thoughts of the non-working
back when i was still a wee-teenager, and i worked at the 'ol anime store, i really hated dragonball z (henceforth referred to as "duh-bizz"). maybe hate is a strong word, but i had little care for it. much like everything else everyone else seems to fawn over, the more people loved duh-bizz, the less i cared for it. unfortunately, this was during a period of introductory anime, even before pokemon, where when it came to kids liking anime, kids liked duh-bizz.
and at the time, the guys i worked for knew this, and capitalized on it, as any good business managers should. but that left all of us who worked there to have to actually know a few things about duh-bizz, so that we could push and sell it onto the less than knowledgible, or the posers who wished to expand their duh-bizz exposure. it was kind of like torture. the top selling things at the store were always duh-bizz garbage. videos, special order video/dvds, t-shirts, t-shirts, t-shirts, and every imported duh-bizz toy we could manage to order.
i didn't understand the appeal of duh-bizz. duh-bizz alone was an almost ungodly 300 episodes, not to mention the 100+ from the prefacing duh-bee and the ensuing duh-bee-GT afterward. even from a kids perspective, i have to imagine that it's gotta get boring after the first 50 hours of non-stop fighting, endless battle stamina, and a billy mays-like BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE powering up until finally the animators threaten to go on strike bringing a pointless and poorly executed conclusion to each "epic" battle. and to think, i've known people who have seen literally every single duh-bizz episode, movie, special, and all the prequels and sequels, wondering wtf?
needless to say, i remember discussing with other people, that i couldn't wait for the day when duh-bizz more or less died down. welp, it's been ten years since those hostile teenage thoughts, but it's nice to know that duh-bizz is pretty much no longer "in," nor is it really relevant to current times anime fandom, either. not that i couldn't really care less about any of those niches nowadays, but something that i was thinking about while i was running today.
and at the time, the guys i worked for knew this, and capitalized on it, as any good business managers should. but that left all of us who worked there to have to actually know a few things about duh-bizz, so that we could push and sell it onto the less than knowledgible, or the posers who wished to expand their duh-bizz exposure. it was kind of like torture. the top selling things at the store were always duh-bizz garbage. videos, special order video/dvds, t-shirts, t-shirts, t-shirts, and every imported duh-bizz toy we could manage to order.
i didn't understand the appeal of duh-bizz. duh-bizz alone was an almost ungodly 300 episodes, not to mention the 100+ from the prefacing duh-bee and the ensuing duh-bee-GT afterward. even from a kids perspective, i have to imagine that it's gotta get boring after the first 50 hours of non-stop fighting, endless battle stamina, and a billy mays-like BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE powering up until finally the animators threaten to go on strike bringing a pointless and poorly executed conclusion to each "epic" battle. and to think, i've known people who have seen literally every single duh-bizz episode, movie, special, and all the prequels and sequels, wondering wtf?
needless to say, i remember discussing with other people, that i couldn't wait for the day when duh-bizz more or less died down. welp, it's been ten years since those hostile teenage thoughts, but it's nice to know that duh-bizz is pretty much no longer "in," nor is it really relevant to current times anime fandom, either. not that i couldn't really care less about any of those niches nowadays, but something that i was thinking about while i was running today.