Not even exaggerating when I say it gets infinitely better, pushed the boundaries of what an abridged show can do, people who never watched dragon ball can also love it
They really shouldn't do that, People who watch this first always get the worst misconceptions of the show and carry the worst stereotypes for characters, I am not hating on DBZA but that is the facts. No first time watchers experience should be with the parody abridged of anything.
@@Waluigiisbest99 a lot of reactors first time watching anything Dragon Ball related watched this first, JacktheBus is a good one and he's already finished Super and Broly, played Kakkarot and FighterZ. TFS bring him up sometimes and they're grateful they were his first experience. As an older DB fan I dont think there's anything wrong with DBZA being the first experience
@@2amCryptidthere’s tons wrong. It ain’t faithful in characterizations and to say it’s alright than never seeing the source material is a slap in the face and huge levels of disrespectful
It wild looking back on these old episodes, especially knowing how the bar of quality raises over time, like from episode 1 you'd think Kaiser was struck by lightning sometime during season 2 and suddenly gained a great sense of humor. I unironically enjoy the Piccolo myspace bit, its stupid, but its a jab at Piccolo being lonely, which is true to his character, I think that's why it works. I suppose I shouldn't throw Kaiser under the bus, a bunch of people contributed and this was the final product so they're all to blame haha
i'm biased when I say this but: Toriyama's original DBZ work is superior to any changed form, kinda sad that Nick spoiled himself, probably thinking that the series wouldn't appeal to him
All the references they make only make sense if you've actually seen all of the Dragon Ball episodes, the movies and dbz. It works by itself too but, it's not the same as for example, catching the Turles reference that Raditz made. Basically it's kinda like watching Avengers Endgame without having seen any other MCU film.
It's over guys. He'll watch the Abridged version and think afterwards that he watched the real thing. Here goes another "Piccolo is Gohan's father" victim
Tom from myspace retired in his 20's, he sold the website for a LUDICROUS amount of money back when it was popular (and right before it became stale) and said "well I'm never working again" and by god he did it
taken me all the way back to 2008. Of all the things Nicholas could react to I would never expect this. Hope you stick with it, the first few episodes haven't aged all that well, but it gets pretty great.
FINALLY, damn! I've been recommending this probably since the beginning. Thank you to whoever showed it to him or for him for finally deciding to watch this xd I really think Nick will enjoy this whole ride. Enjoyable to react to too!
@@ACobalt I'd say the entire first season is pretty rough. Second season gradually gets better until it becomes really good. Once it hits season 3 it doesn't drop in quality at all. It's great the entire time.
@@ДавидГригорьев-ф3ж Uh no. The dialogue and quality throughout season 1 is iffy and riddled with 2010 internet "le randumb xddd" memes. Sorry, bro. Those don't age well. There are obviously moments here and there that are good, but it's not remotely consistent. It doesn't get consistent until the ginyu force and it doesn't get consistently good until right when Nail fuses with Piccolo.
If I was Yamcha I wouldn't even cheat on Bulma with myself... Trunks would be born 10 years early and boring but I'd be sugar daddy to the heir of the richest family on Earth.
SHESH I love DBZ Abridged man it will get so much better But it will NEVER replace the Original when you have time you should give DB Classic and after that DBZ Kai a try
I love Nicholas's reactions and I do honestly feel he would be one of the biggest DBZ fans ever if he sat down and watched it. The passion he shows is damn near unrivaled. It would be awesome redirecting that towards the Dragon Ball story....
after the first saga, this show takes a turn and starts taking itself very seriously while also making the jokes way funnier, there are legitimately amazing non comedic scenes and what they do with the source material makes it imo equal to the original
Another "false db fan" was born today... He's never gonna read the manga and is gonna add members to people who think they understand dragon ball... But well, his will of learning about dragon ball is still here, so we can hope
This is definitely an example of Old RUclips. You would see Flash animators from NewGrounds branching out to do projects like this, on RUclips. Early on, you'd get a couple episodes per year. At one point, they started offering these every three months or so. Like the name says, they abridge the episodes, and remove a lot of the stuff that made the original show drag, like staring at each other with no dialogue. The storyline also takes a path of its own, and I kinda like it better. I've also gotten used to the voices, so that the originals sound a bit weird, now. I think it's a great way to binge & revisit the series without fluff & filler. It's really hard for me to stop, once I've started watching it. They say it gets better. I can confirm that. Also, it doesn't take very long to do that.
Please please please continue this, I know the start maybe not the best but it hits its stride like you wouldn't believe, it becomes so quality sometimes you forget it's a parody
I found this out when someone was disproving Popo being a racist character. Apparently there’s a demon or djinn in one of the real life mythologies and that is what Popo is based on. Since Popo is a genie (which is like a djinn). So any bad comment about Popo is pretty much immediately wrong since he resembles the djinn itself.
It's one of my favorite abridged series. You need to know season 1 is a little boring ( first 6 episodes) but then it gets funnier especially season 2 and 3 🤣🤣 that's why it's one of the famous abridged series exist
The state of anime reactions, they react to any dumbass parody rather than the original show or some of the anime classics. Anime fans are entirely to blame.
This series starts kinda rough, largely because it was back in a time when abridging was mostly uncharted territory. It gets steadily better as it goes, being one of the rare series that increases in quality from beginning to end and never really plateaus. Around episode eight is where TFS really start to find their footing.
Best RUclipsr
Thank you
@@NicholasLightWORLDWIDEthank you
We need a Dragon Ball fusion dance between NicholasLight and NicholasDark
@@Streek2202 Nicholas Eclipse
@@NicholasDarkTV u look so lonely lmao nick what r u doing
“Never in my life have I needed something so much and never known until I received it.”
- Abridged Vegeta
So true
I swear so true😂
all hail king Vegeta
Oh man here we go again.
Please continue the abridged series it gets so much better
So true, the Android saga goes BRRRRR :D
The first episode is actually the worst because the didn't really "find" their style of humor yet
I second this 👌🏽 I haven't seen someone react to DBZA since blindwave
Every episode, they knew better how to do this
Yea, wait freezer saga plz
DBZA reactions will go hard
IT FINNALLY HAPPENED
OH BOI , another reason to rewatch DBZ Abridged
you on a journey man
Not even exaggerating when I say it gets infinitely better, pushed the boundaries of what an abridged show can do, people who never watched dragon ball can also love it
They really shouldn't do that, People who watch this first always get the worst misconceptions of the show and carry the worst stereotypes for characters, I am not hating on DBZA but that is the facts. No first time watchers experience should be with the parody abridged of anything.
I think you're right about that actually, but I just like some of the parts they added in the abrigded, also the pacing is alot better
@@Waluigiisbest99 a lot of reactors first time watching anything Dragon Ball related watched this first, JacktheBus is a good one and he's already finished Super and Broly, played Kakkarot and FighterZ. TFS bring him up sometimes and they're grateful they were his first experience. As an older DB fan I dont think there's anything wrong with DBZA being the first experience
@@2amCryptidthere’s tons wrong. It ain’t faithful in characterizations and to say it’s alright than never seeing the source material is a slap in the face and huge levels of disrespectful
It wild looking back on these old episodes, especially knowing how the bar of quality raises over time, like from episode 1 you'd think Kaiser was struck by lightning sometime during season 2 and suddenly gained a great sense of humor. I unironically enjoy the Piccolo myspace bit, its stupid, but its a jab at Piccolo being lonely, which is true to his character, I think that's why it works. I suppose I shouldn't throw Kaiser under the bus, a bunch of people contributed and this was the final product so they're all to blame haha
It's a bit of a rocky start but I promise you Nick this turns into the greatest fan made series of all time, so glad you chose to watch this
I really hope Nick continues to react to DBZ Abridged. It's hilarious.
@@MTAKIM-xy9jdA fandub of the original series
This abridged series is amazing, it only gets better with time. Please watch it entirely.
i'm biased when I say this but: Toriyama's original DBZ work is superior to any changed form, kinda sad that Nick spoiled himself, probably thinking that the series wouldn't appeal to him
Yeah. He should've started with originals. Not this pig comedy shit.
Well it's kinda sad that his first experience of the series is the abridged version. You can't really appreciate any of the storytelling that way
Show gets so much better after a few episodes, production quality and comedy really improves
3:54 funny thing is Appule is actually way stronger than Raditz lol
All the references they make only make sense if you've actually seen all of the Dragon Ball episodes, the movies and dbz. It works by itself too but, it's not the same as for example, catching the Turles reference that Raditz made. Basically it's kinda like watching Avengers Endgame without having seen any other MCU film.
Aw man, he’s gonna develop TERRIBLE misconceptions about this show due to seeing the parody first lol
Next episode is even better. The yoshi joke is actually really funny
I just found out that Nappa is 8 ft 10 which makes sense since he towers over Piccolo who is 7 ft 5. Raditz is 6 ft 3.
RIP the man who started influencing people to start making anime. DBZ will forever we the father of all anime, fly high master.
"Please, can i live here"
Bro did NOT see that coming 😭😭😭
It's over guys. He'll watch the Abridged version and think afterwards that he watched the real thing.
Here goes another "Piccolo is Gohan's father" victim
Piccolo is gohans father
Meh, you say that like it's a bad thing.
@@Mikaracatit is tho
The part I struggle with is that sooooo many jokes are DBZ references.
TFS didn't start that at all, Dragon Ball fans love blaming shit on TFS but most misconceptions about DB existed long before TFS
Pausing every 30 seconds, is this what we can expect from this reaction series? Brilliant.
Tom from myspace retired in his 20's, he sold the website for a LUDICROUS amount of money back when it was popular (and right before it became stale) and said "well I'm never working again" and by god he did it
taken me all the way back to 2008. Of all the things Nicholas could react to I would never expect this. Hope you stick with it, the first few episodes haven't aged all that well, but it gets pretty great.
FINALLY, damn! I've been recommending this probably since the beginning. Thank you to whoever showed it to him or for him for finally deciding to watch this xd I really think Nick will enjoy this whole ride. Enjoyable to react to too!
The crazy part is that this parody eventually becomes a solid interpretation in it's own right.
Emphasis on "eventually" lol, first couple of episode are ROUGH.
@@ACobalt I'd say the entire first season is pretty rough. Second season gradually gets better until it becomes really good. Once it hits season 3 it doesn't drop in quality at all. It's great the entire time.
@@aaronyaygeragreed! The first few episode are a little iffy😂 then it just improves every season
@@aaronyayger Nuh, Pecking order was like episode 3/4 and it was already peak.
@@ДавидГригорьев-ф3ж Uh no. The dialogue and quality throughout season 1 is iffy and riddled with 2010 internet "le randumb xddd" memes. Sorry, bro. Those don't age well. There are obviously moments here and there that are good, but it's not remotely consistent. It doesn't get consistent until the ginyu force and it doesn't get consistently good until right when Nail fuses with Piccolo.
If I was Yamcha I wouldn't even cheat on Bulma with myself...
Trunks would be born 10 years early and boring but I'd be sugar daddy to the heir of the richest family on Earth.
SHESH I love DBZ Abridged man it will get so much better
But it will NEVER replace the Original when you have time you should give DB Classic and after that DBZ Kai a try
Raditz showing up thinkin he was Leroy Jenkins😂
I really hope nick watches dragon ball one day like its the one thing i wish he will watch
No better way to honor akira toriyama than watching… the parody
You’re going to absolutely lose your shit over the OSTs used. The song they remade for the finale is such a beautiful send off
Try to keep in mind that the depictions of the characters are exaggerations and meant to be parodies. I'd recommend watching the OG before continuing.
You know it's a good day when reactor you like reacts to a show you like
This is the one, this is the series I've been wanting to see you react to since stumbling on the channel
I love Nicholas's reactions and I do honestly feel he would be one of the biggest DBZ fans ever if he sat down and watched it. The passion he shows is damn near unrivaled. It would be awesome redirecting that towards the Dragon Ball story....
Nick will watch anything but actual Dragon Ball Z
To be fair, half of the dragonball a fan base has never watched og dragonball. Dragonball fans are weird.
@@day7053 if not og dragon ball then at least the original DBZ, but i guess he's just going straight into it abridged
Please continue this brother! I will always vouch for how this series just gets better both in VA quality and in their writing.
YOOOOOOOOOOO so happy you're reacting to this , this is gonna be a great journey!
9:16 I didn't catch that until just now...
Yamcha is cheating on Bulma... and the one in bed with Yamcha is...
YESSSS ABRIDGED!!!! It was basically my cable in school
YES!!!!! I hope you continue watching these. They get better and better as it goes on
I never knew I needed this this much, but once I thought about it, this reaction series is going to be GOLD
Good luck getting past the first few episodes. They got infinitely better as the series progress
after the first saga, this show takes a turn and starts taking itself very seriously while also making the jokes way funnier, there are legitimately amazing non comedic scenes and what they do with the source material makes it imo equal to the original
You gotta continue this one bro. It gets crazy good. Quality goes from amateur to professional real quick
Oh jeez, time to hear another future "fan" say that goku is a bad dad
Dude, you have to keep watching this series, it gets so much better!
Oh man I'm so happy this is happening. It gets peak hilariocity oncee you get to the android/cell saga just like in the actual show
Please continue this series it’s easily one of my favorite RUclips series
Oh my god he's doing it! Strap in for an exponential growth in quality all around.
Another "false db fan" was born today... He's never gonna read the manga and is gonna add members to people who think they understand dragon ball... But well, his will of learning about dragon ball is still here, so we can hope
That set up is looking clean
FINALLY HE DID IT
He skipped classic dragon ball :(
You def need to keep this one going, by the time it gets to the vegeta fight it really finds its footing . It’s funny asf
watch dbz kai or og db if you really watch dragon ball
I have been waiting for him to react to the DBZ abridged series for so long let’s go
I've been praying for days like this. I would love if you did the whole series. I'll like and comment on every episode. I put that on Duper Kami Dende
i was a bit sad when you ended the stream without watching episode 2 but this makes it all worth it.
7 months ago??? I thought Toriyama passed away last month! Damn, time flies
lmao i was just about to rewatch this too, but saw this video in my feed before i could type
Please continue watching it gets so good with nappa, freiza and cell, you really get to see the progress of the production around the namek saga
Literally been praying for these reactions
The Goku bad dad ideology gonna be burned into his brain 😢
This is definitely an example of Old RUclips. You would see Flash animators from NewGrounds branching out to do projects like this, on RUclips. Early on, you'd get a couple episodes per year. At one point, they started offering these every three months or so. Like the name says, they abridge the episodes, and remove a lot of the stuff that made the original show drag, like staring at each other with no dialogue. The storyline also takes a path of its own, and I kinda like it better. I've also gotten used to the voices, so that the originals sound a bit weird, now. I think it's a great way to binge & revisit the series without fluff & filler. It's really hard for me to stop, once I've started watching it. They say it gets better. I can confirm that. Also, it doesn't take very long to do that.
Nick please continue this cause im gonna watch this every week
Please please please continue this, I know the start maybe not the best but it hits its stride like you wouldn't believe, it becomes so quality sometimes you forget it's a parody
It may seem slow now but it’s gets SOOOO much better over the years
I cant believe this is happening. Watch all of it including the movies, it gets better and better.
Please bear through the first couple of episodes, it legit gets impressively better soon!!
I actually gasped out loud at work seeing this. fucking massive W do more!
Please also do the rest, this series becomes so fantastic over time.
I found this out when someone was disproving Popo being a racist character. Apparently there’s a demon or djinn in one of the real life mythologies and that is what Popo is based on. Since Popo is a genie (which is like a djinn). So any bad comment about Popo is pretty much immediately wrong since he resembles the djinn itself.
It takes the whole saiyan saga to improve and afterwards it's like 99% gas.
Yessssssssssss it's here
Abridged 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oh I'm so happy and ready that this is happening.
pleeeeaase keep this going nick it honestly becomes more of its own dub rather than an abridge the hellsing abridge too
It's one of my favorite abridged series. You need to know season 1 is a little boring ( first 6 episodes) but then it gets funnier especially season 2 and 3 🤣🤣 that's why it's one of the famous abridged series exist
Dbz abridged is the greatest. All episodes make me piss myself. Love that you're reacting to it. Your reaction are top tier! ❤
DBZA! this will be fun, absolute best way to rewatch this anime by far.
if this becomes a series i am HERE FOR IT
This might be the best person to react to this
The timing is so perfect😂: 0:50
The quality of the sound and editing will get way better just bare with it.
I've waited a long time for this one my dude
Oh man... You are in for the ride of your life with this one
Pls bro continue this it gets sooooo good
ah so waiting for this just watched this last year its such a fun ride
I’ve been waiting for this 👏🏼
PLEASE CONTINUE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!
"This reminds me of old youtube"
This is old youtube brother
Best series ever we need 3 eps a week tho it gets soo much better after episode 20
Let's goooo!!!
I was hoping this day would come 🎉
"This actually happens ?" He's gonna say it a lot.
Here we fucking go people!
Yeah I'm down to rewatch this with ya.
The state of anime reactions, they react to any dumbass parody rather than the original show or some of the anime classics. Anime fans are entirely to blame.
Please continue, the series gets better. 🥰
I jumped for joy when I saw this
This series starts kinda rough, largely because it was back in a time when abridging was mostly uncharted territory. It gets steadily better as it goes, being one of the rare series that increases in quality from beginning to end and never really plateaus. Around episode eight is where TFS really start to find their footing.
8:08 old mate hasn’t seen any Yu Yu Hakusho then.