Why was Dragon Ball successful?

Why was Dragon Ball successful?

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it's a good manga, brunt

cause people liked it

Same reason one piece is

Hot of the heels of Dr. Slump, with an iconic style that millions of children grew up with. Overseas, Japanimation exposed kids with a tougher, cooler cartoon that had cooler fighting and big explosions, unlike all the moral-based toy commercials they usually had.

>was
still is faggot and it sells more merch than even one piece and freaking gundam.
the hype train never dies baby

Cus there were blond ten pack, ripped males fighting with enough power to shake planets.

Plus, there was the shiny ascension thing

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It was creative and innovative for it's time.
A comedic twist on a classic fairy tale with martial arts adventures.
The good choreography for fight scenes and goofy cast lured people in. and the boobs.

It maintained popularity as a power wank scream fest from Z onward due to nerds getting to fantasize about being super powered badasses that can shoot lasers from their hands and it's appeal to wrestle fags due to it's predictable fights.

This more so.

This more recently.
Not all of dragon ball is Z, GT and super however.

This, it offered fun and grand adventure in the 80's like no other.

that's dragon ball z, not dragon ball

also because amerifats watched it in their "childhood"

So did Latinos
That's why they love gohan so much

Gohan? But why exactly?

because its fun

The Cell saga is by far the most popular here in the south because all the shit that happens including Gohan becoming the center of attention, i am more of a Vegeta, Yajirobe or Roshi guy.

>The Cell saga is by far the most popular here in the south

Don't you mean, the deep, deep DEEP south, where people speak a different language altogether? When you say south, I think of florida, texas, arizona and the like. Even google agrees with me when I put the south in the search field.

Dragon ball was a familiar concept and made a great adventure manga, once the creator had no idea where to go he turned the protagonist into Superman and turned the manga into a good action and fight based manga.

It was simple, familiar, had good character designe, easy to understand power levels.

Travel to the west is extremely western friendly, same for the idea of a fighting alien that protects earth and the idea of a manchild that just wants to be stronger. The irony is that it was so western friendly that it made it unique (at that point) among other shonens.

>also because amerifats watched it in their "childhood

And western europe, and south america and north america.

Simpllcity, over the top action, the mix of humor and world-end drama, easy to follow sequences and charismatic characters.

Even small kids these days enjoy Dragon Ball above any other major anime series.

Like most incredibly successful things, it was there in the right place and the right time.

Why is she so perfect, bros?

It became popular in the US due to serialization. I found myself watching a show every morning just because I needed to know what happened next. That was the namekian arc, and it took them years to finish. Back then, you could only watch subs by buying them from comic book stores. That's how I saw the first ssj transformation and GT.

It pandered to the lowest shonen manga denominetor. The rest is wild nostalgia effect. Quality wise DB after freezer it's easily some of the worst shonen manga can offer.

Literally the perfect being.

no one said anything about dbs pedro

I don't even like one piece that much but please don't compare it to that trash. A single OP chapter has more creativity than 10 volumes of Dragon Ball.

>It pandered to the lowest shonen manga denominetor

No, it pandered to people that doesnt know what shonen is.