What's your least favorite Dragonball Z Saga?

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

To be honest, all the super saiyan stuff was diminishing returns IMO.
When Goku did it the first time on Namek, it was truly epic. The buildup was legendary. It was believed to be a once-in-a-millennium event. The whole saga people talked about the Super Saiyan legend like it was a myth, like people didn't even know it was a real thing that actually existed. But in the end it actually happens despite the impossible odds. And when it finally did...

And then Future Trunks shows up and goes Super Saiyan.
Then Vegeta does it
Then Gohan does it
Then you have Broly in the movies.
Those were all cool ( ), but nowhere near the level of hype compared to when Goku did it the first time, IMO.

Then Goten and present Trunks do it at age eight

Not only that, but then they retcon Bardock's backstory to have him going super saiyan...

It stops being legendary when nearly every saiyan on the show can do it. What's next? Bringing Raditz back and having him go super saiyan?

It made sense for Gohan. He's blood related and had anger issues. Vegeta was pushing the concept of it as far as writers can take it though. The rest? No. Just no.

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

if anything SS2 was a bit of a letdown.

don't get me wrong the concept is great, a level BEYOND super saiyan... but in the end it looked nearly identical to regular super saiyan.

gohan's hair was just spikier

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

Go watch that shyt fool

suck a dikk

 

[Mulatto Trunks]

In terms of least favorite I'd have to say beginning of Namek to Freeza drags way to much, when Goku finally hit Super Saiyan and turned to Frieza Like

That's what redeems the saga to most people because the built up to SSJ was so big and the climax was done pretty well minus the long extended fight.

In terms of the most poorly written it would definitely have to be the Buu saga. Started off with a lot of promise and was very cool to see the show return to its more light hearted roots after the bleak cell saga, but it went all over the place and was barley redeemed with that amazing fight with Goku vs Kid Buu

 

[Bea__13]

Except Goku fighting Majin Vegeta and SS3 form I wasn't feeling the Buu Saga

 

[Mandarin Duck]

In terms of least favorite I'd have to say beginning of Namek to Freeza drags way to much, when Goku finally hit Super Saiyan and turned to Frieza Like

That's what redeems the saga to most people because the built up to SSJ was so big and the climax was done pretty well minus the long extended fight.

In terms of the most poorly written it would definitely have to be the Buu saga. Started off with a lot of promise and was very cool to see the show return to its more light hearted roots after the bleak cell saga, but it went all over the place and was barley redeemed with that amazing fight with Goku vs Kid Buu

Really?
Seeing Vegeta finesse Freeza and his whole army was entertaining as fukk.

 

[Mulatto Trunks]

Really?
Seeing Vegeta finesse Freeza his whole army was entertaining as fukk.

Yeah it was without a doubt plus it had a different vibe to it compared to rest of the series, it was basically capture the flag mixed with guerrila fights until the Ginyus show up

My only gripe is that as a whole the saga drags way too much with filler and hunting the Dragonballs.

 

[Monsanto]

Definitely Buu saga. It was a fusion and repeat of all the sagas before it. Terrorising superpower that can't be stopped (Frieza), controlled by creator until they get killed (Dr.Gero) absorbing others to become stronger (Cell).

The whole saga felt cheapened to me. The only saving grace was Mr. Satan. Piccolo took a back seat, Tien.

The saga was a lot of setup with little payoff. Gohan gets his upgrades and gets absorbed, Vegeta reaches SS2 meanwhile Kakarot reached it years ago with SS3 up his sleeve. Rescue their kids from Buu's system and leave them to be killed.

Pathetic.

 

[Slic Ric]

In terms of least favorite I'd have to say beginning of Namek to Freeza drags way to much, when Goku finally hit Super Saiyan and turned to Frieza Like

That's what redeems the saga to most people because the built up to SSJ was so big and the climax was done pretty well minus the long extended fight.

In terms of the most poorly written it would definitely have to be the Buu saga. Started off with a lot of promise and was very cool to see the show return to its more light hearted roots after the bleak cell saga, but it went all over the place and was barley redeemed with that amazing fight with Goku vs Kid Buu

This, the whole namek saga has become so overrated on the internet from fans through the years when they forgot it didn't get good until 2 form frieza showed up

 

[Black Hans]

Buu saga. Easily Just a complete waste of time.

 

[Mob H]

Buu Saga. All it was, was a way for Toriyama to use all his extra ideas before ending the series.

timeskip
Goku vs Vegeta rematch
Vegeta turning fully good
SSJ3
fusions
Gohan's full potential for real this time
blowing up Earth
spirit bomb finally working

 

[duncanthetall]

Oh yeah, I remembered something else.

This clown:

Let us not forget his oh so brilliant plan to stop Babidi from gathering enough energy to awaken Buu involved by letting Gohan get his energy drained by the enemies, and bringing the most powerful dudes straight to Babidi's front door

On top of that, dude stayed shook over enemies that Goku and Vegeta could easily beat in their sleep....

The Supreme Kai never bothered to even tell Gohan about Buu's power to absorb people
And then this happens.

With his simple behind it took him millions of years to learn about how potara fusions work

Just to add insult to injury, this knucklehead is one of the few characters not to get murked in the Buu arc. Gohan gets punked. Krillin makes his heroic last stand and accomplished nothing. 18 got eaten. Goku rescues Dende and MR. SATAN over Piccolo, Tien, and his own seed (Gohan, Goten, and Trunks for Vegeta)

I forgot how this arc was in retropsect.

I know I went in on characters being dumb in the Cell saga but at least that story introduced better characters, had better fights, Future Trunks a better showing for Gohan, and had other characters shining besides the super Saiyans (Piccolo vs 17, Tien holding Cell back, Krillin saving that girl in the airport). Plus, you didn't have eight year olds going super saiyan.

Tien holding back Cell is one of the GOAT moments in the show IMO. Just ballsy shyt. My dude had mad heart

 

[Hostile]

Buu Saga. Nothing new. It felt like a weak rehash of the Cell saga.

 

[KOBE]

Second unpopular opinion: the Cell saga had some issues. It introduced a lot of dope characters and had great fights, but it was bogged down by pretty much everybody in the story making dumb decisions for the sake of the plot. (The z fighters not deactivating the androids before the attack, Bulma bringing her baby to a war zone, Vegeta letting Cell go perfect, Krillin smashing the remote, Dr. Brief not telling 16 that his bomb was removed, Goku giving Cell a senzu bean, Gohan not ending cell when he had the chance, Goku not teleporting in and out of King Kai's when Cell was about to selfdestruct.)

Granted, I still like the Cell saga (future Trunks, Piccolo vs 17, Tien holding Cell back, Goku vs perfect Cell ) but the Saiyan/Frieza storyline was definitely better.

That made zero difference in Cell fights with Gohan as Gohan still easily outpowered him and it goes along with Goku's character in regards to fighting, as in Goku wanted it to be a fair fight.

 

[Hostile]

Second unpopular opinion: the Cell saga had some issues. It introduced a lot of dope characters and had great fights, but it was bogged down by pretty much everybody in the story making dumb decisions for the sake of the plot. (The z fighters not deactivating the androids before the attack, Bulma bringing her baby to a war zone, Vegeta letting Cell go perfect, Krillin smashing the remote, Dr. Brief not telling 16 that his bomb was removed, Goku giving Cell a senzu bean, Gohan not ending cell when he had the chance, Goku not teleporting in and out of King Kai's when Cell was about to selfdestruct.)

Granted, I still like the Cell saga (future Trunks, Piccolo vs 17, Tien holding Cell back, Goku vs perfect Cell ) but the Saiyan/Frieza storyline was definitely better.

Some of those aren't issues. The Androids weren't activated until Gero let them out. That's how 17 spotted the remote, Gero was still holding it. Destroying the Androids before they were let loose wouldn't have been right seeing how the Z Warriors didn't know for sure what was to come. It's like when Sora decided to murder Org XIII just because Ansem the Wise or Yen Sid said they were bad. In the past, Android 8 showed that not all androids are bad. During the Androids/Cell saga, there were 3 good androids and 3 bad ones. Gero and 19 were taken care of so the remaining bad guy was Cell. As for Vegeta, he always did shyt like that. He also told Frieza to transform.