This was creating a small and very balanced cast with fantastic chemistry during their interactions. Furthermore, they were so different from one another, and had a negative trait to offset their positive one. This was making it so fun to watch, as you never knew when would someone betray his allies and steal the Dragonballs. They were moving as a group, but they had no unity. Although you can easily separate the cast into good guys and bad guys, most of them were selfish and had their own agenda. I won’t get into many details regarding the plot, which was all over the place and still full of creativity, and I will focus on its strongest element. It’s funny to think how Dragonball, which came to be the monolith of fighting shonen formulas, began as a deconstruction of the typical hero’s journey and a satire of Chinese epics. Unless for some reason you were lucky enough to get another action adventure comedy series, with plot continuity, where everybody was a selfish idiot, instead of picture perfect boyscouts and one-dimensional bad guys. By then, the plot had become the stereotype everybody was copying, instead of something completely different from everything else that was airing at that moment. And I am talking about the original series, not Z which was what most watched in America and didn’t know there was more before it. #1: Emperor Pilaf Saga Just like it happened with so many other people of my generation, I instantly fell in love with Dragonball.
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