Is the Dragon Ball Franchise now less about awesome story telling and just about hey there's the new enemy go fight him?

@NickRowler Nick Rowler
Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:40:24 +0000

@NickRowler wrote:

It's been a while since I read them but I don't remember the manga really being that deep when it came to story telling. Early Dragon Ball was actually more of a gag series, coming off the end of Toriyama's other gag series Dr. Slump. When the story transitioned into adult Goku (DBZ), there was less comedy but it did turn into powering up to fight the baddies.