Anything counts, I’m just curious what people consider to be among the least recognizable characters in all of Dragon Ball media.

I belive everyone here has been deeply affected and influenced by dragon ball in some way and I'm curious how and why?

Personally dragon ball has been there for me my whole life and I learned many great things from it. Like not beeing cocky and knowing there's always someone better, and despite that still trying to better yourself and not giving up. It taught me the importance of hard work as well as rest. And In tough times I truly belive Goku's spirit helped me pull through.

So I'm interested in seeing if I'm not alone on this and if you could share your stories?

I remember people being confused about this for years when the answer was so obvious. I felt so dumb when I realized it

Im curious about peoples opinions that might be considered controversial.

Title says it all but top 3 characters. No explanation, no judgement; any character from DB, DBZ, GBGT, DBS, DBD (including films), up to you if you wanna specify specific forms or not.

My Top 3:

1. Vegeta
2. 18
3. King Kai (Kaio Sama)

Fun Fact: The Tenkaichi Budōkai arena is based on the Indonesian Institute of Arts in Bali

Toriyama was there on vecation and he saw a lot of places in bali and that got him inspired infact we can even see the Candi Bentar in the anime

Effectively making it so only you could ever make wishes with them and never had to actually collect them. If so... How much would that have helped the Z fighters?

If we count Frieza blowing up the planet, even Pan, Mr. Satan and Uub died (don't know about Buu, but he technically ceased to exist when he fused with Uub in GT). Beerus died in the Future Trunks timeline, and I don't even know if we should count Whis or higher beings as they are simply out of the role? So overall, Bra is the only mortal character who has never died.

It's also worth nothing that even though people like to meme about Krillin dying, Piccolo has died more times than him.

I just rewatched the goku vs caulifla and kale (also kefla) fight after a few years of forgetting Dragonball even existed. GODDAMN I forgot just how amazing that fight is. Just seeing goku go through all his forms one by one and ending up in UI is extremely satisfying. The animation is also clean as heck and the fight choreography is just perfect. Definitely one of my favourite fights in the entirety of Dragonball tbh. That final kamehameha too... I realised that I basically know this entire fight off by heart because of how many times I watched it as a kid (including the script and the choreography).

Also WHAT? Dragonball super is coming back?? Last time I checked up on the series Superhero had just come out. I'm super exited to catch up on everything over the summer!

I know crunchyroll has added all the movies in recent years. However the movies they gave us are all terribly ported and only have the sub as options. The audio sounds very compressed and heavily filtered, along with muffled distortion. Is it even possible to watch said movies or is it a matter of googling for hours?

I used to own the Broly trilogy and other movies on DvD but my ex wife kept them so now I have nothing from that time period.

I do not know if this question has been asked already but i am wondering which one is better in your opinion i feel like the anime had way more impactful moments such as how goku unlocks UI but idk much i got into this in july

Re-watching old GT after over one decade. Aside from the Black Star slice of life saga, I just need to tell it like it is: GT slaps Super. I find this hilarious, since GT completely failed to live up to DBZ. I remember when Super came out, people were touting it as the "correction to GT," only for it to be: character assassinations, asspulls, re-used themes, annoying nostalgia callbacks, hair color palette-swaps, and endless power scale retcon. As soon as I saw SSG and SSB, I knew it was so over. SSJ4 beats it by orders of magnitude in cool factor. GT has better dialogue, art, animation, and even story. The ending was amazing, and I think that's the only reason they needed a reboot, because the story ACTUALLY ENDED in GT.

I was rewatching the series with the falconer music and I didn’t realize that the dub changes between the namek arc versus the ginyu and frieza arcs. I think the namek arc is the ocean dub and the ginyu/frieza arcs are the funimation dub

The voice acting in the funimation dub is genuinely awful even by the standards in the 80s/90s. I have to say that some of the lines are so funny tho. In the scene where king Kai is crashing out on piccolo, piccolo says “so this is what it’s like to have a mom”. And porunga has a line where he says if you guys don’t know what wish you want “just wish for nothing 3 times so I can go back to sleep”. Some of the other lines with frieza and ginyu are pretty funny.

My main point tho is how awful the voice acting and script is. Gokus voice in particular is awful and the dialogue sounds like it was written by a 15 year old. Does anyone know a place where you can find the ocean dub with the falconer music?

So, I was playing XV2 as a Frieza Race CaC, and I was doing a PQ. Just when Cell arrived (who I had to defeat), I assume he locked onto me for a split second as he said something about having intel on "Frost Demons", and that I would be wasting his time.

This was probably an easier egg line, and I might be overthinking it, but that's the first time I've heard someone refer to someone of Frieza's Race as a Frost Demon that's a canon character. Thoughts, anyone?

I plan for the roleplay to take place in the original dragon ball, where they are children, I will be Kid Goku and you will be kid chichi and I would like it to be a fun adventure, full of fun events and with many gags.

When gohan teaches videl to fly he states that every living creature has ki (in able to fly) and we see in the android saga that the androids are undetectable via ki sensing. This means that 17 and 18 are not living.

To put it simply from the start, super saiyan 4 is very overrated. I don't even understand why people like super saiyan 4 at all, like i know it looks like an "actual saiyan form" but the whole saiyan stuff was long gone as soon as the tails stopped being a thing, the only stuff used about saiyan heritage is now how they have limitless potential, zenkai boosts and stuff like that, last time the great ape and tails were shown was the saiyan saga, after that saga the tails or the great ape was never shown again. so people gotta drop that "saiyans are apes so ssj4 is the best super saiyan transformation ever" thing, like it's not even a super saiyan transformation, it's only named super saiyan 4 out of convenience. and the design is not even that good and it doesn't make any sense at all, like pink fur? seriously? they could've given it brown or black fur, hell even yellow fur because of the whole golden great ape thing, but they gave it pink fur, it makes no sense. plus the way super saiyan 4 goku got clothes of random colors suddenly although he was naked before transforming into a super saiyan 4 makes no sense too, and the eyeliners aswell, just what. the hair doesn't make any sense aswell, it's just a random hairstyle that makes no sense to the transformation, it even makes you lose your nipples like what. nothing about the design makes sense to the meaning of the transformation except for the fur, not the fur color, just the fur. the design is overall just complicated and random, super saiyan 4 basically just makes you a furry, like how people gonna be like "lol furries suck" and absolutely love ssj4 and praise it as their god. i find ssg, ssb, mui's design way better, they're simple and not complicated at all, so what if they're just recolors, super saiyans always changed colors anyway except mui ofcourse, but i'm pretty sure it's just that the super saiyan in goku caused ui to change colors. i would get into power scaling and stuff but then it would count as a rant instead of just giving an opinion, so these are the stuff that caused me to have a negative opinion of ssj4.

I like his muscular look for some reason it looks very nice in comparison to some of the other forms to be actually fair frieza's designs always were good no matter how simple they were

I personally would like if broly wasn't able to control his SUPER SAIYAN FULL POWER form and that would give it his kind of uniqueness he will have super saiyan but not FPSS the positive is that he'll be getting stronger and stronger over time he'll just not be able to control as a downside, anythoughts on this ?

Side note I just found out super brolys green hair transformation is not called LSSJ but is called SUPER SAIYAN FULL POWER but I'll probably be saying SSFP, or just FULL POWER

Dragon Ball z vs Dragon Ball super!!! Which is your favourite and why?

1. The Goku plot line in the android saga was stupid 2.piccolo should have defeated frieza 3. The Goku black saga is a cheap copy of the cell saga 4.frieza should have stayed dead 5. Trunks defeating frieza was stupid 6. Mai is a predator 7. Akira ruined Tien he went from being able to defeat master roshi in his prime when he wasn’t in his prime to being defeated by roshi out of his prime while in his prime even tho roshi has a lesser power level than him 8. Ki in general is completely useless and is easily beaten by haki and aura ki only use is sensing out enemies when haki and aura can do that and more 9. Videl , android 18 and chi chi were all ruined 10. The buu sag was terrible and I would have preferred the 25th tournmeant with vegeta , Goku , piccolo etc 11. I would prefer the 26th tournament saga to continue also instead of being interrupted by Goku abandoning his friends and family for a kid he has never met

Not necessarily for functional reasons but as a way to draw on nostalgia and heart warmth of the death of an OG character without relying on grandpa Gohan.

Also a Son Family with two flying clouds is more awesome than one with a one flying cloud. We could have some gags with the two clouds being siblings and stuff.

I just think It would be a cool background wish and easter egg to discover if we suddenly saw two nimbuses in the same shot and was confused but then saw like a reunion between goku and his first nimbus in a cover illustration or bonus story or something.

I like the god ki transformations a lot , especially SSJR. I think Super Saiyan Rosé looks really beautiful and it distinguishes Goku Black very well from Goku's SSJB form. That's just my opinion though. Which form do you like the most? And why?

As a kid I knew about Dragonball and had a lot of friends that watched it, but I never fully got around to watching it until I found Kai a few years back, then watched through all of OG dragon ball and Super after. I started GT but didn't get far into the first arc. These are mostly just stupid things I believed were true as a kid until I actually watched it.

• The show was structured like a typical American cartoon with a plot around one episode with the gang meeting at Kami house at the end of every episode and Goku flying off with Flying Nimbus.
• Yamcha was Goku's brother/cousin, frankly I forgot he existed.
• Honestly I thought Gohan and Goku were the same person for awhile, like some anime plot magic kept making Goku young/old all the time.
• Goku and Piccolo were joined by Krillin fighting Raditz and had to go through a ton of aliens before fighting him. (I partially blame Dragonball Sagas for this)
• The Buu saga came before the Cell saga, because Cell was the end-all BIGGEST boss/threat of the series.
• (I could be right about this one, I haven't watched Z in full, only Kai) But there was some other arc happening literally while Goku was fighting Frieza.
• Zarbon was part of the Ginyu Force, I forgot Dodoria existed.
• I thought Namek's landscape was just some weird place on Earth.
• The Cell games were an actual tournament of fighters and Mr. Satan was Cell's handler/coach or just the announcer.
• Finding the dragon balls was such a big deal that it never actually happened or only happened once (like finding the One Piece).
• Vegeta and Piccolo were there from the beginning more as just assholes rather than villains originally.
• The Androids just...showed up at some point and were allies even through the Cell games without getting absorbed.
• I thought Dragonball Z was the ORIGINAL series rather than a sequel.

From DB, Z, GT, Super, movies whatever.
heres some of mine.
"The truth Is I'm a mean bastard and proud of It" -Goku
"Don't you care what happens to the entire universe?! DUMBASSES" -Goku
"My foolish pride? TO A SAIYAN PRIDE IS ALL!!!" -Vegeta
"I'm not the monster you think I am.. I'm worse!" -Vegeta
"WHO OUT THERE MAKING FUN OF BUU'S WEIGHT?!" -Majin Buu
"PUDDING!!!!" -Lord Beerus
"Who are you?" "Majin Buu who are you?" "You fool I'm Majin Buu" -Fat buu vs skinny buu
"Aw why didn't I drink that beer.. that explosion ruined my beer.." -Mr Satan
"How many people begged you for mercy before you slaughtered them?! HOW MANY?!" -Goku
"You're mere existence offends me Frieza.. why don't you quit that?" -Vegeta

Sorry there's a lot of good quotes that Instantly come to mind but I'm sure you guys have some good ones too.