From the article:
Akira Toriyama originally intended to conclude Dragon Ball with the Cell saga, but strong editorial pressure forced him to extend the series, according to a recent interview with three former Dragon Ball editors: Kazuhiko Torishima, Yu Kondo, and Fuyuto Takeda.
This was revealed during a recent episode of KosoKoso podcast on Feb 22, 2025.
Yeah that makes sense. At least with the anime, that’s usually the point where I stop watching. Not because it’s bad but because I get exhausted with the formula and wanna watch something else.
I’m actually rewatching Dragonball Z right now but it’s basically just background noise. The rewatchability has never been great in my opinion. And since the show drags on so much, you don’t really miss much when not paying attention.
Dragonball Z Abridged Highly, highly recommend this to give you both a comedic take and also carry you through the story in an abridged fashion.
I’ve never been able to look at Nappa the same again… Or Mr Popo
+1 it’s so funny, be aware it’s definitely 2000s humor so it can be real edgy :P but I like edgy humor
I say this as a massive Dragon Ball nerd, I don’t think I could bare rewatching the entire anime again. Maybe DB+DB Kai, but even then it’s still so long. And in Kai’s case, the musical score is worse than the original and the Japanese voice cast (especially Vegeta’s VA*) sound noticeably older.
The manga on the other hand, absolutely. Inject that shit straight into my veins.
*I apologize for the YouTube short link, but it’s unfortunately the best example I could find on YouTube on short notice.
Fyi, you can just take the ID of the shorts video and replace the ID part of any normal YouTube Video and it works. A short is just a normal video with a special player, you can still watch it as a normal Video.