My feelings about Anime

After finally watching the two recent Dragonball Z Kai episodes, i have to lament. I don't know what is with me and Anime. Some parts of their shows are good, but others tends show things that i find unnerving or just unsettling, simply put, they wreak unholy havoc on my brain, especially when i'm trying to focus on something else. It's even gotten to the point where i don't fully want to watch the newer DBZ Kai episodes, in fear of what it might see or hear. But if i don't watch them, my curiosity gets the better of me and my mind just fabricates something more unnerving than what i might have seen. I'm stuck

You're saying that after watching Dragonball Z Kai?

Oh, you poor sap, you've barely even scratched the surface.

Always, somewhere, someone is fighting for you. As long as you remember them, you are not alone.

Er, what? What are you talking about by unnerving or disturbing? Do you object to the things in DBZ Kai on some kind of moral basis or...what? Please explain in more detail what exactly is bothering you about it. Also DBZ Kai is not necessarily reflective of the entire media genre.

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Some parts are good. Some parts are SO good that he can't stop thinking about.

/crackpot intepretation

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If you want something to calm yourself down with, Morita-San Wa Mukuchi's a nice cute series. And the episodes are only three minutes long, so you can cram it in whenever.

edited 22nd Nov '11 5:05:59 PM by 20LogRoot10

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So you're basing you're opinion on a medium with hundreds and thousands of works released over more than forty years on two episodes of Dragon Ball Kai

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(Seriously — Dragon Ball scares you? I'd hate to see how you'd react to Junji Ito)

edited 22nd Nov '11 5:08:30 PM by Sparkysharps

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Try watching 3 episodes of Madoka Magica.

I think the OP is really only just talking about Dragon Ball. I'm not surprised most peoples' posts are somewhere between "Just you wait until you've watched enough that people might call you a Japanophile" and "Yes Anime is good, but Dragon Ball Z Kai? I haven't watched that in a long time".

The scope of the topic heading might be too broad is what I'm saying.

Also the first post is a little lackng in direction. So yeah srebak, if you're new to anime all I can say is, yes it is different and almost always designed to do something to you.

Some even seem designed to make brains explode.

"Nullius addictus iurare in verba magistri, quo me cumque rapit tempestas, deferor hospes."

OP poster: How old are you?

No, I don't mean to offend. It's just natural viewers with different ages have different views of the medium and its genres, and need different orientations on the subject for each age group.

Dragon Ball Z Kai isn't even supposed to be the kind of series that makes you think of that.

As has already been said, I'd expect that reaction from something like Madoka Magica, which fires Wham Episode after Wham Episode at you, but not Dragon Ball Z Kai and its superpowered combat fistfights with people threatening to destroy the world/kill everyone every episode. No, that's the kind of anime you watch when you don't want to actually have to worry about plot being an extremely important aspect and just want to see people hitting each other and thus don't expect to get feelings like the ones you're describing.

So here's an idea. Try watching it without taking the plot too seriously. Honestly...

DBZ is kind of crazy though, if you do think about it. Goku is pretty much a shit father.

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The Dragonball wiki's Z section alone is larger than the entirety of the Madoka wiki last I checked. A lot of people need your bit of advice.

I was going to ask OP what exactly he found "unnerving" about Dragonball, but he seems to have vanished, so...

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Though Madoka is just 12 episodes while DBZ is... over 9000?

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I have no idea what you're talking about.

edited 23rd Nov '11 11:07:05 AM by 20LogRoot10

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Tramautizing? Kai? Let me guess. They finally got to the Cell Saga?

For me, the creepiest moment was in DB- where actually they show how people in the Dragonball world, umm, honor their dead. They shrink the corpses in capsules. BRRR.

edited 23rd Nov '11 12:21:54 PM by vanishingreality

I'm not sure if in Kai they made cell really hammy purposefully or if he was always that way and I just don't remember, because damn Kai-cell is just Hammy. In an eye-rolling, oh-cell-you, amusing kind of way. His first incarnation was creepiest, his last is just huge ham, it's hard to really be scared of him for me.

edited 23rd Nov '11 2:48:30 PM by NoirGrimoir

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They put Krillin in a capsule specifically to preserve his body so he wouldn't be a zombie when he came back to life. Not to "honor the dead."

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Ok, makes sense. Still creepy. It would be hard to find the Dragonballs so fast that the bodies wouldn't have time to decay. Although couldn't they just make a more specific wish, revive back someone to the way they were before without decay?

Also, how is cell a ham? he's PERFECT

edited 4th Dec '11 9:22:29 AM by vanishingreality

So is there a canonical explanation for why bodies don't disappear in dragonball, but come Z and the introduction for otherworld it happened to Goku in Saiyan saga or was that an anime only thing?