And that to me is amazing: the manga (DB and DBZ) ran in a magazine – Shonen Jump – for over ten years. Throughout the original DB series, there is a comic trend and a light story line that follows the same story that the original manga storyline. DB starts with Son Goku as a young kid: he meets Bulma for the first time, still has a tail, and starts to train as a martial artist. I had heard that DBZ was popular, but I didn’t get it, so I avoided it for a long while.Īnd then I saw DB from the beginning. Law and Order takes 30 minutes to solve a mystery PBS takes 25 weeks. Fights took fourteen episodes to finish – it reminded me of the difference between Law and Order and a PBS crime drama.
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The first episodes I saw of Dragonball were from the Dragonball Z series and frankly, it bored me. What’s more, it was usually an animated version of manga – comic books – which was even a larger thing than anime, in Japan.Ĭonsequently, I was late in the game when I found the epic of Dragonball. Once the ‘net went mainstream I did some research and realized that anime was a pretty popular thing all over the world. For the first time since the fifties, cartoons were supposed to be watched by adults as well as kids. Yes, Harmony Gold took three different Japanese anime series and merged them into one show (Macross, Robotech Masters (Southern Cross), and New Generation (Mospeada)) were actaully three different shows, tied together in the US through the translation/dubbing) but they did keep the over all theme of the show the same… and what’s more, they didn’t dumb it down to appeal to kids. Robotech in the states was another hack job, but not nearly as bad as BotP was. Some time in the late-80’s I bumped into Robotech.
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The major villain – split into two different character in BotP – was a hermaphrodite in the service of an evil ethereal being… as an example, compare the Joker from the 1966 Batman TV show with the Joker from the 1990 Batman movie: night and day.īotP lasted until 1980 and promptly disappeared from the airwaves – it has turned up on DVD’s and cable over the last couple of years – and life moved on. One of the main characters suffered from delusions and brain trauma. It wasn’t until the ‘net came around that I learned that Battle of the Planets was a hacked up, geared-for-kids version of the Japenese-based anime Gatchaman.Īnd Gatchaman was no kids show. It’s not too often that cartoons are liked by both genders, after they start schooling. A few of my friends watched it too – during recess there were a few dozen boys and girls running around the playground shouting “Transmute!” or blooping like Keyop. In the late 70’s I was watching a cartoon that was running on WNYW called Battle of the Planets. I’ve been a fan of anime for a long while – longer than I even knew what anime was. So the last episode of Dragonball GT finally aired on the Cartoon Network last night.
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