Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball is one of anime’s biggest properties that’s produced more than 300 hours – or 12 days – of content. Dragon Ball is such an astronomical hit that’s practically synonymous with the battle shonen genre. It’s inspired fans and other series for nearly four decades and all of its successful victories make it that much easier to overlook the rare occasions when Dragon Ball misses, such as Dragon Ball GT. Dragon Ball GT aired a week after Dragon Ball Z’s series finale but its original story and lack of involvement from Toriyama (beyond character designs) set the sequel series up for polarizing reactions from the fandom.Dragon Ball GT is imperfect and, at only 64 episodes, it’s by far the shortest and least essential Dragon Ball series. Furthermore, the eventual release of Dragon Ball Super as a worthier Dragon Ball Z sequel that blazes its own trail has made Dragon Ball GT seem even more irrelevant in retrospect. Some fans even go so far as to claim that the entire series isn’t proper Dragon Ball canon because of what Dragon Ball Super goes on to establish. Dragon Ball GT is admittedly a mixed bag, but it doesn’t deserve to be completely written off like it has been for nearly three decades. In fact, many of Dragon Ball Super’s recent misgivings make it easier to appreciate everything that Dragon Ball GT was trying to do, even if it doesn’t all work.This approach might have helped draw in new, younger audiences, but there’s considerable tonal whiplash between Dragon Ball Z’s ending and Dragon Ball GT’s beginning. It’s a difficult transition for the adults who grew up with Goku and the original series. In fact, Dragon Ball GT’s opening arc proved to be so controversial that Funimation (now Crunchyroll) completely skipped it during their initial English dub release. Dragon Ball GT’s first 16 episodes get condensed into a clunky retrospective installment before the anime then soldiers ahead into the more action-oriented Baby Saga. This shift wasn’t what audiences initially wanted, but it’s now something different that fans have actively asked for during Dragon Ball Super’s manga.
Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball is one of anime’s biggest properties that’s produced more than 300 hours – or 12 days – of content. Dragon Ball is such an astronomical hit that’s practically synonymous with the battle shonen genre. It’s inspired fans and other series for nearly four decades and all of its successful victories make it that much easier to overlook the rare occasions when Dragon Ball misses, such as Dragon Ball GT. Dragon Ball GT aired a week after Dragon Ball Z’s series finale but its original story and lack of involvement from Toriyama (beyond character designs) set the sequel series up for polarizing reactions from the fandom.
Dragon Ball GT is imperfect and, at only 64 episodes, it’s by far the shortest and least essential Dragon Ball series. Furthermore, the eventual release of Dragon Ball Super as a worthier Dragon Ball Z sequel that blazes its own trail has made Dragon Ball GT seem even more irrelevant in retrospect. Some fans even go so far as to claim that the entire series isn’t proper Dragon Ball canon because of what Dragon Ball Super goes on to establish. Dragon Ball GT is admittedly a mixed bag, but it doesn’t deserve to be completely written off like it has been for nearly three decades. In fact, many of Dragon Ball Super’s recent misgivings make it easier to appreciate everything that Dragon Ball GT was trying to do, even if it doesn’t all work.
This approach might have helped draw in new, younger audiences, but there’s considerable tonal whiplash between Dragon Ball Z’s ending and Dragon Ball GT’s beginning. It’s a difficult transition for the adults who grew up with Goku and the original series. In fact, Dragon Ball GT’s opening arc proved to be so controversial that Funimation (now Crunchyroll) completely skipped it during their initial English dub release. Dragon Ball GT’s first 16 episodes get condensed into a clunky retrospective installment before the anime then soldiers ahead into the more action-oriented Baby Saga. This shift wasn’t what audiences initially wanted, but it’s now something different that fans have actively asked for during Dragon Ball Super’s manga.
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