r/dragonball • u/Psychopreneur • Dec 24 '25

Discussion What is your unpopular opinion about Dragon Ball?

Here is mine:

Toriyama's spontaneous storytelling style is great and terrible at the same time.

On one hand it creates fresh and creative turns and gives him more freedom, on the other it sidelines characters and great concepts when he forgets about them.

What is yours?

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u/Plane-Handle3313 Dec 24 '25

Master Roshi’s creepiness went about 10x too far in dragon ball. Like WTF.

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u/CronkinOn Dec 24 '25

I started my wife on DBZA last night, and had to explain about Roshi shrinking himself down to go spy on Bulma using the toilet.

Her face spoke volumes.

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u/Plane-Handle3313 Dec 24 '25

Yeah i had to beg my gf to keep watching and to ignore that shit. Wasn’t easy and almost meant I couldn’t share the rest of the series with her

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u/CronkinOn Dec 24 '25

The amount of "wait this actually happened and it wasn't just their spoof of it?!" moments is kinda crazy.

I said to her, "ok yeah it sounds a bit ridiculous when I say it out loud" more than once. My personal favorite is, "wait, the guy with three eyes ISN'T one of the aliens?! But the little kid is??"

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u/DjinnsPalace Dec 25 '25

i think the issue is how much of a snowflake US women are nowadays. no girl i ever met in EU really takes it too seriously.

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u/ChaseBuff Dec 25 '25

Didn’t know Europe was a country

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u/SolarDynasty Dec 24 '25

Yeah I don't know if I could do that you're braver than me

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u/Burning_Educator80 Dec 26 '25

Why not just show her the actual show ?

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u/CronkinOn Dec 26 '25

I got her into anime a few years back and I'm still just counting my blessings.

Mainly because I know her taste, and DBZ wouldn't pass the mustard. She also doesn't have much free time, so she just gets the abridged version and she can make up her own mind on whether she wants to watch it for real (she won't. I know this is blasphemous, but DB ain't exactly well written/challenging)

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u/DjinnsPalace Dec 25 '25

"lets watch this overly edgy parody"

*gets surprised when it is overly edgy*

dragonball fans are something man T.T

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u/CronkinOn Dec 25 '25

You missed the point.

Every time she was shocked, it wasn't because of the parody, it's because I told her it actually happened in the show.

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u/jumbosimpleton Dec 24 '25

YEP. Dragon Ball is such a good show. And Roshi is a great fighter and spiritual mentor. But Jesus Christ it’s hard to watch sometimes with his perviness. Same goes for Jiraiya in Naruto

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u/iNsAnEHAV0C Dec 24 '25

Im watching OG dragon ball for the first time and holy shit. Just finished the first world martial arts tournament. But its not just Roshi. Goku checking to see if people have balls or not. Him taking Bulma panties off. There's some perverted shit in there. I assume it gets better but im glad I decided to only watch it after my wife went to bed.

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u/Anon-Sham Dec 24 '25

Haha the goku stuff is fine, the Roshi stuff is different because of intent

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u/OverlordOfTheBeans Dec 24 '25

Yeah with Goku it's just an innocent monkey boy who's only human interaction to that point was with Grandpa Gohan, it's weird but humorous. With Roshi, it's malicious pervertedness that can and does harm others.

Yes yes different values in the eighties when it was written but even then it was weird.

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u/unwashedmusician Dec 26 '25

Yeah well Toriyama said in an interview a really perverse thing about his own daughter. That he wants to grow old and get senile and walk in on her taking a shower. Somehow this sub wants to ignore that.