Was anyone a Dragonball Fan?

I had seen that the author Akira Toriyama had passed away. I was remebering that DragonBall was a story I started seeing back when I lived in Mexico.

Before Dragonball, when I was about 3 years old in Mexico. The animes I saw were Super champions (captain Tsubasa). Remi the child of no one, Kimba the white lion, And meteoro ( Speed Racer).

In Mexico, I saw Dragonball twice from start to finish. Dragonball was the first anime I watched when I could truly follow the plot, and clearly understand the dialogues and the story. I was 4 years old at the beginning of '95.

I moved with my family to the USA in early in '97. forgot about Dragonball. The one day in the summer break, Telemundo started the Mexican dub. All the memories started coming back, it felt very surreal to be continuing the series I had began years before.

When school again started again. I could not see Dragonball during those day time hours. My cousins had a vcr, and thus record the the episodes from Telemundo, and thats how I continued seeing the series.

One of the days of waking up early for school I saw the ocean dub early in the morning on WB.

It was interesting to see the English Ocean dub adaptation. How The Ocean had their own the theme song "Rock the dragon, Dragon Ball Z".

It was interesting to watch while I was learning English, because I would at times realize things beings said were different than how I would have said them, yet they made sense.

I understood things better like Idioms, American slang, American expressions. I had a better understanding of how language is conveyed, and adapted. I ended up seeing the ocean dub episodes several times because they only aired it till episode 64, shortly after Goku arrives in Namek to fight the Ginyu force.

I did not see the Funimation dub. Since I grew up without cable.

I think anime is different than cartoons in terms of learning language. Because cartoons are episodic day by day. Whereas an anime follows a storyline that has you reviewing the episode before. Has you thinking and reflecting about the plot and analyzing the story elements, and following a story, and it becomes a story one can deeply immerse in.

A few years ago I got to meet Mario Castañeda (Goku's voice actor from Mexico), René García, and Patricia Acevedo when they visited the Anime Convention in Texas. I think it was great, especially since I could not go over there.