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Dragon Ball vs. Dragon Ball Z
Topic Started: Jan 14 2014, 10:34 PM (213 Views)
Mystic
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Channeling My Inner Wright

DB or DBZ? Which is better IYO?

Personally, I'd say Dragon Ball.

With Dragon Ball, you adventure with Goku. You watch him from his search for the Dragon Balls, his Red Ribbon takedown, and his feuds with Piccolo and Pilaf.

Dragon Ball felt like one big saga to me, everything had a link, and prior events had more meaning.

Krillin, Yamcha, Tenshinhan Chiaotzu and Master Roshi were worth something.

The Budokai matches like Tenshinhan vs. Goku, and Krillin vs. Chiaotzu was great, and I really felt like Kami and Korin were gods. Not to mention Popo was a beast.

With Z, it didn't feel smooth to me. The Saiyan Arc felt like a good ending story for Dragon Ball, but after that, it was just about waiting for the next brute, it didn't have an overall series mission. It didn't have that one reason why these events are taking place to begin with.

With the introduction of Super Saiyan and Power Levels, Krillin, Yamcha, Roshi, Popo, Korin, Kami, Shinhan, Chiaotzu and even Piccolo started to feel like trash and irrelevant.

The Saiyans even surpassed the mightiest of gods. How does that even make sense? Gods get surpassed by their own creations?

The filler even smacked us in the face when they said Yamcha and Krillin would be a plan B against Boo.

They mistreated the humans throughout the series, and now they become hellah strong? Bitch please.
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Dragon Ball, hands down IMO. The only way it could be more entertaining is if it cut out the Pilaf Saga IMO.

Dragon Ball Z 'Dragged-on' a lot.
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Mystic
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With Dragon Ball, it felt fluent. Z was just, beat the next guy, time skip, power up, beat the next guy, time skip, power up, beat the next guy.

I love all three, but Dragon Ball was the most entertaining to me.
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Captain Cadaver


Anyway, for me it's hard to say as both contain their fair share of flaws. DB did well in showing the series' adventure aspect and a more practical use of techniques and martial arts, yet it revolved purely around Goku, shoving the supporting cast aside for the most part whenever it wasn't the Tenkaichi Budokai. DBZ on the other hand did well in giving multiple characters their time in the spotlight and greater character development, yet contained just as basic a plot as part 1 and eventually, developed a very bad plot due to numerous inconsistencies within the Cell and Boo Arcs. Overall, I'd say it's a tie based on that much.
Edited by Captain Cadaver, Nov 10 2014, 05:56 AM.
 
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I used to say Dragon Ball was far superior, now they're closer in quality than I once thought.

DBZ has both the Cell and Boo Arcs, which were honestly bad, but it also had the Saiyajin and Freeza Arcs which were well written by Toriyama's standards.

Dragon Ball however, had a weak start (Pilaf Arc), and it also had Red Ribbon, which is honestly just as bad as the Boo Arc, IMO... I'm serious. The poorness of it is just not recognized as much because it wasn't the last Arc.

Overall, Dragon Ball is just an average/mediocre series.
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Pointer
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Storyline-Dragon Ball

Overall DBZ just because of maturity
Edited by Pointer, Oct 30 2014, 06:16 AM.
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I like both actually
 
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