So I just started getting into Dragonball Z (documenting my running thoughts as I watch as well)
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Mr Hate Coffee
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Nah. Haven't seen anything but a YouTube summary of the History of Trunks (which is flames). Then I went back and watched the real thing for that saga.
Mr Hate Coffee
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Currently on the Namek saga. Here are my running thoughts
-This nikka Piccolo just blew up the moon and there were no adverse affects
-I can see why people like Vegeta, it's still early but he's easily way more interesting than Goku. Really interested to see how he became one of the crew.
-Krillin needs more props. He out here fighting with all these people with superpowers on some Batman shyt
-These Namekians be gettin fukkED up.
-Gohan has had a really rough childhood.
-Goku is a terrible father... breh literally just sent his child to fly to space while he recovers. Chi Chi was like
-I'm liking the progression of Gohan tho. He was scared and annoying during the Saiyan saga but now he's on Namek like
-This nikka Piccolo just blew up the moon and there were no adverse affects
-I can see why people like Vegeta, it's still early but he's easily way more interesting than Goku. Really interested to see how he became one of the crew.
-Krillin needs more props. He out here fighting with all these people with superpowers on some Batman shyt
-These Namekians be gettin fukkED up.
-Gohan has had a really rough childhood.
-Goku is a terrible father... breh literally just sent his child to fly to space while he recovers. Chi Chi was like
-I'm liking the progression of Gohan tho. He was scared and annoying during the Saiyan saga but now he's on Namek like
Breh u might wanna change that till 2020 thenUse the filler list and watch the Funimation Dub
Dragon Ball Z Filler List | The Ultimate Anime Filler Guide
None of the movies are canon and neither is Dragon Ball GT so you can skip those is you want.
After DBZ, you can go on to Super which might have the full English Dub by the time you finish catching up to DBZ. Then again these fools just started the TOP on Toonamithey're not gonna be done until at least March/April 2019
At best they maybe at the jiren vs goku first fight
Toonami be having them breaks
Brandeezy
Superstar
Gohan peaks st the Cell SagaCurrently on the Namek saga. Here are my running thoughts
-This nikka Piccolo just blew up the moon and there were no adverse affects
-I can see why people like Vegeta, it's still early but he's easily way more interesting than Goku. Really interested to see how he became one of the crew.
-Krillin needs more props. He out here fighting with all these people with superpowers on some Batman shyt
-These Namekians be gettin fukkED up.
-Gohan has had a really rough childhood.
-Goku is a terrible father... breh literally just sent his child to fly to space while he recovers. Chi Chi was like
-I'm liking the progression of Gohan tho. He was scared and annoying during the Saiyan saga but now he's on Namek like
FunkDoc1112
Heavily Armed
The Funi dub up until the Cell games is fukking garbage. Stay away from that.The beginning.
Kai is a b*stardized rehashing of events. OG Japanese and Funi dubs are the reason why DBZ became wildly popular. Stick with those... or read the manga if you don't want filler.
FunkDoc1112
Heavily Armed
The Ocean Dub is trash too. The voice acting is better than the early fun dub but the script changes and censorship is considerably worse than the in-house dub. That's the version to COMPLETELY avoid if you're trying to get an accurate representation of the series. It's fukking garbage.
Bardock was a brilliant scientist, "THE THREE EYED COWBOY TAKES ONE LAST RIDE" "I can see the parachutes" "Oh no the Cargo Robot," etc. etc.
The Kai dub is the best way to watch the series. Accurate dub, great voice acting.
Spliff
Godzilla got busy.
@ Kai. I'll never understand Frieza sounding like an aggy, verbose fakkit makes for "great voice acting." You can't ruin the best villain of the series and claim it's the best. You have an argument for everything up to end of Frieza. Those earlier sagas are such a hodge-podge of multiple dubs, it's simpler to just watch the Japanese version if you have no nostalgic connections to the old English ones.
Funi with Faulconer is more than serviceable from Android on.
FunkDoc1112
Heavily Armed
So the original Funi dub didn't ruin Frieza by making him a Tranny who cracks gay jokes every 5 seconds?
You have an argument for everything up to end of Frieza. Those earlier sagas are such a hodge-podge of multiple dubs, it's simpler to just watch the Japanese version if you have no nostalgic connections to the old English ones.
Funi with Faulconer is more than serviceable from Android on.
Frieza being "aggy and verbose" IS HIS fukkING CHARACTER. He's a phony-aristocrat who talks polite and sophisticated but gets angry and petty when he doesn't get what he wants. Not a wisecracking tranny with a grandma voice.
If you don't like Frieza being portrayed as he should be then maybe your fandom should come into question
The Funi dub through the Android saga is filled with bad voice acting, crappy jokes, and rewrites (IE Gero being the leader of the Red Ribbon army, Bulma rambling about foot massages, Piccolo giving Dr. Gero a corny Superman speech, etc etc).
Around the Cell Games they actually hired a translator, some new actors, and the other guys who were amateurs at first were improving, so that's the point where it actually got better. And the practice of changing the music in general is shytty and dubs don't do that anymore.
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FunkDoc1112
Heavily Armed
It's just hilarious to me how people will nitpick modern dubs for small issues and yet the original DBZ dub has a fukking MOUNTAIN of problems (voice atcing, mass rewrites, music changes, bad jokes, people being out of character) and y'all ignore it and have the audacity to say it's an exception to bad dubbing cuz of nostalgia . It's not the exceptional dub, it's literally one of the blueprints for bad dubs!
The Kai dub fixes most of the problems from the Z dub and is actually accurate to the original, but people want to hate because it's not how they remembered it on Toonami.
The irony of trashing Kai Frieza for sounding "gay" when Z dub Frieza was voiced by a woman and said sexually suggestive shyt like telling Goku "Whatever turns you on, big boy" and "We'd be so good together
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. It's not the exceptional dub, it's literally one of the blueprints for bad dubs!The Kai dub fixes most of the problems from the Z dub and is actually accurate to the original, but people want to hate because it's not how they remembered it on Toonami.
The irony of trashing Kai Frieza for sounding "gay" when Z dub Frieza was voiced by a woman and said sexually suggestive shyt like telling Goku "Whatever turns you on, big boy" and "We'd be so good together"
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Spliff
Godzilla got busy.
Funi's androgynous Frieza was more menacing than Kai's annoying cac version that over-talked everything. Maybe Kai's condensing affects his dialogue. His lines are either rushed or overdone compared to every other version.
He's head and shoulders the best in Japanese, but they overshot his characteristics in Kai. The goofy shyt in OG Funi was always helped by Faulconer score maintaining weight of the scene. Kai's initial score was trash, so if the voice performance was weak then the whole scene was. Kai's Frieza saga turned me off from the whole shyt.
Spliff
Godzilla got busy.
FunkDoc1112
Heavily Armed
They wrote him specifically to be overly verbose, because that was the best way of getting his character across since in Japan it was more about his specific dialect and honorific choices.
Days of Future Piff
Superstar
Currently on the Namek saga. Here are my running thoughts
-This _____ Piccolo just blew up the moon and there were no adverse affects
-I can see why people like Vegeta, it's still early but he's easily way more interesting than Goku. Really interested to see how he became one of the crew.
-Krillin needs more props. He out here fighting with all these people with superpowers on some Batman ____
-These Namekians be gettin ____ED up.
-Gohan has had a really rough childhood.
-Goku is a terrible father... breh literally just sent his child to fly to space while he recovers. Chi Chi was like
-I'm liking the progression of Gohan tho. He was scared and annoying during the Saiyan saga but now he's on Namek like
Goku is a lot more interesting if you've seen the OG Dragonball, IMO. (Especially the King Piccolo Saga).
Speaking of OG Dragonball, I recommend checking out that series if you ever have the time.
I would say that the peak of Dragonball/DBZ as a whole really starts when Tien shows up around the 80 episode mark and lasts all the way through the end of Namek (although the Android/Cell saga had it's moments).
And yes, Vegeta's Namek run is legendary.
