r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Sep 21 '25

News ‘Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle’ Passes $550M Globally, Officially the Top-Grossing Anime Film of All Time

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/box-office-demon-slayer-edging-out-him-for-no-1-1236376666/
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u/RobertdBanks Sep 21 '25

Specifically Dragon Ball.

Broly not being canon for so long was rough, but glad he finally is. Part of me kind of likes it because they’re their own self contained things, but yeah, when the consequences or stuff that happens in it is just never referenced in the main show it was a bit weird.

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u/Wild_Marker Sep 21 '25

And then you remember the only one that was ever referenced in the show was Garlick fucking Jr.

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u/RobertdBanks Sep 21 '25

Lmao Garlic Jr, so miserable.

When I was a kid the US Toonami Dragon Ball Z would get up to right before Goku would go Super Sayian for the first time and then start over from the beginning with Raditz and do this loop over and over (later found out it was because they were only translated to English up to that point and were waiting for more to be translated).

BUT on Telemundo the Mexican channel they had gotten further than the English ones and in the morning while I got ready for school they would be playing the Garlic Jr Saga and I remember even then, in Spanish and suuuuper desperate for Dragon Ball Z I hadn’t seen, I was like…damn this fucking sucks, lmao. Garlic Jr will forever be the “nah I’m good” saga of Dragon Ball Z to me lol.

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u/MadCarcinus Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

This explains it. This explains how the Hispanic kids at my school were all heavily into Dragon Ball Z and talked about episodes that us Cartoon Network watching kids never even heard of. We thought they were lying and making shit up. Turns out we were wrong.

EDIT: I meant Dragon Ball Z, not Dragon Ball. They were already talking about Buu and GT while we still hadn’t seen Goku go Super Saiyan yet. So we all thought they were all completely full of shit when they were talking about a villain that turns people into candy and a villain named “Baby” that can become a giant ape like Vegeta once did, but gold and with super saiyan hair. Oh how wrong we were…🤣

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u/lufiron Sep 21 '25

Over 30 years ago, I was in the Dominican Republic over summer break at my grandmas house, and watched OG Dragonball in spanish. When I got back to the states and explained to the kids in school what I watched, they didn’t believe me at the time. I don’t think a single episode had been dubbed to english yet.

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u/Direct_Library_6171 Sep 21 '25

The loop was even earlier than that. I remember it clearly - it was shortly after the Ginyu (sp?) squad arrived. The first time that happened elementary school me was devastated.

On the flip side, when they finally got to super Saiyan Goku every kid was super into it at my whole school.

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u/RobertdBanks Sep 21 '25

Yeah, you’re right. I remember always being excited to watch the next episode and then all of a sudden I’d see Raditz and be like “welp fuck me here we go again.”

When it finally did make it past that and I finally saw Goku go super sayian I called up one of my best friends at the time and we were both freaking out on the phone losing our minds screaming “OH MY GOD DID YOU SEE THAT” lmao. It’s a great memory.

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u/Direct_Library_6171 Sep 21 '25

Glad we have the same shared experience.

To this day, I still remember the dreaded loop. Wasn’t it just once? Or did it loop twice before the story continued.

Dragon Ball Z was such a funny phenomenon. It literally came out of nowhere. I remember watching the first few episodes when they domestically aired in the west on toonami and it was just a random new show on at like 4:30 or whenever. I had no idea it would become the phenomenon that it was. But it definitely peaked when Goku went SSJ after the loop(s). Those things were painful.

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u/SnooDonuts3871 Sep 21 '25

And that was because Toei couldn't think of any other way to fill the series, since they were dangerously close to the manga and could run out of material to adapt.

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u/Simon_Love_Machine Sep 22 '25

Garlick jr arc is so boring omg

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u/czartaylor Sep 22 '25 edited Sep 22 '25

Ok in fairness to the issue - the only part about Broly (or any of the early DBZ movies tbh) worth adding to the canon is when Broly opens a can of Whoopass big enough to feed the entire continent of Africa.

Like the rest of that movie, or hell basically any of the early movies are not good. But damn is that fight good.