Even I, a non-fan of DBZ, fully acknowledge that it has had a permanent impact on global culture. Its place in the history of manga cannot be ignored. Toriyama-san took inspiration from Chinese mythology and martial art films and created something unique, whereas so many other Jump manga come across as unoriginal (some even ripped off DBZ).
@@ozzyhaye yeh but back then we knew about a power beyond ssj just not what it was. While for goku,we didn't even know what ssj was until he transformed
“Like every character in Dragon Ball, death would only prove to be temporary” -Super Eyepatch Wolf. We all will miss Akira Toriyama, but at the same time, I feel that we will never truly be without him. Thank you Akira, and thank you John. You both have positively impacted my life in multiple ways.
I used to work at a gym and almost all the competing body builders were huge DBZ fans and would wear DBZ workout shirts. They basically started as shy nerdy kids watching the show, which motivated them into working hard and getting jacked.
Crazelord91 i think you’re exaggerating the definition of geek. DBZ touched a lot of kids lives in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. From the nerd to the jock, any dude who’s like 27 - 35 years old was probably watching during those years.
i watched it late at night when i was like 4. I dont think i understood what was going on, but i liked watching it and i dont think i tried to go super saiyan
A key theme in Dragonball and Dragonball Z is training. That taught me as a child that you can get good at anything if you put hard work and time into it. I was especially inspired by Vegetas training, he trained the hardest.
@@2miligrams A little bit of an oversimplification, Vegeta poured all he could, he survived and got humiliated by a low class saiyan, and to put insult to death, that same saiyan became the first super saiyan in a thousand years, he was fueled by two things only, to surpass Kakarot, and honor his status by becoming SSJ, and his fight with A18 builds on that
@@mr.preston1632 he got junipers bybgoku because vegeta was an egotistical genocidal maniac lol he DESERVED TO GET HUMILIATED!! That shouldn’t be a point of sympathy you hold towards him lmao. You vegeta freaks are delusional
This series singlehandedly drove me to be the top of my class in my dojang & earn my black belt by 13 - I'd rush home from school and I'd have my VHS set and ready for me to hit record for when I'd have to leave for TaeKwonDo; dbz happened to come on the MINUTE I'd have to be leaving. So I'd watch everything else on toonami up until that moment, hit record, and try not to lag behind trying to catch what was gonna happen on that days episode or else I'd be late lol. And I'd go give it probably more effort than what could possibly expected from a kid training in any martial art, because in my mind I knew goku and friends were battling it out at the same time on my TV, with my favorite characters probably DYING, so if I didn't give it my absolute ALL, I couldn't possibly consider myself in their league - which, is where all us kid fans desperately wanted to be.
Toriyama passed away so I rewatched this. This video essay is the best tribute I can think of. « Dragon Ball Z wasn’t a story about getting what you want, it was one about surpassing who you are. » 🙏
It still blows my mind that I can walk into a Walmart, Target or any other department store in the United States and you will still find DBZ merchandise, particularly t-shirts and hats, on display. The series ended its original run 17 years ago in the US! The cultural impact of DBZ can't be understated and if you're a millennial male, chances are you're a fan.
Agreed. As a 36 year old guy I can tell you half the guys in my grade 10 class in 99/2000 talked about this show. Especially the first time Goku goes super Saiyan. When that finally made Canadian syndication, it was transcendent.
Sadly same cannot be said for my country Canada well yes it did air on tv people that I talked to who live here barely know the show at all sometimes they know a bit about it and that would be it
Even as a female you can still see how good dragonball is. Hell my 3 female cousin's are huge fans of dragonball still. This show has impact like no other in the rest of the world.
I'm mad because this is a lot of exactly what I'd say if I made a video on DBZ. It was on a whole grander scale compared to every other American cartoon. You nailed it.
RebelTaxi Pan ive watched you for years yet you have yet to make a review on dbz I'm pretty sure your channel will blow up if you did do mainstream animes or cartoons
You should probably still do it anyway. You're your own guy with your own video-making style and personality, even if you do end up saying some of the same stuff you're still getting a good message across and bringing these thoughts to members of your fanbase who may never see this.
After Vegeta got crushed by Frieza and he dropped a whole speech on how Frieza was the one responsible for turning him into a monster he is.... Man, that scene hit me hard! That's what made The Prince my dude
yea it made me feel sorry for vegeta and it made me actually like the character because it explains why he does these things and makes him feel more like a person rather than a classic villain.
I broke into tears on that scene. I enjoyed Vegeta's character development so much during the planet Namek series. Then listening to his speech about his life but then passing got me so pissed that I wanted to murder Friezia. For some reason I forgot about the Dragon Balls.🤦♂️
As a kid I used to despise the Frieza arc when it used to come on the one hour Toonami show every weekend on cartoon network. It always rebooted mid way Frieza arc for few years till it got canceled. I only got to see Goku turn SS after I remembered Dbz during highschool when youtube was new.
I remember the episode where goku is just freshly turned super saiyan just came on and 1 minute In the episode my parents shut off the TV and said, we are going out for dinner. They didn't get it 😔
I wasn't even born when get Goku went super saiyan, so the closest experience I have to that is watching him go Ultra Instinct and seeing the interet break over the ultra instinct. If Ultra Instinct broke the internet, I can't even imagine how Super Saiyan 1 or Super Saiyan 2 would've broken the internet given how much hype their transformations had.
Im crying again. Ive cried a few times since last night when i saw the news of Toriyama's passing. The impact that dragon ball has had on my life is beyond profound. It's like ive lost a friend or a family member that ive never met. And yet i am stricken with grief. May Akira Toriyama rest in peace, and as Oda has already stated, I hope the afterlife is just as peaceful as he envisioned it to be.
Watching the blood, the gore and the violence as a kid was shocking as well as a revelation. DBZ was the first children's show that portrayed all this. Thank you DBZ for making my childhood memorable
Not for me!!! The first anime I watched was fist of the north star then Akira so by the time I saw DragonBall z like in 1993ish I loved it but the violence was tame compared to other anime of that time.
@@Quicksilver12345 yes fist of the north star was. I was around 12 and never seen violence in a cartoon like that lol plus it was very entertainment. By the time I discovered Dragon ball z I was wel into anime which we called japanimation back then
Even people who don’t have any clue about the anime industry know about Goku and Dragon Ball. It is so popular that the mascot for the Olympics was Goku, someone EVERYONE recognises.
@@sbevexlr848 The 2020 Summer Olympics. Plus, however, I have no clue on how to answer to your question properly because if you search for this information on the Internet and you look it up, then, there, different sources tell you that 9 anime characters will also be representing The 2020 Summer Olympics along the Official Mascot - Miraitowa. It's also stated that Son Goku will serve as a 'Cultural Ambassador'.
Growing up in the US in the 90’s me and my friends would literally rush home from school and go to my house (which was the first bus stop so it was quicker) just to watch DBZ literally everyday, and it was all that we talked about, when we played outside, we were pretending to be DBZ characters, every birthday and Christmas we all asked for DBZ related things, it’s not unfair to say this show shaped my child hood
I live in the other side of the world (literally and figuratively too), in Hungary we rushed home from the bus to watch DBZ, had to fight my Grandma to let me eat in front of the TV. And it was the same for everyone. It says a lot that this is a worldwide phenomenon that affected this generation in quite the same way. Not much later 'adults' realized that they shouldn't broadcast this much violence in broad daylight, and Hungary lost Dragon Ball for years as it was literally banned from TV. (Legend says a kid died when trying to fly or summon the magic cloud, and parents nationwide were outraged). I was at University when I finally had access to the whole series on torrent, and could experience the whole of DB and DBZ (and deliberately not GT)
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Same but in Argentina, I watched the show with my dad, we still have found memories of the show, now Im introducing it to my nieces. I do wonder from where this footagle is taken, it looks gorgeous and in the original aspect ratio.
I'm a 2008 kid learned about it in 2015 changed my life I used to be antisocial kid was picked on found out about it on adult swim was my favorite show and still is 2 mouths later I was wearing a dbz shirt a kid who is now my best friend realized my shirt he also loved dbz and he taught me about anime now I'm a huge otaku
Wow man, the last 5 minutes of the video gave me constant goosebumps You were able to explain exactly how we the early 90s children feel about what this series meant to us Thank you for that
Veiregor O' Real oh god,you'll give your children a good childhood,butbdont make them full blown nerds,they'll commit auicide be for they can even finish all the series except GT
I remember watching a documentary once about how Bruce Lee influenced many different communities from the NFL to MMA to Bodybuilding to Hip Hop culture, and I feel like you could make the same documentary for a show like Dragonball Z. If you asked any UFC fighter, Pro wrestler, NFL player, or NBA player what they’re childhood influences are, I can guarantee 9 out of 10 of them would say Dragonball Z.
_"It only feels right to end this video with the part of Dragon Ball Z that stayed with me the longest, and the character that affected me the most"_ *Vegeta appears* *my heart relocates to the throat and I'm promptly flooded with memory of crying my eyes out after that one episode of Majin Buu Saga*
That one simply made me feel broken and sad like shit. Goku going Super Saiyan and beating Frieza was supposed to be something grand and victorious, but all I can think about now past the revelations is "unfair, unfair, unfair". Majin Buu episode launched the waterworks.
Vegeta was the original lame edgelord that will forever be remembered as an absolute loser and whose biggest sin was to serve as a template for even shittier designs, such as Sasuke.
Alitoh edge lord? More like a prideful spitfuck like gilgamesh from fate. Sasuke's edginess is on whole other level compared to anything vageta has ever dished out.
Definitely not rhe best writing, like in no way is it a lord of the rings, but in terms of influence it damn well is up there and will be remembered 1000s of years from now if we don't blow ourselves uo
Adult wolf: "dragon Ball z have this amazing style and the villains have this power and those metaphors and amazing development of characters" Child wolf: "HOLY SHIT GOKU JUST DESTROYED FREEZA, MOOOM! LOOK AT THIS!!!! HE JUST USED THE KAMEHAMEHA WAVE AND KILLED THE VILLAINS OH MAN ITS SO COOOOOOOOL!!!!"
@@baronvondmac6681 Goku SSJB kaiokenX20 and Vegeta SSJBE Goku UI (Omen) and Goku MUI and Jiren also don't forget beerus who is at least Goku UI (Omen) Level...
Bandabanana he did connect hits and Gogeta gets a gnarly guy shot and it’s Broly attack that breaks them out of the fragmented reality. Fused characters wouldn’t count though as it’s 2 to equal 1. I’m confident that Broly could stomp Jiren. Pay attention to the thread next time. Peace and greased hair
Kids of every time have something to remember as we guys include dbz in our childhood.... children of today are gonna have death note and attack on titan... i mean they are also great in themselves. Yes truely they are as much as dbz....
I just had to come back and watch this video again. I found it... tonally appropriate. Thank you, Akira Toriyama. For teaching us, all of us, to go even further beyond. 🐉
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"It felt like a show you shouldn't be watching" This is why all my friends would come to my place after school. None of our parents would let us watch it, but I had a couple hours all to myself before my parents got home from work.
Lmao nice! I'm sure your friends appreciated you so much. When I was growing up, I was always that kid who wasn't allowed to watch or read anything cool, and it was so cool when my friends were so enthusiastic for me to experience something awesome that they'd smuggle me into their houses like contraband to watch or read stuff with them.
@@horseenthusiast9903 For real, these were the best moments of my life. Reminds me of the time where my friends and I stayed up extra late and huddled around my tiny ass TV at minimum volume so we could watch the South Park movie without my parents finding out. We recorded it on VHS and would smuggle it into each other's houses when someone wanted to watch it again
Sponge bob is a show you shouldn’t be watching but shows like Naruto Dragon Ball and Bleach they should be watched. They actually have teaching moments in them
I love how the creator got it sooo right. He made Goku, so that his ultimate power came from his kind hearted/ protective nature, that struck a cord with all us youngsters. Why DBZ stands test of time is because it made us feel emotions That we never got from any other show! Doesn't matter how much I age, i still feel the same way.
Goku is the male power fantasy that we all men secretly have but will never admit Always training to break through your limits, protecting the weak, childish but smart, knows when to get serious, goofy but with a righteous heart Boys are born masculine by nature and when we saw a character that was everything we wanted to be, he inspired a whole generation to become like him While kenshiro is the grandfather, goku's the father of anime. It's not far-fetched to say that goku has succeeded kenshiro and he's pretty much inspired anime in general. Without dragon ball z or goku, there would be no anime. Yeah the Miyazaki films would always be there but without dbz, anime would never be as big as it is today
yu yu hakusho did it for me way harder. it was alot easier to relate to a teenager at the time of toonamis original run. dbz was definitely a much more impactful show overall but watching yusuke lose his shit so often and be a total goofball randomly with legitimate struggles throughout was way more relatable than goku being an unstoppable force with pure righteous virtues. i wish id seen OG dragon ball first because kid goku was much more fleshed out.
Mostly true, but DBZ isn't the only one. Yu Yu Hakusho did the same thing. Puu trying to get yusuke water while they're both dying is still the most emotional anime moment I can think of.
Toriyama explained how he went about writing villain transformations vs. hero transformations. He said that the villains gain power due to a selfish desire for it, whereas why the heroes power will always win is because true power comes from a NEED that has to met in response to evil. Goku didn't want to unlock super saiyan, he had to. Love Toroyama san. Rest easy.
As someone rewatching the original series as an adult, if you get the chance, you absolutely should! There are so many things that I didn't fully understand as a kid, that make the show so much more interesting and complex than it was the first time around (not that it wasn't amazing the first time, obviously).
Exactly. Most people who talk down on the series and say it doesn't make sense watched it as kids and couldn't understand it and when they got older just assumed the show was just poor
During high school was when this series was first on television for me. We had Jocks we had Juggalos and we had Nerds none of which got along. But when it came to the topic of DragonballZ, the things that we disliked about one another went away. We were all eagerly waiting to talk about the pervious episode. I remember how monumental the episode where Goku turn Super Saiyan for the first time was to my school.
@@moon-knight2125 lol I was trying to bait him into replying to me because I was arguing with him but then he dipped in the middle of our argument. That is the reason I said that.
@@ethanspicer3471 He did in OG DB. One of the best moments in the series is Android 8 and Goku's communication, Goku's rage and mentality of avenging someone who had been killed by committing murder - a time before Goku spared enemies - and #8 explains gently that Goku is just as bad as the killer if he were to reciprocate. Original Dragon Ball is underrated.
@@nivnavion I think it's just the fact Goku gained wisdom after growing up, which makes sense, and even more after training with Kami, so training by Earth's god or Earth's guardian himself, which happened in the same time in the series, which makes even more sense, actually...unfortunately DB Super seems to have totally forgotten this wisdom Goku was supposed to have after all that, which makes absolutely no sense, obviously.
I remember watching DBZ when it first came out, and it was so awesome. By middle school, we had a whole table of kids that just talked about nothing but DBZ. I'll still be 40 and watching DBZ.
I know someone didn't see it until they were in their 70's, they'd never even heard about it before until then and they said it was the greatest show they ever seen, became hooked and would got angry at me if I forget to mention to them it was on, they had to see EVERY episode.
I look forward to having a son, then when the time comes and he is of age, we sit down and watch dragon ball z once he's finished his homework on a daily basis after school
Ha so my 8 year old and I watch almost everyday. I started him at Dragon Ball and we made our way all the way through that, then Z and now we are at the end of the Buu saga. I even had him watch all of the movies with me. Next up Dragon Ball Super
Vegeta's story and character development was truely the best and most heart wrenching of all. Even though I favoured Goku as a child, I think I appreciate Vegeta's story more now as an adult because its so much more relatable in some sense to my own life and the struggles I've had to face growing up.
I always liked Vegeta better than Goku. I can see why someone who is that powerful would be somewhat arrogant and hard to get along with. It also occurs in the workforce, where it can be hard for lesser employees to interact with the killers.
As a kid everyone wanted to be Goku. As adults we understand Vegeta lol. Growing up I loved Vegeta, for some reason i related to him more, short, sarcastic, anger problems, jealous at times lol Vegeta was my guy.
@@jeffshackleford3152yup. My older brother used to always like Vegeta more...I wanted to be like Goku ..as a man I understand Vegeta and appreciate him more.
@@infamyjones3986exactly 💯. Once you're a man and have been through hard times you understand that being strong is the most important thing. Vegeta was trying to show us the way.
I’ll always remember the time when my father and I finally started to repair our relationship(he had been pretty emotionally abusive and kind of violent, but started going to church and getting a little better as a person) and as I returned home from school(middle school) we would put DBZ on. What a great show.
Dbz is not the best anime of all time but is definitely the greatest. How many kids do you know who has never tried to scream to power up or tried to do a kamehameha wave? Exactly.
The vegeta section of this masterpiece is icing on the cake. You probably described his character better than anyone or vid I've ever encountered. #epic
This documentary does a good job at summarizing what Toriyama means to so many people from the Toonami generation. Thank you for everything Mr. Toriyama. Akira Toriyama, April 5, 1955 - March 1, 2024
As kids we loved and related to Goku As men we come to truly appreciated Picolo and Vegeta and how they added layers to the story that Goku never could
I have recently started Dragonball Super and I know what you mean. Cause now that I watch this as a 27 year old man I find my favorite character being Vegeta! As a kid I never liked Vegeta and loved Goku and Gohan.
This is so Humbling. I'm 34 now used to watch this everyday on toonami...missed the last episode. I'm wearing a Trunks Denim jacket as we speak... This Anime show changed my life man. To me going SS means you try better than your Best
Gohan was also a great character. It also shows you how stopping training, even if having great potential, leaves you out of the loop. This was my favourite character. I still watch Cell's battle moment where A16 is destroyed and get emotional. That being said, I liked a lot many points you mentioned about having villains with long arcs, how the flashbacks were used even for foes to connect with them. All that was very novel for that time, esp. for cartoons. And the last 5min of your video made me almost cry. Great job man!
I'm the only one who has chills everytime this dude is ending one of his videos? Damm, he puts so emotion to this shit, I can't handle it, i'm not even a fan of dbz, but it almost make me cry hahah
This video always reminds me of how much I love dragon ball. It makes me rewatch fight scenes and replay the many games and just makes me appreciate them far more than before
I get why people like Vegeta so diddly-dang much, but for me Piccolo will always be Best Character. That particular scene is one of the many reasons why I feel that way. Which is why it's so annoying that he never seems to get any really solid, defining moments or further power-ups in the same fashion Goku and Vegeta do.
At least he was well used till the cell saga. It was so clear Z was supposed to end in the cell saga. After that they nerfed everyone and made goku steal the spotlight again.
Adorni well he did get to shine in the Android saga when he went toe to toe with imperfect cell and 17, but I agree with you for the most part. Imo the imperfect cell vs piccolo fight was one of the best in the series.
Dragon ball z is the reason why I'm watching anime to this day still it was my first and will always be my favorite god bless all of those involved with this anime they have made my childhood and I couldn't ask for it to be any other way
what you said about passion in this series is the exact reason I watch you, despite our conflicting tastes. even if I'm not into a show, watching you pour out that passion about something you love makes me see why people like things I hate, and makes me appreciate the show more.
You damn near made me shed a tear with how well you explained Vegeta as a character. How he's so relatable. Why he's by far my favorite character. Thanks.
DBZ is what got me into working out, trail running and martial arts. Truly the biggest impact to my life was watching it as a kid and growing up with it and being 25 now can say I can always rewarch the series and constantly get hitched and marathon it again
Wow. You've perfectly described why Vegeta is by far the most nuanced character not only in Dragon Ball Z, but in pretty much all of battle Manga/Anime. Thank you.
@@samtepal3892 you have no idea if that's what he meant homie. You can say that if you're adding a point or personal opinion. But don't put words in other people's mouths like you know that they meant what you feel and didn't mean the dumb shit they just said lol
@@samtepal3892 and even if that is what he meant, they still know that anime is huge in the west. Literally everyone everywhere knows that anime is big everywhere especially in Japan and the west. It's their job to know lmao but that wouldn't help with the depression. They're depressed cause they're overworked. Sometimes to death. They know that their work is appreciated everywhere and know where it's appreciated the most because it's their art/story's. If it wasn't loved everywhere then that would mean that they suck and would stop writing lol
@@Captain_Calcium Not only is it being overworked, but it's also being underpaid as well. Of course, that's universal in the animation industry around the world as storyboarders and animators are only paid once when an episode airs while the company keeps all the profit from how many times the show airs, merchandise, and home release sales. Yet even with all of that, they don't bother improving the budget for these productions making the jobs more difficult for their employees. There's also the fact that in the west, anime is well known but it's not completely mainstream to where it's even taken as seriously as western animation, and even that's not taken seriously as animation is seen as a kids medium and if it has an audience in adult age ranges, then it's a very niche one making it harder to advertise to. So it's really not a matter of Japanese fans, animators, directors, etc being oblivious as they're both probably implying, it's just the industry struggles financially due to bad work ethic and company practices. Of course, as self-entitled as the western part of the anime community is, I would find it hard to believe it's even popular in the west if I worked in the industry where foreign fans constantly send death threats because a mangaka wasn't woke enough or making disrespectful comments like, "That's sad, where's the next episode of Super?" when an entire studio(that didn't even produce DB anything)is burnt down with hundreds dead and injured. Also calling their entire country a "country of pedophiles" simply because of the art style characters are drawn in.
I will advice you to Watch dbz kai only for the freeza saga coz the eng dub and bad fillers of dbz ruined epic scenes and important dailogues from tha saga
Vegeta is still my favorite character years later. He kinda reminded me of myself in certain ways. Mainly, someone who was kind of an outcast among the main cast, eventually finding his place through those who support him and someone he can work to surpass.
I occasionally come back to this video just to skip to the Vegeta bit. I don't know what it is about it but it just feels to powerful with your narration and the music. It's inspiring. And no one to me in DBZ is as inspiring as Vegeta. The only character that struggled and changed throughout the story. Thus making him the most human and relatable to watch. Despite never winning, to me he was still the best and probably 60% of the reason I was so hooked on the show back then as a kid watching it on Toonami. Kudos to this awesome video ! Thank you so much for making it (:. It makes me feel good.
Thank you for reminding me why I loved Dragon Ball Z. Growing up and realizing how flawed it is made me jaded and cynical towards the series, but this video made me feel something positive for the show again.
AlexRedgrave04 DB Super is similar. Flawed, but fun. And Super has the added bonus of less filler, and more character work for side characters. (Especially Piccolo) Also, side characters actually get good fights, sometimes!
Herman Cillo Not Tien, unfortunately. At least pretty much every other side character got a bare minimum of one good fight, excluding Tien’s floating mime child (is he still a child?) sidekick and the fighter so useless that he gave up fighting and just started playing baseball, of all things. Both characters barely even had cameos, though I think Yamcha had a filler episode for himself (definitely not Chiaotzu though. Rip)
I'm late to the party, but this is a great video! Thank you for creating it. Vegeta's arc was indeed one of the greatest not only in Dragon Ball Z, but also anime or heck TV in general. He is perhaps the deepest character in the series, with the most growth by far. It's amazing to see who he is in Super and compare it to the start of DBZ.
And now its Father is gone. RIP Legend Akira Toriyama 🫡
Somebody needs to go get the dragon balls and bring him back! ( I'd rather laugh than cry)
He influenced me to become an artist, i hope i can be like him someday
@@Khann_2102It is always the best people in this world whom leave it far too soon.
@@Khann_2102 I wish your journey well. Keep doing what you love, and eventually, you'll end up like him.
Even I, a non-fan of DBZ, fully acknowledge that it has had a permanent impact on global culture. Its place in the history of manga cannot be ignored. Toriyama-san took inspiration from Chinese mythology and martial art films and created something unique, whereas so many other Jump manga come across as unoriginal (some even ripped off DBZ).
that moment when Goku turned Super Saiyan, everyone at my school was talking about it the next day, still the best moment in DBZ.
Gohan's SSJ2 transformation rivals it tho
@@ozzyhaye yeh but back then we knew about a power beyond ssj just not what it was.
While for goku,we didn't even know what ssj was until he transformed
@@redacted-19 exactly , gokus transformation >gohans and it’s not close . The cell saga in general is overrated
We didnt get much of the anime here in Denmark (Raditz->Frieza) but we did get that.
Hell you can even find the danish clip on youtube plus some more.
For us 90s kids, Lunchroom conversations were DragonBall and WWF/WCW drama
RIP Toriyama. Vegeta and Trunks are some of my favorite characters. You’ll never be forgotten 🙏🏿🙏🏿
Mine too. I never could really relate to Goku, but could with Vegeta.
I think I loved Vegeta, Trunks, Piccolo, Freeza and Buu the most.
Indeed😊
“Like every character in Dragon Ball, death would only prove to be temporary”
-Super Eyepatch Wolf.
We all will miss Akira Toriyama, but at the same time, I feel that we will never truly be without him.
Thank you Akira, and thank you John. You both have positively impacted my life in multiple ways.
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Yes😊😊😊
RIP Akira Toriyama 🙏
I used to work at a gym and almost all the competing body builders were huge DBZ fans and would wear DBZ workout shirts.
They basically started as shy nerdy kids watching the show, which motivated them into working hard and getting jacked.
Basically described me during my teens lol
Janly Diaz lol 😂
I Always wear dragonball Z shirts for working out you'd be surprised at how many people complement you or go full nostalgia mode
I'm a powerlifter and the same thing goes for every single one of us between the ages of 20 and 35 or so. The males anyways.
Crazelord91 i think you’re exaggerating the definition of geek. DBZ touched a lot of kids lives in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. From the nerd to the jock, any dude who’s like 27 - 35 years old was probably watching during those years.
if someone watched it as a kid and never tried to turn super saiyan or tried to fly, i dont think you ever watched it...
I triet to go super saiyan
Tried I did go super saiyan
i watched it late at night when i was like 4. I dont think i understood what was going on, but i liked watching it and i dont think i tried to go super saiyan
As a kid? I try to generate a kamehameha wave even today. I am 23 ._. You never know. Might work someday ._.
@@MohiyuddinShaikh exactly sometimes I randomly put my hands together like a kamehameha then just realize what im doing afterward XD
A key theme in Dragonball and Dragonball Z is training. That taught me as a child that you can get good at anything if you put hard work and time into it. I was especially inspired by Vegetas training, he trained the hardest.
vegeta had a tantrum in space to unlock goku's form which was obtained by his friends dying.
@@2miligrams A little bit of an oversimplification, Vegeta poured all he could, he survived and got humiliated by a low class saiyan, and to put insult to death, that same saiyan became the first super saiyan in a thousand years, he was fueled by two things only, to surpass Kakarot, and honor his status by becoming SSJ, and his fight with A18 builds on that
@@2miligrams what a slow goblin you are lol
@@mr.preston1632 he got junipers bybgoku because vegeta was an egotistical genocidal maniac lol he DESERVED TO GET HUMILIATED!! That shouldn’t be a point of sympathy you hold towards him lmao. You vegeta freaks are delusional
This series singlehandedly drove me to be the top of my class in my dojang & earn my black belt by 13 - I'd rush home from school and I'd have my VHS set and ready for me to hit record for when I'd have to leave for TaeKwonDo; dbz happened to come on the MINUTE I'd have to be leaving. So I'd watch everything else on toonami up until that moment, hit record, and try not to lag behind trying to catch what was gonna happen on that days episode or else I'd be late lol. And I'd go give it probably more effort than what could possibly expected from a kid training in any martial art, because in my mind I knew goku and friends were battling it out at the same time on my TV, with my favorite characters probably DYING, so if I didn't give it my absolute ALL, I couldn't possibly consider myself in their league - which, is where all us kid fans desperately wanted to be.
Toriyama passed away so I rewatched this. This video essay is the best tribute I can think of. « Dragon Ball Z wasn’t a story about getting what you want, it was one about surpassing who you are. » 🙏
In Mexico DBZ is the most famous anime show like you cant imagine the hype it creates.
Esto es el fin, Grande Padre.
@Carlos Santana I hope you're fucking joking..
I envy y'all
@@miguelmejia4656 Hint: Hes not
@@miguelmejia4656 Mexico is the only place outside of Japan that has an official dragon Ball store.
I watched DBZ as a child and my parents were going through a divorce during that time. DBZ at 7 o'clock was a safe haven for me
Did you also watched it in germany? I watched it on rtl2 at 7pm too, best time of the childhood.
@@alium3672 in Portugal dragon ball was straight way by the mornings
@Danish Anime Ya what a frustrate idiot you are
@Danish Anime Ya fuck you
It still blows my mind that I can walk into a Walmart, Target or any other department store in the United States and you will still find DBZ merchandise, particularly t-shirts and hats, on display. The series ended its original run 17 years ago in the US! The cultural impact of DBZ can't be understated and if you're a millennial male, chances are you're a fan.
Agreed. As a 36 year old guy I can tell you half the guys in my grade 10 class in 99/2000 talked about this show. Especially the first time Goku goes super Saiyan. When that finally made Canadian syndication, it was transcendent.
Sadly same cannot be said for my country Canada well yes it did air on tv people that I talked to who live here barely know the show at all sometimes they know a bit about it and that would be it
Even as a female you can still see how good dragonball is. Hell my 3 female cousin's are huge fans of dragonball still. This show has impact like no other in the rest of the world.
Dbz has a special place in my heart but I'll never be able to rewatch it again haha.
Don't forget the females fans too, lol
Thank you for this ….. this is my whole life in a video. Well done mate
Yooo! My wife loves your content. Keep it up bro. Glad to see you're a DBZ fan like the rest of us 💪
@@occidentalunrest8928 Akira Toriyama is Dead😭😭😭😭😭😭😭.
I'm mad because this is a lot of exactly what I'd say if I made a video on DBZ. It was on a whole grander scale compared to every other American cartoon. You nailed it.
Oh hey, it’s Pan.
How’s it goin’, goth girl connoisseur?
RebelTaxi Pan ive watched you for years yet you have yet to make a review on dbz I'm pretty sure your channel will blow up if you did do mainstream animes or cartoons
No video compares
Do a video of DBZ anyway! Your's would probably have a lot more lewd comments about 18, so it wouldn't be identical to this one. :)
You should probably still do it anyway. You're your own guy with your own video-making style and personality, even if you do end up saying some of the same stuff you're still getting a good message across and bringing these thoughts to members of your fanbase who may never see this.
After Vegeta got crushed by Frieza and he dropped a whole speech on how Frieza was the one responsible for turning him into a monster he is.... Man, that scene hit me hard! That's what made The Prince my dude
yea it made me feel sorry for vegeta and it made me actually like the character because it explains why he does these things and makes him feel more like a person rather than a classic villain.
I broke into tears on that scene. I enjoyed Vegeta's character development so much during the planet Namek series. Then listening to his speech about his life but then passing got me so pissed that I wanted to murder Friezia. For some reason I forgot about the Dragon Balls.🤦♂️
As a kid I used to despise the Frieza arc when it used to come on the one hour Toonami show every weekend on cartoon network. It always rebooted mid way Frieza arc for few years till it got canceled. I only got to see Goku turn SS after I remembered Dbz during highschool when youtube was new.
And the scene where he finally accepted he would never beat Goku and sacrificed himself to destroy Buu... That resonated so so much.
Did he say that in the original Japanese Dub?
I remember the episode where goku is just freshly turned super saiyan just came on and 1 minute In the episode my parents shut off the TV and said, we are going out for dinner. They didn't get it 😔
Dang
F
I wasn't even born when get Goku went super saiyan, so the closest experience I have to that is watching him go Ultra Instinct and seeing the interet break over the ultra instinct. If Ultra Instinct broke the internet, I can't even imagine how Super Saiyan 1 or Super Saiyan 2 would've broken the internet given how much hype their transformations had.
Damn bro I'm sorry to here that
F my life
Im crying again. Ive cried a few times since last night when i saw the news of Toriyama's passing. The impact that dragon ball has had on my life is beyond profound. It's like ive lost a friend or a family member that ive never met. And yet i am stricken with grief. May Akira Toriyama rest in peace, and as Oda has already stated, I hope the afterlife is just as peaceful as he envisioned it to be.
I love Dragonball Z. 😊 I'm 28 years old and I still watch it. I don't care what anyone says or thinks about me watching it.
24 been watching for 20 years straight
I’m 45 & still watch it
30 here. This show cha ged the direction of my life.
J p damm right buddy boy
Real men watch dragon Ball...
"hero's can die"
Proceeds to show Yamcha getting killed 3 times
Zachary Neal bwahaha
F in the chat for the homie Yamcha, got justice in FighterZ tho.
F
More like hero's can't stay dead
@@craigpeoples9883
Implying Yamcha is considered a hero when everyone else can destroy a planet with a flick of the wrist
This man's uploads are so high level , you can really hear the passion he has for the genre.
he's always about quality over quantity
something many anitubers need to learn from him
High level? You mean...
*IT'S OVER 9000!*
the only criticism he gets is that some of his videos can be nonfactual
*HIS POWER LEVEL IS RISING!*
Rezoan Nur What do you mean?
Watching the blood, the gore and the violence as a kid was shocking as well as a revelation. DBZ was the first children's show that portrayed all this. Thank you DBZ for making my childhood memorable
Not for me!!! The first anime I watched was fist of the north star then Akira so by the time I saw DragonBall z like in 1993ish I loved it but the violence was tame compared to other anime of that time.
@@hjames78whichever anime u watched first must have been a revelation to u. For me, it was DBZ
@@Quicksilver12345 yes fist of the north star was. I was around 12 and never seen violence in a cartoon like that lol plus it was very entertainment. By the time I discovered Dragon ball z I was wel into anime which we called japanimation back then
@@hjames78 yup , those were the days
Thank you Akira Toriyama, you made my childhood awesome.
Well, this comment aged well.
Damn the last section about Vegeta and the show as a whole choked me up a little. God I love Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball Z was MY Star Wars. I don't care what you say.
Amen Brother .... I choked up too
John Z That's why he's my favorite character in the entire series.
Have y'all seen super?
Did ya'll see the DBS episode this week for Vegeta. Damn.
Even people who don’t have any clue about the anime industry know about Goku and Dragon Ball.
It is so popular that the mascot for the Olympics was Goku, someone EVERYONE recognises.
Which olympics???
@@sbevexlr848
The 2020 Summer Olympics.
Plus, however, I have no clue
on how to answer
to your question properly because
if you search for this information on
the Internet and you look it up, then,
there, different sources tell you
that 9 anime characters will also be
representing The 2020 Summer Olympics
along the Official Mascot - Miraitowa.
It's also stated that Son Goku will serve
as a 'Cultural Ambassador'.
@@unu_unu10 oh wow that's awsome!!
I don't understand why it is so much underrated... like those Disney and pixar animations are still too popular compared to dbz
@@jimred5557 dragon ball is bigger than disney worldwide
Nothing has ever had the impact on my life that Dragon Ball Z has. At 41 years old, it's still one of my favourite things in this world.
43 and the same
is crying permitted?
Damn near required
Small world
Did not expect to see a comment from you here... Thats awesome!
Yes! Skateboarding and DBZ in the early 2000’s have forever changed my life
For sure. This makes my eyes water up almost every time I see it. So moving.
AHHH AMVs playing to LINKIN PARK........ that’s true nostalgia
Yup, something only people from that time will remember.
*raises hand*
Couldn't get enough of the In The End AMV focused on Vegeta.
OMG...you pulled a lot of tears rn..
VALLY OF THE END IN THE END or MAJIN VEGETA VS GOKU IN THE END
Oh I remember those days 😁😁😁
Growing up in the US in the 90’s me and my friends would literally rush home from school and go to my house (which was the first bus stop so it was quicker) just to watch DBZ literally everyday, and it was all that we talked about, when we played outside, we were pretending to be DBZ characters, every birthday and Christmas we all asked for DBZ related things, it’s not unfair to say this show shaped my child hood
Nice
I wish I was born at that time
I live in the other side of the world (literally and figuratively too), in Hungary we rushed home from the bus to watch DBZ, had to fight my Grandma to let me eat in front of the TV. And it was the same for everyone. It says a lot that this is a worldwide phenomenon that affected this generation in quite the same way.
Not much later 'adults' realized that they shouldn't broadcast this much violence in broad daylight, and Hungary lost Dragon Ball for years as it was literally banned from TV. (Legend says a kid died when trying to fly or summon the magic cloud, and parents nationwide were outraged).
I was at University when I finally had access to the whole series on torrent, and could experience the whole of DB and DBZ (and deliberately not GT)
Same but in Argentina, I watched the show with my dad, we still have found memories of the show, now Im introducing it to my nieces. I do wonder from where this footagle is taken, it looks gorgeous and in the original aspect ratio.
Same here literally lol man dbfz is really legendary
RIP legend ….. here to mourn and send you off with the most beautiful video ever made on dbz…
This video is So friggin amazing man! Incredible work I'm loving it!
A wild jaxblade appears
Time to work out
Facts
Bro I swear I see you everywhere on youtube
JaxBlade Why do you watch all the same content I do?
Holy gains, he's here!
That closing bit with Vegeta damn near had me, a grown-ass man who's been watching Dragon ball for the last 20 years, in tears.
Same my dude, same,
I knew Vegeta grew over the show, but this analysis took it to another level.
Dragon ballZ is a global series all the 90s kids can relate. 🇿🇦🇿🇦
Im 2006 kid and it aired on 2009 channel but it was the original anime with dub and i loved it and by the time it finished airing bog realeased
@@Jonkler01 great to know that you had so much interest in it while in kindergarten... I am from 2002 and I used to watch the same airings
@@jimred5557 nice
I'm a 2008 kid learned about it in 2015 changed my life I used to be antisocial kid was picked on found out about it on adult swim was my favorite show and still is 2 mouths later I was wearing a dbz shirt a kid who is now my best friend realized my shirt he also loved dbz and he taught me about anime now I'm a huge otaku
SABC 2 at 5PM my man! 🇿🇦
Wow man, the last 5 minutes of the video gave me constant goosebumps
You were able to explain exactly how we the early 90s children feel about what this series meant to us
Thank you for that
Honestly, the last 5 minutes hits so hard.
Indeed. He nailed it. It was indeed like nothing else on TV at that time. Made me want to better myself in every way. Truly inspiring Anime.
Me too
@@jakerutherford3380 Akira Toriyama is Dead😭😭😭😭😭😭😭.
Damn...
Never remove this video from the internet. When I have kids I'm gonna need them to watch this
Veiregor O' Real oh god,you'll give your children a good childhood,butbdont make them full blown nerds,they'll commit auicide be for they can even finish all the series except GT
You do realize you can just download it and save it somewhere, right? Though I think it would be nice to first get the approval from the author.
Jesse Chatman Chatman you realize “nerds” drive innovation
Veiregor O' Real i second that
Like times 1000 !!!
I remember watching a documentary once about how Bruce Lee influenced many different communities from the NFL to MMA to Bodybuilding to Hip Hop culture, and I feel like you could make the same documentary for a show like Dragonball Z. If you asked any UFC fighter, Pro wrestler, NFL player, or NBA player what they’re childhood influences are, I can guarantee 9 out of 10 of them would say Dragonball Z.
No doubt
_"It only feels right to end this video with the part of Dragon Ball Z that stayed with me the longest, and the character that affected me the most"_
*Vegeta appears*
*my heart relocates to the throat and I'm promptly flooded with memory of crying my eyes out after that one episode of Majin Buu Saga*
Same but that episode in Frieza saga where he spills his heart out to Goku
That one simply made me feel broken and sad like shit. Goku going Super Saiyan and beating Frieza was supposed to be something grand and victorious, but all I can think about now past the revelations is "unfair, unfair, unfair".
Majin Buu episode launched the waterworks.
Vegeta was the original lame edgelord that will forever be remembered as an absolute loser and whose biggest sin was to serve as a template for even shittier designs, such as Sasuke.
Alitoh edge lord? More like a prideful spitfuck like gilgamesh from fate. Sasuke's edginess is on whole other level compared to anything vageta has ever dished out.
Hail to the new king
I'm not just saying this now that Akira has passed, but DBZ will forever the most iconic anime of all time. It's the GOAT in my opinion.
Definitely not rhe best writing, like in no way is it a lord of the rings, but in terms of influence it damn well is up there and will be remembered 1000s of years from now if we don't blow ourselves uo
Adult wolf: "dragon Ball z have this amazing style and the villains have this power and those metaphors and amazing development of characters"
Child wolf: "HOLY SHIT GOKU JUST DESTROYED FREEZA, MOOOM! LOOK AT THIS!!!! HE JUST USED THE KAMEHAMEHA WAVE AND KILLED THE VILLAINS OH MAN ITS SO COOOOOOOOL!!!!"
"Broly can kick anyone's ass in super".
Well that sorta kinda happened in the new movie.
True. Lol
Fusion beings don’t count. A single name doesn’t remove the fact that it 2 ppl in one
Gogeta Blue beats broly And broly can't even touch him (Omen is alot stronger than that) Even Goku SSJB kaiokenX20 maybe as strong as that...
@@baronvondmac6681 Goku SSJB kaiokenX20 and Vegeta SSJBE Goku UI (Omen) and Goku MUI and Jiren also don't forget beerus who is at least Goku UI (Omen) Level...
Bandabanana he did connect hits and Gogeta gets a gnarly guy shot and it’s Broly attack that breaks them out of the fragmented reality. Fused characters wouldn’t count though as it’s 2 to equal 1. I’m confident that Broly could stomp Jiren. Pay attention to the thread next time. Peace and greased hair
...sad yet true but honestly it always will have that big impact on all of our lives for us 90s kids
so so true
90-05
Im not a 90s kid yet dragonball has been a major part of my life
Kids of every time have something to remember as we guys include dbz in our childhood.... children of today are gonna have death note and attack on titan... i mean they are also great in themselves. Yes truely they are as much as dbz....
Huh hu Iilul
I just had to come back and watch this video again. I found it... tonally appropriate.
Thank you, Akira Toriyama. For teaching us, all of us, to go even further beyond. 🐉
Dear Super Eyepatch Wolf,
I just wanted to let you know that your videos are an inspiration to me. As a content creator, your videos are always filled with Quality over Quantity. And in many ways, you have educated myself and so many others on things that most people wouldn't be willing to work on. You are one of my favorite content creators and I aspire to make better videos because of you. I hope you keep creating content for years to come. Thanks for your hard work, dedication and passion!
Cheers!
~ Qaaman
~ Detective Q
~ Q
Detective Q Holy shit, love your vids, bro!
I didn't expect to see you here, Hello Q
Detective Q. Wow nice to see you here.
You and your friends post a lot of videos. Quantity over quality. You suck.
love y'all content creators!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"It felt like a show you shouldn't be watching"
This is why all my friends would come to my place after school. None of our parents would let us watch it, but I had a couple hours all to myself before my parents got home from work.
u absolute legend mate
Lmao nice! I'm sure your friends appreciated you so much. When I was growing up, I was always that kid who wasn't allowed to watch or read anything cool, and it was so cool when my friends were so enthusiastic for me to experience something awesome that they'd smuggle me into their houses like contraband to watch or read stuff with them.
@@horseenthusiast9903 For real, these were the best moments of my life. Reminds me of the time where my friends and I stayed up extra late and huddled around my tiny ass TV at minimum volume so we could watch the South Park movie without my parents finding out. We recorded it on VHS and would smuggle it into each other's houses when someone wanted to watch it again
Hail to the King of the Cul-de-sac 🙌
Sponge bob is a show you shouldn’t be watching but shows like Naruto Dragon Ball and Bleach they should be watched. They actually have teaching moments in them
I love how the creator got it sooo right.
He made Goku, so that his ultimate power came from his kind hearted/ protective nature, that struck a cord with all us youngsters.
Why DBZ stands test of time is because it made us feel emotions
That we never got from any other show!
Doesn't matter how much I age, i still feel the same way.
When we’re 90 years old we’ll be saying “damn I relate to Master Roshi now” 😂😂😂
Goku is the male power fantasy that we all men secretly have but will never admit
Always training to break through your limits, protecting the weak, childish but smart, knows when to get serious, goofy but with a righteous heart
Boys are born masculine by nature and when we saw a character that was everything we wanted to be, he inspired a whole generation to become like him
While kenshiro is the grandfather, goku's the father of anime. It's not far-fetched to say that goku has succeeded kenshiro and he's pretty much inspired anime in general. Without dragon ball z or goku, there would be no anime. Yeah the Miyazaki films would always be there but without dbz, anime would never be as big as it is today
@@haha-lj5sqalot of people already are
yu yu hakusho did it for me way harder. it was alot easier to relate to a teenager at the time of toonamis original run. dbz was definitely a much more impactful show overall but watching yusuke lose his shit so often and be a total goofball randomly with legitimate struggles throughout was way more relatable than goku being an unstoppable force with pure righteous virtues. i wish id seen OG dragon ball first because kid goku was much more fleshed out.
Mostly true, but DBZ isn't the only one. Yu Yu Hakusho did the same thing. Puu trying to get yusuke water while they're both dying is still the most emotional anime moment I can think of.
Toriyama explained how he went about writing villain transformations vs. hero transformations. He said that the villains gain power due to a selfish desire for it, whereas why the heroes power will always win is because true power comes from a NEED that has to met in response to evil. Goku didn't want to unlock super saiyan, he had to. Love Toroyama san. Rest easy.
SOURCE: trust me bro
As someone rewatching the original series as an adult, if you get the chance, you absolutely should! There are so many things that I didn't fully understand as a kid, that make the show so much more interesting and complex than it was the first time around (not that it wasn't amazing the first time, obviously).
example
This is right there is facts and this is something that Gen z of anime fans don’t understand
Exactly. Most people who talk down on the series and say it doesn't make sense watched it as kids and couldn't understand it and when they got older just assumed the show was just poor
Yeah I was definitely too young to understand most of the show. The art was unmatched even now with cgi. I miss that artstyle of dbz
Hard disagree. The show is like 80% filler
During high school was when this series was first on television for me. We had Jocks we had Juggalos and we had Nerds none of which got along. But when it came to the topic of DragonballZ, the things that we disliked about one another went away. We were all eagerly waiting to talk about the pervious episode. I remember how monumental the episode where Goku turn Super Saiyan for the first time was to my school.
It was fucking amazing
@@dinogt8477 SSJ2 was better doofus.
@@jantheking7028 ?
@@moon-knight2125 lol I was trying to bait him into replying to me because I was arguing with him but then he dipped in the middle of our argument. That is the reason I said that.
@@jantheking7028 did he delete his comments or something?
Finally someone who understands and can outright explain why Vegeta is so cool.
No wonder Vegeta is a fan favourite character by a massive margin
I never understood why he was so complex and why he always remains, to this day, Goku’s perfect foil. This guy made Vegeta justice.
@@najeraedgar7060 goku never changed so vegeta as a character will always just be a better watch
@@ethanspicer3471 He did in OG DB. One of the best moments in the series is Android 8 and Goku's communication, Goku's rage and mentality of avenging someone who had been killed by committing murder - a time before Goku spared enemies - and #8 explains gently that Goku is just as bad as the killer if he were to reciprocate. Original Dragon Ball is underrated.
@@nivnavion I think it's just the fact Goku gained wisdom after growing up, which makes sense, and even more after training with Kami, so training by Earth's god or Earth's guardian himself, which happened in the same time in the series, which makes even more sense, actually...unfortunately DB Super seems to have totally forgotten this wisdom Goku was supposed to have after all that, which makes absolutely no sense, obviously.
I remember watching DBZ when it first came out, and it was so awesome. By middle school, we had a whole table of kids that just talked about nothing but DBZ. I'll still be 40 and watching DBZ.
I know someone didn't see it until they were in their 70's, they'd never even heard about it before until then and they said it was the greatest show they ever seen, became hooked and would got angry at me if I forget to mention to them it was on, they had to see EVERY episode.
Same here 36 and still watching the great invention Dragon Ball Z.
I look forward to having a son, then when the time comes and he is of age, we sit down and watch dragon ball z once he's finished his homework on a daily basis after school
It's fantastic. We finished Z and are now on Dragonball. Will move onto Super after that. My son may be a bigger fan than I now.
Ha so my 8 year old and I watch almost everyday. I started him at Dragon Ball and we made our way all the way through that, then Z and now we are at the end of the Buu saga. I even had him watch all of the movies with me. Next up Dragon Ball Super
That's dope. Sounds like plan to me
Dont reproduce and show him ocean dub show him OCEAN DUB
@@justinporter7446 TERRIBLE FATHER. Super is god awful
I can't even fathom how great this video is. Every anime fan should watch this and understand the impact this series has done for fiction.
This is absolutely fantastic, wow. I don't really have much to say other than that, just...excellent work, man!
RIP to the Titan, Akira Toriyama you changed my life
Vegeta's story and character development was truely the best and most heart wrenching of all. Even though I favoured Goku as a child, I think I appreciate Vegeta's story more now as an adult because its so much more relatable in some sense to my own life and the struggles I've had to face growing up.
I always liked Vegeta better than Goku.
I can see why someone who is that powerful would be somewhat arrogant and hard to get along with.
It also occurs in the workforce, where it can be hard for lesser employees to interact with the killers.
As a kid everyone wanted to be Goku. As adults we understand Vegeta lol.
Growing up I loved Vegeta, for some reason i related to him more, short, sarcastic, anger problems, jealous at times lol
Vegeta was my guy.
I've always been a vegeta fan too, he was so entertaining and so different
@@jeffshackleford3152yup. My older brother used to always like Vegeta more...I wanted to be like Goku ..as a man I understand Vegeta and appreciate him more.
@@infamyjones3986exactly 💯. Once you're a man and have been through hard times you understand that being strong is the most important thing. Vegeta was trying to show us the way.
I’ll always remember the time when my father and I finally started to repair our relationship(he had been pretty emotionally abusive and kind of violent, but started going to church and getting a little better as a person) and as I returned home from school(middle school) we would put DBZ on.
What a great show.
That's nice🙂
How is the relationship now ?
Dbz is not the best anime of all time but is definitely the greatest. How many kids do you know who has never tried to scream to power up or tried to do a kamehameha wave? Exactly.
SAO is not the best anime of all time, but definitely the greatest. How many kids do you know that didn't want to fuck Asuna? Exactly.
Sp00n i dont know any...
Sp00n I don't know any
Sp00n
What is SOA?
Sword Art Online; aka trashity trash trash
"Tackle life with as much energy as Goku!
I'll try to do the same!!"
- Akira Toriyama
The vegeta section of this masterpiece is icing on the cake. You probably described his character better than anyone or vid I've ever encountered. #epic
GeekAssault pure poetry
toonami was the reason i became fan of gundam wing, DBZ woooot
"Go to any random episode and you'll likely find two overly muscled men beating the ever loving soul out of each other" perfectly summarizes DBZ imo
Dragon ball is basically what if fighting games had shows which i wish there was more of
This documentary does a good job at summarizing what Toriyama means to so many people from the Toonami generation. Thank you for everything Mr. Toriyama.
Akira Toriyama, April 5, 1955 - March 1, 2024
Listening to the Vegeta story for the second time and I still want to cry. Super Eyepatch Wolf - you're a superb story teller.
He hit the nail right on the head.
As kids we loved and related to Goku
As men we come to truly appreciated Picolo and Vegeta and how they added layers to the story that Goku never could
I have recently started Dragonball Super and I know what you mean. Cause now that I watch this as a 27 year old man I find my favorite character being Vegeta! As a kid I never liked Vegeta and loved Goku and Gohan.
@@seththomas6727 Vegeta is just a winy little bitch in super
@@mohadali1140 bruh
@@Obsidianfire12 ????
@@Obsidianfire12just an opinion man
This is so Humbling. I'm 34 now used to watch this everyday on toonami...missed the last episode. I'm wearing a Trunks Denim jacket as we speak...
This Anime show changed my life man.
To me going SS means you try better than your Best
I’m 29, I watched DBZ on toonami also and it changed my life. I still reference dbz to this day when talking to people.
Same age, same experience lol
I didn’t miss the last episode though
Turned 30 recently. Definitely the anime that changed it all. I remember having vivid dreams of being able to drop a Kamehameha.
22. Definitely, on the last point, it’s the definition of going beyond what you know your limit to be.
Gohan was also a great character. It also shows you how stopping training, even if having great potential, leaves you out of the loop. This was my favourite character. I still watch Cell's battle moment where A16 is destroyed and get emotional.
That being said, I liked a lot many points you mentioned about having villains with long arcs, how the flashbacks were used even for foes to connect with them. All that was very novel for that time, esp. for cartoons. And the last 5min of your video made me almost cry. Great job man!
Is it Vegeta?
"...Vegeta enters Dragon Ball Z's story as the main villain of its second arc..."
*girlish squeal*
You are everywhere.
*Cue piano of doom*
HARD SAME
THE PRINCE OF ALL SAYIANS!!!
Just Some Guy with a Mustache
Get a job, bro.
You'll thank yourself later.
I'm the only one who has chills everytime this dude is ending one of his videos? Damm, he puts so emotion to this shit, I can't handle it, i'm not even a fan of dbz, but it almost make me cry hahah
I love that he rephrases the video's title at the end. It's really cheesy, but so are humans
Eli Caraballo and the drop hits haaard haha
I finally watched DBZ when I was in High School. Even then, after being exposed to so a lot of other anime, this series just felt so special.
Back to this video after hearing about Toriyama😭😭
im not crying, you're crying
Go D. Usopp lol
Skadaddy
My lord, have mercy on us.
Go D. Usopp dead ass
Go D. Usopp Yeah, that Piccolo clip he played hits right in the heart. 😢
This video always reminds me of how much I love dragon ball. It makes me rewatch fight scenes and replay the many games and just makes me appreciate them far more than before
Eyepatch wolf is great at making you remember what you love about an anime! Even if you’ve forgotten.
I'm a grown ass man now...but this video embodies my childhood and my interest and evolution in anime culture. Beautiful work bro
RIP Toriyama 😭 thanks for changing the art animation for the entire world
I remember literally being infatuated with Dragonball Z, wouldn't miss an episode for anything in the world.
I remeber I finally missed one episode during the cell saga and was so mad, those were the days haha.
Vegeta's character arc is one of the best ever written. The only one that I would say is tied at first place with him is Zuko from ATLA
Is ATLA Avatar the last air bender?
@@starstudio8402 yeah, it is
Not really, it’s sub par character development when compared to a lot of other anime’s. Dragonball z isn’t about character development
@@GoldChampion23 Just curious, could you tell me a shonen character with a better character arc?
@@broken120z your mom
I get why people like Vegeta so diddly-dang much, but for me Piccolo will always be Best Character. That particular scene is one of the many reasons why I feel that way. Which is why it's so annoying that he never seems to get any really solid, defining moments or further power-ups in the same fashion Goku and Vegeta do.
Adorni I feel like GT gave more light to Piccolo's character than Z did.
At least he was well used till the cell saga. It was so clear Z was supposed to end in the cell saga. After that they nerfed everyone and made goku steal the spotlight again.
Adorni well he did get to shine in the Android saga when he went toe to toe with imperfect cell and 17, but I agree with you for the most part. Imo the imperfect cell vs piccolo fight was one of the best in the series.
Piccolo sacrifices himself for Gohan?
Piccolo has the same arc as Vegeta, it just didn't take him 10 years to get over himself.
Piccolo>Tien>Vegeta
There will never be enough Vegeta crying in the rain to express our collective sorrow in Toriyama's passing 😭
"More Vegeta being sad in the rain" AMAZING LINE
This brought back flashbacks of when Toonami's DBZ got "stuck" right in the middle of the Namek saga. *shudders*
Over and over for years it felt like.
Michael Ward lmao so when did y’all finally see it’s conclusion
God how many times it restarted when Goku finally arrives to Namek lol
I vaguely remember Goku about to fight Android 19 and then it reset to the Saiyan Saga... I rarely seen the Cell Arc until after Majin Buu sadly.
@Weston Meyer That shit was annoying. Lol good times though. 😂
EVERY👏 DRAGON BALL 👏FAN👏SHOULD👏 WATCH👏 THIS👏 BEAUTIFUL 👏VIDEO👏 IMMEDIATELY! 👏😭
💯💯💯 Cannot give this video enough praise!
JaxBlade oh, there you are
JaxBlade oh shit you’re here
Papa Jax 🙏🏻🔥💉
Hey Jax made it over to this video! Glad to know you enjoy SEW as well.
Keep up the hard work bro, you're an inspiration.
*fistpump* "MY MAN!"
This hits differently today. Thank you for everything Toriyama.
Dragon ball z is the reason why I'm watching anime to this day still it was my first and will always be my favorite god bless all of those involved with this anime they have made my childhood and I couldn't ask for it to be any other way
Katrina
all other anime is ass
@@omerde12 Especially Naruto.
Veronica Mcatee I used to think Naruto was bad until I watched it. I know you haven’t watched it as well.
@@jojoa694 I watched ever Naruto episode but it was still ass.
what you said about passion in this series is the exact reason I watch you, despite our conflicting tastes. even if I'm not into a show, watching you pour out that passion about something you love makes me see why people like things I hate, and makes me appreciate the show more.
Maromania I really like your comment xD
agreed! eyepatch is just such a genuine, earnest person i just Have to support him
You damn near made me shed a tear with how well you explained Vegeta as a character. How he's so relatable. Why he's by far my favorite character. Thanks.
Same…
DBZ is what got me into working out, trail running and martial arts. Truly the biggest impact to my life was watching it as a kid and growing up with it and being 25 now can say I can always rewarch the series and constantly get hitched and marathon it again
Wow. You've perfectly described why Vegeta is by far the most nuanced character not only in Dragon Ball Z, but in pretty much all of battle Manga/Anime. Thank you.
I wish Japanese people realized just how much anime and manga is loved in the west.
I'm sure they do
@@Akira00920 he means to say that to the animators and directors of these animes. As there is a lot of depression in the anime industry.
@@samtepal3892 you have no idea if that's what he meant homie. You can say that if you're adding a point or personal opinion. But don't put words in other people's mouths like you know that they meant what you feel and didn't mean the dumb shit they just said lol
@@samtepal3892 and even if that is what he meant, they still know that anime is huge in the west. Literally everyone everywhere knows that anime is big everywhere especially in Japan and the west. It's their job to know lmao but that wouldn't help with the depression. They're depressed cause they're overworked. Sometimes to death. They know that their work is appreciated everywhere and know where it's appreciated the most because it's their art/story's. If it wasn't loved everywhere then that would mean that they suck and would stop writing lol
@@Captain_Calcium Not only is it being overworked, but it's also being underpaid as well. Of course, that's universal in the animation industry around the world as storyboarders and animators are only paid once when an episode airs while the company keeps all the profit from how many times the show airs, merchandise, and home release sales. Yet even with all of that, they don't bother improving the budget for these productions making the jobs more difficult for their employees. There's also the fact that in the west, anime is well known but it's not completely mainstream to where it's even taken as seriously as western animation, and even that's not taken seriously as animation is seen as a kids medium and if it has an audience in adult age ranges, then it's a very niche one making it harder to advertise to. So it's really not a matter of Japanese fans, animators, directors, etc being oblivious as they're both probably implying, it's just the industry struggles financially due to bad work ethic and company practices.
Of course, as self-entitled as the western part of the anime community is, I would find it hard to believe it's even popular in the west if I worked in the industry where foreign fans constantly send death threats because a mangaka wasn't woke enough or making disrespectful comments like, "That's sad, where's the next episode of Super?" when an entire studio(that didn't even produce DB anything)is burnt down with hundreds dead and injured. Also calling their entire country a "country of pedophiles" simply because of the art style characters are drawn in.
The Vegeta part was awesome bro. You nailed it. Respect
Came to find this to appreciate Akira Toriyamas work
damn, the last bit on Vegeta was deep
This makes me want to rewatch DBZ all the way from the start again. See you guys next month.
God dammit, me too. But i'm going Kai, not Z
No thank you.
*next year
Detective X HxH has no rewatchability, especially that god awful pacing in the Chimera Ant arc. Jesus christ.
I will advice you to Watch dbz kai only for the freeza saga coz the eng dub and bad fillers of dbz ruined epic scenes and important dailogues from tha saga
Dude, the fact that you like Vegeta as well and how real you got with it ... subbed.
Vegeta is still my favorite character years later. He kinda reminded me of myself in certain ways. Mainly, someone who was kind of an outcast among the main cast, eventually finding his place through those who support him and someone he can work to surpass.
Vegeta especially Vegeta Majin.
Is. The best written character in all. Anime. For. Me.
The best drawing style. Talk. Everything
Great video. Had to come back to this after hearing about the passing of the legend. Thank you for everything Akira. RIP
I occasionally come back to this video just to skip to the Vegeta bit. I don't know what it is about it but it just feels to powerful with your narration and the music. It's inspiring. And no one to me in DBZ is as inspiring as Vegeta. The only character that struggled and changed throughout the story. Thus making him the most human and relatable to watch. Despite never winning, to me he was still the best and probably 60% of the reason I was so hooked on the show back then as a kid watching it on Toonami.
Kudos to this awesome video ! Thank you so much for making it (:. It makes me feel good.
same
Never winning? He's won more fights than nearly every Z fighter except Goku & Future Trunks.
26:38
"The only character that struggled and changed throughout the story" - uhh, Piccolo?
@@olserknam Piccolo's development ended after the Saiyan arc.
Two years later, I still revisit this for that amazing rundown on Vegeta at the end
Super Eyepatch Wolf releasing a new vid about Dragon Ball Z? It must be Christmas!
Awsamazing Eden it’s christmasssssss!!!!!!!!!!
Came back to this video after hearing Toriyama passed away... Rest in peace he made my childhood...
Thank you for reminding me why I loved Dragon Ball Z. Growing up and realizing how flawed it is made me jaded and cynical towards the series, but this video made me feel something positive for the show again.
AlexRedgrave04 DB Super is similar. Flawed, but fun. And Super has the added bonus of less filler, and more character work for side characters. (Especially Piccolo)
Also, side characters actually get good fights, sometimes!
Herman Cillo Not Tien, unfortunately. At least pretty much every other side character got a bare minimum of one good fight, excluding Tien’s floating mime child (is he still a child?) sidekick and the fighter so useless that he gave up fighting and just started playing baseball, of all things. Both characters barely even had cameos, though I think Yamcha had a filler episode for himself (definitely not Chiaotzu though. Rip)
AlexRedgrave04 Would you say in a way that it made you love the show again?
AlexRedgrave04
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Eh. I never cared about the flaws. I notice them. But every story has flaws.
I'm late to the party, but this is a great video! Thank you for creating it. Vegeta's arc was indeed one of the greatest not only in Dragon Ball Z, but also anime or heck TV in general. He is perhaps the deepest character in the series, with the most growth by far. It's amazing to see who he is in Super and compare it to the start of DBZ.
“You didn’t know what in the dear sweet chocolate Christ what was going on with chiatzu”
Hehehe good to have you back eyepatch wolf
I simply had to reply to this because I read this EXACTLY as he was saying it lol.
Chiaotzu is white chocolate.
He's a pokemon obviously.
Comimg back to this video after six years today makes me more emotional, Rest in peace Legend.