Anime Thread

[puggsoy]

Finishing up Dragon Ball. I have to say, comparing this to DBZ I really wonder why the hell Akira made these random decisions to make DBZ more actiony.

I think he came up with new ideas such as Goku's origin and where Piccolo/Kame came from, which brought in the aspect of new enemies from space, then the actiony stuff just kind of came in by itself. In Dragon Ball, Goku was often either much stronger than his opponent, or just strong enough, so it was quite light-hearted and not as serious. But in DBZ, most of Goku's enemies are way stronger than him the first time, and he always has to train, whereas in Dragon Ball he just trained for fun.
The fact that he's an adult also makes it much more intense, since he knows his responsibility of protecting Earth.