Now before I go into the review, I must say that I WAS a Dragon Ball fan and I love every minute of it when I was a kid. But now that I have grown up I realized that in truth Dragon Ball z is an underdeveloped piece of work with some of the worse plots, boring fight scenes and a mediocre cast of a lot of underdeveloped characters.Now I'm going to explain why this is.
1.Characters: first start with character development. This series has very little character overall as the cast is overshadowed by Goku endless screaming and transformation. Anime is art, and so is film, animation, movies or TV shows. This type of art needs to tell a story about the characters but the story is very dull and repetitive. The characters have very similar traits, either are blond saiyans, super muscular and nothing else. It would seems that the series is overloaded with these types of characters and what's worse is that the series only focuses on how Goku is screaming and left the old characters behind, characters like Yamcha, Tien, Bulma even Gohan are left behind with no actual character development. Also on a plus I gotta talk about Bulma. Bulma is considered the oldest member of the series, she was Goku's very first best friend, she was there for him the entire way, never left his side and in the end who did Goku ended up with? Chichi, a chick who we never cared about in the first place and had very little development. Also on that matter let's talk about the villains of this show, they are absolutely pathetic since they are all the same muscular beast who just wants to be the strongest in the universe with no backstory whatsoever. Take Frieza for example, he was the strongest in the universe but why did he become evil? Why is he evil? There's just not backstory. Cell is basically another copy of Frieza and as for Majin Buu, he's literally a brainless monster, that's it. Villains CAN be menacing without a single muscle ya know. A good villain toys with the heroes' emotions and uses their wits instead of their fists.
2. Plot: While we're on the matter let's talk about why we have no smart villain it's because the plot, season after season with the same repetitive storyline of generic bad guys come to earth and generic good guys fight and win, that's it. Each villains is just literally an atomic bomb who just comes to earth and "vows to destroy it" with no motives or backstory whatsoever.
3. fight scene: now the fight scenes I admit has had its share of good fight scenes but things gets very repetitive once you get to the Buu Saga since at this point everything is just rinse and repeat, just punch, kick, beams and that's it. No specific martial art, no pressure points, and NO weaknesses. Since each character's weakness is dependent on how the author and the fans wants him in the story and their weakness can be simply countered with just more training, which is very repetitive.
In conclusion, Dragon Ball used to be a series of good fun but nowadays in retrospect it seems dull and repetitive, and since this is the series with the most fanboys in the world, it's not helping much.
1.Characters: first start with character development. This series has very little character overall as the cast is overshadowed by Goku endless screaming and transformation. Anime is art, and so is film, animation, movies or TV shows. This type of art needs to tell a story about the characters but the story is very dull and repetitive. The characters have very similar traits, either are blond saiyans, super muscular and nothing else. It would seems that the series is overloaded with these types of characters and what's worse is that the series only focuses on how Goku is screaming and left the old characters behind, characters like Yamcha, Tien, Bulma even Gohan are left behind with no actual character development. Also on a plus I gotta talk about Bulma. Bulma is considered the oldest member of the series, she was Goku's very first best friend, she was there for him the entire way, never left his side and in the end who did Goku ended up with? Chichi, a chick who we never cared about in the first place and had very little development. Also on that matter let's talk about the villains of this show, they are absolutely pathetic since they are all the same muscular beast who just wants to be the strongest in the universe with no backstory whatsoever. Take Frieza for example, he was the strongest in the universe but why did he become evil? Why is he evil? There's just not backstory. Cell is basically another copy of Frieza and as for Majin Buu, he's literally a brainless monster, that's it. Villains CAN be menacing without a single muscle ya know. A good villain toys with the heroes' emotions and uses their wits instead of their fists.
2. Plot: While we're on the matter let's talk about why we have no smart villain it's because the plot, season after season with the same repetitive storyline of generic bad guys come to earth and generic good guys fight and win, that's it. Each villains is just literally an atomic bomb who just comes to earth and "vows to destroy it" with no motives or backstory whatsoever.
3. fight scene: now the fight scenes I admit has had its share of good fight scenes but things gets very repetitive once you get to the Buu Saga since at this point everything is just rinse and repeat, just punch, kick, beams and that's it. No specific martial art, no pressure points, and NO weaknesses. Since each character's weakness is dependent on how the author and the fans wants him in the story and their weakness can be simply countered with just more training, which is very repetitive.
In conclusion, Dragon Ball used to be a series of good fun but nowadays in retrospect it seems dull and repetitive, and since this is the series with the most fanboys in the world, it's not helping much.