Even with all the infamous censoring, the Ocean Dub was still violent and intense in a way I hadn't experienced before.įrom there, I used the internet. At first I thought Yamucha and Goku were the same character, as well as Raditz and Vegeta. The Ocean Dub only had 60 episodes done, so they would replay those over and over. At 6am, channel 48 (local and obscure) played Sailor Moon and Ocean Dub DBZ back to back, so that's how I started my mornings off for a solid year. When I actively got into the show was in 99-00 as a freshman in high school. I had no idea what Dragon Ball was, just thought it was some kids show from Japan. They only dubbed like three episodes and one of the movies. Goku was named Zero and all the other names were different. We had something called the Harmony Gold dub (I of course didn't know this at the time), which was only available in Philly and Detroit.
The first time I remember watching anything Dragon Ball related was in the early nineties. A lot of other shows and manga I read such as One Piece and Hunter x Hunter wouldn't exist or would be nothing like what they are without DB (even Watsuki cited some DB and YYH influences in RK), so it obviously is a meaningful and impactful franchise. I've met some on and off friends like Evil Vegeta, CatOuttaHell, (before the infamous ousting) and others through shared interest in DB so yeah, it's a franchise that means something to me even if I hate Toyotaro's manga and the soulless cashgrabs that Toei often produces. I didn't read up to the end until 2003, but I've been a fan ever since, and seeing as I still discuss it and write a fanfiction about the franchise, I'd consider myself a fan still. Goku/Vegeta through VHS tapes they rented out at the local Korean Blockbuster, but I truly got into it through renting volumes of the manga and reading it from volume 1 to 35-36 or so (the end of the Cell arc and start of the Boo saga) as they were releasing uncensored versions in Korea, one volume per week. I'd already seen episodes like Dabura vs. I got into it in my elementary school years (in b4 30 year old man joke), though my first exposure to it was through a DB Final Bout disc that my dad had on his person when I was about 5 or 6.
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