RE: DragonBallZ Super Gods – I will always add the Z
dragon ballz was the first ever anime that i watched it is still one of the most popular anime yet. any kid would love too watch it and imagine that they are a sayian and they have these awesome powerups by screaming and energy blast. the only reason that older people are watching it because most of them have been watching since they were a kid with wild imagination and they have grown to love the character and they like to keep up with the story line.
but a grownup who has started watching would not like as much as if they had seen is as a kid. Dragon ball franchise lacks a sophisticated story line, it is all about screaming, power-up and endless fighting. just look at the naruto franchise for a moment i think it is superior to dragon ball z in many ways like its has sophisticated background, ancient storyline and how it links to the present events, diffrent people with many diffrent power traits, not only that but the Naruto franchise also reflects on the real world aspects such endless wars, pain, misery and suffering also the happiness prosperity in life.
Yes, i agree with both perspectives you are giving, the one on DragonBallZ and naruto - I see it this way, no matter what we watch in life, it all depends on who we are, who I am watching it, this way any story, anything can become a point of self-investigation and self-transformation through realizations. We can have sophisticated anime and other TV series, but if brainwashed people watch it like Zombies, then the meaning or the deeper meanings within it is lost, for example, when the matrix came out the firts time, everyone I knew only saw it as an awesome Action movie, nothing else, ten years later I watched it again, and due to my perspective that has changed in that time and how I have developed, watching the matrix again blew my mind away, and I questioned msyelf, how come ten years ago it was simply an action movie to me, now it is a LIFE changing movie, because those I watched it with ten years ago, only cared about their cultures/religions and nothing else, so nothing new could ever come in and change their view/life.