And as much as I like most anime,
even I'll admit:
More popular than Pokemon
More popular than Naruto.
And more popular than Sailor Moon.
And more popular than Cowboy Bebop, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Yu-Gi-Oh.
And it's lasted just as long as a franchise if not moreso than all those shows, a 24+ year history
And it's lasted just as long as a franchise if not moreso than all those shows, a 24+ year history
DBZ is the most popular anime show in the world, with popularity and devotion rivaling that of Star Wars and Harry Potter.
Not only a major and highly profitable franchise through not only Japan, but America, and the world, dubbed by two seperate studios (FUNimation (a studio DBZ helped build, launch, and found overall through the 90s and 00s) and the Ocean Group), adapted into a major (albeit not as popular) Hollywood live action film (ironically enough), and syndicated on not just CN (Cartoon Network)'s most popular programming block of all time, Toonami, as well as on 2 other major networks, Nicktoons and Kids WB's newest incarnation, CW4Kids. Not to mention spawner of numerous parodies and websites. And that's just in North America alone. Which is actually amazingly successful for a show that's an anime in America.
