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#16176: Dec 7th 2015 at 12:46:30 PM

That was insider Super Boo filler.

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#16177: Dec 7th 2015 at 12:47:18 PM

Thanks.

Also, because I saw a lot of Super Saiyan Goku toys before I started watching the anime, I spent a lot of the Saiyan and Namek arcs going, "Okay, great, but seriously, why does he become blond? When are we going to get to the blond?"

edited 7th Dec '15 12:47:24 PM by TobiasDrake

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#16178: Dec 7th 2015 at 12:50:08 PM

I was a faithful Toonami watcher as a kid.

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#16179: Dec 7th 2015 at 2:23:11 PM

Back before I started watching the series, I thought "saiyan" was pronounced "sigh-yawn" for the longest time. Mostly because of an action figure commercial that used that pronunciation.

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#16180: Dec 7th 2015 at 5:26:44 PM

I like to joke that watching DBZ on Toonami as a kid has left me entirely desensitized to hiatuses in animated shows these days.

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#16181: Dec 7th 2015 at 5:35:24 PM

Do you remember when Dragon Ball Z would start all over from Raditz whenever Burter was about to fight on Namek?

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#16183: Dec 7th 2015 at 6:40:27 PM

@Very Melon: Oh I remember the Ocean Dub hiatuses. I still get a sense of satisfaction when I see Goku one shotting Recoome.

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#16184: Dec 7th 2015 at 6:47:29 PM

Hooray someone else remembers!

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#16185: Dec 7th 2015 at 7:28:26 PM

I still remember the "finally, new DBZ episodes" commercial, with Vegeta's rambling about Goku becoming a Super Sayin playing again as if through an old radio. They knew exactly which lines had been torturing us for the past months.

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#16186: Dec 7th 2015 at 7:37:46 PM

Missing an episode of the later Freeza saga used to be hell, cause they would always rerun it from the very beginning. Argh.

I remember later on they used to fill time by endlessly rerunning the Garlic Jr. Saga.

edited 7th Dec '15 7:39:41 PM by KnownUnknown

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#16187: Dec 7th 2015 at 7:42:57 PM

Better than Yu Yu Hakusho. That only ran like once on Toonami, restarted from episode 1 at the climax of the Chapter Black saga, and then I think either got cancelled or moved to way late Adult Swim. I still haven't seen the end of that.

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#16188: Dec 7th 2015 at 7:54:25 PM

This just reminds me of how Toonami hyped the fuck out of Freeza's return, which...well, I bet they were laughing mad the whole time they made that commercial.

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#16189: Dec 7th 2015 at 10:20:34 PM

I read the manga from the library as a kid, and I had no idea how ridiculously popular Dragon Ball Z was because I don't have TV. I'm still dumbfounded that Z is SO much more well known than the original.

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#16190: Dec 8th 2015 at 12:07:03 AM

I remember that September when they were hyping SSJ 3. Had the date on my calendar and everything lol.

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#16191: Dec 8th 2015 at 2:05:03 AM

I wish I was one of you guys.

There's just this whole generation of the fanbase that I've missed out on.

The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!
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#16192: Dec 8th 2015 at 2:12:08 AM

I sympathize; I didn't even know that an anime existed of Dragon Ball! I thought I had just discovered a really cool, but not super popular, comic series from Japan.

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#16193: Dec 8th 2015 at 4:52:45 AM

I Bought the pocket volumes in local stores. The run had already ended so all books were available but some could be hard to find. Didn't find volume 5 until I had already read the other 41, while I was in a completely different part of the country. Don't think the anime ever ran on TV over here, but according to wikipedia there were apparently several DVD's.

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#16195: Dec 8th 2015 at 7:17:13 AM

Better than Yu Yu Hakusho. That only ran like once on Toonami, restarted from episode 1 at the climax of the Chapter Black saga, and then I think either got cancelled or moved to way late Adult Swim. I still haven't seen the end of that.

You aren't missing much. The show peaked at the Dark Tournament and it was all downhill from there.

edited 8th Dec '15 7:17:46 AM by TobiasDrake

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#16196: Dec 8th 2015 at 7:41:04 AM

Do you remember when Dragon Ball Z would start all over from Raditz whenever Burter was about to fight on Namek?

That was torture lol.

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#16197: Dec 8th 2015 at 8:16:42 AM

My opinion on Yu Yu Hakusho's quality mirrors Saiga's: It didn't actually Jump the Shark, so to speak, until Sensui first reveals his split personalities.

edited 8th Dec '15 8:21:31 AM by VeryMelon

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#16198: Dec 8th 2015 at 8:33:20 AM

That is where it really got bad, I agree.

But I'm also critical of Genkai's Character Derailment into a heroic warrior of justice.

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#16199: Dec 8th 2015 at 8:36:43 AM

Yeah you brought that up in the Yu Yu Hakusho thread. Even back when I was watching it the problems Yusuke had with killing the Doctor never made sense to me.

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#16200: Dec 8th 2015 at 10:17:47 AM

I really liked the introduction of psychics to YYH. It was like "okay, you've just beaten the strongest demons. How about something new: humans with powers that can't be overcome by simple punching?"

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