How long have you been a fan of DragonBall?

JesseD · Post by **JesseD** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:52 pm

So, just how long have you been a fan? Just got into it? A veteran? I'd love to know.

My story:
Since living in the land of Australia, we always have to wait ages for everything to be released or premiere(I know why, I won't detail it). Late 1997, I sat down on the couch and was watching Cartoon Network. Then I walked away to the Little Boys Room and came back to hear 'Rock The Dragon' playing on the T.V. I was hypnotized. I then watched it and found myself in love with it. On a side note, those few instances of re-dubing within Saban, I remeber those original lines. Ever since I watched DragonBall every afternoon, and when the Goku vs. Vegeta fight was playing, it was the Holy Grail. So I've now seen every episodes at least 3 times...

Late 2006 saw me buy my first DragonBall DVD, Movie 12 Fusion Reborn, and with that I saw the Japanese version the fist time ever. I still cannot describe how much I like it, I still like the Dub, but... yeah.

10 years later I still watch it every day. It sounds ridiculous, but I do. I remember starting a war at my school in 2001 about whether Goku could do a 'Destructo Disc' or not. It sprouted from everybody watching Movie 3 and seeing Goku chop off Gohans tail with a blue energy disc. Everybody was saying that Krillin taught Goku it when he came back to life and all that type of shit 8 year olds pull out their arses... While I'm trying to shout at them "It's just an Energy Disc! Anybody could do it! It doesn't matter what size or shape it is!".

So for 10 years I've watched it, and we never got to see those 13 Saban DragonBall episodes from 1995 on Cartoon Network. I've seen them now, but isn't that a bitch they didn't put it on T.V. here in Australia?

So from when I was 4 in 1997 to 14 in 2007 it still is the best show ever. My Uncle is 40 years old and has watched it for about 3 years, and he thinks it's the best. So from 4 year olds to 40 years olds, it entertains everybody. Tell me how you got into it! I'd love to know!!!

sangofe · Post by **sangofe** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:40 pm

I think we have similar threads to this one... At least I remember replying to one. I've been a fan for 20 years soon, and I'm 25 this year.

Duo · Post by **Duo** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:53 pm

Since I was 10...which was 10 years ago.

Wow, it's my 10 year anniversary. This is the very fall I discovered Cartoon Network in 1997.

Humpski · Post by **Humpski** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:09 pm

I really can't recall. Ever since YTV was showing the original ariing of Dragonball (Not Z) back in the early to mid nineties I think.

Pretty sure it must be around 15 years now.

Kaze no Mune · Post by **Kaze no Mune** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:29 pm

Duo wrote:Since I was 10...which was 10 years ago.

Wow, it's my 10 year anniversary. This is the very fall I discovered Cartoon Network in 1997.

Same actually.

Age and the time we discovered the show.

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:34 pm

Been a while since we had one of these threads (or maybe it was recently; I don't remember).

But I'm on my 7th year.
...man time flies. >_>

Super 17 · Post by **Super 17** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:49 pm

Fan since it originally came to mexico in 1994. Thanks Japan for originality ( original color,mono and the best the bgm).

Thanos6 · Post by **Thanos6** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:55 pm

My college roommate got me into it just before Mirai Trunks first appeared on Cartoon Network back in 2000.

Sun_Wukong · Post by **Sun_Wukong** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:00 pm

1999, when I was 13. Other than discovering anime, it was a terrible year for me.

Tyro · Post by **Tyro** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:13 pm

Ever since it first appeared on Toonami here in America. I began watching from the second episode so that puts us around 1996. I think I've been a fan of the series for ten years, too. If not, it's definitely close. I remember the TV label read for ages 7+ and I was six at the time.

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:16 pm

Let's see... about five years now? Maybe six? I watched it every now and then before that, but it was whenever the World Tournament Saga was first on Toonami, and I happened to seriously sit down and watch it one day, was when I got hooked.

SonEric84 · Post by **SonEric84** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:23 pm

Back when it first played early in the morning on WB and UPN. I think I was about 11 or 12...so about 11 years or so.

Kunzait_83 · Post by **Kunzait_83** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:29 pm

Vekurotto · Post by **Vekurotto** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:20 pm

Since 1996, before it came on Cartoon Network.

I remember getting some fansubs years later to see those episodes uncut too then those converted me to the Japanese version.

nitemare · Post by **nitemare** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:41 pm

Duo wrote:Since I was 10...which was 10 years ago.

The same here ;] It's a long time...great memories

Captain Awesome · Post by **Captain Awesome** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:45 pm

1999

Thats when the dub came to free to air Australian tv, I got hooked around the Namek saga and never looked back.

I got into the japanese version when I switched over the audio track on one of my Buu saga dvds, (I loved the acting and the music) then after I got the UUE's I just couldn't go back to the dub.

Toniofalcon · Post by **Toniofalcon** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:41 pm

Ah crap, man, this is hard. I remember seeing DBZ syndicated on WB television once, but I watched it predominately on Toonami since 98. I was 6 back then, I don't know what it was about it, but something about DBZ really got me to love the series. I'm coming up on my 10 year anniversary. I haven't seen the series in Japanese yet, but I do plan on watching the series in Japanese at least once.

Hopefully my dubbie brain won't explode from the concept of a girl speaking for a big, huge, muscled man.

dchan316 · Post by **dchan316** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:02 am

Like some other people here, I started seeing DBZ Super Butoden articles in EGM way back in the day. I was totally blown away by the huge "fireballs" (as we called them back in the Street Fighter age) and wanted to play those games, even though I had a Genesis. We had a four player YuYu Hakusho game, which looked cool too.

Anyway, I always loved drawing, and was really impressed with Dragonball's art style; the face, the hair, the folds in the clothes, actually drawing the finger nails... Not long later, we go to my aunt's friends house, and her son was already a big Dragonball fan. He had Super Butoden 2, and I was totally hooked.

Sometime later, the original 13 episodes started showing early Saturday mornings, and I'd wake up hella early just to watch it. I loved the story, the charming characters, everything (little knowing how editted it was). Sometime later, my lil bro finds "Dragon..." in the local TV guide. Curious, we change the channel, and its the very first showing of the first episode of DBZ! That week on, I'm recording every episode, before they started editting in the "next dimension" crap, and even the Japanese version on the International Channel every week. From there, the rest is history (well, my history...)

Conan the SSJ · Post by **Conan the SSJ** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:54 am

JesseD wrote:So, just how long have you been a fan?

Long time. Nuff said.

My first exposure to the franchise was the NES game Dragon Power around 15 years ago, which I'd gotten for Christmas. I caught glimpses here and there of early syndicated episodes years later, but only truly got into it with Toonami airings near the end of the century. Back in them days, where Moltar was calling the shots and Tom hadn't yet been raped by space indians, I was in my perfect little world where I thought DBZ was made by Americans and the Faulconer music was "the coolest tunes in the universe". Mind you, this was way before I wised up to get the Japanese version. Regarding Toonami... poor Tom, all that remains is that cliched Steve Blum voice.

Umm...right! DBZ, what got me into that was the Saiyan saga. The Ocean dubbed version, of course. Long live Goku pining for his big brother to take him out to a ball game, where he can buy him peanuts and digital towels. *Conan hugs his Ocean dubbed tapes*

Casual Matt · Post by **Casual Matt** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 6:31 am

I'm not even exaggerating when I say it's longer than I remember. My earliest memories of the show are me watching the original Dragon Ball on TV back when Samurai Pizza Cats was cool.

I also remember once finding a set of wristbands in a store once and immediately recognising them as Dragon Ball Z. They even made a Kamehameha sound effect when you put them together. I got them and proceeded to take them and explain to my brother what DBZ was and what a Super Saiyan was. Stuff like that. And this was long before DBZ was cool around here.

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