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I don't really care about spoilers since I have no plans to watch the show. >.>;; I only ever seemed able to catch one particular episode whenever I did try to watch it and it was an annoying one.

But I don't like a lot of shows like that, either. I don't know if it's just the dubbed ones but I've noticed that a lot of imported anime series treat their audiences like they were born on the stupid side of a brick...constantly overexplaining simple little things, dragging things on, overutilizing the "slow pan across the face with twitchy" shots. I dunno, it just bugs me.

I don't like those ultra-violent anime either (Like Ninja Scroll. I watched about five minutes of that before it got switched off and subsequently ignored...though it wasn't just the blood in that movie that annoyed me >.>;; ).

So I really don't watch that much anime...the ones I do like though are things like Paranoia Agent, Iria (anybody remember that one?), Cowboy Bebop (sometimes), and things similar. The ones that mess with your head.

...I dunno where that places me in the anime fanworld. Ah well.

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Yaawwwnnn....
Hopefully, I'll be starting public school back up again, as the homeschooling stuff bombed... (like, we lost the papers, and it was too late, and, yadda yadda...)
We also get to paint my room, soon ^_^
Two shades of purple ninja

You haven't started school yet? Lucky... stare I'm almost through with the first trimester...T__T I hate school....

neutral DBZ + Headbands? Hardly. Don't get me wrong, I liked DBZ, but it's plotline was rather transparent, and constant. I mean, it was always the same . . . (insert villian name) is coming, we all know it, and he/it will destroy the world. Heroes all train, and fail except (with rare exception) Goku. About one-third of the time, (insert villian name) becomes a reluctant ally. That's it. With Naruto, they at least have gone through several challenges and the world is not at stake every week. Only charecters. I understand the fact it is an action based anime, but calling it DBZ+Headbands is just wrong.

So far, there isn't too much about the show that annoys me. Sure there are a few meaningless episodes here and there, but it still moves along well enough. From what I understand, though, filler is what destroyed Bleach. Loved it up until they save Rukia from her execution, but after that . . . I just lost all interest in it.

DBZ, every episode I ever saw: 25 minutes of grunting and bulging muscles, while staring at enemy across a large empty field. 2 minutes of dashing around almost too fast to see, senselessly flailing at enemy. 3 minutes of dramatic voice-over detailing the next episode, which will be exactly the same as the this one.

I never understood the appeal of that show. *shrug*

I think everyone realizes the obsurdity of the battle on Namek taking a bizzilion minutes.

However, DBZ was the... second anime I ever saw, as it was on CN right after Sailor Moon (which was the first anime I watched). So, I rather liked it. (No GT! Why did you make Gohan a weak little nerd.... crying ).

Plus, I have nearly all the manga, and it is much better than the anime, I think. First off, FUNimation had to edit the crap out of DBZ, so the first episodes -especially- are laughable. Note how no one dies, and they are all 'sent to another demension'. Yeah. Then the dub itself isn't that good. But whatever.

The manga, especially the DragonBall part of it, is full of humor, and moves a heck of a lot faster than the anime, so you can just breeze by those fight scenes. Which is good. The anime made them longer so they could earn more money. *shrugs*

So head on over to your local library or bookstore, and check out the first DB book to see if you really dislike the series or not.

*relaxes in the eye of the storm before school begins to pummel her into non-exsitance again*

I remember watching the battle with Frieza, and how the planet was supposed to be destroyed in "5 minutes" and it took like... 10 episodes. If you timed the dialog, it was longer than 5 minutes. And they kept showing the same images of the planet being destroyed over and over and over...

I'm so stupid, I thought I've gotten over pointless shoujo anime... but nooooo I start downloading insane amounts of 'Ouran High School Host Club' xD Soooo fun but yet so stupid, waste of my non-existing free time ^^;