Majin Buu Saga - Why Its BETTER Than You Think... 

I loved this saga personally

Vegeta and Goku giving each other a thumbs up and laughing together will forever be my favorite Dragon Ball related moment.

It’s starts out rough, but by the end, it’s a love letter to everything dragon ball z represented.

There will never be another Buu saga for me. The joy of watching this unfold right before my eyes as a kid. Never missed when a new episode premiered. This whole show truly was and is something so special. Making me get emotional over here. Gosh man....

The reason I loves this arc, 1. Artstyle (marvelous and intense) 2. Vegeta's bigger, impactful, meaningful role 3. Super Saiyan 3 transformation 4. Vegito and Gohan's in battle return 5. Vegeta's all speeches and monologues that helps in understand and more developing his character ❤❤ And of course that MENACING Smile

This saga gave so many iconic moments mystic gohan, ssj3, majin vegeta, vegito, gotenks idk how anyone can hate it

I’ll say it’s the “worst” saga in Z, but that doesn’t inherently mean bad! The previous ones were just better written. The Buu saga is still really good!

To me, Buu Saga is peak Dragon Ball. It represents everything Toriyama wanted to do as he was given so much creative liberty and it shows. It's chaotic, but it's a beautiful mess that ends as a love song to everything Dragon Ball. Vegeta admitting that Goku is stronger than him, setting their rivalries aside, Vegeta becoming a better person, acknowledging so much that Goku did, the respect growing, his love for his family and so on and so forth. So many amazing and creative concepts thrown in. Everything about this being 'rushed' as fans put it makes sense since Buu is the biggest, most dangerous threat they had to face. They've been throwing everything and pulling out all the stops to be even able to have a chance at defeating him. I love how Buu is layered. he goes from a destructive child, to a caring, understanding young fellow that goes through some deep emotional trauma ending up with his Pure evil self nuking the earth. It's so different but that's why I love this saga the most. It makes you care the most because you see the years of peace after that fateful battle against Cell. The sheer despair of Buu makes all of the Hope for peace matter incredibly in the end. It feels like early Dragon Ball, with a beautiful message of mentors and students, with Earth learning how to save itself in the end. It just wraps the series in such an amazing little bow with Uub most likely representing the one whom Goku will finally pass on the torch to. It's a mess. But it's a beautiful, meaningful, iconic, rich mess. It's pure unadulterated Toriyama, and it was made with such passion and creativity that I just can't hate it. It introduced so many of the series' staples. The mystic state, the fusions, the SSJ3, just so many things that wouldn't be there if it didn't exist. So I am so, so grateful for it. And as a side note, I just cannot fathom how some people can even prefer anything from Super which reeks of cashgrabbing and corporate soullessness all over it while the Buu Saga is responsible for so many staples in the franchise, and was when Toriyama was at his most creative there.

The Buu saga is where I was introduced to DBZ. It was the only saga I owned and I watched it on repeat. It wasn't until years later I finally watched the entire series from start to finish in order. So to me the Buu saga is the standard I measure everything else to 😂

This is something I wanted to share for a while with the Buu saga being my favorite saga. The previous saga was about finalizing the side characters like Gohan, Piccolo and even krillin while the Buu saga was about finalizing Goku and Vegeta's character arcs. Whether it be Vegeta sucking up his pride and realizing what's important such as his family and knowing his place as number 2. Or Goku having the realization that one singular person can't save the earth and that everyone should contribute (the idea of the next generation saving the planet was meant to be an issue with Goku's ideology which is why Gohan and gotenks were meant to lose in that arc show casing the faults of this idea) and what's better is that both Goku and Vegeta help each other learn from their mistakes in the final battle such as Vegeta realizing Goku is number 1 thanks to Goku's clash with kid Buu or Vegeta telling Goku to use the spirit bomb to make everyone in the earth contribute to saving the planet. The Buu saga was meant to truly finalize everything in dragon ball because the cell saga while amazing cause Goku and Vegeta to leave themselves with destructive or negligent ideologies which would be further corrected on. Even the spirit bomb itself was meant to be a call back to the sayian saga with Goku seeing Gohan and krillin working together to stop Vegeta, however at the time Goku didn't think much of it and thought that he wasn't strong enough to 1v1 Vegeta and win. Then in the Buu arc Vegeta who witness the power of team work tells Goku that everyone should work together to defeat Buu (which is thematically beautiful since it took all of humanity to defeat the culmination of mortal evil) with everything coming full circle for both Goku and Vegeta, on top of other things like Buu being a direct counter to ssj3 adding stakes to the action, fusion being a small catalyst for the idea of team work. All in all the Buu Saga is in my honest opinion the best saga in dragon ball and is criminally underrated.

The only reason I’d say I’d prefer Vegito to Gogeta is that I enjoy Vegito’s personality and clothing design more representing a combination of both fighters designs while Gogeta doesn’t particularly have enough screen time unless you count GT to portray his personality like Vegito had here in the Buu saga and while Metamoran fashion is iconic the fact every fusion from the dance will get this clothing make it feel less unique of a form.

Never understood why this arc gets so much hate, it’s my personal favorite

Vegeta vs spectators might be my favorite fight in the saga

This arc means a lot to me personally, I’m so glad you made this video to show more love to it.

If the Buu saga was ended by the Final atonement it would be the best arc ever in DB history.

While being my 1st Gateway into Anime, the Majin Buu Saga was actually my 1st Indruction to the "Dragon Ball" series when the Arc had started running in 2001 to 2002 on Western T.V.

I found out about the Buu saga through the vhs tapes they use to sell with pictures of the episodes on the back and cover. I never knew there was another major villain after cell. This saga gets a lot of criticism but it’s responsible for some of the fanbases most iconic and loved characters like Vegito, Ultimate Gohan, Majin Vegta and Kid Buu. I will always love this saga.

The Ultimate Menace: Majin Buu The serious version.

You are now one of my favorite (newer) RU-vidrs. A good mix of calm opinion, recap, and analysis retrospectives of anime I like. Excited to see more!

I like the buu arc do to how hopeless it felt. Everytime the z fighters come up with something buu finds a way to overcome that. I also love the ssj2 goku vs ssj2 vegeta fight🔥🔥

This is the longest video so far so if you watched to the end you're the goat! 😂 Lmk what you think about this saga. Next video will be the 2nd part of Ranking DBZ Fights.

Buu saga holds a special place in my heart due to playing Legacy of Goku: Buu’s Fury when I was a kid

I remembered this saga was not that masterpiece, but I'm rewatching some episodes in these days. How can I say, it's amazing, probably one of the most underrated and beautiful anime sagas

Good video TY for sharing with us. Saw from beginning to end @ work.

An interesting comparison to make is how the arc (especially around the beginning) differs in the manga. The whole school + Great Saiyaman is cemented in my memory as a bit bloated and felt like it overstayed its welcome. But when I finished the manga the other day, I noticed how much of that was filler. From the very beginning of the arc to Gohan's identity being exposed to Videl is only 5 chapters. And compared to how I felt watching the anime (which admittedly was a very long time ago now) I found that section to be one of my favourite parts of the entire manga. The whole nerdiness of Gohan didn't feel as egregious just due to how much shorter it was. Really, he came across to me as someone who had never interacted with people his age, so he has no clue what is normal. He even complimented himself for keeping a low profile during baseball when he took the ball directly to the face. Another interesting note is that throughout the entire manga, Goku was the only one where the initial transformation into super saiyan is shown. Even Future Trunks was shown to already be a super saiyan by the time Gohan dies. So it doesn't feel as unearned for the kids to be super saiyans, it feels more like a demonstration of their natural strength. The Goten and Trunks fight felt almost like a return to the first two Tenkaichi Budokai we get to see, with comedic fights showing the sheer gap between the characters we know and everyone else. This arc actually cemented the tournament announcer as one of my favourite characters in the entire series due to his internal thoughts about how the tournament was finally returning to its roots. Unfortunately, it's been far too long since I've watched the anime to remember any differences past the beginning parts of the arc, though I do wish some of the character moments from the end of the Cell arc could have been followed up on a bit better. I feel as though Gohan was handled perfectly fine throughout, as someone who only trained when there was an active threat, but I really wished that Vegeta wasn't walked back to being his previous self immediately after. For context, at the end of the Cell Games, he has this line: "I've been completely beaten... by that guy and his son. Damn you, Kakarot! Why'd you have to die like that?" "I will.... never fight again..." That was literally his last line in the entire arc, but it was pretty much forgotten about by the start of the Buu arc. One final note I'd like to mention is power scaling. Oftentimes I see an assumption that everyone in the Buu arc is massively stronger than in the Cell arc, however it's mentioned a few times how after seven years of nearly non-stop training, Vegeta and Goku only managed to *slightly* surpass the level Gohan was at against Cell. And unlike say, the Frieza arc, the only large jump in power throughout by an individual is Gohan getting his potential unleashed. Buu gets stronger temporarily to match with the fusions, but at the end of the day, every power boost comes from cooperation. So it's fitting that the move to beat Buu is the Spirit Bomb, and also that the only time that attack defeated its opponent is when the energy isn't just taken from the planet but willingly given by the people.

Thank you for this perfect video, now I understand this arc more.

Not despised but it’s relative bc the saiyan arc, frieza arc, AND Cell arc are absolutely incredible.

Yes! finally someone talking about the Buu Saga and how good it is. people use to focus on the negative aspects of the saga but forgets all of the good stuff, tbf there were more stuff that i think could have been brought up in the video like the soundtrack which is top tier in this saga, or that episode that concludes the saga, the one where Goku help to take care of eggs of a dinosaur, and thinking about his childhood and his grandpa, that episode is VERY underrated and one of the most heartfelt episodes of the entirety of dragon ball. i hope one day you can do a video like this, about Dragon Ball GT, which i also think it's better than most think it is.

Quick correction: Piccolo didn’t bow out of his fight with Shin because he thought he was too strong. He did because he was frozen with shock at meeting such a high status figure, since he knows of the Kais as a hierarchy thanks to Kami’s memories.

Top tier vid man !

Man your videos got some quality 👌 greetings from vienna.

Don’t take a shot every time he says “effortlessly”

I love how chaotic and unpredictable this saga. Watching my roommate's face (who has never seen DB) was hilarious as she kept trying to guess what was coming next. "The earrings do WHAT!?" and "NO HE ATE GOHAN!" were some of my favorite outbursts.

I can watch Dragonball assessments all day. Especially when they're so well articulated. You've just earned another subscriber.

People who say this is the worst saga have no brain prove me wrong

Great review!

You deserve so many more subscribers amazing content

Good video. You threw all your cred right out the window at 15:16 tho 😂

I loved how you had the music at the end sound like the ending of Eva with the horns it really fits loved the video

Great video sir.

very underrated youtuber tbh great video aswell

As an artist, Buu saga has the most impressive animation art in anime history to me.

I watched the first anime before Z so I have to say the Buu Saga is classic Toriyama. To understand and appreciate this saga one has to understand the original Dragon Ball and how Toriyama writes his mangas.

Nice overview. Love it 👍

in my opinion buu saga is kinda bad due to many things like setups were added for later to be nothing like goten was created to replace goku but at first gohan was supposed to be the main character in the buu saga but sadly people begged toriyama to make goku the hero again and in the buu saga goku learnt nothing meaning we learnt nothing like really in the cell saga goku learnt that his son doesn't like fighting but I guess super saiyan 3 out of nowhere is somewhat better.

The first episode of DBZ I ever saw was from the world tournament saga, around 2002 or so, from there I kept watching on cable tv every week. Soon after I started watching the older episodes on VHS when I had an opportunity to buy them or for my parents to get them for me. For me this saga is super nostalgic and despite some of the flaws it’s really a combination of all the best aspects of DBZ put together.

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This was an amazing video,keep going bro.

Good video 🔥

Buu is still the craziest villian we’ve seen so far

Cool video man, keep it up.

Love to see ur channel growing!

The arc starts solid, then it's repeated dislike of Gohan, Piccolo and anyone not named Goku really starts to hamper it. Especially considering Goku himself has no interest being the hero for a solid half of it. The fact it not only hamstrings Hercules efforts to pacify Buu but also Gotenks or Gohan from just ending the saga. Just really shows it was padded out for the sake of being padded out too.

It’s easily my favorite dragon ball saga ever and I’ve been watching dragon ball since 1996 lol 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙌🏽🔥❤️ Buu did every single thing imaginable.

Bro tell me how its raining where im at while i was watching this and right after tht clip of mystic gohan saying "fight u no i wanna kill u" there was a loud roar of thunder and lightning flashing outside like talk about perfect timing 😂🔥🔥

The Buu is saga is the worst of Z, mainly by comparison. It stands on its own alright. The biggest issue is Toriyama’s style just didn’t work in the this arc. We know he doesn’t plan, but usually his story ends up fitting together near perfectly. Something felt off this whole saga though.

you can't hate on piccolo backing off from supreme kai. even if he did know he's stronger, piccolo probably knows enough about kai's superiority that he didn't want to risk anything going wrong on either end. hope this makes sense lol

I always loved this and this gohan is in my top 3 for him

I made it to the end. =) To answer your question, the Buu saga was my most favorite. I love it so much. Thank you for your work! =) 😊

I love everything about the Saga except for Buu. Personally Cell took the cake for me.

Your final words expresses my thoughts on this arc, while it does have its fair share of unforgettable moments, character development and fights. It falls short in some areas with a good number of story arcs that could've been done better or removed entirely. I gained a bigger respect for this arc after my revisit of DBZ a few months back and watching this video, but the issues i have with it just becomes more clear. Its still a very solid arc with an amazing final act, it just have some story arcs i could do without

"outright dispised by most" Okay that's just wrong lmao

Majin Buu is my second favorite saga. Gohan in high school, the world tournament, babidis minion's, majin buu being the most unique villian of the whole franchise. I never understood the hate

I like the moment at the end when they show Gohan and Videl fighting crime together. Earlier on Gohan had a dorky superhero costume, then he got a new costume that was also dorky. Then at the end Gohan's wearing the second costume while Videl's wearing what's basically the first one. Being dorky together--how romantic!

As someone who grew up from an early age with Dragon Ball.. This saga was always my favorite growing up, especially with Vegeta’s character arc being a key point throughout the saga. Nowadays I’m rewatching the original run of Dragon Ball. Gonna get to Z shortly. Honestly I think the Sayain Saga and the Cell saga are the two im most anticipating rewatching

He turned Dabura into a cookie

The ssj3 transformation by Goku vs fat buu was the most hype thing I ever saw in my childhood

I think this saga is my favorite overall. Great video!

10:32 thank you for acknowledging that hilarious attack 😂

It's biggest issue is it came after the cell saga

The artstyle alone makes it iconic. It introduced Gotenks and SSJ 3.

Super Saiyan 3 was hyped up so much, but it didn't win the day. Not even Ultimate Gohan or any fusion. A Spirit Bomb was what saved the day

The Buu Arc is literally the BEST way Dragon Ball could've ended. It is a throwback to EVERYTHING that made Dragon Ball worth reading/watching to begin with. It has a little of everything for everybody.

Man you’re a small channel but I really enjoy your reviews and commentary.

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The Buu Saga is actually excellent. In the manga, not anime, that is. The animation studio knew DBZ was gonna end, so they did what they do best: stretch the story with filler scenes and episodes.

Buu was my favorite when i was young so this arc hits home for me.

Honestly, Buu was my introduction to DBZ as a child. I have it to thank for my love of battle 🤟😈

I love the great Saiyaman. 😅 I grew up on power rangers so I definitely got a kick out of it.

Of all the recappers. Thank you for being realistic and appreciative of the artistry of this masterpiece of a franchise. “I am not worthy I am not worthy” to your comment on Gogeta.

In some points during the Kid Buu section it sounds like somebody watched CJ Dachamp's video hahaha

Another Goten Fan, massive W

This saga is my all time favourite in anime history, it was the reason i started watching anime.

I love the music in this video. The orchestral versions of the tournament of power. Some of my favorite pieces in dragon ball.

I think if you’re more into the dynamic between Goku and Vegeta, it’s a W. If you’re a massive Gohan fan, maybe not-even if there are some cool moments for him in this saga. Either way I think it serves as a good “epilogue” for the series

I’d say it has one of the best moments goku having an actual death stare and vegito smoking the majin buu pack

Funny enough the super sayian 2 fight against kid buu is easily my favorite in the whole series even the ssj3 fight wasn’t as good

I find a lot of people (like myself) who actually like the Buu Saga tend to be Vegeta fans. Makes sense. Vegeta has a lot of W moments in that saga

buu saga is my favorite, it's the most entertaining dbz arc

While it’s disappointing that Gohan (and Piccolo and Gotenks) doesn’t end up reaching his potential, seeing Goku back to life, friends with Vegeta and getting the energy from all his friends over the year was great too. Mr. Satan also goes from super annoying to a true hero in this saga

"How bout some new boots? Size nine please."

The animation was dope. But the saga should have ended with Majin vegeta battling buu for longer and destroying buu with his sacrifice

Great video, just a slight correction. Babidi killed spopovich while pui pui killed yamu. Dabura wasn’t involved with their deaths.

The Buu saga has high-highs and low-lows. I think some of the most iconic moments came from it, but man when it’s slow it’s slow.

This saga being told in Budokai 2 is so nostalgic

I like how you used the pride of a prince from the Kai dub

I will say, after Toriyama’s editors botched the entire Cell arc with their meddling, this arc feels like he actually got to do whatever he wanted. Even despite the end result not being fantastic, you can feel the passion in his work here, and that’s just too good.

This saga has some of my favorite characters/moments - SSJ goku, adult Gohan, Dabura, supreme kai.

The AMVs went crazy hard with this saga back in the day

It falls off so hard when goku comes back from the dead