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Poll: Yes or No: DBZ > Sailor Moon
View Poll Results: Yes or No: DBZ > Sailor Moon
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Yes, DBZ is vastly superior
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Girls Rule
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Member Since: 10/24/2010
Posts: 11,668
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HELL NO.
Sailor Moon ***** on all and any animes.
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Member Since: 10/24/2010
Posts: 11,668
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What kind of sub-legends?!
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Member Since: 5/20/2012
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Ewwww, Dragon Ball was the ugliest cartoon ever released. Every pencil of the world should have a restraining order against Akira Toriyama. And they had battles lasting 40 episodes, ew.
Sailor Moon had an actually interesting impact on grownth of young females, aka Usagi being a crybaby, feminine and all that ****, but at the end of the day she was totally banging her man and it was never condemned as something sinful or dirty (at least the manga did that).
I wasn't a huge fan of either, though.
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Member Since: 5/27/2010
Posts: 37,025
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Member Since: 11/16/2011
Posts: 11,544
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Still slaying I see.
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Member Since: 5/15/2010
Posts: 15,858
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Sailormoon had one of the best arcs in the history of animation.It is way more consistent than DBZ in terms of story and pacing.
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Member Since: 4/26/2012
Posts: 33,881
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I don't even use DBZ like that but it's one of the most recognizable and most popular anime ever created.
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Member Since: 10/18/2010
Posts: 29,224
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Let's not even pretend that DBZ did not inspire half the anime/manga out there now...
There would be no Bleach, Naruto, or One Piece without Dragon Ball...
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Member Since: 11/14/2011
Posts: 9,158
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Member Since: 11/16/2011
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Quote:
Originally posted by Nait Phoenix
Let's not even pretend that DBZ did not inspire half the anime/manga out there now...
There would be no Bleach, Naruto, or One Piece without Dragon Ball...
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A true pioneer. The others only wish they could.
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Member Since: 3/14/2013
Posts: 7,669
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Quote:
Originally posted by Kiddo.
So it's settled.
The caucasian males, with ******* muscles, blonde hair & blue eyes will SWEEP!
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You called, sis?
Anyways, Sailor Moon was apart of my childhood! I never got into Dragon Ball...
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Member Since: 6/25/2012
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DBZ got so boring with its three episodes to charge up an attack while we panning back and forth between the two screaming at each other then a giant explosion that lasts like 30 seconds seen from every angle only to see they missed
if it wasnt for most of you only seeing the watered down american ver The Senshi would be slaying
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Member Since: 11/30/2007
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Sailor Moon was such a product of its time. DBZ is still iconic to this day.
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Member Since: 4/21/2012
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I hated both growing up, but I found
DBZ to be easier to digest, so her.
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Member Since: 12/16/2010
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Sailor moon is iconic DBZ is just so Legendary,the most influential anime ever
SM can't even compete.
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Member Since: 11/16/2011
Posts: 11,544
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Quote:
Originally posted by Dollas n Diamonds
DBZ got so boring with its three episodes to charge up an attack while we panning back and forth between the two screaming at each other then a giant explosion that lasts like 30 seconds seen from every angle only to see they missed
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What kinda sharpshooter? The accuracy
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And with all of that, DBZ is still the bigger, better, more bankable of the two.
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Member Since: 8/25/2012
Posts: 30,317
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Quote:
Originally posted by Nait Phoenix
Let's not even pretend that DBZ did not inspire half the anime/manga out there now...
There would be no Bleach, Naruto, or One Piece without Dragon Ball...
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Exactly.
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
Posts: 6,659
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LOVE both but DBZ is better.
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Member Since: 8/8/2012
Posts: 3,485
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DBZ remains the top anime But SM gives it a good run for its money.
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Member Since: 9/10/2012
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DBZ > Sailormoon. I love both and have pretty much memorized both story lines, they're the only two animes I watched other than Pokemon... but please. Sailormoon (I'm comparing only the US TV show) is essentially about Serena understanding the power of courage and love. She goes from being a cry baby/terrible leader to a good leader. Her problems are ****ing trivial - her biggest problem was her bitching and moaning for the longest time about Darien giving more attention to their FUTURE CHILD more than her (who would do such a thing!) and is insanely jealous of her own daughter after she already knows it's her own. Every time she gets into trouble, she soul searches for a few minutes, makes a new emotional connection, instantly gains a new ability, and instantly executes it without much trouble save some eye squinting. The only other times where that doesn't happen is when she then asks her friends for help and they combine their problems and vanquish the enemy. There's such an easy pattern with the enemies - there's one "group" with multiple "foes" and each foe will make a declaration of war against SM and the crystal, attack, fail, repeat. The most entertaining, unique thing that happened all series was her getting all sexually confused about Uranus, getting kidnapped and kissed by Demand/Diamond and small lady turning into a skank for a bit. Finding the other sailor scouts other than the outer sailors is entertaining but you don't hear too much about it because the focus is all on SM repeating the same **** constantly "whooo is tuxedo mask? whoo? he wants to kill me I think, but he keeps saving me, how odd. Whooo is tuxedo mask?" It's a romance story with a bit of non-flashy action. It's best quality is that it's drawn really nicely. They don't build much on the other characters. It would be a lot better if they did.
DBZ kept you guessing all of the time the first time you watch it. The dragonball series is almost 30 years old. It was long - yes - but DBZ Kai broke it down into 100 episodes instead of 250 - and that show is still airing today - so no one can angst about it being too long. The Battle of the Gods movie which launched this year hit #1 at the Japanese box office. It's never too clear whose going to kill the enemy. It just kept you guessing. Goku was not always the solution nor the only focus. Nothing works like it's supposed to, not even the big power ups, there's no one "finishing move" that always works, enemies become allies, the dragonballs are not really the focus in Z, and often they're not the easy solution that they need. The ideals just weren't so perfectly laid out like in SM, being gracious and letting them live after begging for mercy wouldn't always work out for them, training as hard as possible wouldn't necessarily make you the strongest, being the bravest didn't mean you'd turn out to be very useful, etc. Love doesn't always save the day. It's more of an adventure/action without much romance - but love/need to protect is still a common theme. They emphasize that nothing is easy, which is why the series is dragged out.
When I was a kid, I knew Sailor Moon just had to use one of her sticks/the crystal or "have enough feels" and the enemy would die or the all powerful crystal would solve their problems. I'd just be angry the whole time that she wasn't getting to that stage fast enough. But when you watch DBZ for the first time as a kid - there's so many little plot twists that it keeps you excited... "oh my god what is happening, there is no possible way out of this if the only ship is destroyed", "yess super sayian - wait, why is his ass getting handed to him, seriously?", "who the eff is this purple haired guy!", "but they've already died once, they can't be wished back!", "those weren't actually the right androids & they aren't the real problem anyway", "why would you destroy the android's off switch you idiot!!", "why are the gods useless...", "oh my god *tear* that was the first time he's hugged his 9 year old son ever and now he's offed himself.... and it was a waste" "wow, you let him live because you're so good and he destroyed the future, good job...", "he stops time, how the hell do you fight that", "yes he's winning! ****, there's another transformation... now what?!" "what the ****, he just became good because he befriended a famous liar and now the murdered puppy turns him apeshit?" et cetera...
Sailor Moon had vastly superior animation though. The manga is fantastic.
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