I like how GT added a sense of finality. Super feels like it can go on forever because its monthly

I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for GT. There are a few plot points I enjoy and I love the look and execution of SSJ4. It also always felt a bit more like a spiritual successor to the original DB than DBZ, and appreciated how the creators tried to tie the whole saga together that way.

Dragonball GT is better than people give it credit for, even though it does have its problems. It at least has less continuity issues than Dragonball Super by far. Dragonball GT a hero's legacy was a good epilogue for Dragonball in general.

I’ve never watched the GT series, but the ending with Goku Jr. going off to get the dragon balls to wish his grandmother Pan back to good health? Ahh… my heart…. I grew up with DragonBall the series and absolutely LOVED the story driven anime.. so when Toonami started airing Dragon Ball Z, I enjoyed it for a while but then fell off because it lacked the DragonBall charm I fell in love with. So the ending to GT would have been such a beautiful nod to the humble beginnings of DragonBall

To be exact, GT is staged five years after Z. The famous "ten years" went out from some american spot or directly from USA FUN animation version (or something like that), but in the original japanese series, it is not said how much time is passed from Z, but in the officials guide books of GT ("Dragon Ball GT Perfect Files") is specified that are passed 5 years. The last episode of GT is in fact staged 40 years after the first encounter between Bulma and Goku.

I really liked the GT anime it sometimes gave me vibes of the original DB in its search for the dragon balls which really made me feel happy to see a journey and its comedic moments for the dragon ball like the old day. I think I would have loved to see Goku Jr go on his own hero's journey and find the dragon ball on his own as Goku did. Really nice video Axel it made me remember GT and how Dragon ball was a story, you made some good points that made me think about the series again.

As far as GT goes I love the opening and the idea of black star dragon balls since they abused them so much turning into monsters themselves plus Baby was awesome along with my favorite transformation Ssj4 but Heros legacy is fun

Gt plays as the perfect sequel. It gave me the feeling of real Dragon Ball which I loved. We don't need characters just going stronger and stronger and fighting episode after episode. We just want to see them live and enjoy their adventures!

You didn't mention it here, but I've always loved how GT found a coherent way to introduce the movies into canon. I think Super 17 is the most overhated saga in all of Dragon Ball

All the great points you mentioned in this video are exactly why I like Dragonball more than the Z portion, I enjoy them both but the simplicity of a boy on an adventure to better him himself while getting stronger was perfect nothing felt excessive of overdone and its conclusion to that part of the story was great as well

I feel like a proper, canonical, good db sequel series would need to take the best of both GT and Super. The best of GT’s thematic story (mainly super baby arc, the concept of the shadow dragons saga and the ending) and Super’s thematic fighting (Zamasu’s hypocrite reason for erasing mortals, Vegeta vs Cabba, and like all of the tournament of power)

I’m so happy this channel exists

Pan and Trunks deserved better than GT. So did Uub.

Ugh... I've gotten to the age where I've started to forgive GT. And this video furthers that. Regardless, good job!!

All I know is that Dan Dan brings me to tears everytime. I listen to it, and there's a physical/psicological response from my brain that reminds me of that ending scene. People might hate it, but it was my Dragon Ball Z sequel, and holds a place in my heart.

This was a pretty great video Axel, though flawed, I personally liked GT, and A Hero’s Legacy was great as well. If we had ended with that and it had even cannon, I personally think Dragon Ball would’ve had one of the most perfect endings in shonen

Kinda salty you didn't add the para para brothers rap dance but I'm glad you touched on Goku Jr. That was such a great scene. Love ya. Signed, your greatest admirer

Goku wasn't an idiot in GT. Literally a child in body only and not mind. Super made me realize that with how stupid Goku is. GT had great concepts, just needed way better execution and character usage. Fights weren't all that good either choreography wise but story wise they had some strong backing. Vegeta also is great in GT. No animosity. Willing to work with Goku and proposes fusion. He still will get mad at him but not in a "damn you, clown stay out of my way" but a funny banter kind of way.

Awww man this was such a throwback. Dragon Ball / Dragon Ball Z was my fave as a kid. It was so hard to find where to watch it that I had to watch it on german TV (we didn't have it in Romania) Still have a crush on Trunks :))

Love the video and keep up the great work guy

GT had some great ideas like Baby and SSJ4 (honestly a much better/cooler transformation than the gods forms) but bad execution

Uub was supposed to be the protector of earth and goku final challenge after goku had his fun uub the next generation can take his place it was a everyone is happy moment

Having just finished DBZ kakarot, it really makes you realize that dbz is the story of gohan.

Remember when going super saiyan was this great legend...holy shit did that change. But loved the video

My head canon is that pan and the fat kid did die the og goku just brought them back to life since goku is the dragon balls he can do anything

I had this in DVD and loved rewatching it over and over. Really wished they followed up on Goku jr. adventures

I think this is the first video I have seen defending GT. I haven’t watched GT in years part of my childhood I may give it a chance to watch it

DRAGON BALL ended for me with Goku becoming the God and Guardian of the spheres, it's the perfect ending, it started with the spheres and ended with it. Perfect 👌.

I also had a big problem with Descendent Goku not knowing Descendent Vegeta. There is absolutely ZERO chance that Vegeta wouldn't still be around, or that Pan wouldn't be well aquainted with him and the Capsule Corp family.

Beautiful review. As of the end , I'll give you an explanation. At the end of GT , where Goku supposedly ascended to a supernatural figure , winning the fight and kind of becoming one with Shenron and the Dragonballs . It's possible that Goku healed a near dead Pan and revived Puck with his supposed omnipotency. I believe the makers did this and IMO did the right thing because killing of the 2 characters , after the meeting with Goku will make it really morbid and people won't like the film as much as they do .

I misread the title as "GT was better than Z" and was like "bro I can only take my GT apologia so far" 😂

I vividly remember many parts of Dragon Ball when I was only 6. I couldn't place the events of the story in order (often because I was watching the non-canon movies), but could at least tell what the characters were feeling and why they were fighting. GT is the part of the franchise that I couldn't remember anything about, except Super Saiyan 4 which is still iconic in my mind. I didn't try to research the timeline whenever I felt nostalgic for the series, and hesitated to watch Super. I've seen realised it was because I couldn't what the themes of the series. Yes people love the series because of the cool fighting and character designs, but they fought because they had a reason to do it. Whether it was to save their loved ones, the world or because Goku cried too much as a child, every character felt palpable to me despite how unrealistic their strength and fights were. So this is why GT and Super failed to carry on the legacy of the original and other shonen series were able to pick up the pieces. They understood the Hero's Journey is about having your protaganist start at a disadvantage, but slowly they learn to develop themselves through training and character development. And by the time the journey is over the adversary is gone, you either end the story there or you let the new generation take over. Z started to do that with Gohan, Trunks, Goten and Pan, but in the end they decided to play it safe and go back to the character fans loved. GT took it even further, making Goku young again to try remake the magic from scratch or develop the next generation if it works out. But in the end, they just return to the status quo of making Goku stronger and everyone else sits on the sidelines. Super adds to the lore that was another component of the series, but continues the trend with GT. Goku gets even more stronger, and the scenarios he's put in are just an excuse to bring even stronger adversaries for him to fight. This is only remedied by the now canon movies. The Broly movie not only brought the character into canon, but made him into a much better character that you grow to like. It ends with him not being defeated, and Goku starts to train him in a way that works a little better than the end of Z. The recent Super Hero movie was not only a great way to bring Dragon Ball back to its comedic roots, but focuses entirely on the next generation. Goku and Vegeta are doing their own things off world, while Piccolo tries to get Gohan to continue training for a scenario like this. He evens willingly puts Pan (who is happy to train and help Piccolo) in the hands of the villains to push Gohan. While he and Pan have their moments, its ultimately up to Gohan to go above his limits and save the world from a similar but stronger adversary. I LOVED what the story did for him and Pan. It proved that Goku can be taken out of the spotlight, and not only can the next generation pick up the pieces but can go through the Hero's Journey their own unique ways. I have only high hopes that the series will continue refining itself and show it and other shonen series are more than just cool fights and characters, they are at the end of the day good storytelling.

i loved gt and goku jr's story

Great vid man ❤

Came here after the death of Akira Toriyama. RIP. A Hero’s Legacy really felt like something he could’ve created because it had so much of what made the original Dragon Ball special like you said. GT also had that but people seemed to have forgotten about the original Dragon Ball by then and just wanted to see muscly dudes fighting each other like they got in Z.

Oh man, having to come back to this after the death of Akira Toriyama I’m happy that you touch base on this axle

It's quite surprising but I think the only one that I remember that I didn't realize was anime until later on with dragon Ball super I remember seeing that on cartoon Network late night television and what really got me interested later on in anime one awesome series I will say.

Welcome back, Axelbeats! How’ve you been? It’s been a while since your Inuyasha & Yashahime Retrospective Analysis.

I have to agree with you 100% Axel. Great video. Hit me with a lot of soft spots myself. Tbh idc what anyone thinks I personally loved GT. I think when I was younger I didn’t only because I listened to other people’s opinions of it and after years of not watching it I re watched it again and fell in love. I loved the music and the adventure. I like it better than super that’s for sure. GT made sense because it was a continuation. I do wish it was canon but what can we do. Once again thank you for the great video as usual ❤

What a surprise. Waking up to see a new video, moreover it’s dragon ball related.

Great video

Honestly these past few years I've been seeing people give Dragon ball GT the credit it deserves as a good dragon ball story, it honestly makes me super happy to see

Will goku jr parents have great potential because pan learn to fly at one years old if goku jr is Canon?

i never even heard of a heroes legacy, i'll have to check it out

GT really wasn't the best imo it had some good ideas but pretty bad execution. If it were longer I think it'd be pretty good but I still love it nonetheless. The Dragon Ball series has a special place in my heart especially the GT opening

Dan Dan Kokoro Hikareteku is still the best Dragon Ball song ever. The series isn't canon but that song is!

And GT is canon to the original timeline.

Though I'm personally not a big fan of Dragonball, but this was another well explained video analysis on a series like with Inuyasha. Good job.

GT I will always have my complaints about it, but like a friend said, I would rather watch GT then Super. Like yeah Super Saiyan God, SSB, UI and the whole multiverse thing is cool, but like I felt nothing for Super and even when we did get the Goku Black arc, even that fell apart after a certain moment. GT at least gave me Super Saiyan 4, which does feel like the natural evolution of a Saiyan, the Baby arc was fantastic and the Shadow Dragon arc while very much flawed, did give us some callbacks to OG Dragon Ball. To this day I still feel that the Cell arc was a great ending for the series in general........but then the Buu saga happened so I can't say that and we go back to Goku again. Nice job looking back on the GT special Axl!

i like Gt for what it is. i will say the soundtrack is one of the best the series has ever made. Also small nitpick its only 5 yrs later. 10 is the dub. Bulla drivimng a car at 8 with guys hitting her wouldnt fly but even then 13 is still pretty bad

5:30 - Roshi lied! Goku could've learned Hypnosis, Telepathy (King Kai taught him that), Thunder Shock Surprise, Drunken Fist, Cobra Twist, Shock Tornado & much more!

Yeah A Hero's Legacy was good. This video's idea of Dragon Ball's themes also explains why I liked Goten so much as a kid. My mind naturally expected him to grow up strong and exceed Gohan and his dad, and he's probably the best representation of a kid acting like a kid in DBZ imo. Alas, that certainly didn't happen haha. An alternate universe where Gohan became the lead is interesting but a guy who prefers not to fight starring in an action shounen was not something Toriyama could make work haha.

while gt used to be widely hated today in 2022 gt fan are everywhere, you don't even have to look you will find them without much effort. because they were always there just not as confident as they are today to openly say they like gt and I'm proud to be a gt fan, it's not as good as z but thats like asking for a terminator sequel to be as good as terminator 2. for me gt even though its only canon to the original dragon ball z anime (Japanese version of the final episode of z (which can only be found on the dragon boxes as far as I'm aware) has the next episode trailer for gt episode 1 and calls it the next adventure) it's still my sequel to the story. Gt may not be canon to the manga but it's my official continuation of the story.

Its a shame that goku didnt stay ded, because else the passing of torch would have been great. With both gohan an pan in gt. And apearently he wanted more gohan hijinks. And like why cant vegeta, gohan and gotenks doing it alone. Like gohan and vegeta would make a fun odd couple. And pan could be a sup sayan thats female and be in center?!

I've always been a gt fan ever sense it came out. I like that goku was still goku goku in super has regressed. I like super but gt has the dbz goku

I'm crying i miss dragon ball GT 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Not sure if how you were saying a hero legacy was the perfect ending 🤔 that movie takes place before episode 64 of GT. Where goku Jr fights vegeta Jr and they go SSJ

Gt for fans is the boruto for dbz

It seems that Toriyama shouldn't be writing Dragonball Super, but a series that's more like this A Hero's Legacy from GT, or a better GT. Less powering up the legacy characters, and more passing the torch to newer generation.

Epic

Is GT worth buying the boxset?

I love Dragon Ball GT it's amazing

Dragon Ball is good as long as it doesn't fight one boss in one combat that lasts dozens of episodes (weeks).

I’m one of the few defenders. I’ll take GT over Super any day.

Gt was better than super

So, basically, Goku kidnapped a child to punch at the end of Z and that’s all Uub exist for

the italian DB community, holds Hero's Legacy even closer, as that was the last time it's iconic dub for Goku played the voice of the iconic warrior, before passing away

The only people who "hated GT" grew up on the horrible English dub Those who grew up watching the JAPANESE VERSION took GT for what it was....a passion project going back to the roots of the original dragonaball and also implementing what Z started.......too many parrots online "hate GT" Because that what other people claimed -

Okay, really, REALLY great video my guy, you just explained basically what was lost in dragon ball, why it didn't feel as amazing as its early years in OG and Z. But the downfall in Z was due to toriyama's fault. A lot of people don't know this, but he got tired of writing dragon ball after the cell saga, mainly because he didn't write it in his gaggy style like in his older Mangas (Arale and dragon boy) so he wrote the Buu saga to be as bad as possible so people could stop reading his work, but it backfired, because a lot of people really liked the Buu saga, so he was forced to finish it regardless. You could tell he got tired of the series, when he continued it, he simply wanted money, and that's it, which is good for him, but terrible for us.

I fell off after the cell saga. I saw it becoming just screaming fights. So I just watch the fight episodes and move on.

I completely agree with you. For all its faults, I think GT was the continuation for DBZ we got and everyone should have just accepted it. I think the ending of GT served its purpose of being the intergalactic battle on a bombastic scale that DBZ was building up to. A Hero’s Tale was such a bittersweet, heartfelt, and in its own right a perfect bow on the series. I remember seeing it for the first time when I was just a child and feeling so emotionally attached to it. The way pan told Goku Jnr about the original Goku and his adventures is exactly how we would have told it to future generations. Returning the series to a more grounded version of dragon ball, one which returned to the original dragon ball with a nod to DBZ with an SSJ transformation was honestly perfect. I wish DB super had never happened and instead all of the dragon ball fandom would have ended their viewing with this movie. Bittersweet and grounded, with a hint of SSJ - it truly was special.

GT is objectively better than super in every aspect.

I don't understand why this gets so much hate GT was very good

the creator him self said gt IS canon

GT was hella wack

I swear fans give toriyama way too much credit and not enough to super and gt.

GT better than Z? Please, you must have cracked your skull open worse than Goku when he was a child. GT was a show whose whole identity was "Remember when this happened in Dragonball? Heres a shittier knock off of that." Only interesting thing was the dark dragon arc but that was too little too late, even the japanese audience tuned out after only 64 fuckin episodes. DB? 153 episodes. DBZ? 291 episodes. DBGT? a pathetic 64 before it was canned. Even Kai in its trimmed down state has more episodes than GT. It even only got a single movie which played our more like a what if fanfiction with creative characters like "Goku Jr" and "Vegeta Jr". XD