I stopped watching dragon ball after watching it whilst high and realizing how bmany scenes were a slow zoom on a few repeated frames accompanied by the voice actor sounding like they’re aggressively dealing with a stopped bowel.
It’s a similar problem with any of the “endless” anime. It’s virtually impossible to sustain an interesting and coherent story over hundreds of episodes, so they almost inevitably have those annoying tropes they fall back on.
I know they’re popular but I pretty much die on the hill that there hasn’t been a good anime that has more than about 150 episodes (yes, that includes Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, DragonBall, etc).
I used to love Detective Conan. The anime came out in 1997 (the manga began in 1994) and it’s still running. At first I watched everything, but after a few years and still hundreds of episodes I’d never seen, I gave up trying to watch each one. I switched to only watching plot-relevant episodes, skipping the many filler episodes. Eventually, I simply gave up and lost interest.
There are over 1000 episodes now.
Poor Shinichi has been trapped in the body of a 7 year old for 30 years. Dude deserves to go back to his old life already.
They really dragged those scenes on that long eh?
I did kai on the rewatch, first watch I wouldnt do kai just because the fillers good imo
Look, if you want the abridged version, watch Dragonball Z Kai. It’s like 5 years shorter.
I stopped watching dragon ball after watching it whilst high and realizing how bmany scenes were a slow zoom on a few repeated frames accompanied by the voice actor sounding like they’re aggressively dealing with a stopped bowel.
It’s a similar problem with any of the “endless” anime. It’s virtually impossible to sustain an interesting and coherent story over hundreds of episodes, so they almost inevitably have those annoying tropes they fall back on.
I know they’re popular but I pretty much die on the hill that there hasn’t been a good anime that has more than about 150 episodes (yes, that includes Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, DragonBall, etc).
I used to love Detective Conan. The anime came out in 1997 (the manga began in 1994) and it’s still running. At first I watched everything, but after a few years and still hundreds of episodes I’d never seen, I gave up trying to watch each one. I switched to only watching plot-relevant episodes, skipping the many filler episodes. Eventually, I simply gave up and lost interest.
There are over 1000 episodes now.
Poor Shinichi has been trapped in the body of a 7 year old for 30 years. Dude deserves to go back to his old life already.