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pjbasis posted...

Does this get better than the beginning? I tried it like twice but found the start too unfunny to continue.

It is definitely early-Youtube era comedy at the beginning, but starts picking up in quality with the arrival of Nappa. Lots of meme and silliness and quotes that is just super playful with the material.

Frieza saga definitely begins to pick up in quality and storytelling while still retaining the humor and adding some more wonderful comedy, continuity, and callbacks. I will forever love Goku's and Piccolo's exchange before charging up the spirit bomb. It definitely comes into more of its own.

Then the Future Trunks and Android sagas are sublime, and Imperfect Cell is horrifyingly good, and the Perfect Cell saga... I mean, it might actually be better than the original material.

Now that I write that out... DBZA is actually a lot like Dragonball.

Emperor Pilaf Saga is the early episodes where there are gags galore and it was excellent at the time, but feels super antiquated with what comes later.

The Tournament Saga is the latter half of the Saiyan Saga where different things start to take focus, characters get a bit more personality and depth, and we have some hilarious fights before ending in the epic brawl between Goku and Roshi/Vegeta.

The Red Ribbon Army Sagas are all different aspects of Namek/Frieza sagas with different villains popping up only to be thwarted, new and interesting characters getting a moment or two to shine before never existing again, a long adventure questing for the Dragonballs, and the hilariously (and terrifying) over-the-top badassery of Mercenary Tao/Frieza. It's still hilarious but has a lot of dark moments.

Fortuneteller Baba Saga was originally the Ginyu Force, but feels appropriate for Future Trunks as kind of fun but kind of forgettable and very comical break after the intensity of the last saga.

Tien Shinhan Saga is tough. It definitely feels like the Android saga with some really great character work and great fights, but also kind of meanders a bit and gets overshadowed by...

King Piccolo, where **** gets horrifyingly real with quite the mood whiplash right at the start. Mr Sandman is Krillin's death. It is just dark and action packed and story-driven and amazing.

And Cell Games is Piccolo Jr. Saga with one of the greatest fights in dragonball history, where the drama and action have overtaken the gag comedy, where the characters have grown so much over the last eleven years that they're fully formed and not just complete jokes (except for Yamcha. And Raditz.) And it's just so damn good.

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