Dragon Ball musings and ratings
...it's a bit weird for me to acknowledge that I am a dragon ball fan...
...as a second generation otaku I really shouldn't have those feelings but this one is unique...
I watched Dragon Ball for years and years...and dare I add...years...which means that I know all the characters, all the plots, saw all the movies and everything in between...
I discussed it with friends, saw girls watching it because Trunks was hot, cried for the very first time watching an anime when I saw Piccolo sacrifice himself for Gohan, and cried for the very last time while watching an anime when I saw Piccolo blow up with earth in the cursed and hated dragon ball gt.
SPENT 6 MONTHS UNABLE TO EAT CHOCOLATE BECAUSE OF DRAGON BALL Z!! still mad about this one...
most of my otaku collectibles are from dragon ball, and I am probably the only one who taped ALL of dragon ball, dragon ball z, dragon ball gt and ALL the other stuff.
my favorites were Piccolo and Vegeta...oh...it was not love at first sight...they earned it!
you see...Goku though the lovable hero of the story was flawed...the things that made him unique as a child didn't exactly evolve when he turned into a man. and more often that not I found myself annoyed with him. yes...I understood that he could not acknowledge himself as a saiyan because that would mean he changed into a monkey and killed his grandfather. Yes...I knew he could never be a good father and husband because he was a saiyan and he loves fighting! he was caring as he was distant...always in search of the next grand aventure. but it annoyed me more and more as I saw Piccolo becoming a father figure for Gohan...as I saw Vegeta turn himself into a family man...as Goku became more and more the child he was once.
so this new season of Dragon Ball brought me closure in some form...I remember being with my school friends arguing about parenthood in dragon ball...Krillin was obviously the best father but alas Vegeta was always viewed as a terrible father unable to show emotion...and Goku was the Hero so he could not fail. even when he sent his nerdy and bookworm son to fight Cell alone. why? because he didn't truly know his son because he was never there so he never understood how much his son didn't like fighting....so finally I was proven right because hearing Goku say that he wasn't even present for Gohan's birth while Vegeta was willing to miss a hell of a fight(which he also loves) to be there for the birth of his daughter is the end of that discussion...Goku is a distant parent and Vegeta isn't....
...it's just too bad I am not in school with my mates to say Aha! I was right...because those carefree moments will never come back again...
...as a second generation otaku I really shouldn't have those feelings but this one is unique...
I watched Dragon Ball for years and years...and dare I add...years...which means that I know all the characters, all the plots, saw all the movies and everything in between...
I discussed it with friends, saw girls watching it because Trunks was hot, cried for the very first time watching an anime when I saw Piccolo sacrifice himself for Gohan, and cried for the very last time while watching an anime when I saw Piccolo blow up with earth in the cursed and hated dragon ball gt.
SPENT 6 MONTHS UNABLE TO EAT CHOCOLATE BECAUSE OF DRAGON BALL Z!! still mad about this one...
most of my otaku collectibles are from dragon ball, and I am probably the only one who taped ALL of dragon ball, dragon ball z, dragon ball gt and ALL the other stuff.
my favorites were Piccolo and Vegeta...oh...it was not love at first sight...they earned it!
you see...Goku though the lovable hero of the story was flawed...the things that made him unique as a child didn't exactly evolve when he turned into a man. and more often that not I found myself annoyed with him. yes...I understood that he could not acknowledge himself as a saiyan because that would mean he changed into a monkey and killed his grandfather. Yes...I knew he could never be a good father and husband because he was a saiyan and he loves fighting! he was caring as he was distant...always in search of the next grand aventure. but it annoyed me more and more as I saw Piccolo becoming a father figure for Gohan...as I saw Vegeta turn himself into a family man...as Goku became more and more the child he was once.
so this new season of Dragon Ball brought me closure in some form...I remember being with my school friends arguing about parenthood in dragon ball...Krillin was obviously the best father but alas Vegeta was always viewed as a terrible father unable to show emotion...and Goku was the Hero so he could not fail. even when he sent his nerdy and bookworm son to fight Cell alone. why? because he didn't truly know his son because he was never there so he never understood how much his son didn't like fighting....so finally I was proven right because hearing Goku say that he wasn't even present for Gohan's birth while Vegeta was willing to miss a hell of a fight(which he also loves) to be there for the birth of his daughter is the end of that discussion...Goku is a distant parent and Vegeta isn't....
...it's just too bad I am not in school with my mates to say Aha! I was right...because those carefree moments will never come back again...