What were your favorite and least favorite Dragon Ball Z Sagas
My favorite was the Cell games, because he was my favorite villain and so much awesome stuff happened.
My least favorite is pretty much everything between the end of the Cell saga and the beginning of the Buu saga. Really, not much happened and it was boring imo.
The Cell Games.
Everything after that slowly got stupider and stupider until the show finally hit Dragonball GT and was ruined.
Although, if I'm going to go the overall series, the original Dragonball is still the best thing ever.
Cell Games. Gohan's transformation to SSJ2 was epic and Goku's death was actually a little emotional for me, even with the knowledge he could come back whenever someone manage to get to Namek.
I don't fully understand why people hate the post-Cell Games stuff, I thought Buu was a good villain and the SSJ3 concept was cool, even if it did kinda lose the effect of passing on the torch to the next generation with Goku coming back. I'd say my least favourite was either the Great Saiyaman Saga or World Tournament. Mostly because the first felt silly and the second felt like it didn't need to be its own saga.
Cell Games. Gohan's transformation to SSJ2 was epic and Goku's death was actually a little emotional for me, even with the knowledge he could come back whenever someone manage to get to Namek.
I don't fully understand why people hate the post-Cell Games stuff, I thought Buu was a good villain and the SSJ3 concept was cool, even if it did kinda lose the effect of passing on the torch to the next generation with Goku coming back. I'd say my least favourite was either the Great Saiyaman Saga or World Tournament. Mostly because the first felt silly and the second felt like it didn't need to be its own saga.
Cell Games. Gohan's transformation to SSJ2 was epic and Goku's death was actually a little emotional for me, even with the knowledge he could come back whenever someone manage to get to Namek.
I don't fully understand why people hate the post-Cell Games stuff, I thought Buu was a good villain and the SSJ3 concept was cool, even if it did kinda lose the effect of passing on the torch to the next generation with Goku coming back. I'd say my least favourite was either the Great Saiyaman Saga or World Tournament. Mostly because the first felt silly and the second felt like it didn't need to be its own saga.
I still maintain the Buu saga from start (Gohan goes to high school) to finish
(Goku runs away to train Uub)
is thematically fairly simple, but fantastically executed. Throughout DBZ the various (male) characters all represent aspects of masculinity in the modern world, but the Buu saga gives its most detailed breakdown of these aspects through a basic story of an evolving crisis.
It's a different game compared to the father-son relationship and personal Growth/responsibility narrative of the Android saga and the imperialism/messiah allegories of the Saiyan/Frieza saga. It's like comparing War and Peace to the Lord of the Rings - their respective epicness is just essentially different.
I'm gonna go with the Afterlife Tournament as the worst saga in terms of how it fits with the rest of DBZ, and to be honest, I think it's part of the reason for the bad press of the Buu saga. Don't get me wrong, it's good, mindless fun, and would have made for a good DVD movie or something. But if we'd just let Goku go in the otherworld until he contacts Gohan about the tournament, the pacing of the Saiyaman stuff would be much clearer. As it stands, we still have him very much active and doing stuff while he's dead, which means we're still inclined to centralise him in how we watch the rest of the Buu saga and miss out on a lot of what happens with the other characters.
Frieza saga because I really started liking Krillin and Vegeta then and they're like my favourite characters now. Also it has the three coolest DBZ moments.
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