Dragonball was shonen in concept, Z and GT are shonen in demographics.

Everything about the Dragonball series is very shounen.

I did like one shounen for awhile, that was D.Gray-man, but it's levels of shounen-ness got to me after awhile.

The manga Lucifer and Biscuit hammer has some shounen traits so it could be considered a shounen, but it's unique and original and good so it gets a pass.

Eh. Shonen to me means 'Coming of age adventure' so whilst the first series is VERY shonen, the second series is more of a clusterfuck of gradually more stupid threats to the earth with the development of Gohan as a character the only realy shonen aspect. Then that stopped when he hit puberty and got his Z sword and so did any reason I had to watch the show.

I don't know shonen that much but I do like shojo. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's is probably drawing with Kanon and Monster as my favourite anime.

So what you're saying is, you stopped watching it because it was no longer shonen?
Lame.

I stopped watching it because the only lasting character I cared about stopped being dynamic and started being a washout.

OH BUT GOKU WAS STILL THE BEST

I think that you forgot about Master Roshi.

Is this the same Master Roshi that was designated to spend the whole of Z living on Turtle Island with the rest of the characters that had long since stopped being important like Ox King, Yamcha, Tien, Oolong etc?

OH BUT GOKU WAS ALWAYS THE BEST BECAUSE STATUS QUO

Fuck Goku, I watched it for Krillin. He never stopped being cool, and was probably one of the only characters that continued to develop as the series progressed.

Also the diversity in villains was always so awesome.

Yes.

My favourite arc was actually the Garlic Jr filler arc, because Gohan, Piccolo and Krillin actually got to do legitimately cool shit.

I always found that the series was most interesting when Goku was dead or on another planet (which was most the time if you think about it). This is the only time the focus shifted to the neglected characters, and we got to see them kick ass for once.

Well, he was, but Toriyama could have done better bringing him back. Goku had his moments, but I think he worked much better as a unifying inspirational figure than as the ultimate weapon, villain dies now.

Agreed.
It seemed much more meaningful when they were fighting in his name as opposed to alongside him. And by alongside him I mean he did all the fighting while they watched.

And there's One Piece which is the best thing ever.

I think I gave that up during Skypeia. I was going to pick it up again, but then I saw they had an afro skeleton on the crew, and figured I might as well just start over when the series ends. It's got to be close to ending by now, it's almost been going 13 years, right?

Hahaha, Skypiea leads into the best part ever.

When I was a kid, this was true for me too.

But mostly because Garlic Jr putting God in a bottle and actually talking over Earth and making every person on it into mindless violence addicts was actually a pretty interesting idea for the show. But then they ruined it by going back to the generic formula right after. Not that it's their fault, since they had to adapt the manga.

I liked Garlic Jr. He was like a more serious and dangerous version of Pilaf. Very awkward though trying to tie the thing in with the first DBZ movie.

I actually really love Dead Zone. I think it was technically considered the last Dragonball movie as opposed to the first DBZ movie, or was at very least considered a bridge between the two.

Yeah, it was animated by the same group that had animated Dragonball, which is slightly noticeable by the art style, and of course, superior animation. Once Dragonball Z started, they went the cheaper route, and the art wasn't as rounded.

I wanna kidnap various anime-characters and collect their eyes to use as gems on my jewelery.

I want to ban you.

You know, an anime/manga where there's some kind of malevolent entity capable of bridging multiple universes so that he can slaughter all the iconic characters would be damn cool.

You can find all that and more on fanfiction.net.

It's only cool if it's official.

Crossovers only work if both subjects have some reason to crossover.

Like Lupin the thief and Conan the detective. That works.

Throwing shit together? lame.

Nanoha and Fate/Stay Night!

I watch Bleach, Pokémon, Ranma ½ and Yu-Gi-Oh (Only series 1 and 2). but tbh I rarely watch anime at all.

I really like the style and have tried getting into it (drawing and reading manga) but I just can't for some odd reason. but i can understand why its very popular.

Oh hey, I watched the Black★Rock Shooter OVA tonight, it was clever and sweet.

Now I want her figma. Adorable little badass Miku she is.

Oh, it's finally out?