All the Latin versions of the Dragon Ball Openings and Endings are, imo, pretty damn great.
It helps that, unlike a certain series I can name, they let those stick around for a long enough time that they actually became genuinelly iconic of the series, instead of being one amongst twenty or more.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariI'd like to take this opportunity to marvel at how Dragonball manages to capture the imaginations of so many people from different walks of life around the world. I enjoy reading about your Latin American experiences because they're so different from my memories of dragonball , yet it's about the same source material.
Bravo, Toriyama. Bravo.
"If you weren't so crazy I'd think you were insane."Yeah, I REALLY hope Super sticks with one opening. At least for a while. I love Leitmotifs. It's great when you have one song that is the theme for the entire series.
Although, One Piece still has that, doesn't it? At least, I've heard instrumental versions of We Are in the OST. (But I'm not very far into it).
The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!No, One Piece changes its openings quite often. We Are just stands out among them. I'm not even sure if they're still using that opening.
Oops, I confused that with We Go, which is more recent. I'm pretty sure We Are has fallen entirely out of usage except for homages.
edited 6th Jun '15 7:34:09 PM by Saiga
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Bleach and One Piece (especially Bleach) are nowhere near as popular as they once were (especially in the West) while Dragon Ball is still absurdly popular even after all this time. It is that special. Also, they were talking about the source material, not the adaptions.
edited 6th Jun '15 7:35:17 PM by Zelenal
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One Piece was never really that popular in the west, even before it lost popularity.
edited 6th Jun '15 7:39:05 PM by Saiga
Dragon Ball is a classic. People have nostalgia for it and it's easily accessible to anyone who wants to get into manga or anime.
I'd think Naruto has a similar status in the West (or at least the US), whatever you define that as.
edited 6th Jun '15 7:41:50 PM by LSBK
Then again, the series to have started after Naruto/Bleach/One Piece never reached their popularity, either. I feel western interest in shonen manga peaked with those three and then declined. Older series avoided the decline in interest and newer series didn't even have a chance to gain the interest before it went away.
I think it's interesting that, while Vegeta tells Trunks to get ready to go out, we don't actually see their trip to the park.
Like, Trunks treats Vegeta so normally in the Buu saga. Isn't scared of him at all.
It seems like they've trained together, but not enough for Vegeta to know Trunks could go Super Saiyan.
Vegeta seems honestly surprised when he hits Trunks back on instinct.
...And, most importantly of all, Vegeta watched infomercials about bargain sales.
I want to know what Vegeta watches on TV.
Why don't more people ask these questions?
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I think there's a lot of reasons why the popularity of shonen has declined:
- Most of the shonen that got really popular outside Japan premiered in one big "boom" in the early '00s, and most of those are over now and nothing's really filled the gap.
- There's increasing Values Dissonance between Japan and not-Japan, particularly with regards to "otaku culture" which Japan increasingly embraces but other countries are increasingly creeped out by.
- The target demographic that was just the right age during the aforementioned "boom" has since aged out.
- People are getting sick of the pacing style of really long shonen like Naruto and OP; a lot of shorter anime are still popular.
edited 6th Jun '15 7:47:09 PM by HamburgerTime
I mean, Toriyama had an answer
about how Vegeta learned about bargain sales.
It actually made sense too, because the idea of the richest people on the planet going to a bargain sale is ridiculous.
But not quite as ridiculous as imagining Vegeta sitting on a couch watching TV.
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Yeah, I agree with there being a boom. But I think there have been series that could have filled the gap, and understanding why they weren't accepted by western fans is a little harder to understand.
I do find it fascinating, though. I wonder where I could read up more about it.
edited 6th Jun '15 7:52:24 PM by Saiga
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It's a side of Vegeta that we see just barely enough of to get the idea that it's there.
...Which, quite frankly, I think might be deliberate on Vegeta's part. Because of course he'd want to do a lot of posturing around Gohan and Goku. He doesn't want anyone but his family to think he actually has feelings.
Especially not his rival and his rival's son.
edited 6th Jun '15 7:58:14 PM by unnoun
Huh. So Beerus was the one to seal the Elder Kaioushin inside the Z Sword. Neat.
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I keep thinking that Kid Trunks feels almost way too realistic, because he reminds me of my little cousins.
Perhaps Vegeta and Bulma's family life isn't that unusual, after all. And that's why Trunks acts like such a normal (albeit bratty) kid.
The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!But not so dominant that people don't recognize Goku, former tournament winner and SAVIOR OF THE WORLD on sight.
And again, I say, in a world where there is visual, factual proof that Martial Arts give you super powers, it's weird how normal the rest of the DBZ world is, aside from like, a ten percent anthropomorphic animal population.
My various fanfics.

The old men punching is my second-favorite part of the game.
My first favorite being the giant robot fight.