Naruto and Dragonball Z

[DB_Hunter]

Well DBZ was awesome. OK it didn't have a story that would blow you away, but it was far from boring. Although I do now in hindsight wish that there was a bit more emphasis on fighting techniques than just your power level, I still enjoyed it hugely. I still don't get why people now just turn around and start bashing DBZ... sure it wasn't perfect but remember new anime creators should (in theory) be able to learn from the mistakes of past anime's and carry on the good points. Anyway, my two cents is that DBZ rules, and there is no point in being childish and saying oh no that anime is crap don't go there and this anime rules.... that approach just means that you automatically cut away about half of the anime out there. Everyone has their own tastes... if someone doesn't like an anime fine... it's there for enterainment, not to start a cult. I don't go around flaming anyone who doesn't think the same thing I do about DBZ.

[Nara Shikamaru VI]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (-ANBU-Sasuke- @ Jan 25 2004, 12:28 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Hmmm Now whos the tard that started this rumor, i should hunt him down, and hang him, then gut him out, then run him over&#33;

Naruto still isnt DBZ. Sure Naruto&#39;s Kyubi charka gives him that power up effect, but the action style, and battle style is tottaly different from dbz.

DBZ 30 Minutes:
Talk
Look at each other
Power Up for 20 minutes
Fight with repeated fight sceens. &lt;Rare that this happends for 1-5 episdoes straight but it goes on for the episode that they started fighting. Then the next if there is still fighting going on

Naruto 30 Minutes:
More mature story line
Funny as hell.
Ninja Style Battles
No repeted fight sceens. Each one is authentic. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
mmmm....(nod sagely). totally agree. may i add the ninja fights are original and fun to watch whereas the fights in DBZ are monotonous and boring. oh and another thing when Naruto power up, he dont make constipating noises like all the DBZ character.

[joker-kun]

quit saying DBZ was so bad, if it was then why was it #1 in japan for a little while (cant remember exact time so dont ask) DBZ for its time was awesome, sure it dragged things on and exeggerated alot, but at the time was still like no other, like Pokemon, that was the shittiest thing round, yet it made billions in 2 years, with cards, now its only cause DBZ is old and youve seen so much other stuff, think back to the time, most likely you loved it, this is why the long scenes bugged you, cause you wanted to get back to the action, you telling me gohan turning ss2 wasnt good, anyway as for Naruto, quit complaing, we obviously know its gonna be the next DBZ for action and popularity, now hopefull it wont drag on as long but its still going to have similarities.



btw i choose not to use &quot;.&quot; instead I use &quot;,&quot;

[Nara Shikamaru VI]

true i enjoyed DBZ but during when Goku was young, i like it because the plot was original and funny, not clinche. but after the Raditz episode, everything went monotonous.

[boomorman]

I liked db, and dbz. Naruto is more like db than dbz. Db had more of a plot and a direction. Ya Naruto goes ssj (kyubi), and uses his amazing amounts of ki(chakra) to use the tri form (kage bushin), and sometimes he pulls out the ole kamahamaha(ras), and of course Goku (Naruto) will get beaten badly for 15 minutes vow that he can&#39;t lose... Think about all the people he made promises to, get back up and… 3 episode later he will finally win.

Db/dbz were around for what 10 years???? They went everywhere and did everything…. of course others are going to seemingly copy it. Db is like the simpsons of the anime world. Sidenote.. I remember someone saying something like and I quote...... &quot;Oh gawd, Naruto is becoming to popular... Its no longer an alternative anime; blah I&#39;m sick of it now&quot;. Some people are just fans of trying to be leet and like things that others don&#39;t. i.e they liked dbz till it became cool to dislike it.

With all this said they are as much different as they are similar

sorry I&#39;m sleepy it might not make sense.


edit* ohyeah the real test will be if Gaara pulls a vegeta and becomes good.... In truth I wouldn&#39;t mind.

[joker-kun]

DBZ I founf to have a rather good story personally, even the it was repetetive it still had a good story for each repetetive saga, now BUU i didnt like, but Cell I loved, I dunno I think too many people bash dbz too much...

[Naruto]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (r3n @ Jan 25 2004, 06:20 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (StaticX27 &#064; Jan 25 2004, 04:12 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I&#39;ve seen many people commenting on the fact that Naruto is becoming like Dragonball Z....

Well... That is kind of justified being that Kishimoto&#39;s biggest inspiration IS Toriyama, as he said himself in his &quot;interview with the artists&quot; in the manga. Dragonball on its own was bad because it was alot of the same stuff over and over again, &quot;Ohh look at me I have to train in the other world... Oh damn another uber godlike dude is coming to blow up the earth, save me&#33; wish me back witht he dragonballs&#33;&quot; that routine kinda got old after awhile.. But at face value (God help me for saying this), it wasn&#39;t that bad..

Naruto runs into the fact that it takes on several traits from Dragonball... Kyuubi mode Naruto = Super Saiyan Naruto... same thing effectively, only Kishimoto justifies the jump in power a whole lot more than Toriyama did with the Saiyans just kind of having the power.

All in all, we&#39;re going to see alot of similar traits from Dragonball in Naruto, but as long as the storyline continues to develop like it is, I dont&#39; see a problem with Naruto going in that direction.

Go for it, have fun&#33; </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
http://www.jtownend.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/WTF.jpeg

nvr watched DBZ ^^ used to have some DBZ models tho... dno why http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/tongue.gif </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
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[s0ulz x r3frain]

dbz = mainly muscle power
naruto = tactical strategies that make you see different things like you never seen them before...

naruto has so much more dept than dbz&#39;s raw fighting

[RoMuLuu]

Hmmm... I haven&#39;t noticed anything like that. The only thing what has reminded me of Dragonball Z was when Lee used his high speed combo against Gaara. That was guite inhuman and maybe that went a bit too far, but I definitely haven&#39;t noticed anything else. http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/wink.gif

[Unidentified]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (s0ulz x r3frain @ Jan 25 2004, 02:19 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> dbz = mainly muscle power
naruto = tactical strategies that make you see different things like you never seen them before...

naruto has so much more dept than dbz&#39;s raw fighting </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Seriously, in the Freiza saga, Frieze form 2 was over 200, 000 pl stronger than Picollo but Piccolo still won and Goku was a lot weaker than Cell and Goku was fighting evenly. You can&#39;t say that it&#39;s just about power.

And Dragon Ball is a lot less predictible than Naruto. They spent episodes of Goku training and he still doesn&#39;t have to win. In the tournaments he faces people of equal strength and he doesn&#39;t just go do a kyubi power thing, he wins by skills or loses by someone more skilled than him ex. Master Roshi vs Goku fight. If Dragon Ball was just about power then Goku wouold have lost a lot of times, a lot of his fights, he was even in power.

It&#39;s better to compare the Dragon BallZ manga to the Naruto manga. Since the manga caught up to the anime so it was dragged out.

[rEkKaShInObI]

ive been dying for a thread like one of these&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;

Vegeta and Sasuke - want power, pretty serious, accepted power from another evil
(Vegeta took power from maajin bu) (Sasuke took power from michael jackson)

Iruka and Master Roshi - Teaches the main character his moves and gets them started (Iruka intructed naruto) (roshi instructed goku)

Michael jackson and freiza - both have armies at command, and both want to anhilate an area.
(michael jackson has his sound ninja&#39;s and they take over konoha) (frieza had his guys and they blew up namec)

Videl and Sakura - hangs around the main character and expects to learn something cool. no ex

Broly and the 3 sennins - godlike

Gaara anc Cell - someones most deadly creations

High Speed - no ex

SUPER SAIYANS AND KYUBI NARUTO?&#33; http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/sad.gif

NARUTO TODAY as of episode 65

I CANT BELIEVE THEY TALKED THE WHOLE EPISODE&#33;&#33;

THEY TALK MORE THAN THEY FIGHT DUDE&#33;&#33;

flashbacks, more talk

DBZ as of today: what the other guy said

sorry folks, my analysis is accurate so soon, you will all see Naruto Ball Z

[EpoC]

I&#39;m tired of people constantly comparing DBZ and Naruto. Give it up already&#33; Every forum I&#39;ve been to with a naruto topic has compared naruto with DBZ.
OK it has some similarities but there are many animes that are similar to eachother
for an example trigun and cowboy bebop, they are both in the future and shooting and stuff and the people has some background problems. macross and other mecha animes they are all similar to eachother. the difference is always the storyline.

I&#39;m a fan of both naruto and dbz by the way http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/happy.gif

[Guest]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Unidentified &#064; Jan 25 2004, 11:33 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> You&#39;re wrong when you said Dragon Ball on its on is jsut the same thing over and over again. One thing Goku never died in Dragon Ball so how could he go to the otehr world. Nobody in DragonBall tried to blow up the earth, there wasn&#39;t any villian that was strong enough to do so, and Picollo Daimou was the only one that had anything to do wtih controlling the Earth or anything of that magnitude and had the power to do so. IN Naruto, Naruto wins every major fight, and in Dragon Ball Goku spends times training for a quite bit of episodes and he still doesn&#39;t win in the martial arts tournament until the very end. Where Naruto just goes Kyubi and wins all the time if it&#39;s a major fight. You know Naruto is just going to go Kyubi and win, it&#39;s the same thing over and over again. And if you meant DragonBallZ which you only mentioned once and said Dragon Ball later then the only villian trying to blow up the earth was Cell and Buu. And if you actually watched some episodes you would know that you can only be wished back with a certain set of Dragon Balls once. Naruto gets his Kyubi power by just getting angry, where to turn into a Super Saiyan you have to go through intense training and extreme emotions, the first time and it isn&#39;t easy the rest of the time unless you train with it. Naruto is also a lot more predictible than Dragon Ball, as predictible as DBZ.

If the manga caught up to the anime like it did with DBZ early on then it would be just like DBZ with the prolonged fights, repetitive animation. Otherwise Naruto is still similar to DBZ in lots of other ways. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
since goku really DID die and the earth was target several times, im not interested in the rest of your reply. Credibility zero

Besides that. MAYBE noone noticed it, but Dragonball equals crap en Narute equals 7 on a scale of 10. Naruto in Kyubi mode, not even close to a supersayian . It&#39;s all how you look at it.

If you (in the first post) say &quot;ow look the same shiny aura for like, 5 sec, it must be DBZ. HELL UR RIGHT, but Naruto didnt easiliy win the match against nejji.

Just view the episode again. The examinator (whats his name?) said clearly&quot; even after he lost, he dug himself in and found another strategy&quot; (or some like that)

Naruto is far from unbeatable, nor is it an evercontinuing saga.

[RaZzy]

so...
DBZ was good for its time
Naruto is good for now

[Unidentified]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (?igma @ Jan 25 2004, 04:08 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Unidentified &#064; Jan 25 2004, 11:33 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> You&#39;re wrong when you said Dragon Ball on its on is jsut the same thing over and over again. One thing Goku never died in Dragon Ball so how could he go to the otehr world. Nobody in DragonBall tried to blow up the earth, there wasn&#39;t any villian that was strong enough to do so, and Picollo Daimou was the only one that had anything to do wtih controlling the Earth or anything of that magnitude and had the power to do so. IN Naruto, Naruto wins every major fight, and in Dragon Ball Goku spends times training for a quite bit of episodes and he still doesn&#39;t win in the martial arts tournament until the very end. Where Naruto just goes Kyubi and wins all the time if it&#39;s a major fight. You know Naruto is just going to go Kyubi and win, it&#39;s the same thing over and over again. And if you meant DragonBallZ which you only mentioned once and said Dragon Ball later then the only villian trying to blow up the earth was Cell and Buu. And if you actually watched some episodes you would know that you can only be wished back with a certain set of Dragon Balls once. Naruto gets his Kyubi power by just getting angry, where to turn into a Super Saiyan you have to go through intense training and extreme emotions, the first time and it isn&#39;t easy the rest of the time unless you train with it. Naruto is also a lot more predictible than Dragon Ball, as predictible as DBZ.

If the manga caught up to the anime like it did with DBZ early on then it would be just like DBZ with the prolonged fights, repetitive animation. Otherwise Naruto is still similar to DBZ in lots of other ways. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
since goku really DID die and the earth was target several times, im not interested in the rest of your reply. Credibility zero

Besides that. MAYBE noone noticed it, but Dragonball equals crap en Narute equals 7 on a scale of 10. Naruto in Kyubi mode, not even close to a supersayian . It&#39;s all how you look at it.

If you (in the first post) say &quot;ow look the same shiny aura for like, 5 sec, it must be DBZ. HELL UR RIGHT, but Naruto didnt easiliy win the match against nejji.

Just view the episode again. The examinator (whats his name?) said clearly&quot; even after he lost, he dug himself in and found another strategy&quot; (or some like that)

Naruto is far from unbeatable, nor is it an evercontinuing saga.
</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
I don&#39;t mean to flame, but I guess you have a short attention span or something. You should have read the rest. The only time the Earth was targeted form destruction was with Cell and Frieze. But anyways I said DRAGON BALL. Goku never died in Dragon Ball, and he lost lots of time even after spending a season training and side quests, you never know when he would win or lose. Like during the fight with Master Roshi, there were a lot of episodes dedicated to training and all and it went from a Goku turning into a monkey to the moon being destroyed to a final showdown, where Goku got up and whoever said I am the champion wins. Goku was got up and he was in the middle of his sentence and he fell down and Master Roshi got up and said it. You wouldn&#39;t have expected that. Or the Goku vs. Tien fight was COMPLETELY unpredictible, at the very end it was kind of obvious Goku was going to win till out of nowhere he got hit and lost. Naruto as I said many times is predictible. I personally think Dragon Ball is a LOT better than Naruto. Although I grew up watching DBZ(in it&#39;s original version), I think Naruto is better than DBZ but not Dragon Ball.

[markos]

rock lee&#39;s technique &lt;that with gates&gt; is very similar to kaioken, besides there aren&#39;t too many deaths for a ninja story

[joker-kun]

I just wanted to point out to igma (not sure if this is what he meant) ummmm goku didnt win easily when he turned ss, nor did the others (ecept cell at first),now as I said I dunno if that what you meant, but it sounded as though you were implying that Naruto doesnt win easily with kyuubi and Goku did win easily with super saiyin.

[Shin Muhre]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (RaZzy @ Jan 25 2004, 04:23 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> so...
DBZ was good for its time
Naruto is good for now </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>


I absolutely agree. There was a time for the DB series to be the king of this anime style and that time is over. Now Naruto is going farther , deeper, and more intellegently in to that sort of style, better then 90% of all the other anime out there. Anime fans worldwide have been waiting for an anime creator to step up and make a show like this and finally its happened.

Yes, its true that both DB and Naruto are drawn out, and thats the selling point. I do think that Naruto has much, much deeper of a story tho, encompassing countless characters and plot lines. The formula for DBZ was

#1 - Get beat by an incredibly strong baddie
#2 - Power up way stronger then before
#3 - Beat him in the most dramatic way possible

You can obviously see this same pattern in Naruto because it sells. The difference is that the pattern is way more diversitifed and elaborated upon then DBZ.

Anyways, they&#39;re similar, no question about it. I&#39;m just glad that Naruto&#39;s here to be enjoyed (and Im glad for broadband internet http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif )

[Kite]

You guys have to look at one thing:

First off let me say that Dragonball is my favorite series and always will be. It was the first anime I ever watched in the original format way before it became popular here. Not only did the problem occur with the anime cathcing up to the manga, but Akira Toriyama himself stated that he wanted to end the seiries many times. His original plan was to end it after they found the 7 dragonballs. He also wanted to end it after the Freeza saga, and again at the Cell saga. The reason he continued it was because of its popularity and people encouraging him to. This is also a reason why there are a lot of plot holes. Almost every show has been compared to Dragonball also, I don&#39;t know why, and i never agree.

If you want to see a big similarity, take a look at Hunter x Hunter(which I can&#39;t wait for the new OVA). I started watching both around the same time and you see many similarities. They are still two completely different animes. At the moment, Naruto and Hunter x Hunter are my two favorite animes running.

The truth is this will never be settled. For every person that has a reason to like Dragonball there is another that has a reason to hate. It happens to a lot of good animes.

[Kn1ves]

Only if we can collect the 7 Star Dragon Balls to ressurect Dosu http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/dry.gif
then all will be fair and well

[joker-kun]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Kn1ves @ Jan 25 2004, 08:38 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Only if we can collect the 7 Star Dragon Balls to ressurect Dosu http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/dry.gif
then all will be fair and well </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
lol...that was jokish


besides I dont get what such a bad thing even if it was as much like dbz as you ar e saying http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/wink.gif

[rEkKaShInObI]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (joker-kun @ Jan 25 2004, 09:40 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Kn1ves &#064; Jan 25 2004, 08:38 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Only if we can collect the 7 Star Dragon Balls to ressurect Dosu http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/dry.gif
then all will be fair and well </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
lol...that was jokish


besides I dont get what such a bad thing even if it was as much like dbz as you ar e saying http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/wink.gif </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
who cares about dosu

[StaticX27]

I&#39;ve seen many people commenting on the fact that Naruto is becoming like Dragonball Z....

Well... That is kind of justified being that Kishimoto&#39;s biggest inspiration IS Toriyama, as he said himself in his &quot;interview with the artists&quot; in the manga. Dragonball on its own was bad because it was alot of the same stuff over and over again, &quot;Ohh look at me I have to train in the other world... Oh damn another uber godlike dude is coming to blow up the earth, save me&#33; wish me back witht he dragonballs&#33;&quot; that routine kinda got old after awhile.. But at face value (God help me for saying this), it wasn&#39;t that bad..

Naruto runs into the fact that it takes on several traits from Dragonball... Kyuubi mode Naruto = Super Saiyan Naruto... same thing effectively, only Kishimoto justifies the jump in power a whole lot more than Toriyama did with the Saiyans just kind of having the power.

All in all, we&#39;re going to see alot of similar traits from Dragonball in Naruto, but as long as the storyline continues to develop like it is, I dont&#39; see a problem with Naruto going in that direction.

Go for it, have fun&#33;

[Nine Tailed Demon]

Ummm.......okay. http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/dry.gif

[Unidentified]

You&#39;re wrong when you said Dragon Ball on its on is jsut the same thing over and over again. One thing Goku never died in Dragon Ball so how could he go to the otehr world. Nobody in DragonBall tried to blow up the earth, there wasn&#39;t any villian that was strong enough to do so, and Picollo Daimou was the only one that had anything to do wtih controlling the Earth or anything of that magnitude and had the power to do so. IN Naruto, Naruto wins every major fight, and in Dragon Ball Goku spends times training for a quite bit of episodes and he still doesn&#39;t win in the martial arts tournament until the very end. Where Naruto just goes Kyubi and wins all the time if it&#39;s a major fight. You know Naruto is just going to go Kyubi and win, it&#39;s the same thing over and over again. And if you meant DragonBallZ which you only mentioned once and said Dragon Ball later then the only villian trying to blow up the earth was Cell and Buu. And if you actually watched some episodes you would know that you can only be wished back with a certain set of Dragon Balls once. Naruto gets his Kyubi power by just getting angry, where to turn into a Super Saiyan you have to go through intense training and extreme emotions, the first time and it isn&#39;t easy the rest of the time unless you train with it. Naruto is also a lot more predictible than Dragon Ball, as predictible as DBZ.

If the manga caught up to the anime like it did with DBZ early on then it would be just like DBZ with the prolonged fights, repetitive animation. Otherwise Naruto is still similar to DBZ in lots of other ways.

[joker-kun]

why does nobody understand kinives jokish ways, except I, same as wasnt he the one who pulled the car insurance, i thought that was quite humorous.

[Rock Lee]

Man i&#39;ve made this exact post a while ago, reguardless i dismiss the tards that say Naruto is like DBZ, their logic consists of over generalization. Its like saying that Lady Blue is like Naruto because they both have female charcters in them. Thats just crap logic. I&#39;d ignore them. By the way EVERYONE who does Shounen is influenced by toriyama hes the godfather of all anime of its genre.

[ja ne]

http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/tongue.gif
well this topic is sure going to bring out all the fanboys/fangirls

Personally i find that naruto is only similar in the way things can be really drawn out. Not always a bad thing (i relish seeing more of certain characters). But the primary difference is that whereas dragonball (or DRAGONBALL Z, just to please unidentified) the fights where pretty much one on one. With their being one major bad guy. In Naruto (especially now at this point in the manga) there are mutiple enemies at the same time. Also naruto is more character driven (and has much more character development) and theme driven (acknowledgement, self love vs love for others, etc)

[hiddenpookie]

&quot;By the way EVERYONE who does Shounen is influenced by toriyama hes the godfather of all anime of its genre&quot; yes rock lee that is o very very true he is the godfather but no naruto is not like dbz naruto iz ninja dbz is supermonkeys that are constapated..ye i used to like dbz..but no no way&#33;

[r3n]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (StaticX27 @ Jan 25 2004, 04:12 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I&#39;ve seen many people commenting on the fact that Naruto is becoming like Dragonball Z....

Well... That is kind of justified being that Kishimoto&#39;s biggest inspiration IS Toriyama, as he said himself in his &quot;interview with the artists&quot; in the manga. Dragonball on its own was bad because it was alot of the same stuff over and over again, &quot;Ohh look at me I have to train in the other world... Oh damn another uber godlike dude is coming to blow up the earth, save me&#33; wish me back witht he dragonballs&#33;&quot; that routine kinda got old after awhile.. But at face value (God help me for saying this), it wasn&#39;t that bad..

Naruto runs into the fact that it takes on several traits from Dragonball... Kyuubi mode Naruto = Super Saiyan Naruto... same thing effectively, only Kishimoto justifies the jump in power a whole lot more than Toriyama did with the Saiyans just kind of having the power.

All in all, we&#39;re going to see alot of similar traits from Dragonball in Naruto, but as long as the storyline continues to develop like it is, I dont&#39; see a problem with Naruto going in that direction.

Go for it, have fun&#33; </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
http://www.jtownend.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/WTF.jpeg

nvr watched DBZ ^^ used to have some DBZ models tho... dno why http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/tongue.gif

[-ANBU-Sasuke-]

Hmmm Now whos the tard that started this rumor, i should hunt him down, and hang him, then gut him out, then run him over&#33;

Naruto still isnt DBZ. Sure Naruto&#39;s Kyubi charka gives him that power up effect, but the action style, and battle style is tottaly different from dbz.

DBZ 30 Minutes:
Talk
Look at each other
Power Up for 20 minutes
Fight with repeated fight sceens. &lt;Rare that this happends for 1-5 episdoes straight but it goes on for the episode that they started fighting. Then the next if there is still fighting going on

Naruto 30 Minutes:
More mature story line
Funny as hell.
Ninja Style Battles
No repeted fight sceens. Each one is authentic.

[RockLeeisHOT]

people are only saying that because the 3rd chuunin exam is a tournament like DBZ often has... Just because an anime has a tournament doesn&#39;t mean it&#39;s a DBZ clone. YuYu Hakusho had the Dark Tournament, and I bet people said it was copying DBZ also. Naruto might have a few DBZ similarities because kishimoto did say he loved and was inspired by DBZ, but it&#39;s totally different

[Uchiha-Itachi]

Thats why you&#39;re officially an Assclown now rekka http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/smile.gif

[Guest]

that pixelated avatr of yours contributes to that http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/tongue.gif

what are you trying to hide huh?

[PSJ]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Unidentified @ Jan 25 2004, 05:33 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> You&#39;re wrong when you said Dragon Ball on its on is jsut the same thing over and over again. One thing Goku never died in Dragon Ball so how could he go to the otehr world. Nobody in DragonBall tried to blow up the earth, there wasn&#39;t any villian that was strong enough to do so, and Picollo Daimou was the only one that had anything to do wtih controlling the Earth or anything of that magnitude and had the power to do so. IN Naruto, Naruto wins every major fight, and in Dragon Ball Goku spends times training for a quite bit of episodes and he still doesn&#39;t win in the martial arts tournament until the very end. Where Naruto just goes Kyubi and wins all the time if it&#39;s a major fight. You know Naruto is just going to go Kyubi and win, it&#39;s the same thing over and over again. And if you meant DragonBallZ which you only mentioned once and said Dragon Ball later then the only villian trying to blow up the earth was Cell and Buu. And if you actually watched some episodes you would know that you can only be wished back with a certain set of Dragon Balls once. Naruto gets his Kyubi power by just getting angry, where to turn into a Super Saiyan you have to go through intense training and extreme emotions, the first time and it isn&#39;t easy the rest of the time unless you train with it. Naruto is also a lot more predictible than Dragon Ball, as predictible as DBZ.

If the manga caught up to the anime like it did with DBZ early on then it would be just like DBZ with the prolonged fights, repetitive animation. Otherwise Naruto is still similar to DBZ in lots of other ways. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
did you read the manga? did they cut out the part in the anime where freiza and king cold comes to earth to first kill goku then blow it up? yes dragonballz is the same thing over and over again. one major villian. goku has to become strong to beat him bla bla bla. the same over and over again. and yes goku dies. when fighting raditz he sacrifces his own life to kill him and comes back right to the fight with nappa and vegeta. and then he dies against cell and doesnt come back for 7 years..... he dies twice in dragonballz.

[Jman]

*hopes Naruto never grows a tail out his ass

[Guest]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (joker-kun @ Jan 25 2004, 05:34 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I just wanted to point out to igma (not sure if this is what he meant) ummmm goku didnt win easily when he turned ss, nor did the others (ecept cell at first),now as I said I dunno if that what you meant, but it sounded as though you were implying that Naruto doesnt win easily with kyuubi and Goku did win easily with super saiyin. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
hm..well close.

point is, at the moment Goku bacame ssj I -&gt; III , you knew he wouldt lose anymore(meaning that he would eventually be victor), this was especially the case in the first 4 saga.
THAT&#39;s the clue . Naruto could still get his ass beat, because it has a far deeper story line.

[Phainein Terra]

Well, since Dragonball Z was possibly one of the first 5 anime I ever watched, I can honestly say it&#39;s what made me the smelly otaku that I am today. I don&#39;t think it was because of the repetitive plot or kick-ass fighting (since most of every episode was standing or flying), but the character-loveability.

I see alot of that in Naruto. Sure there&#39;s plenty of face-offs, but I don&#39;t think they last as long as the ones in DBZ. Naruto&#39;s inactivity generally centers around deeper-explanations of skills and histories only alluded to in prior episodes. Plus the plot is not repetitive in the least. There is plenty of fighting, but each little saga is an entirely different creature, ever evolving into some new goal, aim, or subplot. There is a lot of minor character personality development that leads for great future openings into the story.

In closing, there are some similarities to DBZ. The face-offs and seemingly small amount of activity per episode. There are alot of differences. Evolving storyplot, minor character development, deeper explanations, humor, and a more down-to-earth conflict.

I think the differences far outweigh the similarities.

[Hero-Sennin]

YOOOOO&#33; Its me again. OK. Hero-Sennin ere wasa massive fan of DBZ, and knew so much about it, it was actually quite sad. Some of the ppl in here talking about the similarities/differences just... Shhhh...... quiet. OK. Theres one guy who was saying something about how Naruto Nine tails isnt similar to SSJ because Naruto had a hard time against Neji still. Well...did you make that one up all by yourself? arent you clever? Shhh...... Goku vs Frieza is where we got SSJ for the first time (Unless you count the weird version of SSJ we see in Goku vs Slug) and lets face it, he won by the skin of his teeth really. He almost died once as a SSJ, but then sorta &#39;rose from the dead&#39; but BAH&#33; my point is, the Red Chakra and SSJ are actually quite similar concepts. And sorta echoing some guy who sounded like he wanted to be writing magazines (..been waiting for a series like this...and its finally here&#33;--- http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/dry.gif ) It sells, or rather it &#39;appeals&#39; to the same sorta people. If ur into fighting anime then, your likely to enjoy the idea of someone mortal being fuckin super hard, man. The way things are dragged out, fair enough. That is very similar, especially with this later saga (exam), at which point I want to agree with the dude/dudette who said the first series had practically no dragging out and was wicked (a bit like DB) and the later ones with the exams are getting a bit Z like in the way that they&#39;re being dragged out. Its true, its not opinion, those resemblences are there, but I dont think its like watching DBZ. (although RekkaShinobi man, ur character analogy is quite good. Sasuke Vegeta Naruto Kakkarott, and you had me fall of my chair laughing when u called Oorichimaru Michael Jackson so casually.*sigh* classic.) but yeah man, Its not the same. Someone else said the fights differ more emphasis on strategy, more explanation of character history and personal goals etc in naruto, more depth, and you&#39;re all probably right, but I aint havin no mo-fuckin-fos dissin my homie toryiama for his plotlines. HE HAD SO MANY RACES/SPECIES OF FIGHTERS. They all had meaning, there was the travelling in time, and dealing with fucking impossibly hard bad guys, and oh....THe RIVALRY&#33; man that was cool...which is a bit similar to Naruto/sasuke, but when u think about it, It was a major theme in DBZ but not in Naruto. So http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/tongue.gif . But all you ppl going into details with techniques winning for Gokuand other senless stuff (including you fucking humourless unoriginal wank-stains who insist on saying DBZ guys make noises like being constipated (&lt;&lt;&lt;BY THE WAY HAVE ANY OF YOU BEEN TO SCHOOL EVER? your collective spelling and grammar is awful. Someone was saying on here about sloppy english, i think it might have been Black Knight? was it? Im not &quot;exactally&quot; sure if itachi read it but&gt;&gt;&gt;), well, just Shhhhh....cos thats how ppl get piles.

Um, ahhh. wollop. man. :|

Right well. Im blabbering a bit now. Its weird how many different kinds of stoned you can get. PS. if you gotwoot ppl need anyone to work from home for like free and stuff, then gimme a shout, Im spending all my time on the site anyways nowadays.

Hero-Sennin

http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/mf_mrt.gif Mo-Fuckin-Fo http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/mf_mrt.gif

[Hero-Sennin]

Sorry, I made a spelling mistake. Aruki, not Haruki and Nagara not Nagaara.

http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/mf_mrt.gif PROPER BO I TELL THEE http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/mf_mrt.gif

[caset]

may as well add yuu yuu (already mentioned), flame of recca, scryed, scrapped
princess, tokoyo underground, and any other anime with a tournament, sword,
transformation or maybe even any sort of violence in it. now I&#39;d go into it more,
but whats the point of it... and this post anyway? http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/dry.gif

[DB_Hunter]

For continuing this topic......


http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/mf_mrt.gif I pity ya foo&#39;s http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/mf_mrt.gif

[Frank_griffith]

I&#39;d say Naruto looks more like HunterXHunter than Dragon ball Z. Sure, Naruto and DBZ have fighting and tournaments in common, but Naruto and HXH have about everything in common.

In both animes, There&#39;s a serie of multiple tests that the main characters must pass. Some require teamwork, some fighting skills, and some cunning thinking. In HXH, the tests are (forgive me if I&#39;ve forgotten any) Endurance test, Cooking test, The huge tower test, the test on the island, Survival test and finally the tournament. In Naruto, there&#39;s the written test, forest of death, and then the tournament.

In both animes, you get to know more about all the characters as the anime proceeds instead of focusing just on the main character. Also, in both animes, there is&#39;nt a tournament winner declared (although I&#39;m not sure if the tournament in Naruto will continue or not)

In both animes, every characters have their own unique powers. Hosaki in HXH reminds me of Gaara, with his thirst for blood and his &quot;evil&quot; attitude. Kilua reminds me of Sasuke, both with &quot;cold&quot; attitudes (dark assassin &amp; dark avenger, pretty similiar) and the main character with the black hair (geez, I cant beleive I forgot his name&#33; memory blank...) looks a lot like Naruto, often clueless but very very cunning. And of course, they&#39;re both stubborn and will never surrender or give up.

Also, each fights are unique, and you can never predict what&#39;s going to happen and who will emerge victorious.

So in all, I believe Naruto looks more like HunterXHunter than Dragonball Z.

[Kite]

Thank you Frank&#33;

Finally, someone who agrees with me.

[Frank_griffith]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Kite &#064; Jan 26 2004, 08:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Thank you Frank&#33;

Finally, someone who agrees with me. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
no prob&#33;

just expressing my opinion http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/wink.gif

[Jman]

http://www.littlecooldude.com/~animemaster/ggoku.gifhttp://www.littlecooldude.com/~animemaster/gnaruto.gif

[hiddenpookie]

http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/i/atb/guild/images/jun2002/dbz-rushingtrunks-shirts.jpgdbz pwns******#%^@&#33;*&#036; ahhhha m gonna get flamed http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/mf_laughbounce.gif http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/mf_laughbounce.gif http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/mf_laughbounce.gif

[Mange Sharingan]

I was going to tell you to use the search button but I was thinking about the forum at animesuki

http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[rEkKaShInObI]

animemaster, you totally own&#33;&#33;

[animeniac]

i&#39;v seen all of dbz and all of naruto so far and in my opinion naruto is alot better. . The fight scenes are original and the characters are being developed better but i do see a few similarities. But all in all NARUTO owns dbz http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/tongue.gif

[Mut]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (animeniac @ Jan 26 2004, 10:23 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> i&#39;v seen all of dbz and all of naruto so far and in my opinion naruto is alot better. . The fight scenes are original and the characters are being developed better but i do see a few similarities. But all in all NARUTO owns dbz http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/tongue.gif </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
you&#39;re comparing a badass 67 mustang with a salene.

[Uchiha-Itachi]

Does Naruto looks like DBZ:

http://www.raceworx.com/imabandwidththief/dom%20delouise%20no.jpg

And a award for the person that made this topic and everyone that agrees with him:

http://www.raceworx.com/imabandwidththief/assclownaward2.jpg

kthxbye~ http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/dry.gif

[jing]

LOL only you would come up with these things, where the hell do you find the pics anyways lol...

[joker-kun]

by the looks of the outer glow he made it himself.you are an absolute idiot if you think there isnt similarities http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/wink.gif

[Naruto-god]

Naruto is not like DBz yall Need to get over it. Damn DBzZ fanatics http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/tongue.gif

[Unidentified]

I should say damn Naruto fanboys and fangirls. I like Dragon Ball Z and I watched it for years but I think Naruto is better. But I don&#39;t think Naruto can even compare to Dragon Ball. It&#39;s a lot more original, better fight scenes, and better everything except animation. Naruto is to Goku as Sasuke is to Vegeta, there&#39;s so many similarities in the rivalries.

[Jman]

I like both series equally as much but I gotta say that Naruto&#39;s power couldn&#39;t scratch Goku in his sleep.

[rEkKaShInObI]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (animemaster @ Jan 26 2004, 11:34 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I like both series equally as much but I gotta say that Naruto&#39;s power couldn&#39;t scratch Goku in his sleep. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
when goku goes super saiyan, hes 10000000x faster than kyubi naruto. imagine how fast he moved on Chi Chi http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/mf_laughbounce2.gif

[rEkKaShInObI]

naruto was gettn hella hella hella good in the beginning, where it was most addictive. but now, DRAGON BALL Z&#33;&#33;&#33;

[rEkKaShInObI]

NARUTO NARUTO&#33; BLOCK THE NARUTO&#33; NARUTO BALL Z&#33;&#33;

CHAKRA CHAKRA&#33; BLOCK THE CHAKRA&#33; CHAKRA BALL Z&#33;&#33;

KUNAI KUNAI&#33; BLOCK THE KUNAI&#33; KUNAI BALL Z&#33;&#33;

[DB_Hunter]

To be honest I don&#39;t think there has ever been a more powerful bunch of characters than the Saiyans and the baddies in DBZ..... O often wondered what it would be like if there was a cross over from DBZ and another anime....

Goku would pwn Kyuubi...... heck almost all the saiyans could proably own Kyuubi except chibi Goten and Chibi Trunks.


Edit: As for the character comparison, I think Vegeta did the whole &#39;I&#39;m an arrogant powerful fighter&#39; thing a whole lot better than Sasuke. Note for the ittle people here who seem to think you can only like one anime I&#39;m not saying Sasuke isn&#39;t a good character.

But guys seriously there are going to be overlaps between anime&#39;s since there are only so many things that people can think of to make the characters look powerful.... if they have an aura around them it doesn&#39;t mean that they are DBZ or something... if they have a Samurai sword they arn&#39;t trying to be Kenshin... if they are late for uni and are typing this it doesn&#39;t mean they are a copy of me..... http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/blink.gif

[Uchiha-Itachi]

Djees... seriously...

http://www.raceworx.com/imabandwidththief/whocares.jpg

[simplyxme]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Uchiha-Itachi @ Jan 27 2004, 06:39 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Djees... seriously...

http://www.raceworx.com/imabandwidththief/whocares.jpg </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
ahahahaha i agree. They&#39;re both great animes so whatever. Stop thiking so hard about it and just enjoy&#33; Sure they&#39;re a little similar here and there but dont use up too much brain energy ahahaha thinking about this. Dbz and naruto are sexy as hell so just shadddup and watch http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/smile.gif

[kazamishima]

foreals ppl takes this thing so seriously..i mean geez, both were and are great animes. Just because it has similarities and you like naruto more than db/dbz doesnt mean it makes it bad..besides dubbed(english, spanish, french etc etc.) and censored db/dbz is what killed it IMO.

[Frank_griffith]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (animemaster @ Jan 26 2004, 08:20 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> http://www.littlecooldude.com/~animemaster/ggoku.gifhttp://www.littlecooldude.com/~animemaster/gnaruto.gif </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
If you&#39;re saying that Naruto looks like Dragonball Z ONLY because of Naruto himself, then I agree. But if you&#39;re speaking of the anime in general, then it looks more like HunterXHunter than Dragonball Z.

[rEkKaShInObI]

The last questions, shall we accept it? or deny it?

Has Naruto become Dragon Ball Z?

Will the manga be better than the anime now?

Will they ever just shut up or talk about something important?

Will Naruto ever be as good as it used to be?









Anymore let down episodes and imma stop watching it.

[joker-kun]

rekka I think you complain far too much...

[-ANBU-Sasuke-]

DBZ/GT saga&#39;s were great. No doubt. But after a while of watching it. It gets boring. DBZ set the level of where anime should be.

As time pasts interests past. We all happend to run into naruto, and we got hooked. Who knows maybe we would all like to watch cardcaptors or pokemon agian. Also for another, dbz was created what 7-9 years ago. http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/ph34r.gif http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/ph34r.gif http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/ph34r.gif http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/ph34r.gif http://www.gotwoot.net/forum/html/emoticons/ph34r.gif

[OshadowO]

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (rEkKaShInObI @ Jan 29 2004, 06:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> The last questions, shall we accept it? or deny it?

Has Naruto become Dragon Ball Z?

Will the manga be better than the anime now?

Will they ever just shut up or talk about something important?

Will Naruto ever be as good as it used to be?









Anymore let down episodes and imma stop watching it. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
I feel ya bro.
its been a while since they came out with a quality episode. They&#39;re all so horribly paced. and DBZish as of late.

[Uchiha-Itachi]

Well if you don&#39;t like it? Quit watching and get your ass out of here, and jack off on your precious DBZ?

Cuz we ain&#39;t waiting for your whining crap...

kthxbye~

[rEkKaShInObI]

ok for some people referring to me with ur whining and complaining, shut up and use PM. Or goto san jose so we can duke this out. im just saying that stuff to try n end this thread.