Very sad considering that Dragon Ball was very successful in my country as an anime. I mean, it still airs from time to time on TV to this very day!
What country are you at? Italy? By chance have you seen or heard about an old anime called "
La Balena Giuseppina"
RIP to a legend.
Dating myself a bit here, but when I was a kid, Dragon Ball Z was the first wholly-serial cartoon show anybody had seen. Other shows might have had some overarching plotline or two-parter episodes, bu nothing like Dragon Ball. They'd end the show on some insane cliffhanger (like are they about to blow the bad guys up finally or not!?) and you'd be waiting a whole week - may as well have been a year in a kid's brain - to find out what happens Saturday morning.
There was something weird about the original syndication where they hadn't licensed enough episodes for a full American television season - BUT instead of running through all the ones they had and then starting over from the beginning, they would pick RANDOM points at which to restart the series. So you'd get to "Goku's almost at the end of Snake road!" and then it would rewind back to the episode where Raditz arrives.
It took a full two years to get from the beginning to where the boys defeat Vegeta - after which they changed the schedule from Saturday mornings to like 4AM on a weekday and I never saw it again, lol.
I think it was very unprofessional of Ocean dub/funnimation not completing the dub and doing reruns of barely any material. I also saw those super early ocean dub episodes.
Wow, I didn't knew Akira had a son.
Let's hope Sasuke makes the right decision, whatever it is, to continue his father's legacy.
I wonder if Kishimoto named Sasuke after Toriyama;s son, In Naturo.
My story.
Before Dragonball, was about 3 years old. The animes I saw Super champions (captain Tsubasa). Remi the child of no one, Kimba the white lion, And meteoro ( Speed Racer). When I
Dragonball was the first anime I watched when I could truly follow the plot, and clearly understand the dialogues and the story. I was 4 years old at the beginning of '95. In Mexico I saw Dragonball twice from start to finish.
I moved with my family to the USA. forgot about dragonball. The n one day in the summer break, Telemundo started the Mexican dub. All the memories started coming back, it felt very sureal to be continuing the series I had began years before.
When school again started again.
My cousins had a vcr, and thus record the the episodes from Telemundo.
One of the days of waking up early for school I saw the ocean dub early in the morning on WB.
It was interesting to see the English Ocean dub adaptation. How The Ocean had their own the theme song "Rock the dragon, dragon ball Z"
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It was interesting to watch while I was learning English, because I would at times realize things beings said were different than how I would have said them, yet they made sense.
I understood things better like Idioms, american slang, american expressions. I had a better understanding of how language is conveyed, and adapted. I ended up seeing the ocean dub episodes several times because they only aired it till episode 64, shortly after Goku arrives in Namek to fight the Ginyu force.
I did not see the Funnimation dub. Sicne I grew up without cable.
I think I remember reading something about Funnimation buying the rights to all of North America or the Americas. ithink this was very greedy, and lacking consideration.
And actually led to dragonabll z stopping its airing of rereuns in Latin America. This caused Telemundo to stop its airing after the cell saga, and according to friends the Japanese channel on cable based on hawaii had to stopped its syndication too of the Japanese dub.
they were not even projecting towards the target speaking audience of Funnimation (American English)
I often read on how and why db and dbz were popular in Mexico and Latin America. What I feel they often forget to state is that Mexico/Latin America aired on local channel and prime time hours after school hours. I am really adamant of bringing awareness, that In Mexico dubbed the series to completion. This ensured all the kids ot to see it.
It was not some paywall like Funnimation putting DBZ on cable (cartoon Network with an incomplete dub that took forever for them to do)
Later in life I saw the DBZ kai episodes on WB/CW.
I met the Mexican voice actors when they visited the anime convention here in Texas.
I love DBZ for it's chaos theory. Events happening by chance, events that were always supposed to happen. Situations where a certain character did not have prior knowledge, and did not get information right away. Situations where something happened by chance.
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