At 7/12/18 10:28 AM, MPPlantOfficial wrote:
So I found some scans of Dragonball, not Super, not Z. Kid Goku adventures.
Very nice find.
---and it's amazing!! Sorry if this is old news to y'all but I never got to see Dragon Ball from the start since we only had a few episodes which our local networks aired.
Yes, this is old news, but glad that you are enjoying it.
To me Dragon Ball always started some time in the middle of the King Piccolo-Goku fight without any proper context.
It can be hard to start in the middle of any anime.
Toriyama is known for lack of depth in characters but for the first 2 volumes (what I've read so far) of Dragon Ball where Bulma, Oolong, Yamcha are your main cast and have that plot line of actually looking for the Dragon Balls there was just so much potential for growth of these characters that I almost wish the series never went in the direction it did (despite those long ass fights being a huge part of my childhood.).
There was much more plot and development way back near the start. You know you love those long ass fights. ;)
The world just seems so alive in this one, not just a barren wasteland for the Z fighters to fight in.
Once they found the Dragon balls once or maybe twice, it became so much easier to find them again and again.