Eris wrote:DBZ is actually one of the rare series that while I have never seen it, I am quite ready and willing to condemn it whole-heartedly. Normally I'd abstain judgement, but honestly I have enough second-hand information about the series to say there's little redeeming about it. Hyper-powered characters, lack of development, forced romances, painfully slow pacing and so forth make me feel that it's not even worth the effort to confirm all these suspicions. Besides, the damage its down to the meta-community of anime is unforgivable.
Or maybe there's something about lacking a Y chromosome that makes me shy away from this sort of anime.
Nope, can't be the Y chromosome, because I lack one as well, and LOVE Trigun, for example. Except for Weird Ed, I can tolerate Cowboy Bebop, and except for the crappy soundtrack music, I can endure - in fact would LOVE - Samurai Champloo (I am a sucker for that classical Japan stuff), ate Robotech and Macross up with a spoon. I don't get into Rumiko Takahasi because it's all Ranma, even when it's titled Lum or Inuyasha, IMO (sorry, folks, I know that probably torqed a few people), but I do get the joke that is the ultimate punchline of Ranma. I think I've mentioned a few really good Y-chromo animes - forgot Gundam and spinoffs only 'cuz never seen 'em... Ghost in the Shell is pretty neat, but I love that cyberpunk stuff anyway... I'm digressing.
My sister, OTOH, who is a college graduate working on her masters and she graduated WITH HONORS... says that DBZ really does have a plot, and it's not ALL guys grunting.
Just goes to show you that college doesn't mean everything.