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Like think about it: we don’t see Goku grow from a young martial arts to an adult powerhouse or how he defeated his enemies over the years. Yet Piccolo is supposedly his one-time enemy and Dr. Gero was part of this Red Ribbon whatnow?

Raditz reveals his secret heritage as an Alien Warrior yet… we never got to know Goku as an Earth Warrior or as a character with a weird tail and were-monkey form.

That’s supposed to be a game changing twist for the series… yet in the context of how Dragon Ball started for many, it’s like foundational not unlike a protagonist being a normal guy before he learns he’s special.

You know, a normal guy who can blast energy from his lifeforce and is shredded like all get out.

Also the other characters. Who are they to Goku? Why do they rally around him? Who’s the weird bald geezer hitting on the blue-haired chick?

This sort of thing was blessed to have been a hit with us skipping over most of the story overall.

It’s like how the Yu-Gi-Oh dub completely skips the (admittedly very weird and kinda bad) first season, so when it starts the show is just like “Here is Yugi and all of his friends who you definitely know, and also here is Seto Kaiba. What history does he have with Yugi that they sort of allude to in their dialogue? Fuck you.”

No, Season 0 was a split Anime adaptation by Toei before NAS picked it up and decided to compress in the Death T arc into episode one before going onto Duelist Kingdom and rewriting things to make it seem like we’re meant to be starting in media res via flashbacks and filler arcs like Noah as well as Doma.

So… not the dub’s fault but not entirely unrelated.