I read DRAGON BALL for the first time and... 

Surprisingly, the rabbit was confirmed to survive the moon exploding

As a kid who got into mangas form dragon ball back in the days, it has a very special place in my heart

Dragon Ball has it all. Fantasy, Mecha, Magic, Martial Arts, Sci-Fi, History, Horror, Comedy etc

Justa little comment about the moon gag in anime, it's said that in Japan, there's a children tale that says that there are rabbits making mochi on the moon, due to it habing a surface where it's possible to see the shilouette of a rabbit making mochi. That's why there so many rabbits and moon references, like Super Mario Odyssey or that Wii game from the Rabbids.

finally someone else who sees how similar dragon ball and kung fu panda are tonally.

Great video man. Dragonball is my absolute favorite piece of media ever and as someone who has been watching/reading this franchise for most of my life it’s always interesting seeing someone’s first experience with this series.

Yeah feels like alot of people underappreciate it since it was most of us' first anime we ever saw. But it's still real good.

Another great video as always. You have a way of speaking that's able to keep me interested in a topic I wouldn't have cared about otherwise. It also helped me realize just how little of Dragon Ball I've actually experienced. When I was a kid, all I watched of dragon ball was some of the frieza arc and so I ended up forming my opinions on the series based on that, plus watching Dragon Ball Super whilst it was airing. It wasn't until 2018 that I decided to read the manga and realized just how little I had known about the series. I remember being really surprised that the series started with Goku as a kid as I'd always known him as an adult. It also surprised me just how fun the manga was to read, despite being almost 35 years old at the time. If I'm remembering correctly, I got up to the beginning of the Red Ribbon Army saga before I stopped reading. Thanks to this video, I've decided to give the Dragon Ball manga another shot and I'm gonna try to get to the end of the child Goku section before your next video releases. Really can't wait!

People who say the story and characters in dragon ball aren’t that good are probably those who’ve only seen or heard of Super. OG dragon ball and DBZ where incredibly well written for the most part with that only slightly shaky part being the Buu Saga.

OG Dragon Ball is by far the best Dragon Ball series. Idk who is calling it overrated

The people hating on DB are just anime snobs and elitists who just like to hate on shows that are popular. At one point, these same people were dissing DBZ to promote OG DB! This is the crap they do to make themselves feel superior to others. Because I remember back in the early 2000s, Naruto was really popular until it went mainstream (Viz started distributing in the US). Then, all of a sudden, the fans started to really hate it and nitpick every story arc. The reason why is because the secret anime/manga that they loved was no longer a secret and no longer special. Just ignore the anime Elitist

I'm pretty sure the DQ enemy you're thinking of is the base Skeleton enemies (DQVIII 3D models show them better). It just lacks the Alien head the Red Ribbon robot has.

Love the fact the you actually took the time to sit down and analyze the story for what it is instead of meat riding everyone else who doesn't enjoy dbz especially old db

Bulma is the best character in Dragon Ball btw~ 💖💖

What a great video, I was actually curious about dragon ball now that I'm older. Maybe the writing isn't giga big brain but it def established tropes for its genre in manga and anime, the animated series has some shots that you see in many Shonen these days. Sick vid brah

I remember watching this as a kid. I loved it, it was so good. Yes I was one of those kids that tried to do the kamehameha.

This was a nice surprise. Good video 👍🏾

Actually bulmas wish was for a lifetime supply of strawberries or yeah the perfect boyfriend thing wonder if she got the wish and Vegeta just showed up and blew up everything 😭

Dragonball is the love of my live, its such a well made story that is often very simple but loveable. I really dont understand all the hate

You are right. Justice for Krillin.

I’m so glad you made this video. I had just gotten through reading original Dragon Ball and I’ve been settling into Z again. (I grew up watching Z first btw) and as an adult now I can confidently say OG Dragon Ball is still good to this days standards. Those boys are called trash taste for a reason 😂❤

I hope you read Slam Dunk someday, if you haven't. It was the king of JUMP along with DB sales-wise before One Piece took over. Editors have rookie mangaka study both and it really shows. But back to Toriyama, I can tell you'd enjoy Dr. Slump.

Toriyama's genius shines brightest in Dr Slump. I laugh out loud at every single page. It so funny, so charming. Toriyama is a gag manga authour par excellence. He became a action guy by accident, yet he revolutionized that field too.

"Dragon Ball" is one of the most wildly influential manga in history, to the point where pretty much any shounen mangaka will reference it and draw upon Toriyama's flow between paneling in their own work by using the natural movement of the manga reader's eye. But if you don't like slapstick, Toriyama's particular brand of potty humor, sense of power scaling, AND his penchant for jus outright forgetting / dismissing aspects of his canon until much later...then yeah, it's a story that may not be for everyone. FWIW, I adore "Dragon Ball," warts and all lol. If you want a precursor to energy wave style attacks, you'd probably have to go back to something like "Space Battleship Yamato" from the 1970s with the Wave Motion Gun, assuming you were staying strictly in anime and not "Dragon Ball's" influences from antiquity. As a point of critique, I gotta say - you spend so much time simply walking through the plot that a lot of analysis opportunity is just blown over, or you're not really saying anything new. If this is supposed to get people to read the manga, it feels like a plot summary that one could glean by reading Wikipedia.

I only watched a few episodes of DB as a child, (not DBZ). And when I watched it for real when I was maybe 17, I liked it more than expected, especially DB.

"and when you're older, you're gonna think mine are INCREDIBLE"

What he says: 6:21 Correct Answer: Bulma accidentally flashed Roshi because Goku took off her panties (note that Goku is too innocent not to do that during the time.)

ngl, i think the og dragonball before the saiyans aged better minus maybe some inappriorate jokes, it's just more fun, but also has some badass fights, the tone in Z became too monotone the more it progressed. saiyan saga was still fine, maybe frieza too, but there was just less and less fun and more and more of the same pretty one dimensional fights

OG Dragon Ball is masterpiece. Dragon Ball Z is very good. The rest is just meh.

His death count back then was sky high.... guy was killing them like flies....

I think this video is needed, Hearing people repeat the same criticism over and over again like "oh it's just guys powering up and yelling" makes me think they either haven't watched, or they've only seen Z. It's pretty common for people to start with Z, this definitely damages peoples perception of the series. It's the same as if you started Naruto at Shippuden, or the MCU at Infinity war, or Kingdom hearts at 3 It would be a really dumb way to start and analyze, a show, or piece of media if you only have half of the information. so hearing people parrot the same opinions of DBZ is just so incredibly obnoxious. It's fine if you don't like it but you better give me opinions that don't sound stolen from the Internet.

Toriyama is a great guy, if only he wasn't naturally turning every girl into an angry housewife, that would be nice

Dragon Ball is just one of those shows where people tend to either be batshit insane about or think it's a snooze fest (Which I mostly blame on poor pacing in the og Z anime), it's my first Anime and manga so I can't really say with complete certainty that I'm not at least partially blinded by nostalgia but I think it's a very competently written and charming with some great action and some of the character writing from Kid Krillin to Vegeta are like actual 10/10 bangers.

The “puff puff” is actually pronounced “pafu pafu.” In Japan it’s onomatopoeia for someone putting their face between someone elses breasts.

6:30 The Yakuza 5 sidequests are real!

For me the series is great up until Piccolo Daimao. After that it just starts to get more and more boring to me. My own full thoughts on everything though are in a review video I did last year.

Blue seemed like a generic muscle dude but he was also gay

25:10 That's what I hated about DBZ. He didn't even need to drink that water, since he's a super sayan, who gets twice as strong whenever he almost dies. All of DB seems unneccessary now.

love it 🎉

5:02 No… that’s hilarious

Kameyameya

7:24 cus if they fight he'll beat him

Dragon ball is peak 🔝

Say what you will about his other talents but in his prime Toriyama was one of best pannelers of manga ever. Toyotaro's art is getting pretty good in the modern super manga, and he has some good ideas, but his panneling is mid.

I can't get the image of Goku in Fortnite out of my head. Waiting for the day they add Lucky Star...

Ballz for super nintendo

FYI Dragon Quest wasn't a Toriyama work. At all. He was just the character designer.

DB>DBZ

Dragon Ball just aged poorly as more competent writers took what Dragon Ball did, and did it better. Toriyama set a bar and others exceeded it so much more in the aspect of battle shonen.