I think we can all agree that among the most important basic details to know about any given creative work of fiction is its genre. Because that I feel is where so much of the heart of the dysfunction at the core of Dragon Ball's modern day (and by modern day I mean from roughly 1997/1998-ish or thereabouts and onward) North American fanbase initially stems forth from. And as the topic title denotes, Dragon Ball's ACTUAL genre. Which is part of why we're gonna be spending. I've been in more than my share of weird fandoms for weird shit my whole life, and I've been in this particular one for a decent chunk of time: trust me, this one's up there.Īnd quite frankly, this is a topic - that of genre - that I personally find to be at the heart of a MASSIVE amount of the modern day Dragon Ball fandom's many, many freakishly bizarre quirks and idiosyncrasies. I doubt I'll be blowing too many minds or rousing too much in the way of controversy when I note that Dragon Ball has easily one of the single most dysfunctionally bizarre fandoms (specifically on the North American side of things) of damn near anything one can think up. Specifically (of course, obviously) Dragon Ball's genre. Genre: definitions, conventions, history, historical context, and so forth. That's predominantly what we're going to be focusing on here.

The takeaway here? So much for concrete decision making. Then flash forward about 4 years or so and now I'm making the concrete decision to go back on my previous concrete decision and start this conversation after all. Hopefully its also somewhat educational.īottom line: I made the concrete decision several years back to up and leave this community rather than be the person who starts this discussion.

And yes I know the Titanic sunk in the Atlantic and my quote referenced the Pacific, but why let pesky historical accuracy get in the way of a perfectly good pop culture reference? Especially one this befitting because like Cameron's bloated '97 opus, this is going to be a WAY overly-long ass-number. Well looks like I'm making like James Cameron and digging this old fossil up for another maiden voyage. That's ship has LONG and permanently sailed and sunk to the bottom of the Pacific, which is where I fully intend to leave it to rot. Kunzait_83 wrote:Do not remotely mistake this though for 'the return of Kunzait the Dragon Ball essayist' though.

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