Goku is impossible not to love. As a fantasy of raw power, DBZ made some sense to me and my teenage self. The ego dynamics are different. You get so strong that your hair changes color vs. I watched my animal fight another animal, and then my animal learned a new move. I'm not the biggest fan of the original Fullmetal Alchemist , but that show for instance casts big fight scenes and loud drama in the service of a careful, ambitious story. There's monsters-of-the-week, but those monsters have distinct motives and impressive expression.
Whereas the secondary parts and players of Dragon Ball Z all seem vaguely interchangeable. Characters emit energy; Goku defeats bad guys. That lack of depth is what makes Dragon Ball Z so accessible. Dragon Ball Z is not high drama. Likewise, you go to Dragon Ball Z because you know what it provides, and the show provides it well. Does that make the show overrated? Dragon Ball Z was very quickly eclipsed by its own legacy. As a video game, Street Fighter 2 is, fundamentally, go in the ring and hit a bunch of buttons.
Obviously there are people who take that quite seriously. People still play the original Mario games, not just because of their nostalgia, but because they want to run and jump and go to the next level and do it again. No matter how many Pixar or Studio Ghibli films there are, a televised cartoon series can only go so far. Well, I think Dragon Ball has only ever tried to go so far. Anime is otherwise filled with ambitious directors and strange, mature concepts.
With those shows, which are megahits in their own right, you have anime directors that are interested in big themes. But what makes you think that Dragon Ball Z is overrated? Is it just the level of hype attached to it? I've just never fully regarded DBZ 's characters as characters. I remember those conversations, for sure. Every boy has those conversations. DBZ also works because it can be really silly, it has enough comedy and coolness to work. A time for goofing off, and a time to get real.
It's such a fun and engaging watch because of how much it inspires. There is simply so much the universe builds. It has it's flaws, and yes it plays by the tropes, but it just works. FrankieSutton Newbie Posts: 9. Am I allowed to provide a counter-view on why DBZ is very bad from a writing perspective? And in doing so hopefully bring clarity to the arguments on why it's good? You actually look at it from a writing perspective and you can clearly see this.
Even ignoring the awful pacing, there is still the problem of execution, plot holes, and immense failure at character development. Only characters who ever had a remote amount of development are Gohan and Piccolo. Goku is also a really one-dimensional MC. All he cares about is fighting and eating, literally. And it rides on him, everyone else just takes the backseat while Goku does all the heavy lifting.
No other characters matter in the long run because the show only cares about Goku. Heck Natsu has only ever once taken down a main villain all by himself out of sixteen arcs so far. And speaking if Natsu, he is how you do a proper MC, he had character development in learning what it meant to feel fear and learn to back down when absolutely necessary.
He liked to fight but he also cared more about seeing him s dad again than anything. He had no interest in saving the world and outright mentioned several times how he could care less about the world so long as his family in his guild was safe. But DBZ, not so much You live for them! The side characters have relevant time on screen and the intention is to learn and change.
DBZ is simply a non-plot driven series of one-off fights of escalating power. They always break down to: Threat arrives Threat beats up some minor characters to indicate strength Threat requires training to surpass threat Goku or other character trains to the point of surpassing Beats threat And then it just goes on again.
It has enormous issues with power escalation, and there's almost no threat of anything. Characters can almost never die, someone will always power up enough to match.
There's not really any creativity in the combat. Nobody has to figure out a way around it, they just need to make a larger Spirit Bomb than the last time, to infinity. I actually dislike DBZ even more because Dragonball has so many strengths and does such a good job before it. The character writing is almost always on point and the humor is genuinely hilarious.
So rarely does Dragon Ball allow audiences a chance to take a peek at the daily lives of the main cast. These smaller, more intimate moments help in adding depth to the world of Dragon Ball. It tells a much better story with much better weight than its sequel series. All four major story arcs— Saiyan, Freeza, Artificial Humans, Majin Boo— are filled to the brim with cohesive theming, character development, and plenty of plot twists.
Dragon Ball Z makes its cast work for their growth, though. Vegeta, Piccolo, and Gohan all have particularly impressive character arcs throughout the course of DBZ. The actual tournament features some good action and is fun to read or watch through when jumping around.
The Cell Games is a total sham where only Goku and Gohan fight; the 25th Tenkaichi Budokai is interrupted before it can even get interesting; and the series literally ends during the 28th Tenkaichi Budokai.
At least Super completes its tournaments. Gohan, Vegeta, and Piccolo are the clear stand-outs, growing the most overtly from arc to arc, but pretty much every other major character also develops quite a bit over the course of the Z-era. Goku in particular has a great, understated character arc where he slowly warms up to his Saiyan heritage.
Dragon Ball Z is a series driven by its characters.
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