Longtime fans of Dragon Ballon are well aware of the disappointment that the franchise can sometimes be. Most of the time, the ire comes from series not based on the manga of Akira Toriyama, as Dragon Ball GT and Dragon Ball Super. However, even Dragon Ball Z could still prove disappointing from time to time.

Dragon Ball Z is a classic, but that does not mean that it has not frequently weakened with its history. On a regular basis, he waste certain characters, ruined by other characters and abandons unique concepts. For fans who deeply loved the original Dragon BallonEven the basic structure of DBZ can be disappointing.

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Raditz is quickly forgotten after killing

Dragon Ball Z does not even try to do anything interesting with Goku’s brother

Few characters embody a wasted potential like Raditz. Only present during the first episodes of Dragon Ball ZThe main brother of the main character is almost never mentioned after his death. This is despite the fact that, as a member of Goku’s family, A potentially bought rack could have made the dynamics between the Saiyan Z-Fighters even more interesting with its simple presence.

In the Saiyan saga herself, it is logical that Goku never wants to revive Raditz with the Dragon Balls, while he passes the arc rejecting his identity of Saiyan. At the time of the cell saga, however, Goku kisses fully as Saiyan and begins to fight alongside Vegeta, removing any excuse to explain why Goku would not want to give his brother a second chance. Raditz Returning and Turning Good would have changed a lot on DBZ, but it would certainly have been for the best.

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Yamcha, Tien and Chiaotzu are sidelined early

Several of the main characters in Dragon Ball reduced roles in DBZ

In the original Dragon BallonTien Shinhan, Yamcha and Chiaotzu were all considered to be part of the main distribution, and this remains true in the first parts of Dragon Ball Z. However, this ceases to be the case when fighting the Saiyans, because they are each killed, one after the other. This leads the trio to be largely absent from the Frieza saga, and reduced to a little more than the bottom characters of the cell and the Buu sagas.

While, in truth, Chiaotzu was always out of words, It is disappointing to see yours and Yamcha be treated as they are. On the rare occasions when they are semi-detained in DBZ, yours sees his personality flattened and only benefits from a few notable action scenes, while Yamcha is transformed into even more a punch bag for jokes than before. Just as the series has constantly found ways to keep Krillin in front and center, it could have done the same for its human compatriots.

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Nappa is barely mentioned after his death

Killing Nappa should have weighs on Vegeta later in life

Nappa fulfills his role as a hand for Vegeta, but he could have been so much more, even while remaining dead after the Saiyan saga. Even if Vegeta never really cared about him, Nappa was always the closest to a friend that Prince Saiyan ever had. Post-repressive arc, It would have been great to see Vegeta regret his decision to kill his companion for life.

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Of course, it would have been even more curious to see Nappa having a second chance in life. Nothing but a sound brute and sadistic, he could have been torn between staying faithful to his Saiyan roots and follow the traces of the prince to which he had dedicated his life. Everything would have been better than the cameo he received Dragon Ball GT.

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The climbing of power of the Frieza saga went to ridiculous levels

Frieza power levels should never have been indicated

In the original Dragon BallonActant obvious gags, the strongest characters were simply able to destroy the islands. Things quickly intensified the Saiyan saga, in particular with the introduction of power levels, but DBZ has always done an excellent job by managing things at this stage, constantly rendering the strategy and teamwork more important in the fights than the raw figures. The Frieza saga is the place where power levels have become uncontrollableTo the point that they would be the only decisive factor in almost all future fights.

The power levels declared in the Frieza saga become so astronomically raised that they lose all meaning and the fights lose all meaning of the scale. The most blatant factor here is the level of power in Frieza, which has led history to contort to find ways to make the Z-Fighters strong enough to fight it, and to everyone who is not present for the arc which is desperately left. If the Frieza power levels had simply not been indicated, all of this could have been avoided.

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Goku steals the Frieza saga of his real main characters

The highest point of the Frieza saga needed more involvement of Krillin and Gohan

From the point of view of a fan who looks at the Frieza saga for the first time, without any knowledge of what happens later, the first half of the arc concerns the desperate struggle of Krillin and Gohan to survive Namek against impossible dimensions. In any traditional account, it would be a story on a duo of outsiders overcoming obstacles on their way in order to achieve their objectives. Instead, The moment he arrives on Namek, Goku steals the role of protagonist of his best friend and son.

Goku is an unusual protagonist in that the stories he leads do not generally concern him. Regarding DBZ, the Saiyan saga is its story as much as that of Gohan and Piccolo, while the cell saga is Vegeta and Gohan, and the Buu saga is Vegeta and Mr. Satan. In these last arcs, Goku is used relatively sparingly, but in the Frieza saga, he put the front-past for the fight against Big Bad, despite no link with the in progress.

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Yamcha becomes a cheater for the good of the plot

Nothing on the character of Yamcha indicates it as the guy to deceive on Bulma

The romance between Yamcha and Bulma was a must of the franchise, until Akira Toriyama chose to explode it. During the cell saga, He revealed that Yamcha deceived BulmaThe lover to throw it away and meet with Vegeta. Although this is for the better long term, the greatness of the romance of Bulma and Vegeta occurred at the expense of the assassination of the character of Yamcha.

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Yamcha is a lot of things, many of which are worth making fun of him, but the idea that he is a cheater is incompatible with everything that fans have known about him so far. He is a man who, at the time of his introduction, was too afraid to speak to the girls, and he only overtaken this by his love for Bulma. Although there are a few scenes played for comedy where Bulma is intended to be painted as irrational to become jealous of the attention that Yamcha receives from other women, at any time of DB or DBZ before the cell saga is their engaged relationship of 13 years.

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Goku loses all credibility as a hero in the cell saga

Goku allows Dr. Gero to complete his androids for his own selfish desires

The cell saga as anc is defined by the way in which each problem is directly caused by the choices of the Z-Fighters. Deciding that causes the most problems is a launch between Goku and Vegeta, but it is fully planned that Vegeta makes the selfish decisions he takes, that is much more difficult to see Goku behaving in the same way. The Savior of the Earth allows Dr. Gero to build his end -of -world Androids just so that he can fight them, putting billions of lives in danger for his own entertainment.

Goku’s massive error towards the end of the cell saga, formulate a plan to overcome the cell that ignores Gohan’s disgust for fighting, is at least forgiven because it is well written and dramatic. His decision at the start of the arc, however, flies in front of everything that fans know about him, that we look at the dub or the money. The most disappointing of all, this type of behavior would become normal for Goku.

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The initial premise of the Buu saga does not last long

More time required to spend with Videl, Orange Star High and the Grand Saiyaman

The start of the Buu saga serves again Dragon Ball Z. Abandon the drama and action of the previous arcs in favor of being a comedy of superhero slices of life on GohanThere is a feeling of freshness that comes with massive change and with the new status quo that accompanies it. Living a double lifespan as a secondary school and the great Saiyaman is a perfect configuration for Gohan, Videl and Trunks are instantly incredible new characters, and Goten and the mainly reformed Vegeta show potential, with the lack of Goku in the story making the possibilities for them.

However, as soon as the new status quo is introduced, it is torn off. The accent put on action returns, Goku returns to life and the great Saiyaman, Orange Star High, and Videl are all removed from history one by one. Dragon Ball Z had the chance to reinvent himself, and he chose disappointing to go in a much safer direction.

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Gohan falls without ceremony in disgrace as a protagonist

The Buu saga presents the next generation of heroes as full failures

Even if Dragon Ball Z I had to be an intense series and focused on the battle after the brief great arc of Saiyaman, Gohan could have continued to serve as a protagonist. Instead, Focus quickly turns to Goku as soon as he brought back to life. And even when Gohan has a last chance to be the big hero of the Buu saga, he just ends up being embarrassed several times.

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In his final fight of the series, Gohan proves that he has not learned anything from cell games, because he again allows a major stand-up to go to his head, which made him disappear a villain. He could have killed Super Buu, but instead, he was mistaken, beaten and absorbed, after having failed to catch the Potara earring thrown by his father. Gohan has no arch of character or achievements in a saga that he started as a protagonist, just so that Goku can be the great hero one last time. The entire Gohan’s trip throughout the series turns out to be for nothing and, combined with the way Maltons and Truns take place against Buu, the anime ends effectively on the note that the next generation of Z-Fighters is worthless and can never be up to their elders.

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The way each woman Dragon Ball is manipulated has been ridiculed for decades

Dragon Ball presents incredible female characters to waste them

There is no defense of how Dragon Ball Z poorly managed women in her cast. To their best, Bulma, Android 18 and Videl are some of the greatest characters in the anime. Despite this, None of them are allowed to maintain their agency and their roles active in history for a long time, and they all spend more time being unimportant than contrary.

Bulma passes the first half of DBZ out of words, before becoming an exceptional part of the distribution in the cell saga, to be made a little more than a woman and a mother in the Buu saga. Likewise, Android 18 makes a strong first impression in the cell saga, but strangely is not included with the main fighters of the Buu saga, only allowed to be a woman and a mother and a comic relief. And Videl embarks on one of the best departures of all the characters from the database, but the fact that she is a normal human leaves her without role when Majin Buu appears in the Buu saga. There is also the question of Chi-chi, who is a fantastic and adorable character in the original manga and the Dragon Ballon Anime, but which is made stereotypical and not very kind by large quantities of poorly written anime filling.

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  Created by

  Akira Toriyama

  First movie

  Dragon Ball: Curse of blood rubbish

  Movie

  Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero

  First TV show

  Dragon Ballon

  Last TV show

  Daima Dragon Daima

  First episode Date of plane

  April 26, 1989
  

  Dragon Ball tells the story of a young warrior named his son Goku, a private young boy with a tail who embarks on a quest to become stronger and learns the Balls Dragon, when, once the 7 are gathered, fulfill everything desires.

  
  

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  Dragon Ball Z

  Release date

  1989 – 1996

  Network

  Fuji TV

  Directors

  Daisuke Nishio, Shigeyasu Yamauchi, Osamu Kasai

  Writers

  Akira Toriyama, Neil Bligh, Hiroshi Toda, Katsuyuki Sumisawa, Aya Matsui, Keiji Terui, Reiko Yoshida, Toshiki Inoue

  
  

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    Masako Nozawa

    Son Goku / son Gohan / Son Goten (voice)

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    Ryo Horikawa

    Vegeta (voice)