Current Events > Did you watch the Frieza fight on Toonami in 1999, CE?

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I was 6 years old at the time, so that entire set of episodes was probably the most hype shit I'd ever seen.

Saw it on YTV

Yes but I was much older. Was in high-school at that time

But yea, I was so hyped

I don't think I had cable back then yet

I was in college. So I was watching the fight each day.
Damn it was dragging on forever.

so because of classes I was all upset because I missed 4 days when it seemed at its climax and I thought I missed the end and all. Then when i watched the next episode after missing many, nothing changed. I pretty much missed nothing.
shit still went on many more episodes after

No, because we didn't have cable back then.

When I caught up on DBZ, Goku vs Recoome was the most recent episode. I watched that so many times. Shame the show slowed down so much after that.

Ditto. Life was about DBZ at that age. All the martial arts and strength training and frosted tips? You better believe it.

I do believe so

I saw it on YTV because Canada. Don't remember if I saw it when it first aired or not though. 1999 would have been the end of grade 6 and the start of grade 7...so maybe? I was definitely watching DBZ in Junior High (grades 7-9), but it's hard to separate it out anymore specifically in my mind.

Yes, and it was super hype at the time seeing Goku go super saiyan. But then it came on again, and again, and again. It felt like the DBZ reruns lasted forever before they finally started airing the android saga.

Don't think it was 1999, but I certainly watched it on Toonami.

I have literally never seen so much as a clip of Dragonball or spin-offs

NoxObscuras posted...

Yes, and it was super hype at the time seeing Goku go super saiyan. But then it came on again, and again, and again. It felt like the DBZ reruns lasted forever before they finally started airing the android saga.

The summer filler episodes stick out in my mind as being the longest cycle while waiting for new content. The killer riff for the outro is still ruined for me.

No. I was super late to DBZ admittedly. Didn't know anything about it until early 2000's when I was dating a woman who had a son who was into it. Got turned onto it roughly 2003. Then started watching it regularly on Toonami and watched the whole series and then the original Dragonball.

So it wasn't in 1999. 2003 for me. That was such a good time for me. Young and healthy in my late 20's and cartoons were awesome in that time frame of early Adult Swim and then stuff like this.

yea cartoon network finally got added to my comcast around 96/97. right in time for DBZ. before that my grandparents had it but not sure if they had dish or what but early to mid 90s it was pretty much just hannah barbara cartoons and didn't turn into peak cartoon network yet.

I watched every new Toonami episode in its debut.

I remember months of powering up, yes.

Yeah, it was awesome how so many of us from different social groups were all going crazy for it.

yeah, I got into dbz during the frieza saga and watched it obsessively.

Cartoon Network and the WB were my anime lifelines back then so yeah

I remembered when DBZ first aired on Cartoon Network because I was annoyed that it took up a Real Adventures of Jonny Quest slot iirc

I definitely watched it on Toonami but it would've been in '01 or '02 for me. I didn't get into DBZ until first or second grade.

Yeah, started watching DBZ halfway through the Namek saga.

Over and over again, waiting them to get past it.

Damn that was in 1999? I thought itd be later, but yes I did. I recall watching Buu Saga in like 2002, I guess the breaks in between arcs was longer than I remember.

snae99 posted...

Damn that was in 1999? I thought itd be later, but yes I did. I recall watching Buu Saga in like 2002, I guess the breaks in between arcs was longer than I remember.

Yeah, Buu Saga started the day before 9/11. I vividly remember thinking they were going to delay the rest of them over it.

snae99 posted...

Damn that was in 1999? I thought itd be later, but yes I did. I recall watching Buu Saga in like 2002, I guess the breaks in between arcs was longer than I remember.

I think it was actually 1998

I can firmly answer no because I live in canada and we didnt have Toonami

I definitely remember watching db on the tv at my old house! It was around that year

When you call the dragon, the sky turns completely black

I watched it at some point on Toonani, but not in '99.

Yes. I rarely missed a broadcast of toonami in general let alone missing a episode of dragon ball z. I was 16 in 1999.

In those days I pretty much lived toonami/midnight run/rising sun, MTV, adult swim (when it started up in 2001), and WWF attitude era.

MagiMarthKoopa posted...

Saw it on YTV

Same. But it wasn't just in a single year. Because of translation issues with Ocean Dub/Funimation Dub and Japan, that one fight didn't last 18 episodes like it was supposed to. It lasted 4 years. They'd get Goku to transform to SSJ1, and the next episode would be episode 1 again because the next episode wasn't dubbed yet.

Yes. I am amazed it lasted as many episodes as it did.

Yes. I started watching DBZ on Fox in 97. I got this game in 98, so I spoilered myself on the whole show, but I still loved watching every moment anyway:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b3a56c9a.jpg

I think when Frieza was airing on satellite/cable I was already buying fandubs of the Cell saga on VHS.

It was probably later than 1999 when I watched it on Toonami, but I did see a bunch of episodes on CN. I remember when the Buu Saga was new too.

I remember being shocked when Frieza was cut in half. I was even more shocked when he came back to life. And then even MORE shocked when Trunks effortlessly killed him lol.

Sundercles posted...

I think when Frieza was airing on satellite/cable I was already buying fandubs of the Cell saga on VHS.

Nothing like those mall fansub VHSes. I remember seeing the trunks grade 3 SSJ vs perfect cell episode on one of these mall VHSes but had no idea who the fuck either of the two was when it comes to the dbz story itself. Regardless my brother and I (both crazy hooked on DBZ. This is what I really loved about how popular DBZ was in north america.......this show brought families together watching it and all kinds of people in general together just excitedly talking about the last episode).

My brother managed to rent dragon ball GT final bout (the original print version) sometime during the vegeta, gohan and krillin vs form 2 frieza airing on toonami. Absolutely blew our minds seeing a big version of gohan, majin boo? Great ape baby what? and what in the christ is this SSJ 4 shit? (We weren't saying that in a negative way, if anything SSJ4 is our favorite SSJ form lol. We was saying that in a mind blown kind of way).

In our current high-speed internet era we will most likely never go back to those crazy days where a show that while a gigantic success in it's home country and a success in a few countries that managed to have access to it (It was interesting/cool to find out that the french was always about that dragon ball life and so they had the game releases on the SNES/PS1 etc. released over there) goes relatively unknown everywhere else. When other countries do get access and if this show is manages to blow up in these places too years later then its like what, 8 years or so worth of spoilers that is out and about across different products.

I was on punishment at the time, so I missed a good chunk of the first airing, including the SSJ transformation. I was wondering where Krillin was just to find out later that he got wrecked lol

Saw it at the rec center with a bunch of kids and it was quite the experience.

It was pretty much the main show I looked forward to back when it was first airing

Yeah. That was the only window of time I was ever into Dragonball; I watched most of the Vegeta + Nappa saga prior to that, and it wasn't as good imo. Even at the time I was constantly like 'ugh, get on with it already,' but the Frieza saga had enough cool moments that kept me hooked: Vegeta straight-up icing that little frog time-stopper, Racoome getting bodied, and Frieza getting sawed in half made it worth the time investment.

October 1999, yeah I watched the Frieza fight it first on Toonami.

I had been watching DBZ way before Toonami as well on local syndication television. My first anime titles were Maya The Bee (on Nick Jr), Samurai Pizza Cats, Ronin Warriors, DBZ and Sailor Moon in the early-mid 90s.