, the show was doing great, would have continued to do great, and ultimately still did do great when FUNimation hooked up with Cartoon Network. Was it the music? The voices? Perhaps the consistent schedule and budget it finally received?

Who knows?

At the end of the day, bickering about past nonsense as if it's still relevant is petty and makes everyone look foolish. What's done is done, and everyone should try to be super-awesome with their fellow fans now in the present day. If you can't converse kindly and with some sort of logic and knowledge, perhaps you should politely bow out of the conversation before you start looking foolish.