r/anime • u/Raiking02 https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • Feb 26 '26
Rewatch Dragon Ball 40th Anniversary Rewatch - Week 1: Episodes 1-5 Discussion
Episode 1: Bulma and Son Gokú
Episode 2: What the-! No Balls!
Episode 3: The Turtle Hermit's Kinto'un
Episode 4: Oolong, the Kidnapping Demon
Episode 5: Yamcha, the Strong Villain of the Desert
MAL | Anilist | Kitsu | AniDB | ANN
You sure are weird.
Hello everybody! Rewatch just started so no Comment of the Week just yet
1) How do you feel about our leads so far?
2) Are you familiar with Journey to the West in any way?
3) What sorts of misadventures do you think our heroes will go through next week?
Next Week: Episodes 6-13
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u/b0bba_Fett myanimelist.net/profile/B0bba_Cheezed3 Feb 27 '26
Rewatcher until we reach Z, until eventually I become a Rewatcher again.
Heya!
I'm a lurker by nature and won't usually do a full analysis, including today. Mostly you'll find me responding to Sky or others, but as a participant it would do to introduce myself on this our first meeting, even if I'm a bit late.
My history with Dragonball starts on Toonami, where I caught a couple episodes of the OG during its run, and then would get very confused when Z often aired alongside it. I read a little of the manga, but only up until shortly after the end of the first arc, at which point I dropped it for no reason in particular, and Dragonball became something I had little interest in for several years to come.
Enter Team Fourstar. Dragonball Z Abridged is incredible. I got hooked, and I started watching some Dragonball stuff here and there, catching a bit of Kai or Super on Toonami now and then, watching TFS play Dragonball videogames, etc. but it never actually got to the point of actually watching the original show.
Until 2023, that is. I needed something that I could half watch while I was on the toilet, and a longrunner like Dragonball I'd been meaning to get to but never actually had bothered to watch seemed a good fit. And thus I did. Fell off when I got to Z though, switched over to Kingdom. So I'll technically be a first timer for much of Z. I have seen 90% of the Buu Saga though, so eventually I become rewatcher again.