How old were you when you started watching DB/Z/GT? - Page 2

RandomPenguin · 05-05-2008

i started watching it when i was around 3-4 i was really young back then but loved the show lol and had the action figures

**LegendarySSJ7** · 05-06-2008

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Originally Posted by Madness

The Funi, Ocean and original dub are all like different shows to me. I watched the Ocean Dub of the Vegeta Saga the other day and I loved it. The music was actually reallygood. It's much more like the original japanese music than the Funi dub is.

If I have any qualm with Dragonball's anime score, it's that in every single version the score has been rather trite and repetitive (a qualm that might not escape the collective throats of the community at large either, if I'm not mistaken). Threading the track three times over in the final battle of the series in the Japanese version didn't help, even if the score is classic. As for the OCEAN dub score, it's not bad as it's a good, apposite background that doesn't clash with the footage, but it's nothing even remotely similar to the original Japanese score to me. Nor is the FUNimation dub's score - the only time the Japanese score was used in the FUNimation dub was in Dragonball (pre-Z Era), which makes it somewhat remote in usage.

The Japanese version was rather reliant on silence as a backdrop and using sparse tracks (but then common here and there) as a bold way to convey the tone (making one feel a warring notion through sheer music and the range of emotion conveyed). I felt this was a good approach, but somewhat unfulfilling considering how redundant said music became (but not vapid by full intents and means). The FUNimation dub relied on beefing up the footage through electronic music that changed whenever the scene changed, to convey a change in tone, which became a bit unnecessary (though I felt the music had a good tone for each episode). The OCEAN dub has a much more quiet score, but it was a bit lacking in variety to me.

That aside, as for the thread's subject of discussion... I started watching it back when the OCEAN dub first aired in September of 1996, so I was 7 at the timeframe.

Lord Saiyan · 05-06-2008

a rather latecomer.....12 years of age..........

Eternal Dragon · 05-09-2008

First episode I saw was I'd say around 1997 or 98 when it became super popular. So I was about 10 years old but I despised the show, I watched a part of it because I was flipping through the channels.

I started becoming a small fan of it when I stayed home sick one day and saw the a rerun episode of when Trunks comes from the future and tells Goku about the androids and his heritage, I always thought DBZ was just a hard core fighting show, but after watching that episode I realized it was also quite funny, and I thought it was interesting how Trunks came from the future so I slowly started getting hooked on it. I also started watching DBGT around that time, I say I was about 15.

Then about two years ago I became a very big fan of the show, I was able to watch a lot of the episodes I never saw and read a lot of the manga, did a lot of the research and started becoming a member on a lot of forums. I was 17

I'm 19 now, and I'm still obsessed with the anime. I've realized that Dragonball is my favorite out of the three, and I'm currently making a huge fansite of the series that hopefully will be open one day. Most people like the anime because of the fighting, but I like it more for other reasons. I like it because of how much time passes from beginning to end. People actually grow up, the main characters actually have kids, and the kids grow up. Not many animes do that. Most animes has a teenager as the main character. But in this one we start off as a little kid, to a man in his 50's.

SuperSaiyanJERICHO · 05-14-2008

i was 5 and have seen DB-DBZ-DBGT and cant wait until some couple of fans make some fan-made manga.

Super_17 · 05-15-2008

I think was 10 or 11 when I first saw a episode of dbz

yellowsky · 05-16-2008

Funny enough, I watched a few episodes without knowing when I was 7 with my cousins.
And then one day, an uni student my mum worked with at her workplace paid my family a visit and I was drawing pokemon at that time-embarrassingly and he introduced me to Dragonball. He said how magical the show is and I had Toonami on then and Toonami showed a Dragonball teaser just then and we both went "wow" and I started to watch it from then on!

so..let me see..that's like...when I was...13 or 14. So roughly 4 years ago? o__O?

05-05-2008	#16 (permalink)
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05-06-2008	#18 (permalink)
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05-09-2008	#19 (permalink)
Eternal Dragon (9) Namekian Warrior Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 103 Rep Power: 1	Re: How old were you when you started watching DB/Z/GT? First episode I saw was I'd say around 1997 or 98 when it became super popular. So I was about 10 years old but I despised the show, I watched a part of it because I was flipping through the channels. I started becoming a small fan of it when I stayed home sick one day and saw the a rerun episode of when Trunks comes from the future and tells Goku about the androids and his heritage, I always thought DBZ was just a hard core fighting show, but after watching that episode I realized it was also quite funny, and I thought it was interesting how Trunks came from the future so I slowly started getting hooked on it. I also started watching DBGT around that time, I say I was about 15. Then about two years ago I became a very big fan of the show, I was able to watch a lot of the episodes I never saw and read a lot of the manga, did a lot of the research and started becoming a member on a lot of forums. I was 17 I'm 19 now, and I'm still obsessed with the anime. I've realized that Dragonball is my favorite out of the three, and I'm currently making a huge fansite of the series that hopefully will be open one day. Most people like the anime because of the fighting, but I like it more for other reasons. I like it because of how much time passes from beginning to end. People actually grow up, the main characters actually have kids, and the kids grow up. Not many animes do that. Most animes has a teenager as the main character. But in this one we start off as a little kid, to a man in his 50's. __________________

05-14-2008	#20 (permalink)
SuperSaiyanJERICHO (10) Saiyan Elite Join Date: May 2008 Location: DBZ Posts: 160 Blog Entries: 1 Rep Power: 1	Re: How old were you when you started watching DB/Z/GT? i was 5 and have seen DB-DBZ-DBGT and cant wait until some couple of fans make some fan-made manga. __________________ My BLOG: siik195.vox.com

05-15-2008	#21 (permalink)
Super_17 (23) Final Warrior Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Maryland, US Posts: 2,603 Blog Entries: 3 Rep Power: 6	Re: How old were you when you started watching DB/Z/GT? I think was 10 or 11 when I first saw a episode of dbz __________________ "desire is irrelevant, I am a machine."- The terminator

05-16-2008	#22 (permalink)
yellowsky (6) Disciple of Kami Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 55 Rep Power: 1	Re: How old were you when you started watching DB/Z/GT? Funny enough, I watched a few episodes without knowing when I was 7 with my cousins. And then one day, an uni student my mum worked with at her workplace paid my family a visit and I was drawing pokemon at that time-embarrassingly and he introduced me to Dragonball. He said how magical the show is and I had Toonami on then and Toonami showed a Dragonball teaser just then and we both went "wow" and I started to watch it from then on! so..let me see..that's like...when I was...13 or 14. So roughly 4 years ago? o__O?