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| Goku |
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202 | 7.09% |
| Vegeta |
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279 | 9.79% |
| Krillin |
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208 | 7.30% |
| Piccolo or his nameks |
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212 | 7.44% |
| Gohan or Cool Gohan |
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135 | 4.74% |
| Yamcha |
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90 | 3.16% |
| Tien |
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120 | 4.21% |
| Muten Roshi |
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89 | 3.12% |
| Tao Pai Pai |
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71 | 2.49% |
| Frieza |
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69 | 2.42% |
| Cell or an android |
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86 | 3.02% |
| Buu |
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62 | 2.18% |
| Hercule "Mark" Satan |
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327 | 11.48% |
| Videl |
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90 | 3.16% |
| Bulma |
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104 | 3.65% |
| Yajirobe |
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99 | 3.47% |
| Ginyu or other Frieza squad guy |
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68 | 2.39% |
| King kai or another kai |
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53 | 1.86% |
| Chi-Chi |
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83 | 2.91% |
| Goten |
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43 | 1.51% |
| Trunks or Cool Trunks |
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112 | 3.93% |
| Bardock |
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48 | 1.68% |
| Other villain of DB,Z, or GT(please post about it!) |
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41 | 1.44% |
| Uub |
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42 | 1.47% |
| Oolong |
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90 | 3.16% |
| Zamasu |
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26 | 0.91% |
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Raxivace posted:We had those people at my school too. Next you're going to tell me you were a straight-A student who got in a bunch of advanced courses in high school. Despite the fact that you didn't put any effort in.
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Jul 13, 2017 08:28
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Haha, can't say I was an especially impressive or notable student I'm afraid.
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Jul 13, 2017 08:38
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Raxivace posted:Haha, can't say I was an especially impressive or notable student I'm afraid. You're me in College, then.
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Jul 13, 2017 08:40
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Every school had those kids who wore Naruto headbands. Some still do. There are also kids who bleach their hair and spike it up with lots of gel, but they end up looking more like guidos than super saiyans. Me? I dyed my hair purple in high school so I could look like Trunks.
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Jul 13, 2017 09:33
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It did not work.
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Jul 13, 2017 09:35
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It's weird, because while I'm sure Naruto was massive here too, it didn't feel like it to me? I mean, people that were into anime were VERY into it, but it definitely wasn't a phenomenon like DBZ or Saint Seiya - even though I'm sure it eclipsed the latter easily overall. Same thing with One Piece. If I'm not mistaken lezard is from Argentina, so maybe that colors his perspective - I think watching anime as a kid was way more normalized down in Latin America than it was in the USA, especially in the 90s and early 00s. That poo poo aired on network TV and all. Meanwhile, Shippuden never made it to cable in Brazil and I'm not sure the original series had a full run on network TV. Plus it got here 5 and 9 years after it started its run in Japan, for the OG series and Shippuden respectively!
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Jul 13, 2017 10:39
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One Piece never seemed to hit it as big outside of Japan as it did in Japan.
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Jul 13, 2017 11:08
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Nothing has been as big as DBZ here except maybe Sailor Moon and even then nah. Goku is on the same level as Batman and Spider Man. Naruto is really a new generation thing, maybe in 20 years the kids today will remember it like we do DBZ.
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Jul 13, 2017 11:54
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Naruto kinda suffers from the Star wars prequels syndrome where if you didn't watch it as it was going, there's no value going back and watching it now. Dragon ball wasn't really great either, but it does sort of stand the test of time better. At least shonen stuff now is pretty fantastic, between My Hero Academia and Dragonball Super. Does this generation have a third? One Piece is kinda its own thing from last generation.
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Jul 13, 2017 12:42
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Attack on Titan was pretty big, It seems to have fizzled out though
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Jul 13, 2017 12:45
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Having watched Dragonball recently I can say that it is still really good.
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Jul 13, 2017 13:07
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When DBZ started getting real popular in the states I was just about to enter middle school. Toonami stopping in the middle of namek and switching it back to the beginning like four (six loving times maybe?) really put me off, and for me it didn't help that the music, the voice acting just completely up and changed when they finally released the next half. High School I noticed some kids wearing headbands and talking about leaf village, and doing a bunch of quick ninja hand gestures or some poo poo, thought that was pretty embarrassing. Fargin Icehole fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Jul 13, 2017 |
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Jul 13, 2017 13:15
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Stallion Cabana posted:One Piece never seemed to hit it as big outside of Japan as it did in Japan. Thanks 4Kids.
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Jul 13, 2017 13:24
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Fargin Icehole posted:When DBZ started getting real popular in the states I was just about to enter middle school. Toonami stopping in the middle of namek and switching it back to the beginning like four times really put me off, and it didn't help that the music, the voice acting just completely up and changed when they finally released the next half. I recall liking the Naruto manga a lot. I was subscribed to US Shonen Jump up through that tournament arc where they introduced Gaara, and I also got about that far in the anime before I ran out of steam  Most of what I know about Naruto past that is due to wikis and weeaboo osmosis. And Boruto. But yeah, I don't think it ever got that popular at my high school. Most of my friends were super jazzed about DBZ or Sailor Moon, still.
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Jul 13, 2017 13:25
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Funky Valentine posted:Thanks 4Kids. 4kids didn't help but i doubt it would've been a huge hit in america either way, a lot of 90s-early 00s anime fandom felt focused on how anime could be so much more serious and badass than american cartoons and there's no real way to spin one piece as something like that dragon ball kinda got lucky that we got z first and not db classic
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Jul 13, 2017 13:32
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My experience is, anime is only as popular as the effort that goes into marketing it. Nothing quite achieved the level of Dragonball Z because anime was systematically dismantled in the west by the time, say, Naruto was out and getting to its better arcs. With Toonami getting canned and Adult Swim constantly changing its Saturday schedule seemingly out of sheer spite, nothing else could get a foothold. Outside Cartoon Network, you pretty much had to already be into anime for anime's sake. The only casual anime fans I met in the mid-late 2000s' pretty much just had a passing knowledge of Inuyasha or Bleach.
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Jul 13, 2017 13:35
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The Internet for better and worse helped if you were an anime fan, i guess.
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Jul 13, 2017 13:37
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Brother Entropy posted:4kids didn't help but i doubt it would've been a huge hit in america either way, a lot of 90s-early 00s anime fandom felt focused on how anime could be so much more serious and badass than american cartoons and there's no real way to spin one piece as something like that One Piece's chief issue in that department is pacing. There's all kinds of bad-rear end fighting and righteous fury, it's just that it doesn't really come to a boil until the end of an arc in almost every case. You know the arc is about to end when Luffy gets the shadows over his eyes and starts talking about justice and comradery, and how the villain has fully and irrevocably offended his sensibilities in both of those categories This gets a little better sometime around where they get Chopper on the crew. I guess maybe Oda was a bit more into the groove by then, and started weaving sick battles into the character drama parts.
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Jul 13, 2017 13:46
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Fargin Icehole posted:The Internet for better and worse helped if you were an anime fan, i guess. Yup. Nothing was airing consistently or at reasonable hours in 2004. It was a sheer stroke of luck that my brother had fansubbed Naruto DVDs onhand, which led me finding subs online, which led me to, of all things, Evangelion. It's been rather downhill from there.
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Jul 13, 2017 13:51
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Jul 13, 2017 14:24
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Muten Roshi-sama!?
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Jul 13, 2017 15:25
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Mordaedil posted:Naruto kinda suffers from the Star wars prequels syndrome where if you didn't watch it as it was going, there's no value going back and watching it now. I'm watching it now and nah
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Jul 13, 2017 15:41
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Cartoon Network's questionable programming decisions is probably what hurt most anime after the peak of Toonami. Bleach at least got a steady time slot for years on Adult Swim and despite bouncing around networks and living in filler hell, Naruto somehow became arguably the most recognized of the "Big 3" Shonen Jump trio but 4Kids probably hurt One Piece a lot more than they ever helped it.
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Jul 13, 2017 16:38
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way I remember it, there was a big backlash against anime for years around the time naruto started airing on cartoon network. a lot of the kids that grew up on dragon ball decided that anime was bad/gross by high school. I know people that still don't consider dragon ball to be anime at all. so naruto was still big but it never had a chance to reach the same amount of people as dbz did
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Jul 13, 2017 17:16
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Manatee Cannon posted:I know people that still don't consider dragon ball to be anime at all. You know some really weird people
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Jul 13, 2017 17:22
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Andrast posted:You know some really weird people I wouldn't be surprised if that's a fairly wide-spread opinion. Lots of people grew up with Dragon Ball as kids and lots of people consider anime the worst thing, there's gonna be some overlap there.
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Jul 13, 2017 17:36
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Manatee Cannon posted:way I remember it, there was a big backlash against anime for years around the time naruto started airing on cartoon network. a lot of the kids that grew up on dragon ball decided that anime was bad/gross by high school. I know people that still don't consider dragon ball to be anime at all. so naruto was still big but it never had a chance to reach the same amount of people as dbz did I guess, in a way, we can thank Bronies for taking all the hate away from anime fandom. Now, being super angry about anime is just seen as being behind the scene. Not that a lot people like it, but indiscriminate anime hate was, like, five hate cycles ago, man. We're on to a whole new scene now.
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Jul 13, 2017 17:40
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Aurora posted:I'm watching it now and nah Not saying it's exactly like that, though I am surprised someone would give it any time of the day now a days, but then again even the prequels had their fans.
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Jul 13, 2017 17:43
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Naruto is alright before the timeskip and fairly quickly devolves into garbage after it. At least that's how the manga works. Never watched the anime.
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Jul 13, 2017 17:50
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Andrast posted:Naruto is alright before the timeskip and fairly quickly devolves into garbage after it. The anime has like 80 episodes of filler before the timeskip so its even worse.
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Jul 13, 2017 17:53
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Andrast posted:Naruto is alright before the timeskip and fairly quickly devolves into garbage after it. The anime is endless filler. Like, no really. They caught up so much to the manga that, pre-timeskip had a 60-80 episode random, non continous filler arc. And, then, the post-timeskip added a ton of a filler per episode then a bunch of filler arcs afterwards. Like, they dragged out one chapter in the manga around the end to last 20 episodes. No, I'm being loving serious. I'm not trying to spoil here, but there was a chapter in the manga where you could tell everyone's experience to one thing. In the manga, they did it in one panel shots. In the anime, each one got 2-3 episodes. Naruto's creators really, really, really do not want to lose their timeslot.
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Jul 13, 2017 17:55
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Yeah I had dropped the anime when it was just endless running after Deidara.
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Jul 13, 2017 17:56
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Is shippuden like DB:Kai or is it a sequel? All I know about Naruto is over exaggerated things and weebs wearing headbands.
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Jul 13, 2017 17:57
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Zedd posted:Is shippuden like DB:Kai or is it a sequel?
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Jul 13, 2017 17:59
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Covok posted:The anime is endless filler. Like, no really. They caught up so much to the manga that, pre-timeskip had a 60-80 episode random, non continous filler arc. And, then, the post-timeskip added a ton of a filler per episode then a bunch of filler arcs afterwards. Like, they dragged out one chapter in the manga around the end to last 20 episodes. No, I'm being loving serious. I'm not trying to spoil here, but there was a chapter in the manga where you could tell everyone's experience to one thing. In the manga, they did it in one panel shots. In the anime, each one got 2-3 episodes. Hell, the anime was still doing filler arcs long after the manga had already ended, they really wanted to keep the show on the air as long as possible. The current Boruto show is surprisingly good so far though, it's kind of doing it's own thing (at the moment at least) rather then following any established manga (So in Dragon Ball terms, less GT and more Super).
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Jul 13, 2017 18:15
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The only true way to experience Naruto is the Ultimate Ninja Storm games.
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Jul 13, 2017 19:20
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Funky Valentine posted:The only true way to experience Naruto is the Ultimate Ninja Storm games. Not emptyquote.
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Jul 13, 2017 19:23
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The big ninja war already seemed bloated as gently caress in the manga, I cannot even imagine how it'd be in the anime if they were padding it out even more.
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Jul 13, 2017 20:10
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Larryb posted:Hell, the anime was still doing filler arcs long after the manga had already ended, they really wanted to keep the show on the air as long as possible. The current Boruto show is surprisingly good so far though, it's kind of doing it's own thing (at the moment at least) rather then following any established manga (So in Dragon Ball terms, less GT and more Super). that seems a flawed comparison because GT wasn't based on a manga either
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Jul 13, 2017 20:46
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Augus posted:that seems a flawed comparison because GT wasn't based on a manga either That comparison was meant to be more in terms of overall quality but fair point. Either way, it's a pretty good show, especially if you liked the first half of Naruto.
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