Dragon Ball was the first manga I read. I still own every volume of the original series and Z that I bought when I was a kid. It probably took me a year or two to collect and save up for each one. I read the series so many times when I was a kid and played every single game of it that I could get my hands on. The anime wasn’t on tv where I grew up so that was the only way for me to experience it. I was absolutely addicted to the series. It’s probably one of the most formative pieces of media in my life and shaped who I am today.

Introducing friends to Dragon Ball, pretending to be Goku or Vegeta with my friends and not so pretend fighting, reading it on long car journeys, buying Dragon Quest because it looked like Dragon Ball and so many more. Thank you Toriyama for all of those memories.

I’ve been watching all their episode breakdowns on their other channel FourStarBento. All the creators are so passionate about the show still and I’m really enjoying learning about all the little details in the abridged series. To be honest I was kind of hoping that at the end of it they would finish with a “We’re doing Buu!!!” but this is nice too. I still wish we could get an entire season though