This is coming from someone who has been a fan of the Dragon Ball series for more than ten years, I loved DBZ to death back when I was a little child, it was easily my favorate show and Goku was my idol, no action show came close to it. Three years ago though, when I was turning sixteen, I decided to check out a video of the best anime of all time, I thought DBZ was going to snatch the number 1 spot, but I was wrong, DBZ ranked at third with Death Note ranking second and FMA:B ranking first. I was surprised that DBZ did not top the list, but I was also very interested in checking out Death Note, and after watching that show, I realized that there maybe some anime that are actually better than DBZ and deserve all of the hype they get, I then went on to watch more masterpieces such as FMA:B and Code Geass, anime which put DBZ to absolute shame in every category.
I still was a fan of Dragon Ball, and it was still one of my favorate anime, but I was starting to realize that it was not even close to being the best anime, that it was just nostalgia speaking and nothing more. By watching some videos complaining about Toriyama's lazy writing and other videos explaining how power levels were stupid, I started to actually hate the series, and I started to root for the villains, especially Frieza, whom is one of the few characters that I actually adore from DBZ. Frieza is by far the best character, because he is one of the few characters who still has his dignity, whereas other monsters who lost to the mary sue character known as Goku turned to the side of good (Cough...Piccolo...Cough...Vegeta...Cough...Everybody else), Frieza still maintains character and is one of the few characters that Toriyama hasn't fucked up...yet. I also have some questions: why should Vegeta be forgiven so easily? Why did Bulma give her poom poom to a killer who was going to destroy the Earth and is basically a giant prick? Why does Gohan respect a monster who wanted to kill his dad and tortured him when he was little? Seriously, if Batman was written by Toriyama, the fucking Joker himself would have become a good guy. The powerscaling in Dragon Ball is also bullshit, characters literally get stronger for the sake of the plot and are conveniently around the same level of power in every saga, we get to the point where modified humans are stronger than a space emperor just because plot. The super saiyan becomes a garbage form and side characters become garbage as well. The fact that Goku beat the strongest being in the universe without any development before meeting him makes the story boring, he just beats him for the sake of the awful plot (If you could call it a plot that is) and the fact that there are characters who are later on revealed to be stronger than the strongest being in the universe is an insult to the viewers, because it's a sign that Toiyama has no dignity and wants to milk the series for more money.
The last straw was me watching the original Dragon Ball, I liked the first two arcs, the Red Ribborn arc was good but the way Goku beat Tao easily was bullshit, the final arc (King Piccolo) was so boring, Goku was again being a silly idiot and defeating monsters with ease, the show was so unbearable to the point where I had to drop the anime and actually declare Dragon Ball as nothing more than a nostalgia show. Dragon Ball is boring, repetitive, lazy, emotionless, and it refuses to rest in it's rotting grave because there are many retards who still want to watch more of it. I bet half of the Dragon Ball fanbase hasn't watched Dragon Ball/Z again after turning fifteen or older, if they had, half of it's fanbase would have been gone by now.
