The Story of Dragon Ball Z on Toonami

The HISTORY of Dragon Ball Z on Cartoon Network REVEALED for the first time ever on Dragon Ball In Depth. Dragon Ball Z became one of the most popular shows on television in 1998 and we discuss the Dragon Ball Z English Dub on Toonami's impact and the history of the block on the network.
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[@DeeBeeGeek]

I'm gonna leave my comment before this video blows up!! I just wanna say, thank you for being the most real authentic Dragon ball reviewer, reporter and KZbinr, you've been an incredible inspiration to me and many others on this platform, don't ever stop providing the beautiful in depth news and discussions about the Anime of all our childhoods known as Dragon ball.. Now that out of the way, it's time to watch this monster of a video!!!

[@joefalco4986]

Dee Bee Geek gg

[@revan8795]

I second this I look forward to your future history of anime video I would watch or rather listen to it straight away man keep up the good content.

[@knightoflight8249]

Dee Bee Geek Yes, we all appreciate your service to the Great Dragon Ball Community.

[@OmarAhmed-tp2vo]

I like all of you're videos about anime and you're in depth dragon Ball super preview videos and dragon Ball super episode reviews and decisions and and you're wrestling videos

[@OmarAhmed-tp2vo]

Don't stop what you are doing on you're KZbin channels I always watch you're dragon Ball and dragon Ball super videos

[@newphilmz3605]

Who remembers when toonami's lineup was Dragonball, then G-Gundam, then DBZ. Best afternoon lineup

[@KevsUploads]

new philmz me!!

[@briant4468]

G gundam was my fave gundam

[@morbid333]

Cartoon Network never showed G-Gundam in AU and NZ, we only got Wing and Seed

[@R0n1n760]

G Gundam was my shyt! I had to go back and rewatch that show a month ago

[@Mikewells90]

Yea

[@CrewDino]

Toonami is GOAT! Gotta thank them for introducing Dragon Ball to many of us!

[@MyMelanatedScope]

+I'm just saiyan ...like alive?

[@wavedplays9729]

HELLLLLOOOOO MY NAMES DINNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO!!

[@dbrazell4]

Dino yes sir, thanks to Toonami and Saban lol the ocean dub has a special place in my heart, it was the beginning for me

[@ultra6989]

Antonio Brown lol hahaha

[@deveshtomar5102]

In Indian cartoon Network maji boo never die. Indian viewer

[@Phlegethon]

“At one time you could not get news 24/7”...those were peaceful times

[@dandansfu]

So basically instead of knowing what’s going on you just ignore and pretend everything is good.

[@rawnorth7882]

@@dandansfu no man they never have enough pertinent information for 24/7. Repeating themselves for 2-4 hours and then garbage to lower IQ or herd the sheep for another couple hours. Literally 8-10am 2-4pm and 7-9pm would likely be plenty imo, at least would force the channel to have only top priority news to air. Then, especially nowadays, you could google the rest or find literally anywhere else. I havent watched the news on my tv in years, its stay enough to stay up to date from social network feeds and many other ways.

[@abney_66]

@@dandansfu ignorance is bliss my guy

[@spidey677]

Omg so true. I haven’t cared to watch the news since 9/11. That destroyed me.

[@henrycalde1991]

@@dandansfu the activists “aka news” just fear monger and twists facts anyway.

[@shengrant3088]

toonami promos for dbz was 🔥 🔥 🔥

[@JNPollard]

Shen Grant check out SlimD716 for some great toonami remastered bumps in his channel

[@jaygonzalez8575]

Hell yea!! You couldn’t wait till the next episode!!

[@dhanimations1791]

34 minuets!? This is a damn TV Specail

[@3blockko788]

DH Animations its an hour but because of commercials...ya

[@nickworster4627]

I was thinking the exact same thing I'd love to see this on TV

[@Ihatetechnology]

God, that fuzzy audio takes me back...

[@s0meguy09]

kids had no clue how hard it was to wait for goku to go super saiyan.. we had to rewatch the namek saga like 5 times

[@AdvocateOfJamaica]

Right?! Pure torture.

[@Jaremaing14]

Dragon Ball Z was a huge part of my childhood. I actually got grounded from watching it for a while. My parents were concerned I was trying to emulate some of the more violent aspects of the show. When I knocked down my neighbor's fence with a Kamehameha, I couldn't watch it till I did enough chores to pay them back.

[@sqcp7379]

Damn Bro

[@Eddie_Gonzalez]

Awesome 😎

[@Author_SoftwareDesigner]

How does a fake Kamehameha knock down a damn fence???

[@KozmicHand]

Brings back memories of me sitting on the carpet holding my Vegeta action figure and his SSJ rubber suit

[@robertemerson9109]

Mr Tobi1018 lol

[@wesley5729]

Mr Tobi1018 I had the goku one but my dog chewed up his rubber super saiyan form

[@lukemccauley1173]

Mr Tobi1018 I had the Trunks action figure!

[@CajinVaren]

I still have mine, his face is so derpy. lol

[@hiromamoru9144]

Wow you had a Vegeta Sper Saiyan figure?

[@warwolf1013]

Not being able to get news 24/7 is probably for the better of humanity.

[@CamConscious]

warwolf1013 facts

[@bassfishingfreak6602]

True

[@HimHawJimJam]

My man

[@jaygonzalez8575]

💯

[@johnleone1996]

Absolute facts

[@qntainmnt]

To this day DBZ has remained my all time favorite anime. thank you toonami, thank you funimation, thank you cartoon network and thank you geekdom101

[@Chronically0nline]

Don't thank Funimation. They've made it their lifes work to botch every home release since 2007.

[@Daidoro]

@@Chronically0nline That is so very true because of the releases on DVD and Blu-ray with a lotta stuff that they messed up on over the years.

[@unkono]

I think you should thank Gen Fukanaga.

[@Daidoro]

@@unkono I do, all the way, founder of Funimation!

[@jleffel6969]

2 things... 1. I ABSOLUTELY remember watching DBZ On the WB. 2. I remember getting cable and having Toonami, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting to see Goku fight Jeice and Berter. And that one day, when we got to see what happened... That was like a 2nd Xmas for me.

[@pyramidion5911]

Dude I remember that lmao

[@mraaronhd]

My brother-in-law also said he remembered watching DBZ before it came to Toonami. He didn’t have cable, so Kids WB was mostly the only way he could watch anime at the time.

[@ec5018]

I had the tapes I didnt have cable

[@fabiolean]

I freaked the fuck out when Toonami announced they were finally going to air the rest of the Freeza Saga. And I also remember being weirded out by the new voice actors, since they aired the Ocean Dub for so long. Feels like Another Dimension ago :D

[@eltinoskimota]

@@mraaronhd it wasn't kidswb though its why most don't remember since it came on Sunday with sailor moon

[@SPACEHARICE]

Dbz is why I got into Boxing mma and personal fitness in General.

[@SPACEHARICE]

Come to think of it a FUCKING cartoon effected my entire life

[@saiyanwarrior4357]

Dbz is the reason why I want to do martial arts

[@kylepark6730]

God Vegito dbz is the reason i DO martial arts.

[@emilyjohnson6096]

AJ Harice at least ur not FAT!

[@adi6293]

AJ Harice it but for the better 😊

[@wyldshot666]

I'm 45 years old and Goku still my damn role model!!!!!

[@righteousrawb7225]

Damn straight

[@mookiestewart3776]

Based

[@Gokulosestoavirus]

So you’ll let billions die even though you could stop it? Great role model

[@wyldshot666]

@@Gokulosestoavirus He's not from Earth. He could've destroyed Earth himself. He could've easily joined Radditz and / or Vegeta and Nappa to take this damn planet. But he didn't. He fought Frieza,Cell, Buu. The reason I admire him, The more bullshit that came his way the stronger he got. Like me

[@lancedolan]

That feeling when you'd catch a late night toonami run of DBZ.... It didn't matter what the previous episode was or how confused you were by the random storyline, you were caught in a whole amazing separate universe man... Something really special and life changing

[@Matt_Villines]

That’s how I got into One Piece about ten years ago. One of the episodes in the 200s just happened to be on Toonami one night, and I thought “this character sounds like Krillin, that’s neat. Oh, this one’s Trunks, wait, this one’s Piccolo, but I thought he sounded different before…” (because I’d watched an episode of the 4kids dub when I was real small)

[@joshmiller8921]

No cap, really jus left reality and went to a whole nother universe,. crazy how something made in the 80’s was so ahead of its time

[@mpayne3081]

This show really reminds me of a golden time in life. I'd be up late night drawing dbz characters and watching midnight run. On school nights I'd be up till 2&3 in the morning watching Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, and Inyuasha. Those times will forever be cherished gems.

[@MsDBZbabe]

This made me a lot more emotional than I thought it would, Toonami means so much to all of us growing up and where we are even today, thank you so much Danny for sharing and working on this wonderful video, great memories were brought up and I couldn't ask for a better DB youtuber to cover it, much love!

[@seanloughlin3720]

Me to man, me and my brother did our paper route then came home and watched this everyday, great bounding and we still watch episodes together now.

[@seanloughlin3720]

MsDBZbabe or I mean babe not man lol

[@majinsole8554]

Same. ~_~

[@zackwiley6511]

MIssdbzbabe I have not watched your videos in a while i might just do that now. :)

[@thehairofdestruction1925]

well... New Toonami is still good right? he he?

[@Zionrezort]

DRAGON DRAGON, ROCK THE DRAGON! DRAGON BALL Z! Edit: Thank fuck i had cartoonnetwork as a kid, thats all ill say Edit 2: Anyone remember Swatcatz?

[@chappiescollectables]

CYAMATEEE all i got was dragon dragon ball dragon ball z from the canadian version

[@qazwsxedcrfvplokiuj]

Yeah

[@waze3174]

Nekoback budokai games on ps2 had that intro

[@magee_gameplay]

CYAMATEEE dragon dragon, hump the Dragon dragonball z, dragon dragon, hump the dragon FUN-KY FEET!!

[@YoItsTonnyyy]

CYAMATEEE I always thought he said “balls to dragon” lol

[@xXDRD9Xx]

When you're in the rankings alongside WWF Monday Night Raw in its Attitude Era, you know you're making an impact.

[@mookiestewart3776]

Yeah I’m pretty sure in the namek saga and android saga there were literally tens of millions of people watching dbz DAILY lol. That’s insane to think about

[@moneymantwin1267]

yeah I'm glad I wasn't around I would've been pissed tryna pick between MNR and DBZ Monday night

[@SSJ491]

Dragon Ball Z was aired on Toonami on Cartoon Network at 5pm est. While WCW Monday Nitro aired on TNT at around 8:58 pm and WWF Raw is War aired on the USA Network at 9:00pm every Monday nights during the Monday Night Wars. So of course you can watch it the exact same day.

[@en6853]

That constant loop of goku taking out recoom and then ending up back to radditz the next day was so frustrating

[@Azyjazy231]

One of the main reasons the quick Jeice & Burter vs. Goku fights was one of my favorites. So much waiting, it was good to see the payoff after.

[@Epicmango7]

Geekdom is a living Dragon ball encyclopedia.

[@Epicmango7]

Adventurous Adventurer Augustus For sure

[@WeednDBZ]

Not really.

[@Rizzylamar]

I remember coming home from elementary school after 3pm waiting for DBZ and Gundam wing to come on and did so for years. Even at 25 that love for anime would never had been discovered if it wasn’t for toonami

[@2011carp]

Raymund bell same

[@SailorSunshine]

Me too. :D DBZ and Sailor Moon.

[@TheRealDyscyples]

Middle school for me. Sailor Moon, Gundam Wing, of course Dragonball Z (Namek saga repeated for years) and then Tenchi Muyo at the end.

[@YusukeKnight]

Same here

[@kyleparrish950]

Those were the two powerhouses. Gundam Wing was super good and ahead of its time as well. But I did love Robotech, Ronin Warriors, Reboot....ahh good memories. Even Sailor Moon was good.

[@morlayek08]

Dbz got me through my childhood

[@ImBlackIvy]

morelifenotes facts

[@Ant_Lambo]

"Who would watch cartoons at 2 o clock in the morning??!!" ALL OF US lol

[@charltonmccullough4494]

Not me

[@JaxBlade]

Awesome work Geekdom. Had a lot of fun watchin this great video!

[@westonnwaimo4002]

JaxBlade hi

[@abeselomalene5471]

JaxBlade u from Jacksonville bro?

[@mariejussome2020]

video so long almost thought i was watching a saberspark video

[@drew9058]

JaxBlade yo you and geekdom101 need to do more discussions you two are two of my favorite to watch and I would like to hear the both of you give your opinions on more Dragon Ball Z content. Big Ups to you and geekdom

[@ElohimRaThaIylatola]

the nostalgia was too much man.. i have so much love for this era and fill very fortunate to have been a toonami kid. Much fucking love to everybody who is still a fan and you as well geekdom. Dragon Ball Z straight up rocked me as kid and I can remember that moment when the third season finally aired. I thought i was tripping at first lol.

[@RILOXD]

Chris Kennedy Man!! Who you tellin! Used to get chillz when DBZ waz about to come on and especially when it waz Optimus Prime az the narrator.. Good freakin timez 👌💯

[@ElohimRaThaIylatola]

lmao on the optimus prime dude! frigin facts man lol. this had me watch all the old school toonami promos. I swear that show was ahead of it time looking back. Especially the one where they're talking about space the whole time.

[@truckercowboyed2638]

This, this was my childhood dbz. Sailor moon, gundam wing and even beast wars Transformers the transmetal season

[@jaygonzalez8575]

Chris Kennedy I feel the same way as u!!! Im 28!!! So u know nostalgia hit me HARD!!!

[@zacharypreval3186]

Everyone's first anime was pokemon. But everyone's first REAL MAN'S anime was DBZ.

[@KirisunaOnline]

That's the same thing with me haha!! Now i watched/collect alot of Anime!!

[@DirectorHMAN]

DB was my first. I grew up in Portugal

[@DirectorHMAN]

Oh wait forgot about Sailor Moon 😂

[@ch2010ize]

Ironically DBZ debuted in North America two years before Pokemon did. Pretty sure I saw DBZ and Pokemon around the same time. Early 1999. Sailor Moon was actually my first anime. Saw that on the USA Network late 97 just before it moved to Toonami the following summer

[@solidwegy61]

Mah, Dragonball all the way!

[@lucidmind9676]

I remember the Toonami lineup of Yu Yu Hakusho followed by DBZ, initially I would just sit thru YYH, waiting for DBZ to come on but then that’s when The Dark Tournament Saga started airing and man that lineup of both The Dark Tournament saga and the Frieza saga was so amazing to watch as a kid, Toonami really put me onto two of my favorite anime’s. I’m 26 now and still love both shows the same as I did when I was a kid

[@deckzone3000]

How about the final saga of Yu Yu Hakusho? 😅 I had to get up at 4 or 5 am for that. That was BS putting it on at that time.

[@lucidmind9676]

@@deckzone3000 crazy thing is, I didn’t even know there was two arcs after Dark tournament originally because of toonami changing the time slot. Didn’t watch the Sensui arc and the Demon realm tournament arc until 2018

[@Waveydeku]

My kind of guy same exact story they both my favorite animes

[@myheroandmadaralover2372]

yah same and it also how i got into naruto

[@zactucker4421]

Man..this video takes me back.. Started watching dbz when I was in the first grade in 1999. Some of my fondest memories growing up was running into my house after I got off the bus to catch the end of sailor moon and see the opening for dbz. Thank you toonami and thank you sir for making this video.

[@nightmaretrooper5064]

I was like 3 years old before Pre-School started.

[@recostarmikel815]

First year of high school as the school bell rang I can remember everyone running home to catch the beginning of super saiyan goku vs freeza haha good times

[@GodIsFirst888]

@Bassa Boy we mostly talking about dbz right now

[@lancedolan]

I was in 7th grade but doing the EXACT same thing. Just think ever day at the same time, the millions of us were all rushing like hell at the same time to get off that bus and get the TV on

[@af-aftech6029]

The amount of times DBZ restarted to the Raditz arc nearly broke my souls all the time. I remember all of this!

[@LightningThunderbolt707]

As a 90's kid myself, growing up right around the time that Cartoon Network was created, I really appreciate that content like this exists. I always wondered about how the legendary network came to be and the voices, musicians, and talent behind many of the old 90's releases. I truly miss this era of anime, having grown up with it myself. Thank you for providing this content. This was well worth watching all the way through.

[@robertskurlock]

I was born in 1997, and I remember as a 2-year-old kid in 1999 watching the first two seasons of Dragon Ball z in syndication on the rotation block of toonami. Thank you for explaining the history of Dragon Ball z on toonami

[@thrillking7228]

Geekdom shows more love to CN than CN does.

[@sirmel11]

how so?

[@thrillking7228]

Sirmel11 Cartoon Network barely acknowledged their 25 year anniversary. They did the same schedule of Teen Titans Go and didn't even try to air any of the old classics that put CN where it is today. Geekdom acknowledged EVERY aspect of CNs past and what made them one of the best places to watch cartoons...or used to.

[@sirmel11]

You're not wrong on them not acknowledging it. Sorry about that. I was wrong for that. lol Cartoon Network is still the best place to watch cartoons. I don't see why that's even a debate these days. Disney and Nick are more live action than cartoon. It's usually the people that don't watch cartoon network that talk about stuff like this.

[@blaknmild83]

Who remembers when DBZ used to come on the WB network Saturday mornings and everytyime it got to Goku fighting the Ginyu force is would stop and play the TREE OF MIGHT then start over at Saiyan saga 😡😡😡😡

[@CdGrifter]

Zarama Gexcior No progress to the cell and buu saga

[@blaknmild83]

Zarama Gexcior because this was pre internet so there was never really an explanation why it kept happening, most people were hyped to watch Goku fight the Gjnyu Force then it would just start over at Raditz, I thought it was a mistake the first time it happened until it happened like 3 times

[@xlixity]

I was fortunate enough to understand why (the episodes weren't dubbed since no one had picked up a 3rd season of DBZ) and was even more fortunate to know spanish and could catch DBZ dubbed in spanish on Telemundo which actually had the entire Z anime dubbed (they purchased the spanish dub syndication from televisa who aired it in México). Problem was... they aired DBZ at a random rate; sometimes episodes would run in a marathon format and then suddenly you had dry spells lasting up to 3 months. But hey, at least they didn't repeat the series until it was actually over.

[@kchrisgriffin3085]

blaknmild83 memories haha

[@blaknmild83]

kchris griffin IKR! HA!

[@Valientlink]

the peak of CN was a time of television we will never re-live. Thanks for the memories!

[@curtdower1330]

I remember the last episode of Dragonball Z on Cartoon Network before moving to the Toonami channel was the episode with Hercule and Majjin Buu where the puppy got shot towards the end, and then that was it for officially on Cartoon Network.

[@Chimpmanboom]

This show raised many young boys testosterone to that of NFL football players every day after school.

[@timzane4056]

SWOLESILVERBACK And we have the scars to prove it! Lmao

[@jesussaldana4558]

SWOLESILVERBACK so much even nfl and mma all respect and love dbz, except andrew tate but no one really knows about him so its kind of irrelevant, just ask rousey

[@TheRealDyscyples]

And then watched Raw and Smackdown on Monday’s and Thursdays. All of this led to so many fights in middle school!

[@cataclysmicbane9068]

I actually first watched DBZ in Mexico when I went on vacation as a kid. After that I started watching it on Toonami in elementary school, and the rest is history. I’m 27 now and I still watch at least one episode of whatever anime I’m watching every single day. Thanks DBZ and Toonami. You literally molded my life to what it is today. And I love it.

[@zenkairanger]

This video is 3 years old!? Damn. I remember when it was first uploaded.

[@Neutral_Mario]

This comment is 3 years old!? Damn. I remember when it was first uploaded

[@yizeverienametaken]

21:51 That Deadzone plug has stuck with me since all the way back then, it's so good

[@AustoLaVista]

I still love watching the old toonami promos like Advanced Robotics and Dreams.

[@disposable_hero1725]

Dragon, Dragon Rock the Dragon, Dragon Ball ZZZZZZZZ.

[@maratazaya4320]

I will always remember watchin Dragon Ball Z before I went to bed ever since I was little on Cartoon Network, brings back childhood memories.

[@SkullDark1]

I remembered watching dragon ball z on toonami, nicktoons, and cw4kids as well those were the good old days

[@damienblanchard4993]

Being one of those kids you spoke of, who came home after school everyday to watch and go back the next day to talk about what happened almost religiously, I just want to say, this is video is amazing. I'm 26 now and I have an 8, year old whom is now a fanatic like I was. Gonna show him this and talk like an old geezer and say how great it was in my day

[@robymessina1998]

Here in Italy, I started to watch dbz when I was 6, now I'm 19, and man, I've watched it so many times that I almost remember every dialogue xD. My fav fight? Mssj goku vs perfect cell, damn, what a heck of a fight, very well animated and a lot of tension!

[@joshuarenfroe4756]

Best block ever! DBZ, Reboot, Shonen Warriors ah man those were the days!!!

[@michaelklos7248]

Joshua Renfroe ronin warriors

[@seanstroman6087]

Joshua Renfroe FACTZ

[@jasonbruner3110]

Reboot was the shit

[@fireflamegamer8321]

Joshua Renfroe u got that right 😄😢I miss it

[@Chris20xx]

Ahh Toonami - what great memories i have of it being on UK Television - i only seem to remember DBZ/Tenchi Muyo (Then Universe and then In Tokyo) and Gundam Wing when i ever watched Toonami I did watch ALOT of Cartoon Network as well but i remember Sailor Moon & Cardcaptors were on CITV and then Pokemon and Digimon on SM:TV (CITV and SMTV were part of a channel called ITV here in the UK)

[@Woke_Fascism]

I remember the transition felt weird to my ears when they transitioned to the funmation dub . Couldn't picture what the ocean dub even sounds like now lol. ToonAmi block after school was an everyday routine . Coming into middle school the next day and talking bout what was going on in dbz with my friends, damnnnn. . Wish I could go back to 99, the peak of modern civilization.. great vid. ToonAmi was a huge part of injecting anime into the American maintream .

[@dantess2693]

Pokémon and Digimon, then the next popular ones seemed to be Beyblade and Yu-Gi-Oh as I entered high school

[@dabman9688]

dude you just narrated my childhood

[@Sonofkratos13]

My dad used to have VHS Tapes of the episodes. He got me on DBZ, so I honestly can't thank him so much.

[@christopherp2205]

Who would watch cartoons at 2 or 3 in the morning?...all of us 😁

[@fireflamegamer8321]

Chris Perrault yes bro yes

[@LainK1978]

I remember back in Jr. High, when I would break out the VHS tapes and set the timer to record an anime show that was scheduled to be on Cinemax, Showtime, or HBO in the middle of the night. This was all pre-Guide button and pre-internet (or at least before it was widely and easily available), so had to go buy the TV guide or sit and watch the one cable channel that used to just scroll through what was on all of the channels.

[@christopherp2205]

LainK1978 omg the “tv guide”. The nostalgia is so real.

[@peterobrien290]

For us in South Africa it's quite similar we were introduced to Dragon Ball and anime on this free to air channel SABC 2 I remember when it was 5:00pm DBZ would play and you wouldn't find a kid outside then at school everyone would talk about the episode that played

[@starbury64]

Have to show my love, appreciation and dedication for how this documentary was put together! You really took be way back in the day when TV was quality, cable was cheaper, and I lived on Toonami. DBZ was my show back in the day, and keep up the quality and detail in your documentaries.

[@clyde8759]

When you're older than a channel u watched as a kid/teen...made me feel old just now

[@AnkitSingh-me1wy]

Hahaha yes... Nostalgia

[@RedPilledDan]

Halfway thru and this is amazing, bringing me back to after school. Everyday would have to sit through BS Hamtaro, but once I did I got Dragon Ball, Gundam and Dragon Ball Z on the living room TV man those were the days. Mad props Geekdom.

[@Nexus2126]

Lol it was pretty weird just seeing Hamtaro on Toonami, but I kinda liked that show tbh.

[@King_Kunta]

Green Pill Media that show was sick. The boss hamster had a crush on one of his students

[@A7XKoRnRocks1]

Man why was everything so badass in the 90s

[@TVthePunisher]

That article may condemn DBZ but damn if it doesn't look completely badass with Goku facing Frieza and the text wrapping around their bodies!!

[@LainK1978]

Eh, really by the time DBZ came around I don't think most people cared about the article more probably looked at it because of the two of them. The whole "violence in cartoons" blah blah blah had started back in the early to mid 80s culminating in shows like GI Joe and Transformers getting the little PSAs added to them at the end. After 10+ years, there wasn't really any factual support for the argument but DBZ was getting really popular so those who want to blame cartoons, games, and the like for kids and young adults misbehaving used that as an excuse for it while ignoring other more likely causes.

[@DmanDice]

I mean..its almost like it promoted it lol

[@Danosauruscrecks]

I'll never forget it sitting on the floor before dinner and my mom would always make fun of the way the narrator said next time on Dragonball Z. Also why is final bout considered rare I ordered it online from Japan at the time I loved it but now well you know. But god damn I still have those original VHS tapes that have the pictures on the sides

[@Geekdom101]

DUDE I LOVE THESE STORIES!

[@westend04]

Geekdom101 dude I first started watching Dragon Ball Z on like the WB/ UPN Network they will always start it over after Goku is about to fight the Ginyu Force but I'm glad to number decided to pick it up that was like Christmas Day when they announced it

[@KeenanStyles]

Man this video really made my day! Thanks for the history lesson. I remember in the summer of 1996 seeing Dragonball Z as a snot nose little 7 year old on a Saturday morning. Then my older brother got me hooked on it in November 1998 and the rest is history. I also remember getting to the episode when Goku landed on planet Namek twice and on the second time right after they showed those movies each Friday right after and finally in the late summer early fall of 1999 funimation took over and we could continue forward. I moved from the states to Japan in 2013 and I tell my wife all the time if I had lived there when I was a kid my head would have exploded lol.

[@TheLAexplorer]

Does anyone happen to remember a block of cartoons called "Japanimation?" My memory is super hazy but from what I remember, DBZ kept bouncing around to different channels. I remember different blocks. One where Eagle Riders came on before DBZ, another where DBZ was followed by Masked Rider or something like that. And another where DBZ was followed by a show called S Club 7. This was such a big influence on me that I now speak Japanese and I even have a KZbin channel dedicated to cosplay videos. I just wish I could remember more about that "Japanimation" block because I think they had random facts about Japan that peaked my curiosity but I just can't remember...

[@Lupo32]

When i was lil I had the choice Of watching the super friends or Dbz , I chose dbz 1999 - 2003 / 2004

[@virtualpellot933]

I watched both.

[@pyramidion5911]

And that choice has made all the difference

[@Lightspeeds]

@@virtualpellot933 I did the same, until DCAU Justice League was syndicated on Cartoon Network.

[@brolyred]

Im 19 now but back in like 2004 we were so poor back then we couldn't afford cable TV so no toonami but for my birthday my mom got cable at my house for a whole day And I spent the whole day watching dbz and dexter and all that good stuff 🙏🏻😭😭🙏🏻

[@STNJ_YT]

C-los that's not how cable works lol

[@ther0n1nnamed47]

mrbbell not if you're poor :3

[@eastsidemuu]

Dbz fan for life been watching scene day one on toonami, BUT let's not deny Salor moon was that work!!

[@kburlz8995]

Holy shit. I'm 31 and remember ALL OF THIS. LITERALLY ALL OF IT. my first DBZ show was in Las Vegas on a trip when i was 9yo and I was hooked ever since. Moltar and Tom + Tom 2.0 and the whole infection of his ship ... holy fuck man ... I remember being amazed Goku was voiced by the same guy who did Mega Man on Saturday cartoons ... thats why i stuck around as a kid

[@kburlz8995]

Sailor moon was in the morning line - up before school with the "New Ghost Busters" show. I saw that 2 years after my first dbz episode in vegas ... which was Bulma on a moon looking for a dragon ball on an astroid i believe. this video made my year bro

[@kburlz8995]

lol wow. Gundam Wing, G Gundam, Ronin Warriors, Tenchi Muyo, YuYu Hakisho, Inuyasha ... this is why I am so different from my friends

[@Neutral_Mario]

36

[@kburlz8995]

@@Neutral_Mario So dope and thanks for the bump ... It was fun re-reading this :) I'll be 37 in a month so hot dang man

[@truffle6082]

Toonami introduced me to anime. It changed my life an never watch a bad show ever.

[@oscarc4589]

You can feel the love it took to make this video.

[@aquamidideluxe5079]

Great documentary that not only touches on the sheer exhilaration of DBZ's explosion in the mainstream, but also the awesomeness of early Cartoon Network in general. Thanks so much.

[@WillyBucks22]

DBZ is so important to me and others in my generation. Thanks for this great history lesson.

[@reckless4316]

Geekdom i respect how much work you put into your channel, THANK YOU for everything you do. Keep it up dude

[@Geekdom101]

thanks!

[@2toottoot]

Thanks to UPN Saturday Morning for Introducing me to DBZ before it moved to Toonami in 96

[@jakster16]

I take it you lived in the South.

[@KINGGI415]

Same here. I remember watching it up to the beginning of the namek saga on UPN.

[@brianpbillingsley3687]

It was on WB affiliated stations for up here.

[@mikejones-mo8xh]

Benjamin Reddick I keep telling my friends I use to watch it around 1995 saturday morning on regular tv but they never believe me

[@MrSdertiano]

Same. Seen it one day randomly channel surfing Saturday morning. Goku vs nappa, was the most amazing thing i ever seen

[@Giggity1080]

Just re-lived my childhood! Haha thanks for explaining why I saw the same DBZ episodes for multiple years. It was HUGE once you saw Goku make it to Namek and actually see what happened AFTER their battle with Ginyu force

[@AshTreeDweller]

Oh man the nostalgia... Thank you so much

[@JohnSmith-qy2cu]

I hope the memories never fade.

[@YusukeKnight]

Same here

[@FooMaster117]

For someone who got sucked into everything Dragon Ball related a few years ago by a close friend, this video was incredibly informative and extremely interesting. Aside from your extensive knowledge of DB your production skills are on a ridiculously high level, this video felt like a professionally produced documentary and I cannot wait to see more of this same-level content from you, Geekdom101. Keep doing what you're doing man, we all love you for it.

[@leo2nd261]

It is currently march 2021 i write this and I was one person that got my first introduction to Dragonball Z and Toonami. I had no friends, not many good things in my life and this was a friend and was needed and helped me overcome a lot. I am still a fan today and best show still and i have played the games, have dvd's, watched movies which sadly include the insulting DB Evolution. First episode i watched was ( A new friend) from original DBZ then loved it ever since then saw Dragonball, Kai, GT, etc after. I cant collect or buy much items but i am still a fan today. I began loving other anime like Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, Inuyasha, and more and still love anime. Big thank you to DBZ and Toonami.

[@Heynowbusta]

I remember the Ocean Group dubs when they aired. I miss how bad ass Vegeta sounded in that dub. He sounded like a psychopath lol

[@Nightsever1988]

I remember years ago in one of the malls around Baltimore , there was a store called pandora's cube. They had everything, modded game systems, Japanese imported games, anime, hentai, everything. This brings back memories lol

[@greatonslaut]

I remember in the 90s when it was called Pandora's box. Still got it in College Park.

[@youngbunt]

The Greatest Geekdom Video of All Time Could It Be So?!?

[@Geekdom101]

i worked hard on it

[@youngbunt]

So much Nostalgia for me you can really tell the love you have poured into this :)

[@Ruslex12345]

nothing will ever top your mercenary Tao video, the reference about the ladies and the tongue! LOOOOOOOOOOL

[@chefajmwz3492]

Facts

[@mykindofnormal5356]

Crazy that cartoon network is two years older then me. I grew up on cartoon network and nick.

[@syxodude91]

Saw bits and pieces of DBZ on tv around 1996. I remember the original Dragon Ball also coming on tv earlier in the day. I was very young so I didn't pay them much mind, It wasn't until the early 2000's that I actually sat down and watched the show. Caught it on Toonami during one of the many Saiyan Saga reruns. I fell in love with it after pretty much 1 episode. I couldn't wait to see what happened next. Luckily it aired 5 days a week during that time so the show progressed quick.

[@dominiques631]

Classic shit 90's baby remember good old day's

[@illdaniel]

Toonami is where black people fell head over heels in love with DBZ and later on anime in general. A match made in Heaven.

[@gamer42399]

Guilty lol

[@usopenitentiary]

Basically

[@ivanpadilla4479]

Damn, you put in a lot of work into this. Thanks

[@austinmitchell2652]

Wow, this gave me chills! I wish I was a little older so I could have experienced the thrill of waiting for the end of the frieza saga

[@GeekCritique]

First video I've seen of your's, and I'm really enjoying the depth of your research and efforts to run all this old footage. I didn't get Cartoon Network until 2001, so I pretty much missed out on the bulk of this. Always wanted it, though! I apologize if you've gotten "corrected" on this a lot before, I know how annoying that can be and I did check the last few weeks of comments. But I don't think 1998 was the actual first time Sailor Moon aired on cable. I remember watching it as part of USA's "Action Extreme Team" block in 1997. In fact, that was the first time I'd ever watched anime!

[@trisonicbrandtech]

The Geek Critique Geek Critique!! Love your work.

[@stigrabbid589]

@Code Kid Actually some Fox stations aired DBZ in syndication before the Fox Kids block but after the educational programming. Our local Fox station aired DBZ really early, 5 or 6 AM on saturday morning.

[@thamastersmooth]

@@stigrabbid589 yep...they also showed it uncut at 12am weekdays before Toonami.

[@jacobkelly221]

I remember when I first saw the show- I was only 6 and I was seeing Goku versus Full Power Freeza. I was so hooked that- in the years following I would become such a big nerd of it. Problem is- being a child can also catch up with your attention span. So I grew up- not watching DB DBZ or DBGT until the late Highschool years, when I remembered Vegeta's Super Saiyan track done by Bruce Falconer. After that- it resparked my love in Dragon Ball, and is now STILL one of my alltime favorite animes and shows. All because of Toonami...

[@jacobs5187]

Got a tear in my eye man. My dad couldn’t get us Cable but one of my cousins made me watch DBZ in his house one day - I’ll never forget being hooked from the first second. It was during the Babidi’s spaceship episodes. Then later on when my dad was getting the cable hooked up, I was finally able to watch it at MY house after school at 4pm CT. I would run home so I could see it. I would be eating from the kitchen and watching the TV all the way in the living room. First episode I watched at my house, Chi Chi got turned into an egg 😭 watched Vegeta opening an episode as nothing but a deceased stone figure. Watched Super Saiyan 3. Watched the final episode. 13 billion years and I was lucky enough to be born on earth to see the ending of DBZ in its day - April 7th, 2003 is a holiday for me. Thanks Geekdom for the recap to my childhood.

[@LazyPirate8]

I grew up with the Funi/Bruce Faulkner dub, and dragonball when i was 5-8 years old. Damn, time flies!

[@brandonchandler2556]

Cartoon Network needs this kind of variety again

[@carlitobrigante4999]

Its called boomerang now lol.

[@datangel]

damn i feel old

[@anunderdog574]

That's because we are...

[@johnellis501]

Me too

[@youthanasia8767]

I realize this is old video but I had to say well done. I’m 45 and just hearing those voices and the stories of how and when this whole dbz uprising was fascinating and a huge nostalgia trip for me. I was one that drove 45 minutes to a little video store that would rent vhs recorded episodes that weren’t even close to be released here, and it was in Japanese with no subtitles. It didn’t matter my buddy and I just wanted to know what happened next in Dragonball. Not sure how this dude got these tapes but I didn’t care. I turned all my friends intro dbz nerds and had them all asking and waiting when the next videos were coming out. It became a big get together, light up some green, and watch Dragonball from the future. Thanks man for the memories Geekdom.

[@ars7374]

17:03 “Toonami’s got a brand new superstar... *I think I have a crush on her.*” Lmao, if only cartoon networks were like this now..

[@83jbbentley]

Dragon ball Z, Cowboy Bebop, Yu-Yu Hausho, Outlaw Star 😕 all those moments, gone! Like tears in the rain.

[@BeezydaBaseGod]

They all played on Toonami last night, except for Yu Yu Hakasho They're a part of the block again

[@CallmeUncleP]

josh bentley83 gone but not inaccessible

[@akasakasad6271]

josh bentley83 all that is on toonami now. I'm telling you Toonamiis back

[@leronisnownorel6702]

Cartoon Network like the real Cartoon Network was so dope in the 90’s early 00’s this just takes me back... getting out of school rushing home to get ready for toonami but on half a days tho it was so many other great cartoons I would get to see good times

[@tiffany-chan1235]

Do you have any thoughts on modern Cartoon Network.

[@leronisnownorel6702]

Tiffany Panton it’s ok I guess but it’s nowhere near the level of cartoons I watched when I was younger.... in the 90s growing up there was the boomerang cartoons ie Jetsons Tom & Jerry Smurfs etc on xmas they would marathon the xmas episodes of those shows for 3 days, then of course toonami but you also had Cow & Chicken, KND, Power Puff Girls Johnny Bravo, Ed, Edd & Eddy that are now considered pure classics I watch some of the cartoons now & it’s too kiddish like they being safe with those shows, growing up cartoons were more edgier now it’s more goofy than funny in my opinion which why I think my son watches more of the older stuff that came out when I was younger compared to stuff they show now

[@WraithDesignz]

I 1st saw it back in 1997, my parents divorced and was a rough time for me, my dad living in a hotel and me visiting him. Thats when i saw the saiyan saga and the beginning of DBZ with i think different voices too.

[@nicklopez5313]

Gotta say, I just recently found this channel and I’ve been binging videos since. But this video has got to be my personal favorite. Definitely subbing!

[@ninjarai001]

This video makes me proud that i got to experience dragon ball z through its entire run.

[@marcolerena456]

Although I'm not from the US, Toonami airing DBZ is probably what brought the show to my country. Thanks for the history lesson Geekdom!

[@dugonman8360]

Shit, I remember when it was on random syndicated channels with those old saban eyecatches and the ocean dub. It came on 7:30 am on sunday morning on the WB. Watched it once when I was 9 (second episode where Piccolo and Goku fight Nappa) and it blew my mind. Would wake up each sunday early just to watch, I was so hooked. I also remember my sister found out about it and started demanding we watch flintstones instead. She'd wake up deliberately so she could force me to watch flintstones instead. I was up to when the saiyans got to earth and were about to fight the z fighters. One episode per week. Months of build up, just so we could watch flintstones instead. Thanks sis.

[@AkiraleTorimaki]

You mean Raditz right?

[@dugonman8360]

@@AkiraleTorimaki doh! Yeah, don't know why I wrote Nappa instead of Raditz but im leaving it like it is because it makes me laugh.

[@TheLAexplorer]

Do you happen to remember a block of cartoons called "Japanimation?" My memory is super hazy but from what I remember, DBZ kept bouncing around to different channels. I remember different blocks. One where Eagle Riders came on before DBZ, another where DBZ was followed by Masked Rider or something like that. And another where DBZ was followed by a show called S Club 7. This was such a big influence on me that I now speak Japanese and I even have a KZbin channel dedicated to cosplay videos. I just wish I could remember more about that "Japanimation" block because I think they had random facts about Japan that peaked my curiosity but I just can't remember...

[@derekknowles5805]

I remember I first watched Dragon Ball Z when I was 5 at a babysitter's house the sayian and frieza saga around 1998 or 1999 then in 2000 I watch the whole android saga then and was hooked me and my friends would draw DBZ in class and I would act out the scenes with my toys but I was really hyped when the movies came on Fridays and Galicia jr sagas Dragon ball was good too I really got annoyed when saga would start over and toonami went down hill around 2004 then 2013 I watched the whole sagas DB and DBZ during the summer best thing I did

[@PERFETOWNAGE]

Thank you for this. I have very vague memories of watching Z on toonami (I'm only 16) but I remember how it felt like each episode was a movie, the most lasting memory I have of toonami is Goku flying into Piccolo Jr. to win the budokai. My introduction to being a hardcore fan was watching nicktoon's kai and then watching the uncut blu rays but I still look back and think I had the privilege of watching the greatest shonen manga/anime of all time in it's fullest edition.

[@collinwild2277]

Your time young you would of been 1 year old you lier

[@PERFETOWNAGE]

toonami was around up until 2008 i watched re-runs